The ONLY problem is that not everyone else has done so yet. Government shouldn't be allowed to tax income and profit.

Dunno man, nukes charged the battery that's bringing you this post. Nukes that just finished a major refurbishment that came in ahead of schedule and under budget.

Nuclear power requires a large complex regulatory body that isn't at risk of being interfered with for profit and we burned that bridge to the ground in the last election.

So maybe it's just you? I think I'd be looking at your corruption problem rather than just deciding it's inevitable and writing things off because of it.

It's important to realize that the so-called far-left Democrats idealize Bolshevism while the far-right Republicans idealize Fascism, both of which are forms of Big Government Socialism.

So if the Democrats are in power and they want to increase the size and scope of government the Republicans will go along with it 80% of the time. Because they know they will eventually be back in power and have more tools of power to control.
They will balk the other 20% of the time so they still have something to run on and false promises to make to their voters.

The base of both parties is mostly against all of this.

No. There are quantum resistant public key encryption schemes. There are also still serious questions whether breaking non-rsistant public key encryption is even practical.

The big application for good quantum computers is probably materials science, but that's not as sexy as reading each other's mail.

https://www.cnbc.com/2026/05/2...

Well, I hope you didn't buy stock based on that, uh, belief.

Americans don't generally compare themselves to other countries. This article is no different. Death rate is a fairly concrete, immediately available metric. Life expectancy (at birth) is obviously something that has to be estimated since it's talking about things that are going to happen decades in the future.

Provided the death rate isn't too much affected by the COVID loss of a disproportional number of older people, the US death rate looks like it's come back down to it's previous trend line of long-term decrease, likely indicating a resumption of previous increases in life expectancy that are mediocre by world standards and not great by developed world standards.

I'll answer your stupid rhetorical question with a stupid rhetorical question of my own:

Why should Microsoft break the license when they can just write whatever code they want?

They included their out right in the quote, "Based on regulatory approval".

It's also useful to consider, the public are the ones theoretically regulating everything. Sometimes even in practice, when it comes to these data centers. If the bros are having trouble with NIMBY just because of the cooling units, imagine how much trouble they'll have when they add nukes into the picture.

I'd love to see more nukes built, but the right way. Not for this bullshit.

Because all the code we write is copyrighted by default. It is an important aspect of our craft. If you do not consider yourself a craftsman, as a programmer then you are just a code monkey.

They used a lot of BSD, but that was noticed. The entire Windows 2000 source code was leaked, so it wasn't hard to check if open source was used (just time consuming).

Nowadays Microsoft contributes to open source because they want people to use Azure Cloud.

Dang it, "availability" is an overloaded term.

Looking cool is a worthy goal.

Nonsense. You don't have to defend your copyright to retain it.

At worst, they can lose the Trademark, if it no longer identifies the original owner in common usage (which makes sense, because of the purpose of the Trademark). They still retain the copyright and all other relevant intellectual property.

That is an old criticism of the WPA, but it doesn't seem to be accurate. From the Wikipedia article:

Life expectancy and death rate are not the same thing. The US has a younger population than, e.g. Spain, so it has a lower death rate (this year at least) despite also have a lower life expectancy.

Valve, no. The Internet, yes.

https://hackaday.com/2017/04/1...

This isn't e-ink, but it's not actually completely different, and this guy tells you exactly how to do it:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?...