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obligatory (and yet not xkcd):
http://thedoghousediaries.com/1934

It's another stickfigure comic ala xkcd
http://thedoghousediaries.com/
They have me laughing on the floor often...

1. XKCD (obviously)
2. Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
3. ChannelATE
4. Bug
5. Nedroid

You might also like The Perry Bible Fellowship, Basic Instructions and The Doghouse Diaries. The web is a wonderful place :-)

If they had an easy option to plug in a keyboard and a stand to hold the screen up, they would essentially *be* a laptop. I only see that kind of thing in the Android market.

Then what's the point of getting a tablet if you're just gonna turn it into a laptop...

Do you really know the purpose of life? I don't (though I suspect there is no such thing as a purpose to life). But I do believe in acting morally, and if I thought that my sacrifice would prevent a war on an unimaginable scale, then yes, I would think that my self-sacrifice would be obligatory.

a - How can you act morally if you don't believe in the purpose of life?
Even the most backward moral teaching rests on the rule that life is sacred. Well... human life in most of those.
Ergo, it has inherent value and morally - purpose. You can't have morality without life. Rocks don't have their own school of morality.

b - It is nice to see that there are still candylanders like you around. I thought that the last of you was killed in a mugging back in the 80s.
War on an unimaginable scale (and I can imagine quite a bit) might seem like the worst option to you - as you have never considered a possibility of genocide or extinction.
Compared to those options war is not only favorable but obligatory. Just ask the Jews. I hear that they have some experience in both fields of research.

c - You keep using those words. Morals, ethic... You do realize that they are strictly human tribal values?
Not even the entire humanity has the same moral and ethical believes. Why do you think that it will have ANY relation to the beliefs of a non-primate intelligence?
And you don't have to go very far to experiment with that. Just look at the cats - they don't give a flying fuck about stealing, mooching and killing for sport.
They would probably also lie to us if they could (you can't really say that they are lying when they purr our buttons - it is us humans that misinterpret that for affection or love).
On the other side of the scale - we can just as well be savage sociopaths compared to say... dogs.

Now... try imagining (or just read up on your Orson Scott Card) the contact with a civilization/culture/entity that has nothing to do with our cave-dweller's tribal moral.

Or just go and kill yourself. You ARE advocating self-immolation after all.

Just think, in the future you could read a sentence, and then as soon as you finish reading it, it could change right before your eyes to say the opposite of what it originally said.

Google Buzz Trick - The Edit Button

does it make coffee?