My, my. That certainly riled up the censorious little trolls. Nice to know I must be on the right track. Or maybe just their allergy to the historical truths? Really hard to change that part, no matter how much we all squabble about what they mean...

Worth the effort of digging up a citation or three? Naw. They ain't.

NAK

Do you have any idea how many millions of people used to cross the Mexican border EVERY year before it was militarized? They were not murderers and rapists and drug smugglers, but overwhelmingly just farm laborers coming up for seasonal work, then going home in the off season. If you know the history, much of the credit for creating the crisis mentality was due to a general trying to re-imagine his failure to win in Vietnam. The "border crisis" was manufactured and it's only gotten worse since then.

Before the fake crisis, the American economy was doing fine, thank you, and America had lots of inexpensive fruits and vegetables at the cost of a small cash flow to Mexico. The real reason they should be accounted for as they cross the border is to protect them from abuse, and they received plenty of it. Still do, notwithstanding the fake crisis.

But maybe you think we should have gone nuclear and just paved the entire country? With that kind of "thinking" it scarcely matters which country.

Well, better development of the weak FP, but the premise is flawed. The manufactured immigration "crisis" does not exist. Yes, there are problems that need to be addressed, but the crisis labeling is not intended to be part of any addressable solution.

So is excessive greed a real crisis? Let's leave that as an exercise for the reader, eh?

(Me? I'm hoping that Musk has a Twitter moment to match Tucker's Crossfire moment back in 2004... But Bill Maher is no Jon Stewart.)

I'm still not asking who brain farted.

...the brain farts.

A "true" Libertarians wants whatever will put the most money in his own pocket and the only thing he wants from government is sufficient force to make sure the more aggressive thieves stay out of his pocket. I've yet to meet a Libertarian who understands the meaning of his worship words, but none of my best friends are Libertarians.

Most interesting branch of the discussion and included the only trace of Funny, too.

My main curiosity is why NHK has not mentioned this project. Usually they give a lot of coverage (and free publicity) to NTT, but I haven't heard anything about this idea.

Might be because of the crypto contagion. I thought it was an interesting idea until the summary got to that part of it. I agree that there needs to be an economic model to make it work, but a REAL economic model, not more shadows of Kai-Fu Lee's techno-utilitarianism.

As regards asking nicely, that actually works pretty well for me in getting access to Wi-Fi access points. Or maybe that's mostly limited to restaurants where they are trying to be nice to the customers? (Right now my phone can see about six Wi-Fi networks with pretty good signals, and I see that one of them is Open, to boot.)

There seems to be some confusion in the discussion about why they wanted to have some system to encourage innovation and the laws that got written to implement and instantiate the "why". I think the obfuscation was deliberate from that reputed "reply" to my original comment.

Doesn't seem worth pursuing clarification or depth now. The lifespan of "viable" discussions on Slashdot is brief, and it does not appear that this was ever one of them. Nor did I have much hope for Funny around here. (Just checked and confirmed.)

NAK

As if anyone needed more evidence of censor moderation by sock puppets, eh? Thanks for the proving me right?

As if anyone needed more evidence of censor moderation by sock puppets, eh? Thanks for the proving me right?

Mod parent Insightful with sad seasoning.

Censor sock puppets were apparently defeated and it's now Funny. Barely?

Weak joke, but it didn't deserve troll sock-puppet censorship.

I do think the story had potential for depth or funny, but didn't spot either in my brief visit as the story expires.