I've found that that kind of anthropomorphization is useful as placeholders for other, complex causations. Perhaps the car has a mechanical or design flaw that makes full throttle when it's cold problematic. Perhaps the beer bottle has a manufacturer defect making it extra-hard to open. In either case, anthropomorphizing it can be a useful placeholder for the exact cause of your difficulties.

That reduces one of the incentives for us to always be at war. And the military-industrial complex wouldn't like that.

In Russia, fake votes cast you!

Also, while item return scams are problematic, I feel that this measure is far too draconian as a solution; they can't help but alienate customers with it.

On the other hand, if nobody buys there, item return scams won't be an issue for them! Problem solved.

If I go to a restaurant, there is zero chance that my entire city block will come down with food poisoning. If I fly an airplane, there is zero chance that it will crash into every building in town. Likewise, there is zero chance that if I take a bath, my entire town gets flooded with an inch of water.

On the other hand, when oil drilling goes wrong, the company responsible pays the minimum to get the public off its back, and lets the people nearby deal with the consequences of its screw up. The less John Q. Public knows about what can go wrong with the fracking operation in his back yard, the less liable the oil companies are, and the better able they are to hide it when something does go wrong.

People aren't against nuclear energy because it's cheap, and safe; they're against it because when something does go wrong, the community pays a steep tab. And the same is true of fracking, with the added bonus that rather than be open about the risks, oil companies hide as much as they can. They have a history of cutting corners and letting the tragedy of the commons take care of the consequences. Obviously not all oil companies cut corners to the same degree, but since oil is fungible, there is no incentive to NOT cut corners if someone else pays the price when things blow up.

The one time I had a story "accepted", the editor rewrote the entire thing...the only part of my submission he kept was the link to the original article. Based on that standard, I think we need editors for our editors.

And when we burn the fuel that was grown on contaminated land, it turns into contaminated air? Somehow I don't think that's going to be as popular as you expect. Not that the fuel we burn now doesn't emit contaminants, of course.

It's not that hard, but somehow it's much less satisfying than burning paper copies. Plus there's the gasoline, and the smell...

If you want a war, stop tearing down posters and talking big.

With friends like that for the cause of freedom of the internet, who needs enemies? I have to think that they just -increased- the odds of draconian legislation being passed to help contain outbreaks just like this.

So you're saying they're more like pimps. At least the work is easier on their backs.

The media hates him, but Ron Paul is making everyone else sweat bullets in the election right now. Even BBC called him a crank and Romney "the only sane candidate". Wonder who ghost-wrote that?

If you're not a poker pro, stop hitting the casino xD The house always wins, and if you don't go, you'll have that much more pizza and beer money for the weekends.

What's to stop me from making ten copies of my mind? or fifty? or a thousand? I don't think the consequences of that kind of 'upload' have been sufficiently explored. And I'm with the other guy, I have no intention of losing my bio shell until it's completely unavoidable, even if i already have fifty mental clones :p