We have truly become a nation of cowards when a white high school kid can scare everyone with a song.

there is a concept in the world called "context". this is when something means something different depending on the situation. there is a distinct difference between calling up a school and saying "there is a bomb in the school." and writing a song that says "there's a bomb in the school." artists have been singing about murder and mayhem since the dawn of time. it's an emotional release.. doesn't make them threats. locking this kid up does absolutely nothing for the benefit of society... in fact, quite the opposite.. you've just bred another psychopath

everything is commercial use in some form nowadays.. everything.

as when a hot air balloon has a bulgy shape and the hole is always at the bottom

Damnit, so that's what I did wrong...

Read an article recently that said they have evidence to suggest that feeding bees corn syrup to replace the honey that they would normally eat weakens their immune system because the honey contains all sorts of good biological things that are remnants from the plants they harvest the nectar from. Instead, we steal their honey and feed them factory produced high fructose corn syrup. Pesticides, insecticides, corn syrup.. It's no wonder they're dying....

Well, they're just mitigating bad luck with shrewd long-game play. It's still a game of luck if you look at it per-hand, but there are betting strategies and other skills involved if you intend to play the long-game, at which point I guess it becomes a game of skill.

sell the pants on eBay for $10,000

It also isn't clear that "retention rate" is an important metric, or even if it is a positive thing.

Nice insight. But also, he might just hire dipwads who can't find another job somewhere else. 100% retention!

Yes, they realize this. It might be hard to believe, but some people are willing to accept the consequences if it means establishing a proper respect for all living things. What other atrocities should we commit in order to save a few of the precious homo sapiens? Where do you draw the line?

Yeah, nothing important about stopping animal slavery and cruelty. Humans are, after all, the most important living things on the planet.

Need? Or want?

Or perhaps it's just really hard to tell which products these are.

This isn't the '50s.

Not for another 37 years...

You may not realize this, but the vast majority of the population doesn't read gamer blogs or Slashdot daily, if ever. Ideas like this take time to pervade society...

Now we just need to convince them to take themselves down. Is it wrong to coerce suicide in an artificial lifeform?