The state should lose a couple million dollars in nice fat settlements to everyone pulled over. It's the only way they ever learn.

The state should lose the same amount of money, but it should only be distributed the citizens who refused to take the $50. It's the only way they will ever learn!

A thermostat is a bimetallic spring attached to a switch. If that's a robot, everything is.

Your logical fallacy is the false dichotomy. There's lots of room in between murder and waving goodbye. Rehabilitation, it's not just a word in other nations in the developed world.

What kind of asshole would assume that in the age of fifty dollar tablets, there's not a security camera on a thousand-plus-dollar payphone?

But then you have to be sneaky when approaching the phone. Better to be disguised before you ever approach it.

It is mind boggling that the inventor of the ball mouse , a hugely successful device, would think it trivial and not patent it when nowadays someone just adds "on the internet" to common practices (not even real tangible things!!) and thinks they deserve huge patent royalties.

Its amazing how far innovation has fallen.

Beef for burgers is $3+ per pound (usually more like $4+ if you don't want mechanically-separated). Fresh vegetables tend to be $1-$3 per pound, unless you want to buy something weird out of season (e.g. asparagus in September). Not to mention, frozen vegetables -- either store-bought or frozen yourself -- "keep" and retain most/all of their nutritional value (unlike canned).

(By the way, if you're on a budget, switch to chicken instead of beef. Whole chickens cost less than $1 per pound.)

Baby, check it out, I've got something to say
Man it's so loud in here
When they stop the drum machine and I can think again, I'll remember what it was.

I know, right? My fluorine & chlorine tap is totally contaminated with the stuff, and the city utility department refuses to do anything about it!

I've long said that the only real difference between a libertarian and a crony capitalist is a bank account large enough to buy politicians. With the combination of Staffergate and Pope Francis's Apostolic Exhortation, I'm beginning to think that we live under rule of corruption, not rule of law. It's hard to tell the difference between the two- since the very people writing the law are the ones taking the bribes.

This is why the magical overflowing glass of Argentinian's version of the trickle down theory never overflowed and kept growing larger. This is why a rising tide floats some boats and sinks others. This is what is wrong with von Mises' theories about government in general- a free market means that government is for sale to the highest bidder.

I'm asthmatic and allergic to dogs, you insensitive clod! And furthermore, my dad had a dog when I was a kid.

I personally blame my asthma on my mother smoking until she found out she was pregnant, and my father smoking until shortly before he died, including all throughout the pregnancy, in the car, in the car after I was born, etc etc. There's no family history of it on either side. But of course, there's no way to know. It's convenient, though, because one parent is dead and I don't talk to the other one.

And no, I am not passing on these genes. They're just not that fantastic. Good enough for my purposes, but they could be better even there. If I weren't asthmatic, I likely also wouldn't ever have become overweight.

I agree with your conclusions, but not your premise. Any campus administrator could probably have tracked this guy down.

Walk into some woods. Change clothes/reverse, put on or take off layers. Pop on a big hat. Walk out of the woods, make the call.

Or here's a snazzy idea for you. You know they'll call the cops on a bomb threat. Call them yourself. Walk to the edges of signal and call 911 on a used phone you got at a flea market or yard sale, make your bomb threat with them. Don't even need a contract to make an emergency call.

Note that I think anyone who actually does this does need serious help, and I would never do it, because lives can be lost while emergency services are dicking around with bullshit. Just saying, I've never been to HAH-VAHD and yet I can come up with trivial ways around all of this crap.

Eliza. Turing Test is easy, because the majority of the general public is stupid and narcissistic. Not so much artificial intelligence, as exploiting the security holes in the human brain.

Citation needed.

Because he is, however stupid, a human being.

Grow some empathy. He clearly needs a course in it himself, and to be kept away from situations where he might harm other people, but what will happen to him now will not benefit society.

In what way is your framework different from the old programming language PILOT?