'Cause depth is the enemy of progress.

Or at least marketing.

Maybe now my e-mails to Tutankhamun will quit bouncing.

...the docs were leaked by spy agencies, because the Metro version is *easier* to spy on?

See also the first entry in this list.

Since when did facts put an end to conspiracy theories?

Some birds have heads that practically scream "dinosaur".

I.e., not good enough for Slashdot.

That's not how sexual selection works!

The nice thing about this "treatment" is that you can experience the VR party at home, where you can reach for your stash.

I wasn't aware that he was an american citizen.

Plus we didn't off him when he was murdering Kurds and other "undesirables", or when he started a revanchist war against Iran that resulted in several hundred thousand, possibly a million, casualties. He only got in the doghouse for seizing Kuwait, threatening the carefully engineered balance-of-powerlessness established in the middle east by the the allies after WWI.

I suspect also that "Machinery" suggests a society for hardware nerds rather than software nerds

It does read rather like a commercial.

Heartland Institute deliberately misrepresenting something to influence public policy? Surely you jest!

I find the whole think kind of surprising, since it is known that the whole brain doesn't go to sleep at the same time. Sleepwalking happens when part of it isn't asleep at all.

Sure, just capture them and subject them to brain surgery for the implant, then turn them lose so you can capture them easier next time.