This assumes robots won't be disposable. They might be recycled when damaged and new robots built by other robots in a factory.

It's a bell curve, not a V. People with IQ "the exact number considered average" are the most populous compared to all other points on the chart. If IQ "average" was a score impossible to achieve, then your "50% below, 50% above" concept would make sense. As it is, it's a little less than 50% for both. And if "average" is a range rather than a precise number (most people consider it to be so with intelligence), then the percentages of population above and below drop considerably.

It's more than just one Borg one vote. There is no Alpha in charge of the Borg (the Borg "queen" or Unimatrix is a tertiary semi-autonomous drone that is budded off of the collective for a special purpose, much like Locutus and Seven of Nine), and the Borg aren't a democratic society. The Borg is a collective in the same sense that your body is a collective of cells. The Borg is a galaxy-spanning organism made of metal and humanoids.

Apple decides to make the screws for the iPhone 7 out of pentagonal graphene.

Anyone who works with a computer as their primary tool should know basic concepts of encryption. They shouldn't need to know how to use an algorithm in a specific programming language or a pencil and paper to encrypt something, but they should be familiar with public/private keys and how they might be used in general. Too many people are still emailing passwords et al unencrypted. And not just bankers or secretaries.. programmers and even sysadmins seem ignorant of how to use encryption for communications.

That doesn't use goto. The researchers were interested in uses of goto.

And my point is that a simple infinite loop might be within the researchers' definition of appropriate. Skewing the results.

I was just pointing out that most uses of goto (in any language) are childish infinite loops that pose no danger. This would skew the results of the study unless they ignored these as being trivial use.

FART: printf("FART\n"); goto FART;

And the immediate beneficiaries of this tax are not the public at large, but the lottery commission and advertising companies. Lotteries spend a lot of money on advertising.

Not exactly. They take RedHat's current sources and edit to remove references to RedHat, then compile and repackage and release as the current CentOS. It just takes them a while to do that. Of course anyone using RHEL probably has been sticking with RHEL6. I tried using RHEL7 but the system I installed it on wouldn't boot with RHEL7. "systemd! systemd!" /Kirk

Pay me for bug testing.

Except the villains from "Amazing" 1 and 2 are what we knew MacGuire 4 and 5 were going to be, and we knew MacGuire 6 was going to be "Sinister Six". They just took the scripts for the unfilmed MacGuire movies, tacked on another origin (with web shooters; but no science nerd?), and changed the leading lady character.

Battleworld is from 1984. This is the fourth Secret Wars event (fifth if you count Nick Fury's "Secret War" with Latveria). They were contrived as a "let's see large numbers of supers duke it out without terribly altering Earth" move. Why they're doing that now after House of M, Civil War, Avengers vs X-Men, and the Ex Nihlo/White Event storylines that markedly changed Earth, I don't know.

And it would clear up Pietro and Wanda. MCU would be allowed to call the mutants and Magneto's children.