Don't despair! You've found what makes you a special and unique snowflake!

Instead of "using the content ID match system", how about they use the "DMCA notification" so that everyone has their fair claim and response under the law and, if needed, in a court rather than letting Google just turn it into both a heavy-handed big-guy-versus-little-guy squashing and "monetizing" opportunity?

I guess if you've got nothing better to do. Just remember they'll ruin your life in the process.

That's the entire point of all of this. They just want to be sure that the government is the only one Google is invading the privacy of citizens on behalf of.

"Jimmy, do you still want to be an architect? And you still shoot model rockets? Oh that was your brother, right. Could you help me with a website?"

When does the Chinese Room go from addition and multiplication tables to "understanding math"?

Don't worry, the idiots keep pushing for european style "high speed rail" in America, too. They're somehow convinced it's the economical solution to pollution and traffic while they put their heads in the sand about the actual corruption and incredible expenses it will actually have (not to mention, it own't be high-speed at all, if they ever get around to it... you know.. you do have to actually stop and let people on and off after all).

So since owning stock in the robot companies first requires getting money from the robot companies via the government, this amounts to free robot companies. The introduction of money into this scenario would be like a nursing home where the residents are all taken care of, and are given "Monopoly money" that they can trade each other for TV time in the common room.

Spite? The AIs seemed fairly emotional, and not very forgiving. Of course by the end of the second movie Neo proved that the "real" world was yet another Matrix anyway.

We build stuff and it better damn well work. So....

Our CEO is a physicist. All of the people in upper management have degrees in science or engineering, including sales and marketing. Yeah, you have to use business jargon, but if you don't talk tech, you don't get to participate at a strategic level. The less you know, the lower in the pecking order you are around here.

they weren't replaced. They were baked into meat pies as their usefulness waned.

Not a Headroomian dystopia?

I have no problem doing nothing. Or rather, given no requirements, I have no problem filling my time with constructive (well, mostly) things to keep myself occupied. I spent half a year unemployed after the dot-com bust, and other than plummeting into debt it was one of the best times of my life.

Naturally, this prediction comes when I'll be 68 and at full retirement age. That practically guarantees it'll come true, and I'll watch all the snotty kids enjoying the good life I had to earn for myself through decades of work.

...Wikipedia Editors Rejoice