That has to be about the most absurd comparison I've seen in a while.

So a safe, responsible, aware driver driving their car around town to enjoy the evening breeze is the same thing as someone doing target practice in the middle of town???

No.

If they're being irresponsible and reckless driving then I can understand. But safe driving is not an "extremely dangerous activity".

There will always be something with danger to innocent bystanders. An automated system will still have casualties.

So suddenly anyone who likes the activity of driving is a maniac?

Given the trends started in Lion I'm afraid for the future of OS X. Oh well, viva la 10.6, long may it reign.

That's due to cutting out stuff on the page, not the toolbar using less real estate. It's a good thing they're cutting the page down yes, but it doesn't excuse the horrid ribbon.

They already have? At least for laptops anyway. A whole slew of manufacturing decisions that give the MacBook Pro it's efficient shape, design, and solid construction are being copied by the rest of the world.

That part right there is basically the perfect example of why this railway project won't work. The gas pipeline would have done pretty nicely... if businesses had cooperated on it, instead each played politics and begged for ever more and more compensation from the government, and then the government went all sideways... Ugh. If they can't cooperate on something like that, how on earth would they do their part for a railway that's going to cost a million times more?

Would they really "decide not to use it" if sovereignty was at stake?

MAD is kinda balanced around the idea that "you'll stay in your corner and i'll stay in mine". Once one side actually steps onto the other side's home soil everything goes downhill.

Unfortunate Occurrence or Manufacturing Defect? A lot of the latter gets written off as the former. (I.E. Ford Explorer tire blowouts, etc)

welcome our new Lego overlords! Sounds like a great plot for a movie/game! Legos sent out to other planets evolve into sentient super-Legos and return to destroy the Earth.

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It's scary how "clamping down on terrorism" has become a hammer for forging a police state where you can't question or voice opposition to the government.

Well put. Yet all the same, I wish that the gaming audience as a whole had more variance/(even money split).

Which is unrealistic and silly, but oh well...

Ah but there is still a much larger terrorist group still at large. I think it's called "The American People" or something like that...

I'd agree with you that appeasement isn't going to bring about perfect peace.

But the way you're post is worded, it's militantly anti-Muslim.

If extermination or force indoctrination (Yay let's force everyone to obey western thinking!) is the only way to attain perfect peace, then fuck "perfect peace". It's as bad as being a extremist like the Al-Qaeda, only in reverse.

The leading robot (CHARLI) at least is a quite significant improvement over last year's video. Sure it's not running, but the precision and recognition of the ball are very noticeably improved. We shouldn't expect it to happen overnight, it's an extremely complex process. Baby steps, baby steps...

That show was so absurd. They'd always make up a huge mathematical theorem that took several days to write, only to come up with a solution that could have been reached in 2 seconds by any normal human brain with a bit of intuition.