You think the military in several countries don’t already have their own AI-programs learning to use real weapons? I suspect everyone is wary about being the first to deploy autonomous weapons, but if they see an adversary have them, they sure want to be ready to be second.

Chavez and Maduro could have spent more effort on diversifying the economy while oil income was good, but instead Chavez just redistributed the oil income. It was nice for people in the short term, but not a sustainable solution. The problem was more short time populism than socialism IMHO.

Local birds: “WTF is wrong with the weather? I’ve never seen clouds like that before”.

Small business usually have simple accounting. You can check a lot of them in reasonable time and find those who cheat. Large companies hire lawyers who are experts in obfuscating, making it hard and time consuming to make an audit, and even harder to prove any wrongdoings.

Lots of opportunities for FBI agents to get side incomes. Drug money disappearing, bribes taken. I bet there is a surge in corruption by agents who feel let down and need money, and once you start it’s so tempting to continue.

Just have all the other patients make fun of him for having to pay while they are there for free.

How do you like it if when someone sees something stupid and claim it is “the blackest thing he’s ever seen” and demand “just stop it black people”?

As a secondary benefit, by blocking some of the sunlight this slat barrier will counteract global warming, foiling the plan of the lizardmen to warm the planet to their liking.

“Without figuring that part of the mystery out, the only solution would be for Maxmind to change the default location for the IP address for that zip code—but that would mean some other house would have strangers seeking smartphones knocking on their door.”

And if people buy large houses, that’s “wasteful consumerism” where the rich have convinced people to buy more than they need.

Maybe they just prefer the Moclans inside pissing out than outside pissing in. You don’t want the guys making weapons join your enemy.

“WHO would search those creepy ass tags except pedophiles?!?!”

If the Nazis get encouraged by the name, they are free to go there.

I think all the doctors that supports torture and medical experiments for CIA are a good deal worse, and as far as I know they have not been condemned by US professional organizations.

This may have another political implication too. If Brexit becomes too chaotic a more moderate Ireland is in a better position to convince Northern Ireland that they can as well be a special region in Ireland as in UK.

Being unable to launch nukes will cause the world to end??? That does not compute.

Large part of the population of Gaza descend from the people the Zionists found unwanted and threw out of “their” country when Israel was conquered. Why do you blame other countries for not accepting the refugees that resulted from Israel’s ethnic cleansing? And why just blame Muslim countries for not accepting more…

I think you should be really careful about punishing people for calling the police. First because people may become afraid to call the cops even when they should have. Second, do you think for one moment the bad cops won’t find ways to abuse it? If you are a minority, you risk encountering a racist cop that doesn’t…

I would have gone for ‘Solo’ as slightly more subtle.

I have to say the most worrying part of this story is “The story, which appears to have changed substantially since it was first published”. With electronic publishing newspapers can change their stories as much as they want making it impossible to fairly discuss them since people may have read different editions. A…