Solar power, 12 volt. Wireless routers. On the roof. Actally cheap PC's. Add hard drives, and eventually super capacious solid-state mass storage with no moving parts.
Distribute and place millions, billions of them.
Access your local node via laptop.
Bittorrent that can move. Bittorrent that can easily be replaced as the Copyright Stazi finds them and destroys them.
No logs. No traces. An ghostnet, a dark cloud hovering over and above the internet, using IP and low power radio. I'd suggest NOT using the usual name servers.
Governments, and the rich men that now own them, should be afraid of their people. Without communications that aren't logged and monitored, there can be no free people, and they've nothing to fear.
And for all of you with the explosives/control analogy: we're talking about spoken words, written words, moving pictures here. I can understand why powerful men equate such things with explosives, but you are not they. Explosives kill people by blowing them up. Words blow up lies that powerful and stupid people put into our heads. Viva the words.
"It should also be noted the Dutch tax base is local to the problem. Perhaps Lousiana can come up with a way to pay for a big chunk of a proposed project."
Or perhaps we can stop pretending that we are a series of gated communities who are not a part of a federal union. Federal taxes built the highway networks and the suburbs that sprang up around them, subsidize the oil companies that fuel them, and constructed the canal that killed the ninth ward. If you can spend the federal money to build up rich gated (metaphorical or literal) communities you can spend the money to save the most beautiful American city.
Implied in your comments -- actually directly stated -- is that the 2 million in New Orleans aren't worth the money, the way those around the Zeider Zee are. Why would that be... little dark over there, ain't it.
Racism informed the coverage of Katrina, focusing on looters rather than the dying. Racism caused the panic that made the NATIONAL GUARD refuse to enter the city for a week, because gunfire (which we learned, if you get your news from anywhere but TV, actually was from suburban cops firing warning shots over the heads of New Orleanians trying to leave the city via a bridge) from negroes was rumored. I've been to New Orleans a dozen and a half times, and I know damned well what the wealthier white folks think. EVERYthing down there is about race, and that's a liberal, hated city in Louisiana. The suburbanites and country folk f-ing despise blacks, and are rejoicing in their removal.
I'm taking this off-topic chance to post a thought I just had:
The post I responded to represents, to me, everything that has broken down since the "conservatives" have conquered the media, government, the courts and the zietgeist. The basic premise is: fuck you if you're too stupid to be rich.
This are George Hearst's grandchildren. William Randolph Hearts's children. Reagan was the dumb son, and Bush II the idiot son of the dumb son. The basic problem is that they value capital, but not people. Corporations are a symptom of their outlook. Let the smart win and the dumb get out of the way.
For this, we've a dying economy -- for those who aren't already wealthy. We're entrenched in another oil war, using the poor strivers who comprise the army to win wealth for those whose children will never serve. We've a dead health care system that is based on profit rather than healthcare, so we shuck the sick and bundle up the young and healthy into corporate packages, dumping those who don't make the cut onto what remains of the liberal subsidized healthcare created during an earlier, saner era. We're borrowing from abroad to finance oceans of tax cuts for the very wealthiest, who are poised to buy up the real estate plunging in cost as we hit bottom in the next decade. We've little manufacturing, so we can't create wealth, really. The tax revenues shortly are going to fund 1) interest on the borrowed money, paid to those who we gave the money originally, as interest to the loans taken to give them their tax cuts... and 2) guns to fight a Forever War.
This can't work, of course, and like the Soviet Union, we're going to have to crash, bottom out, to shake out the cognitive dissonant dingdongs who bankrupted us from the ranks of heroes. It's going to take a long time. See ya in a couple decades.
The Army Corps of Engineers created the god damned mess by dredging the river and laying in a new, straight canal for oil tankers and such to get at your precious oil so you could gas your precious car that you drive on freeways made by taxpayers paying hundreds of billions of dollars so that your white bread town could exist in suburban splendor at nearly no cost to you. The storm surge went straight up the canal and swamped the stormwalls. for your oil.
And taxpayers gave lovely tax breaks for the oil companies who tore out the wetlands surrounding the city which soaked up the ocean's force for thousands of years, and which are disappearing at a rate of two football fields A DAY, leaving the city naked and armorless. For your oil, at their expense.
Adjusted for inflation, we've spent trillions of dollars since the 50's laying concrete ribbons into the cornfields so smarmy, self-satisfied EXTREMELY subsidized white a-holes could sneer at the cities which funded their existence. Now we've nothing BUT suburbs and the cities are being colonized by the white suburbanites, and we've shut down the factories in the cities which used to make things to sell to other people for trade cash to build lovely 1.5 million dollar soft lofts... and I'm sure the white a-holes who live in such will be just fine as the realization sinks in to those who don't have the money to live anywhere, city or suburb, that there is no place left to work and no money from the tax-cut jackasses who wrecked everything to rebuild the economy. Castles and serfs, baby. Their own fault for choosing where they live. After all, you did...
Not anymore. Federal crime with federal penalties. Didja know that scanning a textbook -- even one you own -- is a five year stretch in prison? Plus a giant fine?
And I rather tiredly refuted the people who called us conspiracy theorists and tinfoil paranoiacs in almost all of the those threads. Now, it's happening. AND they still call us paranoid, even in this thread. Some people just like fascism, and you can't make them see sanity.
Ninth Amendment, Anonymous Coward. Rights not enumerated are not to be contrued non-existent. We have a right to privacy if we say we do. Said right to privacy is established in Anglo-Saxon law, American law, and was used in Roe V. Wade, amongst other SCOTUS decisions. We don't give up privacy because we broadcast a signal to a private company. THEY CAN BE REGULATED BY THE PEOPLE. This isn't a corporate feudal state quite yet. They can't contract our constitutional rights away.
Remember, remember, the 7th of November -- we begin to take the bastards out. I know of no reason, why we can't impeach him, the bastard who read about the goat.
1. Build a custom Faraday cage for GPS and cell phone signals. Dump phone in box when you get cranky. This will probably become illegal.
2. Find and disable the GPS chipset in your cell phone. Some Nokia models, I'm told, have removable faceplates that access the chipset. Dunno if the phone works after you laser the chipset dead. And they'll probably make that act illegal, prolly using the DMCA or some new "security" law.
3. Get REALLY cute: enclose the cell phone in a custom Faraday cage that intercepts and blocks the GPS signal, then rebroadcasts the signal with changed GPS coordinates. Use your imagination, but telling the phone company and the new American gestapo that you are at Bush's Crawford ranch is probably gonna get you noticed. Teleporting from city to city is also not recommended. They do get a secondary fix on you using the cell phone towers. I'd suggest "parking" the car. Also remember that as we go on permanent lockdown that they will also have a third method of location, reading car plates with surveillance cameras. Sound more and more like a prison, innit? You know, they don't actually monitor prisoners' activities in prisons that closely, hence prison rapes and killings. But they will watch us on the outside VERY closely. I'm beginning to wonder if the walls around prisons are going to mean anything if life is pretty much the same in or out.
Again, the error of pretending the future won't happen. The phones may not have the feature of backdoor tracking while allegedly turned off -- right now -- but it's a twitch of a microprocessor to make it happen two years from now. After all, few knew that the US cell phone industry was told by BushCo and Congress to enable GPS tracking on all new cell phones by 2005. Hell, people were arguing with me about this on Slashdot only last year.
The US is in the grip of an Orwellian fear epidemic. There is no doubt in my mind that the phones will have backdoor tracking soon. And that cars will 1) have GPS tracking as a feature, and 2) it will become a mandatory feature within a couple of years after step 1 and 3) it will soon thereafter become illegal to interfere with the signal and 4) lastly, it will become illegal to operate a vehicle without a GPS tracker.
I recall visiting the Space Center in 1996. What struck me most was the delapidation. The buildings were 1966 vintage; rot and decay was everywhere. It looked like a trailer park in its last days.
NASA has been villified for decades for being bloated and wasteful. Nice try, space haters, but they have been performing wonders on pennies for decades. They probably don't have the money to manage old film inventory or have redundant security features.
And a HUGE, HUGE problem is that the people who know where everything is were canned for budgetary reasons. They have little institutional memory. (a miniature model of the same problem which afflicts all our institions as they trim the "fat" and lose their history as the old timers go out the door, pensionless.)
Kids: PC's are owned through Windows. This is a fact. Own a PC, get hacked, this is the way it is.
Macs are so secure that A STORY about a third party wireless carded being hacked gets national-level coverage.
The PC owners rejoicing over the Mac's equivalence to their vulnerable platforms are being ridiculous. The quantifiable risk ratio between operating a Windows laptop and a MacBook is practically infinite, as there are no known virii for MacBooks, no known owning of MacBooks, no known security risks in operating a MacBook. At this point, hackers are well aware of a large installed userbase for Apple products, and certainly would attack them. If they could. Obviously they can't.
Silly people. Don't forget to run your virus and spyware checkers today. And back up your data, you never know when the bad guys will nail your hard drive in new and exciting ways through yet another buffer overflow in Windows.
Went to a commuter tech school, where there was no bongs, no beer, no dorms, no sorority houses full of naive girls. Somehow my sober, intensive education is inferior to those who got wasted every other night, and my degree worthless to most. Humans, sigh. Smiley face.
Some pissed off or nosy cop or FBI agent can't simply search your house or tap your net connection and so on.
It's exactly like that. They can search your house -- called a "sneak and peak", now ruled legal by theusual suspects on the supreme court -- and they certainly are "tapping" your net connection. They "tap" it by monitoring EVERYone's logs and cleartext at the same time, and datamining the mass at will.
So, some pissed off cop can certainly make your life a hell.
It's amazing that people who believe in the Constitution of the United States and the principles of liberty that stand behind that document are now considered "civil liberty advocates", as tho they were part of some perverse fringe group.
Had a notion about his breathing in space. His manipulation of energy might extend to creating an O2-CO2 recycling loop in his lungs. He just has to hold his breath, or maybe his manipulation of inertia subconciously extends to the molecules expelled from his mouth and nose and other orifices -- he just makes them "fly" back to his respiratory system, and also maintain a basic air pressure around his body so he doesnt blow all his blood vessels.
Krypton must have been a really hostile planet that let something like Kal El evolve.
Heat vision is just moving thermal energy around, ditto cold breath.
And the mystery of how he cuts his hair is solved! He does it himself. He's always just meat and bone to himself -- if he wants to be.
Kryptonite just messes with whatever biological/mental process he uses to pull off his tricks. He doesn't become human-powered when exposed -- he just loses his exemption from the laws we obey.
He not only cancels inertia, he can grant it as well. That's how he flies.
We've now a concept that can explain his invulnerability. Nothing can pentrate his skin because he automatically kills the motion of the object dead in space relative to his body, no matter how fast it moves. Ditto radiation. Hm. Not only can he add inertia/kinetic energy, but electromagnetic energy as well, from his eyes. Probably can do it anyway he likes, but is just accustomed to using his eyes.
How would he do it? Maybe he simply moves energy around, kinetic and electromagnetic, to suit his will. It probably also is a involuntary evolved reflex built into his nervous system. His body ALWAYS is soft and squishy, as far as he's concerned, but throw a tire iron at him and it stops dead a micrometer from his skin. He throws a punch, and he adds kinetic energy to the target -- not his fist -- and causes the usual damage. The process is unnoticeable by him; it just happends. Using this ability, virtually nothing is beyond his capabilities. He could take a hit from an atomic bomb. He could punch a hole throgh the planet. Fly through the sun.
He doesn't usually feel pain because energy beyond a tolerated level can't reach his skin; no physical force can touch him beyond yet another tolerated level. He can get a tummy ache, and age, and all the usual nonsense, however.
Now: how does he breath in space? IS he breathing?
I always called that gadget a carousel. They would work nicely on the moon to simulate 1G gravity to keep people in shape. Well done. They'd have to be pretty big to avoid motion sickness.
In the movies, it's well established that when you fly with Supes, he shares his negation of Kepler's and Newton's universe with anything he touches. Remember Lois flying fingertip-a-fingertip with him? When he lifts an entire landmass in Superman Returns, he HAS to cancel gravity for the entire mass, at least to a point, otherwise he'd just bore a hole through it when he pushes up. When he catches Lois, he simply cancels her motion with no deceleration. How? I dunno, he's from a planet with powers and abilities far beyond those of mortal men. The real universe is so damned strange that a solar-powered Kryptonian is no problem for me anymore.
And Superman started flying on the Superman radio program. They changed the comic to fit the radio show!
Illiteracy, such as not caused by brain disfunction, would disappear almost overnight if English was spelled phonetically. Everyone knows how to speak and hear English; it's the spelling that's broken. Excepting dialect, most illiterate people could become literate in a week by simply learning the phonetic alphabet. And think of the time wasted learning how to spell in school! Years!
It would make learning English an order of magnitude easier (still have our insane conjugations and other grammatical nonsense to overcome - fight, fought, bring, brought, what the hell).
But, dream on... one would still have to learn old spelling to read everything previously written. That's why Esperanto exists; a fresh start.
Man is not a rational animal, but a rationalizing one. We'll still be on soapboxes insisting that "right" (originally sounded like "rikt") be spelled the way the Anglo-Saxons woulda spelled it as the waves rise over the shores and over our heads in that big meltdown a-comin'.
There's this thing called "TV". See, it has an antenna, and no meter. It's been around since the 1930's. The world didn't begin with cable. Futurama is on TV.
Slashdot Mirror
Radio Free America.
Can't you all see it?
Solar power, 12 volt.
Wireless routers. On the roof. Actally cheap PC's.
Add hard drives, and eventually super capacious solid-state mass storage with no moving parts.
Distribute and place millions, billions of them.
Access your local node via laptop.
Bittorrent that can move. Bittorrent that can easily be replaced as the Copyright Stazi finds them and destroys them.
No logs. No traces. An ghostnet, a dark cloud hovering over and above the internet, using IP and low power radio. I'd suggest NOT using the usual name servers.
Governments, and the rich men that now own them, should be afraid of their people. Without communications that aren't logged and monitored, there can be no free people, and they've nothing to fear.
And for all of you with the explosives/control analogy: we're talking about spoken words, written words, moving pictures here. I can understand why powerful men equate such things with explosives, but you are not they. Explosives kill people by blowing them up. Words blow up lies that powerful and stupid people put into our heads. Viva the words.
"It should also be noted the Dutch tax base is local to the problem. Perhaps Lousiana can come up with a way to pay for a big chunk of a proposed project."
Or perhaps we can stop pretending that we are a series of gated communities who are not a part of a federal union. Federal taxes built the highway networks and the suburbs that sprang up around them, subsidize the oil companies that fuel them, and constructed the canal that killed the ninth ward. If you can spend the federal money to build up rich gated (metaphorical or literal) communities you can spend the money to save the most beautiful American city.
Implied in your comments -- actually directly stated -- is that the 2 million in New Orleans aren't worth the money, the way those around the Zeider Zee are. Why would that be... little dark over there, ain't it.
Racism informed the coverage of Katrina, focusing on looters rather than the dying. Racism caused the panic that made the NATIONAL GUARD refuse to enter the city for a week, because gunfire (which we learned, if you get your news from anywhere but TV, actually was from suburban cops firing warning shots over the heads of New Orleanians trying to leave the city via a bridge) from negroes was rumored. I've been to New Orleans a dozen and a half times, and I know damned well what the wealthier white folks think. EVERYthing down there is about race, and that's a liberal, hated city in Louisiana. The suburbanites and country folk f-ing despise blacks, and are rejoicing in their removal.
I'm taking this off-topic chance to post a thought I just had:
The post I responded to represents, to me, everything that has broken down since the "conservatives" have conquered the media, government, the courts and the zietgeist. The basic premise is: fuck you if you're too stupid to be rich.
This are George Hearst's grandchildren. William Randolph Hearts's children. Reagan was the dumb son, and Bush II the idiot son of the dumb son. The basic problem is that they value capital, but not people. Corporations are a symptom of their outlook. Let the smart win and the dumb get out of the way.
For this, we've a dying economy -- for those who aren't already wealthy. We're entrenched in another oil war, using the poor strivers who comprise the army to win wealth for those whose children will never serve. We've a dead health care system that is based on profit rather than healthcare, so we shuck the sick and bundle up the young and healthy into corporate packages, dumping those who don't make the cut onto what remains of the liberal subsidized healthcare created during an earlier, saner era. We're borrowing from abroad to finance oceans of tax cuts for the very wealthiest, who are poised to buy up the real estate plunging in cost as we hit bottom in the next decade. We've little manufacturing, so we can't create wealth, really. The tax revenues shortly are going to fund 1) interest on the borrowed money, paid to those who we gave the money originally, as interest to the loans taken to give them their tax cuts... and 2) guns to fight a Forever War.
This can't work, of course, and like the Soviet Union, we're going to have to crash, bottom out, to shake out the cognitive dissonant dingdongs who bankrupted us from the ranks of heroes. It's going to take a long time. See ya in a couple decades.
The Army Corps of Engineers created the god damned mess by dredging the river and laying in a new, straight canal for oil tankers and such to get at your precious oil so you could gas your precious car that you drive on freeways made by taxpayers paying hundreds of billions of dollars so that your white bread town could exist in suburban splendor at nearly no cost to you. The storm surge went straight up the canal and swamped the stormwalls. for your oil.
And taxpayers gave lovely tax breaks for the oil companies who tore out the wetlands surrounding the city which soaked up the ocean's force for thousands of years, and which are disappearing at a rate of two football fields A DAY, leaving the city naked and armorless. For your oil, at their expense.
Adjusted for inflation, we've spent trillions of dollars since the 50's laying concrete ribbons into the cornfields so smarmy, self-satisfied EXTREMELY subsidized white a-holes could sneer at the cities which funded their existence. Now we've nothing BUT suburbs and the cities are being colonized by the white suburbanites, and we've shut down the factories in the cities which used to make things to sell to other people for trade cash to build lovely 1.5 million dollar soft lofts... and I'm sure the white a-holes who live in such will be just fine as the realization sinks in to those who don't have the money to live anywhere, city or suburb, that there is no place left to work and no money from the tax-cut jackasses who wrecked everything to rebuild the economy. Castles and serfs, baby. Their own fault for choosing where they live. After all, you did...
Not anymore. Federal crime with federal penalties. Didja know that scanning a textbook -- even one you own -- is a five year stretch in prison? Plus a giant fine?
And I rather tiredly refuted the people who called us conspiracy theorists and tinfoil paranoiacs in almost all of the those threads. Now, it's happening. AND they still call us paranoid, even in this thread. Some people just like fascism, and you can't make them see sanity.
Ninth Amendment, Anonymous Coward. Rights not enumerated are not to be contrued non-existent. We have a right to privacy if we say we do. Said right to privacy is established in Anglo-Saxon law, American law, and was used in Roe V. Wade, amongst other SCOTUS decisions. We don't give up privacy because we broadcast a signal to a private company. THEY CAN BE REGULATED BY THE PEOPLE. This isn't a corporate feudal state quite yet. They can't contract our constitutional rights away.
Remember, remember, the 7th of November -- we begin to take the bastards out. I know of no reason, why we can't impeach him, the bastard who read about the goat.
Solutions
1. Build a custom Faraday cage for GPS and cell phone signals. Dump phone in box when you get cranky. This will probably become illegal.
2. Find and disable the GPS chipset in your cell phone. Some Nokia models, I'm told, have removable faceplates that access the chipset. Dunno if the phone works after you laser the chipset dead. And they'll probably make that act illegal, prolly using the DMCA or some new "security" law.
3. Get REALLY cute: enclose the cell phone in a custom Faraday cage that intercepts and blocks the GPS signal, then rebroadcasts the signal with changed GPS coordinates. Use your imagination, but telling the phone company and the new American gestapo that you are at Bush's Crawford ranch is probably gonna get you noticed. Teleporting from city to city is also not recommended. They do get a secondary fix on you using the cell phone towers. I'd suggest "parking" the car. Also remember that as we go on permanent lockdown that they will also have a third method of location, reading car plates with surveillance cameras. Sound more and more like a prison, innit? You know, they don't actually monitor prisoners' activities in prisons that closely, hence prison rapes and killings. But they will watch us on the outside VERY closely. I'm beginning to wonder if the walls around prisons are going to mean anything if life is pretty much the same in or out.
4. Slow down, Buckaroo Banzai.
Again, the error of pretending the future won't happen. The phones may not have the feature of backdoor tracking while allegedly turned off -- right now -- but it's a twitch of a microprocessor to make it happen two years from now. After all, few knew that the US cell phone industry was told by BushCo and Congress to enable GPS tracking on all new cell phones by 2005. Hell, people were arguing with me about this on Slashdot only last year.
The US is in the grip of an Orwellian fear epidemic. There is no doubt in my mind that the phones will have backdoor tracking soon. And that cars will 1) have GPS tracking as a feature, and 2) it will become a mandatory feature within a couple of years after step 1 and 3) it will soon thereafter become illegal to interfere with the signal and 4) lastly, it will become illegal to operate a vehicle without a GPS tracker.
You boil the frog one degree at a time.
I recall visiting the Space Center in 1996. What struck me most was the delapidation. The buildings were 1966 vintage; rot and decay was everywhere. It looked like a trailer park in its last days.
NASA has been villified for decades for being bloated and wasteful. Nice try, space haters, but they have been performing wonders on pennies for decades. They probably don't have the money to manage old film inventory or have redundant security features.
And a HUGE, HUGE problem is that the people who know where everything is were canned for budgetary reasons. They have little institutional memory. (a miniature model of the same problem which afflicts all our institions as they trim the "fat" and lose their history as the old timers go out the door, pensionless.)
Kids: PC's are owned through Windows. This is a fact. Own a PC, get hacked, this is the way it is.
Macs are so secure that A STORY about a third party wireless carded being hacked gets national-level coverage.
The PC owners rejoicing over the Mac's equivalence to their vulnerable platforms are being ridiculous. The quantifiable risk ratio between operating a Windows laptop and a MacBook is practically infinite, as there are no known virii for MacBooks, no known owning of MacBooks, no known security risks in operating a MacBook. At this point, hackers are well aware of a large installed userbase for Apple products, and certainly would attack them. If they could. Obviously they can't.
Silly people. Don't forget to run your virus and spyware checkers today. And back up your data, you never know when the bad guys will nail your hard drive in new and exciting ways through yet another buffer overflow in Windows.
4 years so far.
It was pertinent to the topic, unlike your comment. It's not our fault the resurgence of fascism is becoming obvious.
Went to a commuter tech school, where there was no bongs, no beer, no dorms, no sorority houses full of naive girls. Somehow my sober, intensive education is inferior to those who got wasted every other night, and my degree worthless to most. Humans, sigh. Smiley face.
It's exactly like that. They can search your house -- called a "sneak and peak", now ruled legal by theusual suspects on the supreme court -- and they certainly are "tapping" your net connection. They "tap" it by monitoring EVERYone's logs and cleartext at the same time, and datamining the mass at will.
So, some pissed off cop can certainly make your life a hell.
It's amazing that people who believe in the Constitution of the United States and the principles of liberty that stand behind that document are now considered "civil liberty advocates", as tho they were part of some perverse fringe group.
Had a notion about his breathing in space. His manipulation of energy might extend to creating an O2-CO2 recycling loop in his lungs. He just has to hold his breath, or maybe his manipulation of inertia subconciously extends to the molecules expelled from his mouth and nose and other orifices -- he just makes them "fly" back to his respiratory system, and also maintain a basic air pressure around his body so he doesnt blow all his blood vessels.
Krypton must have been a really hostile planet that let something like Kal El evolve.
And:
Heat vision is just moving thermal energy around, ditto cold breath.
And the mystery of how he cuts his hair is solved! He does it himself. He's always just meat and bone to himself -- if he wants to be.
Kryptonite just messes with whatever biological/mental process he uses to pull off his tricks. He doesn't become human-powered when exposed -- he just loses his exemption from the laws we obey.
He not only cancels inertia, he can grant it as well. That's how he flies.
We've now a concept that can explain his invulnerability. Nothing can pentrate his skin because he automatically kills the motion of the object dead in space relative to his body, no matter how fast it moves. Ditto radiation. Hm. Not only can he add inertia/kinetic energy, but electromagnetic energy as well, from his eyes. Probably can do it anyway he likes, but is just accustomed to using his eyes.
How would he do it? Maybe he simply moves energy around, kinetic and electromagnetic, to suit his will. It probably also is a involuntary evolved reflex built into his nervous system. His body ALWAYS is soft and squishy, as far as he's concerned, but throw a tire iron at him and it stops dead a micrometer from his skin. He throws a punch, and he adds kinetic energy to the target -- not his fist -- and causes the usual damage. The process is unnoticeable by him; it just happends. Using this ability, virtually nothing is beyond his capabilities. He could take a hit from an atomic bomb. He could punch a hole throgh the planet. Fly through the sun.
He doesn't usually feel pain because energy beyond a tolerated level can't reach his skin; no physical force can touch him beyond yet another tolerated level. He can get a tummy ache, and age, and all the usual nonsense, however.
Now: how does he breath in space? IS he breathing?
I always called that gadget a carousel. They would work nicely on the moon to simulate 1G gravity to keep people in shape. Well done. They'd have to be pretty big to avoid motion sickness.
Alan Moore's Tom Strong character was raised in a high-gravity environment.
In the movies, it's well established that when you fly with Supes, he shares his negation of Kepler's and Newton's universe with anything he touches. Remember Lois flying fingertip-a-fingertip with him? When he lifts an entire landmass in Superman Returns, he HAS to cancel gravity for the entire mass, at least to a point, otherwise he'd just bore a hole through it when he pushes up. When he catches Lois, he simply cancels her motion with no deceleration. How? I dunno, he's from a planet with powers and abilities far beyond those of mortal men. The real universe is so damned strange that a solar-powered Kryptonian is no problem for me anymore.
And Superman started flying on the Superman radio program. They changed the comic to fit the radio show!
English is easy to speak, but hard to spell.
Illiteracy, such as not caused by brain disfunction, would disappear almost overnight if English was spelled phonetically. Everyone knows how to speak and hear English; it's the spelling that's broken. Excepting dialect, most illiterate people could become literate in a week by simply learning the phonetic alphabet. And think of the time wasted learning how to spell in school! Years!
It would make learning English an order of magnitude easier (still have our insane conjugations and other grammatical nonsense to overcome - fight, fought, bring, brought, what the hell).
But, dream on... one would still have to learn old spelling to read everything previously written. That's why Esperanto exists; a fresh start.
Man is not a rational animal, but a rationalizing one. We'll still be on soapboxes insisting that "right" (originally sounded like "rikt") be spelled the way the Anglo-Saxons woulda spelled it as the waves rise over the shores and over our heads in that big meltdown a-comin'.
"You realize you pay for cable right?"
There's this thing called "TV". See, it has an antenna, and no meter. It's been around since the 1930's. The world didn't begin with cable. Futurama is on TV.