No, is your close-mindedness, proneness to be offended and bigotry what makes you lambs.Religious people demand respect while condemning other who not share their views to hell (literally), is painful to live in a world where the most rational opinion on things we have no way to figure out is the only one that is politically correct to make fun of.

Actually I saw a documentary once about a company (might be this same one) that was doing research and growing algae in vertical, transparent plastic tubes, that sounds space efficient. About the food source, what about organic waste of human populations (food waste, crap, etc)?

Agree, best nerd joke on slashdot 2013. :w :q

I like Megatokyo, but to be fair than same comparison would show much more significant changes in any other webcomic, even in XKCD.

While I agree with you that most of the anti-GMO movement are just the usual granola smoking paranoid bunch (and since I'm a liberal, a vegan and an environmentalist I know that bunch quite well, some of them are even my friends), and that the technology holds promise to mankind, that doesn't mean that all criticism to Monsanto's is unscientific and pure fear mongering. Round up is toxic to ocean's photosynthetic life (http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10646-009-0446-7#page-1 I offer a link of just one study, not because you cant' use google, but because the last time I said this here someone told me it was not backed up by facts, which is of course epistemologically impossible so I offer science) and their GM tech allows to spray it indiscriminately cause it won't kill the crop, and this is an issue in an already very troubled ocean environment.

Tough I'm not pro Israel, much less pro Islamism or pro U.S. (I'm a pacifist you see? I can't support any gun wielding wackos) I wanna make clear that the vast majority of modern (and ancient for that matter) nations were created by force.

Well, they do a pretty lousy job in not letting the unfair advantage thing.

Whoa whoa, what have to do those guys in ALF with the rest of monsters you list here? They wouldn't hurt rabbits nor human beings.

Jewish organizations already have the backup of one terrorist group: The U.S. army.

Besides, prison in the Nordic countries seems to be not half as bad as in the rest of the world. That doesn't mean he should go to jail tough. Piracy (copy right violation) should be a misdemeanor, not a crime.

This actually answers a question I was making myself about this sense of reliability of old equipment, In my experience its a nightmare to service and maintain old equipment. One of my first job was in the manufacturing (machining) industry, it was a small operation and it needed old computers with old software that controlled some old (~6 years back then) but very expensive quality control and milling equipment; those were all old PC's, with old ISA buses, old and insanely expensive RAM (that eventually failed), I eventually convinced my boss to replace those things with cheap assembled PC's, we had to buy PCI expansion cards for all the serial and parallel ports that the measuring table seemed to need but it worked out just fine. There was a kind of sentiment that those machines were somewhat magical and no new PC's would ever be able to connect successfully and run the aging software (the equipment was second hand, out of support, software update was in the thousand dollar range), they depended on them so the things had to be reliable, right? If we add regulation to this attachment that management has with old 'working' equipment we get the nightmare that it is to deal with medical equipment and (now I know) nuclear facility equipment.

You assert that with much authority but offer no explanation. I actually believe is the other way around, at least we are getting closer (though there is still a long way to go) to some FLOPS estimates of the human brain (which is nothing but a vast neural network with 'analog' input and output values). On the other hand we have no clue on what to do to solve problems like our short lifespans, food requirements, ship design, energy and the like that must be solved to at least attempt to take humans further than our own solar system (optimistically we will be ready to go to mars in 20 years).

This minicomputer fad is coming to a rightful end.

He did, is called a husband and is completely remote controlled.

We have always been at war with Eurasia. Is this for real? what's up with all this kind of articles lately? First is US still leading manufacturing (if you twist the metrics to suit your taste), now this. It's like someone is trying to anti-FUD (Hope Certainty and Confidence maybe?) US citizens.