They might not want to buy these crash test dummies, because they do not fit so well in some of their cars.

I'm from a bit out of town (country/continent/hemisphere), so pardon my ignorance. But are you telling us that 3-year old stories get dredged up now for the sole purpose of swaying election outcomes?

The third meaning. See my sig for details.

The savings in aircraft construction is only part of the puzzle. Now, they can do away with all the shiny glass and steel, marble and lettering proclaiming "Welcome at Abc Airport!" etc. Littering, air pollution and urban decay will also be much less noticeable.

So, Musk is using some scenario from unrealistic fantasy fiction, which builds on fallacious religious dogma, to motivate his views on some far-off technology? Yeah, makes totally sense.

One criticism I have against the Turing Test is the fact that an intelligence indistinguishable from humans is pretty useless, we already have an oversupply of them. An intelligence that is alien in some aspect would be much more useful, and perhaps much harder to predict what it will or won't do.

I wouldn't mind a time when shops had this and could use it to print (or, somewhat more old-fashioned: sew) clothes THAT ACTUALLY FIT. For some or other reason I have a hard time to find clothes that are long enough around the legs, arms, and body, not too tight around the shoulders and a little less tent-like around the waist. No, I'm not exceptionally tall and I also do not have a body builder upper body. Just dislike the Made In China (for Americans, presumably) stuff sold where I live.

... so whenever I read things like this, it always strikes me how badly (not at all) planned these "excursions" are, with how little actual attrition in the politician camp. Don't whoever do these sort of things have access to some DVDs? Just watch Olympus Has Fallen or some other such tripe for some basic inspiration next time, won't you?

Not much different from Edward de Bono's writings on Lateral Thinking, which of course go into somewhat more depth and systematize a method for doing the creative/lateral thinking.

Either we can send Oscar Pistorius, or we can send women - but not both.

No no no, it's a new processor running at PI GHz. It's the autocorrect software that messed up the punctuation.

Well, it has to be said for them that they breed profusely and one does not grow attached to them.

While reading the article, one thought kept coming back: what if (some of) those genes coding for intelligence have some other negative effect? When you select all those highly intelligent embryos, will they grow up to all have e.g. crooked teeth, tiny penises, or autism?

Now I know why politics is in the shape it is in. People think Democracy is a game.

Quoting from the article:

So let me get this straight: you design a 30 pound device to carry 36 pounds? So someone will lug around 66 extra pounds all day and will not get tired?

I guess you do know that the statue honoring Liberty, which was gifted to America by the French, is hollow? The French do seem to have a fine sense of humor.