If you read the article, they leveled the playing field by adding just a 350 microsecond delay.

Yep, the talking heads can yak all day long and never be proven wrong.

I would add:

Have you ever considered revisiting the Captain Power universe? Perhaps in a full live action form?

Hell yeah. I'd get behind that too.

Of course the reverse of this is less corporate control and more government control.

Please tell me, whats the scarier proposition, bunches of really big and wealthy companies that we can often choose to deal with or not, or a huge massive government that has many times the resources of these companies and can jail you or worse?

It boggles my mind that someone could actually argue that the solution to us having too many powerful companies is making our massively powerful government even more powerful.

As counterintuitive as it is, the real reason so many of these companies have so much power is that the government has given it to them (see copyright, patents, handouts, and tax breaks). This is why small government is needed. A smaller government does not have the massive power of corrupting business that a large government has. You are fooling yourself if you think that a massive government's regulations won't revolve around special treatment of a select few instead of protecting the little guy. Government can't even see the little guy anymore.

And if they can do that, then we can keep using fewer pesticides.

Everyone seems to forget that the reasoning for these types of crops it to minimize spraying poison on our food sources.

These "evil" corporations are damned if they do and damned if they don't.

Screw you. The invisible hand has always worked way way better at improving people's standard of living than kill/steal from the rich policies ever have.

Why is up with all the nouveau communists these days? It's not going to magically work better this time.

Epic post. It took a few seconds to catch on, but awesome reuse and appropriation of the feel of that particular homily.

That you had someone moderate it without knowing what it was and have to post to remove moderation only increases the epicness.

So you're saying that dealing with government regulations is so easy and trivial that you have to hire a consultant to do it!

Brilliant.

The problem I have with the math standards is that they are acting like kids can just naturally figure out things such as how to divide large numbers. And in some respects they can, but when kids figure it out for themselves they miss most of the simple methods and processes that can make solving the problem much much much much easier.

Kids now are stumbling around how to divide 536 by 5 and sometimes coming up with the right answer. But instead of then being taught a quick an simple method, long division, they're forced to keep solving things the long convoluted way they "discovered" on their own.

This is a horrible turn of events. I personally conflate it with the idea of: What if one of those worthless humanities courses (where every answer can be considered "right") came up with a way to teach math? These new standards are the type of math you'd get from that.

We'll provide you with health care through the ACA and you'll be able to start your own business!

Then after you realize that government regulations are so onerous that its really difficult to get a business started, you'll have to go back to working for a big company.

That would only happen if we were to replace coal with Nuclear. If we replace it with things that won't meet the demand or worse, with nothing, there will be rioting in the streets. Americans have come to put a huge value on a reliable power grid. If you give them a third world grid with daily blackouts, expect massive riots to happen.

Don't worry, fully programmable self aware AI is 10-20 years away.

In fact, its ALWAYS 10-20 years away.

Exactly! No True Scotsman.

On the internet, no one can see your tongue in your cheek.

This comment thread really make me feel for the editors.

Stories get posted that aren't exactly "News for Nerds" and they get lambasted for it.

Now here's a story where any good Nerd should know exactly who ESR is and there's complaining about it not being mainstream (i.e. tell us his name) enough.

Damned if you do, damned if you don't.