HugeNerd

That's what geocached samizdat is for, silly boy! Or pirate radio, or pirate OTA TV (HD or NTSC for extra cred).

Prayer doesn't work. At best it's stress relief: beats smoking. At worst it fosters a mindless life outlook.

Our present civilizational arrangement that depends on cheap energy and a world-wide endless supply chain is on its last legs. Hospitals depend on both reliable energy and supplies.

If civilization collapses, we can hope the basic knowledge we've accumulated over the last 150-200 years or so will endure. Things like blood circulation, blood pressure, germ theory, blood types, basic first aid, etc. But I doubt it. Most of us are functional morons. We use things that we don't have a clue how any of it got here or how it works.

And if we think about them at all, we assume humans have always had them. See the 1970s series Connections, just episode 1 for what I mean.

If we simply degrade and lose the entitlements we gained during the cheap energy fossil fuel orgy, we'll revert to historical patterns of top 1% getting all the best services and care, such as human doctors and organ transplants, and the rest of us will get AI "doctors" that prescribe symptomatic relief from the company that owns them. See the novel Bladerunner by Nourse for a general sketch. Also from the '70s, another period of political turmoil and a manufactured energy crisis. The difference is that now, the energy crisis isn't manufactured. It's foundational.

I could also be wrong, the LSD is hitting pretty hard this morning.

Anyone else planning on dining out in an Iranian restaurant tonight?

Given the backdoors in modern CPUs and routers, that's not something you want in writing on the interweebs. Say, do you know what approaching re-education drones sound like?

I know. But it's a religious thing, so any random dude with a mental illness, other than religion itself, can take Holy Action (tm).

Ask Salman Rushdie about that.

Surely there is a typo in the headline, only Russia, land of the washing machine CPUs, puts people in jail for words.

Well that's just a screen shot of the directory listing of the GEOS disk from the 64's default "OS", the BASIC interpreter. That 3 block file also contains information that only GEOS sees, the actual executable 6502 code is likely in the 500 bytes, if that. The user manual for the mouse actually contains an assembler listing of the driver. It ain't big.

The 64, of course, was never designed with a mouse in mind, so Commodore engineers used the analog paddle inputs to encode the mouse XY motion. So the "driver" really just reads the A/D converters for the paddles and fudges some kind of motion information out of it.

It works quite well. The 64 only has a 320x200 display, so it's not like you need a gaming 1000DPI 1ms mouse.

What's wrong with vacuum tubes?

China bad.

If prayer worked, there would be no hospitals.

I think you don't have an argument. That's what I think. BTW, which religion is presently occupying territories and bombing children and shooting food aid seekers?