So, what if we had a new law: No AI with IQ over 100* allowed.

This would allow robot servants but make our overthrow unlikely.

*or 80 etc, or IQ depending on purpose.

You're 53 years old, posting as AC, and feel the need to announce that you're a transsexual and dare anyone to have a problem with you? FWIW, I don't think it's the world that has a problem with you--it seems like you have a problem with the world.

If everything is encrypted mass surveillance becomes much harder and more expensive.

So the outcome is more spies and higher taxes then! And more energy used - not environmentally friendly. Why encrypt comments if they're going to be displayed publicly?

MS had an after-tax income of over 21 billion dollars in 2013. No idea where you're coming up with a $32B loss. Ballmer was a horrible CEO, but the biggest problem was that MS continued to make money--LOTS of money--while he was destroying the company's value, which made him look absolutely great on paper.

If you set 11000 Libraries of Congress on fire, it would be enough to put the fire out.

I'm guessing the correct thing to do is to subpena MS for the information because the client and business are both US based, but I'm not a lawyer.

Who do you think are the victims of crimes in Chicago?

Oh, but it's not really nuclear powered because uranium is made in suns, so it's a solar powered car (sarc).

What's the best outfit to wear when talking to dogs?

You probably shouldn't want to influence the world. People who would say they "want to influence the world" generally lack the humility needed to avoid accidentally or recklessly making things worse for the world as a result of their influence.

That actually answers something I was wondering about the other day. My company was looking at a facility in Houston and it's in a brand new industrial park that is literally across the street from some of multi-million dollar homes I was amazed that the homeowners didn't manage to kill the project, and now I understand why they couldn't.

FWIW, I think zoning is like any other form of government intervention: a necessary evil. Some is absolutely required, a little more is ok, and it's only when those in power have an axe to grind, or engage in mission creep that the problems start. I'd honestly hate to live somewhere without at least rudimentary zoning, lest someone come along and build a sewage treatment next door, or put in heavy industry across the street from your $5M house like the example above.

One of the reasons I live where I do is because I'm close to work, about 4 miles away. Lets me bike in. That way I don't have to deal with the expense and clusterfuck that is parking on a big campus. 4 miles is a very easy, short, ride so it is no problem. You don't need to change or anything, you don't work up a sweat.

Actually my uniqueness has changed most times that I've visited Panopticon because the information underlying the fingerprint changes regularly, limiting it's usefulness.

Yeah I'm a dopey fkker, I forgot to click to desktop!