So the question does not apply to you. If somebody asked you, do you still trust medicine "a" over medicine "b" for a particular condition. If you are not a doctor, please don't answer.

In negotiations there is a point where you need to behave irrationally otherwise negotiations continue to your detriment. That was a means to signal that it is your final offer, and I am willing to drop it for something as ridiculous as a flight to Barcelona. They could have offered a flight in a gold plated A380, it would not have made a difference. Next time you negotiate with your wife over going out with your buddies, you might recognise the "irrational behaviour" trick now.

Pretty much anybody staying on earth or even having returned to earth after going to space has died here. There is no technology yet that can change that.

What happened here ? How can I go back to the old Slashdot ?

When mobiles came out there where similar rules to be said. People where making fun at people seemingly talking to them selves in public. Now days you can seem a whole dinner table swiping away and that's the old people !

Get off my road then, build your own if you want to get around

Much like a city depends on fines for it's budget so will the government on philanthropy. The government would spend more on social causes if philanthropy did not exist. Cities would not have a vested interest in not reducing income from fines if it did not depend on it for its budget.

This reminds of a Yes Minister episode, where they referred to the floods of 1967 every time they "needed" to have lost documents.

The energy per person is astronomical. You send one, you spend the equivalent for 5000. Now if you start a world war, that is a different story. Nuclear will solve all your problems again.

I know of parents that don't give peanuts to their kids since babies, just in case they have allergies. So the kid does not develop protection. They give them allergies out of paranoia

Bill Gates is not a polymath, I am sure he is no longer competitive in coding, let alone most tasks requiring intellect only because you need to have the knowledge, the talent and the intellect. Hi might have the second and he probably has the third but he can't make up for the first.

This is crazy, ok ... your property has skyrocketed in value. You suddenly are an asset millionaire but you can't afford your house. You like the fact that what used to be a run down neighbourhood with crime and poverty and cheap housing is now affluent. When you sell it, choose a house that was exactly like it was when you could afford it and you should be hunky dory with lotsa cash left over. It may suck a little, but the world keeps moving on, kids might step onto your lawn ... buy a rocking chair and a shotgun, this is America.

Ammm that is how things are done. They tracked Polio in India by this method http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424052702303848104579312453860810752?mod=WSJ_hps_LEFTTopStories

The problem is that we can both agree, and I can still build them in the background. I mean a flying aeroplane can be a fully autonomous killing machine, and there is no way to know. At least nukes emit radioactivity, chemical weapons smell bad. Smart weapons are only smart when you press the funky key combination.

Are you saying that electrons and planets don't behave like billiard balls ?!?!