He was asked what would be the *quickest* way, not what he thought was the *best* way.

We've got a 2014 Prius v and a 2006 Prius.

The 2006 Prius has a much more useful navigation system, and isn't loaded with a ton of crapware and terrible design decisions like the 2014. In the 2014, it's so bad that I just use Waze on my phone.

Regarding #4 - it's not that taking over the world or killing all humans is the AI's end-goal. It's just removing variables from the scenario. Since humans are unpredictable and are likely to interfere with it, preventing it from accomplishing its actual goals, it's entirely logical to reach "destroy all humans" as an intermediate step.

Best desk I've ever had. So good I bought a second one for home use.

Want to stand? No problem. Want to sit? Go ahead, it takes five seconds to adjust.

It's nice and solid, is made in the USA, and comes pre-assembled.

http://www.ergodesktop.com/

In 2014, 39% of US Electricity came from coal, and that percentage is declining.

http://www.eia.gov/tools/faqs/...

Coal isn't competing well with natural gas, and they're closing down a large number of older coal plants, and aren't building new ones. Most new plants are natural gas or renewables.

http://about.bnef.com/content/...

That said, it's still easier to control emissions at a single source than at thousands.

It is by caffeine alone I set my mind in motion.
It is by the juice of java that thoughts acquire speed, the hands acquire shakes, the shakes become a warning.
It is by caffeine alone I set my mind in motion.

So, less than one Iraq War then?

Sounds pretty good.

I have a 2006 Prius and just recently we got a 2014 Prius V... And the '06 has a vastly superior navigation system. The '14 comes with crapware-loaded Entune and some of the worst user-interface decisions I've ever seen in a product.

I like that it shows me the traffic, but it'd be nice if they licensed Google Maps for the information so it'd be closer to accurate. And it'd also be nice if roads in cities weren't grey-on-grey with grey text. (Why are you showing me that I'm in a city by changing the background to grey anyway? Is the population of the current governmental entity really critical information when driving?)

It's also somewhat amusing - but also irritating - to see garbage like Bing or MovieTickets.com in the car screen, which work if you connect them to the internet on your smartphone... But if I have my smartphone in the car, wouldn't I check movie times on that, instead of a never-updated slow app whose interface was designed by someone that wears their pants on their head?

It's a standing desk from ErgoDesktop that trivially converts to a sitting desk - turn one knob and push it down, or raise it back up.

It lets me stand most of the time, and sit if I want to.

http://www.ergodesktop.com/

I have no regrets dropping $10 on FTL on the iPad, even if I already had it on PC. Easily one of the best games I've played on the tablet.

Because nuclear fission is SCARY! (Even though modern designs for thorium based plants passively deal with many of the potential issues.)

The greater Boston marketing area includes areas other than the City of Boston itself. For example, they also show Red Lobster ads and the closest one's in Connecticut.

Slow news day, huh?

As dozens of others have said - too much whitespace, too much crap on the side, and the comments section is better implemented on this version, or the even older formats.

The comments section is the single most important thing here.

Switzerland also requires that said mentally competent males of military-eligible age go through military boot camp and be part of their National Guard Reserve equivalent. Once their term of service is over, the automatic capability of the rifles is disabled.

As usual. Walk up, tell them my name and address. It gets crossed off and a paper ballot is handed to me. I fill in some dots with a marker, then stick it into a machine that reads it and I get a shiny "I voted today" sticker as they mark me off in a second set of books.

It took at most five minutes. I have no idea how other states can mess such a simple process up so badly.