Are you saying that the right to life is contingent on the value one generates? Because I'm pretty sure that's what you're saying.

Defeat System Idle Process by installing Vista on someone else's computer nearby!

I think it's taken some time off interfering with planes to go after cars.

There are dozens of reasons to prefer Antarctica as a destination. Mars, in my opinion, has one big advantage: it would decouple the continued existence of humanity from the continued habitability of Earth.

Right now we could be destroyed completely by an asteroid impact, a supervolcano, anything that takes terrestrial conditions out of the relatively narrow band we can survive in. Getting off this rock would reduce the risk of something bad happening and wiping us out. Developing the technology to make a Martian colony self sustaining would widen the band of terrestrial conditions we can survive in.

Interesting idea. The baguette isn't a huge deal because it won't delay the activation of the Collider but that's only one of the absurd things to happen to it, many of which have caused delays.

If the sheer number of alternate universes is contributing to our survival
and each time we avoid destruction, the number of universes is reduced
then perhaps it would benefit us to seed the multiverse with more universes.

I'm going to be letting HotBits make my decisions for a while. They supply random numbers based on radioactive decay. I'm hoping my experiment will propagate superposition to the macro world and increasing the chance that some instance of me survives whatever nasty unexpected consequences the LHC's activation may have.

Of course one could argue that my our present existence proof that nothing happens in the future that destroys this universe's past.

Not blame them? Hell, we should thank them! Remember the last time they implemented a standard before it was finished? Remember the browser wars? the "best viewed in" buttons? the monstrous mess HTML became? ... the blink tag? :(

I wonder, though, how hard the BilliardBots are on the soft, smooth, delicate felt surface of a pool table.

... because it bears repeating.

I saw "skin" :(

PLEASE provide references. I get that airy-fairy flaky-reiki new age balderdash all the time and I'd love to have some solid evidence to back up my repudiations.

Ok.

No. You measure the spin of one particle from your write set. The entangled particle from my read set silently agrees to return the complementary value when I measure it. The entanglement is now broken. You continue to "toggle" the spin on your particle, where "toggle" means "measure and receive non-deterministic, random, unpredictable results". I can measure my particle's spin at any time after your initial measurement and will find the random counterpart to your random first value. I have no way of knowing whether I've received the random result of your having measured, or if I've primed your first result by measuring before you did.

By continuously observing my read pair of particles, I can see that I get a stream of random results. Coincidentally, the first random value from each particle correlates with the first random value you get from each of your particles.

"Hours of music"?

I wonder if multiple instances of the same app count as one or many towards the limit. Because with Chrome opening each tab as a separate process, things could get very interesting indeed. Chrome only shows up once under Applications in Task Manager but multiple times under Processes. Background applications show up only under Processes and they've already said they'll count those. At this stage I guess it could go either way.