Capitol Hill Quiet On Tech

An anonymous reader writes "This year's Democratic-controlled Congress largely ignored technological issues in favor of social problems, CNet notes in another 2007 retrospective. Issues important to the tech industry (such as net neutrality) received short shrift, while the political body spent a considerable amount of time decrying the evils of the Internet. 'Hot topics this time around included foreign cybersecurity threats to U.S. government systems, terrorist cells flourishing on the Web, inadvertent file sharing through peer-to-peer networks, and sexual predators ensnaring unsuspecting youth through online social sites. And for a third time, the House passed not just one, but two, different bills aimed at deterring spyware.'"

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Re:Idiocracy

[Daniel Dvorkin]

You're racist scum.

It doesn't matter what I am.

[mosel-saar-ruwer]

You're racist scum.

Look, you might very well be able to convince yourself to adopt definitions of "racist" and "scum" which are perfectly applicable to me.

But none of your ad hominem will change the underlying tautology of the matter:

Very soon, the catastrophic decline of intelligence, and the exponential rise in stupidity, will come to dwarf all other socio-political phenomena.

By the way, "very soon" will be within then next 15 years or so: Sometime around 2020, just about 50% of all young adults in the United States will be functionally mentally retarded.

For instance, we're already at the point where more than 50% of all adults [not just young adults, but all adults] in Los Angeles are illiterate [SOURCE].