Funny how the former darling of the Democrats and Devil of the Republicans is now the reverse. Of course, all will now claim he never was the other.

Good clarification. It’s amazing how any details of the situation have fled from the minds of the average reader. Even fewer have read the more comprehensive description of his crimes in Sweden and still think that a person can retroactively call a sexual act rape on the basis of regret in Sweden. On nit. The British…

I could say the same thing about coffee and beer. Like many things we enjoy, they are acquired tastes that we only appreciate after repeated exposure or change in taste due to age. I hated sparkling water up until around age 35, then I found myself traveling often in Europe where it was served much more frequently and…

When the numbers are in an North American context, a billion is a 1 with 9 zeros after it. A one with 12 zeros after it is called a trillion in North America.

There are many possible reasons a couple, each with no prior family history of autism, may produce a child with autism. For instance, it has been observed that when two parents with hi IQ produce children, their is a higher probability of autism. This happens more, today, than in the past due to the increase in…

Jimmy Carter being elected and then later the Iran hostage crisis.

Except for Game of Thrones which is more like rise-fall-fall-rise-then rise and fall at the same time then fall and rise at the same time then some more fall, rise, and so on and so forth. I swear GRRM does not know how to tell a story with a beginning a middle and an end.

“Believe it or not, my mattress has a huge blood stain on it.”

But if one has had sufficient training to be effective is everyone’s individual determination to make.

That’s the interesting thing. We give Google something that, discounting privacy issues, costs us practically nothing at all and, because we don’t know what to do with it, is worth to us practically nothing at all and they give us tremendous value in return just because they know how to turn that seemingly valueless…

I’ll just leave this here: http://waitbutwhy.com/2015/01/artifi…

I can’t say how great the danger is, but in answer to the “Don’t you think the humans would notice this?” is no, no I don’t. I have seen so many people continuing to use computers so bogged down in adware and other cruft staring them right that simple webpages take minutes to load, so them detecting a smart AI that…

I do, but we all have private offices.

I do, but we all have private offices.

Actually, it would be quite specific.

Not necessarily. We could simply add, “and Pluto” to the current definition. Problem solved.

I don’t think that sentence is associated with the FOIA request but, rather, with prior classification.

Stephen Hawking used the nonsense phrase, “lowest common denominator”? I find that hard to believe.

I think, in part, it has to do with what the genders use it for. When I hear (mostly) girls use it, it usually expressing apathy and antipathy which I find distasteful/disrespectful and phony in the young regardless of if they are male or female (they are too young to be so jaded). When I hear (mostly) men use it is…

Slide over Sally with a bench front seat.

“In principle, I think iron addition to the Southern Ocean could make a difference in terms of drawing down atmospheric CO2,” Anderson said. “But I think we have to be very careful, considering the ecological harm that could be done. We’d have to be very desperate in my opinion.”