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brave-newon Motorola Announces the New Moto X

One would think, if this evolution nonsense was true, that people would have evolved bigger hands by now.

And this is why I'm very happy more and more schools here in good ol' Texas are teaching Intelligent Design.

brave-newon A failed experiment: How LG screwed up its webOS acquisition

> TVs are useless

Exactly, only the mentally challenged watch TV in the 21st century.

brave-newon A failed experiment: How LG screwed up its webOS acquisition

In the end the clowns will only ship the hardware. That is Internet of Things IMHO will go through the same evolution as the PC industry.

brave-newon The Billion-Dollar Telescope Race

I have a 130mm (5") Newtonian Reflector telescope, do you have an advice on a good CCD detector to use with it?

brave-newon What I use instead of Google services

We live in the information age and information now is the ultimate power. Many people don't believe it, the same way that before the Civil and Crimean Wars not everybody believed that industry is the ultimate power of the industrial age.

By letting Google collect enormous amounts of data about you, you are letting them have power over you. It can be used for pushing you to buy stuff against your rational will or for killing you, if say at any point you decide to not fully cooperate with a future totalitarian government.