And this is supposed to be an argument against jQuery?

On the internet, people reach a opinion first and then come up with reasons why, so often the reasons only make sense in that context. And oh yeah, besides the internet that happens everywhere else too.

If you think that's bad, sugar causes a WingDing font.

Better that than Comic Sans MS.

Or to provide more highly-paid jobs for designers of robots to perform the task without human labor.

You should be a little careful with ideas like that... you may end up hurting the people you're trying to help. In many cases, they'd rather have the crappy, exploitive job than starve while watching the machines do what they used to. The machines will come eventually, but taxes like the one you describe will accelerate the process. In general, taxes and other regulatory inhibitors that are intended to fulfill some social goal are viewed by the market as damage, and routed around if at all possible. That doesn't make them useless, but it does mean that you have to step very carefully.

Courting isn't necessary to life, even though it may feel that way. And, actually, diamonds aren't necessary to courting, either. When I got engaged, I was poor and my wife had money, so she bought our rings, both of them. Diamonds are nice enough as long as they are only symbols. If they are more than that, you have a bigger problem.

Surely, there's a bicycle with a generator attached that they forgot.

Nice jihad, asshole

Don't you mean: "Nice veS quv", asshole?

Why is this on slashdot?

For one, because there may well be some slashdotters who worked with him and can expand on what affect this might have on one or another Google project. Something you wouldn't find on a mainstream site.

Eric already knows about your body and he knows what your particular fetish is, too.

And he says "If you have something that you don't want anyone to know, maybe you shouldn't be doing it"

Poker games take time (hours), people grow tired, computers don't.

This is a good point. Computers have no emotion, either. Even the best human players are affected to some small degree by their emotions, especially when they are tired.

People struggle at memorizing chances, taking shortcuts, computers have exact picture talking into account every single bit.

Not much of an issue in Hold 'em. Good players can handle those odds with little effort.

All one needs is behavior that is random enough, for human players not to guess if computer is bluffing.

You of course don't want the human to be able to guess when the computer is bluffing, but it's certainly not "all one needs." Not by a long shot.

Then, of course, there is luck factor, so results will fluctuate quite a bit.

Yes. They'll be playing 1500 hands per day, but in no limit hold 'em the outcome often comes down to a handful of key hands.

Huh? This makes no sense. If they're Android, they can do an incredible variety of stuff. Being low-end, they might not do it well, but they should run pretty much every Android app out there. If they "can't do much to begin with", they're not Android.

To be fair, there *are* fixed costs to the power company in keeping you connected to the grid, in fact those costs are a fairly significant portion of the normal power bill. It's just that the current fee structure doesn't reflect it well.