In fact it's also a further proof mediocre species like us deserve only painfully long and lonely death throwing nuclear warheads or 30000-lb bombs at each other. Those more capable civilizations gobble up themselves swiftly with black holes.

Next up, Apple concede in EU by displaying a start-up menu on their new PCs featuring OS X among Windows and 12 other flavours of Linux

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Have you considered the possibility that the act of monitoring new media would make it better than the old media? If blogs are turned into blocs of unregulated special interest conglomerates, how different are they from the networks?

I'm just curious, but what happens if we allow corporate sponsorship in exchange of naming scientific discoveries they'd like?

So long and thanks for all the ... wait...

"The major problem -- one of the major problems, for there are several -- one of the many major problems with governing people is that of whom you get to do it; or rather of who manages to get people to let them do it to them.

To summarize: it is a well-known fact that thoes people who must want to rule people are, ipso facto, those least suited to do it. To summarize the summary: anyone who is capable of getting themeslves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job. To summarize the summary of the summary: people are a problem."

---- Douglas Adams

It's funny, or perhaps sad, when on their own website they put "Drive in case of inclement weather" as the first bullet point about safety.