As of June 30, 2011 over 3 million copies of the game have been sold across all platforms.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crysis_2#cite_note-62

That's surely a relevant problem, but not one which is insurmountable. We have the same problem with any piece of automated machinery don't we? If an elevator malfunctions and people die, who should be sued? Yet, it doesn't stop us from using one.

It's an issue of overall efficiency and safety for everyone. In the long run, it will save lives, improve quality of life, be more efficient etc. The downside of having to blame a "dumb" machine for a lost life/accident, is possibly more palatable than the alternative of having to blame a human driver, another human being whose life will be ruined by the accident.

Lastly, we already have so many automated things. Self-driving trains, airplanes etc. Is a car really that different?

Your post is full of FUD. A million people die annually because of human drivers. A driverless car killing half that many would still be an improvement.
www.un.org/ar/roadsafety/pdf/roadsafetyreport.pdf

I can't wait for this tech to get into tablets. Just a few of the advantages I'm expecting (and here's hoping there will be no disappointments)

1. I stare at an LCD screen all day, and I really detest the backlight. This is what prevents me from reading on a "tablet". Mirasol will fix that.
2. The Kindle's e-ink display, even though it didn't have colour, was simply amazing. However, the slow refresh rates combined with the lack of colour, made it too special purpose. Mirasol fixes all that, allowing for a general purpose tablet + e-reader and I can't imagine why that wouldn't succeed.
3. The paper like effect (which I assume Mirasol will have), will be so much easier on the eyes - meaning less eye strain. Given a choice between ruining my eye sight and enduring bad colour, I'll choose bad colour anytime.
4. We can go back to the look & feel of paper without the associated wastage (trees cut down etc. etc). One "electronic book" to substitute them all.
5. A battery life comparable in the kindle range instead of the lcd range would be an added bonus, but not a deal breaker.
6. Resolution however is important. I assume that high res screens will be available.
7. Some form of built-in illumination in the absence of ambient light.

The point I was trying to make though, was that the criteria he defined for eating something is invalid. He says that cows don't compose poetry, hence it's ok to eat them. My question was, is it then ok to eat humans who are mentally deficient too? His criterion (intelligence) clearly isn't a sufficient factor.

Suggesting it spreads "disease" would be akin to special pleading (or some such thing). The original criterion of "intelligence" has already failed.

Would that not mean that mentally deficient humans, could also be considered little more than machines and potentially be kept in a pen and eaten?

Humankind has indeed proven itself to be a vile species. The great pacific garbage patch for example, was surely not created by those who was overly concerned for their environment?

There are enough precedents to indicate that it is not an excess of concern for our environment that is the fundamental problem. I just don't understand why people see it necessary to vilify the few who are.

But why cop out at the level of the "soul" and say problem solved? Why not do so earlier, say "God did it", and there's even less work to do! ;-)

Who is forging heads?

Thank you for that very interesting quote!
What is the alternative though, to democracy?

Hmm... Interesting! Thanks for the reply.

Movement yes, but breathing? Does it use a heat signature or something?

I don't disagree that control of piracy is necessary, but my point was, Sony has failed to stay relevant in this game, and is now in the process of committing suicide by angering its customer base. Why did they not have to go to the same draconian lengths for the PS2? Wasn't it because it was a resounding success? What about the other console manufacturers? Sony under-estimated them all, even the tiny Wii, and paid the price.

I forgot about the eye-toy, so I was wrong to say Sony hadn't thought of it. However, the Kinect is something else. It works, and there are enough open-source examples out there that prove it can be made to work extremely well. Games just need to catch up to it. And for the cases it fails, the traditional controllers are there. Still, the point is, the Kinect is revolutionary enough to keep things exciting with the X-Box, whereas Sony doesn't have anything new to offer.

And now, the best thing they can think of is to piss their customers off (tech-savvy customers who popularize technology just like the Kinect is being popularized) when instead, they need to be getting busy keeping themselves relevant?

This seems to be a case of misguided fury where Sony is confusing its failure to to stay relevant, with losses stemming from piracy.
All console manufacturers suffer some losses due to piracy, but not all of them find the need to rage against it.

Sony has had a string of flops, from over-estimating the popularity of the PS3 (are they still selling it at a loss? or has it turned a profit at last?) to failing to so much as imagine something like the Kinect.

My guess is, management has no choice but to scapegoat their failures on something - and who better than the obvious targets, like tinkerers and hackers and that omnipresent threat of piracy?
(Microsoft, oddly enough, is actually profiting by encouraging an eco-system of tinkerers around the Kinect)