Oliver is insightful 'round a number of topics dear to /dotters, least of all net neutrality, but twists Fagin on Scottish Independence, private prisons, the death penalty, and even Dr Oz & nutritional supplements.

He's not Carlin, but he's closer than most contemporaries.

That there are citizens in your nation representing you who shun science, logic and evidence, well, that is a political problem. And it's all mixed up with getting science elected when we visit the voting booth.

I mean to say the idiots haven't won yet, even though at present they seem to have the lead.

Maybe, but dropping his rather formidable name into a venture produces instant positive reception.

and the public outcry would break the decibel record set at a college football game.

Dream big, right?

For a corporation with $78 Billion in revenue, $62 million is like you paying the paperboy his Christmas bonus.

It is said the average human life of 76 produces 1.5 years on the toilet. I'd like to believe I've done some good thinking and improving during that goodly bit of quiet time.

If we can do nothing else productive with our cumulative years on /., we ought to be able to convince folks to type in their own url. Crikey!

I'm sure this is a prerecorded event, but if it were live, I'd be rooting for the snake to win in the style of Grizzly Man.

An exclusively female crew?

Are they sliced sandwich pickles or whole dill?

We think we know what to expect when humans go to live on another rock, but big picture, we have no fucking clue the traits that will be selected for off planet. No diversity, no survival.... it's a statistical certainty on the bizzaro order of winning the lotto.

Following the same line of reasoning, isn't it most likely human life will propagate the universe as eggs and sperm with robotic delivery? Even keeping a single human teacher alive for many interstellar travels would be such a waste of resources, and in many cases impossible.

It will be an interesting moral conundrum when it becomes possible, because then our immortal offspring may not remember us. It's plausibly how we came to be on earth.

It follows, rather fundamentally, that men and women would be but two considerations for a diverse interplanetary expedition.

I see why it's news for Nerds... it's about the number of servers.

Literally millions of diverse fathers can be shipped in much smaller containers requiring minimal upkeep.

Though there tends to be an irrational tribal loyalty to one's alma mater, hiring properly should primarily consider how the individual's talents (& weaknesses) fit the opening and the firm.