User: bleugh

Lazy MPâ(TM)s to work from home

On: Electronic Voting To Enter Australian House of Representatives

Yay, electronic voting now gives the already vacant MPâ(TM)s further excuse to not be present in parliament to vote.

Develop just one thatâ(TM)s smarter than us a

On: Eric Schmidt Says Elon Musk Is 'Exactly Wrong' About AI (techcrunch.com)

Itâ(TM)ll iterate faster than we can keep up....the first True AI is all it takes, we can then just sit back and enjoy the ride whilst it develops the next generationâ(TM)s software and instructs us what to do to manufacture the hardware......

During a period, a LOT of space is preferable

On: Are Two Spaces After a Period Better Than One? (arstechnica.com)

At least for my missus...those tempers, the more space between us, the better!

So they knock down old chimneyâ(TM)s

On: China Builds 'World's Biggest Air Purifier' That Actually Works (scmp.com)

So, we invest millions on tearing down old smog producing chimneys to spend millions putting up new smog reducing chimneys....

Real estate prices..

On: The Silicon Valley Paradox: One In Four People Are At Risk of Hunger (theguardian.com)

Few have become incredibly wealthy in the global Ponzi scheme known as real estate. Those that need help are probably in rental or mortgage limbo....need work, canâ(TM)t move further away to cheaper places due to excessive travel time...with so few becoming rich by buying houses cheap, selling high, the 85% on more normal incomes suffer! If 60% of your wages go on servicing rent then somethingâ(TM)s wrong

Uh, oh. Has the OP been watching Fortitude!?

On: Mind-Altering Cat Parasite Linked To a Whole Lot of Neurological Disorders (sciencealert.com)

Or reading a certain sci-fi series where the far future is actually controlled by intelligent, sentient bacteria that will their unwitting host species to co-operate or go to war to further their distribution in the galaxy

8 point twenty one gigawats

On: Massive Solar Plant In the Sahara Could Help Keep the EU Powered (digitaltrends.com)

if only they'd doubled the output, then we'd be back to the future

Re: Air into water

On: XPrize's New Challenge: Turn Air Into Water, Make More Than a Million Dollars (cnet.com)

Cool. We're all gonna suffocate. At least we won't be thirsty

Re: I wonder if they thought this through.

On: Google Rebrands 'Apps for Work' To 'G Suite,' Adds New Features (thenextweb.com)

Gooogle search, now to be called "g spot"

Wow,

On: And the Lord Said, 'Let There Be Free Wi-Fi' (gizmodo.com)

For the first time a religious entity that has an invisible omniscient power that actually does work