Until the state passes a law that they can’t do that. That’s what happened in the early 2000s, when small cities decided to host their own Internet for free, and have local businesses sponsor it. One town in my area announced they could do it for $250K, and there were plenty of local businesses that spend far more on advertising.
Then the big ISPs greased some palms, and it became illegal almost everywhere.
I’m just saying it’s a huge genie, already out of the bottle. Good luck getting control of it now.
I’ve been a solar advocate for decades. You got the sun giving off free energy all the time, and all those roofs and parking lots that could be covered with panels to capture that free energy, what’s the problem?
Oh, yeah, the Free part. American Capitalism doesn’t like the sound of FREE.
It doesn’t matter. I’m NEVER buying a car from that psychopath, at least not until he’s been imprisoned, and his companies nationalized (we paid for them, after all, they’re ours), and most of the profits gone to the workers who built it, and the remainder to a government account to fund social safety nets.
Yeah, we can do hard stuff, too, and maybe we should start doing the hard stuff here.
We spent decades having to deal with other countries and our oil policies, and it’s been a nightmare of wars, embargoes, etc. Now that we can go down a completely different energy path, why shouldn’t we keep it inhouse? We need to work with other nations, but we don’t have to voluntarily line up to be totally economically enslaved to another country for the NEXT wave of energy.
I just saw a video on the first music synthesizer. It was built in 1897, and took up the entire basement of a city-black sized building. It was huge and useless, but it worked. Over the next 75 years, technology improved, until it could fit into a suitcase, and be carried around.
The concept and the tech existed in its basic form, but it wasn’t really ready for deployment yet.
I see data centers that way. Technically, they can build it, but it still has too many problems to be truly viable yet. There are too many problems with cost, the environment, the corruption, and that’s before considering the impact on society.
In 50 years, maybe we’ll have the technology and the public policy to do this right, but right now it seems like we are forcing an inferior system to accommodate something that is too advanced for it. We’re getting way ahead of ourselves.
It’s like body builder who gets on a bike for the first time, and can’t believe how fast his giant muscles can make that bike move, without realizing how out of control it will be at the same time, or how big the crash will be when it finally arrives.
Let me preface this by saying I don’t know shit about shit, leastways medical shit, so this is probably completely stupid:
His immune system developed like this from the beginning, and it know no other way. So it just works.
Or maybe it doesn’t. The person could have all sorts of auto-immune stuff going on, they didn’t say.
I would say that he’s not really dead, his consciousness has taken shelter in some dark cranny of his mind, and slips out to cause trouble now and then.
Yeah, it’s creepy and weird, but we already have cameras watching and recording your every move. I don’t see how this really changes anything.
We probably can’t stop it from happening, but we can make it very socially unacceptable, and we can make some behaviors illegal.
Especially when the fine is a fraction of the actual stolen money. If someone makes a billion dollars in profit, and gets a $50 million fine, that’s just a tax, the government getting their beak wet.
That not only doesn’t discourage future criminal activity, it ENCOURAGES it.
Fun to drive? I’ve never experienced that. You drive a car. They’re all pretty much the same. I never take it above about 75. I wouldn’t call that fun. What’s fun about it?
I’ve said Fuck You, and that’s pretty close.
OR, we could build those solar panels right here in America, and not only relieve the pressure on oil reserves, but kick off a new big American industry, backed by a national energy initiative, backed by tax incentives. There would be lots of new small businesses around the country selling and installing solar, creating thousands of new jobs.
All those shithole Red states are going to get raped by data centers, while the Blue states will force them to pay their way.
I have used that exact analogy, asking why the omniscient entity would care about the needs of any single individual ant out of a colony of billions?
There’s also that part about accepting Jesus as your Lord & savior, so make sure you say those words, or get someone to say them over you before your brain waves stop.
You don’t want to be kept out of heaven on a paperwork technicality.
If I were evil and wanted to corrupt a bunch of religious idiots I would tell them that they didn’t have to be decent people, that they could just do what they wanted because a zombie god died for their sins. That would lead them to worship the wealthy and not care about their fellow humans, the suffering would be everywhere. Do you think that could work?
That’s pretty much the way it works now, so, yeah, start your own religion.
The God of the Bible is a monster.
It never seems to occur to them that if there was an entity so powerful that it could literally create an entire Universe out of nothing, and then monitor the progress of ever single element of that Universe, then that entity would be far too complex for our puny human minds to even comprehend.
And yet there are those among us who would dare to claim to know exactly what that all-powerful entity is thinking, and what it wants from us, and oh, yeah, it always costs a lot of money, gimme.
Steal EVERYTHING!