Is a tablet a PC?
Is a smartphone a PC?
Is a mp3 player a PC?
Is a game console a PC?
Is a TV/bluray player with apps a PC?

All of those things are personal computers, but depending on who you ask some of them may not be considered "PCs"

I see your point. We should get rid of agriculture and farming, and go back to being hunter-gatherers. All technological progress is bad.

Yeah I don't see how memorizing random numbers signifies "intelligence" in any way. I had memorized some phone numbers when I was about 5 years old, so it doesn't seem to require a tremendous amount of brainpower.

Oh they weren't "Nazis"? I guess it was okay that they killed millions of people then..

..and we all know the ISPs would charge reasonable prices on metered internet access, just like cell carriers and texting.

I think it's pretty ridiculous to think DDoSing RIAA/MPAA is going to do anything anyway. Does anyone actually visit those sites?

Keeping Chrome/IE "up to date" is pretty darn easy. If they are installed and connected to the internet, they are always up to date.

What happens if the person who gets the vaccine develops a very painful condition (like cancer)? All effective painkillers work in exactly the same way heroin does, so I assume if it stops the effects of heroin it'll stop the effects of other opiods/opiates as well.

Sounds like trading one kind of suffering for another.

It's also well-known that the most successful quitters of drugs are people who truly WANT to be clean/sober, and deal with the issues that made them drug users in the first place. I have a feeling this would be effective in the short-term, but it doesn't really address the root causes of most people's addictions.

It beats dealing with the TSA

“The United States effectively has a one party system, the business party, with two factions, Republicans and Democrats” Noam Chomsky

That's really only the "top speed" though. With Comcast's 250GB cap I could reach my cap by downloading at 1Mbit.

The latency is really good for gaming which is more important than raw speed for me. In BF3 I get 20ms to Chicago servers, 40ms to Dallas, 55ms to Seattle, 45ms to New York, 70ms to LA. Even UK servers are about 110ms, not bad for being 4000+ miles away and across an ocean.

With wikipedia it doesn't prevent you from gaining access to the site/information you are looking for, so I don't think they are the same really.

I'm not really convinced Google has a monopoly on search in the first place either. The last numbers I saw put them at 65% market share. That's certainly a very strong position to be in, but hardly what I'd call a "monopoly".

Why so serious?

Are you saying someone's great grandson isn't the most unbiased source in information? ;)

Was Thomas Edison even alive to ever meet his great grandson? Even if he was it would have been when he was 5 years old, so I doubt he gained any great insight into his mind at that age.