You don't eat or drink? I see your point, but how is coming up with better ways to feed the multitudes with limited land and resources not a puzzle? See, the thing that I cannot stand about this article is that it is going to attract the attention of some really smart people (maybe you are one of these) and take your time, where if you would direct your gigantic brain and all of it's magnificent abilities (and no, I'm not being sarcastic here) to problems that aim to make life better for all, then your own life would also be made better. If you cannot understand how that works (life better for me is life better for you), then make it into a puzzle, or whatever you have to do to make it interesting for you. Otherwise, if you don't understand how life functions, then your intelligence is temporary.

Ha, beat me to it. I was going to mention the phone book too.

I'm amazed at how many people looked at my 'question' as if the spy would never be the one dead. Here, watch this. Both people are at fault there. Think about it from both angles. What if the spy died - would the man that pulled out be charged with killing an officer? If the guy and his kid died, could there be a clear indicator as to why the spy was speeding?

And by the way, why the hell would spies need to drive so fast? In our world of high-tech communications, it seems wrong that an intelligence-gathering individual would need to actually be in such a hurry.

Absolutely!

I don't know man, when you look at land-use (how much land it takes to grow X amount of food) vs the failure rate (insects generally) you come up with better numbers for local small farming (unless the person just doesn't have much experience). Another thing about small farming, is that if you have a neighborhood situation, and each person (10 and up is best, but this can be done with less than 10 homes participating) devotes just 200 ft/sq to growing a certain type of fruit of vegetable, then you all can just about stop buying food.

Besides being healthier, the people that grow their own food are a lot happier, too.

Actually that makes the point better than I did. The difference between the pay-scales, and how it ultimately gets dealt with by the government, is insane.

It compares the current list of public services that are allowed to speed (fire, police and ambulance) to the new list (Vehicles used to carry organs for transplant, bomb disposal units, mountain rescue teams and those engaged in “surveillance and covert operations”). But nowhere does it mention that they'll have a siren. If someone is driving really really fast where normally people aren't driving really really fast, and hits someone, killing one or more, I wonder how it'll play out on court.

Oh, solving problems. See I thought that this was just about playing some programing-related game, via shortening algorithms. Hell, if we're talking about solving problems, let's get to world hunger and water filtration. I'm working on the world hunger bit. You wanna work with me, or do the water filtration bit?

That's thinking along the same lines as I am. And why not be able to use food stamps for food-creating-tools?

Farming is something that needs to be done locally in order to be naturally efficient. Otherwise, you end up with a few huge farms, all trying to cut all corners (in order to be efficient) as much as possible - usually by using fertilizers and insecticides that are bad for the environment. After that comes the need to modify plant DNA to grow bigger/faster/bug-and-weed-resilient crops.

Here's a good Ted-talk on this very matter. Feel free to mock Ron Finley too. I mean, omg, he's so ghetto! (tongue-in-cheek)

Yeah man, and that means that everyone that works (8hr. days) is almost working an entire hour per day just to pay for those that cannot afford food. Of course I'm referring to the taxes that accumulate from them working that hour, and not their hourly rate.

How cool would it be if you could use food stamps to buy things that are required to have your own organic garden at home? This could include tools, education on farming, seeds, greenhouses, utility-water-line, chlorine-filter, etc. The government could even set aside land for small community gardens, like they do to build parks for recreation.

Well, I certainly didn't mean to attack anyone, I just didn't really know that my comments would hurt feelings. And perhaps you're right, maybe I don't understand why 'sorting a list in the quickest way possible, being made into a game' is useful. Can you enlighten me?

Well, I don't mean to sound like I know everything, I certainly don't. But in my mind, 'intelligence' is the ability to make sense of Nature (or another way to say this is to be able to sense Nature). Those that don't have a good definition for 'intelligence' more than likely are living in a way that is not in tune with Nature.

They're probably dorking around with some regex, trying to sort a list of stupid from silly. Not saying that you, sir, are (as from the tone of your response, it appears that you are a sensible person). But From my original post, I should have guessed that it'd be flamebait, rather than troll.

Isn't it strange how we hear about these types of 'services' going down, but we never hear about them going up? Am I missing something? By the looks of it, many people are like me in that they didn't know that this service existed at all. Is there a place that Google let's people know when they have a new service? It's not listed here anywhere (maybe it's been removed already since it's about to be dumped). But is this a complete list?