...there'll be nothing left but cockroaches and porn.

Preponderance of Evidence >= Survival of the Fittest

Sometimes I think the man would be more at peace with Creationism than with what our legal system validates.

Ryobi Fanboys - a ./ first!!! For what it's worth, the plastic surgeon in the ER probably can't tell if you used a Ryobi or a Makita.

...is what the first road utilizing the new system ought to be named. "And now to Chopper5 for a look at this morning's commute...Oh, the humanities!"

As one of a half dozen or so entities that can lay claim to tangible property on the Moon, it does put him in an exclusive club . Not current on my Lunar Law, but I think it's safe to say there's plenty of gray area that will need to be fleshed out as to who can claim exclusive rights to anything. Right now, there's not much more that differentiates Joe Schmoe (contextually) from Russia or India or Lord British other than Joe owns no Moon trash. What if Branson bought the thing? We'd be talking about the U.S., China, India, EU, Japan, Russia, and Virgin Galactic in the Club. Would that warrant a seat on the Lunar Policy Steering Committee table?

ok, how about a really big hamster wheel?

...where aliens cross-bred with humans, and they had green acid blood, and there were bees, and Indians, and snow, and...well, whatever, but I bet all the X-Files movies pop up on cable in the next few weeks.

If a person devotes enough attention (and maybe some theory) to a given genre of music, creating something pleasing is not a huge reach. If you succeed financially, it's called 'Pop'. But can Emmy choose one chord or note over another because it 'feels right' for her state, or does she just logicaly select the highest % option based on her knowledge base (which could conceivably include all recorded human music to date). When we can quantify and qualify our own human choices from neuron (-to-neuron) to note and then feed them to an Emmy, it'll be appropriate to compare her to Mozart, Hendrix, Davis or whoever you choose.

good way to help out those startup Subversive orgs.