The title states languages and tech. This includes platforms, frameworks, libraries etc. And I do not see where the problem is with wordpress if it is used as a blog.

Yes, the new and shiny is most popular. How could that happen?

By the way, it might be interesting to see this "most loved" thing filtered for "full time employee" and "full time freelancer". I assume that then other languages might appear in the list on top. But anyway, the stack overflow statistics are interesting.

From my income, my employer automatically transfers money for taxes, healthcare, retirement fund, etc. So when doing my taxes, I normally get money back from the state, as I have additional expenses which can be used to lower my taxes.

Not really. At least not in Germany. Certain people around the country have calculated that it is cheaper to store their own electricity then giving it away to the grid, while they have to by electricity during the night. For most such installation, they are now 80% independent. True there are still 20% not covered, but consider you get an guarantee price in Germany as a household for selling "renewable" electricity. So this might be different for other countries. Especially, Germany is pretty far north on the globe, so for most parts of the US there must be more sunlight available throughout the year.

Maybe that is where this inspiration comes from. Sadly, they did not get the joke. So they thought it is an idea to implement.

Yes all these drones flying through the air dropping parcels on peoples heads. That is definitely not the future. The future are small tunnels beneath the cities which transport all the goods to the homes. True it works best in densely populated areas, but who doesn't? And in those remote areas the parcel head problem would be limited. So that is the niche for drones. Tunnels and tubes is definitely the best solution. Look at the movie Brasil. A whole society can thrive on such system. True it is just a dystopian movie, but for ./ that should suffice as solid evidence. Beside digging tunnels is not that expensive.

Seriously, tunnels? Not again. I had one of those future books from the sixties when I was young (in the 1980s) and they proposed that idea already. So it is not new, but is is flipping expensive. A better solution is a multi model transportation system. For example trams can deliver parcels to certain drop of places. In Dresden (yes that's where those semi-Nazis hang around in Germany), VW uses trams to transport goods between different locations, which they only do because it is more efficient than trucks. So the same can be done with parcels. From there parcels can either be delivered to those parcel robot stations (http://www.paketda.de/dhl/packstation-befuellen.jpg) by unmanned electric vehicles or you use delivery vehicles (smaller than the present ones) for door to door delivery. You could even allow people to tell the service when they are at home. Until then the parcel is stored at the tram parcel drop off station.

On the left side of you image, we can see white men murdering most people in Hiroshima with a atom bomb. On the right you can see what happens when white men focus on short term returns of their investment and give a shit on society.

Your comment is utter rubbish. EU monopoly law is different from that in the US. In the EU we assume that when you have a dominant market position, this already endangers the positive effect of a free market. Therefore, to allow other companies to be able to enter the market, the dominant company must be constraint in a way that it cannot use its size to corner the market. This will allow other companies, such as Microsoft and Yahoo to play a bigger role in that market. BTW: Microsoft was also sued by the EU commission because its dominant position in desktop OSes which they used to push IE. That allowed projects like Firefox, Opera, and Chrome to prosper again.

Android is widely used today. However, due to its tie in with Google, it hinders technology evolution like Windows did. The EU anti-trust case will certainly force Google to open up which will allow other people and companies to add to Android. It could even be fixed without Google. For example, things like the browser being firmware will then no longer be possible (even though Google recently found out that this is a stupid idea all by themselves).

The article focusses primarily on oil. Therefore, I listed coal. Beside that as an alternative we could burn biomass to some extend.

We used animal excrements in different forms as fertilizers. We could do so again. And before we were able to use oil in medicine, we were not without medicine. so it is possible to reach certain technological levels without oil. If we have not a total crash of society (which the article implies) then moving to non oil products can be achieved. Presently, the EU and US are producing more agricultural products than required. There are estimates that it would be easily possible to keep that surplus even when switching to organic methods of production. However, some abandoned acres must be reactivated. in Africa large agricultural areas are not used because people are blowing themselves up or farmers go bankrupt because the West is selling cheap subsidized agricultural products. So depending on the scenario we would be able to replace oil and coal completely. This even works for steel.

Of course can we rebuild society and technology without oil. For starters we began the first time with coal and wood. We could do that again. Second, we would still have some knowledge about the first time. So we can base the second attempt on electricity and use windmills (which we also did in the past). The whole oil thing was not very prominent 150 years ago. And most oil products can also be made out of plant oils.

You did not understand what I intended to day. For example, in Pakistan, we should let the Pakistani deal with it. In Yemen we should not support Saudi Arabia which resulted in terrorists being released from prisons. If someone needs to be arrested somewhere for crimes let the locals do that because it is their territory and not ours.

First, the causes of WW II are much more complicated than a disarmament or appeasement politics. Second, I am not proposing that. Especially, not unilaterally. The only thing I said was: Stick to the treaty no missile shield in East Europe. That is not a disarmament. Actually, as it has not been deployed yet, it would be just the status quo.

Nobody said it is easy. In the end we must find a solution to the war and unrest problem or it will be our undoing. However, I do not have a solution.