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Probably, given that corporations are legally speaking, people. I think the Ford corporation was charged with negligent homicide awhile ago. Don't remember the outcome. The legally people is a non-sense. They have all the legal benefits with none of the...
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For those 5000 people, if they lose their jobs, yes. But some of them (10% to 20%?) are probably paid to a level that distorts things like the housing market. And it wouldn't surprise me if the offices are cleaned...
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Hmmm... Large financial organisations threatening to leave. I can't help but feel that a common response will be "good" (or less polite variants thereof). (I wonder if it is possible to deport a company?) I'm of the impression all currencies...
Commented on (Flash fiction) A message from the Laundry public relations office
The lack of mention of other members of the Royal Family or denial that this was the reason for the (un)fortunate demise of Princess Diana does seem ... strange....
Commented on What have we learned?
On a more positive note: There are some people intelligent and brave enough to try and work towards fixing things in their own way - be that whistleblowing, building associations, pursuing technological ideas or simply saying what is going on...
Commented on What have we learned?
Demographic transition or simply (rapid) demographic growth? I think any demographic stage that grew (rapidly) would suffer. The male/female interaction issue is an interesting one. What does this say for the possibility of problems in China, and therefore as an...
Commented on What have we learned?
That knee jerk reactions tend to result in you kicking yourself in the bollocks? Also that making the symptoms illegal really doesn't cure the disease. More seriously that you cannot stop people who are determined to kill themselves, but (as...
Commented on Neptune's Brood: an excerpt
Please tell me Michael O'Leary hasn't read the opening sentence....

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aggray commented on Schadenfreude
Looks like Satoshi Nakamoto has been identified: http://www.wired.com/wiredenterprise/2014/03/satoshi-nakamoto-identified/ Turns out that is his real name, and he's a 64 year old American living in California who collects model trains. Also a libertarian, though that will come as a surprise to no one....
john.bartley commented on Schadenfreude
Gold? How outre. Plutonium, U-233 and U-235, and Np-237. Fissionables, that's the ticket. Then no one will dare blow up their own wealth....
Trottelreiner commented on Schadenfreude
As the Romans said, E Pluribus Uranium... Personally, I think one of the Uranium and Plutonium isotopes with a high spontaneous fission rate is the way to go. First of, implosion devices are somewhat more difficult to build than gun type ones, second of, criticality incidents dissuade prospective goldb^w, err, transuranbugs......
scott-sanford commented on Schadenfreude
Looks like Satoshi Nakamoto has been identified... Wait, wait... So the mysterious Libertarian genius evaded identification by other Libertarians and paranoid cranks by the cunning plan of...logging off the internet? After using his actual real name? And this worked for over five years? This only raises more questions....
Charlie Stross commented on Schadenfreude
I am skeptical that this particular Satoshi Nakamoto is the Satoshi Nakamoto who invented bitcoin. For one thing, he's denying it. For another thing, "Satoshi Nakamoto" has surfaced and is denying that he's Dorian Nakamoto. And for a third thing, if he was indeed the owner of 1.1 million BtC, it's hard to see why he would be putting up with press harassment when he could afford to hire Blackwater for personal security ......

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Common Misconceptions About Publishing—a series of essays about the industry I work in.
How I Got Here In The End —my non-writing autobiography, or what I did before becoming a full-time writer.
Unwirer—an experiment in weblog mediated collaborative fiction.
Shaping the Future—a talk I gave on the social implications of Moore's Law.
Japan: first impressions — or, what I did on my holidays
Inside the MIT Media Lab—what it’s like to spend a day wandering around the Media Lab.
The High Frontier, Redux — space colonization: feasible or futile?
“Nothing like this will be built again”—inside a nuclear reactor complex.
Old blog—2003-2006 (RIP)

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