You must be lamest troll on the planet, seriously our are.

Because people will start abusing the hell out of it.

You forgot: "It will snow in winter." At least here in Europe it is a serious, unpredictable problem which surprises the people every year.

That's like predicting that a waiter will bring the food you ordered.

Yeah...don't forget to mention that they were at $6 in January.

I dug through Wikipedia and found that Sputnik weight a whooping 87kg...all Nuclear Bombs of that time (could not find a reference to a real warhead for mounting on a missile) were a little bit...uuuhhh...bigger, with more than 1ton each (a bomb from 1961 weight in at 27tons)...so, you got some reference to back that claim up?

Which seems quite illogical as long as SkyNet is not superior to humans. Original thinking and coming up with new stuff is quite hard for an A.I., despite our best efforts to teach it to them. We're able to create A.I. which are good problems solvers...but a problem solver can not come up with innovation, not much at least. As long as SkyNet is not superior to a human. As the problem solver would most likely have figured out by then that humans don't like to be killed, and go *way* out of their way to avoid being murdered *or* take the bastard at least with them down.

Yes, it's actually a funny and sad situation. Most people don't want Microsoft products anymore, but are too lazy to switch to something else (my favorite quote: "But this looks totally different!").

Yeah, were exactly my thoughts, too.

Unfortunately, I am serious...so are they. They also paid some € 10k for a browser addon (which acts just like a favorite toolbar, but with links to government sites)...guess what? Was one-browser-only...guess which one.

On the up-side, they acknowledge that there's a problem with partisanship and corruption in the government and big companies here in Austria...and defend it with, and I quote, "...this the culture here in Austria"... ... ... ...

I was less after the "they throw money out the window"-part, but more for the "they can do whatever they want, nobody checks ever!"-part.

And yes, I totally agree with you! Especially since here in Austria they threw out a Linux migration because they bought a proprietary ActiveX-Component halfway through and some authorities pay € 500k for their homepage (which is nothing but a simple CMS)...

I've only seen Linux not booting two times in 6+ years of using it: The first was faulty hardware which caused SEGFAULTS. The second was a damaged home-partition. From all the arguments you could come up with, this is the least viable. ... At least say "...as it is to keep Linux from randomly killing X", that at least sounds believable.

I meant typo in the summary, not the Wikipedia-Article.

No, I can remember an episode where SG-1 is trapped (and a little bit brainwashed) to work in a big city underneath a thick layer of ice. Told that they would be the only survivors of an apocalypse on the surface...which was a lie, of course. Star Trek Voyager did a copy of the episode where the crew was working in a big city. Can't find the episode right now, though.