Or you could be like Deadpool and just realize if something costs money to make, you're going to have to pay for it one way or another.

The bitcoin community is highly technical. They will probably sell a lot of systems making it available as an option.

Sure, what with Dells being so popular with the highly technical community.

What I am wondering is: why do they even care whether the pathogens in the vials are actually what is on the labels?

They care because anybody can write a label saying "smallpox virus" and stick it on a vial. But if the vial actually *does* contain smallpox virus, then there were flawed procedures that let that virus be sent out to East Bumfuck with no records kept. And those flawed procedures might still be in place, in which case it is urgent that they get fixed.

"Quite likely to lose"? In what uninverse? Latest polls show "Yes" trailing by over ten points.

It's even more worth noting that there's a plebicite on Scottish independence coming up very soon.

Do I make the His Dark Materials joke, or the fuligin joke?

One must ask, what good is news that filters?

It is impossible for there to be any other kind. The sum total of what happens on the earth is far beyond the ability of anyone or anything to track or follow. Most of it is not relevant to you, of course. Any news you read is, and of necessity, must be, filtered. The only question is how it is filtered.

News is news, be it bad, sad, happy or violent.

Your view that occurances can be easily and definitively defined as "news" or "not news" is incredibly naive.

I remember a time when the news was reported and read.

No, you remember a time when the biases in selecting what would be news and what would not be were better hidden.

...these guys.

How else are we going to beat the Kaiser?

A film based on a title by Isaac Asimov

Not even that. Just a film with a title by Isaac Asimov pasted on it. The screenplay was already written (the name at that point was "Hardwired") when they decided to buy the title. They changed a few of names to match characters in the book and pasted in a nod to the Three Laws of Robotics. Done!

That's not Asimov. It's a film he had nothing to do with that they put one of his titles on for marketing purposes(it bears no resemblence whatsoever to the book). Still a clever piece of dialog, though.

Well, no human alive today in any case. All so-called "original" works produced today are derivatives of older works (Shakespeare, folklore, etc)

If you think Shakespeare was original, you are sadly deluded. Just about all of his plots can be traced back to other sources, from which he often lifted them virtually intact. What elevated Shakespeare wasn't the originality of his stories, but the way he told them.

I would, but I have to go Q up to learn Spanish to finish this joke.

John de Lancie will come teach you Spanish?

Why not just let the users do the job? Cheaper, faster and easier...

And subject to massive trolling by malicious users...

Which is segregated by sex. You *must* have one man, and one woman. You can't have a man in the woman's slot, you can't have a woman in the man's slot.

How about rock-paper-scissors?
[X] physical skills involved
[X] some kind of scoring system
[X] objectively declare winner
Ticks all your boxes!

And guess what? It's a sport!