For those interested in time travel, the inaugural meeting of the International Time Travel Association will be held at the Perimeter Institute last Tuesday at 20:00.
The meeting location will be posted next Wednesday.

It is not possible to tax a corporation.
Corporations exist to provide a return on shareholder investment.
Taxing a corporation requires that the money for the tax comes from the customers.
Thus all so-called corporate taxes are hidden taxes on the consumer of that corporations products and services.

It is only a public shaming if there is shame involved.
I'm guessing that most people who drive drunk don't care much .

Some may even be proud of it.

Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada has had driverless trains since 1985

No, that is a 'very bad thing', since if a person does not qualify for a loan, they do not have the means to pay it back. Thus, the finance company gets what little money they had, plus the car.

This was one of the root causes of the US banking collapse of 2008 -- they permitted mortgage loans to those who could ill afford them, then bundled all that bad debt in with good debt and re-sold it as "asset backed commercial paper"
The http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/N... NINJA loan, the Interest-only loan and a host of other vehicles were used to take the earnings and the savings (and ultimately, the houses) from people who should never ever have been given mortgages at that point in their lives.

Convict gets a rush of euphoria, and shuffles off the mortal coil.
Side benefit is that it stigmatizes heroin.

Another side benefit is that all of the judicial mistakes get at least one good rush before they are wrongfully executed.
Think it doesn't happen?
It must have happened at least once -- and that is too many.

If anyone is seriously interested in Time Travel, the inaugural meeting of the Vancouver Time Travel association will be held last Tuesday at the planetarium.

Personhood implies social responsibility.
This is much more than paying taxes, it involves a wide range of social interactions including employment, self-reliance, participation in government etc.

Chimps if "released" could not function in our society. Releasing them into the wild would be a death sentence for most lab animals.

They would still need to be cared for, and are unlikely to be able to contribute much.

I do not see how a judge could make a finding of personhood under (what little I know of) American law.

A major function of adolescence is forging a life apart from the parents' control.

Parents can facilitate this by gradually relinquishing control in response to trustworthy behaviour on the part of the teen.
The progression results in self-disciplining young adults who are independent, yet respect authority

Parents can thwart the burgeoning independence of their adolescent children by attempting to control and monitor their offspring's behaviour, even when the adolescent has shown no tendency toward suspicious behaviour. Treating ANYONE in a suspicious manner tends to foster the behaviour expected.
This progression results in young adults who resent authority, and have sub-standard life skills.

"Just because you can" is never a valid reason for doing something.

All humans have "similar" DNA

Is that somebody will have a bright idea that we can deliberately prolong the status quo.

They then convince a bunch of idiots w/ money and power (aka politicians) that their "solution" will somehow save the planet.

Humans will do what humans do best: We will adapt.

The climate is changing. Let it change. Go with the flow.

from the article::
"Human rights groups estimate that China executes thousands of prisoners a year, but correspondents say that the official figures remain a state secret."

non-Google translation:
"Nobody knows -- not even the Chinese government -- how many prisoners are executed each year...

Since governments in general disregard laws with impunity, what difference can it possibly make to pass laws requiring warrants? They will do what they are going to do anyway. The existence of a law will not change this behaviour. The powerful are not constrained by laws, only the weak.