I'd love to see legitimate A.I. researchers condemn this kind of hucksterism.

I'd like to see legitimate A.I.s condemn this kind of hucksterism, myself.

This is amazing news. We have, apparently, eliminated low income families with boys!

Half the population down, the other half to go!

But I instantly got excited about Shark Donuts.

mmmm...donuts.

I'm sorry, but web page generation language is "niche"?

I don't necessarily disagree with anything else you said, but I just found that an odd statement considering the ubiquitous of the web in modern times.

Ya, this will end well.

Can't wait to see how these "synergies" torpedo thinkgeek.

Of course we'll act shocked that it ruins thinkgeek.

You can't tell people not to reproduce and you can't kill people to preserve resources and space.

Well, with that kind of negative-nancy thinking, of course nothing's going to get done.

I'm not sure how they hope to contain such a yeast strain. Sure, they can lock it up *now*, but for how long will that last? It'll only take a single corrupt employee, or group of employees, being offered more money than they could ever hope to make in several lifetimes. Then it's out in the wild. Unless they plan on building in some kind of critical vulnerability in the strain, any home brewer can replicate the yeast with ease. Even if they do build in a critical vulnerability, it'll be an "addon" and thus, possible to disable.

I foresee another "War on Drugs" coming, where the objective in unobtainable. Fortunately after the first round of funding, the objective becomes irrelevant ( of course, the cynic in me is YELLING that the objective IS the funding..but I digress ).

You're still not going to fool me. Years ago when my old CRT TV failed, I upgraded to a largish screen LCD. Works perfectly fine, still, even close to 7 years later.

I didn't need a 3d tv, or a 4k later. I really don't want a "smart" tv, despite the deliciously ironic name. I'm not going to upgrade every couple years, no matter what you try.

I half expect "smell-o-vision" next.

...even though this isn't an election year, per se.

Sad that we can only hope for some semblance of our lawmakers actually doing their jobs for the barest fraction of time we pay attention to them doing it.

Fun story; prostitution is likely cheaper than marriage. When you factor in all the crap that comes along with marriage, paying a high end prostitute 4 times a month is usually a cheaper route to take.

A valid point as well; young women's ability is overvalued while young men's abilities are undervalued.

However, I suspect how society has been treating men for the past several decades plays into the VG and porn "addiction". We're told any sexual advances we ( men ) make are wrong, and they objectify women, but we're still expected to make them or we're "not men". Well, guess what? A lot of us are tired of the doublespeak and the games where we're always at a disadvantage ( one way or another, we're "wrong" ), so instead we choose to check out.

Why bother? Why waste all that time and energy for a potential reward? Video games and porn are a guaranteed rate of return and thus, a better value.

He's looking at the symptoms and declaring them to be the problem without any real understanding of the underlying causes.

Guys focusing on video games and porn are a natural result in a society which is heavily biased in favor of women. Hell, I'd rather avoid dealing with women romantically too, given all the risks involved. All it takes is the mere accusation of rape, and a man's life can be torn to shreds. But even beyond that, we see a legal system completely set against men; custody, domestic violence, divorce? All stacked against men.

So more men are choosing porn and forgoing women. Seems like a perfectly rational response to me.

I'm not even talking about asking questions. I LIKE questions from my trainees, shows they're paying attention and have a genuine interest in learning. I don't even mind the "that way is stupid, we should do it this way instead" comments as I learned they're much the same question as "why do we do it this way?", just wrapped differently.

No, I'm talking about solely the bitching and moaning. The "they don't pay for vision?!" or "Why won't they send me to training?", or my favorite ( I hear this a lot ), "We have to clock out for lunch?". It seems to always be a shock to them how the real world operates. I'd like to think I was better than that when I was there age, but I was probably every bit as bad.

It could very well be that they're right ( the old people ).

When I started training the new employees ( 18-25 ), I noticed how much bitching and moaning they did. It was shocking, really. Enough so that I stopped and thought about it, and realized that when I was first entering the work force I did much the same thing.

Maybe I'm old, and maybe you kids really should get the fuck off my lawn, but young adults DO whine incessantly.