As always, the truth is in the Bible:

Genesis 1:27

God created man in His own image, in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them; but man is not a machine, for God did not look like a beige box PC.

I've read studies that suggest the brain is designed to remember what's useful to it, and forget what isn't or what's harmful.

The same study stated that psychoanalysis, forcing the patient to constantly recall painful memories (what you call refresh) interferes with the brain's natural ability to heal by forgetting, maintains the patient's problem - and their dependency on the psychoanalist in their search for a cure.

Because I'm a human being and it's a PC. Duh...

I think machines will eventually acquire their own form of consciousness, totally separate from ours. and I reckon it's just fine, and much more exciting in fact than trying to replicate our humanity in hardware that's just not compatible with it.

Where you outlaws get those guns?

What a silly question. Cocaine is outlawed too: how come there are so many junkies?

Because when guns are outlawed, only outlaws have guns.

I believe a la carte is the future

Yes, a la carte *individual programs*, not channels. I too have a kajillion channels, and I don't watch 17 of them. Rather, I pick and choose the programs I want to watch in the channels that have a vague chance of not sucking 100% of the time.

But then, since I happen to like documentaries better than movies or shows, I already have a la carte programs - it's called Youtube...

When you win a virtual war, you gain virtual territories and virtual natural resources. Also, in a virtual war, you don't have real innocent civilian casualties, which is what's so much fun with wars.

Maybe the F35 flies faster than a tank and needs a stricter latency.

The NSA has its grubby little paws everywhere. Whether the company is in bed with them willingly is another matter.

I know a many European business owners who think twice or more before doing business with *any* US company, just because the US surveillance state isn't far behind.

Insofar as the dirt isn't harmful to my car (salty grime in the winter for instance), I keep my car dirty on purpose. Nothing better than a really dirty car to prevent it from being broken into or stolen when I leave it parked downtown. I just clean the door handles and the license plates.

where you can find TV set the size of the Berlin wall with a resolution so high you can't see the pixels up close, so thin they can be hung on the wall and look like paintings, able to display movies in 3D, almost affordable by ordinary people, and that display content controlled by cartels who decide who can watch what, where, how and for how much, like in the middle ages.

This is the greatest thing I've seen all year,

Really? Life must be pretty boring for you I guess...

Tesla is the Apple of the electric car world: even if Nissan comes up with equivalent models for cheaper, people will still prefer Teslas because they're perceived as hip or upmarket.

What I get out of this story is that, if you're lucky enough to survive the trip in the wheel well, it's much more convenient to travel this way than doing it the regular way: no queuing, no overcharging from the airlines, no restrictions on the amounts of liquids you can carry, no getting your gonads showered with x-rays, no groping from TSA perverts... and of course, no arbitrary, secret no-fly list that prevents you from boarding the plane in the first place.

The airport security theater almost makes me want to risk my life as a stowaway.

What happens when the militia itself needs disposing of?
Nuff said.