I don't see dirty old men using Google Glass to take upskirt pictures. These however...

That way I don't feel so foolish when I thoughtlessly poke at the screen instead of using the trackpad like a sane person.

And if you smoke enough you don't even need a VR headset to achieve full immersion.

Evie Sobczak found that the acid in fruit could power clocks; she connected a cut-up orange to a clock with wire and watched it tick.

Cue the mocking voice of GLADOS describing about everybody was turning in potato batteries for the fair.

And yet every day all over the world people who aren't billionaire ployglots migrate to other countries. Many will stay for decades, some for life.
If you want to you can go but first you have to cross the border that's in your mind.

I have trouble finding the downside to that scenario.

if I don't like a company I can boycott them and take my money elsewhere. Government, not so much.

What's stopping you from moving to a country that has a government more to your liking?

Its doubtful that they were transporting the ash very far because they didn't have the means to do so,

Roman transportation technology was terrible! All those obelisks that are scattered all over Rome probably just swam from Egypt on their own. Good thing those Romans were so lucky. I mean they just banged some rocks together and presto! clockwork computer. No knowledge or technology at work there at all.

If you think anybody whose name isn't Dupont or Gates will be able to do jack shit about any of this you REALLY haven't been paying attention

Congratulations! You haven't even tried and you have lost. In the former Eastern Bloc there was a phenomenon called the inner policeman. The citizens had the rules of the state drummed in them so solidly that it didn't occur to the majority to rise up. Any rebellious thoughts were quashed by their own minds. Your defeatism is just as effective.

Why not? Alternatively you could build your own TMS setup Of course this is the same madman that makes his own aerogel and scanning electron microscope.

No for communism to work the population has to be of ants, bees or mole-rats. Primate nature is incompatible with an egalitarian society.

I believe the entire phrase was "a kangaroo court with a rubber stamp" which is the kind of put-down that at least brings some levity in a mostly shitty situation.

How can you be certain that TOR isn't compromised? I admit that it's a paranoid view to have, but TOR is a very tempting target and lately the paranoid are being proved right on a daily basis.

Not magical, but not even close to being understood. "just X doing its thing" is a cop out.

How do earthquakes occur? "Just the Earth doing its thing" isn't a valid explanation.

Despite Dan Dennett handwaving the whole matter and declaring that consciousness in an illusion (but fails to define who or what is falling for that illusion), nobody has the faintest clue what consciousness is, which makes it more than an engineering problem.