Well if we are going to play the whole Star Trek canon, you should remember that Vulcan all have emotions they just learn to control them and think more logically. To have an absence of emotions, or even a substantially reduced set of emotions and no empathy does not mean you will think logically, it just means you will think psychopathically due to very poor social emotional development, basically becoming a parasite upon society rather than contributing to it (all thought you will be very good at claiming the credit of other people's efforts and of course blaming them for your mistakes).

So what atheists need to really question is what is God because there are a whole range of definitions and beliefs around what are the Gods keeping in mind many beliefs accept more than one. Hard to say you don't believe in something when the rest of the people can't even agree on what that something is, logically speaking. So God? agree what it or they are and I might be able to decide whether or not I believe or not. Until then it tends to be a no, no, no, no, etc maybe thing depending upon which god or gods you are talking about ;).

Again this would lead to corruption with patent pre-screening and favoured people getting patentable stuff and unfavoured people getting junk and working for free.

I'll bet core of this problem is yet again right wing performance based measures ie number of patents reviewed and approved. Everyone time right wing idiots do performance based measures it fucks things up. Performance based law enforcement, people get arrested for nothing, law enforcement is in a rush, slow them down and get tasered or shot, so minimum number of arrests per day leads directly to maximum number of million dollar lawsuits great bloody saving, huh. Performance based schooling means, directly leads to stacking classes for select charters schools and teachers with better performing students and sticking the poor performing students in poor schools with cheap teachers, yep, that is going to produce results.

Stop filling government departments with political appointees, especially management positions, that is the single greatest cause of failure and of course directly leads to even idiots can monitor performance based guidelines, yep, manage them right into the ground.

The brain chemical reward system, defines for each individual what is boring and what is not so gaining knowledge for the more intelligent is neither dull not boring but quite a soothing pleasant mellow ride and interruption of said mental ride can and often will result in quite negative expressed reactions. This in it's most extreme form is represented in autism, where singular mind focus disrupts from normal social development and disruption results in reaction akin to drug addicts being denied their substance of choice. The brain chemical reward system is somewhat flexible and can learn new stimulants to provoke that reward but again that varies between individuals.

To confuse issues of course, you can have a genetically more efficient and effective mind however due to lack of brain chemical reward it is not exercised and you can have a less efficient and effective mind but the brain chemical reward not matter how used really does not achieve all that much, in comparison to others.

So likely a composite of factors including diet of the mother during pregnancy as well as health and well being during childhood. Not just genetics, let alone a single genetic trait.

More simply put, freedom of speech is the right to freely express your opinion as just that and not the right to misrepresent lies as the truth. Apparently Ronny Raygun eliminated that distinction in the US http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F... his singular greatest achievement, if you are a lying psychopath corporate executive.

In this case it was all pre-planned. Basically the whole batshit crazy idea, lets turn the computer desktop into a phone interface to force users who don't want it to get used to the windows phone interface and buy it like mindless lemmings.

Apparently that whole batshit crazy plan backfired and did more damage to windows on the desktop than it ever did to force acceptance of windows on a phone.

Unfortunately the whole Ozone event did one thing for sure and certain, it taught the carbon polluting psychopathic corporate executives to get in early with their PR=B$ teams (public relations and marketing) and lobbyists to kill anything that might affect short term profits. The future, fuck the future, they want it all now, more and more and more. If they attempted to tackle ozone depletion now, you just know they would fail.

Have you ever been a member of an organisation that "Prevents others from exercising their constitutional rights", youch, based upon many recent civil law suits and prosecutions that would get you barred for ever having been a member of many local police forces and even federal government agencies, I guess they must exemption when you do it corruptly for the current politicians in power.

Sorry but those guilt by association questions cross the line and seriously nearly all religions cross that line of "Prevents others from exercising their constitutional rights" just read their religious works and seriously if your religions abides by a religious work and that religious work contains instructions and requirements that cross the constitutional line then you and your religion are crossing that constitutional line. Just like any other written threat or terrorist act.

You are aware, that with credit card like payments, the onus of proof is upon the retailer not upon the credit card holder. However the current problem is failure to prosecute retailer's for fraudulent charges and the whole identity theft lie. A lie designed to throw the burden on individuals and away from credit card companies and retailers. A prime example of first class marketing by PR=B$ companies, got you all sucked into believing that the individual must prove their innocence, rather than the guilty people, the retailer and the credit card company must prove they did not intend to commit fraudulent charges ie that must prove that they were defrauded by someone impersonating you.

Only one composite feature, a phone locator and a reminder to take off the watch and put the phone in my pocket. I suppose I'll also need a app on the phone to find the watch ;D.

You left out the one where competitors actually pay PR=B$ (public relations and marketing companies) companies, to bag competitors products and thus make their own products not look quite so bad by comparison. Anyone want an Apple, cough, cough?

Lego fusion is only a simple extension not a whole world built of Lego, especially in multi-user. So they have a whole long way to go. The smart idea is allow people to cheaply design Lego models and then allow them to order the parts based upon the design and have it delivered as a custom box ready to go in the real world.

Actually lateral thinking would be to buy Lego and create a full game based around constructing with the Lego blocks. You then have a full 'click and mortar'(heh, heh) solution ie a full range merchandise already in stores to go with the newly created game. Makes much more sense than buying minecraft.

Nothing at all confusing, when you read the fine print. Paypal wont be 'accepting' bitcoin, it will be allowing transactions and the merchants are the ones who will only voluntarily accepting bitcoin and paying real money to allow those funny money transaction. So Paypal will sneakily be handling bitcoin to earn real money and pushing all the risk on merchants foolish enough to accept them. As to be accepted the majority of merchants will refuse them. So bitcoin will only be a parallel currency and not as the story or the bitcoin ponzi promoters who got in early, converted by Paypal into real money. In reality more an exercise in marketing to drive news stories and free advertising to compete against other 'small' transaction agencies as well as existing credit cards.

Why do you join in the lie, pretty obviously because you support the psychopathic scheme behind that lie. It is enough for one but not enough for a family of four, hence the scheme is to charge the family of four for four lines at peak usage.

Realistic full usage would include four high definition channels at the same time, together with peaks of file downloads and 4 different audio visual communications channels. Uploads could peak quite high for example with the addition of uploading wedding or birthday videos to all attendees.

So why the strangle band, quite simply to artificially introduce scarcity in order to charge more for bandwidth already available in many countries, straight up psychopathic thinking fed by insatiable greed. Proof that the internet needs to become a government controlled essential service if it is ever to perform properly and provide a service that fulfils the needs of the majority rather than trying to feed the insatiable greed of a minority.

For a start government creates the concept of ownership of property. All property is owned by the government, the people that create that government and that government just allots control of elements that it owns based upon rules created by the individuals that form that government. First and foremost is rule of self ownership a right right fought for with the deaths of millions for centuries and screw any asshat that puts property rights about personal rights. So the employee always takes precedence over their personal rights ahead of the employers property rights because the employee is not property. You apparently don't get that. Property rights are a privilege not a right and assigned by the government to benefit the majority. When that privilege not no longer benefits the majority than that privilege is taken away either voluntarily or as is the norm by lethal force due to the nature of the psychopaths and narcissists who routinely abuse property privileged and try to extend to include ownership and control of persons via extortion or slavery.