Yea, my memory and posting when drinking. it was actually 14yr old so old enough for consent (at the time), the case was in the BC Supreme court and was more of a reference case on the Constitutionality of Canada's polygamy laws.
The real problem is/was getting enough evidence to prosecute for sexual abuse. To quote the special prosecutor,

And yet the really dangerous jobs (logging, farming, fishing, construction, being a pilot are all way more dangerous) mostly don't come with a pension.
Subtract driving accidents and being a cop is a very safe job and the number of military deaths have been very low since Vietnam.

His brother Heston speaks very highly of them, too. Not sure I'd want to eat at his restaurants, though:

2011: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-e...
2014: http://www.theguardian.com/lif...

The risks of terrorism and illicit drug production are only two of the risks of allowing this dangerous 'dual use' technology to be sold on the open market! A far more insidious problem is the destruction of essential vitamins in the pressure cooking process. Some of these are required for higher brain functions, like the ability to parse textual data for abstract meaning. In one recent study, over 70% of regular pressure cooker users were unable to detect irony, satire or even obvious jokes in posts on internet forums. The end product may be delicious but, like cannabis or Snapchat, the long-term effects on the developing brain can be devastating.

Sure, but a pressure cooker? What is this, the 70s? Does anyone use them in 2015 for anything _except_ bomb construction and cooking meth?

"Presto Stainless Steel Pressure Cooker (Large) - Customers who bought this item also bought: 'The Al Qaeda Manual' (Kindle Edition) / Potassium Nitrate (5kg) / Casio F-91W Digital Watch / '100 Things to do Before you Die' (Paperback - used from $0.01) / Pseudoephedrine (100 tablets) / 'The Little Book of Calm' (1 Collectible from $9.96)."

" Characterizing them as pushing the "omg Terminator" line is just lowering the level of discourse here. That is clearly NOT what they are doing."

Are you sure?

"they are pointing out, rightfully so, that any entity much more intelligent than us, and with a goal set alien to us (like maximization of the number of paperclips in its collection) might as well be out to exterminate humanity"

'AI' means "Artificial Intelligence". The "Artificial" part means it's built by us, human beings, so there it goes the "alien goal". But, oh, you could tell that this AI, being selfconcious and autoevolutive, can develop its own goals... Tell me how that is *not* "omg Terminator" when we are today as far from artificial selfconciousness as we were back in Eliza's day.

And then, the "Intelligence" part means, well, it's not clear what it means but, in the end, it surely doesn't necessarily mean "MORE intelligent THAN US". And even then, one thing is planning for something, quite a different one achieving the intended goal. You see, we are to be considered more intelligent than cockroaches or mosquitoes and we certainly have gone the path of exterminating them (that it would be such a good idea is a different issue), but they are still there.

"because it will do so through simple outcompetition"

Yes, the Secret Council Of Mosquitoes And Cockroaches' fearmongering members also used that argument. But, letting aside the SCOMAC, it is not enough to have the intelligence to, and the goal of, eradicating humankind (both quite unplausible things as of now), you also need a viable interface to the real world, you know, these Terminators were real things, not just ones and zeroes, and that's why they can go overthere killing people.

In the end, we don't need to resort to an AI that it is as of now lightyears of being possible when we have true and tested nuclear arsenals that could achieve the same goal in a very humanly way.

So, yes, everything basically goes down to "omg Terminator".

"Why do you assume that the comments against AI must come from the same person?"

Because I'm a HI. Being good at assumptions is a quite successful evolutionary trait in our species.

I'm, of course, not saying that all AC comments come from the very same person but that an obvious subset of them do.

While officially inflation is very low, unofficially, at least here in Canada, food is projected to increase another 12% (produce 22%) and has been going up steadily for a while. Gas is almost back to the same price as before the oil crash. Housing is also going up very fast, electricity doubling, even my cell phone just went up 50%. Bank fees are also going up with fees to pay the mortgage recently introduced. Toys and things that only the well off can buy are going down.

and another instance of "dark matter" will be born.... (there will be no red giant, a sufficiently advanced race that can build a dyson sphere won't waste that much energy)

"Not to mention the fact that he is funding MIRI. If you were giving millions of dollars to a research institute devoted to mitigating existential risk from AI, you would probably become pretty knowledgeable on the subject too."

Or you just demonstrated yourself to be gullible enough to give your money to a certain kind of snake-oil sellers after watching Terminator one time too many.

Remember that being outstanding in some fields doesn't preclude you to be stupid in others (specially when your previous success makes you think about yourself like some kind of infallible demi-god).

"This, of course, means we can use them in the same way you use a canary in a coal mine. If they all mysteriously end up dead at or around the same time, we know to be on the lookout for a murderous rogue AI bent on eliminating dissent."

Quite rite.

And, just for the record, I for one welcome our superior AI overlords.

"You know, if AI research suddenly gets heavily regulated or even banned, their jobs might fly away."

You know, if their jobs weren't heavily regulated they'd soon discover you (the repetitive Anonymous Coward going with the same boring arguments again and again in these comments) are nothing more than a trolling AI, and a lame attempt at it, and would return you to the dirty pits you belong.

Probably be like the high seas. Pirates are usually dealt with harshly even if they're in international waters.

Aren't you being backwards? Personal taxes often come from corporations, if the personal tax rate goes up, then corporations will need to pay more to employees to maintain the same take home pay and not only that but startups, smaller businesses and such will be hit harder as payroll has to be paid whether a company is profitable or not while taxes on profit only has to be paid if the corporation is successful.
The idea that it is better to not tax corporate profits is a lie pushed by big corporations to stop competition from forming and lack of competition leads to higher prices and worse product. If Amazon one day was the only online seller of goods, they could jack up their prices secure in the knowledge that no-one else can afford to enter their business due to payrolls being so high as only personal taxes would have to pay for everything including the infrastructure that Amazon depends on to do business.

'Well ... in the unlikely event of it going seriously wrong, it ... wouldn't just blow up the university, sir'

'What would it blow up, pray?'

'Er ... everything, sir.'

'Everything there is, you mean?'

'Within a radius of about fifty thousand miles out into space, sir, yes. According to HEX it'd happen instantaneously. We wouldn't even know about it.'

'And the odds of this are ... ?'

'About fifty to one, sir.'

The wizards relaxed.

'That's pretty safe. I wouldn't bet on a horse at those odds,' said the Senior Wrangler.

-Terry Pratchett et al., The Science of Discworld