And in San Francisco you can pretty much be guaranteed to find both, sitting in a bar, arguing about it.

This guy was responsible for Javascript? The most convoluted and bizarre language this side of Lotus Notes?

Screw the bit about his stance on gays. He should be locked in a room with Ray Ozzie and left there until the Second Coming.

They didn't. They just get lost occasionally.

Is this a rule 34-type thing?

Towards an artificial politician.

From a slime mold. It's gotta work.

Gee, I feel better already.....

Well, you're in luck. Just sign up for the F-35 program and get fitted for one of these bad boys.

This can be summed up briefly:

Murphy's Law.

Have you actually seen a newish 18 wheeler, RV or UPS truck without them? They make so much sense to professionals (and well heeled but insane RV drivers) that this has pretty much already happened.

Personally, I can't imagine driving a pickup truck sized vehicle without one. It's been game changer 4 wheeling - you know exactly where that cliff is....

Not really. You can source these things from Amazon for $100 fully built or $25 for component parts. I really don't think it's going to cost folks that much. This is really low tech stuff.

Except that I just stuck one on my truck, built out of component parts found on Amazon for ~$25. One off prices. This stuff is cheap these days.

It really won't raise vehicle prices by much.

No,they're not required. That's the funny part. There are primates which do a wonderful job of going from fertilized egg to organism without the viral DNA. It's just that the viral DNA is very active in a class of stem cells and not active in other cells. It was thought that all of this 'junk DNA' - which includes most of the incorporated retrovirus DNA - didn't do anything.

Now they know it does something. Only in stem cells. That's weird. And fun. But it's not clear that this is useful or will cure cancer or allow you to get a date.

As usual, it's interesting science hyped beyond measure.

Yep, I just did. I live on the side of a 3500 foot mountain at an elevation of about 200 feet. No traditional floods are likely short of a Noah-level deluge, but national flood insurance does cover mass wastings (like the recent disaster in Washington state) as long as damage is from water or mud, not debris or trees (and the damage encompasses more than one acre but less than 20,000 acres). But it only cost $300 a year, so I think it's worth it.

But the flood insurance program in general is just batshit insane, like most US government policies.

Lying is also a useful social construct, no matter what we might think about it's moral implications. So people who find lying easy are often more successful (think you're average sociopathic CEO or politician).

You realize that 'normal' people invariably have symptoms or findings found in syndromes or diseases. The discovery of which prompts the 'second year medical student syndrome'. At least in the US, the second year of medical school is when you start studying the pathology of disease and learn about all of these funny named syndromes and problems. Invariably at least one or two resonates with the reader and they feel instantly afflicted. This prompts further study (which is good) and further worry (which isn't).

What you described is pretty much everyone who doesn't go on to be a used car salesman or a politician. Figuring out the ins and outs of social contact is hard for most humans. People afflicted with autism / aspbergers are really hard stopped to the edge of human contact. Yes, at a molecular level, some of us who don't deal with the social graces as well as others probably have some similarities, but pretty much all of health and disease lies along a continuum, We often make fairly arbitrary distinctions because it helps pigeon hole things and humans like to do that... But it's not always representative of the issue.