They actually have.

But disgusting pedophile lovers like yourself have kept the pedophile protected.

It's been a decade and a half. Just because a person knows how to compile a kernel doesn't mean they can't also be a Luddite at the same time.

Well that escalated quickly.

Yes, I completely agree. That requires one more factor that's undermining democracy worldwide to be solved - the eternal problem of the asymmetry of rewards and costs that makes public action by the many hard, as explained even here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

Sure, Pete. It is always China's fault in your little part of the world.

Is that China with you now?

Show us on this doll where it is touching you.

Mars has everything it needs right now, and some garbage that it never asked for.

The question to ask, however, isn't what "Mars needs", the question is does the humanity need Mars, and the answer is "not really".

A few hundred or so people without real understanding of the shit, but control of the government money that props the "shareholder value" want to live forever and that the "AI" will let them, so they're completely willing to thrash the Earth for that.

Plus, the biggest moron among them believes he will get to live it out on Mars.

Seeing the number of morons who don't get in-your-face sarcasm I think it is time to bury slashdot for good.

The problem isn't that people are mortal, it is that they are suddenly mortal, a Woland said once.

Nothing miraculous, having made a bit of money allows for better than average healthcare.

Confirmed then, the government is the worst kind of owner.

See how much better things are under private management.

These points are all flawed, and if I thought you wrote them, or even understood them yourself, I'd bother writing a full rebuttal.

Not half as violent as allowing obsolete approaches and flawed architecture to remain out of some weird combination of concern for backwards compatibility and sentimentality.

Python 2 users were supported for more than a decade after 3 came out, and there was a LOT of migration tooling released. CIOs may not want to be forced to upgrade too often, but if they think upgrading once every 10 years is too much, then they need to quit and get into something more aligned with their expectations. Perhaps blacksmithing.

that you're speaking off, dear sirs? Never seen this feature in my feeds.