Comment Re:Shit doesn't happen in a vacuum (Score 1) 76
Haul-away haul-away haul away Joe. Tell it like it is, brother.
Comment Re:just FYI (Score 1) 33
No need for your oh-so-fragil BLOCKCHAIN crap when paper and quality American-made pencils remain readable immediately and in a century. Freaks who try burning P&P based votes may be shot, while byte-boi hackerz anonymously eat-thru purposefully weakened software structures; every soft-ware structure. So the prudent voting structure is based on well-tested 10-K year-old technology. Better than inscribed glass ? No, but one always compromises quality and cost.
Comment Re:Meet national security concerns (Score 1) 58
As you say ..."The US government considers the US populace it's biggest threat and enemy." That's true whether the post-mod elected leaders are MAGA/Republican/socialist/globalist. (re)publican/democratic ideals take 3rd place to power & financials. As a LeastLastLowest student-of-history I observe well-maintained cultures solving this conflict by explicit civil war -- classical Athens , Napolionic France etcetc --. I thought we'd have one back in the 1960s when Fed Courts kidnapped Missouri K-12 schools; didn't happen then. But, with recent assassinations/attempts I can see a government with "plausible deniability" ... and a repeat of 1850s BLOODY KANSAS.
Comment I understand now --- (Score 4, Interesting) 36
"...and disrupting the simple, seamless way their Apple products work together." --- that any law intruding on Apples monopoly practices ought to be ... unlawful. Did I catch those unspoken words correctly ? Does a bigger entitled KAREN exist within USA public companies.
Comment Re:sad case (Score 1) 44
NOTHING is a very big number ... like infinity. Excluding books ... I just checked my sketchpad and recovered names of three "recent" movies I intend to see again: <The Rapture ... Jacobs Ladder ... Beetlejuice >. And almost any film featuring Shirley McClain or Alec Guinness. You really are known by the trails you trek & the company you keep.
Comment sad case (Score -1, Offtopic) 44
Parisians have seemingly slid (stumbled?) into the bog of content consumption. I presume France maintains public parks, sea-shores, woodlands and trekking venues. How does some overpaid illusionists fantasy compare to the immensity and beautiful savagery of native environs ? Don't go naming a few creative works of art ... as Picasso observed damned-near every art-form produced after 20-K BC is simple decadence. Create your own joy and endorphin-goading hi! If anyone the French ought to be held to this standard; Alpine meadows & gorgeous Slovenian trout-streams are prolly hours away. Why settle for cultural slops ( streaming media) a wild pig would ignore. Sad sad case.
Comment Re:200 million agents take offence (Score 1) 114
That's a damned-funny post. Not everyone bows to the mandarin. You SHOULD get three (3) karma points for leading a verbal "ox" to gore the vastly entitled China-philates.
Comment Re:health (Score 2) 53
If you're (simply) correct, then lots of Mediterranean cultures ought to have just-TONS of diabetics. But ... that is not so. You are missing some "hidden" variable that "directs" sugar, carbs and alcohol into their disproportionate USA role.
Comment Re:More Redefining Words? (Score 1) 72
Sorry about the tarnished karma, pal. You're gold, but talking to a pack of luzerz who don't know: Spin & Marty, Atom Squad, Playhouse 90 and Omnibus/Dave Garaway. Nor Canadian football , gals roller-derby, Weds-night fights and Bobo-Brazil / Galager Bros. Or Fabians' ( A Lion walks among Us ) brilliant jail-scene. Don't even try.
Comment Re:Meh (Score 1) 43
Even the slightest hint of non-wokeness gets zero (0) karma. And conservatives pointing pout that obvious fact, get zero (0) karma. What malevolent insectivorus infestation does Slash-Dot support ?
Comment Re:That's cute (Score -1) 20
Webster can say whatever it wishes and that text belongs to them. If one book does not give you definitions you want, then buy another book !
Comment Re:Gas has externalities (Score -1) 202
If we factor in all the up-stream cultural value derived using cheap energy ( like gas ), then we will not care how many unproductive big-city hotentots or SJWs drop dead early from smoggy skies or acid rain.
Comment Re:Rich folks want to be vampires (Score -1) 93
You sound like a person who has never produced anything of value. Able humans work for the pure joy of producing; wealth is a natural free-flowing result of any-such production. No doubt, the off-spring of wealthy parents become wealthy themselves W/O effort. The logic of allowing that is the 60% / 40% genetic gifting of ability --- so inheritance and marriage both have the same final cause ... identifying and gifting the most able. Likewise a culture allows wealthy corporations to continue producing wealthy because they are also ( until say Y2K ) the most like to product value. Think old 20-th Century Westinghouse, Ford, DEC, IBM, Amana, RCA, HP etcetc.
Comment Re:A jab at Misk (Score 0) 83
Xs short-term valuations may be hurt, but its long-time existence will be favored. Companies/guilds etc that cater to "discriminating" buyers tend to last much longer than fly-by-night / race to the bottom start-ups. Musk builds for the long-haul and his stock-holders / workers / customers will reap the financial/cultural benefits of quality and stability. Of-course GEN-Q "twitchers" cannot conceive the ansatz.
Comment Re: Of-course ! (Score 0) 25
Seriously. Blatant chi.com apologist gets karma-boosted immediately. Makes you wonder (NOT) just how foreign agents exercise power on Slash-dot.
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