I'm not for sure why any employer or anyone else trusts or cares about linkedin especially in the IT field.
Most of the people on my linkedin profile who have vouched for my computer knowledge know nothing about
computers. They've said I'm an expert at java, php, and any other language that linkedin suggests even
if I know absolutely nothing about said language. To them it's all the same and it makes my linkedin profile
utterly useless as I'm ranked higher in languages I don't know than I am in languages I actually do.

Although this is their target market, the "rent-to-own" purchases by the payday cash loan crowd, no sane people should
ever use them to actually buy something as the price is usually double or more before you're finished.
Using them as a rental is actually fairly reasonable though if you need furniture for a month or a big TV for a superbowl party.

Yes, this would be a good start as it's somewhat realistic but I also chose fly because what
I want (and every else really wants) is a car that can get you from point A to point B as safely
and quickly as possible with the least amount of effort. So the perfect transportation would be:
1) 100% safe
2) effortless and convenient
3) near instantaneous
4) economical
Every mode of transportation tends to be a balance of these. I'm still holding out for the day where
I can have Breakfast in France, Lunch in China, and Dinner in New York.

What do you think a "violation of the 4th amendment" is then? To me "an excuse to bypass the 4th amendment to gain X" is
exactly that. It is a violation and an attempt to bypass the 4th amendment. Whether he is guilty is not the point.
Now if they got a proper warrant and executed it correctly, that's a different story but if they are using an excuse to bypass
proper protocol then it very much is a violation of the 4th amendment. It doesn't really matter what the excuse is either.

I would consider myself fairly "average" by your definition. I sit at a desk all day and work from home so I don't even have
to walk to the garage. I could probably afford to lose 15 pounds but I still have no problem on vacation going to the zoo,
six flags, disney world, etc... and walking for 8-10 hours straight at probably around 5km/h with no issues for an entire week.
So I'm guessing that I get close to the 35mi/60km per day where generally on a typical day I'm probably lucky to hit
3000steps/2km in a day. At least for me, walking indefinitely even when I don't do it regularly doesn't seem to be an issue
and would presumably get easier over time.

There is an inverse to this too though. Once the average person can travel the galaxy with ease there is no way to stop someone from
capturing and enslaving people on their private ships or planets and doing all sorts of inhumane things. Pirates and mercenaries would
permanently come back, people could disappear forever, blowing up or even threatening to blow up a planet would become a viable
option and a host of other very negative things as with access to a single ship you could go your own way and write your own rules
without consequences from anyone.

You do hear mention of hitler killing undesirables on occasion but generally people
are fixated on the jews because that is one of the largest true genocides we've ever
experienced where someone is being killing just for their race. Most of the other
mass exterminations are people exterminated their opponents not solely a race.

Again, you've changed the criteria to multiple horses. A peasant would be unlikely to have access to a single horse let alone have access to
multiple horses along a route. Most likely during this time though period people would rarely travel further than the closest village and only
traders would travel to the next village probably with a donkey or two. Even today most people rarely travel further than the closest town to
do business except on special occasions.

Oh, and reading over that article about Karl Meltzer, it says on the 40th day he ran over 100 miles.
I'm not sure a horse is even capable of 100 miles in a single day where here is a person who
did this after running over 2000 miles in the previous 39 days.

It's very comparable. A human can keep up a 3mph walk forever as well. A 3mph pace is not hard for a human at all and without
a pack 30 miles a day would not be an issue for a human. 35 miles per day, six days a week indefinitely would not be a problem for
the average person either. I don't think a march with camp setup, etc... is comparable to what the original poster was talking about.
I think you underestimate what a human is capable of. When I was in college we went on a hike to the bottom of the grand canyon
for a week. None of us were in great shape, did any training, or probably near as fit as a peasant who worked all day in the field
every day yet we averaged about 20-25 miles a day for a week with heavy packs on rough terrain and making camp each night.
We obviously could have done alot more with a light pack. And again, we were not in shape, didn't train, and most had never even
been backpacking before. For endurance running a human is every bit as good as a single horse. The pony express used multiple
horses because horses are faster over short distances but over multiple days a human is actually faster. A good runner can do alot
more than 35 miles per day. This guy averaged over 50 miles a day for 40 days:
http://www.outsideonline.com/blog/outdoor-adventure/the-human-express-interview-with-karl-meltzer.html
Here is one of many articles that states that humans can outrun every animal on the planet:
http://discovermagazine.com/2006/may/tramps-like-us

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> In fact, given that routing tables grow exponentially, is it even theoretically possible for a full peer-to-peer Internet scale mesh to work?
>

If current routing tables can't scale then maybe a different type of routing table or a different solution entirely is needed.
For instance if every router was location aware and knew it's geographic location and the geographic location of the place it was
trying to reach it could send the encrypted packet in the general direction with the knowledge that each node would get it
one step physically closer to it's destination. Large hops is still a problem but large hops is really only a problem with stuff
that needs to be close to real-time. For email this isn't really much of a problem as even a 5-10 minute delay or longer isn't
really a big deal.

I agree that doing it yourself is pointless but not hopeless. The internet has lost it's goal
of routing around failures. We should try to move to a decentralized internet. The simplest
and easiest way to do this is with sharing wifi routers. Most people in a city can see
multiple wifi routers. If the routers all talked to each other and shared bandwidth then you
have dozens of paths to the internet. This could even be expanded to cars. While
driving on the highway there is typically a string of cars stretching from your car all the way
back to your house. If each of these cars had a router in it you could just hop from car to
car all the way back to your house or all the way across the nation on any major highway.
We need to work on decentralized grid routers to completely remove the internet from any
one entity's control.

I keep asking myself how they will prevent them from shooting the wrong person
and then I'm reminded of the movie "Screamers" and realize that this problem has
already been solved with "tags". And we think leftover mines are bad. Wait till
the next major war and 10,000 war robots get dropped over enemy lines that shoot
anything that moves.

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> so a male dying is less of a blow to the population
>

Not only is a male dying less of a blow to the population but on average it will probably be
the weaker males that are dying on the hunt and/or not getting the girl which helps to
accelerate the selection process.

Risk can be minimized if you're willing to take sacrifices instead (which could be argued is a form of risk).
Many people I know (including myself) started their own business by working part-time at a minimum wage
job to keep from starving. This is obviously harder if you have a mortgage, kids, etc... but many times even
with children if you lower your standard of living a little and find a flexible part-time job then you can
eliminate most of the risk in exchange for some temporary sacrifices and if it doesn't work out the only
thing you are out is a little bit of time. There are other ways as well for instance find 10 friends who are willing
to give you a stipend so you don't have to work the first few months, are able to help cover your startup costs,
etc. A sole provider quiting their job cold-turkey with a mortgage, car payment, etc.. is taking on a huge
amount of risk but if you move into a small apartment, pay off you car, and distribute the risk among several
friends then the risk becomes much more managable. When I started my business I used a combination of
investment from friends, part-time jobs, volunteer labor, and even friends pitching in to give me a small paycheck
which means that no one person had a significant amount of risk and because we were successful everyone
eventually ended up getting their free labor and investments paid back but if we wouldn't have been successful
noone was ever really out more than they could lose.