I put mantraps on my lawn, why is it my fault if a pregnant woman steps on one?

The three laws demonstrates that morality cannot be codified, it's a critique of the 10 commandments and other such lists of rules that attempt to do the same thing for humans.

As for TFA, what good is a robot that won't fetch a beer? - Might as well get a cat.

If you can remember going to school with polio victims we must be in the same age bracket, there's no plague but I did meet a 5yo in the 80's who had mild retardation due to an allergy to cows milk, never met a child that was allergic to nuts. A child gets all the antibodies it's going to get in the first few feeds from mum, after that it's just food. These days too many nurses subscribe to the dogma that if you stop breastfeeding at 3-6 months you're a bad mother, because..???

Rather than berating young mums about choosing not to have their nipples chewed off, it would be more helpful if nurses simply gave common-sense advice about the transition, ie: dilute it with expressed milk, experiment with different formula, do it gradually, and watch out for adverse reactions. I felt sorry for that 5yo boy in the same way one feels sorry for a polio victim but making his mother feel responsible for a freak medical condition is not helping. Sooner or later the kid would have taken a big swig of fresh cows milk anyway.

Never heard the one about honey and botulism mentioned in the comments above, surising but I'm assuming that is also very rare. "Surprising" because honey is a natural antibacterial preservative and who doesn't dip their baby's dummy in honey when a new tooth is on the way? - Yeah, I know, dummies are evil too. Rare as it may be, I don't see anything wrong with informing people to go easy on honey and advising jam instead (my kids had "Bongella" when teething, I don't think you can buy it anymore, it was basically alcoholic jelly, worked wonders).

To me the allergy plague is motivated by the same irrational fear the anti-vaxers have - what if that one in a billion is my child? Problem is, that's the only question they ask. Also there's big money in selling household anti-bacterial gels/sprays, not that long ago obsessing about hand washing and germs was considered a serious mental disorder, hard to pinpoint the change but for the last couple of decades(?) we have been bombarded with adverts telling us that obsessing about hand washing and germs is a "healthy" and desirable middle-class behaviour, and of course every second ad has cartoon characters and a cute kid with a sparkling toilet shoved in their face.

So when they are disobeyed like in the Rwandan genocide, what happens? Seems to me, universal rights are a good idea that's ultimately impossible to enforce.

The land mines themselves could easily be defined as "autonomous killing bots". Unfortunately there are no universal bounds to the atrocities of war and I doubt legal semantics can ever fundamentally change that equation.

Volcanos also provide a repeatable aerosol experiment, about once a decade there's an eruption large enough to very slightly dip the global temperature for a year or two after the event, Mt Pinatubo is the classic example.

We have had experimental results for quite some time. Ronald Reagan and Maggie Thatcher pushed for an international cap and trade on sulphur emissions in the late 80's and won. Sulphur emissions were having a slight cooling effect on the planet as do the current aerosol emissions from China. However, the reason the emissions were curbed under international treaties was to reduce acid rain that had become a serious problem in the N hemisphere. I'm not a fan of Reagan or Thatcher but this is one thing they got right (probably because Maggie was a Chemist at Oxford). Thatcher was also the first world leader to take AGW seriously.

Aerosols are the grain of truth in the misleading denier claim that "in the 70's they predicted global cooling". The various "clean air" acts of western nations in the 60's and 70's contributed to AGW by removing much of the aerosols but they still have a significant effect on climate. The clean air acts themselves were introduced because too many people were dying early from respiratory problems, the "pea soup" fog phenomena of the first half of the 20th century was so named because of it's greenish-yellow colour, not because it was thick.

In other words: We know from past experience that sulfur and other some other aerosols from coal fired plants will cool the planet, but we also know that the "aerosol fix" is worse than the current problem. Conversely the same plants will output soot and CO2 which both warm the planet. The obvious fix is to stop the current "experiment" of burning coal for energy as quickly as possible by focusing on renewables, but that frightens some people's wallets so much that they are willing to consider any option that is not the obvious fix, even a suicidal one such as that proposed in TFA. (while claiming it's the greenies who want to kill all humans).

If WP's facts don't line up with your political preconceptions, try Conservapedia

Bullshit. Both the victims and perpetrators of random violence are overwhelmingly male. However, domestic violence is not random violence, victims of domestic violence are overwhelmingly female. The sexes are NOT equal in physical strength, the average male has 1.5X the upper body strength of a similar sized female and twice the strength of grip in their hands, it's almost always the unarmed female who ends up in hospital when push turns to shove.

Dyson is a skeptic, not a denier. He has stated on multiple occasions that agrees with the consensus position that human emissions are responsible for most, if not all, of the warming. Most of his criticisms appear to be about he would solve the same problem with a Dyson Sphere, eg: GM trees that grow diamonds.

Yep we drive on the left in Oz, the first time I went to Europe I wondered why I was having so much trouble walking around the shopping mall.

Zero. Gore put his money where his mouth was and made an educational movie, the profit went straight back into his educational foundation, not his pocket. Gore is worth ~$100m, none of it has come from his activism on AGW, that activity has COST him money.

The thousands of scientists who help compile the IPCC reports do it for free, none of them get a dime from the IPCC, at best they get their regular salary from their university. The IPCC has a $5-6M annual budget, most of it is spent on conference rooms and transport, there are a handful of full time admin staff. The IPCC accounts are published on their website for all to see. The money comes from individual nation states, last time I look there were about 130 nations on the donor list representing every colour of the political rainbow.

Most people in the climate science community will not be surprised that Soon was on the FF payroll.

PC = Politically Correct.

Looks exactly the same to me, people wanting compensation for their idiotic complaint. Who would go to the trouble of starting a class action suit over this sort of trivia? Is it really disgruntled customers or is it a competitor playing a dirty PR game?