How the brain, and we as a species work; especially considering the number of things that can go wrong: mentally, physically, socially.

That is inspiring. Now let us make powersats, and von Neumann machines and go mine the asteroid belt. Who is with me? Ceres or bust!

Are wasps the insect world's equivelant of the SS? They look cool, but are evil to their core. They enslave, mess around with mind control, and everyone was kind of happy when some other bugs kicks their ass. I won't be surprised if some day scientists discover tiny archaeology digs where wasps have been trying to dig…

My mother's dog would lose her mind when my mom left the house. Nothing I could do would calm her down. Then I tried an experiment. My mom used to watch QVC a lot. When my mom left the house, I would turn the tv on to QVC. It was like magic! Within seconds the dog calmed down, lay down and went to sleep. So the…

"Thou shalt not make a machine in the likeness of a human mind." - Orange Catholic Bible (Dune Appendix)

I admit and do not feel embarrassed by the fact that I totally fell asleep in the theater while watching this movie with my son on a weekend afternoon. It was not good.

I know I'm definitely more inflexible in the field I operate in nowadays. A big part of the reason is that in my field of work the difference between "good enough" and "optimal" is often times a whole lot of work for minimal marginal gains in value to the organization.

If you look closely, you'll see the clouds are played by Hayden Christensen.

You have no clue. Get a passport, visit, party, then get back to me.

Unless you are gay, or like freedom of expression.

You get similar patterns in all places of power. But the system of checks and balances in the US politics kept G.W.B. from getting even close to what Putin has gotten. Also, Bush didn't need to manufacture a crisis, only exploit an already existing one, and it cost him money, not make more, though it certainly brought…

Feel free to elaborate. I don't recall blaming Putin for Europe's internal problems, but he hasn't shown similar restraint.

Primer.

His first two terms were actually quite successful. After Yeltsin's clusterfuck of a regime, he seemed like an all around good person to actually get the country working. Unfortunately, like others before him, he grew fond of money and power, and now he's fallen to manufacturing crises abroad to appear the stern,…

Living in a bleak hellish autocracy run by a real life bond villain might have something to do with it.

haha. fixed, thanks.