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  1. Re:Several key concepts missing from the summary on VisLab Sponsors Milan-to-Shanghai Driverless Trek · · Score: 3, Interesting

    What happens if someone cuts off the 2nd vehicle?

  2. Re:WTF? on Videogame Driving Skills Don't Apply In Real Life · · Score: 1

    I have to admit that was the first thing I thought of. The second thing I thought of was "wait, what racing games were they playing? NFS or GT? The realism differences there are kinda huge."

  3. Re:It's fuzzy math on Google's Nexus One, a Steal At $49 Unlocked? · · Score: 1

    Likewise, buy a $100 Cusinart mixer and you will replace it within a year or two. Buy a $400 Kitchenaid and it will last decades.

  4. Re:I could be stupid on Israeli Scientists Freeze Water By Warming It · · Score: 1

    Yes.

  5. Re:I could be stupid on Israeli Scientists Freeze Water By Warming It · · Score: 3, Interesting

    But it wasn't really a difference in the water, it was a difference in the container around the water. That is a well known phenomenon with airborn freezing temperature water, that it freezes on impact instead of while traveling through (clean) air.

  6. Re:Consistent Histories? on Physicists Discover How To Teleport Energy · · Score: 1

    Until someone hits the line going into your house while they're digging, exploding your speakers and dishwasher. New problem made! :(

  7. Why would you shop at GameStop online when Amazon routinely kicks their ass on price and is just as 'not local'?

  8. Re:16 contact points on Membrane That Turns Any Surface Into a Touchscreen · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I know a gun-carrying environmentalist linux friendly atheist... He was never a marine though.

  9. Re:They should be given medals, not prison sentenc on "Perpetual Motion DeLorean" Scammers Face $26M Judgment · · Score: 1

    That's why you inject the Elmo extract into the coolant before you start, helped get the imagination flowing.

  10. Re:They should be given medals, not prison sentenc on "Perpetual Motion DeLorean" Scammers Face $26M Judgment · · Score: 1

    I've never gotten how the pundits who hate on big government mock anyone who suggests legalizing certain self-harmful drugs / suicide.

  11. Re:Not news on Making It Hard For Extraterrestrials To Hear Us · · Score: 2, Insightful

    The other thing to consider is how many even bother with EM transmission instead of using wires or tubes.

  12. Re:No on Seinfeld's Good Samaritan Law Now Reality? · · Score: 0, Redundant

    I've never run out of a time on a test. Ever.

  13. Re:Oblig on Seinfeld's Good Samaritan Law Now Reality? · · Score: 1

    Runners are always more dangerous than shamblers.

  14. Re:Doesn't matter on Ubuntu Moves To Yahoo For Default Firefox Search · · Score: 1

    I'm nerd raging about all the people who don't have the technical prowess or common sense to not use Bing. Not the people like me who can change it.

  15. Re:Post-scarcity society... on A Case For the Necessity of Science Fiction · · Score: 1

    basic income economy sounds amazing. nom nom nom.

  16. Re: Faster Than The Other Side on A Case For the Necessity of Science Fiction · · Score: 1

    Let him starve doesn't scream the other direction of bias to you? Personally, I think the interest in the question comes from having two really hard answers to a question. You have a choice, you can keep using a free market in which case no one buys the time of the schmuck, and he starves to death (or freezes). Alternatively you can switch to heavy social safety nets / communism / whatever, and pay for people who are commercially useless, giving them a free ride. It's the concept of the choice, not what I would choose, that I find interesting. I would choose to do handouts because I want to live in a future where we get to play all day as robots drive us around, cook for us, repair our roofs, and grow our food.

  17. Re: Faster Than The Other Side on A Case For the Necessity of Science Fiction · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Oh, heck yeah I think it'd be awesome for the robots to take care of us while we (the humans) played. But the guy over there who owns 37 mansions and an army of robots might resent me trying to live off of his 'hard work'. When I state the question I don't answer which choice is correct, in my opinion I think handouts are correct. The real kicker is that starving people or handouts are the only two choices.

  18. Re: Faster Than The Other Side on A Case For the Necessity of Science Fiction · · Score: 1

    We, humans, as a society. I'm quite sure that we aren't going to give computers free will or voting rights before this choice needs to be made.

  19. Re: Faster Than The Other Side on A Case For the Necessity of Science Fiction · · Score: 1

    Because you're going to have to get people to embrace welfare which they hate?

  20. Re: Faster Than The Other Side on A Case For the Necessity of Science Fiction · · Score: 1

    The robots are better are manufacturing than this guy though. It's cheaper to have a robot do that job.

  21. Re:Choices man. Choices. on Truth Or Dare — What Is the Best US Cell Company? · · Score: 1

    Did I forget to mention free domestic roaming if you don't go over your minutes?

  22. Re: Faster Than The Other Side on A Case For the Necessity of Science Fiction · · Score: 1

    That's one of my favorite questions. When a person exists who eats more than a robot that can do everything better than he can, what do you do with him? Let him starve, or give him handouts? There will be a lot of starving people or handouts, one way or another. We will have to choose.

  23. Re:And then, we.... on A Case For the Necessity of Science Fiction · · Score: 2, Funny

    Yeah, star trek teaches us that launching your warp core into a black hole will push you out... Instead of you know, destroying your ship and pushing it's scattered particles out.. Or even better just making the black hole bigger so that it sucks harder.

  24. Re:And then on Offline Book "Lending" Costs US Publishers Nearly $1 Trillion · · Score: 4, Funny

    You wouldn't steal a car! You wouldn't steal a DVD! Don't steal books either!

  25. Re:N900 or Moto Droid or Nexus One on Truth Or Dare — What Is the Best US Cell Company? · · Score: 0

    Credo Mobile is a reseller but still offer rates equivalent to the main networks while providing better customer service and giving money to charities/liberal lobbying.