Socialism is doing just fine in Germany, France, the Netherlands, Canada and anywhere else it's really been tried, thank you very much.

Fascist dictatorships who borrow socialism's rhetoric to excuse stealing everything for themselves (China, USSR, North Korea) don't work so well, but then again they're not socialist, so it all evens out.

I assure you, there is a profit motive to the development. The plasma donor is the one with no profit motive.

It's still good to see an approach that has yielded success built upon.

What a strange world you must live in where jumbo jets land on Apple WiFi products in an emergency!

I would suggest that a cannon should go under the seat.

You are clearly doing your best to mis-interpret literally everything I typed. Helpful tips:

Trimming one's fingernails does not generally mean with a lawn mower nor does it involve amputation above the elbow. Filling the car with gas doesn't mean farting nor does it involve fuel in the passenger compartment. By 'gas', the writer probably does NOT mean sulfur hexaflouride.

And if the plane crashes, your laptop could take someone's head off but it's just fine even though it might "vent with flame".

He didn't claim they are bullet proof, he claimed that they don't blow out.

The windows don't shoot out, they get thumb sized holes.

If you put enough holes in the plane, then the pilot will have to descend until the cabin pressure stabilizes. Of course since there is an in-flight emergency, hel'' be descending for a landing at the nearest airport anyway. Once on the ground, the coroner will pick up the broken and desecrated corpse of the shooter, police will interview the passengers, and they can be on their way.

And your chainsaw ends up in Mongolia. Unless, of course, you are traveling to Mongolia. Then it goes to Jamaica.

At one time nobody thought anything of it if you kept a flask or a pint in a desk drawer. Nobody cared if you had a couple drinks at lunch (or just because). As long as you didn't get tipsy or do it constantly, nobody cared.

Now, even the suggestion of it has people picturing people chugging, throwing up in the trash can and getting hung over. Nobody suggested that THAT much beer was a good idea.

If you forget that you're carrying a firearm you probably shouldn't have a concealed carry permit in the first place I say this as a Second Amendment supporter and holder of a concealed carry license in a State (New York) where it's pretty damned hard to get them. What excuse is there for neglecting to remember the fact that you're carrying a firearm?

I concur with your sentiment about meas rea, FWIW, but still....

Pain is possibly the oldest, most effective stimulus to changing behavior in the history of, well, life.
To suggest that human behavior isn't modified by pain is to imply that humans are somehow intrinsically different than every other kind of life on this planet.

I doubt that is true.

Now we can talk all day about the long term effects of pain on spent beings, and the concomitant damage that can be done emotionally, socially, or in terms of relationships. But if I'm going to take you seriously as a real scientist (and not just a flake with an agenda) you need to concede that pain CAN change behavior, and that in some cases the behavior change may conceivably be worth the effects.

In the '80s there was a punk band called "Jodie Foster's Army". There was no official comment from the Reagan Administration.

I saw a bit on the news last night that a man who escaped from N. Korea years ago and now lives in S. Korea obtained hundreds of copies of the movie and sent them into N. Korea using helium balloons.

He said that after a life of hearing only what the government wanted him to hear, his eyes were opened when he found some pamphlets delivered by a similar balloon and he realized he must leave by any means. He wants N. Koreans to know what the rest of the world thinks of their leader.