Hasn't this been common knowledge among SF readers for years?

Yeah, and?

If the NIMBYs want to make life inconvenient for others, why shouldn't it be made inconvenient for them, too?

Here's the actual Godwin's Law, as stated by Godwin:

"As an online discussion grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving Nazis or Hitler approaches 1"

That's it. It's true, it's kind of amusing, it's otherwise pointless.

The new, improved, Godwin's Law is: "If anyone says anything about Nazis, I can shout 'Godwin's Law' and shut down the discussion".

The only people who benefit from that are Nazis, because they can shut down any discussion about Nazis. No sane person should ever use the fake 'Godwin's Law', or defend it.

'Godwin's Law' in the idiotic modern interpretation, is primarily used to defend the actions of Nazis.

'You said you want to muder all Jews. You're a Nazi!'
'Ha-ha. Godwin's Law! You lose!'

I'm sure I remember Godwin once saying how embarrassed he was about the whole thing.

Didn't Microsoft lay off thousands of QA testers a few months back?

I have smaller Green drives that have been running 24/7 for five or six years with no user-visible problems. A couple of them are reporting 1 or 2 bad sectors, but that's it. None of the smaller Green drives have yet failed, with up to 45,000 power-on hours. But maybe I just got unlucky with the 3TB version.

They don't constantly speed up and slow down, and I disabled the head parking.

There's a few watts if you have a bunch of them in a RAID. And there's a significant difference in price, or was when I last bought some.

I've never seen as many bad drives as the 3TB WD Greens, but about 80% of mine are still working fine, and I only had to replace one early. The oldest now has nearly 30,000 power-on hours.

The left hate poor people. They want to force them out of work and make them reliant on the state, so they'll vote for left-wing governments.

But a real pisser if the pilot decides to hijack the plane.

Personally, I'd rather have the cockpit door open, and me and three hundred other passengers ready to beat to death any aspiring hijackers if they try anything.

If they're providing useful data, someone will pay for it.

Websites used to do that before the ads came along, and the website owners mostly paid for the sites themselves. Now many only exist to spam you with as many ads as possible, and most of the rest exist to display cat pictures alongside the ads.

That's why I said to ask them what 'Artificial Intelligence' means. Their examples would be more like Terminator than a chess playing computer.

But I think it's a good bet that Spiderman will exist before AI does.

Only by AI researchers.

Ask the human in the street what 'Artificial Intelligence' means, and they won't say 'a chess computer' or 'something that answers questions on a TV quiz show'.

It's because AI researchers don't understand what AI is that there's no chance of them ever building one.

Just give the left a few years, and you'll see exactly that. They need to ride the AGW bandwagon to the end of the line, first.