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Your second apostrophe should be between the "n" and the "t".

Nah. The real threat wasn't anything overtly violent or traitorous.

The nerds had agreed to stop reproducing by not having sex.

This is the follow-up experiment to one run in the Netherlands over 20 years ago with LPG cars. (Did you know you can convert your car to run on natural gas, and have a switch to flip between the that and gasoline, for about $3000? Who knew?)

But rather than drive adoption of this by letting the much cheaper natural gas work its magic, they slapped a huge annual tax on said cars, so you would have to drive the equivalent of ~20,000 miles just to break even.

From that observation, pointing out how government concern for the environment was just lip service compared to its voracious desire for money, I predicted similar things for other developments in the future.

Well, here we are. Note in both cases they do this before, not after, achieving the ostensible goal of getting most, or even many, people on board such cars.

"They just want your money" -- 89,768-0 in predictive analysis of government action.

He also ignores that officials, happy to buy votes by spending taxes, will tax what the market can provide, so to speak, rather than what is needed.

This is why they mentally tie spending, taxing, and borrowing to the GDP rather than population or necessity. They want to be as high a fraction of that as possible. There's always more votes to buy.

It has nothing to do with necessity or population.

The original vision of Apple (and Microsoft) of screen-oriented but Internet-derived entertainment was correct; they just found it better to make feeder devices for the big iron screens, which at least 3 other guys are doing, too.

I would like to see Game of Thrones and Orphan Black thru Netflix rather than having to subscribe to those packages through cable. Cable only, like HBO Go is a step in the right direction.

AMC for Walking Dead, online watch, the thru-cable-company unlock was designed by a chimpanzee.

As long as the medallion and similar limiting systems continue to exist, all gloves are off as far as I'm concerned.

There's more to freedom than freedom of speech -- freedom to pursue your own business, and nobody has thr right to restrict entry for the purpose of limiting co.petition. "This here town ain't big enough to support two companies" should be left on the scrap heap of disreputable history.

the FCC unlawfully inserted itself between the State and the State's political subdivisions

Regardless of the merits of municipal broadband, and bought-and-paid for legislators, the powers of local governments are given by state constitutions and laws. The feds simply have no constitutional say in it.

They can stop states or local from outlawing various bands or having jammers, but they can't grant powers to localities against state wishes. The state authorizes the localities and gives them life.

Well...ok then. "Statistically impossible" might be a better choice.

A (smallish) finite number of monkeys would be worse than a computer program to generate every possible text, since the monkeys rely on randomness and will repeat a lot of stuff, where an infinite number of monkeys will generate it in as long as it takes to pound out ~100,000 keys at random.

Still, the bottleneck is the evaluation function to sort out not just intelligible plays, but high-quality ones, applicable in both scenarios. This means humans for now, and far more than particles in the universe.

To be honest, the stench in a room filled with near-infinite numbers of computer and English geeks must be terrible.

You worthless, echo-chamber, meme-regurgitating sack of shit. India requires expats returning to pull all foreign accounts back into India at the theft-based government exchange rate. You get ripped off and the government gets your dollars.

Why do brain-dead buffoonery like you always think the opposite of pituitary gland tumor gigantism in government is solved by an anarchy? What lovely straw men you set up in your economic disasterbation fantasies!

Man I haven't seen a monster flare that large since I ate that extra hot Thai food last Friday.

Fish, and plankton. And sea greens, and protein from the sea. It's all here, ready. Fresh as harvest day. Fish and sea greens, plankton and protein from the sea.

Except total hours of work is on the order of a few days a year. This ties up nothing.

It's a cannon.

Objectively, literally, by measuring outcomes, "You should exercise and lose weight" and all its variations, is a miserable medical technique. It rarely works, and when it does, is reversed in 95% of those cases.