The pattern that represents you is perfectly transferred to a new location and reimplemented using new materials. This is no different than when you eat and poop the material that sustains your pattern.

As an aside, how wonderful to have a controversy that doesn't matter, for a change.

"...you don't come out of the gate when facing such liability as Boeing is facing and admit it up front..."

No, I suppose the modern CEO would never do that. If, though, it is correct that Boeing released an aircraft with a deadly single point of failure, and if it is correct that they knew this and thought they could patch it with pilot training, then Boeing is completely responsible for the resulting deaths. Wouldn't it be refreshing for a CEO or a corporation to take responsibility for something if it is well-documented that they are responsible, rather then engage in the more typical tango of bullshit? What is wrong with our society that this is not an expectation anyone holds.

People understand risks better when they are reminded of who gets to control technology. It's not necessarily Officer Friendly. Sometimes, it's someone like Mohammed bin Salman's bitch.

I'm not sure I want Donald Trump to be able to drive my vehicle remotely, even if Jeff Sessions has signed off.

Just think how useful it would be for all people to have to wear TMS helmets that would intervene if we had bad thoughts. Why, Bob Mueller would have cleared Trump long ago, homosexual thoughts would be eliminated in Mississippi, and we would never again have to endure all this bureaucratic bullshit about, you know, rights and freedoms. Yay, technology.

Yes, laziness is inherent in humans. That's why it's so important to tax inheritances at roughly 99%. Otherwise, all those wealthy children will just sit on their asses and do nothing except consume and make political contributions to reactionaries. By taxing them and redistributing the decedent's hoarded wealth, the children are allowed to work for a living, and those in dire need have a shot at the money that had been pulled away from things like housing and food and placed instead into yachts, jewelry, DWM collectible art, and 100 year old wine.

Oh, I'm sorry, you were talking about why we must not help poor people get out of poverty.

After reading their CEO's reply in the update, I'd suggest they try to register the trademark "90." It's their business model. Or maybe they should trademark "FREE!"

Oh, dear, was that reply rude? It was just Google, I just clicked send without reading it... Actually, I love your wardrobe... No, I think you're a great boss... Did I really say that? I'll turn Google's suggestions off right away, and no, I have no idea how it knew you were mildly obese. I'm terribly sorry.

Although it's illegal and unethical, the CIA is convinced torture works. Brennan should be subjected to it until he reveals all the illegalities in which the CIA has engaged over the past forty years. It's tough, but given that torture works this would provide sufficient information to support the deportation of American war criminals (bye DIck, bye Dubya, bye Condi) to countries in which they can be prosecuted. I'd suggest waterboarding, it's just barely torture, after all.

I suppose there's a possibility that the CIA has not engaged in illegal activities (hey, there's a possibility that the Flying Spaghetti Monster is right over your head right now), so that waterboarding Brennan would reveal no new accurate information, but that's a risk we're just going to have to take. Sorry, Brennan.

I think Microsoft is missing out on opportunity by not putting advertising on the background screen. Who wants to look at grandchildren when they can see a tasteful ad for Viagra or incontinence products? And, yes, Microsoft Marketing Man, don't call it an ad -- just point out that Microsoft, as a service to humanity, puts incontinence suggestions on screen for *all* its users who have been prescribed incontinence medications.

No, it was not the software engineers intentionally designing and placing cheat software in VW vehicles. It was the janitor. He's been caught sneaking into offices and forging top executive's initials on memos before, and this time he's gone too far. Two months suspension with pay, effective immediately. No need to look for any other culprits, it was entirely a one-man operation. That Hans, what a card!

...every time I type them, I assume.

We agree on your first statement, that he doesn't seem to be dangerous.

Your second statement -- he's not *really* a boy genius -- applies to all mainstream media coverage of science. No science fair kid is ever just clever, anyone who does anything at all is a presumptive genius. The same with kids in spelling bees, FFS. Papers need to be sold, advertisements need to be swathed in content, channel changers need to be kept at bay.

Your third statement is irrelevant. A child who brings a pencil box filled with clock parts to a school should not be suspended or, as you have said, arrested and cuffed. It's not a bomb hoax if everyone involved except for the idiot English teacher agrees it didn't particularly look like a bomb. If it was a bomb hoax, then any student bringing the insides of a toaster to school should cause immediate suspension and arrest for the student and the three hapless kids sitting closest to the student.

What is missing is your fourth statement: the reason the kid's actions turned into a media firestorm. Simply, it is that a great deal of tinder and kindling existed in leadership positions in Irving, Texas. The media is quite properly pointing out the existence of anti-Muslim bigotry in Irving. While bigotry's role in this may have been indirect, it seems to me to be impossibly naive to suggest the bigotry had no connection to the incident.

Sorry submitter, not buying. Have you read the news articles about the city council and mayor of Irving, Texas? You can start with this one: http://talkingpointsmemo.com/muckraker/ahmed-mohamed-beth-van-duyne-sharia

So, basically, a kid is hauled off in handcuffs and some clown goes to substantial efforts to demonstrate that he started with a Radio Shack clock.

We *need* kids tinkering around with stuff.

We even need kids who get maybe a teensy bit cheeky with their stupidest teachers.

And when the cheeky kid happens to be "not quite white" in a community with stupid bigots in charge, and they get hauled off in handcuffs, and the school leaves him suspended, we don't need some clever jackass backward-engineering his little toy to demonstrate media overreaction. We need people looking into how bigots ended up in leadership positions in Irving, Texas. Then, instead of investigating its overreaction, maybe the mainstream media could investigate why it hasn't been plain-old-reacting to this bigotry for the last fourteen years, or to the stupidity we've been witnessing for 14,000.

Thanks to the US education establishment, there's a millionaire made every day... usually via lawsuits. I'd say this young man won't need to worry about college debt.