The whole space battle thing is deeply broken, in general. True space battles would probably involve stealth ships dispatching oodles of drones, lots of incoming, light-speed-lagged statistics, followed by death. But then again, in sci-fi terms we're mostly still at the Heavily Muscled Guy With Fashionable Facial Hair Sitting At The Front Window Driving The Spaceship, uh, stage.
I've relayed your post to a distant alien civilisation of immense power, and they've informed me that the Von Neumann Killer Probes have been dispatched. Normally, they just send one, but in your case they sent 1E+09, just to be sure.
I had a friend attempt to disable UAC on my laptop, once. He left with a flea in his ear.
He'll have been invited to some nice conferences; given an all-expenses-paid trip; stayed at a nice business convention venue where he's had the chance to shag some other random corporate/government flunky.
Expect the unexpected!
Hmm...
Hey, not all Westerners are American
That's actually a kilogram, you barbarian!
There goes the neighbourhood.
Cricket isn't really about the game. It's more about the small hamper of cream buns, punnets of strawberries, the chilled champagne, the lounging around in the sun with your girlfriend/boyfriend. That and being frightfully English.
Play with one under a decent system at some point. They're useful for all of the reasons people have already given, plus they make fantastic forensic, repair and testing environments.
Nature optimises for survival, though, whereas a designer pathogen can be optimised to infect, lie low, and then kill as many host organisms as possible, perhaps by employing some kind of biological trigger in the environment to synchronise its action.
It doesn't matter whether its first efflorescence is sustainable in the long term. There will always be a role for it in human politics.
And by the way, since we hacked the algorithmic and neurological underpinnings of intelligence, way back when, we've been so much smarter than you people that it's just not funny.
But...
We think you're *so* adorably kawaii!
Who's a good boy! Whooo's a gooood boy!
Mummy loves her little guy, yes she does!
It's done. My antediluvian Nokia C2 has a cheat code which allows you to force the battery management software to give the entire charge, not just that fraction offered to maximise the number of charge cycles.
Would you like to cook some quality methamphetamine at my sekrit underground lab?
Been there, done that, was amused.
Make sure your code does nothing gracefully.
