You sure that brown color is from tanning?

Didn't have enough pictures. C'mon, we're nerds here - we only clicked on the link to see some "rounded coverage" (or rounded un-coverage).

Sunlight is addictive. So is food. So is water. So is oxygen. Do without any of these things for an extended period of time and you'll see what I mean.

Too much sunlight is bad. Too much food is bad. Too much water is bad. Too much oxygen is bad. Do your own experiments if you need to confirm these things - but don't complain to the rest of the world when you end up sunburnt, obese, suffering water intoxication or respiratory failure.

*Sheesh*

Sorry - my hearing's shot. A couple years in the field artillery will do that to ya!

Mozilla should go back to doing what they have always done best - annoying the shit out of Microsoft in the browser wars.

It's okay, Charlie. You'll forget it completely before long.

That machine wasn't merely a decision engine or a huge database - it was a learning system which was given a few months to learn all it could on a broad variety of subjects by crawling the internet. It wasn't programmed with rules to pair an answer with the correct question; it was a system which "learned" how to associate concepts. It was programmed to permit it to weigh its questions against how well they correlated to the answers - to determine a confidence level - but it wasn't specifically programmed to devise questions associated with answers. That's why the next publicly stated idea for the system was in medical diagnostics. It's another area where the ability to relate multiple seemingly disparate items of information with a non-static data store seemed to be of value.

Giving the right programming, it might even hold a conversation better than a 13 year old Ukrainian boy.

LSD

"Offtopic" - gee, I guess I hit a nerve with someone, huh?

and at only $0.25 for three ships, it was a bargain. The ship even had hyperdrive!

Boy - I'll bet you're as jumpy as a Christian Scientist with appendicitis.

No, it's we taxpayers footing the bill. Any deviation from original plans will cost more. It's another opportunity for corporations to participate in the feeding frenzy.

Pretty lousy, eh chum?

Hey - I'll have you know we have the best government money can buy!

Yes, I know - hackneyed and trite. Still true.

If it were "black" or "hispanic" or "gay" or "Muslim" or "" instead of "Republicans", there'd be hell to pay.

Oh, wait - hell is a Christian invention. Damned crafty of 'em, incidentally.

"a real asset worth real money"

Which means they aren't money themselves. Good to know.

No, but republic credits will be fine.