oooo.. I am really afraid of this guru guy. Without his vote it is going to be really hard to tell the world that which needs no telling to be true.

Well said. Since Having a gun, or a facebook account, greatly increases the risk that others will shoot you (unintentionally or otherwise), there is nothing to gain by not having a a gun, or a facebook account. In other words we have a Nash equilibrium. i.e. a situation where no one has anything to gain by acting differently from their neighbors (opponents). Therefore, it is wise to carry a gun when everyone around you is. And it is wise to have a Facebook account when everyone around is.

Facebook doesn't cause divorces. People cause divorces. Guns don't kill people. People kill people. Both guns and Facebook are inanimate tools, that are initiated by volition. These tools just make it easy to shoot ourselves in the feet and rightfully so. We must exercise caution when using any tool. Personal responsibility lies with us until the tools malfunction.

Poor people can only afford junk food. Tax that and you will have a problem on your hands. Think "organic" food is cheaper? Wait till the demand goes up due to taxes. Then you will realize that it is impossible to meet the demands of 6 Billion people without growth hormones and genetic modification.

LOL @ Americans... This is only the beginning. Your new masters are going to be worser than your old ones. But the slippery slope is so undetectable that every generation thinks it has more freedoms than the previous ones. If you think taxes and the will of the majority are the omnipotent solutions to all problems in this world, you will soon realize that it is not. But then it will be too late for a revolution. The frog is being boiled slowly.

There is a lot of talk about stock traders being thieves. Theft is the illegal taking of another person's property without that person's freely-given consent. The stock traders do everything they do with consent. So they are not thieves. On the other hand, they provide the liquidity real investors need. Real investors being people who buy a company to profit from dividends or actual increase in company value.

If this is true, then medical quacks and new age groups are going to have a field day using this as the justification for everything mystical and magical. I bet they will make a lotaf money by quoting this Nobel Laureate.

Uhm.. I read a lot of stuff about induction. I think that falls under philosophy too.

Are you saying there is no dichotomy?

I am kind of busy. Can anyone please do the Apple bashing for me?

Communism is, among other things: Taking from each according to his ability and giving to each according to his need. Unfortunately, Human needs are unlimited, and Human abilities are limited. So if we steal from the able and give it to the needy, all of us will go bankrupt. This is why Communism does not work in theory nor does it work in practice.

@Relayman Unfortunately, infinitely divisible mangoes do not exist. At some point of time we will end up trying to divide the fundamental building block of matter and we will fail unless a mango has a number of such building blocks which is divisible by 3. The same argument can be used to argue that no fraction of a mango can exist for all mangoes. This is because whether a fraction exists for mango will depend on its number of fundamental building blocks.

The argument against the above mentioned proof arises from philosophy: Actual infinities cannot exist. For example, 0.999.... mangoes cannot exist (ask why?). But 0.99999999999 mangoes and 0.999 mangoes can. Q.E.D