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Comment Amerinomics: "Privatize profits, socialize loss" (Score 3, Insightful) 22

That bubble is gonna be loud when it goes, with a lot of shareholders in tears.

Hell No! Plutocrats have spare mansions & islands, it's regular folks like us who get pulled into their piggy mud-pit when it crashes, like in 2008.

Plutocrats just go on real-estate fire-sale shopping sprees during crashes so they can rent it back to us at piggy rates after recovery. It's why the rich get richer and we get mired in piggy pits.

Comment If a company sells a brickable device, (Score 1, Insightful) 71

...I believe there should be disclosure on the packaging or product page. Otherwise they are selling an internet service, not just a physical product.

Blue states are usually okay with such laws, the red states like to waste all their time working around laissez-faire's gotcha so that the Holy Rich can have their Holy Taxcuts. ProveMeWrong!

Comment US depends on bubbles (Score 5, Interesting) 79

USA's economy is addicted to bubbles. Without one bubble after another, we wouldn't know what business to be in. We can't manufacturer as extensively as China because we don't have a Xi keeping wages down, we have no fashion sense like France, we don't have Venice-like tourism because GOP scares off visitors (Iraq war era, not just orangeshirts), and we don't have great ruins like Machu Picchu because we tore them down to make casinos.

Our under-taxed plutocrats have giant piles of cash to invest in speculative shit, which often pops, yet we hope a new fad on the block replaces it in time: the Hype Industrial Complex.

Comment Healing two birds with one stone (Score 2) 20

black hole called Sagittarius-A* located right in the centre of the Milky Way. This black hole is currently in a quiet phase where it isn't consuming any stars, as there is not enough matter in the vicinity,"

The obvious solution is to feed it politicians. Then the Milky Way can have central bling like the popular galaxies.

Comment Race to Armageddon (Score 2, Insightful) 153

Some in Europe argue innovation is happening faster than humans can digest it anyhow, risking doomsday. Whether that's true or not, they cannot control nations who push tech boundaries, creating pressure to join the crazy game.

The world may be going mad, but they are not in a position to stop it.

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