The words "wifi" and "ethernet" do not appear on that page.

If you're doing wifi-only, get yourself a static IP, run asterisk, use any old cellphone with SIP support and wifi and skip AT&T, as they are fuckers of the highest degree. Their prices are beyond fucking ridiculous. They want $50/mo for a land line. I got SIP for about ten bucks a month. My Xperia Play is now our cordless phone, and it's also a neato clock. My server is a $20 pogoplug, but in fairness I bought two of them so I could do HA.

What of the air in the atmosphere? Is that not an international resource? Should we not have a market for use of what the atmosphere will bear, perhaps to preserve CO2 (and particulates, and VOCs, etc) at pre-industrial-revolution levels? We now literally have cars whose exhaust is cleaner than their intake in "polluted" cities, where the value of "polluted" is vastly exceeded by some cities. I'd be looking at Beijing if I could see it.

Economics is all well and good if you don't get to ignore externalities. Perhaps we institute a system of eco-economics (see: Mars trilogy) before we find ourselves unacceptably mired in debt to physics.

The idea is to keep the oil in the US, for strategic reasons. If we burn up all the world's oil and keep ours in reserve, we're going to be in good economic (if not ecologic) shape in the endgame. That assumes, of course, that burning all those fossil fuels doesn't doom us first — the ecopalypse outpacing the singularity, if you like, though both labels are sensational. All life will not end, but equally, intelligence (and output) will not reach infinity.

The world runs on long-chain hydrocarbons. They could come from the air, but instead the entrenched base of oil barons is making sure we keep burning every drop of oil:

I think it's more likely you'll end gasping, or perhaps wheezing before rattling.

By "Ha ha ha" do you mean "If your nation can be destroyed by YouTube and Facebook, your nation is fairly described as pathetic?" Because if so, I agree completely.

Really? How about back when it was impossible to plot a simple pixel on a D3D window without using GDI?

Shouldn't a loosely-associated cluster of crap have a different name from a solid object? Or should that just wait until we can reliably tell the difference remotely

"Bad Trip" is used to describe any situation where a person has an emotional experience that they are having trouble handling.
 
There's another definition- any situation where a person has such reduced cognitive ability that their actions preclude survival. The stereotype is the guy who thinks he is superman and tries to stop the locomotive, but other similar situations exist.

First *concentration* was 1938.

Morning glories did not evolve overnight in 1938, nor apricot seeds, nor any of the other plants this drug can be concentrated from.

Exactly what I was thinking. I've known too many suicides in my life on bad trips, from the "I can fly off a 20 story building" to the "I'm superman and I can stop a train" to not know that LSD affects the instinct for survival.

Wow, mod parent up.

The only other advice I have to give, is check out the free tools that surround the areas you are interested in. Expanding closed source software is still a money pit, and perhaps always will be.

So are some of these vaccines. In fact, for some of the weakened-virus instead of killed-virus variety, some of these vaccines *are* the disease they are hoping to prevent.

What are the real risks of vaccines? Incredibly hard to tell when even the CDC uses weasel words like "risk of death is extremely small" instead of giving us a percentage from the study- and the original white papers are always paywalled and copyrighted. You can't calculate risk without knowing actual numbers.

I think a lot of game developers saw what happened with games like Quake which actually gave us everything we wanted; they spawned all kinds of quake-based games which didn't return any income. And they decided they would like to get paid when people play their games.

I also think the writing is on the wall for AAA games. It's only a matter of time before the Free and open engines become viable competition, because of cooperation. There's no secrets, and everyone can learn from everyone else's accomplishments. Sadly, this will probably be the last area of software in which the FOSS world surpasses the closed-commercial.

This is why it is vitally important to have *TWO* wills for any piece of electronic equipment, the open one and the sealed one. The sealed one contains the passwords.