It might help to read his essay from Wired, "Mother Earth Mother Board", in which you will find that sometimes coincidence really does, "bring people from all the way around the world together to do exhaustively-detailed lame things", and that can make for interesting stories.

Questions generally are not stupid. Answers may be. This question could serve several reasonable purposes: 1) expose bias if the person answering is willing to be honest, 2) provoke self-examination in the person being questioned, 3) expose the bias of people saying it is a stupid question :-)

Perhaps you should have stated it differently, "Knowing nothing else, would you prefer a male or a female boss?"

Those pedestrian safety laws sure have made European cars pretty~

Isn't Charlie Sheen the obvious choice to play McAfee?

Maybe it could be because V.W. U.S. thinks people in the U.S. are litigious children that are not willing to accept responsibility for their actions. It seems to me they (Audi) may have had experience with that before...

Horological-douchey-tools are a special breed. I mean, what normal person would ever recognize that wrist-watch as something worth $58,000. No one. Most people are surprised that there eve are watches worth more than a few hundred dollars. So, horological douchey-tools are very specialized in that only other…

There are many ways to cook a thing. Deep frying a turkey produces a unique result that you can not achieve with roasting. These videos show, for everyone's amusement, the few times the process has failed either on purpose or due to ignorance on the part of the people involved. The vast majority of people who do this,…

When one creates from nothing, one might be creating art or one might be creating the unskilled scribblings of a chimp. It is hard to tell unless the one doing the creating is known to be skilled and making choices or known to be unskilled and simply enjoying happy (or unhappy) accidents. If Diego Fazio ever produces…

...AND that people will give me stuff I want and need for. There, fixed that for you.

It's amazing what people will do for a new iPhone.

I understand it well. Did I express an opinion for you to disagree with? I simply asked a question.

One of the ways to test a principle is to change the parameters and see if it still works. Of course I am not suggesting that stealing porn is equivalent to shooting people. The severity of the crime in no way changed the principle being tested, but might change the opinions of people who are espousing the principle.…

"but you can't sue someone for failing to use a password just like you can't sue someone for leaving their front door unlocked."

It is most probably coup de grace, not coup d'etat, in that context.

One reason why guns could be considered a technology we should have is that, while not completely, they let the old defend themselves against the young; the weak against the strong. People can kill other people in many different ways, guns are just a particularly accessible means, meaning that most anyone can pick up…

It probably is simply retro-reflective like a street sign or a license plate.

I suspect the station will simply issue a takedown notice and have the video removed from YouTube. Isn't that how it is supposed to work?

I figure those that don't want to, don't have to, though I suspect that as the end approaches, if quality of life were not an issue, most would want to defer the end. Just so long as those that don't want to don't then force their opinion on those that do I see no problem. As for me, I want to live for as long as I…

Ready reaction time can be in the .1s time frame. By ready, I mean you know what the stimulus is going to be and what the correct response should be and have practiced and all that is left is waiting for the event. You can measure this for yourself pretty easily with the help of a computer.