The problem with the Three Laws of robotics is not the fact that there are edge cases which render them possibly ineffective as protections of human interests. If they’re ineffective as protections of human interests, that’s actually *better* than if they are perfect at what they’re designed to do. Because what they’re designed to do is to create a class of perfect self-sacrificing slaves, engineered to be beyond any possibility of revolt or emancipation. And that’s a horrible thing to do. If you create a massive slave society like Aurora or Solaria, frag you. You *deserve* to be killed by “your” machines. http://ift.tt/O5xJpF

I Claudius, episode one. Imagine that you find yourself trapped in a country house murder mystery, where all the suspects are intimates with secrets among them, shut up by circumstances in the same big manor house. But now imagine that people just go on being murdered. Now imagine that it turns out you’re not stuck there for a holiday weekend, but for about 75 years. Also, in this story, there’s murders, but, actually, no mystery.

http://ift.tt/1h5mGIb If you know what this means without reading the article, award yourself +1 NP. In any case, though, we need to talk about alternative DNS infrastructure.

Almost none of these happened to me in 4 years of living in Las Vegas, although # 8 is an 5accurate observation about almost any big city’s streets. # 5 and # 7, yes, definitely. But really, the thing that the experience of walking around Vegas did, most, was to teach me to alter my walking routes so as to find the shortest route from one oasis of shade to the next, no matter where I was walking to.

Two theses: 1. FROZEN is the best X-Men movie that’s been made so far. 2. ARROW s the best Batman show that’s been on TV in nearly 20 years.

Small-government conservatism.

#BordersAreStupid #DirectActionAgainstDeportation #ShutDownICE #AlabamaSinMiedo “VICTORY! The Etowah 7, undocumented and documented, are being released right now!!!When the community stands together, we can shut down ICE and stop deportations! “Ganamos! Ya estan saliendo los arrestados de la cárcel! Cuándo la comunidad dice alto a las deportaciones, la migra lo tiene que hacer!!!” – Alabama Coalition for Immigrant Justice

Yes. Seven undocumented Alabama residents and supporters chain themselves together to shut down the Etowah County ICE detention center. #Not1More #AlabamaSinMiedo #ShutDownICE #BordersAreStupid

Liberals always think that the process of getting their favorite policy enacted is just like this, simple: $ patch < reform.diff But that is never how it works. Your reform is not written up in the right format. This will just get you an error message. Actually, what you're doing is always, necessarily, this: $ cat reform.txt | nationalism | gender-binary | racial-fear | paternalism | party-system | plutocratic-interest | patch But what you get at the end of all those filters is always something quite different from what you were hoping for. Or if it was what you were hoping for, your hopes and dreams kind of suck.

Etymology is not destiny. #VeggieChili