Interesting. You included Social Security in the expenses, and divide the time range up in 'before SS' and 'after SS'

Also, look at health and life expectancy before 1930. Now realize that huge amounts of the federal budget is SS & Medical (Medicare & Medicaid). If we didn't care about the indigent old, or the fact that national health insurance is more efficient (see what we spend on medical vs other advanced countries and the outcomes), and we didn't feel the need to be the world's police and paid down our debt, we could probably get back to ~4-5%...

Anarchy is something you could use to describe what happens on the floor of a rainforest, or between the bacteria in your gut. I'd rather not live in a society like that. It's not just human nature, it's evolved nature due to limited resources and game theory.

Did you not see Star Trek? The voyagers will come back!

Not if you flash the bios, or just put it in developer mode (at least that was true of the older chromeboxes)

SSL to their servers prevents tampering in-route. Now they could have used their own wire protocol to ensure the data wasn't altered on the way, but why reinvent the wheel?

Oh hell no, don't run BIND. Run something that isn't full of suck and security holes.

Learn about terminal servers: http://blog.philippklaus.de/20...

Serial ports have been gatewayed to telnet for years.

There's no reason why you can't use tramp over serial. I never have to leave emacs, it'll even transparently bounce thru a 'beachhead' system to get to systems "on the other side".

Emacs is a pain to setup/learn for some things, but automation wins in the end.

I'm surprised they don't just mark them with the date of last bleeding and release them where they caught them.

"top ten list" ? I assume you mean the 10 commandments? Which 10, since there are multiple sets of 10 in the bible. Also, I get by just fine without many of them: "I am the lord your god", "no other god before me", etc.
The few that are reasonable are, no to murder, no to false witness and no to stealing.

Well, if you buy the whole bullshit story, then it's the same thing, since god created satan and nothing happens in the universe without god's knowledge and consent.

Not at all like UUIDs. UUIDs are gobally unique, SKUs denote a class of items, of which there can be many items of each SKU/class.

I picked up two Core i5 based Chromeboxes (from the Google Dev conf) on Craigslist for $200 each. Seemed like a bargain. One's running Crubuntu, and the other is awaiting me having time to flash a new bios so I can run straight Ubuntu.

The seagate 3TB that just failed on me was my backup drive.

Now, I didn't lose any current data, but all my time-machine backups are gone, poof...

Wow. Just wow. I guess you could go with things like 'battery horse staple ...', which hopefully the guy at the other end of the phone would insist the user read out...