Bare fists? We left that for the customers, if they wanted to break their knuckles. We used truncheons and batons. Much more sensible.
Cracker of a picture, by the way.
Hotlinking has been disabled at nerdnirvana.org, apparently.
(fail) gah. It could've been worse - I've had bad experiences with horse genitalia in the past. (NJ).
I've had nothing but fun with horse genitals.
Is that a side effect of living in a village?
"The next few years" is probably optimistic (or pessimistic if you think they're going to kill us all). The computational and storage potential of the human brain is still something scientists don't fully understand, but it certainly doesn't seem to be something that can be accurately expressed in terms of petaflops and exabytes. In particular, the capacity for abstract thought in the absence of external stimulus is a mystery, and that's the sort of thing an artificial intelligence would need to do in order to be considered remotely "alive".
The implications for Mitt Romney are quite sobering.