As a plan B, this is creative and do-able. The real issues will arise when nations differ on who gets what kind of climate adjustments. Those at higher latitudes might think warming is a benefit while lower latitudes are baking, etc.

Text me when they reach orbit. Not holding my breath.

Text me when they reach orbit.

Either everyone would have it or nobody would. Paper would be cool again. www.travellingsalesmanmovie.com/

.. and other oxymoronic word pairings. Seriously, China has morals completely in line with those of Venezuela, at least under Maduro.

The amazing thing is that FCC Director Pai didn't bow to his big telco masters and deny SpaceX the permit. They must be behind in their payments.

Oracle is that rare creature, a C-suite virus. Symptoms include inability to make rational decisions, bouts of fear uncertainty and doubt as well as declining profits. In extreme cases, rational alternatives to Oracle can be misconstrued as threats. In its terminal phase, C-suite inhabitants can be convinced that only by buying more Oracle products can they save their business. Death usually follows immediately after acting on the terminal phase.

Happy they didn't chose Dallas or the DFW suburbs. Too much traffic already with all the new HQs located here. No thanks, Amazon..

As one of my favorite Computer Scientists, Ivor Paige, once put it, "there's more A than I in AI". What we're today calling AI is still limited-domain expert systems. True AI is still a ways off.

Orwell was an optimist. Nation states are all posturing to see who can create the culture most similar to 1984 without anyone raising the alarm. "Boil the frog" is the new mantra for this effort - take away freedoms and security in small bites and before you know it you've lost everything.

I worked in a group managing well over 1000 Unix (mostly Sun) workstations and a couple of dozen large servers. our days consisted primarily of user "whack-a-mole" operations, fixing stupid user errors, shutting down rogue users and managing break-fix. We (all 4 of us) were constantly exhausted working 60 hour weeks and management refused to hire any additional headcount. We got together and decided to automate the management of all the systems. We locked down all the workstations and made them rootless, booting over NFS. We then added scripts automating the build and rebuild of individual and groups of systems. When done, we'd reduced out workload by 50%. The result of all this hard work was our management trumpeting that we had just been lazy before and we actually needed fewer, not more headcount. I left, leaving the other 3 to fend for themselves. When last seen, there was a single guy working 60+ hours a week. Some things never change.

We'll always find a way. BTW, how about a law preventing humans from pretending to be machines?

Printed material is just tattoos on dead trees. Creepy..

No, not all car brands. VW/Audi/Porsche all had variations on the diesel emissions cheat. They're in a class by themselves.
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