This reminds of a Yes Minister episode, where they referred to the floods of 1967 every time they "needed" to have lost documents.

The energy per person is astronomical. You send one, you spend the equivalent for 5000. Now if you start a world war, that is a different story. Nuclear will solve all your problems again.

I know of parents that don't give peanuts to their kids since babies, just in case they have allergies. So the kid does not develop protection. They give them allergies out of paranoia

Bill Gates is not a polymath, I am sure he is no longer competitive in coding, let alone most tasks requiring intellect only because you need to have the knowledge, the talent and the intellect. Hi might have the second and he probably has the third but he can't make up for the first.

This is crazy, ok ... your property has skyrocketed in value. You suddenly are an asset millionaire but you can't afford your house. You like the fact that what used to be a run down neighbourhood with crime and poverty and cheap housing is now affluent. When you sell it, choose a house that was exactly like it was when you could afford it and you should be hunky dory with lotsa cash left over. It may suck a little, but the world keeps moving on, kids might step onto your lawn ... buy a rocking chair and a shotgun, this is America.

Ammm that is how things are done. They tracked Polio in India by this method http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424052702303848104579312453860810752?mod=WSJ_hps_LEFTTopStories

The problem is that we can both agree, and I can still build them in the background. I mean a flying aeroplane can be a fully autonomous killing machine, and there is no way to know. At least nukes emit radioactivity, chemical weapons smell bad. Smart weapons are only smart when you press the funky key combination.

Are you saying that electrons and planets don't behave like billiard balls ?!?!

Does that mean we can now swipe left ?

Cancer is a symptom not a cause, so it is tricky to fight it. Removing symptoms does not stop more symptoms from coming along. The other reality is that we help more people to survive that would normally would not, which was how natural selection cleaned out the gene pool. So we use technology to make up for it, but it is a battle with a negative feedback loop.

Is a shop a failure if only a tiny percentage of people looking at their window display actually buys something ? People who enrol have no skin on the commitment. That is all. If you can change that, then good on you. The courses are brilliant and for the few that pursue them and are inspired to go on to bigger and better things ... then they are incredible value for money for them and for society.

Well in Greek, a Turkey is called a "Gallos" and and a French mand is also called a "Gallos", and Americans hate the French. Is there a connection ?

One of the main reasons is that people that are accustomed to desktop are let down by mobile because it is a different interface. You can make a good mobile site, but people will hate it because it is not the same as the desktop.

Limited in what way ? Buy now ! ... the warehouse will only ever have 100 of these at any one time ... for ever

smallest precision attainable does not mean what you think it does. You meant highest precision attainable