in 3...2...1 Payday for all signatories of the letter and for Altman ofc.

More proof that "Introducing Neals" in many ways was a prophetic warning from his holiness, YTCracker. Maybe its time to start limiting PACs and other dirty money in politics. And, of course, to neuter the copyright lobby.

It took a hundred years to eradicate smallpox through generations of immunizations and careful management. Once a virus is out there, especially one that is mostly non-lethal, it stays in the population. This one is going to stay. The only way to "stamp it out" is to test everyone and kill the carriers. Hardly a useful solution. Too little is known about where it actually came from, where the reservoirs of virus are and how the human body reacts. Do you get immunity that lasts or just short term? But stamping it out, no. Controlling it, probably.

Vernor Vinge has known this all along.

As a media consumer we dont have much power. Doesnt matter if its cable or some streaming service. For me the ideal service would be where I can pick whatever I want to watch, be it old movies, series or new content. Payment? I would go for a fixed subscription fee with a set amount of hours and a tiered system that adds a set amount of hours for a fixed fee. That would be consumer friendly and the media industry would get their cut, even from old series and movies that noone watches today. If it can work for Spotify, why not for visual content?

So, if this is such a problem, just do spot checks at the border and in pharmacies. The article sounds more like justification for artificially high pricing. Wasnt Trump going to fix this, along with mexican financing for that wall of his ?

Sure, not 100%, but I think that would actually make them less useful. I wear my Plantronics noise-cancelling headphones every day on my commute. Its 90 minutes when I can focus on my music, the video I am watching or whatever I have running on the phone. Before, I heard what the person next to me was yapping about with his girlfriend on the phone, the sounds of the bus and other annoyances. Still, when I walk I hear enough traffic noise to be able to hear when something is coming even if I dont pay full attention. Very useful, I will never buy anything but noise cancelling headphones.

Its like this with everything new, first we see the benefits and rejoice. We ridicule dissenters and pooh at their naivety only to realize a few years later that they had a point and we were being naive. Since by then some have learned to bend the relatively benign into something malignant and corrosive and we have to learn to deal with it.

Primates, eh?

I agree. The problem is that we primates arent inoculated with enough skepticism and patience to handle todays means of news distribution. Someone posts something and in a few hours its known all over the world, true or not.

50 mSv is an allowed maximum yearly dose for workers in a radiation environment. At least here in Sweden you can get ordered to take 100 mSv in an emergency (or wartime), and then another 100 if neccessary, and so on up to a maximum of 500. Of course, thats if there is no other option. 5 mSv is, as many others have said, not very much. Hell, its less than medical techs get every year.

Actually Germany paid back a lot of debt involuntarily. The eastern parts of Germany, occupied by the Soviet Union, was thoroughly pillaged in an organized and orderly manner. Everything from railroad cars and toilet seats to complete disassembled factories was sent east. The railcars didnt even have the same gauge, but the Soviets didnt care. Add to that slave labour by millions of German POW:s in Gulags for many years, all intended to pay back the Soviet people. So, in 1953 when Germany was formally divided the debt was unpayable due to geopolitical considerations. Germany got a haircut on the debt, the GDR paid back the rest of it, the DDR didnt pay a single dollar.

Greece needs reforms and probably some serious debt relief, but not beacuse of Germany or the ECB or the IMF, but because of corruption and a taxation culture that is completely inadequate for a modern country.

I charge my phone at least once a day, the cable is just as good today as when i bought it, 500 days ago. Micro-USB is a good standard.

Or, just go with "Halting state" and "Rule 34" by the same author, a lot of the predictions in those two books have actually come true just a few years after publication...

Nope. Everyone gets the same coverage. Its paid by your employer, you never see that money on your payslip even. There are no tiers. Taxes are high, but we actually get good stuff for it. Despite the taxes we have the one of the highest standards of living in the world.

There is private insurance that basically lets you cut the line in certain cases, mainly ailments where an operation isnt time critical. We do have a few small private specialist hospitals that accept patients that pay their own way, but they work within the system as well. I had an operation on one of these hospitals, paid for by the standard single-payer insurance. Worked just like on any other hospital.

Avpixlat is a sewer of anonymous bigotry, lies and propaganda supported by SD, a political party whose prominent members of parliament enjoy taking drunken walks on the streets of Stockholm with iron pipes in case someone wants to mess with them. Fria tider is even worse, its thinly disguised white supremacist bullshit. Yes, we have asshole bigots in Sweden as well.