Maybe one of these billionaires read Awaking Hope by Emily Renee Cunningham and thought to try and implement it.

However, with SCV billionaires implementing it it will likely be an epic fail and they'll resell that land at inflated prices.

This person may be one in a million. I think I am too. Whenever I eat rice and products made from rice my pulse rate goes up along with my blood pressure. I can have 110 beats per minute and 200/95 or so blood pressure. 8 hours later I'm back to normal. This happens only with rice. No reaction to potatoes. I do have celiac problems so I think all of this is based in the digestive process. I have asked doctor after doctor what is wrong. From gastro to cardiologists and GPs. I have gone to ER with my heart skipping beats, fast pulse and high blood pressure and they say..EKG says your heart is fine. I say this is diet related. That is when they laugh. One doctor literally laughed when I said this. So I eliminated rice based foods and guess what? No problems for 2 years.

But yea... unless you fit inside the medical community's box you are going to have to figure this stuff out on your own.

https://www.marketwatch.com/story/amazon-earnings-more-than-double-sending-stock-toward-record-highs-2018-04-26

From the article: "Amazon.com Inc.’s massive growth just grew even more massive in the first quarter, as the e-commerce giant reported Thursday that profit more than doubled and sales continued to accelerate, and the company announced an increase in Prime subscription prices that should add even more."

Profits double and Amazon raises Prime membership fees. Why? Because they can.

I agree that technology has a very political side to it. My point is not to avoid political issues. My point is that /. is going down a road I wish not to drive on.

And yes I am a very political person. And what makes you think I don't understand the political ramifications of technological developments. Have I put my head in the sand .. or did you just assume that?

The responses to my post tell me that responders make a lot of assumptions about posters. And they are not always accurate.

Why do you assume I am closing my eyes? You have no ideas of my political activities. /. used to be less political and more tech news reporting. I prefer to get my political news elsewhere.

Well no. Not new on /. My member number is 14060 and I had been a regular reader before I signed up.

After many years of reading Slashdot it is time to move on.

I am a very political person but for the most part I came here for non-political news. Just the straight up NASA did this... nVidia did that... Silicon Graphics is bought by Rackable Systems etc etc.

The comments on Slashdot are so much more inflamatory than before. A sign that Slashdot has run its course.

Thanks for that pointer. I am guessing this is why Slashdot has a seen a radical change in the last few months.

Doesn't look good: http://www.marketwired.com/press-release/bizx-subsidiary-sourceforge-media-llc-acquires-slashdot-media-2091995.htm

Time to look elsewhere for tech news.

In western societies accusations of sexual misconduct is enough to destroy just about anyone or any organization. Not so much here in Asia.

Just about anyone who is to be 'taken down' in western societies seems to be done by sexual impropriety. JFK, MLK both had allegations of misconduct. Strauss-Kahn is another prime example. Sex enters every story that is meant to destroy anyone. Guilty or not.

When I was involved with OccupyLA a few sexual misconducts came up to discredit people. Same same.

Whether the accusations are true or not, makes no difference. If the story sticks... someone is finished.

Can I run Firefox OS on it? Ubuntu Touch?

How about *american indians*

No friends? Then you will be questioned for being anti-social personality.

Thai Immigration is beginning to request the same information of foreigners entering or staying in the country. Thailand is under military junta at the moment.

I am living in Thailand on a Non - Immigrant retirement visa and had thought I might leave, in part, due to this invasion of privacy. But I see the US junta has the same aspirations.

The company that does not update its OS to today's standards complains when Google gives them a little shit.

I own a Huawei Ascend P7 L-10. Once a flagship phone 2 years ago... it is still running Android 4.4.2. Never an update.

A week before Google came out scolding cell manufactures for not updating the OSs shipped with their phones I bought a Google Nexus 5x. I'm not defending Google. But Huawei has dropped the ball like many manufacturers.

I think the concern here is more about a National Security Letter than say a court subpoena.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_security_letter

And this person has posted an NSL canary