Search science papers online, find "I. Abstract" to be a very prolific author with expertise in practically all scientific fields. A true renaissance man (or woman, or whatever).

What are you afraid of, robot communists trying to pry your car key from your dead, cold hand? Car ownership like we have it today is an economical absurdity and an ecological disaster, and of course it will disappear one day. Not by decree but by necessity, no conspiracy will force you to sit in another man's vomit.

I'm sure that Putin, contrary to you, is quite aware of the "long game" that is going on here.

that would be totally unprecedented for real now

you are joking.

Pravda?! more joking. You are a bit out of touch, aren't you. But the Russian government denied it allright: http://rt.com/news/176120-fake...

... either the car, or the human.

How do you put programming skills on a single linear scale, and than apply that to "a job"? This is the most stupid thing I've heard all week, but hey, it's only Wednesday, I'm sure my manager will come up with something.

This project deserves not to have an experienced crew sacked in its late phase, which would most certainly kill it. It also deserves the best people, and not limit itself to those who can afford to work for free. Society throws large amounts of money at fools for going round a track really fast, for yodeling into a microphone, or generating graphs from spreadsheets somebody else filled in. So if anything, those engineers are paid too little. Anyone who thinks otherwise has so little sense of priority that I wouldn't entrust him with managing two guys with leaf blowers. Why was this modded insightful? It's the most bleak, insight-less, accounting-troll-ish thing I can imagine.

It tells you something is rotten in a political system where the secret police has the balls to piss on parliament like that. Makes you wonder who is running that country.

I love having longer evenings in the summer, but why oh why do we have to reset that each winter, screw up my body clock, and plunge my evenings into darkness?!

That seems bold. Everybody else so far has practiced their aim on the moon first.

It is tempting to put that nasty stuff to a civilian use, but such a program could also be an pretext to keep up the production of weapons-grade fissile material. When conservative politicians in the 1970ies were pushing to arm West Germany with its own nuclear weapons, one of the things they did was having a breeder reactor built (thankfully it never was completed). Such a thing should definitely be avoided.

You couldn't make this up.

mathematical laws from? If the most reasonable explanation for ours would be that someone put them there, what kind of über-laws would his world have? And how would they come to be? By that logic, he would himself most likely be part of a larger simulation! And how much resources of his universe would it take to model ours? Surely electrons or quantum states or whatever he would be using don't come free. Much less does an potentially infinite hierarchy of model universes within model universes. I don't think the idea is even new, didn't some french dudes explore this idea?

... to hire a bricklayer to finish his project.

Yeah, relax, that law is just to forbid the economy class hoi polloi from communicating. Go plutocracy!

... to use drones for something dangerous. Drones are for the military, to kill people safely!