To make the whole deal even sweeter, we're pretending we are reverse engineering the spacecraft. This way, if one crashes or if they shoot one down then the China or the Russians will spend countless fruitless man-hours trying to understand the technology. The fake tech will be deliberately obfuscated to waste their time. The real tech will be replaced by a decoy in the last minute that "crashes" or something akin to that. It's the most plausible explanation and infinitely more likely than interdimensional aliens

I'd bet good money that this is a secret government operation to misled the world. This is an excuse to fly aircraft over military installations around the world without anyone blaming the USA. Why wouldn't they blame the USA you ask? Becaues we are pretending it's happening to us but really we're just developing the technology. It's an elaborate hoax to give us a free pass to invade sovereign territory

No, and they shouldn't. If driverless cars cause only 10% of the accidents then there is a net 90% of lives saved and you want to put the behind bars for saving people from 90% of wrecks? Let's just focus on decreasing the number as much as possible. We don't expect perfect performance from machines in any other sector. We should be satisfied that they are better than any other alternative. If we don't cut 90% of accidents because we are waiting for 100% perfection that this is unethical. We're wasting human lives and causing undue hardships on familiesl

Which 2 original shows? You're definitely missing out on some quality stuff.

It's really not that complicated. Netflix has prospered by doing away with crap people were forced to endure. That's been done. I suppose you can look to remove MORE things people are forced to endure. Remove all the credits from every show and make them all available to anyone who gives a crap about the name of the associate producer's assistant. Make that available online and spare us. After that, just having a slick interface, exclusive content, and as wide a range of non-exclusive content as possible. Also, provide a catalog of everything ever made even if you're not offering it (perhaps at an additional cost?) so that I can make a master queue of everything I ever want to watch. Throw in IMDB so that I can queue up all of Jim Carrey's movies to my list and I'm a paying customer.

You seem very disappointed that new content will reign. There will always be a place for the oldies, but it's not what will drive market forces. I hope you're not somehow dependent on this old model.

Netflix isn't JUST content. It's a philosophy. Do you know how nice it is to never watch commercials, watch all shows of a NEW season immediately, and all with a model that is dirt cheap? I haven't seen anyone else offer anything like this. Everyone wants to cram ads (hulu) or blur the space of content that requires additional fees and can be enjoyed without paying more money (amazon). That being said, we're all always waiting for a better mouse trap, but so far I haven't seen anything that's superior to Netflix.

Netflix already reinvented it, at least for many of us. You're not going to pull another iphone success story this time around.

I care about new content more than watching the same old stuff, which I only watch very rarely. Netflix has great original content for like $10 freaking bucks!

We can't even use genetics to predict when someone will get type 2 diabetes, much less predict "leadership" aptitude. So much of this stuff is environmental and even the part that is genetic can be complex and impossible to predict. We know that type 2 diabetes has a strong environmental component, but even the genetic component isn't understood well. Most genes linked to diabetes are unknown, but we know they exist due to inheritance patterns. How in the ever loving hell would we apply genetics to something as complex and environmental as leadership when even type 2 diabetes isn't there yet? I'd like to volunteer my services to screen out junk posts on slashdot that have anything to do with genetics. This is rubbish.

Ok, Linus sounds like a total asshole with no iota of social grace, but the dude is a freaking genius. This more than offsets his negatives. Think of all the assholes walking around out there who don't do jack for society. I actually fear for Linus. If anything ever happened to him, people like Andrew are going to make so that the linux codebase gradually descends into chaos. I can already see the memes (hopefully many years from now) with Linux saying "miss me?" and smiling while beating an inferior programmer with his old man cane.

Modern corporations operate not to maximize employee satisfaction, but to maximize profit. CEOs have a mandate to appease shareholders and not employees. This often means doing things like freezing bonuses, cutting jobs, salaries that don't keep up with inflation, and cutting benefits. Of course employees would fire their CEOs. This is subjective. What are the goals of the corporation (99 out of 100 times it's to make money folks)? Are they being met thanks to decisions made by the CEO?

Is this the first car with this extent of automation? I'm totally geeking out about this. It seems like a bigger deal than everyone is letting on.

Of course, you can't keep looking up with note on a sheet is which key on a piano and still play your favorite Mozart piece. We can be reasonable when we decide what should be memorized. That being said, my original complaint about the raised false equivalency applies.

Never memorize what you can look up