The database might be the definitive factor. The data that Watson worked from was likely subject to an editorial review for validity. "Teh Interwebs" has truly hit or miss info. What could the Watson automaton possibly do with it? He needs to work more from a "Britannica" data-set, than a "Wikipedia" data-set. I think the allure might be the idea of filtering results FROM page-rank search THROUGH Watson, for verification. Is this the CORRECT answer to my question? I also liked the comment that Watson couldn't scale from one query at a time to millions every minute. My idea of a question? "Watson: A butterfly has just flapped it's wings. Will there be a hurricane, and if so, where and when will it occur?"

The Welfare State has met the Police State. If the two-party system is broken, would a third party help? If you make "leftist," and "rightist" two extremes of a continuum, then any lie you tell to get in power has no accountability under a two-party model: you're in power. But if we, as Americans, revive the Federalist Party, then the two loser (honest?) parties can band together to hold the winner-spender party accountable. By contrast, anarchy would put the head of household in charge of securing his (or her) possessions against: The Russian Mafia The Jewish Mafia The Italian Mafia The Isreali Mossad The Triads The Yakuza The Bloods The Crips The Zetas The FARC The Hells Angels The US Jack Booted Thugs 3 Letter Agency of serving warrants... no WAIT! We SOLVED that one. No more jack booted thugs Woohoo!!!! "I feel safer..."

"I can't arrest you until I knew it all along!" - Gotcha - 10 yards for littering. 3rd down.

Is this poor comprehension, or knee-jerk liberalism? OK, now, "Is this poor comprehension, or knee-jerk conservatism?"

May I speculate that, given the observations here, the whole news report might be a case of M$ "declaring themselves the victor," despite the actual facts? "They" have to tell the boss SOMETHING!

There appears to be a moral mobius between "All that is required for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing," AND Tolerance. (...or a contradiction?) Is Tolerance a license to offend?

If you feel strongly enough to "eat" one, you may consider shredding them ->http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jGXh6RVTuq0&feature=related (originally saw a better link, and in library I can't monitor sound.)

I don't know when Estate taxes get out of hand, but 100% Estate Taxes made me think of Communism --> http://undeadmusings.blogspot.com/2012/02/speculating-what-would-happen-if-estate.html

Estate taxes are mentioned (way down below,) but are bad for people who inherit farms and small businesses with wealth. I don't know what that means in an entire system of taxation, and an exception might be adequate. I favor Consumption taxes http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consumption_tax over Wealth taxes, because they mitigate many ills. The famous "Missing Merchant problem" is just as possible under a system of Income tax as any, and I suppose capital flight is a kind of "missing merchant" under a Wealth tax system.

Now if only my old embarrassing you tube vids would disappear the same way!