I don't think we should be leaving out non-Africans and non-Americans here, not very PC at all.

If it's in your possession, it's yours for as long as you can protect it.

Agreed, mainly because I have none. on account of a battery acid accident.

Breathing machines, heart regulators and whatever else you have planned won't stop functioning if the internet was shut off.

I guess it was a happy new year after all.

If ever a first post should be modded funny...

Then major militaries of the world spend billions on space defence. Bettering space tech for all. I'm all for militarization of space.

Grub?

I find your conditions for respecting life intriguing. If we gain from it, then it's ok to treat them badly?

Correction, there is no apostrophe.

The point of this is that the department did not consider all the available options. Google has made sure that they do so, and it's good for google if they choose anyone other than microsoft. The worst thing for google, is microsoft getting bigger.

Worked so far hasn't it? However like they've said, costs are increasing every year, so in the coming years you may indeed be right.

What happened before if you refused a breath screening in florida?

Of course any slashdotter would be distracted by a laptop, because you use computers so often. However your distractions are your own, you just need to deal with it and concentrate more. It's only when the distraction becomes obnoxious (forcibly impairing your ability to pay attention to the class) that something should be done about it. Laptops are an excellent learning tool in the classroom/lecture hall. I myself find it much faster to type notes than to write them. The only person thing that will be affected by off-task students are that students grades.

It's obvious that they don't plan to simulate "everything", just everything that we have data about.