Most people waste the time in college, spending more time chasing alcohol and dates.

Because I guarantee you that somewhere there is a guy buying them from China in bulk, for 1/5 the price, repackaging them and selling them on Amazon for 3/4 the price.

You know - things like objecting to government regulation, complaining about government spying, making a request for public information, suing the government, that kind of thing.

That is the difference between journalism and science. Journalism needs to get attention, science works best with little attention.

You can't trust science articles if they have any outrage.

Robots driving people means that people in suburban and rural areas can go to a bar and get drunk, without worrying about how they get home.

This is a major improvement - both for drinkers and for the people that have to share the road with them.

Amazing how much the pro-gun lobby wants to waste on expensive crap like this, rather than simply allowing for effective laws. Hell, for most of what we need, we don't even need to create new laws, just start enforcing the current ones - in part by firing idiotic state government employees that refuse to comply with with federal reporting requirments

But it in no way prevents the government from recording them in the first place.

I Robot, and Bicentennial man simply did not live up to the books.

How much do you get paid to put forth idiotic political propaganda like this?.

As for your silly wish for Obama to roll over and be the GOP's lapdog, he's got way too much of a backbone to do that.

2)That in no way at all implies aliens did it because....

3)All living worlds (hopefully Earth is just one of many) start out as lifeless and then develop life. So all living worlds MUST undergo terraforming.

4) If aliens did it, it would have taken a LOT LESS time then it did. These studies pretty much prove your wrong about aliens doing it.

Whens starting up, a living world's major problem is fuel. It's very hard to eat generic dirt and gasses. So first they need something that can take whatever inorganic raw materials exist and transform it into something more easily digestible. That means taking the atmosphere and turning it into oxygen rich (or whatever other gas the complex life needs) and taking inorganic dirt and turning it into organic fertilizer (i.e. manure). Then more complex life can come along and live off the manure and atmosphere. Then once life fills the planet, multi-celluar life forms can come along and start eating the single celled life forms, which has become good food.

That is how life takes over a world naturally. Intelligence simply speeds up the process, it doesn't change it.

Any evidence to the contrary is spurious. I think therefore I exist. I can't observe anyone else thinking, therefore they do not exist.

Is this really the right time to talk about this?

Similarly, I strongly endorse the idea of supermodels having sex with me.

I think that both of have just as much right to expect the laws to change to suit our desires.

They both require massive connections to other, unrelated networks - so uniformity in protocals.

The both must also connect to human interfaces that are always made by a third party, so again, uniformity of protocals.

They provide something that is in effect a commodity measured pretty much entirety by reliability and 'size of the pipe'. You don't get different flavors, etc.

We are using it to get to places we want to get to, not for itself. Just like any other utility.

Broadband is obviously a utility and should be treated as one.

The attempt to charge people on both ends is an abuse of power. When I buy internet, I expect to get the full speed I contracted for, without regard to whomever I am connecting to at the other end.