Shhhh... that's not supposed to get out until project Insight goes live.

Which was perfectly normal, at the time.

Isn't textile one of the most recyclable materials in existence?

Even if the old clothes need to be shredded into fibers and re-spun, the recycled material doesn't have to be suitable as dress whites, it can be tent canvas, insulation, upholstery stuffing, etc.

Here in the U.S. "fashion retail" will sell a shirt for ~$50, while the very same shirt will show up a few months later at a thrift shop for ~$4. Some of the "upmarket" clothiers sell shirts (marginally nicer than the retail variety) for $100+ per shirt. At the local mall, I don't think you can even buy a T-shirt for less than $20 anymore. And they wonder why the place is so empty...

Same here. Our projects still have closed bits, but so much more of the infrastructure is open compared to 20 years ago. I can get stuff done faster, and more reliably with "unsupported" open libraries as compared to the "supported" closed equivalents, and when I've had the opportunity to compare the two head to head, the closed ones tend to have more, bigger bugs that take longer to get fixed - precisely because they're closed. We had a bug in an open library, made a patch for it ourselves in a couple of days, and submitted it back to the project.. they chose not to adopt our patch because the whole section of the library was up for replacement in a year or two, they were focusing development on the new architecture - but: we still were able to make our own patch and use it right away. In a closed environment you don't get the opportunity to even try that, and have much less chance of getting the closed developers' time and attention.

So, when you survey the job market - 5 million unemployed, 4.5 million jobs open, and over half of the unemployed only match skills with minimum wage jobs, even though they have many higher valued skills and education... what's wrong with this picture?

As long ago as 1999, $15/hr was a minimal living wage for "real" adults who pay for their own rent, transportation, insurance and food.

Most jobs contribute far more than $15/hr value to the employer's organization - if they don't, I'm all for finding solutions that make those "worthless" jobs go away and free up people to do something that is worth $15/hr or more.

Arguably, even semi-talented street busking (entertainment) in a reasonably heavy pedestrian traffic area is worth more than $15/hr. And, if everybody is employed at higher paying jobs, everybody who enjoys an entertainer can afford to toss them a buck every couple of days as they walk past.

The parasites have more free time and resources to manipulate the system/rules/laws to their advantage.

Another way of looking at this is that Kodak was too far ahead of the curve in patenting digital imaging before it was practical for the mass market. When I bought my first Casio digital camera, around 1998 IIRC, it was 320x240 pixels, had terrible low-light capabilities, got massive green streaks if any areas were over-exposed, and I think it was nearly $200 too, even with that toy-like performance. My next camera was a Kodak, and it was a quality 1MP camera that had a flash, optical zoom lens and good usability around the $400 price point, but the tech was moving at incredible speed and Kodak didn't have the manufacturing to keep up - I think they were licensing silicon from others, so they really weren't bringing anything unique to the party - their tech specs tended to lag a little behind the best in the field, and their prices tended to be a little higher, and the writing was just on the wall: people didn't associate the Kodak name with great digital cameras.

Even today, there's not a lot of name recognition in digital photography. Some like Nikon hold on to their reputation for lenses and manage to keep making competitive digital "filmbacks" to go on them, but the mass consumer market, the people that used to buy the bulk of Kodak and Fuji film, they don't really care who makes their camera and most just use the one in their phone now.

To capitalize on digital imaging the way they did the chemical film market would have required investment on an unprecedented scale for Kodak, speculatively ramping up a chip-making business that they knew very little about internally, operationally, historically. Even if they did that, I don't think there are good odds that you'd be paying for Kodak branded digital image sensors in your cell phones - it's a different animal than film, no disposable or per-use aspect to it, and no brand loyalty in today's market.

I'd guess that there were quite a few people near the top of Kodak who knew all of this by the mid-1990s, knew that their days were numbered, and just let the company go down like so many buggy-whip makers before them.

Too late, you're over exposed.

I believe that evolution to the point of comprehending FTL travel requires a transcendence beyond violence into a state of calm, self assured control of one's own destiny - and sharing that sense with a larger society.

I think somebody needs to make an "Aliens" movie where the extra-terrestrials have infiltrated Earth and averted multiple nuclear wars by various shenanigans, including making launched ICBMs malfunction.

Journalists invent sensationalist bullshit around whatever their sources actually say. It would appear to be required for success in their field.

If they've been visiting frequently since the 1950s, they must have some kind of "non-contamination" policy at work.

I can't "believe" like Mulder yet, either - but I'm not ready to disbelieve based on the lack of evidence.

It is indeed magnificent hair, but so incongruous with his head as to make one wonder why Trump can't allow someone with an actual sense of style to refine his look?