Money can be exchanged for goods and services.

C is an infinite class of possible "third-causes". Therefore there are infinitely more than 4 possible outcomes.

Poor Future Shop. The thieves made it sad :( Seriously, though. This whole "corporations as people" thing has gone too far...

Yes, there is something profoundly screwed up about the fact that, under our current economic model, it is considered a BAD THING when someone no longer has to perform drudge labour because it can now be performed by a machine. That said, I don't know what the alternative model should be. Just that there's something wrong with the current system.

Thanks, these puns really gave me a lift!

Clearly I'm not the only one who read the whole summary in auto-tune.

Forgive me, but I don't really understand the business model, though. If it's true that their own studies have shown that pirates are better customers, this would presumably indicate that allowing piracy would increase revenue. So if their goal is to maximize profit, why wouldn't they want to take this on board?

The email states the effect was witnessed MARCH 22, not July 22, which is when the missile launch was scheduled.

Pew! Pew Pew! Pew Pew Pew Pew! ...sorry.

GOATSE ALERT

Craigslist spaceport: You will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy. We must be cautious.

The Gizmodo article, like most of the speculation, was largely overblown:

That is not the case. The DNA is largely the same, except that phosphorous has been exchanged with Arsenic. Don't get me wrong, this is still a hugely interesting discovery, but it was implied during the pre-conference speculation that this was an entirely separate instance of abiogenesis, and that is simply not the case, unfortunately.

Good idea in theory. The problem is, the only people who have the power to implement the vast educational reforms you talk about are those who benefit most from the current state of ignorance...

Sorry, don't you mean 2 933 football fields under the sea?

Obviously SOMEONE wasn't watching gymnastics at the Summer Olympics...