How can you prove that humans comprehend anything and aren't just really convincingly passing a constant Turing test? You can't say a convincing simulation of comprehension is distinctly different from actual comprehension unless you can test the difference. Thus the idea of a Turing test: a perfect simulation of comprehension is comprehension.

You give humans too much credit.

The FBI has released a public statement, though, regarding a translation of one of the later notes: "You'll put your eye out!"

Um, no. You're very wrong.

What does that have to do with Christmas? Heck, anyone who claims to be a Christian and celebrates Christmas must not pay much attention to their religion. Christmas is a purely secular holiday that those wayward Christians are foolishly attempting to co-opt.

What, I slaughtered and butchered that donkey and went to all that work and now you're saying I'm not allowed to have ass burgers? Jeez, you jerk!

Psh, I saved 30% on car insurance in just 30 minutes by switching to some guy in an alley.

Um, nerds. Thus /..

5 AM is no longer night time.

They could pull an iCarly and do SplashFace, ZapLook, ToonJuice and the like. Very cool way to have real fake websites, with even the potential of AR, like back when they had that old InYourUnderwear.com to match that ad back in the day (no longer works). There's no reason to blatantly break the fourth wall with 555 numbers and 256.1.2.3 IPs all the time.

That's why you spend $5,000 on a shiny, underpowered Mac product rather than spending $100 on crappy looking netbook that can perform the same tasks without looking awesome.

That's cute, but I like my job.

Which is why every time I call the cell phone company they ask for the last four of my social. Because they're doing a credit check. Right.

The insurance company, cable company and phone company all use it as a unique identifier, not to run credit checks. Likewise the doctor needs it to give to the insurance company as a unique identifier.

Seriously? I can't think of a form I've filled out ever that didn't ask for social security crap on it, and I sure as hell am never going to get anything from the actually social security funds. Full: car insurance, bank, credit reports, credit cards, health insurance, my doctors, my wife's doctors, my son's doctors, the dentist. Last 4: my college, cell phone (Verizon always did... I think T-Mobile does too), cable company, miscellaneous forms at work. I mean, what kind of rock do you live under where you think extricating our social security number from every part of our life is in any way feasible?

Yes, I'm quite certain that republicans are very well known for citing references with names like "treehugger." And I don't see how discussing the oil spill could possibly be deemed not relevant to a discussion of the oil spill.