Worse? It would only make sense then. As it is, suicide is a crime punishable by life.

Hey if you are going to start green-lighting destroying things that are a "pointless waste of resources" by all means let me start my list, I should warn you though that at least the first 1000 items are all going to be human beings. I drive my vehicle because it suits my needs, without it I'm out of work, some ass wants to burn it is ASKING for a bullet in the face. Am I allowed to burn people's TVs because all they watch is Jerry Springer and "reality" shows?

Word! TV in general and JS & 'reality TV' in particular, makes the brains dribble out of the ears. Part of the problem is the 'S' in SUV, I dont have a SUV, I have an UV - Utility Vehicle. And yes I have a class B license too, I can drive trucks a lot bigger that 'Burb. If you condone the use of 'fire' the noun, I condone the use of 'fire' the verb.

Im surprised no one has mentioned the "Giant's Drink" game from "Ender's Game" by O.S. Card. It was an AI game that reprogrammed itself based on what each individual player was doing. Turned out to be a psych evaluation tool more than a game. Was in later books of the series the genesis of a universe spanning consciousness.

Jesus H Christ on a crutch! You want to lojack your kid? You are part of the problem instead of the solution. If your kid is so helpless she cant find her bus, it means either she rides the short bus or you wasted her first five years by failing as a parent to train her properly. 1.Teach your kid how to get on the right bus, and how deal with getting lost. 2.Send your kid to a school that is competent. If you can afford a high tech solution you can afford homeschooling or private school. 3.See #1. A gadgets battery can die, a name tag can come unpinned, school officials will make mistakes, but your kids brain cant fall out, shut off, or stop working. And yes, I speak from experience. I have raised 7 to adulthood and working on 2 more, none of which got lost. And if your kid puts up enough resistance to being put on the wrong bus, the school will call you, at which time you get a free shot at giving the school an ass-chewing for not being smarter than the kid. (true story)

...is right twice a day. Despite the common belief that the US government is way beyond screwed up, occasionally there is an outbreak of common sense. (Once you stop laughing about the words 'common sense' and 'government' in the same sentence, you can mod me up.)

The computer will be ruined by the decomposing body soup of the nerd killed and dumped into the capsule by a lesser nerd.

Dont any of you people watch "Bones" on FOX?

You have to be an AC to post this brainless crap. Shes the creator? Are you even on the same planet as the rest of us? No teacher in any public school for the past 50 years has had an original thought. Everything they 'teach' is a pre-thought thought, carefully written in a textbook, and a matching teachers book, vetted by a battery of federal and state bureaucrats. Teachers don't teach, they regurgitate facts and figures, and expect you to do the same, with no original thought or examination. Ask yourself, are science teachers scientists? Are economics teachers economists? Are math teachers mathematicians? Hell no they aren't, they are indoctrination specialists. If this is a college level issue, even worse. You paid out of your own pocket for that knowledge, its yours. BTW, you paid for the public schooling too, its called taxes.

Not if you travel in an arc to the position the earth will be in time/space in 40 years.

Nuclear power is a safe and viable alternative to fossil fuels. PERIOD!

I wholeheartedly agree!. Because even the biggest fuel/air bombs cant get that many at once. On the other hand, even if the target scatters like roaches, you can still warm enough of them to have a body count in the seven figure range.