I'm guessing you were out sick from class the day the "compare/contrast basic & applied science" syllabus topic was discussed.

Oh, not to worry. AC left so much training data behind, at least one of those $55MM TCO quasi-Big Data-sorta-esque-y products being prominently shill.....er, "profiled"... in SlashBI will just slurp it up and start churning out new content, indistinguishable from it's meatspace authorship origins, in no time at all!

Fellow Slashdotters, say goodbye to Anonymous Coward .... and hello to his/her/it's new and improved replacement, Virtual Coward! Isn't technology grand?

Fabulous idea!

And move to .... what exactly? His own private internet, where there's no dependencies on anyone else for DNS/ domain registration and management / etc. ?

Or is there a killer opportunity involving stone tablets he should switch his business model to?

I'm taking it you missed the (well-documented) Holmes legal commentary re: "yelling fire in a crowded theater." Or you can search for "Schenck".

There are, and have been for some time, legally recognized limits on speech. I don't envy the jurists who have to engage in that taffy pull vis a vis the First Amendment...but they do, they have for some time, and will continue to do so.

Whether or not that infringes on *your* definition of free speech is of limited import.

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Yeah, yeah...I had heard that...also heard that his last lecture was on the topic of infinity. Very apropos for him. And he deserves every sun-drenched moment of his retirement. Just saw a golden opportunity for his songwriting talents flash across my browser window reading the GP... Oh well.

are creation science, intelligent design, orgone energy,...[many,many more]

Where is Tom Lehrer when we most need his talents?

Nah, skip the tents ... just one more thing for the tanks to roll over.

...other than the ones working the Penn State athletic department account.