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I especially like one of the comments on the page.

“A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects.” -Robert A. Heinlein

What I find truly comical and will be the biggest laugh of all other elections is when Ted Cruz and John Kasich declared their biggest qualifications were "Vote for me because I'm not Trump".

>VR world where we all spend 100% of our time

<sarcasm> Farmville !! I can't wait !! </sarcasm>

<!-- Sarcasm not towards you, towards my thought of VR farmville -->

>I can imagine myself saying "So why don't you just take the job of a dishwasher until things get better?" But I can't really imagine myself saying "So why don't you just sell your body until things get better?"

"Love you long time, five dallah" and the ensuing event takes three minutes which works out to $100/hr while the dishwasher makes what, %7.50? $100/hr vs $7.50/hr, hmmmm. I have known nurses and teachers who worked their way through college in the sex trade. They were incredible people who likely had no student debt.

Bottom of the page it reads:

>Since I've moved onto other projects and haven't had time to finish this,

>Five years ago, searching for "credit card" had top hits from credit card search spammers.

20 years ago it would have taken scrolling through several pages of porn to get to anything resembling a card. I do not miss those days at all.

>Anyone who hasn't yet switched to uBlock Origin should do so ASAP.

I looked at it, I tried it, I love it so far. I added uMatrix(1) and uBlock Origin Websocket(2). Now I just need to read the documentation to get the full advantage(3).

(1) https://github.com/gorhill/uMatrix

(2) https://github.com/gorhill/uBO-WebSocket

(3) To RTFM; https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki

I ran into a rural agricultural phenomena in which people wanted the biggest, baddest, newest, fastest, whizzbang available. One was particularly upset when I informed him the place he purchased said biggest, baddest, newest, fastest, whizzbang was a discount store and thus didn't have the biggest, baddest, newest, fastest, whizzbang; all they had was older tech.

I think I ruined his life.

People also have to wonder how a candidate can receive the most votes and still looses the election.

* 1824: John Quincy Adams won over * 1876: Rutherford B. Hayes * 1888: Benjamin Harrison * 2000: George W. Bush

All these presidents won without the votes. Hayes was chosen by The House.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_presiden...

Added later:

The article you presented on approval and score voting is interesting and I like the idea. I have believed for some time that we need to do away with the party system and let each candidate stand or fall on their own merit.

I don't really fit into any party as I am an independently conservative liberal libertarian with social and anti social leanings.

Another fun fact. Before card terminals became universal, it was common for different cards to require their own handheld terminal. A sales desk may have had half a dozen or so, in order top process the card.

I really wish I could find that video again. It was interesting.

The currency can change quickly and the old stuff becomes quite worthless. Ask the Confederates.

>refunded my money in less than 24 hours.

I had a $20 error charge on my card and it took a month for the refund. This is with the vendor stating in writing it was their error. I no longer bank there.

>tabulators & punch cards and the impact they had on human history

I think everyone in school came home with a Christmas wreath made out of punch cards. Every now and then I still see cases of punch cards offered for free.

Here is an example of a wreath:

http://www.computerhistory.org/collections/catalog/102667304

>we've been convinced that at least it's the lesser evil and that we should be happy for that.

I've always thought every ballot should have the option of:

[ ] None of the above, choose new candidates.

I found the translated text of "The Consolation of Philosophy", by Anicus Manlius Severinus Boethius

https://www.gutenberg.org/files/14328/14328-h/14328-h.htm

"It has been translated into every European tongue, and into English nearly a dozen times, from King Alfred's paraphrase to the translations of Lord Preston, Causton, Ridpath, and Duncan, in the eighteenth century."

Books were expensive. A very rough calculation is about $450 a book. Amazon could have made as killing back then.

List of prices of medieval items

http://www.luminarium.org/medlit/medprice.htm

How Much Is That in Today’s Money?

http://www.history.org/foundation/journal/Summer02/money2.cf...

(I did say roughly)

Lately I have binged on the television show "Fringe"(2008–2013). Good example of science gone off the deep end.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1119644/

I've always thought Rules of War was either an illusion or an oxymoron. A war with rules would be a sporting event, wouldn't it?

Every war has it's atrocities. War itself is an atrocity.

>Most teens do not have a credit card or access to their parents' on Amazon.

You would be surprised how many 5 year children make one-click purchases on their parents account. Suddenly all their favorite toys begin to appear magically at the door.

A comparison of the attitude changes depending on who is doing the bombing is when the US bombed the hospital in Afghanistan.

16 U.S. Service Members Disciplined In Mistaken Airstrikes On Afghan Hospital

http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/04/28/476071059/...

Everybody in the house must have their own home Email servers.

The examiners need some stiff jail time. If their fake work puts a guy behind bars for 5 years then they should risk at least that same amount of time also.

edited for coffeeless grammar

The video is pretty good. Thank you for that.

>If we have the interface why stop at brain to text? Why not make the computer a part of our brains?

This is how the Borg came about.

Actually I read about some guy who has a chip implanted which allows him to use his otherwise unusable hand. Right now it requires a bank of computers to function in the lab.

Paralyzed man with breakthrough brain chip plays guitar video game, swipes credit card

http://wexnermedical.osu.edu/blog/new-tech-helps-paralyzed-m...

Brain: We must prepare for tomorrow night.

Pinky: Why? What are we going to do tomorrow night?

Brain: The same thing we do every night, Pinky - try to take over the world!

Related story of a person born with hardly any brain at all who has an IQ of 126 and a mathematics degree.

http://www.psych.ufl.edu/~steh/PSB6099/brainnecessary.pdf

Due to hydrocephalus his brain was pressed against his skull and only a mm thick. Fascinating read.

Don't politicians pretty much buy their votes? Only difference is where the money comes from and how they spend it. I haven't looked into it, but I wonder what the price for a vote is these days?

>Any specifics of what type of VPN protocol its using?

According this chart of vpn's, OpenVPN

That One Privacy Guy's VPN Comparison Chart

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1FJTvWT5RHFSYuEoFVpAe...

edit: Name of the service is SurfEasy

Something which likely contributes to this rank or at least gives the appearance of it is this:

These 6 Corporations Control 90% Of The Media In America

http://www.businessinsider.com/these-6-corporations-control-...

Note this article is from 2012.

Thank you. I suspected it was but I wanted to verify.

>How can you spend $40k+ per homeless person each year

They don't. Figure in all the staff in the system earning $35K+, operational costs and what's left over goes towards helping people.

I find the nonprofits here print brochures, answer phones and refer you to other nonprofits who print brochures, answer phones and refer you to other nonprofits... in an endless loop.