Launching rockets is not very safe in general. But some rockets can be safer than other rockets.

Singularity is point of view, not some absolute Holy Grail (people treating technology like that are no better than religious crackpots). For peasant from middle ages we are deep, deep in Singularity.

Wow, I predict this comment to be Godwinned fast.

Kurzweil? Same guy that "predicts" achieving immortality (accidentally, I swear) just before his own death? Wishful thinking is strong with this one. Do not take him seriously.

No shit, sherlock.

Yeah, equalize murder with smoking. You will go far, retard.

Why? They as for now can deliver circus and bread and will be capable of this for any predictable future. Just that.

"tyranny coupled with the lack of economic development is going to end in revolution. It's inevitable."
So what? Dictators are not most sane and/or reasonable lot.
"at some point the cost of revolution that I mentioned above will be seen in the eyes of the man on the street as less than the cost of allowing the regime to persist."
Like in Tunisia, Egypt and most dramatically Libya. Other examples seem to be destined to failure.

Nah, China does just fine. Circus and bread. More like North Korea.

"They won't listen unless their wellbeing or money is threatened in a significant way."
When you will threaten them, you will bacome terrorist.

"I should be able to do anything I want to do to it. "
Unfortunately, being drug addict WILL bring harm to persons other than yourself. So bad argument.

"LulzSec tried to extort money from them while LulzSec claimed they offered the money to stop the hacking"
And it is not same thing because...?

Another retard that contributes to making "terrorist" word meaningless, or rather meaning "I do not like these people".

Hundreds, not thousands.

I think he formed this sentence in that way deliberately.