Why no quotation marks around "nigger" when you went out of your way to use quotes throughout your post? The most racist term you that used in your hypothetical argument, yet you didn't present it as something you would only say hypothetically. I'm not surprised you have problems defining 'What is "racist" speech?'. BTW, It was the threat of violence against the president that was the legal problem, not his use of racial slurs.

Little seems to have developed since Gamasutra posted a very similar story about this on March 15th: http://www.gamasutra.com/view/news/33536/InDepth_Jason_Rohrers_Chain_World_Meets_Controversy.php The 'news' in Wired's story is the revelation that someone named Positional Super Ko won the auction and is now making cryptic Go-related tweets. The fact that Jia Ji went hiking in Hawaii and that Jason Rohrer doesn't believe in vaccinations is just padding. The only thing I really learned from this article is that Wired must pay their writers by the word...

Surely the final arrival of GNU Hurd must be the seventh sign.

Nah, jellyfish are just part of the Earth's immune system. They are attacking nuclear reactor the same way white blood cells attack a virus or bacteria.