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What is the bare metal internet? Is it a series of tubes?

I don't know how to call it but it seems to be a process similar to Mormon's lost boys: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lost_boys_(Mormon_fundamentali...

Depending how the law is implemented, it may only be a ministerial decision away.

Aren't administrator named for life? If they are, it seems natural that they are getting older, like the Linux kernel leaders.

How do you combine microtransactions with the need to be indexed by search engines?

Microtransactions solve the issue of bad bots, and possibly websites monetization. But then do you want to give free pass to search engine crawlers? The big ones will be strong enough to refuse to crawl your site if you don't. The small ones will be financially unable to crawl if you don't. If you allow them all, you're back to step 1. If you allow only one or a few, you basically freeze search engine innovation.

There isn't an universally agreed upon name for the planet we live on.

>No single civilization coined the term,

The english-speaking people coined the term. Everyone else use other terms.

>“Earth” reflects our shared journey to understand the limitless dimensions of our home.

There is nothing limitless with the little rock we live on. This article mainly shows we are stuck on the same rock with people thinking their own way nobody else share is universal. It feels like an overcrowded cell.

Did you ever vote? Between the very limited number of political leaning options available and the personal morality of the candidates, voters can never vote for a candidate they want but only for the candidate they least don't want.

"Cruelty and injustice, intolerance and oppression. And where once you had the freedom to object, to think and speak as you saw fit, you now have censors and systems of surveillance coercing your conformity and soliciting your submission. How did this happen? Who's to blame? Well certainly there are those who are more responsible than others, and they will be held accountable, but again truth be told, if you're looking for the guilty, you need only look into a mirror. I know why you did it. I know you were afraid. Who wouldn't be? War, terror, disease. There were a myriad of problems which conspired to corrupt your reason and rob you of your common sense." -- V for Vendetta

Indie shareware vendors predate "software companies with lots of capital" by decades. The big fishes seldom innovate anything.

How do you intend to keep the grounded battery charged ?

”The information highway will extend the electronic marketplace and make it the ultimate go-between, the universal middleman. Often the only humans involved in a transaction will be the actual buyer and seller. All the goods for sale in the world will be available for you to examine, compare, and, often, customize. When you want to buy something you’ll be able to tell your computer to find it for you at the best price offered by any acceptable source or ask your computer to ‘haggle’ with the computers of various sellers. Information about venders and their products will be available to any computer connected to the highway. Servers distributed worldwide will accept bids, resolve offers into completed transactions, control authentication and security, and handle all other aspects of the marketplace, including the transfer of funds. This will carry us into a new world of low-friction, low-overhead capitalism, in which market information will be plentiful and transaction costs low. It will be a shopper’s heaven.” -- Bill Gates, 1995

If I translate a copyrighted work into another language is the translated work under copyright?