Adults are moral entities with agency, and can damn well decide on their own whether to wear a seatbelt or not.

It's not so easy : by not wearing a seatbelt, you make it easier for others (taxi driver and other drivers on the road) to accidentally kill you. It's a big burden that you could put on other "moral entities".

And by the way, usually this argument tends to come up from people who want to claim economics isn't a "real science" or something.

The burden on proof really is on people (usually economists among themselves) that pretend that economics is a science.

How long was your career? The movie came out in 2001.
Also, may I ask what you do?

And by the way, usually this argument tends to come up from people who want to claim economics isn't a "real science" or something. I won't get into that argument, but well, neither is "peace" or "literature."

Those people are right, and you're right about peace and literature.
Nash's contribution was really in mathematics, though, so that's fine by me.
BTW, the best proof that economics isn't a science, is that it isn't even included there : http://xkcd.com/435/

Yeah, we should give Nash a big fine to deter him from doing it again.

No morning coffee yet : why/how do the floppy drives produce different pitch?

Exactly. Our civilization is also "a nanosecond on the geologic clock."

While "innocent until proven guilty" is typically the right approach, "huge assholes until proven otherwise" has always been extremely accurate for Monsanto.

Also, they could just swim to Hubble.
Source : http://www.imdb.com/title/tt14...

Great quote, thanks.
With the exact same arguments (basically, I'm for the inalienable right of existence for Israel, but against colonialism and disproportionate strikes against civilians), I've been labeled a terrorist, an antisemite or a sionist, depending on whom I talk to.

One more reason to use Mint.
That's the best they could do out of this situation.

You're right. All I'm saying is that you actually need some imagination to find out what the worst-case scenario could be.
As in, not just "getting hit by a bus", "fire at work" and "being robbed at home", but all three at the same time.

That, and many more problems. A good friend and our main developer committed suicide 5 years ago.
With the ceremony, the emotional shock and many organizational problems, 1 month got by, the bank account got closed, the provider didn't get paid and deleted the whole VM on which our website was running.
During this period, 2 disks died at his place on the Raid 5 NAS backup, and nobody noticed.

When people tell me I'm being overzealous with backups now, I tell them that worst-worst-case scenarios do happen sometimes.

Okay, it's getting a bit tiring.
Maybe those problems are unsolved because they're f**ing hard?
And saying that science is "one dimensional" tells more about your lack of knowledge than about science.
Finally, guess what? You can find a lot of economics, business and art in mathematics alone.

Seems interesting and reasonable.
How do you do this? With Ghostscript/NoScript/...?
Does it work well? A lot of websites use 3rd party js plugins for map display for example.