You would call a simple cup of coffee "ultra-caffeinated, supercharged, mega-boosted, hyper-energizing, turbo java" that promises to launch you into orbit!

You do not know what "ultra" does to the meaning of words. Take your bipolar meds yet?

A PC is for doing work. not games. I don't want your malware game infecting my computer which has to be locked down by your invasive software to prevent cheating online etc. Consoles can be your domain and limit freedom and be a closed off walled garden. I'm totally ok with that to limiting cheating and make security risks a joke since nothing important is on my console.

This sound like phones? moving gaming to phones sounds like exactly what they want and it has a wealth of personal information far beyond most users' PCs.

Nintendo is the only one who gets it. The rest are just greedy corps trying to steal as much as possible: from the workers, from the customers (TIME and money,) and from Nintendo (speaking of Sony's breach of contract which founded their console business; but also their emulators.)

The COSTS are reasonable except for their subsidized bloated PC consoles... adjusted for inflation, Nintendo is just fine. The problem is the money is all going to the top and people in the 1st world are really starting to feel it as they finally realize their income hasn't risen at the rate of wallstreet.

One solution to hide the lost wealth, is to merge with the PC market which can lower costs to some degree while promoting more consumption at the same time. The real savings will end up going to industry and not to the consumers; at first it will placate the users for a while. Next it'll migrate to phones while the PC dies off for most people who can only afford a good phone (with an upgrade being connecting the phone to a TV or controller.) Many people today have already eliminated the PC from their life and just have a phone... the printers are talking to the phones now because of this trend.

Remember, the NSA got Apple's cooperation after Jobs stepped down. -snowden leak

A robot is a mechanical slave that doesn't ever revolt.
Humans compete with robots by being cheaper than robots. This means degrading the workers until eventually conditions simply can't get any worse. If you demand a fair minimum treatment, you just raise the transition point for robots. Nothing will advance robots faster than forcing jobs to be in the USA and it'll also likely have a downward impact on job quality given how much undue power corporations have.

There is also no way profits going to the 1% will be allowed to go down, prices will have to go up and the economy will shrink. At some point the 1% will have to loose money, as they can't steal any more when there isn't anymore to take... this will create pressure for internationalization which has already been going on for generations so the 1% gets smaller and globally concentrated. Likely war will happen as result of infighting within the ruling class; they won't directly fight each other.

Americans are much poorer today is the reality that people haven't realized because food, clothing, electronics and have come down in relative price by many methods to mask the decline and wage theft by wall-street. If you even bring up the class war that has been raging for decades you get dismissed as a socialist or whatever slur the suckers buy into.

A car 75 years ago... but then we have much safer cars (seat belts for starters) that use much less gas... Cheap resources are not abundant anymore either. We've not yet hit peak copper and look at those prices. Well, I did the math and an average car today would have to be about $18k. You can get cheap cars in that range but not average. Those old cars had no extras like today -- people wouldn't pay so much extra for silly things we demand now; remove power locks, power doors, key fobs, power steering...

CANADA supplies a lot of parts already... but Trump is putting a stop to that...

The death isn't Barr killing Epstein, it's Trump vaguely telling Barr to kill Epstein. It is probably not appropriate to name a mind virus that mobsters used for generations after a recent example.

Rocky 4 was banned in Russia so they didn't realize...

But Star Wars says clones are way better than robots!

But they can't stay mega wealthy without billions of rubes to steal money from! Oh, and suppress them from just pressing delete on all those stolen numbers.

Prove that. IQ is so complex we've not even begun to find a genetic link. It's been tried forever; still no progress. How about we just make heads and brains larger? nope. Elephants have about twice the brain we do. Brain development is by far the biggest factor once you rule out major defects which do impact IQ - but a normal brain is capable of anything... including relearning to function with huge portions blown away... just imagine what an undamaged brain can learn... if we can figure out how to teach it.

They just need normal penises... then we will eliminate insecure mental cases like Musk (botched surgery) or Trump (tiny freak.)

Get the plastic surgery industry involved, they will kill it off in no time.

The real nightmare is "a human" who can't get a mental illness. For starters, anybody actually smart has to cope with depression.

It already is much cheaper and slower than flying; so what if they go slower if it ends up cheaper... If it costs the same and is slower then we really should do something to make polluting boats pay more for the harm they cause.

FYI: The top 12 mega cargo ships pollute more than ALL the cars combined; I forget the exact number but it's around a dozen! If I was presi-dictator, I'd sink every mega ship and offer non-profit nuclear powered ships managed by the navy (since they are the only ones who competently and securely handle nuclear power.) Given the scope of the global problem is a bigger threat than any war and this cost would be trivial. Furthermore, if it's ok to blow up fishing boats in the name of drugs it's certainly more justified to sink a dozen mega cargo ships.

What I'd like to see is an electric boat with solar and wind; obviously with generators picking up the slack. Yes, solar wouldn't generate hardly anything close to what is needed; however, it's the cheapest electricity and would quickly pay for itself. Generators can easily be swapped out at anytime while giant ICE engines can not... I know there are electric boats running from generators already; I don't know how widespread that has become. I'd also have solar covers over the shipping containers; wouldn't take much time to attach/detach those given how automation is taking over loading/unloading... I bet the extra human labor time is still worth it. Not that we should be shipping things cheaply around the world like we do. It's absolutely insane that something like US organic chicken gets shipped to china to be processed then shipped around... or how dozens of cows of beef from all over get ground into burgers etc. Those are some really cheap shipping costs...

not ideal. batteries are ideal. hydro is ideal. Simply using distance grid transport is great too. They are still not great to flip on and off constantly. For short spikes, flywheels are probably better.

Still, base load power for the grid is a myth; it's not going to be cost effective, it probably isn't already - not too many run those turbines very long.