Certainly sounds like somebody that spent four years studying teaching at an American university.

Great. Thanks for that.

It is impressive to watch being played. An old roommate of mine used to practice it incessantly.

Anonymous Organizes Circle-Jerks for WikiLeaks?

The tank on my grill has a flow rate cut-off. I connected it when the valves were all open by accident and it locked itself shut. Had to turn everything off and let it sit for 15 minutes to reset itself.

Your ideas are intriguing to me and I wish to subscribe to your newsletter.

"Visual system" not referring specifically to the eyes, but rather the visual cortex, which is structurally almost identical to your other higher-functioning centers. Hallucinations don't happen in your eyes, they happen in your brain, and they produce just as meaningful and "real" input as your eyes and ears can. If you try hard enough you can clearly remember things that never really happened, as though they were real, regardless of where your body is/was.

I always imagined it would work identically to fork(). There is but one "me", then suddenly there is another with exactly the same recollection up to that point. The new "me" would probably be disoriented, given the sudden change in inputs, but I imagine the artificial brain would be as good at adapting to change as our squishy ones are. Just putting regular me to sleep first would probably make the transition easier.

For those who insist on a soul: maybe this process creates a new soul, reallocates one from heaven, or whatever else you believe happens when you're born. I don't recall anywhere in the bible saying this isn't the case. Maybe God will ordain our new process for creating life and endow our creations with souls, as he allows modern medicine to defy his mortality schedule.

I don't really care about any of the spiritual side of the argument, I'm kind of hoping that one day I'll have the option to go to sleep and wake up in a totally sweet new robot body.

...from the DJ Rumpy school of physics.

No, but that's really neat :-)

When I was in the (U.S.) military we were instructed not to put blanket disclaimers about privacy/secrecy in our emails to avoid dilution of the meaning and hopefully keep it more enforceable.

Finally, an analogy we can all identify with!

Depending on your situation, some of the 802.11g phones are pretty good and avoid all the hassle of carrier restrictions. They work at work and at home, where else do you ever go? My campus is working with the city right now to roll out WAPs on telephone poles in the vicinity, extending our wifi fabric out into the nearby streets. With WiMax coming out, this is looking like a practical alternative to cell providers in the near future.

Examples: Cisco WIP310, Linksys by Cisco WIP330, D-Link DPH-541, Alfa Color wireless VoIP (Sorry for the Amazon links, couldn't find some manufacturer pages quickly)

The previously mentioned one-way flap valve seems like an inexpensive and effective retrofit. I was able to think of it in the several minutes between reading the summary and the comment by A/C earlier, I'm pretty sure I could have a deployable solution in less than four years.

Like sociopaths?

Seriously though, there's always a reason to act. Hunger isn't an emotion but is a powerful motivator.

Latex is organic, it comes from trees :-)