To be honest, I would rather the currency was pegged to something hard to gather. As for the antisemitic meme stuff, I didn't mention anything in that vein, you did. Try your macro somewhere else were the context makes more sense.

You really missed the point of 1984. Control of the language is thought control which was kind of the whole point he was trying to get across.

All this from the human who won't even put a name to his words on a public forum.

"Socialist programs" do not equate to "socialism". Double plus redef word think.

Actually, they do here in Alaska. Some communities are so far outside the "fire service" area it isn't practical to respond to every call. Other's choose not to pay the taxes and the fire services will only respond if there is someone in the house, and the likely give you a nice bill. I had a friend who saw one of his neighbors houses go up in this exact way, he called the "local" fire department and reported the fire, they asked if anyone was home and when he said no, they told him to let it burn. The main concern was neighboring structures and forest fires since no lives were in danger.

This sums up the central problem, promises of "free stuff because you deserve it" will always win against the core idea of "work hard and you will see rewards in the end". Nah, i'll just sign up for the "free stuff" train, they have holograms and hip young candidates who do IAMA's on reddit.

Say you issue a UBI to everyone that amounts to 10% of their income. Everybody now has a "free" 10% boost. Congratulations you have now inflated the currency by 10%. When dodging pitchforks, a duck and weave motion may be best.

The next logical step usually is price controls to 'hold down inflation" which leads to shortages of products and consuming of your pets in the end.

Of course a private company can express whatever view they like. The real danger here is the echo chamber effect at play. Most of tech is heavily biased towards the left/authoritarian side of the field lately which is a shame. The early days had places such as alt.sex.hamster.and.duct.tape with a voracious defense of freedom of speech. Now I see hate speech clauses showing up in all sorts of places. In the end, if you only allow admittance of similar views and like thought you will create a mono culture. Mono cultures tend to fail.

Google is forgetting that nearly half of our nation voted for the president. I wonder how many contracts for google's cloud services will be renewed by the federal government? This sort of obvious bias will likely have a measurable effect on the bottom line. Maybe they'll learn from this or fail and someone else will learn from the mistake. Likely not though, I suspect more collusion to ban "bad" actors such as Alex Jones.

Wrong-o! The point of the 2nd is as a final stop against a tyrannical government. This means "military hardware". One of the founders actually addressed the exact question of canons aboard ships in regards to the 2nd early on. I'm too tired tonight to look up the exact reference though so you'll just dismiss the idea out of hand.

Good old Cody Wilson. I suspect he's running low on funds and needs some media facetime to pay a few bills. It's a good troll either way though. This whole episode reminds me of having to pull pgp sources off non-US servers in the early days because our freedom loving government decided encryption was a munition. It's sad to see how often attempts to ban disruptive technologies occur by default these days. No, you won't be able to 3d print a glock 19 but the idea is really what is important here. Plus, how often do you see the 1st and 2nd being at the forefront of an issue?

For all the people throwing knee jerk stereotypical responses around keep in mind the central idea of the legal filings around this is to keep source code protected as speech. I would think an OSS crowd would applaud this idea but since it's an evil baby killing gun being coded people conflate this particular speech with BAD. It's rather like banning wrong think on facebook or twitter actually. It's hard to stand up for the rights of idiots and assholes in order to protect your right to be an idiot or asshole. Since the decision to stand up is hard that should be a strong signal to make sure you do stand up.

What an amazing idea! Let's just ban an entire industry that literately is the foundation to modern society and rely totally on imports to cover our needs. I'm sure with all the bunny rabbits dancing and the sunflowers singing the chorus all will work out just fine.

Idiots.

Let's face it, 100% of the users on the internet are never going to learn to practice safe sex. So say you get an infection rate of 20%, that's still plenty of garbage floating around. It's time to start implementing a default deny policy on executables. Shriner and others have talked about this for years and windows 7 has the ability to lock down the OS to only binaries signed by allowed certificates. Implementation on unix like machines is already starting and it would be simple to start adding further hooks into the kernel to block unsigned binaries from even entering address space. This is not to say the signing mechanisms won't be attacked but we have to start moving forward. Virus and e-mail scanners will always be one step behind unless they figure out preemptive solutions that work and don't effect the end user. Once you start making the OS difficult to the user you've lost sight of the whole point and they'll happily click around you're pretty little warning boxes anyway.

The internet is no longer safe, use a condom.

The above makes sense. Couples who already were comfortable with having a child would be ideal couples to participate in a study of birth control effectiveness.

You wouldn't want the set with whom panic would arise at the mere thought of their birth control method failing.