Yeah... It's probably a cynical prediction...
I think you've confused cynicism with optimism
With these new mice, when I want to click I have to lift my finger up from the surface of the mouse and then press down (if the video in the article is indicative of how it functions). I think constantly lifting my finger would become tiring.
How is it that you manage to type if you can't bear the strain of lifting your fingers off the home row?
But most people have two eyes, and the parallax between them gives the third dimension.
That's almost completely wrong, the grandparent poster knows what he's talking about. Binocular vision is only useful for depth perception within about a foot or two of your face, beyond that and the difference between what your eyes see is too small to matter. Depth perception is almost entirely unconscious mental processing that's informed by cues like relative position, relative size, clarity and so on.
The reason you have two eyes is because of bilateral symmetry and a wide field of vision is useful. Think about rabbits, their eyes have almost no overlapping field of vision, but they manage just fine in 3d space.
..the Fed (by printing money and giving it to them at zero percent even if it destroys the dollar)
The Federal Reserve does not print money. Maybe you were speaking metaphorically, but you're still wrong. The Federal Reserve can influence interest rates, and it can change the size of the the money supply by issuing and recalling treasury bills and by adjusting the reserve requirement.. Those functions allow the Fed to alter the price of money, but that's not equivalent to printing more money.
I was reading earlier this week the U.S. now has the greatest income inequality in the world except for Singapore and Hong Kong which are tiny city states
Well you read wrong. Equality of income distribution is quantified by the Gini coefficient. Wealth is less evenly distributed in the US than many places (ie Europe), but there's more than 40 countries ahead of us. China and Mexico for instance. See this map for more detail.
For anyone whose interested, the Planet Money blog and podcast is a great place to start. Their reporting and research is done by actual economists rather than ideologues and talking heads, and they explain why things are the way they are and how they got there. Like I said, our current financial situation is kinda FUBAR, but approaching it with a level head and trying to understand what's really going on is better than getting angry and playing the blame game.
Though to be fair, that race course was a mixture of twists, turns and hills.
To be fair, normal roads are a mixture of twists, turns and hills.
For those of you who aren't familiar with them, naked mole rats are pretty weird in a bunch of other ways
They lack the neurotransmitter that lets them feel pain, which is evolutionarily unique as far as I know. Their respiratory systems are adapted to handle the high concentrations of CO2 that build up in their burrows. Their metabolic rate is 2/3 of other similarly sized rodents, and they can slow it even further in times of need.
Their behavior is even weirder. The colonies (200-300 in population) are organized eusocialy, ie in the same manner as a bee or ant colony. There in one queen, with a harem of 3-4 males that produce all the offspring for the entire colony. Like ants, naked mole rats form separate castes for diggers, soldiers, etc. Oh, and to top it all off their front teeth are on the outside of their mouths to help them dig.
According to the rules of open source... all derivative works must also be open source
"The rules of open source" is about as vague a term as "the rules of good sportsmanship". The content of Wikipedia is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License which only requires that you attribute Wikipedia and share any adaptations of it under the same license.
If someone's crops get pollinated with the patented strain, even unintentionally just by wind from a neighboring field, then he can be sued by the inventor and subjected to license fees.
Can you provide a citation for this, or are you parroting something you read in someone else's comment one time?
I'm genuinely curious, this objection is brought up in every GM food article, but I've never actually seen in mentioned in a newspaper or magazine article.
And of course, if you already have a decent laptop (with better resolution and contrast), then why do you need a Kindle?
Because a kindle has an e-ink display which is a thousand times better for reading text off of than an LCD. Of course a laptop screen is higher resolution than a Kindle, but unless you plan on playing movies on your KIndle, the point is moot.
I disagree - we already have the ability to abolish most, if not all life on the planet with nuclear weaponry. Get that done (not out of the question) and I consider this world considerably more peaceful.
Why do you believe that? Nuclear weapons have been used twice since they were invented, while conventional guns have been in some war or another pretty much continuously every day since they were invented.
BLISS is ignorance.
