I was expelled from honors English for disagreeing with the teacher's interpretation of "Ozymandias".

I still read books (But not sonnets).

That's why you didn't get the job.

It depends on the product. It doesn't make sense to waste money advertising highly specific networking equipment to someone looking for cookie recipes, unless you already know that person has looked at networking equipment before.

What matters to companies is not whether targeted ads are what consumers want but whether they generate sales. No sane person wants any kind of ad, targeted or not.

The lifting power of an airship goes up with it's volume (3 dimensional), while its weight only goes up with surface area (2 dimensional), as a consequence the ship doesn't need to get much bigger to substantialy increase its lifting capability.

So while this thing is just over 6 times longer than the blimp you were in, it's able to lift 160 tons of additional weight.

It shouldn't be hard. All we need to do is program it to say, "What?", and "Where's the tea?" and no one will know the difference.

Sure, but the the real question is how long has it been killing people, and why doesn't it eat their feet?

By itself this device only gives you liquid CO2 which you then have to deal with. But hook this to an algae photobioreactor tower and you can have a self-contained pod that generates use able diesel fuel with only sunlight and air as inputs.

Pairing them will let you eliminate the "compress to a liquid" step as well, which should further lower the energy requirement for CO2 reclamation.

Right.
Just like not watching TV commercials.
Going to the bathroom is stealing.

Actually, it's quite a ways in the past. It was called VRML and the world wasn't ready for it... then.

The reverse can work too. Ages ago I built a bot that would answer chat attempts with randomly selected "fortune" quotes, stripped of their bylines and biased by the presence of nouns that matched those found in the other party's message. I left it running as my "away" message on the mainframe at a large university (where people would chat randomly to you all the time)

I didn't bother saving "my" side of the conversation , so I'm sure I missed some hilarious exchanges, but just reading the other side's messages shows that girls, in particular, would keep chatting with my bot far beyond the point where guys would realize it was a bot and give up.

My favorite was a girl who kept a running dialog going for nearly a day and a half. She would occasionally express surprise at how fast I could type (no delay in bot response) but otherwise seemed convinced that the bot was really human.

That conversation only ended when the bot apparently chose to say something incredibly offensive to her (I wish I knew what it was). She told the bot to "stop talking to me" several times, apparently never picking up on the fact that it auto-responded every time she tried to get the last word in.

So, if I understand you, you want to see hard evidence that the device, which hasn't been invented yet, actually works before you'll concede that inventing it might possibly be a good idea?

You do have that freedom. And the users have to freedom to reject your software in favor of something else.

Sure. But if you want me to use your service and resources, then I do.