So the state thinks the public needs to be kept ignorant in order to behave properly? The public is too immoral to be expected to behave fairly if allowed to know the truth? Is this sort of paternalism appropriate in a transparent information society, where were are told "privacy is dead - deal with it"?

I agree. The X axis is usage time, but also the amount of stuff you have gotten done on the road to knowledge. A shallow learning curve means you can actually get a lot of work done before learning very much. The Y axis is obviously your knowledge of the system.

Wait, so he's saying jockdom is obsolete because it's the best way to motivate factory workers, but China is overtaking our factories, but the Chinese place their nerds above jocks? Is this a contradiction? If China is still industrial shouldn't they have jocks on pedestals? Or I guess maybe not, because Chinese are automatically nerds?

What'd be awesome is if someday they could scan people's brains and, if they had a song stuck in their head, automatically charge their credit card or bank account.

People that don't want to pay for Spice Girls or whatever should go back to singing old british folk songs!

Don't forget to say "no homo"...

Alright Mr. Abolute Morality, do you work for, and receive a salary from a company that supports the regime that not only makes this abuse possible, but encourages it?

Can cigarettes be good for you in small doses then?

Can we just cut Kaspersky off? Put him in a tightly sealed room where he can be safe and happy, and securely identified, free to send authenticated packets to himself.

Cut them off!!! Cut them ALL off!! The bastards!

I assumed without RTFA that the site would include case law. You're right, it doesn't.

"By primary legal materials, we mean all materials that have the force of law and are part of the law-making process, including: briefs and opinions from the judiciary; reports, hearings, and laws from the legislative branch; and regulations, audits, grants, and other materials from the executive branch. Creating the system from open source software building blocks will allow states and municipalities to make their materials available as well"

CPU's are wetware

Won't this destroy Lexis and Westlaw's business model?

... think about the children? Thank you.

No, I didn't say think about civil liberties - stop that. Think about the children. Keep thinking about them. No, don't think about checks and balances. Listen to me, just think about the children. There. Good man.

Are there good artists who don't make art in their free time, or good musicians who don't make music in their free time?