Plot device, perhaps, but if you've read the entire "robot" series of novels, you'll see that it was used to provide a unique "angle" from which to tackle some classical problems of ethics. As a practical matter, I rather doubt that such a set of such laws, even if they were logically sound, could be reliably built into a machine such that no contrivance, hardware or software, could be used to circumvent them.

Yeah? So? The message should be clear enough, find some other way to make money and stop being a leach.

TFTFY.

Seems to me that the GOP did a pretty good job of blocking legislation that they didn't like for the last 6 years, even without a majority.

Well, that's a good question, and arguably applies to companies of all sizes. And my answer is, "You'll know because you're doing the things you're supposed to be doing. You know, like employing things like SIEM, IDS, IPS, etc.

TFTFY. Something that, by nature, occurs in a sizable portion of the population, and which has, itself, no debilitating signs or symptoms is not really a disorder, so politics has nothing to do with it.

Strawman much? Your argument seems to want to blame Title II for the evils of a monopoly. Google wants that status so that they can do what only the ILEC's are allowed to do right now. That's a huge change in this monopoly game.

Sorry, but I don't see much of distinction there. Terrorism and murder are no more, or less, justified by any particular religious belief. Hurting other people because you believe the invisible man in the sky somehow demands it of you is kinda the very definition of bat-shit crazy.

WTF? Will of the people? As interpreted by "elected lawmakers? You must be joking.

You and your friends are probably the assholes who talk and text through the movies in the theaters. Enjoy your "social" experience.

Really? Compared to what? A well produced CD. Perhaps. It would surely take some serious high-end turntable components to get the best out of vinyl, but compared to the mp3 shit that (almost) everyone thinks is just fine? No. Not even close.

That's the thing, there's a lot of shitty CD's out there. Yeah, get off my lawn, but a lot of the music I like to listen to was just "dumped" to CD. The difference between my antique vinyl "Thick As A Brick" and my CD version is astounding. Yes, Telarc does good work. Superlative. But their catalog is small.

Not a myth. I don't have a golden ear, but I am hear to tell you that my SET amp sounds far better than any solid state gear I have ever owned, by far. Yes, it has it's limitations, there's only so much you can do with 4 or 5 watts, but with the right program material, through the right speakers, the difference is nothing short of breathtaking.

By your logic, nobody should ever trust any scientific finding without have done the work for herself. By your reasoning, peer review counts for nothing. Those views are not rational. They are, however, extremely common amongst climate change deniers and others who would prefer to believe in a more attractive version of "the truth", despite there being overwhelming evidence of something less agreeable.

Uh, that would be a rational suggestion if not for the fact that there is no "dealing with the problems as they surface". By the time something "surfaces", it will be far, far too late to field any effective response. Or so the experts are telling us. I gather that you disagree with those experts. On what basis to you disagree?

Oh, how predictable; your attempt to equate blind faith and the reasoned acceptance of the findings of an overwhelming number of "practicing climate scientists". Science is knowable. Valid results can be verified. If I were of a mind to, I could acquire the expertise and do so. There is, to understate it just a bit, a big fucking difference between that and blind faith.