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don't worry, pretty soon you're gonna be great...

resistance is futile... you have been assimilated.

security, yep! they will run Microsoft Windows, Google proprietary javascript, and Whatsapp for "secure" communication on these chips!!

cycle lanes protected from what?

Why would they ever need chairs in zero g !!!

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you mean like github?

the cancer of Facebook

I think the point is not to become like the people in wall-e (or Idiocracy I might add).

It is interesting that capitalism is getting rid of the idea of private property. I guess it is only private property for capitalists themselves and not the serfs?

It is interesting how capitalism is getting rid of the idea of private property! I guess it is private property only for capitalists themselves, not for the serfs.

I liked Pirates of the Caribean I, II and III !

wow, that's food? I only see packages with pictures.

What you are describing shows that segregated bike lanes are really the cyclists ghetto. Built to kick us cyclists off the roads that the motorists believe are theirs. Look at China, they are building them now, what has changed? Remember the images of the Chinese going to work by bike? Of course, they need to make room for the car. Something like that happened in the Netherlands in the 1940's. We see it happening now in China and other places in Europe.

Care to explain why not being surrounded by a metal cage has anything to do with the rules of the road? What rules should cyclists follow then?

Then the problem really is the car drivers that expect you to keep off what they think is their road, even if that puts you in danger (that expectation is given official support by the segregated bike path). If I am riding in a narrow lane I ride in the center of the lane. If they don't like it they can suck it up. I don't like their smelly fumes either or their horn blowing for that matter. The problem is a society that gives all the privileges to car drivers.

I must be mad, riding my bicycle daily, on the same roads as cars for more than 15 years. 0 accidents. By the way, the simplest way to avoid a dooring accident is not to ride on the door zone. When I see a bike-only lane next to parked cars I take it as an indication of where not to ride. They make bike-only infrastructure to kick us off the roads anyway, not for safety.

What I find amazing is that in this capitalist world, these companies are really against private property (yours, not theirs) I am not sure if private property is in the definition of capitalism, probably not, so there may be no contradiction. But still it is really amazing.

I suppose it is not so bad to be a serf. Your master feeds you and you don't have to worry about getting food.

thanks! I didn't know about them.

purism. In fact I just got a computer from them. They make modern computers with Coreboot instead of proprietary bios. They need all our support!

A computer programmer is found dead in the shower. Next to him there is a bottle of shampoo, with the instructions: Apply, rinse, repeat.

Everyone back to IRC!

Tor is very easy to use, just download the bundle and there you go.

wow... Haven't you heard about the Big Bang?

Not if you accept that the earth is a sphere (and hence finite).

There are some books like that already: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melcher_Media#DuraBooks

Originally all software was free, it just wasn't called that because there was no closed software. It was shared like cooking recipes.

SymPy is great! I use it at work in an in-house web application where the user designs a graph (using d3.js). The graph nodes are electric energy meters, and so there are certain flows thru them. A system of equations is generated and then solved using SymPy, so one can find out what the flow is in a certain node in terms of the flows in the others.

I used Google as an example of what it normally means to send stuff to the cloud. Sorry If it bothered you. Insert X powerful monopoly private company instead.