This is a perfect opportunity to actually correct ignorance through debate. You go to these things and then pose the hard questions - the ones their theories can't account for, or only have fantastical answers with no basis in fact. Any time someone with a broken theory decides to showcase it in the face of solid science he's doing the world a favour by providing an opportunity for those who know better to show everyone why it's broken.

The absolute worst thing that could happen is that a creationist conference could be held in a place that is absent of any opposing view. It's much easier to convince someone that your opinion is right when nobody is opposing it.

That's an interesting idea for the budget-minded, but personally I think if performance is actually an issue I'd use SSDs for things that need to be performant, and store everything else on regular drives.

The point stands. These people who live life like if they do it right will live forever are in for a real shock when the reality greets them. Sure, you may live longer, but it won't be life that has any level of quality associated with it.

No really - have you actually looked at how helpless and broken most people are in their late 70s to early 80s? Why would anyone want to keep going? Why would anyone want to reduce the pleasure they get out of life in their prime to allow themselves to keep living after life ceases to be worth living?

Frankly, if I could just die at age 70 before my mind turns to shit and I can't control my bodily functions I'll be happy. Living for an extra 10+ years in the shadow of what you once were is not living. It's a cruel form of torture.

If I'm really that worried about people at a company potentially seeing pictures of my kids I'll set up my own server at home with an SSL connection and stream from that.

Because there's one on every block! 7-11 has real competition now!

I really don't get the start menu love. The search feature is actually very quick and accurate once you start using it. Perhaps I'm not like other people, but when I go to run a program I already know what I want to run so it's easier to just start typing the name of the program than it is to navigate some legendary list of programs.

even if we were to go 100% solar tomorrow, we wouldn't have enough energy for this world. Period. The idea that we can simply just go all solar is naive to the max. We would actually be better off going 100% nuclear.

Why would I want the US to have ANYTHING to do with managing the solar system? They can't even properly manage their own pocket of earth.

open source is hardly "the frontier" anymore. It's pretty well established.

That's a fair statement. Perhaps I should have said something closer to "this is a direct result of the abuse of capitalism". My point being capitalism by nature encourages greed. Why? Because the primary motivator of the system is not the welfare of people, it's the welfare of the company and the people who own it.

You can call it whatever you want, but the reality is money flows uphill a lot faster than it flows downhill. The end result is that eventually there will be very little money at all flowing downhill. Whatever you'd like to believe, this problem is a direct result of capitalism.

One could argue that there is less capitalism now (as you've pointed out) but you need to ask why there is less capitalism. There's less of it because companies are now starting to consume each other at an increased rate. Why compete with a bunch of other companies when you can absorb them? This is the natural progression capitalism follows. Consume everything until you're the last one standing. Despite how good it was when it started, it has no choice but to end by killing that which put it on top in the first place because there is no real restraint. The safeguards that are in place are weak and ineffective and don't protect anyone except the companies the safeguards are meant to regulate.

Now that everyone has a smartphone in their pocket there doesn't seem to be a lot of need for something like this. Why would I buy another device to carry around when I already have a perfectly capable computer in my pocket?

There's a battery breakthrough every other week but they never seem to make it in to anything. There are so many parallels between science reporting on batteries and science reporting on cancer in terms of over-hype and fact misrepresentation it's astonishing.

Simple. They made shit and kids didn't want to watch it. They butchered shows so badly and made so many rules that it was impossible to make anything other than shit.