Not at all, it is just leveraging the advantages of MPD and punishing those that do not adhere to that new standard.

I personally engage at least three distinct personalities on a regular basis.
I had several more, but my preferred local LARP group disbanded.
(LARPs are a wonderful resource for practicing and developing multiple personalities, especially the often tricky part of disassociating the constructed personality from your normal behavior so that you don't have as much spill-over)

As far as I am aware 'handling user complaints' is not the same as creating new content, and you probably want different people creating content than those who spend most of their day dealing with complaints about Chinese gold farmers.

That really depends on both how well you understand the underlying principals as well as your ability to account for confirmation bias.

Considering how much confirmation bias is taken as truth and how little understanding there is about highly technical principals/devices, I think your statement is missing more than a little.

And that is before we even get in to things like the Placebo effect.

Come back when the various state lotteries go out of business due to lack of participation and I may accede your point, but for now, Science is just another form of voodoo where the head-dress and mask is a pony-tail and a pair of glasses for the vast majority of people.

"If I have seen further it is by standing on ye sholders of Giants" -Isaac Newton

I need not be smarter than Einstein and Isaac Newton to improve things further than they did, I need only leverage the knowledge that they added to the public sphere and add a bit of my own insight to increase the intelligence portion of your formula.

Then again, there are other multipliers that are hidden in your formula. The printing press, assembly line, electricity, the telegraph, the computer, robots, and the internet all add their multipliers under the intelligence factor as well.

Collaborations across continents allowing specialists to work together across several fields allow several individuals to add together their insight to increase the value of that factor still further.

Using the same volume of seeds, sunlight, water and labor(including oil), a modern farmer can leverage greater understanding of both the weather as well as the exact nature and condition of their soil to produce a better crop than a farmer using cruder tools and methods. This includes sustainable methodologies that would keep a given patch of land producing after old methodologies would have made it useless.

While only a singularity type occurrence would allow the intelligence factor to get close to what we would consider infinity, there is no reason to believe that there is any upper bound on it when it continues to grow at an ever increasing rate.

Once that factor gets high enough, the cost/profit ratio of things like mining the moon or harvesting comets and asteroids becomes worthwhile and we will not even be restricted to the paltry resources of this one little rock.

And the best way to increase that Intelligence term still further is to give people the freedom and motivation to innovate.

The argument for a strict limit to wealth requires that a masterpiece by Leonardo da Vinci be worth no more than the paints and canvas that he started with, or that a computer processor be worth no more than a bit of dirty sand, or that a concert written by Mozart be worth nothing more than a blank piece of paper and a pot of ink.

Forgive my ignorance, but I just cannot see how that could be the case.

Ianal but that sounds a lot like if a potential employer asks for your facebook password you should:
1) inform them that they have just asked you to commit a federal crime
and 2) if you refuse and they retaliate(such as turning you down for the position) you can sue them.

Seems to me that the best way to nip this behavior in the bud is to make sure as many people as possible know that if an interviewer asks you for a password, you refuse and then don't get the job, you can sue.

The first time one of these gets to court, the legal department of every company in the nation will come down on HR like a ton of bricks to make sure it never happens again...

Well, to start with, the ISP can cut you off from the internet, possibly with a false allegation.
The maker of the bot detection box can... stop sending you updates?
If you have problems with the box, you probably have more choice than with your ISP, not to mention that you can just remove the box from teh loop if it is giving you problems.
It is much harder to remove your ISP from the loop, particularly when they are the only service provider in your area...

Why not?
There were no ice-caps in the times of the dinosaurs and with the warm wet climate there was a huge amount of biological diversity.

We have been in an ice-age for the whole of human history, it would be nice to get warmer again.
"Glaciologically, ice age implies the presence of extensive ice sheets in the northern and southern hemispheres.[1] By this definition, we are still in the ice age that began at the start of the Pleistocene epoch, because the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets still exist." from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ice_age

Too much of our water is locked up in ice and these cold temperatures limit the useful productivity of our main energy harvesting system(chlorophyll).
The fact that this ice-age seems to go on for ever may just be our short human memory, and perhaps it is related to the gradual decline in the amount of carbon in the atmosphere since the middle of the mesozoic. ( http://www.biocab.org/carbon_dioxide_geological_timescale.html )

In any case, while melting the ice-caps would no doubt be a substantial blow to a lot of infrastructure, we as humans would adapt and go on. Also, once the planet has warmed up a little we should have a veritable explosion in vegetative productivity and then general biological diversity as there is more and more energy available so that species that are less efficient can still procreate thus increasing the amount of genetic drift.

This.
I play paper and pencil games with someone who had his department basically cut in half.
Over the past few months a lot of their tasks were made more automated and they were being sent home early due to a lack of work.
Apparently there was a cost/productivity metric that was calculated for each of them and the more expensive ones were let go.
And according to him, the severance packages were nice enough that it was clear that this was not a 'we can't afford you any more' type situation.

So... knowingly screwing future generations to buy votes in the current round of elections(and perhaps the next few rounds as well) is not fraud?
I am not sure either way on the technicalities, but it sure sounds close enough for that to be a useful label.
I rather expect that if a private company tried to run a retirement system the way social security is run, that that company would probably be shut down for fraud.

Um, there has never been an 18 month period where the stock market is down. Even at the lowest point of the stock crashes, they are still higher than they were a year and a half prior.(this is not the case for individual stocks, but it has been true for the market as a whole, and can be seen in large indexes like the DJIA)
Safe investing is easy, just buy one or more of the index funds that get shown on the news every night from a big-name investment company. You can try to do better than that if you like, but broad index funds are the safe-bet.

A whole new area of spectrum is only needed if you are broadcasting at powers that blanket the whole countryside.

Cellular towers have a certain pattern of spectrum reuse (I think the standard pattern requires 8 sets of distinct frequencies), so if you need more bandwidth in a certain area, just make the towers closer together(they already do this in cities vs the countryside, you need not even change the operating voltage). As an added benefit, the phones will use less power because the tower will be closer and have a stronger signal.

It may bee 'too expensive' to provide the improved coverage needed to handle the bandwidth requirements, but there is no real technical reason they could not do it with the bandwidth already in use...

I take it that you have never been to Texas.
Football *is* the state religion.

Just because most of those fans also attend one church or another does not make their devotion for football any less.

The non-religious version of atheism would be called 'Agnostic' (as in don't know/don't care)
Otherwise you have a system of belief with regards to one or more deities. (in this case a system that says that all deities do not exist)

Actually, from what I understand, the vast majority of SUVs are driven by small females. Especially the really big ones.
I am a pretty big guy who does not fit into compact cars, and one time I was out car shopping, frustrated with not finding anything I could safely drive without having my legs cut off at the knee, I thought I would try to see if an SUV would fit.
I tried a few that had even less leg room than the cars I had been looking at, then I tried the really big one(like 7' tall I think) and I could not even close the door because my legs did not fit inside the vehicle.
On top of that, all of the SUVs I looked at had the optional feature of bringing the pedals up closer to the driver in case they have short legs.
It seems that the expected driver size-range for an SUV is from 4'6" to 5'6", with the larger vehicles aimed at the smaller frames.

(Since then I have discovered that used luxury sedans are about as cheap as I can get if I want a vehicle that actually fits me, the only other option being vans)

Obviously life would just *seem* longer.
No electronic games, toiling sun up to sun down, staying up all night to keep watch for hostiles who want the fruits of your labor, watching baby after baby die from lack of food, clean water or medicine, burying 3/4 of your children before they get to be of marriageable age(this would go back down to 14-15, possibly younger).

Sure you won't actually live as long, but look at all of those experiences you will have to make it *seem* like unending drudgery!

No more of this 'time flies when you are having fun', unless perhaps you enjoy watching your pa cut the head off that chicken that got too old to lay eggs so you can watch it run around spurting blood everywhere.

Well, they could always just put up more towers.
In rural areas they are more widely spaced because they have fewer users to service.
In urban areas they are more closely spaced to handle the higher load.
I know of no reason besides cost to not put one up every city block, more for dense places like New York.
Can't provide enough service in this area? Make the coverage denser in that area.

Every few months I speculate that perhaps some day I will go through the bother of getting a digital converter so that my rabbit ears will work again.(never had cable or satellite TV)

Then I kill the impulse with a DVD or some Netflix.