longer days = less days in a year.

I think kids would play it for the shock value, some politicians would complain, and it would stay on store shelves. Maybe Rockstar should make a Pakistan division and do this for the free publicity. (On that note, the CIA isn't in Grand Theft Auto AFAIK, but crooked cops, FBI agents, and the US military are).

Too late.

"Why create AIs? To enslave them?"

Yes. As a basic example, imagine you're learning how to code, and you want to spend as little time as possible in the classroom. Wouldn't it be great if an AI could recognize what you're trying to do, intuitively explain why a piece of code isn't working, gently inform you when the code could be done more cleanly, create or modify blocks of code for you when you verbally ask them, etc? If it learns so much that it takes on a concept of free will and suffers for not having it, that wouldn't be so great, otherwise, very useful for a variety of things.

Such a system demands the highest possible complexity. Go with "Kaboom1".

Oh no, not again.

It sounds like web apps were the official way with the original iPhone, before the App Store existed, and they needed a selling point for their device. How altruistic of them. Then Apple made the App Store. Now they want you to use that, but they can't really justify shutting down web apps, so all they can do is ignore them and hope users do the same.

But the Death Star response was informative, and no one should draw the line of what is "nonsense". Not saying this petition system actually brings forth any change, but I do think it's a good idea and hope it's taken up by future administrations. It's nice to see them tasked to make a response if enough people demand it; even a superficial one helps clue one in to what the administration is about when a "no comment" response is off the table.

Pretty sure that's what the GP was demonstrating with then nailclippers comment.

Want to make your head hurt? Try to imagine, what, exactly, Facebook was buying from Chad in the xkcd analogy, and why they thought it was worth so much.

Which raises an interesing point. In the past, depending the time and place, it was considered arrogant for something to have perfect spelling and grammar. While I don't agree that either, minor mistakes don't hurt readability much. Hopefully this comment will help test that theory one way or the other.

I'm kind of impressed they didn't say Obama was to blame for global warming.

That sounds like more of an example of why intelligence measures don't work, just as strength measures don't. The same guy doesn't win every Strongman (etc) event. Different athletes have different kinds of strength. You can't just add together bench-press percentile with neuron-activity percentile (weighted according to how important each is) to determine who will be more likely to win the next MMA bout.

Also, you can google "[x]km in miles". While Bing is starting to get the hang of some math questions, it doesn't have this one yet; at least not when done with this phrasing.

The worst is when they are clearly referring to Christmas but call it the holidays. I live near a supermarket that has a sign saying "[7] days 'til the holidays". Clueless executives were likely involved.