The official response should look something like this, I imagine:

The rules say that the White House has to respond, not that they have to do it.

I wanted to post something like this.

I think you're right -- assuming that the embryo or fetus can be transplanted from a biological to an artificial womb, this should be a legitimate solution to the abortion politics problem. The woman would be able to stop carrying her pregnancy at any time. The Church no longer needs to be worried about the destruction of life. Abortion could be outlawed in favor of this other measure, consistent with pro-life views.

We'll see how far this technology goes.

To be fair, everyone's a data point. Either you occur as an "event" with hypothetical null probability p, or you occur as the opposite of an "event" with hypothetical null probability 1-p.

So, what you're telling me is that there are more Americans with broadband access than with health insurance?

And to think that we actually have legislators who are actively trying to block UHC legislation! Man, that is messed up!

I'm not sure. Is the tactic of "sue your competitors out of the market" limited strictly to mobile devices and software patents?

Shit, yo, why we gotta turn everything into weapons, huh? wouldn't we be more civilized without weapons?

Since when is there money to be made by supporting the common good?

What a fucking lie. If we look at human history, it's obvious that Mankind is a warrior race.

Also, the past-tense verb that you desire is "copyrighted."

When the fuck did Slashdot become exactly equivalent to Microsoft? I thought this was still a second-hand tech article aggregator and instant DDoS machine.

What year is it now? 2012? Hmm...this looks promising, but not quite what I want yet. Wake me up when I can have Doc Ock-like arms attached to me that will function in the obvious intended way (like extra natural arms).

*back into cryogenic stasis*

So basically, you're saying that because the natural people who live in and benefit from the taxable location pay income taxes in that location, the corporation that lives in and benefits from the taxable location should not have to pay income taxes in that location?

Call me when you decide to believe that corporations should acquire all of the responsibilities of people if they want to be recognized as people.

If Slashdot doesn't keep me minimally informed on political issues, then how am I going to know how much each candidate hates my freedom? How would I ever have known who was a traitor and who was against SOPA?

No, 21 lets us have our booze. It repealed 18, which was the one that kicked off the era known as "Prohibition".

So, what you're saying is that if I kill Hitler, then in a really roundabout way, I prevent 9/11?

Also, I didn't even say I was going ti kill Hitler. I was going to get to know him. I doubt I'd have the guts to kill him, especially once I know him, so the Time Corps has nothing to worry about.

Also, I think you mean there was a division of the Time Corps. Or will be, depending on your point of view. But they have to be an organization started in the relative future, who are patrolling the relative past, so they clearly can't exist at this time. Tenses are difficult, I know.

You know, if the FTL neutrinos are real, then there is every possibility that the episodes are on their way to a rescue point in the future right now. There could be a time machine in transit at this very moment, recovering this lost cultural icon for our enjoyment, as soon as they land in the recovery era.

If I were a time-traveller, you can bet that my first stop would be the 1960s, to rescue the lost episodes.

My second stop, of course, would be the mid-to-late 1930s, to have a drink with Hitler and get to know him and then decide whether I have a moral duty or even moral right to kill him.