>arguing it unfairly advantages startups

Way to say your dealers suck.

Intellectual diversity makes for better teams.

Simplify. The best part is no part. The parts omitted never fail. They don't require maintenance, supply chains, continuous improvement.

...although the drug by itself is useless; it needs people, too.

From the getgo, most of he sites you visit, you will be checked for AI--because AI has scraped everything from the internet, copyrights or not. Add to that problem. we are already seeing raising unemployment, oil-eating/planet-warming data centers, billionaires becoming even richer so they can meddle with you government--and for what?

Someone call Okabe.

You don't need your refrigerator wired into the internet--any more than you need cup holder on your computer.

The Moon is target practice. We need to get away from innovative bespoke engineering, into industrial mass production with continuous improvement. To do that we need to fly often. Mars just doesn't have the launch window availability. The biggest part of the challenge is that we were born in the bottom of a deep well. To toss enough stuff out of the well for a long journey is critical. Boosters that reliably fly on time often and cheaply enough to get ships and fuel out of the well. Ships that carry fuel into orbit and return over and over since the vast majority of the material we need to send out of the well isn't payloads or ships, it's fuel. Kilotons of fuel. Once the factories and processes are set up for that going far beyond the Moon is fairly easy. But with a narrow opportunity every two years that's not going to happen in a human lifespan. It's not enough refinement cycles per year.

I see this accelerating the Mars objective, not deferring it.

Nope, wouldn't do it. Would not buy a car with a OS that only lasts a few years.

Imagine you are a Windows refugee desktop user. You install Wine, perhaps configure it. Now what? Now that it's better and that's the problem with making something work fairly well, is now the ledge bar goes up. I wish Wine's usability was better. I would like to see some (optional) integration in Mint or Debian, somehow. Also with 4K, I had issues even seeing well enough to change the settings.

With Wine, I mostly have the 2 applications I really need that are missing in Linux: Full copy of 7Zip ( File Roller does not have enough settings), and Irfanview, which seems to have no equal under Linux, although, Xnconvert does do some chores. In the case of File roller, there is so much more power in 7zip, like much higher compression ratios, which are not available--without either command-line or the Windows GUI.

and we, we could move all of our nuclear waste up there. We're going to need some kind of space ship for moon-based chores. Wait! I have it, we can call them "Eagles", and we're going to need a lot of them....

Well, at least it's secure, right?
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This is just about what venue the FTC needs to use to prosecute its case.