"And I'm sure if the guy could communicate more than yes/no he would be saying "Kill me""

Well, he could answer "yes" to the question "do you want us to kill you?",
and "no" to the question "do you want to live a little longer?".

Locked-in syndrome is to me the most terrifying end I can conceive.

Story title: "Study Finds Unvaccinated Students Putting Other Students At Risk"
I suppose this means vaccination is not effective.

You made a nice point: you don't mind shitting on everyone else's lawn.

Grammar darwinesquely evolved to become a near optimal disambiguation mechanism.
As a byproduct, it also serves as a mutual recognition system among the intellectual "elite".
The result is that proper grammar and spelling are perceived as snobbish artefacts and there is a strong popular pressure to degrade linguistic purity at the expense of understandibility.
This tendency is rather obvious if you compare today's barely readable fora with those of only ten years ago, at least in french.

You might get diabetes from american fattened sweetened "chocolate", not from swiss chocolate.

Or, to put it in more naive terms, people are idiots and democracy is doomed to failure.

Solar justice is being served.

I would rather fire those academics publishing more that five papers per year.
They are just wasting valuable readers' time.

No encryption. I prefer steganography.
Whenever my partners receive a picture of my cat, they promptly retrieve the nasty contents hidden inside.
And the police spies won't even suspect I am an outlaw.

So called quantum computing does not break the computational complexity barriers, it just shifts them a bit.
What is exponential (like the RSA) remains exponential; we may have to increase the key size a little and that's it.

"Also engineering achievements, at least solely with respect to being an engineering achievement, never win a prize."
The 1979 Nobel prize in medicine was awarded for the development of "Computer Assisted Tomography".
This was an engineering achievement based on generous financing and on a previous major scientific achievement, the Fast Fourier Transformation, probably too mathematical to deserve a Nobel prize.
Additionally, the 2003 prize was [mis-]attributed for the [re-]discovery of MRI, another engineering achievement.

There has been a long debate about the anisotropy of the speed of light. The current orthodox belief is that it is isotropic, but I have yet to see a convincing proof. What would the CERN neutrino experiment tell with another detector elsewhere?

"When Does Signing Up Becoming 'Opting In?"

Please translate the title in english.
Thank you.

When the boss starts looking for scapegoats (the "rich"), it shows he gave up hope of solving the problem (runaway debt).

A patent on a finger gesture Eh?