Congress needs to mount an investigation to find the batch of idiots who wrote these tax laws which allow corporations to do this!

I'd like to see what Steven Moffat could do with Star Trek.

No, you cannot make a supercomputer which will be a replica of the human brain. First of all, we don't know enough about the biochemical workings of the brain to do that. Every day the literature contains papers in which the incredibly complex soup inside cells shows us some ridiculous interaction we could not have predicted.

It would be the equivalent of building a lemonade stand, staffing it with a five-year-old, and claiming that you were replicating the US economy.

I was uneasy when the UN black copters came over to try and take my guns and when they tried to take over the Web - but making me eat bugs is too much. The resistance begins today!

This case will join the McDonalds' spilled coffee suit in the "spark the knee-jerking hall of fame".

The B&N CEO must have just read The Road Ahead.

Cave teen: "And then I was like all, ug!, y'know?"

In my head I hear my response in Louis C. K.'s voice: You've got a slab of plastic and metal you can carry around under your arm that lets you look up the answer to any question, have a text conversation in real time with anyone on the planet, access all the works of art ever created - and you're bored. Seriously. I just searched the word 'artichoke' and got 9.9 million links in under a second. And you are jaded. That's not even good enough to hold your attention anymore?

How close would one of these events have to be to us to fuck us up?

No flying cars yet, but apparently we have Uniblab in alpha.

http://www.thewb.com/shows/the-jetsons/uniblab/d1a360bc-3f5e-478f-86b8-81e8768c823d

Remember not to wear one to the airport. http://www.boston.com/news/globe/city_region/breaking_news/2007/09/mit_student_arr.html

Not if he follows you for five hours beforehand.

Until those beetle you ignore start boring into and killing the trees you were counting on for lumber and paper or eating your corn crop. Then you will cry and moan and complain about those damn scientists not studying the important things.

For the curious, this is a neonicotinoid insecticide:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imidacloprid

It is neonicotinoid because it resembles nicotine:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicotine

Which is why some organic pesticide tea recipes call for steeping plug chewing tobacco in water and using that extract on your plants.

Let me guess. You get to define what belongs in the "real" economy. Is it full of true Scotmen?