No. I don't have to buy your inferior product. Neither does the rest of society. If your income depends on your skills at a certain task, like writing in this instance, you need to do a good job in order to make money. If you can't, that's what not being a writer is for.

What happens when the government mandates that the scarce yet valuable good is sold at an extreme loss as fast as possible? If the market were to decide how much helium cost, and not the government, a birthday balloon of helium would cost ~$200.

Surely, that is the way we are meant to use such scarce resources, right? Mandate they be sold at a 99% discount so we can empty our stockpile before 2012 and wonder why scientists can't get any?

Besides, you can probably use it to prove that coal plants emit more dangerous radiation than nuclear plants, and everyone knows that is a de facto illegal act. Just like being able to prove what the police actually did to you.

We're the place you cant even RTFA because we broke the hyperlinks.

Because we fired all of our proofreaders and editors.

Today's top story is from the Uncanny Valley. Apparently they're letting unspeakable things tour our fair country.

Let me be the first to say, "OH GOD PLEASE GET IT AWAY FROM ME, I'LL DO ANYTHING!!!1!"

How is it unusual that an HP device can connect to your printer? What kind of bizarro universe do you live in where this doesn't happen normally?

People like attention, so giving them more attention makes them happy. Oh wait, I guess adding "on Facebook" to the premise makes it different.

We have (quantum) teleporters and (quantum) tractor beams now? What's next, (quantum) warp drives?

Can they get the rights to have the fictional band Priss and the Replicants in at least one of these? It would be hilarious for those of us that get the joke.

The basic form of the algorithm (according to *AA groups) is as such: $Max_Payable_Price times ($Total_World_Population - $Steenking_Pirates). *AA's obviously want to minimize the $Steenking_Pirates, especially the ones who simply don't listen to their music in the first place.

Many lawmakers agree with this, with the agreement being proportional to the money they receive from the *AA's.

And yes, I know that people who don't listen to music shouldn't need to pay, but I dare you to tell the RIAA that. It's even worse when these groups refuse to sell a (legal) product for any amount of money and then sue you for buying it from someone who is willing to sell it to you.

It's not like the government is going to put the "corporations are people, too" thing up for a public vote, and even if they did the corporations would force the vote to go their way. As such, you may as well try to give them the drawbacks of being people, too.

Honestly, "What can we do with it" generally gets answered after we can prove we have it in the first place, but I'm sure there's at least one theory that says supersymmetry allows arbitrarily awesome things like wormholes or something.

What is it with scientists and mathematicians and their crazy names? Nets Hawk Catz? Ham Sandwich Theorem?

What's next, a Ninja Pirate Zombie Fractal theorem written by Buster Rabbits?

Or maybe they will take a page from the *AA playbook and claim that lost sales = piracy, and buy politicians to create laws assuming this statement to be true.

Who wants to bet that the popular explanation for the inaccurate information on the map is bribes? $50* to add 1MB/s to listed speed or remove .5MB/s from a competitors?

*amounts arbitrarily chosen

The reason IE6 still works is because it HAD to work. People made web apps that only work in IE6 and then Microsoft broke the compatibility in every version after. I admit that if companies were more willing to update their apps IE6 would not still be required by some companies, but you tell them they have to spend their money porting apps.

Didn't work, did it?