The point of the book is that Socialism leads to Totalitarianism. Over time, there becomes no other way to maintain it. The entitlement mentality steadily makes society less and less productive unless someone is cracking the whip. Look at the Soviet Union.

"America overwhelmingly voted for Socialism when they elected President Obama" - Al Sharpton

Do they not assign 1984 to be read in school anymore? Seriously, what the hell is wrong with people?

Funny, they had to give the job back to the last guy who had it because no one else would take it. I wouldn't take it either, because that guy is going to get strung up by the angry mob when the inevitable Chinese cyber-strike occurs.

Seriously... Dr. Evil.

If we're lucky, they'll re-edit and wait another couple hundred years to release it.

Wait why are we listening to Mayans again? The world already did end for them, a long long time ago. It seems that their prediction (if it even was one) was way optimistic.

ONLY a factor of 8 difference? That's a pretty huge difference. A change that great can turn just about any normal activity dangerous. Can you eat 2 hot dogs/tofu dogs at a sitting? Let's see how you feel after 16. Is it chilly in your house/apartment? Maybe you should increase the thermostat from 60F to 480F. Why stop at 3 shots of Tequila? Let's have 24. I could continue shaming you my multiplication prowess all day, but I suspect you've had enough.

"SUVs are designed to kill people."

Yeah, but not the people in them. They're designed to kill the poor fools in the Prius that the SUV ran into.

You missed his point. "Exothermic reaction" means the concrete will be emitting heat and therefore will not make a good pc cooler until the curing is complete.

I don't mean to go against the grain of this hate-fest, but I have had great service from Fairpoint. Admittedly, I've never actually talked to them, since I haven't needed to. After purchasing FiOS from Verizon 2 years ago, they promptly turned it over to Fairpoint, but its been rock solid ever since. In fact, it's the fastest, most reliable internet service I've ever had, and its cheap too! Excuse me, I have to go find some wood to knock on now.

For those of you who aren't aware, the Black Hat tradition for vulnerability presentations which have been similarly blocked due to court orders, etc. is to offer BH a replacement safe/bland presentation and then deliver the banned exploit demonstration regardless. This action typically results in a large lawsuit against the researcher's employer, subsequent termination of the researcher, and a short-lived rock star notoriety for the researcher making the afore mentioned termination totally worth it.

"with the lower pressure air behind the sail pushing you forward"

Actually lower pressure pulls to toward it.

Obviously nothing is 100% efficient, but copper over a short run is so damn close, you'd have to be a nitpicking ninny (or a physicist, which you are clearly not) to insist on the distinction. Go smoke some more of your iHerb and mellow out.

and it's 100% efficient!

I wasn't talking about everyone on the show, just one versed in the scientific method to steer the experiments toward something closer to valid results, instead of just cool explosions (based upon which they nearly always offer definitive judgments).