I'd rather have seas 30 feet higher in 100-300 years and living with (say) 2314-year tech than current seas and year 2200 tech in 2314...or 2214. Hech, a 10% slowdown, miserably easy for an overbearing government to achieve, would yield a 30 year delta at the end. Hell, I'd rather have 2014 tech than 1984-tech.

Proposed solutions matter and should be judged in the context of tech advancement, or lack thereof. That's what saves lives.

Your Aero argument is indeed solid...except for one thing. Congress deliberately mucked it up by preventing cable companies from being able to rebroadcast local broadcast channels, implementing this must-carry-for-free-or-negotiate-for-dollars, tv station decides.

Congress did it! However, Fox has no leg to stand on, with the the Aero ruling, anyway. You have your signal and shows already and are just using slingbox to transmit it around for you. This doesn't fall afoul of Congress' strange law for must-carry.

No no no! Money's no object!

it wanted to spend 486,000 rubles
(about $14,800) to buy 20 electric typewriters as a way to avoid digital leaks.

While that seems like a lot, keep in mind the US government would commission electronic typewriters, making sure they had USB and WiFi and network printing capabilities and access to cloud storage and run Windows apps and Internet Explorer.

They would finally be delivered for $38k per unit about 12 years after everybody has a Matrix jack in their neck.

Europe lives without dryers (I lived in the NL for a year and rented, dried clothes on racks) not because they are environmentally friendly but for the same reason nobody has AC and refrigerators are tiny. It's about 1950-level wealth. Shit's expensive, yo! Apartments and such are tiny too.

Our fast food is a good start to bring your bellies up to speed. If you build it, they will gorge. Get on our level!

What do you expect from Linux users? :popcorngif:

The FAA is concerned with you accidentally flying it into a restricted area like way up there (evidently 1000 feet) or near an airport or the White House.

It is not concerned with whether some idiot crashes it into someone's window or head. That's the concern of local police and states.

Hmmm. You're right! Let's begin the debate.

This is a troubling development in an ongoing saga over the FAA's rules which punish the safe commercial use of drones.

It will induce drone makers to start donating to Congress (cynical, but difficult to actually disprove that's the reason for the regulation, not the ostensible surface reasons) and in short order, people here on Slashdot will be talking about the corrupting influence of drone makers on Congress.

The empire that keeps the trade routes open prospers. Those that lord over their own people falter.

Someone will get to the asteroids. Better a free people than the new economic core of empire, China, with its skyrocketting prosperity due to greater economic freedom than in the US.

We are seeing there's a hell of a lot more to freedom w.r.t. prosperity than just freedom of speech.

Some have a strange sense of propriety that all must kneel to get permission of the king before doing anything. That's not freedom...even in a democracy.

Right after 9/11, in the heat to Get Those Guys and their network, the NSA went into vast recoding depositories to track back conversations, actual recorded calls. They admitted it and it kind of blew by in the moment.

Am I the only one who remembers this?

Not only that, but they (and California even moreso) have crossed the linr from local government to quasi-national bloat and over-regulating government, placing burdens on their populations that were normally reserved (such as it is) for the top dog government.

Now they are plagued at two levels.

Europe is going the other way, introducing a power-inhaling pan-European government atop their own bloated national governments. Don't wanna be left out by their own dueling bloat levels.

You can cross the street without looking both ways and maybe get hit by a car. Oh, sure, you had the right of way. You're still dead, but you had the rogjt of way.

I remember the shock in the US whem the UK decided they could hold your silence against you. You were he heroes, the original English system on which much of the US is based, how sad you are straying.

Additionally, if keys are not incriminatory, why is he in jail for not providing them?

We will. That has happened repeatedly in the past. It is no more logical for us to worry about humanity in 100 years than it would have been for people in 1900 to worry about us today.

Think of how much has been invented -- yet they would have been concerned about horse poop buildup and poop dust all over everything. 'Let's limit use of horses!" slowing the economy and leaving us with, say, 1980 level tech, "helping" absolutely no one.

So, to people 100 years from now. What did we do? Keep a powerful economy so you can have flying cars and autodocs, or weaken and hobble is so you don't?

We are the people in 1900 looking to hobble ourselves to "help" those way off in the future...of 2014.

Thanks for the "help".