mopenstein

Mine came on when I was about 12 years old and I'm convinced it was brought on by severe anxiety.

At the time my life had changed dramatically. My parents split. Moved to an area adjacent to government housing projects, through which I had to travel everyday to school, and I was, by virtue of unfortunately being wrong color, beaten daily by gangs of hooligans. I ended up sneaking through a slightly wooded area like a South American guerilla until they caught me there.

I couldn't handle it as I was already a sensitive kid and, the parent I ended up with, the other having gone to jail, was compassionless due to their own horrific upbringing. So I had no way of coping which led to total breakdowns and anxiety attacks.

Tinnitus reared it's ugly head soon after which further exacerbated the anxiety.

But the correlation is all speculation on my part because my parent only took me to the doctor a year or so later after much complaining. And only for the tinnitus, not the crippling anxiety.

You assume that it will be a foreign enemy and not your own government bricking your car on the eve of revolution.

They don't have to do this. The cheap materials in the compressor or cheap capacitors used on the power supply board will just silently fall. And the cost to repair the problem, for the average person, will be slightly less than just buying a newer version of the crap that just broke.

Why bother tracking just the cars? Just track every person. When you're born some government agent can implant a tracker in your sphincter. When a car is stolen, they arrest everyone in the area where the crime occurred and then sort it out downtown.

If you've got nothing to hide, then you shouldn't object to having a sphincter implant to track your every movement. And if you happen to be in an area during a crime, you'll certainly be vindicated, so just a little inconvenience in order to ensure that no car will ever be stolen again.

And just think how environmentally friendly that'll be. Maybe people will stop having so many babies to protect their sphincters from being implanted. That'll be super good for the environment.

I agree. If it only exists so that a select few can actually experience, it might as well not exist at all.

And don't kid yourself, those keepers and creators get full access as well as anyone they deem worthy enough. The rest of us will never be granted that access.

If it's privately funded, good. It affects me nil. But if they take public funds and lock up history or nature just so it can remain pristine for the wealthy or elite to enjoy, then I don't want to have to pay for it. Not that I have a choice in the matter either way.

Freedom of speech existed before almost everything. Before the wheel, before the airplane, before newspapers, before radio and TV, and even before pen and paper. I wonder how much less free we'd feel if those things were banned as well?

If your ego is elevated in anyway, you might want to work on yourself a bit.

Ground yourself and don't focus on whether or not you are better than someone else. Just be content that you're not better, not worse, not the same, not different, just a person.

How does that scenario alter free and open source software?

The software is still open and free.

But in your scenario you're just super angry you didn't figure out to make money off your work.

I'm gonna go out on a limb and suggest that you never, ever contribute to FOSS and instead just buckle down and focus on selling your blobs.

Everybody on the planet knows that the modern cellphone is really just a portable vacuum connected directly to people's wallets and steam doesn't want a piece of that action?

They must be raking in the dough if they are ignoring that opportunity.

Capitalism doesn't exist. The fact that trademark, copyright, and patents exist nullify capitalism.

There can be no free market if your government intervenes in every transaction.

Tells you to eat every planet, creates plants that are fatally poisonous to humans.

That God fella sure is strange.

What percentage of those people could never read above a certain grade level? Could 100% of humans eventually, with infinite resources and time, all be geniuses? Could they read and comprehend all the works produced by mankind?

I'm curious.

The only difference is that the people getting upset about this stuff is money. They hate the idea that someone is making money off their work. Even if the sum of their work amounts to a penny. They're just angry.

In 50 years they'll be useless anyway when computers are just plotting every iteration and combination of 1's and 0's that might be.

I too see no difference in machines learning from the works of others than man standing on the shoulders of those before them to reach higher plateaus.

It's all a big to-do about nothing.

I miss the time before everybody was on the Internet when it was mostly like minded techie types. This modem internet kinda sucks with all its AI generated racism.