Most water has shit in it before it's purified. Most natural water sources also have bacteria and parasites. The stuff you get out of the tap generally has less of both, no matter how much people like to pooh-pooh it. (See what I did there?)

Yes, but if you move to NY, you can do this: http://thedailyshow.cc.com/vid...

And I think it's obvious that's worth more than family.

rejecting all fixes because they don't fix everything at once is stupid.

Exactly! Now if you'll excuse me, I've got to finish rearranging these deck chairs. They keep sliding afore.

Exactly. The only point of contention is the one that seems to have been overlooked by many people, which is that he's 17. Presumably, he was as young as 16 when he started this. That's old enough to know that what he was doing was wrong, but not old enough to fully appreciate the consequences. Hell, some people never learn, but 16/17 isn't old enough to expect well-adjusted adult behavior either. There's a reason ISIS targets young people for recruitment, and it's not for their life skills.

"Is imparting (academic, general) knowledge really "aid", though?"

Yes. We provide training to foreign militaries all the time as part of assistance packages.

"Liberty is something we must ALWAYS guard diligently."

Of course, but this wasn't just a case of someone posting a hypothetical; he also aided someone in joining IS, so his actions were in line with his words. I get the slippery slope argument, and if lesser behavior is prosecuted, that's something to be wary of, but this seems pretty clear cut.

The best way to improve Jurassic World is to move the polls about Jurassic World back to the @#$%ing sidebar where they belong.

Are these built from kits, from scratch, or are they factory models with upgrades? Where can we get them? Anyone have a link or more information?

But can you really put a price on safety? All of this spying has made us incredibly safe, as evidenced by steep decline in terrorism-related deaths in the US since 2001, zero of which have been from hijacked airplanes. I mean, sure, more people in the US died from malnutrition in 2001 (and every year since) than from 9/11 attacks, but starvation in America is hardly a problem we can solve by just throwing hundreds of billions of fucking dollars at the way we can with terrorism.

And yes, many, many other countries have been affected by terrorism without getting sucked into a perpetual war in a variety of countries that may or may not have had anything to do with the attacks or creating a power vacuum for ISIS to fill, but those aren't the best, most exceptional countries in the world, are they? Probably French or European countries. Light on a hill, American exceptionalism, Stikypad for President 2016, y'all!

You see, before we knew about the spying, the activity was in a superposition. We were both spying, and we weren't. Once Snowden leaked that information, the possible states collapsed to one -- spying -- and therefore Snowden is in fact directly responsible for both the spying and all of the fallout.

I was skeptical that that would increase supply enough, but surprisingly, it would*. Only 40% of people are registered as donors, which covers more than half of the necessary transplants. Supply exists to meet demand, but people just don't register. That's disappointing.

Honestly, though, this is one case where technology has the potential to solve a problem, and it happens to be more palatable. And if organs could be grown from a person's own tissue, rejection would be a non-issue as well, which would be a greater victory. Increasing the donor pool is certainly essential as a stopgap, but hopefully one day soon it's a non-issue.

KSM was the mind behind 9/11. Without him, it probably wouldn't have happened. Without bin Laden, it probably still would have.... KSM probably would have just gone to a different group besides al Qaeda, or formed his own.

Likewise with finding and killing bin Laden. Without the CIA, we wouldn't have found him. Without Obama, we probably still would have, and John McCain would be taking credit.

Assuming a person is not manifestly mentally defective, anyone can achieve great wealth and power. Good people can achieve wealth through continuous dedication to the goal of creating value and insisting on being paid for it.

Well, they can have a chance at it, granted, but there are lots of dedicated people who aren't wealthy.

I agree with you to an extent -- consciousness is processing sensory information and stored memories -- but what is unconsciousness? It's more than being "off"/dead, but it's less than being conscious. I'd love to be able to sleep only when I wanted (and always when I wanted, for that matter), but we don't really know much about what sleep is, and yet most living creatures spend a significant amount of time doing it.

"Some of the mice have lived as long as a day after the operations according to Ren and he hopes to have similar success with primates."

Or, put another way, 100% of the mice died within a day.

Probably work on extending that before moving to primates.