Seriously, I looked on the website but couldn't find out how much an Asimo would cost... I mean, if there's just the one then that makes sense, but Honda is [i]Honda[/i]. It's not like they don't have any experience mass producing advanced machinery and electronics on some kind of assembly line.

So how can I buy one? Not for personal use of course, it would be a corporate expense... which we would use.. somehow for something.

First thing: When you abruptly end your paragraphs like that it looks like you're writing poetry

Second thing: Ocean water is FULL of stuff that would absorb radiation from the core if you flooded it like that. That ocean water is going to be a mess and that area of ocean won't be a very good area after that.

Just picked up my latest hard drive a week ago. So I guess I should resell it now? How exactly is it that commodity speculators think again?

Good? :(

Due to anecdotal reasons I have to agree with the parent.

SSRIs make 'bad' situations seem 'fine' so there's no drive to get out of them. Whether that be a bad relationship, bad living arrangements, bad job, etc. Sadness and dissatisfaction can be powerful motivators to improve your life. Of course they can also become crippling when people are unable or unwilling to make changes and end up stuck in that unhappy place for too long. SSRIs make that unhappy place a normal place... so why change?

Kind of sad. But SSRIs are very useful for helping people out of depression... though proper support from friends and family would probably do the same thing if done properly.

It's not just a good idea, it's the law.

Did you guys see that? When it rolled over and stood up? Man it kind of freaked me out a little how good it was at that, considering how godamn heavy it must be.

I'm still in development of my own one man indie thing (no link cause you deserve better) and I was going to do the same thing. Well, the more the merrier!

http://epic.org/foia_notes/foia_doc_20_snap.PDF

Apparently "(5)(b)" is the only thing we're allowed to know about this project. What the hell?

I suspect that there would be enough viral debris and intact viruses that an immune system would be able to at least notice something was happening.

DRACO doesn't kill the virus, it kills the cells that are incubating the virus. So there would be 'free floating' and live viruses that your immune system would deal with.

The main reason viruses screw with us is because our immune system can't see them inside our own cells, those cells make a bunch of viruses and then release them to infect others. Our immune systems only have a small window of time to catch the viruses before they find a new cell and hide again.

AFAIK the only way the body can cure a virus once it goes totally rampant inside of your cells is to overheat to the point that it doesn't kill you but it kills the virus (Fever) since your immune system can't contain the viral load anymore and are simply outnumbered. The reason vaccines work and how you can catch, recover and then be immune to a virus is because the virus never gets to the 'rampant' stage, it's noticed and killed immediately by the immune system while your immune system outnumbers it millions to one.

So to answer your original question: This can only be an incredibly good thing if it works as advertised.

p.s. Many vaccines work by injecting DEAD viruses into you. Your immune system sees them and does its thing, pumping out antibodies as if it were a real threat - once that's done you're effectively immune until the antibodies die out but even then, afaik, there's still some lingering defence.

Philosophical Theory: Not to be taken literally

Just in case anyone wanted to know 'Marooned off Vesta' was the title of Isaac Isamov's first published (short) story. As I remember it was fairly good.

So dropping a physical bomb from a physical drone flying above a group of physical people who get turned into smaller physical components when the bomb lands is not a hostile act against the nation that it happens in YET hacking into or damaging a computer network in a nation is an act of war?

So it would be legal for terrorists to use drones to drop bombs on americans but an act of war for the US to release Stuxnet against Iran.

Woohoo?

I mean, I'm just a jobless IT professional in Vancouver, Canada and I figured these 'loopholes' out, how the fuck could the people making these kinds of declarations not realize the potential flaws here?

Most of the new Battlestar Galactica was just actors in starkly lit metal boxes talking fiercely at each other with a few minutes per episode of (relatively inexpensive looking but still workable) cgi and almost bad-looking cgi cylons (the metal ones I mean, not the meatbag ones)

Yet everyone loved that series until the lolfinal episode.

I thought the PBS hack group was distinct and separate from Anonymous? I mean, obviously the lines are a little muddy, but didn't the hackers basically say "We're not the Anonymous you're thinking of." when they did the hack? It would be like everyone blaming Al-Qaeda for a terrorist attack that Lashkar-e-Taiba carried out just because they're both interested in calling themselves islamo-terrorists and have ideas and goals that at a glance seem similar with outward appearances that might be confusing for an uninformed observer.

I can imagine a southerner saying "Them thar' terr'rsts" in one breath and "That them anonamouse" in the other.