What happens if they don't send out wrong packets... but fake blacklistings about normal BT users?

Could you translate this from Gobbledygook to English, please?

What do you mean expendable? You do realise that those are adult people, yes?

In case of Katz, alcoholism is a self-inflicted thing that needs the participation and motivation of the afflicted to be cured. Only they can, in fact, cure themselves. How do you even expect us to help them if they do not want to be helped?

We are not their baby-sitters. It's their lives to do with as they please. And who knows, perhaps Katz liked it that way. Drunk driving aside, who are we to tell him he can't do it that way? I wasn't there and I didn't know the guy so I will certainly not act as if I had the right to judge.

Frankly, I only need it when I surf porn sites and there, Microsoft Security Essentials does the trick. As far as I know, you don't even need to pirate that one.

So the FBI makes its own terrorists just to imprison them afterwards... doesn't that sound a lot like how Al Quaeda (or however you write it these days) came to be? First you make them, then you fight them? With the little difference that this time, you shoot them down before they can get all independent and shit.

Frankly, measured to my, completely individual, moral compass, this behaviour lends more credibility to the idea that 9/11 could have been fabricated. Sure, it's on another scale but come on, if the FBI can bring some poor sod who is unhappy with the government to become a radical, what makes us believe that the government, unhappy with the amount of power it has, could NOT become radical?

I'm not saying it happened that way, but this is some food for thought.

While I somewhat agree that this could work, there's also another pitfall: We already have trouble taking people with outrageous ideas seriously... not because their ideas are bad but because they go against established conventions... they go against what we're used to.

Without someone magnitudes more impartial than average people nowadays are to judge such things, how will we stop people from applying this idea of yours to just about anything that does not immediately fit their worldview?

OTOH, there is no right to not be offended. Life is offensive. I agree that it's not a good thing to hurt Breivik's victims even more by making fun of it all but thinking of the big picture... will it dissuade other sociopaths from doing similar things if ridiculing them and their ideals becomes the new status quo?

Does preventing more deaths make adding pain to the already hurt acceptable? Especially when you cannot, ever, be sure that you really prevented deaths or how many?

I sure don't want to have to answer that question.

Seriously, you don't even need annotations. Everyone with enough brain cells to rub together will start rolling their eyes in the first chapter already.

Hitler reinterpreted his whole life to match his ideology to such a degree it just becomes hilariously stupid to read... and boring, by the way.

And frankly, those who lack the necessary brain power to recognize the inherent worth (or lack thereof) of the book will not be dissuaded by annotations, true as they may be.

Oh, how I wish I could mod you up...

Please, do correct me if I'm wrong about this, but when I read 'speculation' I don't think 'Waiting for the price to come down to buy the goods'. I think 'buying paper or digital numbers that represent goods'.

Isn't this the same thing with just about any traded object on Wall street? None of those buyers are interested in owning a part of a company, a few bars of gold or a ton of concentrated frozen orange juice. They just want to act as if they did and then sell this facsimile to some other schmuck who wants to act like that... hopefully at a better price than they payed previously.

I mean, this is like children play-acting supermarket, only that the adults afterwards have to actually pay the prices for milk their children have come up with. And THAT is the problem, because so much capital is sunk that way. This capital doesn't really find its way into the market, after all, unless we, the customers, start paying higher prices for our products. The Wall Street does not generate anything of worth. All their gains must be paid and we are the ones to do that.

And therein lies the problem: As long as people are allowed to speculate this way, prices will not go down. After all, prices going down is not good for Wall Street people... unless they're going up much more right after they bought in. There is only one way for prices to go, if you ask Wall Street.

The whole concept just boggles the mind, frankly...

I'm sure you're trying to be funny here, but I'd bet money that a lot of science-fictiony inventions will indeed come out of such private tinkering labs instead of professional ones, once we have the technology to build them ;).

Oh, gee, thanks for the ostrich.

So demanding we step back and try to find solutions that actually work, as opposed to asking everyone nicely to go out of their way for their fellow human being or possibly fictional future offspring, is now a reason for sending condescension my way.

Nice to know how much respect I can expect for trying to remain level-headed.

Did it occur to you that "the climate change itself isn't that much of a problem" does not equal "Let's do nothing about pollution and our extremely problematic consumption of resources!"?

Jesus fucking H Christ... Sometimes I understand mass murderers...

He didn't "put it" any way at all, besides disproving the points the original poster made.

It takes only one white crow to disprove that all of them are black. He did just that. With no word did he say that everything was peachy in the US.

Either I misunderstand you or you misunderstood your parent poster:

A LFTR reactor is still powered by Thorium... I believe even more so than this setup India i doing now, since a LFTR only needs a bit of uranium or plutonium to start the chain reaction.

But the really big difference is that the design of a LFTR is much less expensive and less dangerous.

The question remains: What keeps us from building them? The fact that they do not produce waste than can be weaponized? For a nuclear power like India, perhaps that was a factor.

Too bad, a LFTR would have made my day.