Paying $50+ a month for my internet connection, don't you call me a freeloader. Get off your neighbor's or your mom's wifi, freeloader, and join the rest of us paying customers who are demanding service for our money. 10s of billions of dollars are irrelevant, they are making much more than this.

Only if you're polluting more than your fair share, comrade.

What does this mean for Star Citizen funders? lol

Americans

We need to cap your internet usage and charge you usage fees as well as bandwidth fees because, oh god, it's so hard to make money in the telecommunication business we just can't seem to stop having enough money to buy each other out. By the way, we're going to increase your monthly flat rate bill a good 10% again this year because hey, those "Friends" reruns sure are getting expensive to er, broadcast.

"dumb" bugs are usually the easiest ones to catch and fix anyway.

Fantasy. Because the data will have to be stored somewhere, and there will be a doorway (physical or electronic) and a key. And whoever gets to hold the key gets to decide who gets to see what. This is called power, and it is human nature to abuse power. There are some things that are better left unbuilt, and the compendium of absolutely all the dirt on everyone ever is one of them.

Not rented - licensed.

Exactly. It's not the fact that you may or may not be watched right now, it's the fact that everything you do and say can and will be used against you in the future whenever it's convenient, politically or otherwise. I keep quoting this, maybe one day people will actually realize what it means: "If you give me six lines written by the hand of the most honest of men, I will find something in them which will hang him." --Richelieu

Yes well if we were all willful sheep who never question and always follow the herd, I'm sure some people would like that - it would make their job easy for them. Too bad some of those sheep just keep jumping the fence, huh?

Bills have serial numbers. How hard do you think it is to have ATM's scan serial numbers on the bills they dispense so the machine/bank/gov't knows who they were given to, and have the bank scan in the deposits so they know who is receiving the bills? Not hard at all. I'm not saying it's actually being done - at least for smaller denominations, but implementation is trivial considering how everything is automated nowadays. Oh it wouldn't be a perfect system, there would still be a gap before a bill is put into or taken out of circulation, but this gap may be much less than one would assume.

No it's government that will be crushed. It's just a matter of time. It always is. And then the game starts again.

I would like to complain that OP had to explain his concept to us in words. Why are we still using something as primitive as words - abstract collections of symbols depicting sound (of all things!)- to convey meaning. Surely in the tens of thousands of years or more that humans have had language, someone must have come up with a better way of transmitting information... oh, and fuck beta

There is no such thing as an obsolete defensive system (or weapon, for that matter). A knife or a fist or even a wooden stick at the right time in the right place is worth more than billions of dollars of expensive hardware.

Don't you get it? Even now don't you get it?