Shit, man. I want some of the crack you're smoking too! Hell, while we're at it:

I want intermediary .o files to be cross platform, and linkable across platforms.
I want these intermediary files to be distributed instead of executables.
I wast the format of the intermediary files to be executable within a software virtual machine.
I want to use said feature to enable compiled and object code to run together seamlessly.
I want plugins to thus be sandboxed, with the option to link them into binaries transparent to the application if I trust the source.
I want applications to be linked into binaries at install time, thus providing cross platform distribution without "JIT" overhead of other bytecode.

In other words, I want to write my own damn operating system. So that's what I'm doing.

Because that way they can play a video game with you without necessarily having to buy their own gaming PCs and their own copies of the game.

KB+M is fine for single player. The problem comes when you have players 2, 3, and 4 visiting your home, and the APIs for accessing more than one mouse or more than one keyboard are far more obscure than the APIs for accessing more than one gamepad.

What's the difference between the HTTP and HTML on one hand and the web on the other?

How do you think the invention of all that stuff was made possible? We could have made washing machines just out of wood.

Sure, play the race card. Bigot.

I'm guessing you never had to protect your loved ones from looters. Get bent fool.

Agreed! Also, any who might have known the twittering prick should be jailed! They enable this behavior. Arrest the followers who remained followers after those stupid tweets, they're literally terrorists. Especially those re-tweeting or posting about this in social media, they're just giving the terrorists more attention they crave! They wouldn't kill folks if it didn't get a reaction! You know what? We should stamp out this sort of bullshit before it gets started. Only question now is which hunt to do first.

Apparently you've not heard of kickstarter, or indiego, or various other crowdfunding initiatives. Here's the thing: Gamedevs need market research. Doesn't matter where it comes from. The idea needs to be fun, and we need to know it'll be purchased well before we blow lots of money on the project. All that indecision? Let's let the player's decide! That will keep you from dumping too much money into a failed route, AND give instant feedback into the course of action that should be taken TO MAXIMIZE SALES.

Sorry bub. Your secretive cabal of middlemen adding no value but extracting a price for their mere existence is doomed. This is the Age of Information. The content creators can work directly for the end users now.

The objection is not that it is impractical; if there are few phone booths then the project is eminently practical. The objection is that it is pointless. I do not have enough information to know if this is a valid objection either.

No. It is enabled by social progess.

Theoretically, sure. In practice, it does none of those things. Let's go from the bottom. Curbing pollution is achieved not solely through technical progress, but also through social progress. In general we have technologies to avoid pollution long before they are used, and only when people wake the fuck up and demand them are they in fact implemented. For example, particulate and carbon filters to trap small particulates and volatile organic compounds. We knew about them long before we started using them. We used them only because people were protesting their bleeding lungs. Curing disease? Economic progress makes the technical progress possible, but we withold cures that we've developed from people without the means to pay an arbitrary asking price designed to serve shareholders and we only make them broadly available when society demands it. Education is in sad shape here in the USA specifically because economic progress isn't serving the people.

Economic progress is not social progress. Economic progress must serve social progress, or it retards it.

Kind of makes you wonder if the breakdown products from this stuff can get into your body separately, and then combine there. Well, it makes me wonder. Maybe that's because I'm not a biologist, or maybe it's because I'm a pessimist.

I don't claim that they can catch it all, but clearly they could catch a lot of it. A lot of it is very clearly marked, they're not even removing that. (The issue of whether they should have to is orthogonal to the technical conversation.)

Arnie for gov was the most awesome thing ever because none of the really fucked up stuff he wanted to do ever came to pass. I knew that this was what would happen, which is why I voted for him. I voted against Moonbeam but we got him again anyway because as you say, the voters of California are idiots. That's not entirely true, though; many of them are simply assholes. There's a lot of self-entitled rich fucks in California, it's not just self-entitled poor.

Why? Why the fuck would you have done that? She's been an unabashed opponent of the constitution all along. Now you want a medal for waking up to what the rest of us have been saying about her for fucking decades?