Thank you for the standard knee-jerk, "rational" response to anything even vaguely religious on SlashDot. It restores my faith in the utter stupidity of humanity, atheists and agnostics included.

Meh, it's turtles all the way down.

I was being snarky. I want all the states to have as much "fun" as Montana has. In particular, I want to see Washington, DC politicians understand what happens when you reintroduce large predators in you back yard.

No, I don't remember any such episode, and apparently neither do you. A check of Memory Alpha reveals no such episode.

I live near one of those "wolf reintroduction" areas. It is pretty awesome to be hiking and here a wolf pack calling back and forth to each other around you. I for one would love to see wolf reintroduction to all the lower 48 states (I believe one form or another of wolf lived in all of them). In particular, I would LOVE to see a thriving pack within the Washington, DC beltway, picking off random Congresscritters. If ever a herd needed thinning ...

Damn, I should have thought of that. I could get PAID for this?

Seriously, I just put up a quick snarky comment when I saw the post. Now "I" am the one surprised at all the hot and bothered response.

I remember seeing a recruiting brochure for the NSA when I was in college in the late 70's. They touted something like, "Come work for the NSA, we are 10 to 15 years ahead of what is considered state-of-the-art".

and we are all surprised?

Well, that depends on who you talk to. One grouping has them as "Homo sapiens neanderthalensis".

Hmm, how about we drop back to an older and more generic use of the words "ill" and "well"? Before the advent of modern medicine, and the understanding of disease organisms, genetic disorders and mental disorders, a person was ill or well. That encompassed all of these conditions, plus a general sense of self. I'm not saying we should toss all the modern medicine, but this terminology would certainly cover your concerns.

Given the amount of trouble I have convincing supposedly intelligent people NOT to hook things up to our control network willy-nilly, I certainly agree with this sentiment.

The first misconception here is that there is a national power grid. There isn't. There are several regional grids that operate autonomously from one another. Each one has a documented black start procedure for how to bring the grid back online if it becomes completely segmented ... which plants and electrical paths to reconnect first, what order to do the rest, and so forth. This is engineering, not black magic.

Here is a good example. Lions and tigers are considered separate species, yet they can interbreed and produce ligers and tigons. And, this morning I saw a newscast saying a liger had bred with a lion producing an offspring, so apparently ligers are fertile. This should suggest that lions and tigers are not a separate species (My head hurts now).

Heh, when I first came to work at my present job (30 years ago, ack!) One of the systems came with a drum storage system. It was never actually fired up; we immediately replaced it with a ramdisk emulation. Of course that system also had honest-to-god core memory. Those core stacks were WAY cool.

Just to be pedantic, it was 21 in the book, 30 in the movie.