Which of us will it empower?

Germans called the French Resistance terrorists.

We should be scared of nuclear war daily. This system are all in place and ready to go. The folks are still manning the controls. Things are getting worse. Weapons are proliferating, and almost everyone who remembers the actual nuking of people is dead.

And the pentagon papers were released to impress a woman. Snowden fled to Hong Kong and got stuck in Russia. There aren't super heroes for real, so you'll have to handle good deeds coming from regular folk.

Cheney has always been a stupid and evil bastard.

During the first gulf war he wanted to parachute the 101st into a Western Iraq with no support, have them capture a city then hold it hostage until Saddam relented. Schwartzkoff. Cheney was Sec. Def. at the time. Schwartzkopf had to fend off this incredible idea more than once.

Starting a war isn't a war crime either, it's a crime against the peace, but it's still a hanging offense. Time to string them up.

Stanislaw Lem's "Return to Earth" is all about this subject.

Haldeman's "Forever War" deals with it in parts.

Both deal with people who do to time dilation come home far in the future.

I don't remember the details, but at one point the main character returns to earth to find his mother, now old, in a lesbian relationship and is disgusted, even though society now accepts it. Interesting that Haldeman got that right back in the '70s.

I am 38. They did not have this when I was a kid. I only know about because of my own kids. It does seem very weird. Not just slightly Orwellian, but also dumb because kids lose these things all the time.

If it ended up in a non-evolutionary form than dynamism could be lost.

"Asking whether a computer can think is like asking whether a submarine can swim."

--Djikstra

I think of it as a unconscious vestige of a belief in a soul. Such people can't really see themselves as a collection of cells which are a collection of molecules, even if consciously they affirm that belief. They probably still lay awake at night wondering what happens to us when we're dead.

What we have that Watson does not is a survival instinct that's been bred into us over a few billion years.

This could be programmed in, but there's not much reason to at the moment. NASA looked into self-repairing unmanned bases on the moon and other planets. Such an AI would have a survival instinct and would behave as more than a tool.

Game journalism will always need the support of the industry, because gamers want game porn far more than they want hard hitting investigative journalism on games.

That's not strong enough: *nobody* wants hard hitting investigative journalism on games. If gamergate really got what they say the wanted, what they would find out is how stupid, lost and uncivilized people in the game industry think gamergate types are.

Gamergate suffers from a problem common among those who take an entertainment medium too seriously: they think they are something that they are not.

This is insightful? How about waiting to see if a game is good before you buy it.

There's no lists of people Obama murdered floating around. There's no special prosecutor trolling through Intern's panty drawers, there's no national press salivating over every leaked detail. There's no impeachment proceedings. Obama derangement is crazy, but not 1998 crazy.

"Clinton did lie. A lot."

They all lie, it's their job. Obama is one of the best at it.