Because recognizing that some tasks can't be left to individual greed if you want to achieve the egalité in the "liberté, egalité, fraternité" ideal is anathema. Yes, sure.

Think about it the next time your insurance company doesn't cover your medical bills (it will come).

You use "socialist" as if it was an insult. Unfortunately for you it isn't. Go whine somewhere else.

I think the word you are looking for is eructos.

Adding more cryptosystems doesn't automatically translate into greater security, as double DES showed.

AFAIK there are no signs of cetacean (or even water-dwelling) past in human evolution.

You are right. My brain wasn't properly engaged.

Yes, that's an interesting aspect of evolution: since UV light was harmful the cornea changed to block it, but having those extra photorreceptors didn't harm so they didn't disappear :-)

Retinas _this_ way around are also damaged by UV light, specifically the longer wavelength UVA as UVB and UVC are stopped at the cornea. What's even more interesting: less than 1% of UV light reaches the retina because it is blocked at the cornea. I highly doubt that putting all that mess in from of the photorreceptors will have a noticeable effect on retinal degradation.

...the name you know.

And it's part of the job of musicians to know how their music is going to be published. OTOH, PCM is not as "universal" as the GP thinks. I have seen some problems with PCM because two computers had different bit-endianness.

You can use the € HTML entity. It's a bit longer to type but it should work to get a nice €

Troll harder.

Erm... pounds aren't a weight measure.

I suspect Phobos will be fucked earlier: it is expected to collide with Mars or break up into a disk in about 50-100 million years.

"...involuntary dilation of the... iris?"