Well, lets face it, the most important thing is the economy grows, and if indefinite human population growth is required to achieve this, then so be it.. who cares about anything else?!

Sure, when they start regulating machining shops with Lathes. Because you can making much more dangerous weapons with the proper tools... Lately is seems like there has been an increasing level of unintelligent knee jerk reactions to things like this. Put it into perspective and you suddenly start sounding paranoid!

Where is my mod points when I need them! Mod up!

Certainly no one complains about cars, yet they consume enormous resources - fossil fuels, metal, and land, kill people (through accidents AND through pollution - the worlds fastest growing cause of death is cars apparently). Yet people here in Australia are up in arms about the birds occassionally dying, or the "Wind-farm Syndrome" (which is not surprisingly absent in other areas where wind-farms have been around for 20+ years)... That's right, build some more of the dirtiest coal plants in the OECD nations, but whatever we do, don't build wind-farms.

Really, for the "Land of the Free", it's just corporations taking priority and precedence over the rights and freedoms of the people. The level of government lobbying (you know, no no not bribes, its funding!) by corporations and the rights of the free people of the USA taking a back seat... this is just another example of the free not really being free. Please sir, may I have the right to do anything I want with the phone I bought and paid for?!.. Come on people, sign that petition!

Well, you may be wrong. It may not be visible at birth in brain structure, but a study into olfaction, in particular, pheromone attraction to the opposite sex showed a clear attraction of females to men's odor when they had the same political persuasion. http://www.theglobalmail.org/feature/your-politics-stink/269/ But you're right as well, its not all black and white, there have been other studies (using twins as controls) that also shows a genetic predisposition towards politics, but over time there can be divergence from the politics of the family home (as is so often the case in nature).http://www.economist.com/node/21564191 So there is clearly some genetic markers which predispose us, but like our genes, our opinions and politics can change over time.

Lets not forget, its pretty easy to crash a heli in ideal conditions, so I can imagine them losing more than a few even in non-combat conditions. It also contains a GPS and probably high accuracy barometer which enables "loiter" style flight based on a set of GPS coordinates, probably also pre-planned way-point drone style missions too (it's debatable whether it can do this autonomously though, probably needs the smarts in the control deck) which is quite an advanced feature set for such a small heli and greatly improves its usefulness for FPV applications. Video review of it here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LSQwb4p09wE

I'd have to agree. Working a a reasonably sized company, finding someone who will make it their responsibility to chase it up the chain of command, or who even actually knows who to take it too internally. I doubt it's out of malice or intent that they aren't paying you, its just some douche who doesn't care until someone else comes asking what is going on and has the decency to chase it up within the company. Try escalating to the CTO or CIO and definitely hit them up with big red "FINAL NOTICE" and late payment fees for your hassle... the law is only when it gets horrible and you're willing to cut them loose as a client.

Remove natural selection from a species and watch it's gene pool deteriorate. Which leads to the moral dilema: given in vitro genetic testing, do we have a moral responsibility to test and either abort or rectify genetically borne diseases and problems. And who decides what genetic traits are desirable and what isn't in our offspring?

What's with the poor "Habitable Zone" being "So-Called"? That makes it sound like it's not the correct name for it, but being the correct scientific term, how can it be incorrect? Okay, maybe it's the "Circumstellar Habitable Zone", but come on!!! It IS the theoretically "habitable zone" of a parent star, you could call it the so-called "Goldilocks Zone", because the phase "Goldilocks Zone" is just colloquial. /me ends rant.

The USA should outsource their voting systems and electoral management to the Australian Electoral Commission. A federal body responsible for a unified, fair and well managed voting apparatus on election day... Serious USA, the poster child for democracy! WTF?!

Arthur C. Clarke's third law: "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic."

A friend, Dr Florian "Floyd" Mueller of RMIT University here in Melbourne, Australia also published a paper on a project called "Hug over a distance" back in early 2005... The projects look surprisingly similar... Floyd heads up the Exertion Games Lab which does a lot of similar "over a distance" Internet enabled interactions.

Really, all along the **IA and their ilk have been claiming that pirating is responsible for lost sales, that is 1 pirated move == 1 lost DVD sale or bum on cinema seat... so based on that argument, now that pirating is getting really hard to do a corresponding sales increase will ensue! right? Right?!

Did you have a hand in Prometheus?!