...why do people have the ridiculous assumptions that..

1. coding is "fun" and it's something kids/adults would just love spending time doing "if we just exposed them to it"

and

2, that kids/adults want to spend their lives in semi-constant frustration of having to get these damn computers working and to learn and relearn skills every 4 years?

my 12yo daughter encapsulated it perfectly a few months ago..

"dad...you seem really smart...why in the world did you decide to be a programmer and sit behind a computer 10 hours a day instead of doing something cool?"

"i tip my hat to the new constitution
take a bow for the new revolution
smile and grin at the change all around me...
pick up my guitar and play
just like yesterday
when i get on my knees and pray...
we won't get fooled again"

"meet the new boss, same as the old boss"

yeah...wouldn't that be the point of the simulation? i often wonder...do the Sims in the game think they are alive and making "free-will" type decisions? i think they do actually...altho we can never really find out.

that's a pretty good question...humans seem to be the only creatures (that we know of of course) in this simulation that have achieved the level of consciousness of which you speak, and it's highly probable that through the evolutionary path of Man, at some point our ancestors did *not* have this "consciousness thing" of which you speak, so my guess would be yes.

because we are almost surely living in simulation. and in that simulation, things just have to be so for us to be simulated.

they already have...an infinite numbers of times.

since when do our corporate overlords ever do anything that really saves the consumer money?

a study needs to come out how such a technology will save the corporations billions...then perhaps a change will be made.

sure...that sounds reasonable too.

it's not hard to imagine that there are several forces at work here to explain the sharply rising incident of Autism prognosis.

no...i am simply making the economic point that once a diagnosis of Autism had embedded into it a financial windfall in the form of generous SSI benefits, that it makes rational sense that parents would work much harder at finding doctors willing to make that diagnosis.

it would hardly require that the "entire medical profession" be in on the "scam".

well, considering that the rise of these diagnosis seems to be highly correlated with the ability to get SSI benefits in the US, how could anyone really be surprise that, with an economic perk this big, there wouldn't be a shift in behavior among parents?

is to load TWRP so the can finally root the damn thing.

amazing insights...i shot milk thru my nose AND pondered deeply.

bravo.

it just sounds like deeper and deeper abstraction or more simply global variables...which im sorry to say in my experience doesn't always solve the "programming problems" except for perhaps the guy who learned enough programming to be able to think at that level.

unfortunately, that type of code tends to be very un-maintainable by anyone other than the original author.

for a $90k car...why not carbon fiber too?

hasn't the tech party line always been "governments can't censor us, the internet sees that as damage and routes around it" or something like that?

it sure looks like governments are doing a pretty good jobs of destroying that meme, be it Turkey or China...or even perhaps the NSA/US.

and of course i *know* vpns and proxies can be set up...i wonder how many typical chinese citizens know how to set those up tho.

well...since you seem to have me dead to rights i might as well confess all my sins to you oh keeper of the /. grammer and style.

in 2nd grade i colored outside the lines. i know i know the horror...THE HORROR!!!

thank you, kind sir, for your virtual wrist slaps and absolution from my sins. i feel much better now.