It's not what I want.

It's what will happen. It's what's supposed to happen.

It's not life, without death. No death? No Beethoven or Taj Mahal or Pericles or Haiku.

Nada.

Without an end, there is no way to face your existence with grace and courage. Bu don't worry. That's empty speculation. You will get old - if you're lucky.

And? You will certainly die.

"aging is the primary source for all deseases"

An argument, thought out and reasoned, just as clearly as it is spelled.

Get this through your head:

You are going to die.

I'm willing to overpay for one of these. I really believe that a lot of good can come from off-the-grid power, and I would invest to help that happen.

So much of our lives is about how this corporation or that government agency has us by the balls. So much of our politics is payback. How something like this could change the balance of power back toward the hands of the individual!

It's not just traditional energy companies that worry about something like that happening. There's a lot of entrenched power in the hands of a shrinking number of people because people can be squeezed. I think about it every time I have to fill the car with gas.

The other key would be open-source, off-the-grid networking. Think about how life and politics would change in the absence of Big Energy and Big Telecom. I'm sure someone else would try to step into the void left by these behemoths, but once you start down the road away from dependence, it gets easier to get rid of the next tyrant.

• 2 Senators on the intelligence committee said the violations revealed in the Post article were just the âoetip of the icebergâ

• Glenn Greenwald notes: âoeOne key to the WashPost story: the reports are internal, NSA audits, which means high likelihood of both under-counting & white-washingâ.(Even so, the White House tried to do damage control by retroactively changing on-the-record quotes)

• The government is spying on essentially everything we do. It is not just âoemetadataâ ⦠although that is enough to destroy your privacy

• The government has adopted a secret interpretation of the Patriot Act which allows it to pretend that âoeeverythingâ is relevant ⦠so it spies on everyone

• NSA whistleblowers say that the NSA collects all of our conversations word-for-word

• Itâ(TM)s not just the NSA ⦠Many other agencies, like the FBI and IRS â" concerned only with domestic issues â" spy on Americans as well

• The information gained through spying is shared with federal, state and local agencies, and they are using that information to prosecute petty crimes such as drugs and taxes. The agencies are instructed to intentionally âoelaunderâ the information gained through spying, i.e. to pretend that they got the information in a more legitimate way ⦠and to hide that from defense attorneys and judges

• Top counter-terror experts say that the governmentâ(TM)s mass spying doesnâ(TM)t keep us safe

• Indeed, they say that mass spying actually hurts U.S. counter-terror efforts.

• They say we can, instead, keep everyone safe without violating the Constitution ⦠more cheaply and efficiently than the current system

• There is no real oversight by Congress, the courts, or the executive branch of government. And see this and this.

• Indeed, most Congress members have no idea what the NSA is doing. Even staunch defenders of the NSA now saytheyâ(TM)ve been kept in the dark

• A Federal judge who was on the secret spying court for 3 years says that itâ(TM)s a kangaroo court

• Even the current judges on the secret spying court now admit that theyâ(TM)re out of the loop and powerless to exercise real oversight

• A former U.S. president says that the spying program shows that we no longer have a functioning democracy

• The chairs of the 9/11 Commission say that NSA spying has gone way too far

• Top constitutional experts say that Obama and Bush are worse than Nixon ⦠and the Stasi East Germans

• While the government initially claimed that mass surveillance on Americans prevented more than 50 terror attacks, the NSAâ(TM)s deputy director John Inglis walked that position back all the way to saying that â" at the most â" one (1) plot might have been disrupted by the bulk phone records collection alone. In other words, the NSA canâ(TM)t prove that stopped any terror attacks. The government greatly exaggerated an alleged recent terror plot for political purposes (and promoted the fearmongering of serial liars). The argument that recent terror warnings show that NSA spying is necessary is so weak that American counter-terrorism experts have slammed it as âoecrazy pantsâ

• Even President Obama admits that youâ(TM)re much less likely to be killed by terrorists than a car accident. So the government has resorted to lamer and lamer excuses to try to justify mass surveillance

• Experts say that the spying program is illegal , and is exactly the kind of thing which King George imposed on the American colonists ⦠which led to the Revolutionary War

• The top counter-terrorism Czar under Clinton and Bush says that revealing NSA spying programs does not harm national security

• The feds are considering prosecuting the owner of a private email company â" who shut down his business rather than turning over records to the NSA â" for refusing to fork over the information and keep quiet. This is a little like trying to throw someone in jail because heâ(TM)s died and is no longer paying taxes

• Whistleblowers on illegal spying have no âoelegalâ way to get the information out

• There are indications that the government isnâ(TM)t just passively gathering the information ⦠but is actively using it for mischievous purposes

• Spying started before 9/11 ⦠and various excuses have been used to spy on Americans over the years

• Governments and big corporations are doing everything they can to destroy anonymity

• Mass spying creates an easy mark for hackers . Indeed, the Pentagon now sees the collection of âoebig dataâ as a âoenational security threatâ ⦠but the NSA is the biggest data collector on the planet, and thus provides a tempting mother lode of information for foreign hackers

• Mass surveillance by the NSA directly harms internet companies, Silicon Valley, California ⦠and the entire U.S. economy . And see these reports from Boingboing and the Guardian

• IT and security professionals are quite concerned about government spying

• Some people make a lot of money off of mass spying. But the government isnâ(TM)t using the spying program to stop the worst types of lawlessness

• Polls show that the public doesnâ(TM)t believe the NSA ⦠and thinks that the government has gone way too far in the name of terrorism

• While leaker Edward Snowden is treated as a traitor by the fatcats and elites, he is considered a hero by the American public

• Congress members are getting an earful from their constituents about mass surveillance

• The heads of the intelligence services haverepeatedly been caught lying about spying. And even liberal publications are starting to say that Obama has been intentionally lying about spying

• Only 11% of Americans trust Obama to actually do anything to rein in spying

• A huge majority of Americans wants the director of intelligence â" Clapper â" prosecuted for perjury

• While the Obama administration is spying on everyone in the country â" it is at the same time the most secretive administration ever (background). Thatâ(TM)s despite Obama saying heâ(TM)s running the most transparent administration ever

• A Congressman noted that â" even if a mass surveillance program is started for good purposes â" it will inevitably turn into a witch hunt

• Surveillance can be used to frame you if someone in government happens to take a dislike to you

• Government spying has always focused on crushing dissent ⦠not on keeping us safe

• An NSA whistleblower says that the NSA is spying on â" and blackmailing â" top government officials and military officers (and see this)

• High-level US government officials have warned for 40 years that mass surveillance would lead to tyranny in America

• A top NSA whistleblower says that the only way to fix things is to fire all of the corrupt government officials who let it happen. As the polls above show, the American public is starting to wake up to that fact

People really don't like facing the fact that they will get old. That they will die. That everything about themselves - good and bad - is also inextricably tied to this reality.

Denial. It isn't just for "climate change". ;-)

Three hours? All that money to shave away 120 minutes?

If it weren't for CHP, I'd make it in five, every time, no problem...

What? And subject myself to the uncritical indoctrination that seems to guide your prejudice?

You seem not to be able to see past technological fetishism - the sort that admires scientism - as exemplified by this proposed medicalization of aging.

These are propositions that use scientific learning in the technological pursuit of of human fears and personal demands. This is the same basis for justifying and admiring eugenics or brainwashing.

Seriously. Calling age a disease is a rhetorical manipulation, divorced from the truth. Clinging to this notion is a form of delusion.

Equivalent fancies would call gravity a form of oppression, or render the second law of thermodynamics a form of theft.

These people need psychologists, not funding. Medical care is already unaffordable in the US, with outcomes similar to Kazakhstan. Quack-science like this is a part of the problem.

Live Free or Die, Bitches!

United Snakes or Divided Fates? It's anyone's guess.

Not until the entire audio layer in Linux works better with more hardware, including pro stuff like Avid, Focusrite, MOTU, etc.

It's still too fussy to get good audio out of Linux. Though I realize it's not entirely the fault of Linux.

It's great for streaming samples, rendering, etc, but not for actually playing or producing audio, without a whole lot of fiddling.

LIFETIME UNEMPLOYMENT... FOREVER!

Seriously. Thank god, that people grow old and die.

What if the foetus hatched a plan, to gestate for eternity?

This is ground-shaking stuff.

People who drink more coffee also have more sex.

It's the sex that kills 'em off. But what a way to go! Buzzed and polished.

Hey! Another guitar/bass builder, on /. ! Who'da thunk it?

Especially on a bad, joke comment.