Take this technology and make 50 cent eyeglasses for children in third world countries.

This idea is on to something!

... that in the USA, jury nullification is fringe religious organization.

Probably in cahoots with the ones that always like to point out that income taxes are unconstitutional or the ones that assert you don't even need to file a tax return.

A lot of good it did for Wesley Snipes ...

And on Slashdot this asshat-ery gets a modded +5.

I dare someone in the real world to rely on the above advice.

^^ We have a winner. A robot is self controlled.

A remote control plane or a remote control tank is not a robot.

Groovy ... but before I care, SpaceX needs to first have humans in space.

Then I'll give a quid about their plans for space travel.

I mean, if they haven't done a manned space flight to outside the atmosphere, it is far-fetched to be running before you can walk or even stand.

The end.

I'm grabbing my barf bag now. Linux isn't magical, it is an operating system.

Ubuntu is a different user interface than Windows or OS X or whatever. The command line in Linux is no more alien than Windows "cmd".

Linux doesn't need a training class, no doubt there is a free YouTube video that would suffice.

Treating Linux like an alien virus is an insult. Linux is just a different operating system, nothing mystical and certainly nothing magical.

I find it offensive that people with 6 digit ids here would act like Linux is made of anti-matter or is from Mars or has girl-cooties ....

Dark matter and dark energy are, thus far, both cop-outs.

And totally non-science, so far.

Any more than the 1800s idea of ether or the pre-Coperinus idea of the solar system or the Greek "4 elements" (fire, air, water, rock).

There is no evidence for dark matter or dark energy and many other things like Hawking radiation for that matter or super-symmetry --- we have had many ideas that "explain things well" --- and were totally wrong.

If dark matter is obvious, then why is there dark energy too? Something is not right if 2 unknown factors with no evidence have to be shoe-horned into the cosmos to explain it.

There are single celled organisms at the bottom of the ocean, xenophyophores are one example, that are single-cell creatures visible to the human eye --- and in fact larger than a centimeter.

It should come as no surprise there are giant viruses in more primitive times, more primitive times are alive and well in the ancient creatures that live in the deepest parts of the oceans.

Captain Kirk already visited such a planet with no disease and no death that had dramatic overpopulation

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Mumbai, India has 33,000 people per square km, which makes places with only really high population density like London (8500 people per square km) seem sparsely populated.

I saved 50% by switching to GEICO.

Or how about how I get 90% off on French Fries because I made them myself using a $3.99 10-Pound bag of potatoes?

Also I saved $73 on ketchup and toilet paper last year by hording ketchup packets and always asking for extra napkins everywhere I go.

I also made $2,223 in extra income by only going to the bathroom while at work, so I not increased my leisure time but received a 100% return on investment for sitting on the toilet.

Or something ... What's next? The secret to clipping coupons or how to make $43 typing in the codes on your Mt. Dew caps to the website or filling out the online survey on the Burger King receipt?

^^ He is correct

I watched the "Innocence of Muslims" and it is almost unwatchable, but historically accurate, but the acting is terrible and the movie is certainly offensive to Muslims -- or at least the ones that kill Dutch people over political cartoons -- so it is hard to decide if there is a true loss here, entertainment-wise.

But the government shouldn't be deciding what we watch on the boob-tube, the Internet tubes or Youtube or even Their-Tubes. Not even their own tubes, but that is a story for another time.

Santiago is the capital of Chile. I can remember this because Santiago always ate a lot of chili.

Even during the most in-climate of weather.

^^ I hate it when this kind of horseshit gets upmodded here. Except when I have the upmodded horseshit, then it is FINE!

You: There are any number of variables in that can never be known.

Drake didn't know either. The formula is sound, each of those variables have answers based on averages.

Drake didn't know the answers but knew the variables. You are saying you don't know the values of variables, just like Drake didn't know.

This doesn't mean that the variables don't have values. They do.

We don't know the value of the variables today. 100,000 years from now or 1,000,000 years from now, we very well might.

There are more digits of pi than there are atoms in all the stars in the observed universe.