What do we do about this? Wrong idea. Each one of us does something about it individually. You think for yourself; you vet things yourself; you don't worry about the rest of the "crowd" and how they might be deceived. Evolution only has you socially rigged up to truly affect about 150 people, max, anyway.

But, if everyone carries out that solemn responsibility, things will be fine. Problem is, because of a lingering reliance on big media, most people don't. And it was a serious problem back in the days before crowdsourcing too, because the "gatekeepers" have told some whoppers over the last century or so. This was especially true around the time of Goebbels and WW II, and it has never recovered since, despite all the best intentions of journalistic integrity. The journalists did their best to hold the lie machines at bay, but that time has long since passed. A few decades ago, by my reckoning.

So, the horse has been out of the barn for at least that long, and we are talking about shutting the gate? Now? What the hell, folks? Mass media is a lie machine, and it functions because it is a lie machine, and all we've done is given the keys to the lie machine to everyone, instead of only the "gatekeepers." That, by my yardstick, is a profoundly good thing, although it will take a period of adjustment to become used to it.

Personal responsibility and a ready supply of grains of salt is all we have left. Don't believe everything you read. Since CGI advances, don't believe everything you see either. Welcome to the Brave New World. IMHO, it's a "good thing," but you have to be careful what you choose to believe these days.

Now, under the new rules, every wave of Space Invaders involves you taking the last, overmatched invader prisoner, and giving him cookies at your base.

He's still just as hard to catch, though.

Gandhi did his work in homespun cloth to protest colonial British industry. Despite the fact that he could have chosen otherwise, he forsook all the benefits of his wealthy pedigree.

It most certainly does change the validity of their complaints, from the context you've provided, if they continue to reap the "benefits" of the system they purport to oppose while they protest.

In short: Gandhi they ain't.

Nothing is wrong with that. I'm just pointing out that none of them are capable musicians, as the GP indicated, and that they're for the most part business people, and generally not artists with principles. Wanna borrow my "Owl City" album?

I am shocked anybody wants a "plastic pal that's fun to be with" in the first place. I mean, sh!t, did anybody notice that GPPs are made by Sirius Cybernetics in his books? Douglas Adams is probably suing Steve Jobs in ghost court right now.

It's still a bit scammy, but I would guess they're using early adopters as a massive beta test before rolling it out to iLife in general, so rather than depriving anyone, they're being cautious and scaling up usage slowly. Think "Apple Newton," and it's reasonable to suspect the company may still be a little gun shy with this kind of tech. Even if it is running "in the cloud" instead of on the device, there's a whole lot that could go wrong with Siri. (Page is for entertainment purposes only. Not to be construed as actual examples. I am a non-attorney spokesperson.)

More than that, availability matters here, and they want the initial adopters to have a premium experience before they roll it out to the hoi polloi, and everything goes pear shape when they run into the usual scaling issues. You know, like the ones AT&T ran into with the first iPhones.

So basically, what we're saying here is that the U.S. Supreme Court failed the Turing test? Really? Please tell me, at the least, that they are Turing complete.

The music industry consists of fit, attractive dancers whose voices autotune well and they won't deal with Google unless they have to, which they will because they only care about the money and fame.

FTFY.

Any bets that a Time Cube forms and starts tearing up Bibles?

Everyone knows the magnetic shift is caused by TIME CUBE!

Seriously, we have no idea what's down there. Sounds like a fun experiment.

Retask it as the Department of Inverse Causality and Kabuki (DICK). Their motto can be "preventing yesterday's threats tomorrow." Anyone care to take a stab at translating that into Latin?

ELY (n.)
The first, tiniest inkling you get that something, somewhere, has gone terribly wrong.

From "The Meaning of Liff" by Douglas Adams and John Lloyd.

Do you have rights to make a derivative work? What is the license on this interview, anyway?

Also makes "Hey Dad, I'm in Jail!" by Was (not Was) your ring tone. I like it here!

Now this matters. Goodbye and well done.

I cried. I also bought the film rights.