Don't worry, we'll get reality television with killer mutants soon enough.

Nah. Thought is a function of me. Attempts to apply the term to figments of my imagination always result in nonsense.

There is a theory that it is impossible to objectively define sentience.

Lemme see ... nope, it doesn't. Also, screenshot or it didn't happen.

Do they have a rule that for every kid you don't fire at you get to kill two grown-up guys or something? Three if it was a baby?

What is the probability of aliens conquering Earth? What is the probability of an all-out nuclear war, an incurable virus getting loose from some lab or other similar niceties happening? Why should then anyone in their right mind actually be concerned about the former?

You don't have to imagine it. The rich live significantly longer than the poor today. In fact, that has always been the case.

Well, I didn't elect your government and I don't know if it's particularly qualified to do anything. I'm sure that it is the least qualified entity in the world to decide whether or not to release information which it would profit from covering up, though.

One reason might be that it's quite interesting to see how the governments react to such an announcement.

http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/List_of_misquotations

See what?

1. Yes, and Wikileaks is one way of adding a bit of balance.
2. Firstly, I'm not sure Wikileaks is bound by any US laws. Is it based in the US? Secondly, I don't believe these particular laws will ever be fixed but if that happens, it will happen because people will show again and again and again why they are bad. Which is what Wikileaks often does.
3. I think Wikileaks' judgement tends to be quite a bit better than that of most governments worldwide. So they get tons of sympathy on those arguments.

Which entity should decide this? Why would it be more qualified to do so than Wikileaks or anyone else?

Well, tolerating the former leads directly to a system where people with the power to classify things are not accountable to anyone and where nobody knows what they do. Which, in turn, always leads to all sorts of utterly horrible things. The latter seems to happen quite often recently and what horrible things that have happened because of it? I don't know about most people but I quite definitely think the former is much much worse.

Indeed. I'm constantly amazed at how people carrying Arab publications act all surprised when their laptops get shot.