This kind of thing really bugs me. Sure if you wanted to wait long enough we could breed a fish gene into a tomato. DNA randomly changes quite a bit between generations so given maybe a couple thousand years of extremely good breading and we could probably do it. Then theres the assertion I've heard from you and others that GMOs are somehow bad in and of themselves. I'm sorry sir, but that's exactly like claiming smelting causes crashes or train wrecks. Smelting is a tool just like genetic engineering. The distinction is worth noting. Tools can't kill. What people do with those tools is whats important. Similarly genetic engineering doesn't kill. It's the particular change that does that. I'd be fine with labeling GMO just as soon as we label what herbicides were used or maybe what breed of plant. You can argue that perhaps we don't understand genetics enough to be messing with it yet, but and perhaps I'm going to far, but I'd say we don't really understand the impact of gay marriage totally or even the impact of you driving around that new car you always wanted. I'd wager more people die every year because a car manufacture did something wrong than because of GMOs. Does that mean we stay huddled in a conner always worried about things we don't fully understand. Maybe GMOs will kill people, but I think it's clear by now that any die off will be relatively small and maybe this is cold, but we'll learn a lot due to that disaster. The Titanic sank, but maybe on the balance it was worth it.

Probably not enough power.

I guess in a way, if you squint at it right. Sure the government is forcing communism on everyone, but at least under the dictionary definition, a country could be communist and have a democracy. Don't tell me a country can be communist and capitalist.

Yes, but maybe not in the way you mean. My understanding is it's not the labor costs that are the main concern, but the fact that these ores contain other toxic materials. Disposal of these material is most of the expense. And, of course, the that's no problem for the Chines

I don't know about XBees, but WiFi shares one of its channels with Amateur Radio on a bases with the Amateur Radio operators allowed to interfere with Wifi, but not visa versa. Also I'd bet XBees have terrible receivers.

Just a theory, but I'd bet that Google's setting this up to give them an excuse to collect even more info about you. Then again I opted in.

I agree that current copy write law maybe to strict, but this seems to be a pretty clear cut case where the pub deserved it. Also you seem to be saying that copy write and/or patents should be totally gotten rid of. I don't think you could be father from the truth. Lets say you spend years working on a book or a series of books only to have some one steal all your ideas. In your word there would be nothing you could do about it.

7) Organisms still last longer than most machines.

I know. I should have made that clear. All I'm saying is they claim that particular method for solving video captchas no longer works on their captchas. It could be a lie, but either way saying that it is compromised is going a bit to far. We have computers that can beat humans at just about any game. They just take up a small building and need the air conditioning of a small city. Captchas can be beaten by computers and we're getting to the point where any test that a computer can't do a human can't either. Sure humans can interpret language better, but computers also can't come up with a good word problem and if you have a human do it there's only so many tests they can come up with in a reasonable amount of time. We have to come up with a better answer I'm not sure if this is that answer, as other commenters have said it maybe easier to crack then normal captchas, but we do have to come up with something different. Not really sure how I got here, but that's my take on it