Apple will finally be able to use "Ours goes to 11!" as a marketing phrase.

There's hope for Mitt Romney, though as social robots go, he's not very social.

Arizona as well, but Phoenix area.

Actually Lem was only under-appreciated in the United States and probably the UK as well. Worldwide he was one the post popular Science Fiction authors.

As long as Arizona is governed by bible thumping racist assholes, Phoenix will not be the next Silicon valley. It won't be much of anything. Our only hope is that global warming makes the Phoenix valley uninhabitable and forces the inhabitants to disperse, something like what Katrina did to New Orleans.

though it would make Rosy and her five sisters jealous.

The Anasazi and Mayan civilizations collapsed due to climate change. There were other factors to be sure but the drying of the climate was the root cause. I'll stop using the word 'denialist' when they stop denying that humans are causing this era's global warming. It's that simple.

Oh, for the record. Natural periods of warming are not mutually exclusive with human caused periods of warming. Not only that, it is climate change (natural or anthropogenic) that have led to the collapse of civilizations in the past. So you denialists can say what you like, but climate change is happening rapidly now and, regardless of the cause, is having a huge impact on our global civilization which unless we adapt will most likely cause it to collapse.

Wait. I thought the increased sunspot activity was responsible for the heat waves, storms, wildfires and droughts. C'mon deniers make up your mind. Meanwhile King Arthur cuts off another limb.

And marry someone who has a steady job. You'll still be able to do the stuff you love, but the income will be spotty. Though you may get lucky and make enough to live off of.

to be us.

Let's hope the Chinese don't clone Hitler too.

and Comic Sans, or if you are feeling sophisticated use Papyrus.

Daily Kos is biased too, but as a rule their writers are much much better informed.

They even have an article on Examples of Bias in Wikipedia to prove it. It's their 9th most viewed page. Because proof for Conservapedia whatever they pull out of their asses.

Their second most viewed page is THE HOMOSEXUAL AGENDA. See the full list. It's unusual that only one of their top ten is about homosexuality. In the past as many as seven of the top ten most viewed pages have been about it.