It is teetering close to a run-away process, and most of the world still has its foot all the way down on the gas.
I am in despair of the industrialized world being any different from the many civilizations that destroyed their land base and then imploded - the Nile, Babylon, Greece, Easter Island, the Maya, the list goes on. The destructive acidification of the soils where tobacco was grown was a major factor in the American Civil War - with that and the Dust Bowl and ongoing topsoil loss, the USA is well on its way to doing the same.
We managed to fix the soil with applications of lime and crushed shells, but we're going to have to learn deeply about the ecology of soil, not just its chemistry, if we're ever to make this. Following this broken system all the way down threatens the planet with a mass extinction like it's never seen.
It's possible to feed humanity and keep the ecosystem thriving in a win-win scenario. That's what the Pre-Columbian Amazon jungle was: agriculture totally unlike that which turned the Middle East into a desert. That's our best hope of getting carbon back into the ground where it belongs in a way that naturally increases fertility. http://www.underwoodgardens.com/soil-building/terra-preta-magic-soil-of-the-lost-amazon/
The parent is right. The people who work their way to the top are the rare exceptions, and nobody born into wealth is going to understand what that took. Inter-generational wealth doesn't mean inter-generational lessons, and it rapidly turns into entitlement to use wealth as social clout to secure more wealth.
Most of all - it's used to trample the ability of others to negotiate what they earn from their work. Come on, if you're not a CEO or major shareholder - how likely is it that capitalism is working to create profits? Most people are being reduced to a minimum or less in this system, and Adam Smith didn't write with ultra-wealthy and ultra-poor people in mind. That would just be feudalism by any other name. Students of history know how dark that gets.
I was home schooled in part and knew others, but I can see how it left gaps in some subjects depending on the expertise of the parents. I personally developed a deficit in higher math while being taught out of history and science books full of creationist young-earth theories. I made up for that later, and I got better, but I think home schooling is a wildcard. I honestly think that those who are serious about home schooling - and serious is the only responsible way to be about it - ought to be forming co-ops to minimize the risk of gaps in teaching expertise.
Using renewables effectively takes a bit of rethinking beyond just plugging them into the same old centralized industrial model. You don't need to generate the equivalent amount of power to a coal plant, because you are free to deploy it onsite. You can adjust it for a minimum of conversions between AC/DC or voltages, and you don't have to put it across a sprawling electric grid and lose power to electric resistance. Hell - they make DC air conditioners with directly coupled solar panels now. Think about it - they're going to get power when you need it most. You can't do that with coal.
You can also produce just a little more than enough with broad-based redundancy. A coal plant needs to shut down every once in a while, and it needs a backup plant or two; this means that overproduction of electricity is endemic in the mainstream economy, and needless with renewables.
A more complete vision of renewables is highly dispersed, diverse, efficient, and democratized. It's also deadly to the fossil fuel industry. They're going to do their darnedest to make sure that the public gets incomplete and out of date information about renewables for that very reason.
Do you really want to make the argument that people shouldn't care about a precious ecosystem if they don't have the money to go tour it themselves?
Also, this is baseload electricity. You don't have to generate all your power using it, but it can account for power when the wind isn't blowing or the sun isn't shining. A smart microgrid could deploy this along with wind turbines or kite generators, and perhaps biomass incinerators. That's freedom: you don't have to go to war with a tinpot dictator over it. You don't have solar spills in the ocean. You don't have ruined marshes and rivers with it. You don't have power concentrated in corrupt hands. Most of the cost comparisons fossil fuel shills trot out simply omit all the environmental and political troubles that petroleum causes, needlessly in light of the alternative.
If our entire geopolitical system wasn't a huge subsidy to oil, we'd be adopting this technology for reasons including cost and benefit, and be the better for it.
There are supposed to be predators keeping these creatures in check. Unfortunately, we've overfished the oceans and polluted them so heavily that this problem is only set to grow.
I prefer a developer-friendly, open source environment for my gaming, when I do it. Of course, some of my favorite things are modding them and programming them - there's such a huge kick in things like putting a "Best of Both Worlds" Borg Cube into Homeworld, or writing a GURPS-like skill system for a MUD. I personally think that people that merely consume content instead of creating even a little of it somewhere are missing out.
As such, Steam's making the first console platform that even comes close to what I want. I think they're going to have a good shot at raiding the other console's home turf.
I'd have to say education is a much more important, more fundamental right than phone/internet privacy. The damage done to people and societies by preventing girls from going to school is much greater than the NSA reading their emails.
It's not just privacy. It's the right not to be scrutinized by an agency of a government that calls its own dissenting citizens who speak out about oil spills, bloody wars on false pretenses, dangerous chemical pollution, or corruption "terrorists". It's a right to have a voice and dignity and due process in a law-abiding country instead of being tampered with and manipulated by bought politicians serving as the lackeys of their for-profit corporate donors.
This ties into every issue anywhere that the NSA and related agencies project power, and that's all over the globe. It's everywhere a grassroots needs to step up to a corporate/government/financial juggernaut about anything, including the women in school in Pakistan.
This government will give everything you've sent or received through your phone or your laptop to a foreign agency with at most a rubber stamp from a court that the public knows nothing about, but will - yes - hand the educational system of America over to predatory lenders and ensconced social elites rather than earnest teachers and staff.
The government that is invading privacy is also denying your right to know about what is in your food and your medicine. Seen the recent headline about Bayer? This same government that has invaded all of our privacy still guarded Bayer's secrecy when its medication for hemophiliacs was infected with HIV and has thus allowed hundreds, perhaps thousands of people to be infected, to protect Bayer's profits at the cost of lives.
This government will record your every call, but it won't prosecute the banks which shredded the world's economy and have illegally foreclosed homes - some of which were owned by people who'd bought them with cash with no bank involved, ever, for "lack of evidence."
And yes, this government will send drones over skies foreign and domestic, and without due process fire missiles, napalm, chemicals, and bullets made of radioactive waste into civilian areas all over the planet, including Pakistan. Schools count, but imagine going to school where the missiles can fall arbitrarily. It will call the instigators of these crimes leaders, and the whistleblowers traitors, and use these privacy-invading tools to manipulate people and hunt down those who step out of line.
This government will protect Wall Street while infiltrating dissenting movements with psy-ops and undercover agitators who generate the props for cheap propaganda to justify gestapo tactics in a supposedly free country, and use its surveillance tools to know better how to deliver its deceitful war. PRISM is an abuse of power meant to help politicians abuse even more power at will.
Malala and Snowden have both done awesome things in the face of power that would crush them and kill them and then lie to the public about the whole matter, and it'd be stupid to compare their personal level of heroism. I mean, some of us might only get the clear opportunity to get a cat out of a tree, whatever our merit. Snowden got a chance to expose an oppressor of a much more central and global nature. That's what makes his arena more widely significant, and I think that deserves consideration.
Not only that, the first people to call themselves libertarians were also anarcho-syndicalist socialists. In the USA where people have been conditioned to think of socialism as a big-scary-government thing, a minimally hierarchic socialism has been excised from most thought and language. Libertarians in the USA don't even know their roots. So, TFA has some pretty shallow caricatures to work with from the start.
I do not see that people are primarily defined by what government they're under. Human relationships are less bounded, more amorphous, more interwoven than the neat lines and branches nationalism would imply.
Come on! The Assyrian people didn't go away because their empire ended; there's an identifiable group of them living today. The local past didn't disappear when nations like modern Germany and Italy united out of their former parts. People don't sever their family relationships and traditions at the border. That's just a tribal us/them line of thought convenient mostly for authoritarians and warmongers.
This is why we need to quit reading history books that define our past by nations and wars. Biology, culture and philosophy and technology are not so bounded.
Vulcan is Hephaistos, the god of the forge. He has fiery, volcanic imagery, which is why when some astronomers suspected that there might be a planet closer to the Sun than Mercury, Vulcan was the proposed name. Really, Trek fans, a tiny icy moon of Pluto's was not the place to name after Vulcan, no matter how much we like Spock.
Downsized electric cars used sparingly would convey large environmental benefits. Here's the context in which that would be true:
We'd need microgrids of peer-to-peer electricity generators using solar, concentrated solar-thermal, wind, geothermal, wave, and gasification of biomass. A diverse portfolio is a strong one. Electric cars are inherently versatile and adaptable to this scenario.
We'd need to reorient our production of vitals to be more local to begin with. Most of us just deal with an hour a day of commuting in a car, right? That's not the half of it. We're burning all kinds of oil to do industrial farming using energy-intensive fertilizers and minerals mined and shipped from all over the world, and in the process using pesticides which kill the soil microbes that are key to natural fertility. We need to replace sprawling industries and habitats with small, redundant, resilient local ones.
That's a whole systems kind of change, not a replacement widget for the existing system. Yes, electric cars fit into that, but you need a big picture to see why we're not just plugging a car into the lines near a coal plant.
The article cannot make that claim. The raw materials can be shown to have made the trip. The rest is speculation - where there is very compelling reason to speculate.
Take for example this research which is saying that if the average of evolutionary increase of genome complexity approximates to Moore's law, then life would date back ten billion years, necessarily arriving on Earth from elsewhere. Of course, this means that extremely simple microbes would have shown up, but that replication and evolution were already underway.
I would think that a forum still full of people pissed at monopolistic abuse in the computer industry would not be a place to get away with a more basically evil abuse of the biosphere and its food supply.
First, while genetically modifying things isn't inherently evil, it's tremendously risky to cross genes between kingdoms and phylums for the purpose of corporate profit.
Second, they're using a tactic we should recognize: "How is Europe going to be *competitive*?! How are you going to feed 7 billion people?" A good answer to those questions doesn't involve Monsanto's profit margins. There are plenty of good answers, and those who know the actual options can easily spot this sham for what it is.
Here's a good answer: for a ton of food production even in urban settings, there's aquaponics, something that gardeners and gadget geeks can both love. Come on, do you want to grow an adult human's entire vegetable produce requirement in 25 square feet? It's possible.
Having these close to the kitchen not only systemically eliminates the pesticides (the fish aren't down for that) and slashes overall water consumption, it also kills the built-in transportation costs. Also, if it's fresh and right there, you just pick it. No refrigeration necessary. You can do it for yourself in an apartment or on a large scale for the town.
Monsanto's GMOs are a stupid, wrong answer for everyone except Monsanto itself.
I feel that the elementaryos.org project is actually crafting the kind of experience I have wanted. I went Mac because I got tired of trying to make laptops sleep consistently, device drivers work just so - but with carefully chosen hardware and Ubuntu customized with the elementary UI on top, I think the lean, carefully crafted interface has finally arrived.
Even if they change elementary to resemble OSX less, and I think they should consider that, the framework has been extremely well thought out. They're using Vala instead of anything virtual machine-based for standard apps. Things feel light and fast. I approve.
My desktops have been Linux-only for years. I can run any games I care about in Wine, easily, and unlike a Windows system, I can transplant my hard drives into any x86 box Linux supports and it will just work.
Because you pay for the cost of keeping oil supply under control not at the gas pump, but through taxes, yet you pay for it all the same, because other energy supplies would not oblige the military to defend the interests of oil companies.
You don't need a geothermal vent. A large number of mirrors and a receiver filled with molten salts is itself already a proven technology. Concentrated solar thermal chimneys are actually part of the basis of this design, and they've been generating megawatts for decades in sunnier parts of the world.
We should have been using this technology already, but skewed money comparisons that ignore pollution and military expenditures make oil *seem* cheaper than these, which it really isn't overall.
Three cents for a kilowatt hour, and that's *without* externalized costs like oil spills, oil wars, blown up mountains, and polluted air and water. You could even use concentrated solar thermal heat to drive this thing.
Anyone who says renewables aren't ready isn't paying attention.
There is no higher order brain function in the embryo until the fifth to sixth month, long after a freely choosing woman would have had an abortion.
What does that matter? Well, what do you suppose is our way of judging the end of life? If brain-death is the end, it follows that getting higher level brain waves would be the beginning of personhood. It doesn't make sense to me to push for it sooner.
We're talking about rape in a country which legally defines failure to use a condom as requested as rape, and the accounts indicate failure to keep a condom on during *consensual* sex, something that would be a problem but not what we think of when we think of rape. The women involved are actively refusing to cooperate with the prosecution by now.
So, how much do you want to bet that this isn't a smear tactic and a hook to round up a political dissident?
Just when I'm really, really tired of the acronyms, there's SCSI over USB. What's next, orange juice out of apples? Kia to Tesla conversion kits? Vegan outback steakhouses? Elegant Perl code?!
Slashdot Mirror
It is teetering close to a run-away process, and most of the world still has its foot all the way down on the gas.
I am in despair of the industrialized world being any different from the many civilizations that destroyed their land base and then imploded - the Nile, Babylon, Greece, Easter Island, the Maya, the list goes on. The destructive acidification of the soils where tobacco was grown was a major factor in the American Civil War - with that and the Dust Bowl and ongoing topsoil loss, the USA is well on its way to doing the same.
We managed to fix the soil with applications of lime and crushed shells, but we're going to have to learn deeply about the ecology of soil, not just its chemistry, if we're ever to make this. Following this broken system all the way down threatens the planet with a mass extinction like it's never seen.
It's possible to feed humanity and keep the ecosystem thriving in a win-win scenario. That's what the Pre-Columbian Amazon jungle was: agriculture totally unlike that which turned the Middle East into a desert. That's our best hope of getting carbon back into the ground where it belongs in a way that naturally increases fertility. http://www.underwoodgardens.com/soil-building/terra-preta-magic-soil-of-the-lost-amazon/
The parent is right. The people who work their way to the top are the rare exceptions, and nobody born into wealth is going to understand what that took. Inter-generational wealth doesn't mean inter-generational lessons, and it rapidly turns into entitlement to use wealth as social clout to secure more wealth.
Most of all - it's used to trample the ability of others to negotiate what they earn from their work. Come on, if you're not a CEO or major shareholder - how likely is it that capitalism is working to create profits? Most people are being reduced to a minimum or less in this system, and Adam Smith didn't write with ultra-wealthy and ultra-poor people in mind. That would just be feudalism by any other name. Students of history know how dark that gets.
I was home schooled in part and knew others, but I can see how it left gaps in some subjects depending on the expertise of the parents. I personally developed a deficit in higher math while being taught out of history and science books full of creationist young-earth theories. I made up for that later, and I got better, but I think home schooling is a wildcard. I honestly think that those who are serious about home schooling - and serious is the only responsible way to be about it - ought to be forming co-ops to minimize the risk of gaps in teaching expertise.
Using renewables effectively takes a bit of rethinking beyond just plugging them into the same old centralized industrial model. You don't need to generate the equivalent amount of power to a coal plant, because you are free to deploy it onsite. You can adjust it for a minimum of conversions between AC/DC or voltages, and you don't have to put it across a sprawling electric grid and lose power to electric resistance. Hell - they make DC air conditioners with directly coupled solar panels now. Think about it - they're going to get power when you need it most. You can't do that with coal.
You can also produce just a little more than enough with broad-based redundancy. A coal plant needs to shut down every once in a while, and it needs a backup plant or two; this means that overproduction of electricity is endemic in the mainstream economy, and needless with renewables.
A more complete vision of renewables is highly dispersed, diverse, efficient, and democratized. It's also deadly to the fossil fuel industry. They're going to do their darnedest to make sure that the public gets incomplete and out of date information about renewables for that very reason.
Do you really want to make the argument that people shouldn't care about a precious ecosystem if they don't have the money to go tour it themselves?
Also, this is baseload electricity. You don't have to generate all your power using it, but it can account for power when the wind isn't blowing or the sun isn't shining. A smart microgrid could deploy this along with wind turbines or kite generators, and perhaps biomass incinerators. That's freedom: you don't have to go to war with a tinpot dictator over it. You don't have solar spills in the ocean. You don't have ruined marshes and rivers with it. You don't have power concentrated in corrupt hands. Most of the cost comparisons fossil fuel shills trot out simply omit all the environmental and political troubles that petroleum causes, needlessly in light of the alternative.
If our entire geopolitical system wasn't a huge subsidy to oil, we'd be adopting this technology for reasons including cost and benefit, and be the better for it.
There are supposed to be predators keeping these creatures in check. Unfortunately, we've overfished the oceans and polluted them so heavily that this problem is only set to grow.
I prefer a developer-friendly, open source environment for my gaming, when I do it. Of course, some of my favorite things are modding them and programming them - there's such a huge kick in things like putting a "Best of Both Worlds" Borg Cube into Homeworld, or writing a GURPS-like skill system for a MUD. I personally think that people that merely consume content instead of creating even a little of it somewhere are missing out.
As such, Steam's making the first console platform that even comes close to what I want. I think they're going to have a good shot at raiding the other console's home turf.
I'd have to say education is a much more important, more fundamental right than phone/internet privacy. The damage done to people and societies by preventing girls from going to school is much greater than the NSA reading their emails.
It's not just privacy. It's the right not to be scrutinized by an agency of a government that calls its own dissenting citizens who speak out about oil spills, bloody wars on false pretenses, dangerous chemical pollution, or corruption "terrorists". It's a right to have a voice and dignity and due process in a law-abiding country instead of being tampered with and manipulated by bought politicians serving as the lackeys of their for-profit corporate donors.
This ties into every issue anywhere that the NSA and related agencies project power, and that's all over the globe. It's everywhere a grassroots needs to step up to a corporate/government/financial juggernaut about anything, including the women in school in Pakistan.
This government will give everything you've sent or received through your phone or your laptop to a foreign agency with at most a rubber stamp from a court that the public knows nothing about, but will - yes - hand the educational system of America over to predatory lenders and ensconced social elites rather than earnest teachers and staff.
The government that is invading privacy is also denying your right to know about what is in your food and your medicine. Seen the recent headline about Bayer? This same government that has invaded all of our privacy still guarded Bayer's secrecy when its medication for hemophiliacs was infected with HIV and has thus allowed hundreds, perhaps thousands of people to be infected, to protect Bayer's profits at the cost of lives.
This government will record your every call, but it won't prosecute the banks which shredded the world's economy and have illegally foreclosed homes - some of which were owned by people who'd bought them with cash with no bank involved, ever, for "lack of evidence."
And yes, this government will send drones over skies foreign and domestic, and without due process fire missiles, napalm, chemicals, and bullets made of radioactive waste into civilian areas all over the planet, including Pakistan. Schools count, but imagine going to school where the missiles can fall arbitrarily. It will call the instigators of these crimes leaders, and the whistleblowers traitors, and use these privacy-invading tools to manipulate people and hunt down those who step out of line.
This government will protect Wall Street while infiltrating dissenting movements with psy-ops and undercover agitators who generate the props for cheap propaganda to justify gestapo tactics in a supposedly free country, and use its surveillance tools to know better how to deliver its deceitful war. PRISM is an abuse of power meant to help politicians abuse even more power at will.
Malala and Snowden have both done awesome things in the face of power that would crush them and kill them and then lie to the public about the whole matter, and it'd be stupid to compare their personal level of heroism. I mean, some of us might only get the clear opportunity to get a cat out of a tree, whatever our merit. Snowden got a chance to expose an oppressor of a much more central and global nature. That's what makes his arena more widely significant, and I think that deserves consideration.
Not only that, the first people to call themselves libertarians were also anarcho-syndicalist socialists. In the USA where people have been conditioned to think of socialism as a big-scary-government thing, a minimally hierarchic socialism has been excised from most thought and language. Libertarians in the USA don't even know their roots. So, TFA has some pretty shallow caricatures to work with from the start.
I do not see that people are primarily defined by what government they're under. Human relationships are less bounded, more amorphous, more interwoven than the neat lines and branches nationalism would imply.
Come on! The Assyrian people didn't go away because their empire ended; there's an identifiable group of them living today. The local past didn't disappear when nations like modern Germany and Italy united out of their former parts. People don't sever their family relationships and traditions at the border. That's just a tribal us/them line of thought convenient mostly for authoritarians and warmongers.
This is why we need to quit reading history books that define our past by nations and wars. Biology, culture and philosophy and technology are not so bounded.
Vulcan is Hephaistos, the god of the forge. He has fiery, volcanic imagery, which is why when some astronomers suspected that there might be a planet closer to the Sun than Mercury, Vulcan was the proposed name. Really, Trek fans, a tiny icy moon of Pluto's was not the place to name after Vulcan, no matter how much we like Spock.
Downsized electric cars used sparingly would convey large environmental benefits. Here's the context in which that would be true:
We'd need microgrids of peer-to-peer electricity generators using solar, concentrated solar-thermal, wind, geothermal, wave, and gasification of biomass. A diverse portfolio is a strong one. Electric cars are inherently versatile and adaptable to this scenario.
We'd need to reorient our production of vitals to be more local to begin with. Most of us just deal with an hour a day of commuting in a car, right? That's not the half of it. We're burning all kinds of oil to do industrial farming using energy-intensive fertilizers and minerals mined and shipped from all over the world, and in the process using pesticides which kill the soil microbes that are key to natural fertility. We need to replace sprawling industries and habitats with small, redundant, resilient local ones.
That's a whole systems kind of change, not a replacement widget for the existing system. Yes, electric cars fit into that, but you need a big picture to see why we're not just plugging a car into the lines near a coal plant.
The article cannot make that claim. The raw materials can be shown to have made the trip. The rest is speculation - where there is very compelling reason to speculate.
Take for example this research which is saying that if the average of evolutionary increase of genome complexity approximates to Moore's law, then life would date back ten billion years, necessarily arriving on Earth from elsewhere. Of course, this means that extremely simple microbes would have shown up, but that replication and evolution were already underway.
http://phys.org/news/2013-04-law-life-began-earth.html
I would think that a forum still full of people pissed at monopolistic abuse in the computer industry would not be a place to get away with a more basically evil abuse of the biosphere and its food supply.
First, while genetically modifying things isn't inherently evil, it's tremendously risky to cross genes between kingdoms and phylums for the purpose of corporate profit.
Second, they're using a tactic we should recognize: "How is Europe going to be *competitive*?! How are you going to feed 7 billion people?" A good answer to those questions doesn't involve Monsanto's profit margins. There are plenty of good answers, and those who know the actual options can easily spot this sham for what it is.
Here's a good answer: for a ton of food production even in urban settings, there's aquaponics, something that gardeners and gadget geeks can both love. Come on, do you want to grow an adult human's entire vegetable produce requirement in 25 square feet? It's possible.
http://www.growingpower.org/aquaponics.htm
Having these close to the kitchen not only systemically eliminates the pesticides (the fish aren't down for that) and slashes overall water consumption, it also kills the built-in transportation costs. Also, if it's fresh and right there, you just pick it. No refrigeration necessary. You can do it for yourself in an apartment or on a large scale for the town.
Monsanto's GMOs are a stupid, wrong answer for everyone except Monsanto itself.
I feel that the elementaryos.org project is actually crafting the kind of experience I have wanted. I went Mac because I got tired of trying to make laptops sleep consistently, device drivers work just so - but with carefully chosen hardware and Ubuntu customized with the elementary UI on top, I think the lean, carefully crafted interface has finally arrived.
Even if they change elementary to resemble OSX less, and I think they should consider that, the framework has been extremely well thought out. They're using Vala instead of anything virtual machine-based for standard apps. Things feel light and fast. I approve.
My desktops have been Linux-only for years. I can run any games I care about in Wine, easily, and unlike a Windows system, I can transplant my hard drives into any x86 box Linux supports and it will just work.
I don't think you apprehend the scale of the problem.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Pacific_Garbage_Patch
What about moons orbiting gas giants in the habitable zone of red dwarves - any reason to pass that up?
Because you pay for the cost of keeping oil supply under control not at the gas pump, but through taxes, yet you pay for it all the same, because other energy supplies would not oblige the military to defend the interests of oil companies.
You don't need a geothermal vent. A large number of mirrors and a receiver filled with molten salts is itself already a proven technology. Concentrated solar thermal chimneys are actually part of the basis of this design, and they've been generating megawatts for decades in sunnier parts of the world.
We should have been using this technology already, but skewed money comparisons that ignore pollution and military expenditures make oil *seem* cheaper than these, which it really isn't overall.
http://www.csp-world.com/tags/khi-solar-one
Three cents for a kilowatt hour, and that's *without* externalized costs like oil spills, oil wars, blown up mountains, and polluted air and water. You could even use concentrated solar thermal heat to drive this thing.
Anyone who says renewables aren't ready isn't paying attention.
There is no higher order brain function in the embryo until the fifth to sixth month, long after a freely choosing woman would have had an abortion.
What does that matter? Well, what do you suppose is our way of judging the end of life? If brain-death is the end, it follows that getting higher level brain waves would be the beginning of personhood. It doesn't make sense to me to push for it sooner.
We're talking about rape in a country which legally defines failure to use a condom as requested as rape, and the accounts indicate failure to keep a condom on during *consensual* sex, something that would be a problem but not what we think of when we think of rape. The women involved are actively refusing to cooperate with the prosecution by now.
So, how much do you want to bet that this isn't a smear tactic and a hook to round up a political dissident?
Just when I'm really, really tired of the acronyms, there's SCSI over USB. What's next, orange juice out of apples? Kia to Tesla conversion kits? Vegan outback steakhouses? Elegant Perl code?!
Not to worry. They typically outgrow these flamewars about ten to fifeen years after they're done with "My dad can beat up your dad."
Seriously, it doesn't get much more clearly evil.
Do a little checking into Sony before you deem this the pinnacle of evil.
Do a little checking into Dow before you deem this the pinnacle of evil.
Slashdot: where messing with Playstations and mp3 stashes is the worse possible crime. ;)