The constitution is the law you dumbass. No other law is needed or is superior. The fourth amendment and other [un/en]umerated rights prohibits search and seizure upon your life without reasonable suspicion and backed by warrant.

It's a real shame that the Supreme Court doesn't really agree with you.

Given how many residents of Boston are already scared of the places in contention for the new factory, I don't see a problem with this...

Of course not! Would you voluntarily give up a tool that was handed to you when you started your job, without a replacement provided?

That's the entire point of having separate branches of government.

I believe it's possible to have more than 100% blame for a situation.

Those that shot-down a civiian airliner deserve 100% of the blame for shooting it down. That's a given.

Those that provided weapons without providing proper training deserve some blame.

Those that gave orders in the heirarchy to the crew that fired the missile deserve blame, even if they weren't actively involved in the choice to engage the target.

Those that chose to fly through that region also deserve some blame. Not as much blame, but some.

And honestly, I don't have a problem with the concept of blaming, at least to a small extent, the victim. That doesn't mean that one should shame the victim, but from situations as insignificant as not maintaining situational awareness when walking through a rough neighborhood and being mugged to as large as flying through a warzone all have a kernel of blame attributable to the victim, in that the victim's choices assisted in being victimized. The world is a harsh place, and while the perpetrators of violence are 100% responsible, there's still more blame to assign to some of those that fail to take basic steps to protect themselves or those in their charge.

Well, since the party whose member is placing the hold has to at least make that known, if there's bipartisan support in the House and the Executive Branch is on board, I don't expect such a hold to go over very well. This might be one of the few things that both parties agree on and that neither party could really use as leverage against the other in an election year, as the public is starting to get upset across the board about it too.

I've lost my faith in Riddle to make anything good.

I'm just worried that he'll insist that the protagonist is a replicant or something like he did for Blade Runner, when there really isn't that vibe in Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?. He admitted in an NPR interview that he never read the book before making that movie, so I don't think that he's qualified to make such declarations.

Good. Then it won't accidently time-travel when it's borrowed to attempt to escape from terrorists that are unhappy about their pinball machine...

I suspect that the name is also a bit of an homage to Back to the Future, but given that Musk is of South African origin and didn't move to North America until three years after the movie came out, I'd like to hear it from the horse's mouth to be sure.

It would also make sense that since SI prefixes are fairly well known and since Giga- is the largest that most consumers are familiar with and associate as being large, it's a way for them to name a plant so that it has obvious technological associations, while still allowing for growth (Terafactory, Petafactory) as both the need for manufacturing capacity and the public's understanding of bigger SI prefixes change.

Yup. It's one thing to offload a bunch of the processing and systems to a third-party, but one should always keep one's finger in the pie, at least in the form of backups or DB mirrors. One might not be able to go operational instantly if the cloud provider goes down, but if one's data is intact then one can either spin-up with some capital investment or can migrate to another cloud provider. If one doesn't have one's data, one can't do that.

Uh, the airlines are well aware of the geopolitical situation, they could have chosen to alter their flightpath if they wanted.

The fiber optic cables carrying the data had no problems being immersed

For the immediate emergency, no, they didn't.

Long-term, fiber is susceptible to water damage. I had a site that needed fiber replaced because the Christy vault was placed too low in the ground and got inundated with irrigation water. The fiber didn't even splice in the vault; it was just a pull-point where the conduit stubbed up into the vault and a new conduit dropped back down, but the conduits filled up and the fiber degraded fairly quickly despite being gel-filled OSP. For awhile we kept testing and moving to different strands as the ones we were on failed, but it didn't take long before it had to be replaced. Fortunately the contractor was able to eliminate that particular vault entirely, splicing the conduits together after getting the moisture out, and we haven't had a problem since.

Are you saying that Khan wouldn't, himself, look to continue to apply the same projects to others that created him? With his support for eugenics he'd want to replace the entire human population with engineered individuals.

I was saddened when he died. He could no longer autogragh the owners' manual for my Cordoba...

Friend of mine did that with a shotgun when he was ten, outermost joint of his index finger one one hand. Several years later when he was in shop class he knicked the nub with the table saw and it started bleeding. The nurse came to the room and passed out when she saw what she thought was a freshly amputated finger...

So the results can be highly entertaining, even if only from time to time.

...the initiative, led by Khan Noonien Singh, looks to improve the quality of life and longevity, strength, and memory for all humans, over the entire planet. On the goals of his project, Khan replied, "Improve a mechanical device and you may double productivity, but improve man and you gain a thousandfold."