He cashed out.

The people of Iraq, Afghanistan and a few other places would beg to differ.

Protective gear in general should be banned. It only reads to a misguided sense of safety.

I'm pretty sure that just the overall appearance of said appendage is enough to positively ID someone.

Interestingly enough, what you describe is a case of shitty cost accounting.

There cannot be perfect surveillance, for very good theoretical reasons. The only reasonable things you can do are to:

a. make sure the sanes overmatch the loons in numbers in any given community

b. find or make MANY, HIGHLY DISPERSED, EXTREMELY DISCREET and RIDICULOUSLY WELL ARMED new baskets to put one's eggs in.

You correctly observe that technology far surpasses the powers of the human race. Well, all prey has to do is to multiply and run faster than predators.

Par for the course, here.

The fusor does work. It "just" doesn't work well enough. If another set of kooks had won the funding battle, it would be the preferred money sink.

Interestingly enough, the work of the guys who did this Q&A here is being defunded.

Any radars? SOSUS?

This is what you Western guys don't understand and it is also why you are doomed to repeat our experience.

It was all real. All of it. There was no "hysteria". The Gulag, the spying on everyone by everyone else, the hunger, the poverty, the mass fear and the mass (self)hatred, the fact that Soviets fully intended to rule the world, by hook or crook, the spies and sleeper agents and secret caches of backpack nukes on NATO states' territory, for use in the final war. All of it, and worse. There is stuff that is still classified, or just plain hidden, atrocities that no-one except the perpetrators and the few survivors know about.

It sounds funny now, but it won't be funny when you find yourself in the Gulag for refusing to hand over the encryption keys.

What sort of retarded package manager does not know to retain older versions of a library, as required by installed apps? If you are not using package management, why have you not sandboxed the troublesome apps yet?

You're being trolled softly, for fun and profit. Truly a class act.

Interestingly enough, the price of gold is decoupled from the price of all commodities. Better to look at oil price expressed in, oh, say, copper or tin.

I'll try to have as many kids as possible, if I ever start believing in collapse, on the theory that the more I have, the better the chances one or a few will survive whatever the (grim) future may hold.

You are free to step out of my way at any time, by the way. Having already taken the needed steps to avoid inconveniencing my descendants, it would be only a small additional effort to ensure their world will be a tad less poor.