Well, everything, and I do mean everything, exists in a finite supply. What's more limiting than simply the number of idiots is 1) the amount of ready-to-spend cash held by idiots and 2) the attention span of idiots before they jump at the next make-money-with-no-effort scheme.

The authorities should be obeyed, in most general situations, unless they are asking you to do something unlawful. If you're an idiot that is refusing to leave a place of private business when the business owner's representative asks you to leave, and then calls the cops when you refuse to leave, everything else that happens after that is a simple preventable fact.

There is a way of handling the police or other law enforcement officials. Be polite. Be courteous. Follow simple directions, with the above limits. Have a plan to contact an attorney with full details, names, and badge numbers at the soonest available opportunity if the need arises.

You are not going to out-argue a police officer. You are not going to outfight a police officer. You are not going to kill more police officers than there are willing to kill you. Physical or verbal confrontations with a police officer are pointless; they will all end in the same result. The way to fight police injustices is through the courts and media, not through sparring of any kind.

Keep in mind: police officers in any individual incident, above all else, are trained to MAINTAIN CONTROL OF THE SITUATION, using any necessary means. If you're the idiot trying to take control of the situation away from the police officer (rightly or wrongly), guess who's going to end up next on the target list?

As 1984 and central Africa demonstrate, hunger as a tool of dissent control and food as a political weapon can be a very powerful thing. Even if North Korea was swimming in cash, I doubt its common citizens would be getting well fed any time soon.

There's nothing odd about Russia's position. Russia has always asserted its right to militarily dominate its own secessionist populations and its nearby sphere of influence. Agreeing that al-Assad shouldn't kill 40,000 of his own citizens in an attempt to restore order sets a bad precedent for Russia. It might come back to haunt them, say, the next time they decide to level Grozny block by block to bring Chechnya back in line.

It makes perfect sense. Passive-aggressives avoid visible and outright conflict or argument. Why would they want to have a conversation that could turn negative when they could simply shoot off a text or email?

This is +4 Insightful? I could buy plenty of movies with boobs showing at the supermarket. "R" rating includes pretty much everything except prolonged full frontal nudity and/or hardcore sex. In some cases, enough people get off that here in the United States wenominate it for an Oscar.

Heck, if boobage is all you're looking for, just turn on some cable TV. Don't act like you have to travel to the naughty side of town for that.

First: kidneys are vital organs. Just because the human body has a built-in redundancy does not make it any less necessary to live. Some people, depending on their preexisting health, won't be able to tolerate the removal of a kidney either without taking a significant hit to their kidney function.

Second: opening the marketplace for donor human organs to profit motives is a bad idea all around. But, if you can solve the human conditions of corruption, avarice and socioeconomic inequality than yes, it might be workable.

By the time a workable profiteering model for selling organs is adopted, we'll be growing MHC-matched replacement organs in the lab.

I upgraded one of my desktops to Windows 8. At $40 for the download, why not?

My take: Metro is pretty much useless, but that's OK, because I spend close to 100% of my time on the Windows Desktop. The internals from a look-and-feel perspective seem to hold up well. Compared to the Windows Vista that came with that particular box, Windows 8 is more responsive and faster with the same resources... which is what you would expect with an OS upgrade. Also, reliability is pretty good. I've been running the box for close to a month now without either the system or applications freezing or crashing. Which makes it better than other Windows boxes I've used (or my current Ubuntu box).

Steam and my library of games works perfectly on Windows 8. I understand Gabe Newell doesn't like it; but his platform is working just fine.

In summary; a ho hum upgrade. Some new eye candy that my kids think are pretty, but otherwise faster and more reliable.

While on a gut level that makes sense to the layperson, it makes no sense from a military perspective. If Iran had a few crude nuclear devices, the military impetus for either Israel or the US (if they believe nonproliferation is an important enough goal) is to strike now, rather than later. A few crude nuclear devices means that Iran has not had the capability to test and vet delivery vehicles, and the nuclear devices are likely to be fission rather than fission/fusion combinations. Which makes the situation on the ground this: Iran is nuclear-armed, but is either unable to deploy those devices effectively or likely at short range, such as within their own country. A conventional war with Iran in such a state is actually possible; Israel and/or the US is able to strike Iran likely with impunity with nuclear weapons if provoked. Israel/the US would have air superiority versus Iran making simpler bomb-delivered munitions from Iran insecure. Ballistic short- and medium-range missile defense is getting much better. Iran on the other hand is severely limited in its capabilities to use their weapons in a first strike defensively except in a scorched earth strategy that would hurt Iran more in the long run.

The reason why North Korea is untouchable is not that it has crude nuclear weapons. The reason why North Korea is untouchable is because it has 50,000 conventional artillery pieces aimed at Seoul with the intention of obliterating its civilian population of millions if war ever breaks out again.

Well, they're doing the exact opposite of what they should be doing, then.

Iraq under Saddam Hussein did the same shtick, bluffing for years that they had weapons stockpiles that really didn't exist (anymore). The US military went into the Iraq War expecting that chemical and/or biological weapons would be used against their soldiers on the ground. Did that fear really stop George W. Bush and co. from invading? Not really...

The problem with Iran's government is they're being run by two opposing camps; the religious right-wing extremists pitted against the military nationalist right-wing extremists. Buffoonery and penis length comparing naturally comes with *right-wing extremists of any sort, it seems to be a universal truth.

Sorry, missed the point of your question. Let me clarify; eventually Valor Point vendors will sell epic raiding gear that don't require Reputation levels once the next tier is reached. It's been that way with every expansion pack, all the way since Burning Crusade.

Seriously? Valor Points buy epic raiding gear. That is why the dailies are optional - you can still get your valor points just fine through heroic dungeon runs, LFR or tagging along raids. You can get Valor Points much faster by doing the dailies along with the above-mentioned activities.

You make absolutely no sense.

You do realize that al Qaeda was deeply embedded in the Taliban ruling structure and supported the Taliban both financially and militarily in their war against the Northern Alliance in Afghanistan?

This is like if some Irish-Americans went over to Northern Ireland in the 1980s and with IRA help blew up some British apartment buildings. If Britain is going to retaliate, do they retaliate against the United States or do they retaliate against the IRA?

I realize that Saudi Arabia is not blameless is this, being the defacto home of the Wahhabist extremists that developed these wackos in the first place. But it's a hill compared to the mountain of blame that can be assigned to al Qaeda and their allies like the Taliban.

Put another way, who did the US invade first in World War 2? If you guessed Japan or Germany, you'd be wrong.

Citation, please. That sounds like prima facie bullshit invented by Taliban apologists. The Taliban would never have handed over one of their major financial and military backers in bin Laden to the United States. Al Qaeda was militarily supporting the Taliban in their war against the Northern Alliance as their outsourced zealot goon squad. The only offer I ever heard was the one in public where the Taliban said, "sure, we'd hand him over, but you don't have any proof! Nyah nyah, come and get him!" And so we did.

Oh really? Is that why so many of the Taliban cross the border between Pakistan and Afghanistan to fight? To defend their Pakistani home?