The statement displays a profound lack of religious principles. Most Christian faiths believe the soul enters the body at the moment of conception; thus making the zygote pure
. Since AI, no matter what level of autonomy is never conceived, it never has a soul, thus need not convert.

Disclaimer: former Lutheran, raised in Catholic schools, now a devout atheist.

Move manufacturing out of China... it's simple. They won't buy apple goods, move the 1 MILLION FOXCONN apple workers to a different country. That will get someones attention... quickly

Most government agencies are mere puppets for the owned representatives in office. Like the FDA, the EPA will not protect the interest of the citizens but rather corporate interests. Many victims of fracking where once fertile land has become toxic have found the EPA's sole job is to protect the frrackers, not the land they supposedly steward. Commerce Department is another example. The Commerce Departments job is to protect and secure 'commerce' not individuals but huge corporations. The FBI diligently attacks people who illegally share music - with the same ferocity as mass murders or terrorists.

Net neutrality will become another victim. It will eventually die since It 'burdens' profiteers.

. Our rights as citizens is a veneer. Till we change how campaigns are financed, corporate puppets will continue to operate with impunity sealing more and more wealth from the masses for the benefit of the few.

Other issues..... It didn't automatically install dual core processor support, I had to add that later. I didn't recognize and install the WiFI driver, I had to manually download and install the separately..(via a USB from another machine what PITA). Like I said... too much 'tweak'.

I had an older laptop that was running XP just fine. It was an HP convertible with a touch screen. I loved the foot print but couldn't keep unsupported windows. I tried several flavors of 'Nix on it. I settled on Mint due to the older hardware and I wanted a smaller software foot print.

However – there’s 3 annoying issues
1 – There’s a message on the screen before the GUI starts about invalid user. From the research, this is a debian bug. As far as I can tell, it doesn’t affect anything. I ignored it.

2 – There’s no support for Netflix?!? This surprised me, as it would be similar problem with any version of Linux. According to posts on the internet, this is because Netflix requires Microsoft Silverlight, which is not available on Linux. I really, really have to say I don’t believe this at all. I have Netflix on both my android phone and my iPad. Both have a Linux connection. There’s no excuse not to run Netflix.

3- This is the killer -. After the initial install of Linux Mint, I performed an update. The update killed the OS. No boot, just a brick. I re-installed Mint and it worked, however I didn’t perform the update.

Issue number 2 makes the device unusable for the majority of my entertainment. Issue number 3 makes the device just plain untrustworthy.

I've made several attempts to use Linux for the desktop... all have failed. Worse than being too complex, after 20 years of development, it fails the ‘just work’ test. I’m a techie by trade, a programmer longer than I want to think about. I do network support, server support and mange a team. I have kids, a wife, home interests.. I don’t have the time or patience to futz with computer problems when an install or an app refuses to function. When I was younger, I enjoyed the hack to make it work. That was 20 years ago. Now it annoys me. I just want it to work. After 20 years of Linux development there needs to be some level of maturity, stability, uniformity.. It needs to just work without having to hack it for the casual user to accept it. unfortunately, Linux doesn't pass that bar. I’m done with Linux at home. It’s nothing more than a toy for hackers who want to tweak. For people who just want their stuff to work, Linux is not the answer..

Let me flag those add's rolling in the news feeds as false then you've got something.

Well: corporate manufacturing bids out components to attain the cheapest by a fractional cent costs – often from 3rd world suppliers using sub-par components final goods are specifically designed to wear out requiring replacement – Labor costs of actually fixing broken things exceeds the cost of just buying new one cheap ass ones. Consumers perpetuate the problem by refusing to pay more for reliable items. This results in the growth of Walmart and the decline of high quality merchants outside of boutique locations or niche markets Hell, look at the GM V6 – the home garage mechanic can’t even replace the spark plugs because the motor needs to rocket for plug access. Now – combine all these trends and this twit author is going to somehow blame people who grew up in a post disposable world? I’ll bet his house is filled with new cheap disposable shit too. So, rather than spending your weekend screwing with some $40 vacuum that broke, throw it, buy a new one and spend some quality time with your kids. Go fishing, teach them something, go have fun - They'll be better off and so will you.

NeoCons were the irritation during the Clinton administration of the 1990's.. (Wolfowitz etc), that's 20+ years ago. So, at this point they're no longer NEO, (new) that leaves them just cons.

How utterly and typically ‘republican’ – to only accept those ‘scientific’ facts that happen to help you at that particular moment If the pope were to honestly embrace science including skepticism and scientific method, he would question his place on the planet for the religion he serves as head of. From a US perspective this could be the final straw the causes US Catholicism to break away from the holy catholic church of Rome

Here’s the problem with cops wearing cams. Any information gathered by a pubic servants during the course of their duty is subject to disclosure. Given that some information is exempt from public requests, (personal information about victims, pending cases, anything considered private..etc), personal information will, and needs to be redacted. If available, this will generate a never ending stream of public information requests to municipalities demanding this newly created video. The video will need to be edited for redaction prior to release. Some cities/states have maximum time requirement laws in which information must be released. This will necessitate the hiring of dozens of video editors to supply edited videos to fulfill RFI’s. (request for information). I work closely with several cities. It’s amazing how many pointless fishing expeditions currently squander millions of tax payer dollars requesting every single email, document, text message, voice mail – pretty much everything everyone does – when some old guy gets a bug up his butt that the city didn’t treat some right of way in front of his property correctly or some one wants to be a political candidate. Now release video of police walking around with video cameras and there will be a non stop stream of ambulance chasers reviewing every second of available video for potential legal mongering. This will place addition burdens on public legal resources. Prepare for costs, taxes, and laws to protect public workers to skyrocket. ,, nothing is free

Time for another scopes monkey trial!

Won't happen. There's always the 1% (as we now call them) who drive innovation in their relentless quest for more. Example: All the Waltons comprise the richest group of people in the world (when taken as a group) yet walmart still pushes employees onto public subsidies, squeezes the supply chain, and reap all rewards. The waltons could easily afford to pay employees more, but wont out of greed. Another example: the top 1% have absorbed all benefits from technological innovation of the past 30 years, today's middle class wages have less purchasing power of their mid 1980's counterparts. This in NOT due to the technology itself, it has everything to do with greed at the top. This is proven with ownership wages currently being at 350X an average workers salary vs 50x in the 1980's. Today we see the top 1% screaming about unfair taxes - even though top rates have dropped form 70% during the Carter admin to 15% or less today for dividends (where most of the rich make huge sums). The top 1% have personal security, private doctors in tow, and send their kids to private schools - all the while public versions of these are woefully underfunded, infrastructure itself crumbles, they scream about taxes and put their puppets in public office to ensure the wealth continues to flow upward.

It's something I read about a long time ago. To all the mental cripples to can't think but can only google to verity anything, too bad. Critical thinking skills, and building on similar but unobvious concepts is in many cases a lost art. As far as vinyl being unique.. yes, each record / record player produces a unique sound. However the encoded data traceable online is created at the factory to indicate origin. Like different gun power manufacturers include different shaped tags so ATF can identify where a specific product and subsequent residue originated. To not believe the RIAA has both ability and desire to find every single file sharer using any means possible is to ignore the obvious (and the massive amount of data now being released from the Sony breach) , ignore history (remember 10's of thousands of joe doe warrants?) and technology. (Snowden anyone?)

vinyl being analog is pure music and can still be ripped to MP3s. CD's however can (and do) have built in hidden signals that allows the software police to track the origin of any ripped tracks. Vinyl being analog by limitation of the medium can't contain this tracking information. Thus when vinyl tracks are shared, it can't be proven where a specific song originated or how posted it, as opposed to the ripped CD versions that can be tracked from sharer's computer (or other device) to sharer's computer.