But you could send the robots to prep the site for humans.

And then do a replay of the film "Moon".

Why not just change the space program from NASA to a Reality TV show in Space?

Getting voted off the moonbase would have real consequences ...

Seriously, robots?

Why not cyborgs or droids too?

Discrimination by the classists!

Oh, now, cynicism!

It's just the Great Invisible Hand changing the lightbulb.

The Great Invisible Hand has probably already advanced the careers and earnings potentials of all of the staff that were let go as a result.

Stop thinking like a pinko-commie.

not the typical fast moving well-spaced sedans.

I thought they were goats?

http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Climate_Depot
http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/wattsupwiththat.com
both are highly known as clime change deniers they are not reputable as you claim.

most real research is paywalled and/or sells books to fund their research above whatever grants they get. it is how academia works these are feel good stories for republicans to seed disinformation, as it takes all blame away from them.

even if the global warming is a result of the sun fusing higher density particles and not burning of fuels while deforestation there is still merit in finding ways to slow global warming. it's not 'shit we better burn all the coal we can before it all ignights and screws humanity'

What a lot of people fail to recognise is that the people in charge of governments and the state tend to have the mentality and vindictiveness of very small children. Unfortunately, they also have an adults guile. Assumming that small children will behave rationally, reasonably, or for the common good is not a legitimate strategy.

in my experience pc gaming is a nightmare, card upgrades driver going from single card to every possible hardware configuration...various oses and computer that fail... the tech universe has always been a nightmare scenario, it's just that usually you can get things to work for a few years if you search message boards for problems you can usually use someone elses disaster to keep from affecting you. usually but seriously does a small bug here or there stop you from using computers? i have probably bought about $10,000 worth in consumer grade computers, it is my hobby. i have seen almost every type of consumer grade hardware failure. i have yet to meet a hardware company that is able to please all their userbase, and i have upgraded gpus many times i have magazines where computers cost $3,500 and in the day were about equivalent to todayâ(TM)s graphing programmable calculators.
anyways i have nvidia and amd/ati systems and for the most part things work, although the linux drivers were a real challenge to get working on my laptop. mainly the wifi but on my desktop (gaming one) the lack of usb keyboard function in linux was unacceptable. some of us don't have the same ibm ones built to withstand a nuclear war. why force a usb keyboard? well for one it glows blue. sidetracked a bit but oh well

Um, dude, that changed a long time ago.

Probably because most NATO forces already had women in combat decades before the US did.

PTSD does not discriminate against either gender, but has a correlation with explosions and pituitary expression.

Do you have a Z Z Alpha requisition form for pre-conceptual authorization to think about putting a robot at risk?

Is it filled out in triplicate?

If so, you may now think about doing this.

(caveat: the article clearly states soldiers have no problems sending robots to die, but they like to have a funeral or memorial service for them if they die - not the same thing)

So, I hack your spouse's car and you hack my spouse's car, both while we're out of town at conferences where there are no electronic connections.

The perfect crime.

All thanks to "autonomy".

I predict an upsurge in "unexplained accidents".

My point being that Ubuntu 13.04 is a Lunatic Fringe distribution for the hard-of-thinking (designed with a "slick" graphical installer and heavy eye-candy) on ancient hardware that 99.9% of users would have binned over half a decade ago.

I dare say if I'd put Slackware on, it would have been much quicker and wouldn't have required any hackery of the installation scripts. It had to be something trendy and simple, because I was installing it for my dad who has spent the last 20 years trapped in Windows-land, where he develops commercial software, and if he hasn't got a picture to point at with the mouse, he won't do it.

if we filter all internet what difference is using that against our own citizens than is using chem weapons to kill them?

My car is an Audi A4 which I bought used (I've never bought a new car) for quarter of the price that it sold new. I've owned it for 11 years now. In that time, if I add up all the repairs for worn out stuff together (including a fairly major transmission job) PLUS all the normal servicing PLUS the price I paid for it, it doesn't even add up to just the depreciation cost from new to the point where I bought it - in other words, the car has been much cheaper for me to run for 11 years than the original owner for 7 years. I don't do my own work on it - I drop it off at a local garage and pick it up when it's done.