there are better measuring sticks, like being registered in X% of the states, period. Logistics required to pull it off is enough to weed out the jokers. Keep it simple stupid. How many candidates are there? 4 (red, blue, green and libertarian)? what, you don't have enough time to present all candidates for the arguably most important position on the planet?
but where is the problem exactly in your restaurant scenario? It's much better when racists and bigots are in the open, you have no problem with identifying them and not supporting them with your dollars. Wasn't there a huge stink recently in case of Chick-fil-A because the owner reportedly financed some antigay organization? Apparently boycotts can work. Would you prefer the restaurant owner to make the meal but also jizz on it in secret and to charge the unknowing customer for the privilege of consuming owner's bodily fluids? If you were black, would you prefer to know if the owner is a closet racist or not?
There was a case recently where some bigoted state politician was refused service by the restaurant owner. Liberal leaning folks had absolutely no problem with that, which reeks of hypocrisy. Libertarians keep it simple: either you have a right to discriminate, or you don't and having that right is the only consistent and workable option. Everybody else: you have a right to discriminate, unless it's skin color, sex, religion, hair color, shoe size, pet name, you name it. The list is arbitrary which puts enormous power in the hands of the ones who get to decide.
This guy is a libertarian, why is he whining? He's fighting for the right for people & organizations to do whatever they want regardless of fairness, ethics, or consequence.
citation needed. Libertarians believe that people have a right to make an informed decision that suits best their needs. Suppression of information is not libertarian, even the idea of the free market itself requires informed players.
He's not in the debates because of that 15% rule that makes sure the game is only played by team Red and team Blue. You are not in debates = you don't exist. Some say the rule was introduced because of the mess caused by Ross Perrot. Both parties want to make sure no party pooper happens ever again - they agreed on artificial bareers of entry so they can duke it out inside their exclusive club.
But it helps to be a sociopathic libertarian when you want to ignore the fact that socialized medicine provides better care for less money.
until it doesn't. Costs are a function of multitude of things. Demographics? Go way below fertility ratio of 2 and things go south quickly (1.4 here). There is no country with more fat asses roaming than the US, wouldn't that add a shitton? The fact that the US HC is easily the worst of both worlds doesn't help either (supposedly free market, yet the competition is pretty much forbidden by law)
Where i live you can wait 11 months to see a specialist and begin treatment for breast cancer or whatever, only because the quota runs out right of the bat in January. Public HC here is only for old people, because only they have all the time in the world to waste in several hours long queues. If you took the tax money you pay in taxes you'd have a very nice coverage in private sector with all the convenience like making appointments online that make sure you can show up on time and go on with your life soon after.
you don't have to be a sociopathic libertarian to know that in the era of aging populations there will never be enough money for hc. The First World simply sweeps the problem under the rug with deficits. I live in a country with universal hc (admittedly 2nd world), yet the waiting queues, shortages and quotas make many people that value their time not bother with it, especially when their life is on the line.
i agree that the precise characteristics of the product are unavailable, but it doesn't require a rocket scientist to read the ingredients from time to time (yet nobody does it) or to know that the junk food is made of junk and is bad for you or that the chinese crap == shitton of nasty pollution and no worker rights whatsoever pretty much by definition. Ignorance is a bliss and most people choose to be oblivious.
consumers are as much to blame. They vote with their wallets and they choose price before everything else repeatedly. It's not like the shitty quality of average junk from china was not known for decades, yet it still has no problem finding the buyers.
no, no, no and no. All these things have non-zero costs and require others to provide them to you. Rights are things that you can't be depraved of in absence of external intervention violating them. If you are alone in the desert unprepared you can say any shit you want, you can self-determine who you are and what not, but you can die of dehydration. Obviously you have a right to self-ownership but you don't have a right to water, if you had, you wouldn't die because of lack of it.
yes, but my point was that the HFT is not in spirit of free market (as in defining quality, something desirable), it's a side effect of current model with its pros and cons. Free market assumes perfect information - this obviously can't happen in real world but one could argue that the way exchanges are set up, with the castes of chosen ones with privileged access and the plebes, unshamedly goes against that idea.
That "ponzi scheme" whereby the pensions of today are paid by those paying into the pension plan is the only good, cheap, and stable way such a thing can be run.
no it is not. Ponzi works and everything is peachy until it doesn't. Shitty economy will take its toll either way in any scenario, but the 'ponzi scheme' is a sure way to enslave the young and the productive once the demographics goes south - many old people vs not so many young... ah the joys of democracy. Half of fucking Europe sits at the fertility rate of 1.4, next to Japan that is supposedly a country of old people. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_and_territories_by_fertility_rate Polish retirement system has a hole equal to 1/3 of total inflows, today. In 30 years it will be a disaster of epic proportions. Half of the earnings will go to retirees right off the bat, before any general purpose taxes kick in. If you believe the US will always have positive population growth, think again.
the question is: do the investors get their purchasing power back? the US looks good only because others look worse. As they say 'in the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king' metals are in a shitty situation because the exchanges of metal based paper can force a selloff with margin calls and that's what happened with silver 1.5y ago (3 subsequent hikes in 1 week). Besides 1 year is not a big deal when the run of gold was 10 years long and in 400% range. Dow is where it was 4 years ago, does that mean 'stay the fuck away from the stock market'?
while the affair between the wall street big boys it's nothing more than a zero-sum game, the ball they play with has to be extracted from the unwashed masses trying to invest or saving for their retirement first. The profits GS et consortes reap in exchange for a bit more liquidity are ridiculous.
it's like saying that fouls are in spirit of sports, link farms are in spirit of search engines and bombing the shit out of brown people is in spirit of paying taxes to fund the state. Using the properties of the system outside the explicit rules of the game may be the rational thing to do, but is never in spirit of the game.
Number da one: the thing is called an address bar. Not an "Awesome bar". (Side note, can the guy or gal who came up with that name please be taken outside and shot? Thanks!) I know what I'm doing, I know where I'm going, just show the goddamn addresses that start with the letters I typed.
sorry, the address bar rocks. All 20 websites i use frequently are there after max 2 keypresses without a fail. Typing for the typing sake is overrated.
Number da two: status bar. nuff said.
regrettable, but status-4-evar is not exactly unavailable. You should also whine that the address bar hides the protocol part of urls by default and you have to type about:config once to change that. Oh the horrors;-)
right-click menu option change (tab first, window second). I don't use Chrome, don't care, IE and Opera both had the same order Firefox had, the change in order was stupid. Don't mess with my muscle memory for no reason!
stop being a noob and use ctrl+lmb for new tab (or middleclick) and shift+lmb for new window
Modern websites are running ridiculous amounts of javascript, huge flash objects and what not. about:memory claims that the single tab with main page of fb (no content on the wall/newsfeed, not subscribed to anybody) sits at 40M (no idea what it contains). Some pages are bundled with so much crap that NoScript showing the list of 3rd party jscript sources doesn't fit in 1200px high monitor. NoScript is a must.
divisibility means squat? why? all that matters is: does the currency offer enough resolution to enable even smallest scale transactions? bitcoin most certainly does. How would you force people in deflationary environment to do business with banks? Banks would lose their power because only inflation makes sure everybody and their dog have to be customers. I am sure you also believe that Obamacare is so detrimental to insurance industry, after all what these ruthless monsters will do with all these additional customers coerced into doing business? It's the same situation.
I am not a fan of bitcoin, but i don't agree with the 'all economists agree that...' circlejerk. when i talk about inflation i mean: even if you only lose 2% of your purchasing power per year, you end up with 20+% loss after 10 years. Would that mean that economists generally agree that stealing 20% of people's lives is ok (after all they fucking spent the only resource that is irreplaceable to earn that purchasing power - time) and now they have to jump through even more hoops to try to break even?
so? wouldn't people invest anyway? Didn't world exist before financial sector constituting what, 10% of gdp and growing? That's an awful lot for a sector that should only optimize the flow of money. I assume you see nothing wrong that the whole economy operates around a single huge point of failure? And what about the fact that what banks did with housing bubble? People getting loans and bidding up prices where they end no better than they were before is very much like an arm dealer selling weapons to both sides of conflict and taking every last bit of the resource in exchange. Omnipresent banks are as destructive force as they are creative one. They enabled the whole economy to be leveraged to the hilt. Economists at central banks may have made it to be most performant from the point of view of synthetic benchmarks, gdp and what not, but extreme specialization with razor thin error margins doesn't have any trace of resilience. It's like a F1 car that will crash and burn if only hits a small rock on the road and there are plenty of rocks in the real world.
There is only a possible 21 million bitcoins, after that, no more. The world GDP is $70Trillion, meaning if you instantly substituted bitcoins for the entire world's economies, each bitcoin would have to be worth $3.3Million. Why would you even spend a single bitcoin?
why does it matter how much is a single bitcoin worth? Divisibility is more important and bitcoins are divisible up to 8 places, for a total of 2.1E15 units.
People don't spend when they can get "more" by simply not spending, and that's with even "mild" single-digit deflation. Economies grind to a standstill.
people also have limited lifespans so they can't hoard for eternity. Endless inflation is a fix to the problem that doesn't really exist. It's also the main reason why the banks have the whole world by the balls. That's how things end when everybody is forced to park the money in banks or else watch the wealth evaporate fast thanks to inflation tax.
what you say is true, but China dumping the dollar would spell end of the world reserve currency status that currently allows the US to get away with all kinds of nasty shit. It doesn't matter if it's only 8%, confidence would get killed and everybody and their dog would try their best to find the exit in a hurry.
Clinton managed to balance jack and shit. His epic economic achievements are the results of dotcom bubble in near peak stages, which brought higher tax revenue than expected. You think that if Dubya didn't win, there would be no recession triggered by the dotcom bust? Deficits wouldn't be high? Fed wouldn't slash rates to near zero to keep the americans endebted to their eyeballs spending? Tax cuts were not a good idea but it makes no sense to blame them for everything. Average voter was complacent, even quite happy he could flip houses bought with no-down loans and get rich quick during the housing bubble flipping real estate.
Yes, being rich and knowing the right people in the circles of power is good for business but... You seriously underestimate the amount of money promised to tens of millions of people, even if the numbers are modest per capita. The hole in the US budget is 1-1.5T, every year. If you tried to confiscate everything the rich own, you would have funded the expeditures for few months, maybe few years if you were particularly meticulous in your hunt... and then you are back to square 1. Entitlements still have to be paid, but there is nothing to pillage.
SoSec taxes went up because it became perfectly clear, that the low rates from the early times where 1 retiree was supported by 10-20 productive people don't work, when the structure reflects the demographics and it's let's say 1:4 now. Assuming you need 1000 bucks/month to live and there are 4 employed for 1 retiree, math is simple - on average each of them has to fork over 250 bucks/month right off the bat, before any other taxes. What if population ages even more and you get to 1:2? 500 bucks and the wages are not going to skyrocket any time soon to make it easier to make ends meet.
SoSec is an unethical scam because it ignores reality and locks whole generations into a scheme that is very sensitive to demographic changes. Everything is fine with exploding population, which is why the whole thing quacks like a ponzi scheme. Get below the fertility rate of 2.1 and no amount of wishful thinking will help you. Aging population spells doom to the system (afaik US is at 2.05, still not too bad). In EU the rate is in 1.3-1.6 range in many countries. This can't work no matter how you slice it. In 20 years avg worker will have to fork over the half of his earnings (again, before any other taxes and fees) because the largest block of voters (the elderly) will democratically reintroduce indentured servitude
silly, you thought they saved all that money for you? They spent it all, they used it to buy your vote with your own money and then some more to bomb the shit out of beige people in various parts of the world in the name of pax americana.
or from another angle: ok, dishonest politicians cheated you. Does that mean that next generations should be screwed even harder and forced into the govt mandated ponzi scheme, so you can have your 'justice'? It's your children and grandchildren who you are willing to screw.
You belong to the generation that experienced the standard of living no other generation will experience ever again so don't whine.
i am not self-centered selfish prick hoarding untold riches at the expense of unwashed masses, my carbon footprint is probably much smaller than yours, no offspring. I realized that ultimately there is no point in worrying whether or not humanity dies with this rock called Earth or not. I have no influence on things after my death, hell, i have next to none influence on things that happen right now. If I could bitchslap my govt for fucking us in the ass, or USians for their wasteful lifestyles (and fucking everybody in the ass) or Chinese for their retarded nationalism, or Muslims for their inability to deal with any criticism of Islam, or teen retards for being too cool to learn science maybe i'd care, but i can't so why bother? The world is going to do what the world is going to do.
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there are better measuring sticks, like being registered in X% of the states, period. Logistics required to pull it off is enough to weed out the jokers. Keep it simple stupid.
How many candidates are there? 4 (red, blue, green and libertarian)? what, you don't have enough time to present all candidates for the arguably most important position on the planet?
but where is the problem exactly in your restaurant scenario?
It's much better when racists and bigots are in the open, you have no problem with identifying them and not supporting them with your dollars. Wasn't there a huge stink recently in case of Chick-fil-A because the owner reportedly financed some antigay organization? Apparently boycotts can work.
Would you prefer the restaurant owner to make the meal but also jizz on it in secret and to charge the unknowing customer for the privilege of consuming owner's bodily fluids?
If you were black, would you prefer to know if the owner is a closet racist or not?
There was a case recently where some bigoted state politician was refused service by the restaurant owner. Liberal leaning folks had absolutely no problem with that, which reeks of hypocrisy.
Libertarians keep it simple: either you have a right to discriminate, or you don't and having that right is the only consistent and workable option.
Everybody else: you have a right to discriminate, unless it's skin color, sex, religion, hair color, shoe size, pet name, you name it. The list is arbitrary which puts enormous power in the hands of the ones who get to decide.
This guy is a libertarian, why is he whining? He's fighting for the right for people & organizations to do whatever they want regardless of fairness, ethics, or consequence.
citation needed.
Libertarians believe that people have a right to make an informed decision that suits best their needs. Suppression of information is not libertarian, even the idea of the free market itself requires informed players.
He's not in the debates because of that 15% rule that makes sure the game is only played by team Red and team Blue. You are not in debates = you don't exist. Some say the rule was introduced because of the mess caused by Ross Perrot. Both parties want to make sure no party pooper happens ever again - they agreed on artificial bareers of entry so they can duke it out inside their exclusive club.
But it helps to be a sociopathic libertarian when you want to ignore the fact that socialized medicine provides better care for less money.
until it doesn't. Costs are a function of multitude of things. Demographics? Go way below fertility ratio of 2 and things go south quickly (1.4 here). There is no country with more fat asses roaming than the US, wouldn't that add a shitton? The fact that the US HC is easily the worst of both worlds doesn't help either (supposedly free market, yet the competition is pretty much forbidden by law)
Where i live you can wait 11 months to see a specialist and begin treatment for breast cancer or whatever, only because the quota runs out right of the bat in January. Public HC here is only for old people, because only they have all the time in the world to waste in several hours long queues.
If you took the tax money you pay in taxes you'd have a very nice coverage in private sector with all the convenience like making appointments online that make sure you can show up on time and go on with your life soon after.
you don't have to be a sociopathic libertarian to know that in the era of aging populations there will never be enough money for hc. The First World simply sweeps the problem under the rug with deficits.
I live in a country with universal hc (admittedly 2nd world), yet the waiting queues, shortages and quotas make many people that value their time not bother with it, especially when their life is on the line.
i agree that the precise characteristics of the product are unavailable, but it doesn't require a rocket scientist to read the ingredients from time to time (yet nobody does it) or to know that the junk food is made of junk and is bad for you or that the chinese crap == shitton of nasty pollution and no worker rights whatsoever pretty much by definition.
Ignorance is a bliss and most people choose to be oblivious.
consumers are as much to blame. They vote with their wallets and they choose price before everything else repeatedly. It's not like the shitty quality of average junk from china was not known for decades, yet it still has no problem finding the buyers.
the other team has a pretty high score too. I don't think people at wedding ceremonies blown up by the US drones see any substantial difference.
no, no, no and no. All these things have non-zero costs and require others to provide them to you.
Rights are things that you can't be depraved of in absence of external intervention violating them. If you are alone in the desert unprepared you can say any shit you want, you can self-determine who you are and what not, but you can die of dehydration. Obviously you have a right to self-ownership but you don't have a right to water, if you had, you wouldn't die because of lack of it.
yes, but my point was that the HFT is not in spirit of free market (as in defining quality, something desirable), it's a side effect of current model with its pros and cons. Free market assumes perfect information - this obviously can't happen in real world but one could argue that the way exchanges are set up, with the castes of chosen ones with privileged access and the plebes, unshamedly goes against that idea.
That "ponzi scheme" whereby the pensions of today are paid by those paying into the pension plan is the only good, cheap, and stable way such a thing can be run.
no it is not. Ponzi works and everything is peachy until it doesn't. Shitty economy will take its toll either way in any scenario, but the 'ponzi scheme' is a sure way to enslave the young and the productive once the demographics goes south - many old people vs not so many young... ah the joys of democracy.
Half of fucking Europe sits at the fertility rate of 1.4, next to Japan that is supposedly a country of old people.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_and_territories_by_fertility_rate
Polish retirement system has a hole equal to 1/3 of total inflows, today. In 30 years it will be a disaster of epic proportions. Half of the earnings will go to retirees right off the bat, before any general purpose taxes kick in. If you believe the US will always have positive population growth, think again.
the question is: do the investors get their purchasing power back? the US looks good only because others look worse. As they say 'in the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king'
metals are in a shitty situation because the exchanges of metal based paper can force a selloff with margin calls and that's what happened with silver 1.5y ago (3 subsequent hikes in 1 week). Besides 1 year is not a big deal when the run of gold was 10 years long and in 400% range. Dow is where it was 4 years ago, does that mean 'stay the fuck away from the stock market'?
while the affair between the wall street big boys it's nothing more than a zero-sum game, the ball they play with has to be extracted from the unwashed masses trying to invest or saving for their retirement first. The profits GS et consortes reap in exchange for a bit more liquidity are ridiculous.
it's like saying that fouls are in spirit of sports, link farms are in spirit of search engines and bombing the shit out of brown people is in spirit of paying taxes to fund the state. Using the properties of the system outside the explicit rules of the game may be the rational thing to do, but is never in spirit of the game.
Number da one: the thing is called an address bar. Not an "Awesome bar". (Side note, can the guy or gal who came up with that name please be taken outside and shot? Thanks!) I know what I'm doing, I know where I'm going, just show the goddamn addresses that start with the letters I typed.
sorry, the address bar rocks. All 20 websites i use frequently are there after max 2 keypresses without a fail. Typing for the typing sake is overrated.
Number da two: status bar. nuff said.
regrettable, but status-4-evar is not exactly unavailable. You should also whine that the address bar hides the protocol part of urls by default and you have to type about:config once to change that. Oh the horrors ;-)
right-click menu option change (tab first, window second). I don't use Chrome, don't care, IE and Opera both had the same order Firefox had, the change in order was stupid. Don't mess with my muscle memory for no reason!
stop being a noob and use ctrl+lmb for new tab (or middleclick) and shift+lmb for new window
Last time i checked it eats less memory than chrome and i haven't seen anybody complaining about chrome being a hog
Firefox calculates the size of cache for back button and shit based on the amount of RAM available. Go to about:config and change it if you don't like it
http://kb.mozillazine.org/Browser.sessionhistory.max_total_viewers
Modern websites are running ridiculous amounts of javascript, huge flash objects and what not. about:memory claims that the single tab with main page of fb (no content on the wall/newsfeed, not subscribed to anybody) sits at 40M (no idea what it contains). Some pages are bundled with so much crap that NoScript showing the list of 3rd party jscript sources doesn't fit in 1200px high monitor. NoScript is a must.
divisibility means squat? why? all that matters is: does the currency offer enough resolution to enable even smallest scale transactions? bitcoin most certainly does.
How would you force people in deflationary environment to do business with banks? Banks would lose their power because only inflation makes sure everybody and their dog have to be customers. I am sure you also believe that Obamacare is so detrimental to insurance industry, after all what these ruthless monsters will do with all these additional customers coerced into doing business? It's the same situation.
I am not a fan of bitcoin, but i don't agree with the 'all economists agree that...' circlejerk.
when i talk about inflation i mean: even if you only lose 2% of your purchasing power per year, you end up with 20+% loss after 10 years. Would that mean that economists generally agree that stealing 20% of people's lives is ok (after all they fucking spent the only resource that is irreplaceable to earn that purchasing power - time) and now they have to jump through even more hoops to try to break even?
so? wouldn't people invest anyway? Didn't world exist before financial sector constituting what, 10% of gdp and growing? That's an awful lot for a sector that should only optimize the flow of money. I assume you see nothing wrong that the whole economy operates around a single huge point of failure? And what about the fact that what banks did with housing bubble? People getting loans and bidding up prices where they end no better than they were before is very much like an arm dealer selling weapons to both sides of conflict and taking every last bit of the resource in exchange.
Omnipresent banks are as destructive force as they are creative one. They enabled the whole economy to be leveraged to the hilt. Economists at central banks may have made it to be most performant from the point of view of synthetic benchmarks, gdp and what not, but extreme specialization with razor thin error margins doesn't have any trace of resilience. It's like a F1 car that will crash and burn if only hits a small rock on the road and there are plenty of rocks in the real world.
There is only a possible 21 million bitcoins, after that, no more. The world GDP is $70Trillion, meaning if you instantly substituted bitcoins for the entire world's economies, each bitcoin would have to be worth $3.3Million. Why would you even spend a single bitcoin?
why does it matter how much is a single bitcoin worth? Divisibility is more important and bitcoins are divisible up to 8 places, for a total of 2.1E15 units.
People don't spend when they can get "more" by simply not spending, and that's with even "mild" single-digit deflation. Economies grind to a standstill.
people also have limited lifespans so they can't hoard for eternity. Endless inflation is a fix to the problem that doesn't really exist.
It's also the main reason why the banks have the whole world by the balls. That's how things end when everybody is forced to park the money in banks or else watch the wealth evaporate fast thanks to inflation tax.
what you say is true, but China dumping the dollar would spell end of the world reserve currency status that currently allows the US to get away with all kinds of nasty shit. It doesn't matter if it's only 8%, confidence would get killed and everybody and their dog would try their best to find the exit in a hurry.
Clinton managed to balance jack and shit. His epic economic achievements are the results of dotcom bubble in near peak stages, which brought higher tax revenue than expected. You think that if Dubya didn't win, there would be no recession triggered by the dotcom bust? Deficits wouldn't be high? Fed wouldn't slash rates to near zero to keep the americans endebted to their eyeballs spending?
Tax cuts were not a good idea but it makes no sense to blame them for everything. Average voter was complacent, even quite happy he could flip houses bought with no-down loans and get rich quick during the housing bubble flipping real estate.
Yes, being rich and knowing the right people in the circles of power is good for business but...
You seriously underestimate the amount of money promised to tens of millions of people, even if the numbers are modest per capita. The hole in the US budget is 1-1.5T, every year. If you tried to confiscate everything the rich own, you would have funded the expeditures for few months, maybe few years if you were particularly meticulous in your hunt... and then you are back to square 1. Entitlements still have to be paid, but there is nothing to pillage.
SoSec taxes went up because it became perfectly clear, that the low rates from the early times where 1 retiree was supported by 10-20 productive people don't work, when the structure reflects the demographics and it's let's say 1:4 now. Assuming you need 1000 bucks/month to live and there are 4 employed for 1 retiree, math is simple - on average each of them has to fork over 250 bucks/month right off the bat, before any other taxes. What if population ages even more and you get to 1:2? 500 bucks and the wages are not going to skyrocket any time soon to make it easier to make ends meet.
SoSec is an unethical scam because it ignores reality and locks whole generations into a scheme that is very sensitive to demographic changes. Everything is fine with exploding population, which is why the whole thing quacks like a ponzi scheme.
Get below the fertility rate of 2.1 and no amount of wishful thinking will help you. Aging population spells doom to the system (afaik US is at 2.05, still not too bad). In EU the rate is in 1.3-1.6 range in many countries. This can't work no matter how you slice it. In 20 years avg worker will have to fork over the half of his earnings (again, before any other taxes and fees) because the largest block of voters (the elderly) will democratically reintroduce indentured servitude
silly, you thought they saved all that money for you? They spent it all, they used it to buy your vote with your own money and then some more to bomb the shit out of beige people in various parts of the world in the name of pax americana.
or from another angle: ok, dishonest politicians cheated you. Does that mean that next generations should be screwed even harder and forced into the govt mandated ponzi scheme, so you can have your 'justice'? It's your children and grandchildren who you are willing to screw.
You belong to the generation that experienced the standard of living no other generation will experience ever again so don't whine.
i am not self-centered selfish prick hoarding untold riches at the expense of unwashed masses, my carbon footprint is probably much smaller than yours, no offspring. I realized that ultimately there is no point in worrying whether or not humanity dies with this rock called Earth or not.
I have no influence on things after my death, hell, i have next to none influence on things that happen right now. If I could bitchslap my govt for fucking us in the ass, or USians for their wasteful lifestyles (and fucking everybody in the ass) or Chinese for their retarded nationalism, or Muslims for their inability to deal with any criticism of Islam, or teen retards for being too cool to learn science maybe i'd care, but i can't so why bother? The world is going to do what the world is going to do.
why would you care? in 50 years fate of humans won't be of your concern.