Don't interfere with natural selection.

I too am confused by your use of the term "falsified" in your original comment. You're using it in a way that suggests that having been falsified is a GOOD thing, no? E.g., " and now those scientific principles [the ones you just got through extolling] have been falsified by a century of broadly repeeted [sic] and verified checks". If so, then you're misusing it. Falsified means dis-proven. You don't want your scientific theories to be falsified. You DO, however, want them to be FALSIFIABLE, because if they aren't, they're not scientific theories.

I don't have a DVR. I had been using VHS to record some late-night shows that I would enjoy watching in the morning while on my treadmill. This worked up until Time Warner Cable made my VCR unusable by ceasing analog broadcasts to my VCR's tuner was of no use. I don't want to rent several DVRs from TWC. I found a company on the web that sells a variety of M-Card enabled DVRs and cable boxes, but they turned out to be a scam. So, I'm wondering what I should do. I hear TiVo doesn't work without a subscription anymore. Have I no recourse but to rent multiple boxes from TWC?

I don't understand. Why would anyone expect both a check *AND* an ETF transfer? That would be paying twice. Granted, Comcast should have simply told him at the start that his account was being credited. This story isn't about Comcast screwing a guy over, it's about Comcast customer service reps being to stupid to know what's going on, and too stupid to be able to FIGURE OUT what's going on.

How many AOL passwords have they stolen?

In fairness, it's difficult to get a politician to understand something when his campaign contributions depend upon his not understanding it.

You mean "decreased", right?

... TRUMP?

It's not self evident to me that providing installers for certain open-source projects is a "bad thing". Even if it were, surely it would be optional, and surely someone interested in using the code would have the option of downloading a binary installer vs the raw source tree. So why is the presence of this seemingly useful feature causing people to host their projects elsewhere and threatening Sourceforge's reputation? What am I missing?

If you said that four months ago, you'd be in trouble :).

I can't understand why someone would post as AC and not take credit for the greatest /. comment response I've seen in years.

The phrase "only a theory" suggests that you think there is something beyond that. "Theory" is as good as it gets. (No, "theory" does not get promoted to "law". They're completely different animals.) To say it's "only a theory" is like acknowledging that SCOTUS ruled the Individual Mandate constitutional,but qualifying that statement by pointing out that "it's only the Supreme Court".

I had absolutely no clue that the British Broadcasting Corp designs computers.

We know this already, and your response does not answer the question that was posed to you, which was, "Why is it unfair to do the SAME COMPARISON THAT MODERN MEDICINE is put to?" [emphasis mine].

It's been a long time since I've seen a reference to Shepard tones. I used this, along with another (novel) auditory illusion, as the basis of an auralization technique to complement visualization of computational fluid dynamics data, which became my dissertation research.