On the contrary, and Samantha Wright please correct me if I'm wrong, but I'd think a whole big hunking lot of single-cellular life can in fact survive being frozen. I mean, come on, human fucking sperm even does. Never mind that frozen life is well, frozen. While the DNA repair mechanisms are dormant, so are the copying mechanisms. Bacteria can live quite deep within porous rocks. I'm not exactly sure if it's really necessary for ejecta to be always heated up to sterilization. Now I'm not saying that this little life-from-Mars theory has got any legs to stand on just yet, but your arguments don't really do much to discount it, I don't think.

Must have never heard of prosecutorial discretion, then. Nobody, neither personally nor at any level of government, has any obligation to uniformly enforce all laws. I'd have hoped that people who think otherwise are just happy drug users - to my bewilderment, it turns out not to be the case :(

Most people would go crazy without having a job or otherwise being occupied somehow.

The major gain from Watson-like solutions is that you can have a multi-specialist system. It's nigh impossible for a family doctor to have specialist (as opposed to general) knowledge in other areas of medicine. Such specialist knowledge could be useful, though, so a Watson-style solution may turn out to be a vastly better doctor in the end. The human touch still matters, of course, but that means you can have a Watson-backed nurse relegating classical doctors into the dustbin of history.

What?! What buildings? In the U.S., a typical 30-year-old house is ready for a major renovation, including serious energy-related overhaul. A lot of buildings older than say 50 years may need to be torn down and replaced as it'll be cheaper than fixing them up. Never mind that the population grows, so no, we still need new buildings all the time. Of course the population growth might stop or even reverse into a decline, but you'll still need new buildings. I think the real issue is that the middle class has been virtually relocated to China.

Well, there's still a subculture of people who do subsist on hunting and gathering. They even end up on TV shows, occasionally :)

What service? Knowing where to go and actuating the doors? I'd presume a self-driving limo will do all that, no problem.

Hence nobody watches bot wars, right?

While I'm not sure if correlation implies causation, it's certainly true that executive salaries are absurd. There is no job out there that's worth millions of dollars a year.

A lot of the data entry jobs are bullshit anyway. Most of the time it's due to workflows that are 20 years behind the times. Nobody really needs to fill out paper forms anymore in this day and age.

Well, they can, but it'd need to be a very specialized kind of a driver. Maybe an astronaut :)

While this is certainly a flame bait, there is, sadly, some truth to that. I was quite surprised to find out that most guys in a construction crew that we hired were illiterate.

Frankly said I'll take that over drunk drivers. A failing self-driving car will, presumably, do as much as possible, given the nature of the failure, to protect everyone involved.

I'd say that most drivers are not employed as drivers and are wasting a lot of time driving their cars :)

For me personally it'd be a bit different. In the time I spend in the car I could be working on my own business, perhaps providing a couple of jobs to other people. Instead, I'm wasting time driving. An hour a day, every day, is a lot of time.

Sigh. Fonts are programs, and have been, for a long while now. Is that news to you? You must have never seen what it takes to actually render a font not to understand that. Be thankful those are not postscript fonts, because those would have been even harder to implement safely. The TTF hinter execution environment is much simpler.