while (1) {
    prediction = PredictWeather();
    if (prediction == true) {
          AskForMoreGrantFunding();
          BlaimGlobalWarming();
    } else {
          BlaimGlobalWarming();
          AskForMoreGrantFunding();
    }
}

Didn't Clarke write in Fountains of Paradise that the sudden appearance of an alien probe ship would basically invalidate most religions on the grounds that they're all Earth-centric?

True. And downloading viruses and running botnets.

Facebook, Solitaire, Candy Crush, Angry Birds, not Internet Explorer, cracked copies of Office.

Format the drive and reinstall all your software. Probably takes the same amount of time, too.

So when will I get my sunlight-visible iPad and Macbook Pro (17-inch, please)?

Simple fix: add a pot to the dropping resistor part of the circuit.

Hee hee. That reminds me of the urban legend from way back in MIT's history. The city of Cambridge decided to install parking meters. Some students didn't like that so they went out an bought a parking meter at a junkyard and made sure that they got a detailed receipt for it. Then they stated going around campus hacksawing off parking meters. Whenever a cop saw them walking around with a meter and stopped them, they'd just show the receipt for the junkyard one. Pretty soon, there were no more meters around campus.

Yep. Our Sheriff's Office Forest Patrol (who legally outranks the Forest Service BTW) refers to the Forest Service as the boulder fairies because they boulders appear during the night. Oh, and there are gates that are supposed to be 50-inches wide to restrict jeeps and large side-by-side ATVs from going through. That would be fine if they didn't mount the hinges on the inside of that 50 inches so you can't get a full 50 when you open the gate.

But then the Forest Service morons are also phony...I mean artificial...and hence their opinions are suspect.

For those of you who don't live in Arizona, the Forest Service mandated a certain percentage of permanent road closures in the state. Coconino (basically between I-40 and the Grand Canyon) decided to close down 80% of the roads. Yes, eight zero percent. But here's the catch: They don't physically block off the roads. You're supposed to know which roads are open and which aren't and if they find you on a closed road they can fine you. State Game & Fish and the Sheriff's Offices have already said that they aren't going to enforce this crap. Oh, and search & rescue operations aren't exempt from these rules. Hell, a local search dog unit wanted to hold a national conference and do some training in the forest. The Forest Service demanded an environmental impact study be done. What the hell are they worried about? Dog poop? How is that any different from coyote poop?

It's part of current business models. Notice how many "products" you use that you don't just buy once but rather require you to pay a monthly fee and one that appears to be inexpensive but turns out to cost a crapload of money over the long term. And how many "products" do you pay for every month whether you use them or not. (I smell a Slashdot poll) We're rapidly falling into the gravity well of not actually owning anything. Now take a look at the TV ads for the Capital One Venture card that claims to have no blackout dates or limited seating and woohoo! double miles. What they don't tell you is that they give you a very low credit limit so that it takes two to four times as long to get one of these free flights. There is ALWAYS a catch somewhere. The consumer rarely, if ever, gets everything they were promised.
I, myself, have started writing the install date with a Sharpie on every bulb I put in so I have some real-world idea of lifespan. "Oh, it'll last 5000 hours...under normal use." What the hell is normal use? "Normal" is not a standardized unit of measure despite the implied definition. Light bulb manufacturing is ultimately a business not a love affair. If they made a bulb that lasted for 10 years "under normal use" and charged the same as an older technology that only lasted a year, that company would find itself out of business. This is also why Wonka's everlasting gob stopper will lose money, too. All joking aside, this is also why home solar panels are more of a scam than anything at this point. Lots of people don't know that they have a limited lifespan and gradually lose their efficiency yet the companies snow people into thinking that they're going to make money by selling energy back to the power company. Maybe. After losing money for 3/4 of the panels' lifespan.
It's mostly smoke and mirrors. Oh, and you need to pay an environmental impact fee for the smoke and are required by law to recycle the mirrors at your expense.

If this guy is so smart on the subject of aging, why not set the limit at 65? On the plus side, Social Security and Medicare would go away. And if this guy is so eager to drop dead at 75, why not right now? Go ahead, buddy. I have the same feeling towards the wackos who think humans are destroying the planet. Okay, then, go ahead and off yourself. Show us how great the planet will be after you're gone and we'll be right behind you. Go on. Lead from the front.

This is pretty damn funny but it illustrates the problem of mixing business with social media. Unless you are big enough to afford to hire someone whose only job is to monitor social media and fight the trolls, you have no chance of controlling your business message. Now trolling is sanctioned by the gumint, that task is even harder.

Oh, I highly doubt that. I know a LOT of people who voted for Obama for no other reason than to be part of history in voting for the first African-American president.
But that wasn't my point at all. The Obama team supposedly made extensive use of technology to focus their efforts and spread their message via what might be called an electron-roots effort. You would think that a team that's savvy about that would have known enough to hire the best people to build the ACA infrastructure. Unfortunately, it now appears that political favoritism ruled the day. That suggests that they were less interested in building the best product than they were in being the administration that built any product.