Privately held companies don't have a lot of reporting obligations beyond filing their taxes.

Because limited liability corporation. The entity that entered into the contract is legally obligated to fulfill, but if it goes tits up there's no one to collect from.

My personal stance is that it's presumptive to pin a label on someone who didn't ask for it. It's a spectrum, not a binary, et cetera.

I expect there to be no coherent difference between the two. Genetic engineering is a technology, and cells are nanobots.

Technology will increasingly allow us to ignore and disrupt the operation of hierarchical institutions, but that won't impair the lifestyles of anyone but the 1% and luddites. We'll all be farmers, not of multicellular plants and animals, but genetically engineered unicellular colonies we'll use to make feedstock to…

I don't know about that. I didn't have the stamina to put up with being sworn at by the people who play LoL.

Is that the perpetual price, or just for the first year? If the former, that's a pretty good deal, but it's about double the market price if it's $10/month after.

Is that the perpetual price, or just for the first year? If the former, that's a pretty good deal, but it's about…

In the comics, Andrea is right next to Michonne and Maggie in badassery. A lot of the hate is probably in the TV version not measuring up.

She's got huge tracts of land!

If you don't like it, don't give him your money. He more than earned my $20.

Important question: does it hijack referral links?

Hah! :)

The smirk is from my mental image of you wearing a Wookiee costume and waving a yellow snake flag.

Because it's actually on public property?

Sounds like it's actually over the sidewalk.

Railing against a technology, any technology, is futile and counterproductive. If you won't use it, your competitors and malfactors will, and they'll roll over and replace you. If you're fighting it, you're not part of the discussion on how to smooth over it's rough edges and integrate it positively.

I think Amazon plays the long game and picks these battles very carefully. They worry about publishers forcing them to delete things off of people's Kindles, so they do it with 1984. It's candy to the media, so it raises a big stink and no publisher has risked the public wrath from doing it with a less sensational…

If we were talking about a single alien species, sure, but to say otherwise assumes that none want to.

They wouldn't need to. Sending out colonies which then send out their own colonies goes exponential, and any reasonable fraction of the speed of light only increases the time frame linearly.

Yeah, I'm sorry to break it to you, but you're not as smart as you think you are. The diameter of the Milky Way is between 100,000 and 120,000 light years.