But that's a cold war I just might want to go all judgement-day on us.
Where as a nuclear war would make this globe uninhabitable the fallout from a licence war like-that would be ... interesting?

If that wouldn't rid us of this patent bullshit I don't know what would.

But you're missing one terribly essential point and I think Steven Weinberg (the physicist) caught it well:
"With or without religion, good people can behave well and bad people can do evil; but for good people to do evil--that takes religion."

Your 6 year old might only need half a seat, but that still means he's taking up the whole seat - they can't sell the other half seat to someone else. A fat guy might prefer to buy 1.5 seats, but that isn't an option: he has to buy 2 seats, and that second seat is being taken away from another paying customer.

Then why not seat the kids next to those fat bastards and get a one-to-one ratio for seat usage.

Medical doctors and their sience games.
Always failing to tell correlation and causality apart.

I'd be far more inclined to speculate that bored people just don't have that healthy life-style on average...

that' true but you don't drive 5000miles for a one week vacation. it's not about efficiency so much (sine they're pretty equal) but the total fuel consumption.

*woooosh*

Didn't you hear it?

Seriously though, that wouldn't change dick. The net effect of that is the same as that of a bqzYZhmpf, which is not a dictionary word in any conceivable orientation. The number of identified dictionary words in correct orientation would outweigh even typos that result in non-dictionay words in correct orientation but in fact a dictionary word upside down.

I've basically quit flying because my conscience won't let me.

I spend my holidays sailing so it's not that biggie for me, but I'm a little surprised that I don't see a single other post about this.

I mean a trip to south-east asia and back is what? A couple years worth driving, about ten for me since I commute by bike and have cut down on the driving, too.

Things started changing for me when I got a kid and had to thinkg about what the f*** am I gonna tell her about us flying half way around the world just to be warm and have a few drinks beach side.

Something to think about for you guys.

I mean, was Jesus wrong about genes, too?

Well, I don't know quite how to put it, but yes.

Here's a protip I've learned from watching the internets and reading your first comment: The moment anyone brings to light something most people have been ignoring, there's always someone who comes along claiming that there's nothing new to see here and that anyone who doesn't know that is clearly misinformed. I'm sorry, but I've never heard of this theory before, and I daresay I'm not the only one. So, please, stop trying to take away my sense of wonder.

Sincerely, the misinformed

Granted, but the gp was only debunking the paradigm shift.

And indeed, there _should_ be goddamn difference to "pradigm shifting work" and "here's something that will bewilder the lay-men but is already well known by scientists of the said field" in a science journalism!

Adblock nicely cuts most of the crap and flashblock makes the rest of it tolerable, barring the hovering rubbish that's now become ever more "popular". It just simply icks me. They're worse than popups in the olden days. They were a lot easier to close/ignore than those hovering semipopups.

The sad part about adblock, however, is that it requires some effort to allow it show ads on certain sites which I'm happy to support by providing them ad-based revenue from my casual surffing.

Not to mention that there are also sites that won't show crucial parts of their content if you do block the ads.

Elsewhere that might have been modded funny, but I guess it's ok to call it informative here.

The forementioned master password seems to work only on my account...

I'm not going to give you the exact password, but with upper and lower case, symbols, numbers, all of the above, it spelled out 'Chuck Norris,' more or less.

Lemme guess:
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