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Indeed, the blame clearly lies with Microsoft.

One of the reasons I choose a PC over a Mac is because I want to decide things for myself. Microsoft's updates seem very Appleish to me.

All they need is large text that says something like, "You are more likely to get viruses, malware, randomware, etc if you uncheck this setting." Heck, make them confirm the choice two or three times. Some people want to risk it, some people need to risk it. Let them, it's their machine and their data.

Oops, I thought he said "cheap, clean freely available drugs".

No, things are not black and white. Having a heroin vending machine next to every gumball machine is a bad idea.

If society can change from taxes on tea being too high, it can change when unemployment is 91%.

So what's the alternative? Protectionism? The rest of the world will be colonizing Pluto while we are self-sufficient with furniture. Look at all these chair building jobs! Each chair only costs $45,000 each.

No, the US will never, ever be competitive with India and China on industrial labor even if we went laissez faire. We have to go the other way. Drastically reform and expand education and compete with Europe, not China. In other words, in order to maintain our standard of living, we need to be inventing and designing and leave the manufacturing and production to Asia. (Until the AI/robot game changer.)

>Use of the devices is slumping because they are not as good as cigarettes at giving a hit of nicotine

This is total nonsense. You can use e-juice at a level that will give you nicotine poisoning.

That is interesting. I think custom TLD's cost a huge amount of money though (like $200k).

It must be nice knowing the "correct" way to live.

In that case I would predict we'll hit it at around, say, 2030.

Exactly, we are talking about millions of people if you go back a few thousand years.

Also, the platform is ExpressionEngine.

Not really. Machines don't care if you instruct them to build a Ferrari or a Toyota. There's no difference in robot labor. After that, all that's left is resources, and sending robots to mine outer space isn't a deal-beaker either.

AI + Space = everything we need

Machines have been labor saving entities since the invention of the wheel. Inevitably, one day they will perform all labor.

A lot of people seem to assume you get handed a 18 point font piece of paper that says, "You agree to borrow $70,000 for a student loan." Mine was hundreds of pages of legalese and I didn't even know what the total of my 11 loans were until I graduated and consolidated.