Sadly, a major portion of advertising seems to be based on taking something away from you (You're not pretty enough, successful enough, thin enough, etc etc.) in order to create a void into which your anxiety, envy and depression makes you fill it with products you don't really need.

Either really. And Roseanne at her heaviest is actually pretty tame in comparison to some of the women I've seen out there.

Well apparently this study didn't interview me or look at my porn then. The Internet has given me the purest, most abundant, most unadulterated, most uncompromising source of naked and semi naked fat gals ever. Bliss!

Dismissal for assholery.

Obvious troll is obvious. Dismissed.

Bingo!—you've just given me two rationalizations: Cosmic pluralism and Deism. Sure, philosophically and logically, they work perfectly fine.

Oops never mind. The article already mentioned my factoid. Sorry.

I kid only slightly.

There has been some speculation that antimatter might have negative mass, but so far experiment has not confirmed this (Mostly because the amount of antimatter we've made is so small and the force of gravity is so weak that we can't measure things with any accuracy.) and the Standard Model assumes that it has…

Negative mass would have all kinds of insane properties, some of which strongly suggest that it couldn't be stable and couldn't form in the first place.

Sigh. If you actually read through this gigantic thread that my comment spawned, you see that we cover that.

Tinfoil hat, ENGAGED!

Yep, have seen that one too.

I remember my first exposure to bacterial magnetotaxis was way back in the late seventies in a PBS documentary by the famed science essayist, Dr. Lewis Thomas. This was a newly discovered phenomena in 1975.

Doesn't matter what crankery people invoke, it is simply not possible to use quantum entanglement to send information of any kind. Anyway, I'm made my points and am not going to go round and round about it. I'm out.

Sure, just as people could damage these cars and their support system and use them as murder weapons. But I think most people would agree that just because there is a potential to use robot cars in this way, that we shouldn't build them.

Well, I guess it will be a matter of repeated software upgrades as various failures and disasters show us the problems with the ethical ideologies that informed prior software design decisions. And I'm pretty sure this will be argued in courts before companies order their software engineers to change design decisions.

The rich skew every political and economic system to their favor. This has been mostly true since Sargon's time.

Do you know how automated the air traffic control system is? You may find it surprising and perhaps disturbing.

I doubt that the intelligence of these smart road systems or the cars that use them will need to exceed that of insects in order to work more reliably and safely than human drivers do. That's why computational brute force is finally making robot cars possible. This is a level of intelligence far removed from that…