How does that work?


OK cancer can be cured but there is little money in a cure as long term treatment and "research" brings in the big bucks every year.

Also the whole side industry from business like the Cancer Council who hold their "biggest morning tea" events and other events to raise money. Who gets all this money?

Just on a side note: There's a diabetes pill that makes you just pee out all the sugar. No more injecting insuline, no more diseases following up diabetes. But it's not licensed.

Oh they're "geniuses" alright. 

Well yes, you are right... but not really. When the Taliban took over in Afghanistan there was some real brain-drain in the country, due to the anti-intellectual nature of their regime. And their members -- Al-Queda/Taliban both -- tend to be uneducated (sometimes flatly illiterate) lowlifes doing it because they are good for nothing else.

There may be some smart/shrewd individuals among them, but against the CIA and countless other American security groups, it should really be no contest.

Haha this was fun stuff

This is a good song to dance to. Even better when your shoes catch on fire.

That sort of technology has good and bad sides. People like being empowered with that sort of convenient info that they otherwise wouldn't have been bothered to keep track of.

It becomes potentially a problem when the government decides to also become empowered with that info without the proper authority.

Corporations having that info doesn't seem quite as bad, since the only power they have over me is their ability to tailor advertisements to me.

I miss phone boxes, and payphones.

Something I dug up from a few years ago.  The UK government at one time wanted to take control of social media and the internet, to stop people rioting.



UK Govt. Considers taking control of the net.

I expect the internet to be controlled by a bunch of flapsticks in the not too distant future. I expect that eventually a government consortium will put everything in place, the policies, the controls, and the penalties, and those ISPs who do not conform will be ousted and rendered unable to operate. This is how your internet will be controlled. Today the internet is considered "too free" by Big $$$$Government and they don't appreciate it. I expect the internet as we know will change in the next few years. I'm not being pessimistic, but rather realistic because I keep reading how large governments and big business are getting fed up with the internet giving too much choice and free reign for too many people. They don't want that, and will undoubtedly take steps to eliminate what they consider a threat.

The war on drugs is smarter than censorship of the internet.

And the war on drugs has been really bad for America economically.