Thanks for missing my point entirely. Let's retry.

I completely agree with you that "less calories stored = losing weight", and that wherever there is thinning observed it will be linked to a more favourable balance between calories in and calories out. I'm not trying to contest thermodynamics.

My point is that it works the other way to that you infer incorrectly from the link between the two.

In my mind it's just one symptom of the cancer of lawyers infesting the body public. Class action laywers have given up even the pretense of giving their clients a coupon for a discount toward their opponent's products in settlement as justification for their disproportionate share of the penalty, and now collect without compensating the victims at all. In cases like Prenda they generate their own plaintiffs, respondents and misdeeds to generate profits out of whole cloth.

The sad fact that victims don't get compensated over damages is plain unacceptable, but like the existence of copyright privileges and the ongoing mob-racket of random people suspected of using filesharing services, it's a consequence of normative inflation, or runaway legislation (some might call it lawrrhea). The more complex right and law is, the more costly (in efforts, knowledge, time spent and capital expense) it is to stay out of trouble. This situation artificially creates a market for more and more lawyers, so it's no surprise there are some who take advantage of it, whether prosecuting or defending.

So, make no mistake: the cancer started in the Houses. It merely metastasized across economy from there.

I do not see how imposing tax levels upwards of 100% in some cases, as was the case for quite a few businesses in occupied countries, can be construed to "favoring big business". Also, what you call "support right-wing military" was simple welfare, like pensions for widows and orphans of soldiers. That too is purely left-wing.

The reality is that people are getting fatter because they are consuming more calories.

No, they are not. Americans are consuming less calories and exercising more yet they are getting fatter.

Saying "It's the thermodynamics" does not help understand the process at all, it's just a restatement of its end result. "You are getting fatter" is nothing but a paraphrase of "your body is accruing calories", and holds zero insight. It does not explain why cows can be selectively bred to be fatter or leaner, it doesn't explain lipodystrophies - especially the progressive forms where only half of the body gets obese. That's why trying to get lean by eating less works so poorly: it has little to no impact on the underlying cause.

Stop giving toads such a bad reputation, thanks.

And so, in the end, it's really the customers that the thieves did fark over, weighted inversely against the efficiency of these customers' bank's security. This is exactly like how, with welfare states, net wealth transfers are averaging to the base amount of voluntary contribution to the wealth pool by participants, minus the losses of doing the transfers ; and at the individual scale those net effects are weighted against the participant's competitive advantage at being a recipient and at avoiding being a contributor. Same mechanics, same dubious morality, same usual victims.

We (as in, we users of the Internet) should not be so reliant on a single entity's web services, just as we (as computer users) are not reliant on a single entity's OS. Guess what, you can participate in a decentralised web search engine right away, with project YaCy, by running a node on your computer(s). There are very few nodes at the moment given the potential, and the search will only get better as more people join.

The Nazis were not left-wing

Yes they were. And merely blabbering "no they were not" with zero argument won't somehow magically unmake them.

Let's see...

Let's say the UK lodges a formal complaint against the USA in the UN, being a security council member and all that shizzle. I'm pretty sure Russia and China would condemn the drone attack fiercely, just as they have condemned other foreign interventions by the US time and again, but that wouldn't get them far as the USA is also a member and can veto any penalty.

At the EU level though, most countries would side with the UK: at a baser level, the UK could expel US diplomatic personnel (and jail the spies), cease cooperation with US federal services for fiscal and criminal stuff, maybe become more stringent about US citizens' entry into the country. What about denying fly-over for any US airplane ? What about extending that ban all over Europe ? That would be a major inconvenience, especially for military operations. Same with maritime access... that could cripple US exports and imports really fast (just as it would cripple Europe's, sure). What about cancelling the 2003 extradition treaty ?

And then there's the population's attitude towards US citizens and representatives. As a french resident I still remember how french people were sometimes (mis)treated while in the US during the whole "freedom fries, must bomb Iraq" nonsense. I don't wish that on anyone.

That particular advice was for getting to Heaven's realm in this life. Otherwise, to get to it in the afterlife, he said you'd just have to obey the Ten (twelve ?) Commandments.

Seems there is a great opportunity for PETA&Co. to market the first grilled burger that can be produced without any animal suffering whatsoever.

Too bad at least one of these planets is already inhabited by a sentient species.