I think I would feel much safer driving on the Autobahn at 150 km/h surrounded by self-driving cars that I am feeling right now when driving on the Autobahn.

Also, let your car drive you to and from parties! Wohoo! Party on!

I for one am looking forward to our self-driving overlords. Over 100 years on, the automobile becomes even truer to it's name.

Indeed. It's also interesting how one of the most important parts of the force are the midichlorians, which is nothing short of amazing.

Correct and nicely posted. I already knew this, but somehow I was caught up in my rigid, western mindset during that post. Thanks for reminding me.

Then there is also Strike Vector, which is also descenty, but only multiplayer I believe.

I would assume that at the very least, it could give some potential candidates second thoughts abound joining the upper ranks.

I wouldn't exactly feel comfortable and secure as an Al-Quaeda leader.
On the other hand, I wouldn't feel very comfortable with blowing myself up in the middle of a crowded space either, so ho knows how the terrorist mindset ticks.

It's not really fair to the many good people working at Bethesda Softworks not to buy their games and thereby possibly put their livelyhood at risk, because some lawyers at their parent company happen to be pricks. It's not like they are responsible for this or have any say in it.

Sometimes I wonder - I, or perhaps humanity as a whole, we have so much anxiety about the destruction and depletion of our natural resources, the extinction of species, the CO2 in the atmosphere, the conservation of our environment. Some of us try so hard to be environmentally conscious by recycling waste, reusing appliances, conserving water and energy.
Then maybe 100 years from now the killer asteroid will struck Earth and obliterate everything, or the supervolcano under Yosemite will blow up. And the universe will point the finger at us and say "ha ha!"

That would be a real bummer.

But I suppose this is like saying, why take care of myself? Why take a shower in the morning, have a balanced died, quit smoking, if maybe tomorrow I'll be dead?
As long as we have a chance at survival, we have to protect our heritage, which means the natural environment that spawned and hosts us.
Who knows, maybe in 100 years, instead of being obliterated, we will take this heritage with us to the stars.

Are you sure? In latin, "decima" means 1/10, so I figured to decimate means to reduce TO 1/10, so BY 9/10.

James Cameron doesn't do what James Cameron does for James Cameron. James Cameron does what James Cameron does, because James Cameron IS James Cameron.

Yeah, but this perception of programming is the real problem.

Programming is not a "pain" if you do it right. Most of the times programming is a "pain" because you are working with code or frameworks written by mediocre programmers who probably shouldn't be programmers. The more accessible you try to make programming, the more mediocre programmers will be encouraged to write code and software that will be a pain to work with.

Actually, qualified scientists who are expert on this topic are telling us right now what their predictions are of what will happen.

But yes, continue putting your hands to your ears and shouting yaddayaddayadda.... all future is uncertain so just fuck it all. You can go eat at McDonalds every day and stuff yourself full of cheeseburgers. Predictions are you will get fat and possibly die from the causes at some point. But you don't care about that, right? Because we have no idea what might happen.

Yeah, let's ban killer robots. Better let humans do the killing. I'm sure they have a much better track record at discriminating hostiles from innocent civilians.
After the war, when we bring our killer heroes back home to rejoin their families, everything will be just dandy. Because after daddy has shot three Extremistanis in the face and seen his buddy's leg torn off by an IED, the first thing he wants to is hug his little girl and tell her he loves her.
Killer robots would just be so immoral.

There is no way Earth is the only planet with life in the universe. Even if you reduce the probability of life on a given solar system to almost nothing, like winning the lottery, the sheer size of the universe with its almost endless amount of stars and galaxies makes the odds for life somewhere in space and time extremely favorable.

Now the odds of that space and time being close enough to our little bubble of existence for us to take notice, that is a different matter.

Not many. You need to produce the gadgets and code the software. Then you just need some energy to power the devices. Little price to pay considering that everything else following that will be "free", like your own private yacht, villa, holiday resort, spaceship, hookers, whatever.

You don't need a lot of resources when you can spend your free time living in your own virtual paradise universe. We will get to this point well within our lifetime.
Welcome to the Matrix, Neo.