American Express, Discover, Visa, Mastercard et al. aren't banks, for one. Don't confuse the Bank of the Americas or Wachovia that provides the line of credit. As CC64love said, the credit card companies designed the system. Them being at fault for stolen cards would provide the incentive needed to secure the system they designed. The card holder has enough trouble already with card fraud, and the chump merchant with their $8/hr cashiers can't be expected to tell a fake card from a real one. So tell me why shouldn't the card companies be held responsible?

Wow, yeah... ASCII doesn't lend itself to symbolic logic at all. I don't suppose you can clarify.

"What would Zeus Do?"

Turn into a duck and have sex with it.

I got one recently with subject "Sperms of Endearment"

To put his argument in software terms, the genome is more like an 800 MB config file for a much larger program, which is the brain. The compiler and source are integrated as the womb.

A historical example? Is the current recession bad enough for you? Eight years of tax cuts on top of the previous decades' cuts haven't helped economy in the slightest. They have made the wealth distribution worse. They have led to a ballooning of the debt. How can you possibly argue that the Bush tax cuts helped?

It looks like they could use this to retrofit current or proposed solar thermal installations. They're talking solar concentrators and temperatures well over 200C + combined cycle, so it would probably be a pretty minor change on the whole.

Do not meddle in the C++ of Googlers, for it is subtle and quick to segfault?

Have you looked at the sponsors of PBS? Monsanto, BP, et al. It's gotten to the point where if I see a company I haven't heard of is a sponsor of PBS, I can pretty safely assume they're more evil than Satan's BO. If PBS got uppity and started reporting real news they'd be off the air for lack of funding in a moment.

So many bad things are done for good reasons... When a good thing is done for middling reasons I'll take it.

The fool is you. At this point we can change 1000 times faster. The third-order effect of mosquitoes is nothing compared to the genetic engineering techniques we already have.

Unfortunately, Monsanto already patented those techniques...

Most people are really bad at dealing with ambiguities and shades of gray. To them the problem is a dichotomy Since the problem isn't really a dichotomy, it doesn't have a solution as a dichotomy, hence the endless arguing.

It is. When Lieberman demanded that the public option be left out, the Dems no longer had 60 votes for cloture. If it hadn't been for the filibuster, we would have a public option.

Your IQ may have been 5 or 10 points higher than it is if you hadn't been playing with lead and mercury. The great thing about lack of intelligence, though, is that you aren't smart enough to know what you're missing. Probably has to do with Godel's theorem.