It sucks being a number eh? I like my taskbar on the left hand side rather than the bottom or top. At work, using Microsoft Windows, that is no longer an option after 20+ years. Apparently, only a million people used that feature, so when they rewrote the shell, they did not add that capability back in.

The same thing is happening to you now. Only a million people use middle click, but with 7 billion potential consumers, you really do not matter and your needs will be ignored.

On some level, I understand. On another level, I have to wonder why options are taken away rather than being given the tools to configure it ourselves. The main thing to note is that options are being taken away under the guise of necessity despite it not being necessary to take away the options, it is just the lowest energy level option. It sucks... and dare I say it (?), I hate it the lowest energy options.

No. It is a national success. This is absolutely what they were aiming for, and they got it. Congrats to all the hardworking people who made this happen. Human psychology is so simple to deceive and manipulate.

There are ideas and concepts that you will only find in fiction until someone finds a way to make them real. If you do not read fiction, you will never be one of those people that turn fiction into reality. All interesting concepts have come from fiction, such as space travel, telescopes, Democracy, etc.

When the choice is dying in a gas chamber and dying from slavery and lack of resources, I really do not know which to choose. Can you help a brother out here and let me know which option is the most desirable because both sides are beholden to monetary interests that want to ensure that I have nothing and they have everything. So the only real thing to vote for is how to die. Nice choices there.

You started off poorly but ended excellently. No. You can NOT trust your eyes to tell you what is real. Lighting and shading tricks work against you constantly. What you thought you saw, you didn't actually see. Even your eyes lie to you. Do you see your nose constantly? Didn't think so... and yet, now that you know to look for it, you will see it... until you forget about it again.

LOL, do I have some news for you after living amongst Muslims for many years: They drink. And smoke. Very few are "true believers". Same as any other religion I suppose. Of course, they hide their drinking and smoking so others can not witness it, but when you walk into a police captain's house to visit the most well stocked liquor store in the country... you kind of become jaded.

The actual goal is to take as much as you can AND ensure nobody else has anything. To everyone else but the person doing it, it looks like pure destruction.

"We will give up this billion dollar activity to pursue this multibillion dollar activity" sounds kind of reasonable if there is only one manufacturing facility and it is not possible to build more. Who gives up a billion dollars in revenue? Why isn't anyone else clamoring to build something that is highly desirable and already has a market?

No. Something is incredibly broken here. Nobody throws away money.

It *is* being solved. There are fewer children being born because there are no economic opportunities for them. See how easy that was? The real problem is what to do with the people already born. The last time this came up, camps with gas chambers and ovens were proffered. It seems the political appetite for that has come back... so, win-win? Problem solved anyways...

You don't find it fucking odd as hell that modern systems are performing worse than ancient systems? It is almost like nothing was ever learned and that knowledge should never be passed on or learned.

It is like starting at day 0 for EVERY fucking project. Just insanity.

Life is not definable in terms of mass and electromagnetic fields... and yet, that is what physics is currently. In other words, there is more to the Universe than mass and electromagnetic fields... so how does one find that 'more'? We have evidence that our Universe is far more interesting than the two axes of mass/electromagnetism and space/time.

There is more to the Universe than mass and electromagnetic fields. "What is life" is a basic question that can lead you towards something other than mass and electromagnetic fields. In short, it sounds like physicists may be trying to find things that they can not see with any microscope or sensor that currently exists.

Well, when you go from a meritocracy to kakistocracy, this is the result. They are not trying to screw it up, they are just genuinely incapable.

That is news to me. I have no more fear of being shot than stabbed or punched or hit with a baseball bat. I live in America and violence does occur; however, removing guns wouldn't make me any safer. The violence will occur with or without guns... and with guns, I at least have a fighting chance against it since I am not at the physical peak of healthful domination anymore. The police will take a report after I am dead, a gun lets me decide if I am going to be the victim or not.

Ironically, I do not carry a gun on me. How crazy is THAT?

I am so relieved that someone is protecting me from my poor tastes. I do not know what I would do if I paid to see actual reflections in puddles of water in Cybperpunk 2077. You have saved me money. Thank you.

We should create a Slashdot group where we tell people what their tastes should be so they do not waste any money on anything worthless like "Night Watch" by Rembrandt. That thing costs millions of dollars... and yet someone somewhere will be stupid enough to buy it once it is on sale again. Whatever will we do if people keep buying things that please them without someone from Slashdot berating them for their stupidity and waste of money.