You're other points are also invalid, but this one:

But our heroes are still stepping out of space shuttles onto planetoids and alien planets that for some strange reason always have a breathable atmosphere

Stood out as the worst for me. Why would they step out of a space shuttle if the planted didn't have a breathable atmosphere?

The real question now is how do we berate and fire that last 3% like has been done with the others that didn't want to play the money grab.

Exactly, when the poverty line moves from "has dirt floor" to "Doesn't have premium cable" it is a miracle.

Given all that, the question then becomes:

Are we going to progress with new technology to live in a new world?

Are we going to regress by cutting back and denying people the ability to do what they've always done?

And a much smaller % of the population as a whole. And in places like India they are moving out of that class very quickly.

Of course that "worker-slave" distinction you like to put in there as some overly pessimistic pronouncement is living so far above the few wealthy of the prior era that it is almost completely uncomparable.

Funny thing about more people, it requires more work to support them.

If you find it laughable, then you are not very imaginative or creative.

If that happens they can just issue more citations and raise taxes.

Yea because the average lifestyle is exactly the same now as it was 100 years ago or even 1000 years ago. Maybe I'm missing the sarcasm, but I read your post as if you actually believe it.

Did I hear something?
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Ok, re-read, got the message that the unicorns need to stop the farting rainbows.

I'm not an expert and of course wouldn't read the TFA but from reading the headline and a good part of the summary, I've deduced that "impact"="bad" and "Indirectly impact"="scary bad".

Hope that helps.

So, Nearly 90% of the Firefox code is of high quality and very maintainable.

Wasn't that also in the movie Event Horizon? The shortest distance between two points is not a stright line, it is zero. Fold the space between two points until they are right next to each other, be the second point, unfold space. Warping of space is a valid theory accepted pretty universally, do so in this fashion may not be possible.

but they have been stupid. Past present and most likely future.