All Sci-Fi is an extension of today, so in the 50s we had the space race so all sci fi was rockets and space travel. Computer games is so yesterday. What about facebook. Maybe the future we will all click like at cat videos. G

Sounds like a moving target ... which is fine, its a journey that is being traversed

The complexity of a conspiracy is too hard to maintain. Its a network thing. You have to hope that everybody that has the brain to understand what is happening is in the same wavelength as your self such that now and into the future they will not rat on you. This is too hard so effectively the only lairs can be the ones at the top of the tree.

Geez ... imaginary hypotheticals are easy. DNA sequencing for $1. The world will never be the same again

Easy ... the last line in square brackets is [In case no agreement is reached, Greece should be offered swift negotiations on a time-out from the euro area, with possible debt restructuring.] In other words, if you don't like it you are on you own and we are happy to provide humanitarian aid. You are welcome to take as long as you want to pontificate and come back whenever you like, no problems. There will always be conditions which will remain unknown until you decide to come back.

If a website is responsible for my comments, then I want to be able to sue it if it censors me. So it's responsible for both leaving and removing comments. Damned if you do, damned if you don't. That should make the internet a wonderful place.

Oh hello, this is Google. No problem, I see you give value to the idea that a payed service gives you some control. No problem, I will also make available a paid service where all you get is that warm and fuzzy feeling (in disguise). Hopefully you now feel lots better G

Have you seen garbage trucks ? The latest just have a driver that does not leave the truck. Same thing

Effectively nobody reads science. Everybody gets it through different channels that have a bias. Very few understand it and feel shit for not understanding it. So those that filter it pick and choose and shape the scientific message so that people don't feel inadequate. It will always be like that, learn to live with it. Most people are happy with bread and circuses. The remaining few enjoy the beauty of nature the the quest for understanding. Choose to be among the few.

What if you think about it as creating incentive to help people get the hell out of there creating a much needed service. If you didn't want it, just walk.

There were other such devices such as the tower of the winds. The Greeks did not nessasary discover log the data from the heavens, what they did work out is that the heavens followed mathematical rules and so simple equations could be used to predict the behavior of the heavens and not the whims of the Gods. Hence you could convert the equations to gear mechanisms and off you go ...

Standard argument from ignorance ... "hey look you don't know what you don't know so we might invent long enough ladders to be able to climb to the next galaxy". Well in fact you are wrong, we are fast advancing to knowing a fair bit or what can be known. I know it may sound familiar. What is well know is the cost of pushing the boundary of knowledge is growing fairly consistently. So in a century we will need half the worlds resources to learn 1% more where as now we need 10% of the worlds knowledge and a century ago we needed .1% of the worlds knowledge. Ultimately it might not be possible to cross into another galaxy much like it might not be possible to travel back in time to make two planets occupy the same spot with no ill effect ... but you don't know, there are still people working in garages.

$311 Million and they are circling the toilet !! What are they spending it on. I am sure they can rationalise their team and their product range. If it is profitability they want, they should focus in that direction and is find out what made them profitable, which might not be what is bringing in the money. Note Google makes money by selling our analytics but it is their presence on other fronts which makes them a household name.

So as voters do we trust those that represent us or do we trust those whose products we buy to run our country. Should we have government tax the wealthy and spend on social schemes or should we let the wealthy choose where to spend the money ? Its about effectively channeling societies resources.