You probably don't have the time for the whole series but the first few minutes of the first should be enough.

In the first lecture of this series, Prof. Sapolsky asks (among some other questions) who believes in free will.

There seems to be a majority of people raising hands.

He raises a finger and promises that that's gonna change. ;)

Add to this, the fact that you are completely made of atoms. There is no evidence for any secret life-force so far.

True, the final verdict on this is still out. But there are strong hints that we are indeed some kind of automata. ;)

Yes Sir, but the question here was: What if all fails and the valuable piece of equipment has fallen victim to thieves?

And here I suggest, first and foremost, a bottle of tequila to wash away the pain.

And to gather some courage to detonate the thermo-nuclear charge, which was thoughtfully placed in the device, for just such cases.

Oh, and backups and encryption the people here are talking about sound like a wise thing too.

Not here. My AMD is the only thing keeping me warm in the winter. :)

Advertising is not designed to instantly make you buy their shit.

It's more about getting your product name out there and building reputation.

How many products do you buy, not because they are of the best price or quality, but because it is a known brand?

Probably played too much of the old Final Fantasy games.

You know - this moment when you finally get the airship - and the whole world opens up to you :)

Well - in his case the "whole world" part is kinda already done. So why not just put the airship on top.

Nice idea. Ideally someone else should host that site.

I guess I would start with a search for "full disk encryption"

Or with raising the middle finger and telling to encrypt that.

Depends on the day.

Though the question of how to motivate is indeed unsolved; Two to three meters of aproach and a kick should deliver acceptable results.

In both cases of live and artificial chicken, I might add.

Who needs motivation when you can have momentum.

The question is more: are there some nations who don't care or are it all nations?

And what kind of nation do you want to be?

I think watching people masturbate was outsourced to DHS and FBI at some point.

I wonder what god does now, with so much free time on his hands.

This is not social justice.

This is behaving stupid intentionally to give the idea of"social justice" a bad reputation.

Looks like someone wants to redefine that term.