When Microsoft starts to emulate Mafia Wars to entice people random-invite, I start getting worried

I hear there's vast supplies of Unobtainium, Neverfindium and Nanananaimgettingpaidforthissium to be found on the moon.

Coders often want to get paid by their PHBs as well. Unless a company can maintain atleast some sort of competitive advantage against the rivals, guess what'll happen to the coders.

So exercise without changing from very high calory diet didn't work that well?
Don't expect just exercise or just changing your diet to do miracles. Every single diet (not counting surgical procedures) is STILL resting on exercising more and reducing the calorie intake.

Tell that to the indians.

DNA does not care about what a person does for living, nor about their wealth. But suggesting that those who breed less are genetically inferior is jumping to absurdity.

Even natural selection doesn't care particularly about how many offspring an animal gets, what matters more is the chance that the genes will have passed to the future. Even though the rich are a smaller group with relatively little contact to the poorest segments, they are unlikely to disappear as they can afford to defend their rights, both now and for their future offspring.

If natural selection was simply a function of numbers, we (and all mammals at that) have already failed in comparison to bacteria and viruses.

That's mostly just France you're thinking of.

So, how long till people start downloading designs to print them out at home?

While the joke was appreciated, he did mention that many of the people there that use his service are the ones too poor to pay for newspapers. That was the original reason why he decided to go with this. There are places where people actually cannot afford the paper that the news would be printed on.

Is it really a direct nuclear engine, or just the generator to power something like a VASIMR or Hall Effect Thruster? There's a pretty big difference. For the second, as a power source, nuclear power has already been used for a while. Not as a full-blown fissile reactor, but rather a nuclear battery.

For the record, MS actually did allow user to have other companies providing key services, and allowed even before MS was forced to separate IE from the system. Also you're completely free to fill up a pepsi bottle with Coke for your own private use. No-one's going to stop you. Unlike when you wish to use a program/service Apple isn't particularly fond of.

Made once something like that using 1.4kg of that stuff (don't ask). The pillar of fire was impressive and it burned for about 10 seconds. Even the forest some kilometer away looked almost bright like during daylight. Only after the awe was over realized how dangerous the stuff was, as it managed to vaporize 12 layers of aluminum folio and just about half a meter of earth from under it. I'm willing to bet it could do something nasty to a harddrive though.