What has happened over the past 30 years is the capture of the world’s common treasury by a handful of people, assisted by neoliberal policies which were first imposed on rich nations by Thatcher and Reagan.

At some point, there is so much 'inbreeding' in all good boy clubs that they collapse....then the society that they work in.

Particularly useful for the Airbus since they crash so often.

Most probably because they've never explored their world and

probably don't give a shit enough to put out the money for quality.

...their kids will have none.

AI/intelligent machines will be producing everything then...at no cost.

They'll be able to do what they want, when they want.

This kinda shit was built by Demicans.

It's what turned me into a Political Atheist.

I stand on their collective desk and piss on their heads.

It's a people store out there.

But maybe you like it better alone.

Sometimes I do, sometimes not but I've learned to appreciate aloneness.

I don't watch TV w/ commercials.

I guess I'm left out.

Too bad, not so sad-

'No one is indispensable' now arrives with a vengeance.

Not to worry. They can do anything so much better and hugely cheaper than mistake prone humans, we'll eventually be living high on that piggy for nothing.

Sounds like the answer to: What do the transvestite and the transhumanist have in common?

I couldn't resist.

I've heard good things about Ubuntu but I put Mint (Cinnamon) on a stick and boot with that.

There's plenty of info out there and many willing to help when there's a snag...very active Mint forums.

http://www.pendrivelinux.com/ to start.

https://sites.google.com/site/easylinuxtipsproject/fatalmistakes ...a must. Chock full of useful tips.

Well, I'll be....and all this time I never knew it went anywhere.

EDIT: The academic mind seems quite quantum to me: If it's looking for it it's there, if not, it's not.

But now that I think on't, that's the way we're all built. The academics are just more vocal about it.

Consider the source.

America's civilian nuclear technology cost a total of a trillion federal dollars yet delivers less energy than wood. The Economist says of nuclear power plants that “not one, anywhere in the world, makes commercial sense.”

Hot fusion research has received billions of dollars of Government money for over 50 years, AND HAS YET TO PUT A SINGLE WATT OF POWER INTO THE GRID.

There are tons of myths floating about, most perpetrated by pols and their minions.

The above is a classic example.

After all, what do they care.

It isn't their money building these Roads to Nowhere

That article was very unusual coming from The Economist, an MSM pitch-the-matrix rag.

The possibilities using the blockchain are mind-blowing.

IIRC there were Danes that farmed there some hundreds of years ago.

Wasn't fun enough for Just Bill.

Nicely said.

Decentralization and the end of topdownism seems to be driving change now.

Think about it.

|The Play store is every bit as dysfunctional as the App store without a credit card.

Correct and I can't be bothered with that which makes my device as useful as an anchor on a duck.

Someone that spent their whole life in a desert clime...or the Caribbean...or the South Pacific...is now very surprised to find this out.

A fine tale...

I came to the same conclusion as a satisfied Win 7 user but I put Mint on a Stick a couple of weeks ago and love it.

Nice not to need Win 10 when 7 goes bye bye. In fact, I'm quite sure I'll be using Linux most of the time.

No, I didn't fill out the date form.

Not using it. It just shows up. Doesn't matter to me, one way or t'other.

Now I got it.

Thanks. Gonna report to bugski.

I really don't know what you're talking about. I wasn't aware that I had and I don't believe I did.

Is there a reason you're commenting on it in parentheses?

Talking gun ownership is like talking religion or politics.

What's the point in discussing EDBSs (Emotionally Derived Belief Systems)?

Most religiously defend their views on all of these topics because that's how Earth Monkey came out of the oven.

It would behoove the folks that buy that to study praxeology.

If I knew what you were talking about, I might be able to tell you.

Right now I think both of us are confused. I know I am.

Making just any old Earth Monkey a movie producer...

My favs are the composers of tone poems....even tho I mention particular pieces go for the name, see what they wrote ...in all cases read the story the music tells then listen. Some stories are obvious just in the title of what they wrote.:

Richard Strauss (fuggidabout Johann) Till Eulenspiegel's Merry Pranks

Mussorgsky, Pictures at an Exhibition (he was a banker during the day)

Respighi

Ravel

Debussy

...and many other tone poem composers