You see, you have to sell it now before the price drops. If you predict that the price will drop further due to panic selling, time to sell again. Then you buy it back after you predict that the panic has ended. If the sudden buying causes the price to soar, well then that just means you have to sell it again before other people notice...

Presumably if the release had been proper, the machines would have been instructed by humans as to what specifically to do with the stock when the markets opened, and also wouldn't predict any panics.

Of course, some might say that then politicians would have to be very careful what they say in case someone takes an out-of-context quote and parades it everywhere and costs them their job. But then again, if they've got nothing to hide, they've got nothing to fear.

What happens if you donate sperm to your girl via a state-endorsed sperm bank? This may be a way to loophole the current laws in the case of frozen embryos. (silly legal system)

In my opinion, there's a rather simple answer: Simply require the frozen embryo be adopted (ie, has two parents accepting the rights and responsibilities of raising the child) before being defrosted.

Also, in the future, people performing a "this is your last chance to have a child" operation ought to make sure the soon-to-be-infertile person ends up with the right to use their sample or have a very good reason why not.

The alternative is that people start demanding something be done about dangerous and misleading ads like "Viruses detected on your computer! Click here to install dangerous malware!". Or even ads that directly contain malware scripts and don't even require clicking. Basically, people have made ads distracting, misleading, privacy violating, and directly dangerous and people have no choice but to block them all.

And before you complain that ad blockers take money away from poor websites, keep in mind that this was a suicide -- they forced our hand by making ads too terrible to allow.

Or they could paint their roof white/silver, for less than the price of a single solar panel.

Yes, the professor failed the entire management class. He just couldn't manage the class.

This is a pathetic excuse for introducing intrusive technology to solve a non-problem. If you think about it for a bit, it would be a simple matter to have a cop start issuing fines until the non-compliance rate drops to an acceptable level. This would cost nothing, as traffic cops generally collect far more in fines than their wages. Instead, our Dear Leaders want to use this situation to direct the indignant fury against cheaters towards promoting an array of face recognition cameras to track your every movement.*

* Of course, for this phase of the plan, they won't publicly acknowledge that the cameras are there to ID you as well as the number of people in your car.

If he's got nothing to hide, he's got nothing to fear.

Muslims aren't too different from Christians -- after all, the both follow the God of Abraham. The main difference is that Christians have learned to ignore most of their Holy Scriptures, both Old and New Testament, and in general act as you'd expect from an atheist who's half-heartedly pretending to be a Christian. Whereas Muslims tend to act more like they actually believe their Holy Book.

Not if they invent immortality first. For it to be a tautology, it would have to be logically guaranteed to be true, not just incredibly likely.

Although I acknowledge that they're good workers, you should know that Mexicans aren't considered aliens in Mexico.

Trouble is, the real patent troll can't be made to pay. In case you're wondering, the real patent troll is the one that granted, not holds, the meaningless patent.

If there was anyone responsible for, and profiting from the whole patent mess, it is the patent office for granting all those frivolous patents and pocketing the fees while letting us pay the court costs, and even worse the opportunity costs of people too terrified of patents to do anything.

It's kind of like winning a cockfight though. The whole contest exists only because the surrounding environment is corrupt and/or seedy.

At least, not originally.