Seems like it will continue - despite any ruling. Look at the overall indicators and trend, not just one specific ruling or data point.

Those cool, adventurous science-fiction dystopias in Bladerunner and the like. Well, they aren't so cool for most people to live in. They certainly aren't cool for the people who witness the transitions - from the 70s to post 2001...

It's a long way from the top, now. And we didn't tie a rope to climbe back.

I have one of those memories.

All from recollection of Dr. Demento broadcasts, c. 1978-1980 - prior to Bubblicious joining as a sponsor, cutting the show to less than 1 hr, and padding with ads.

If there's Trek goofiness, he'd have to include these chestnuts - and prolly have to add the audio portion of SNLs "Last Voyage" skit, with Elliot Gould as an NBC exec cancelling the show.

That's when I first heard HHGTG, too. I still find the BBC radiophonic original to be the superior of all incarnations. Funniest, too.

"Hydromatic overdrive,
Four-on-the-floor,
Push-button windows,
Push-button doors
Double-barreled carborators,
Rush you anyplace,
But you never can find a parking space!
Highly illogical..."

Statistical aberration.

Isn't that technically regression.

Sentience? I bet it won't be capable of meaningful phrases!

C'mon. You can model every circuit in the brain - and assuming it's really just like a big, deterministic watch works, you could still get a Jerry Falwell or Ryan Seacrest instead of a sentient being.

"Do You want to play a game?

On Planet Schwartz.

Tech epicenter moves from Santa Clara to Humboldt county.

"Dude! Where's the check for our startup money. The guy from ImpossibleVentures was here, and I KNOW I put the cheque SOMEWHERE!"

Free.

Couldn't sell it.

Only for current users. That's not exactly restricting scope, is it? ;-)

Who advocated any kind of revolution?

I am skilled at identifying the problem. Prescribing a solution is a different matter. The validity of an analysis is NOT dependent on pairing it with a viable alternative. That's a frequently invoked challenge, by defenders of status quo - no matter how abhorrent.

My interim solution proposal is to let it all fall apart, over the next, several unsustainable decades.

Oh yeah. You have a "work within the system" and "hope and change" response. Because that works out, so very well.

See this: http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=3745845&cid=43715361

The system is corrupted beyond the imaginings of Eisenhower - with his famous warning.

Someone stole a car in your neighborhood.
The police wiretapped the phones of everyone in town, and record the license plates of all cars at every destination.
what's the problem?

If you don't get it yet, this is how they ran East Germany and Romania. "Laws" are not inherently moral dictates. Hitler had laws that made matters of public interest "classified", too.