A private company issuing its own currency and selling it to us at a profit? Why, that's just like the Federal Reserve, which despite the name is a private company just like Apple or Microsoft. Imagine the government appointing the boards of those companies and you get the idea. Why do we need a company to sell our own money to us? Why can't the US Treasury just print it instead? JFK had the same idea and issued United States Notes. He was assassinated shortly thereafter. LBJ immediately ended the program.

United States Notes are collectors' curios today. My grandfather had some, along with rolls of silver quarters before the Fed turned them into worthless nickel-clad copper.

Editing a spreadsheet with OpenOffice. It crashed and said it didn't have permission to write to some directory in C:/user. 30 minutes of work lost. I get it, fixing bugs is boring and open source developers prioritize new features because that's what gets them their next gig. Report the bug? Tried that many times back in the day. Gets marked notabug or wontfix and I was rudely toly told off to fix it myself or hire someone to fix it. Won't get fooled again.

Bad idea. When evil fights evil, evil always wins.

55 comments is pathetic for a racist dog whistle post like this. Remember when Googler James Damore wrote his anti-diversity screed and got fired for it? 5000+ comments, and as far as I know they're still arguing about it.

If you're dumb enough to use Beidou, your entire movement history is available to an adversary nation, China. Why not just use the /Russian one instead? GPS is the safe one, nobody is spying on you. National security spying on Americans is illegal by Act of Congress, with stiff prison terms for anyone who violates this sacred trust.

Now we have a replacement to kill off since Australia's Great Barrier Reef has been largely bleached away and killed due to Trump's climate policies.

What's an awful lot of words to state that Trump sucks and his voters are fascist scum. Why go to all that trouble? Just say it out loud. You won't go to prison for it, not yet anyway.

Ethnic cleansing isn't killing civilians with bombs but you knew that. They're both war crimes. Gazans are being herded into the south to be expelled over the border. Netanyahu just bragged about it. Do you people really get$7000 per post? If not, why are you doing this for free? Don't be a sucker, don't work for Jews for fer free. They're wildly wealthy. Charlie Kirk declined a nine figure donation from netanyahu just before he died and the blood spurt went up rather than out the back like we'd expect from s bullet wound. He was wearing a microphone under his shirt just at that point. His security was Israeli. Exploding pagers, anyone? Kirk also tried to talk Trump out of bombing Iran. Mossad motto: it's NEVER a coincidence!

Nobody watches that show, grandpa. They're a relic of the The Onion era, but both went full into TDS. So did SNL, Kimmel and all the rest. The new hotness is Babylon Bee and Greg Gutfield.

A world without Trump voters? Sign me up! Sounds like paradise! Only smart people allowed. Imagine a world in which 85 IQ persons simply did not exist. Collegial doesn't even begin to describe it.

It's not about "starve", they'll be allowed to live out their natural lifespans. One generation and out.

You've just described neo-Puritanism and neo-Nazism. MUH JEWISH PORN!!!!!Corrupting our innocent Catholic girls! Face it, women are doing whatever they want and you can't stop them. You're just angry. Angry enough to kill, like the freak on your side who shot Charlie Kirk.

Literally TDS, but you knew that already. A news story about a new drug therapy, and you immediately change the subject to Trump. Because of course you did. I'm sorry your life is like this. I hope it gets better.

Slashdot went from news for nerds to hardcore Left politics ages ago ago. Drove off the old user base of dotcom era users. Look at the story of James Damore with like 2000 comments. Browse at -1 because all the dissenting opinions got modded down by cabals.

The Israeli war aim since day 1 has been the complete ethnic cleansing of Gaza followed by annexation. This isn't a secret. Ethnic cleansing is a form of genocide. In Europe people like you go to prison for genocide denial. They have specific laws. Never again, they said. Yet here you are. How is this not modded down to -1? I bet I get modded down though.

This site. Became a left wing echo chamber long ago. Remember all the complaining about politics infecting our technology discussions? We were rudely told off that the personal is the political and there can be no neutrality in the age of King George W., the president who was literally Hitler. Remember when we used to have actual NASA scientists comment on space articles? Drove them all off, with the rest of the dotcom era crowd. And I've been reading this site since it was a web log called Chips N Bits. I've been nodded into the dirt by a behind the scenes cabal who silence anyone to the right of Mao. If you wonder why there aren't 500 comments, a decade of far left politics replacing tech topics is the reason. I think I'm about done, too. I eventually left EFnet IRC and I'll leave Slashdot too. A relic of a bygone age. This entire comment thread is the hard Left whining they don't get their way. Politics instead of tech.You killed Charlie Kirk and it's OVER. Americans are sick of your shit. Go find another country, you can't stay here with us, that much is clear. Go now and lick the hand that feeds ye, and may history forget ye were oura countrymen.