It's not like they looked very hard. According to TFA they only interviewed 20 heterosexual men from the university, then evidently gave up figuring that 20 people was a good representative sample of ...... the first 20 people who responded to their survey, I suppose.

I happen to be a linguistics major, and I don't want the manuscript to ever be decoded. To me, the manuscript is a symbol of the complexity of language and the depth of human ingenuity and creativity. The fact the best minds of the last 100ish years haven't cracked it reminds me that there is always some further mystery waiting to be solved and that we should be leery of anyone who claims to have all the answers.

Say it with me folks: Correlation does not equal causality.

(Emphasis mine)

I take small issue with that there. If your party had a paladin and a bard, the only books you have to have are

1. Players Handbook (paladin rules)
2. Players handbook II (bard rules)

Yes, all those other things are available but by no means required, and are in no way the "core rules" for for two character classes. All the other books contain additional options for these classes (feats, powers, rule options, etc) but in my experience, people rarely use all the options available in the PHB, so why spring for a bunch more? But the books are there for the people who want them.

WoTC is a publishing company. They make money when they publish books and other products/content that people buy, so yes, they are inclined to write as many books filled with as much cool stuff as they think will people buy. If you don't like WoTC or D&D 4e, that's fine, but don't go tossing out false implications like 5 books, 2 packs of minis and a subscription to a couple of magazines is somehow required to play the game when it's not.

the first of almost anything costs a lot more to make than the second. The million dollar price tag includes research into what colors, wavelengths and patterns (or lack of patterns) are the most effective, studies into the way that light interacts with the eye and brain, a few development models as the product is refined, some cash to pay the guinea people as you test it, money spent ensuring that the product meets whatever guidelines the government set forth (weight/portability, sourcing and type of materials, waterproofing, durability, etc) and a host of other costs associated with developing a brand new product. All that's assuming they started with the idea of "a flash light that makes people puke;" If their mandate was "make us a new kind of less-lethal weapon" then there are even more costs incurred as they research, weigh and evaluate competing ideas. To make fun of the company for spending $1m on the device is a little naive; to praise this group for being so much more clever than the contractors in making it cheaply is likewise.

Noooooo, rape used to mean "to take from by force." And while I supposed you can still find it used like that, its modern and primary definition is more along the lines of "the crime of forcing another person to submit to sex acts, especially sexual intercourse." But thanks for playing Who Wants to be a Rape Apologist!

So, they violently and sexually assaulted the public domain? You demean yourself, your argument and countless victims rape by comparing a business you don't like to forcibly violating someone. Before you start tossing around phrases like "literally raped" why don't you ask one of the women in your life who has has actually, truly literally raped or sexually assaulted if Disney's legal opinion of copyright fairly compares to their experience. Rates of attempted or completed rape hover around 1 in 6 to 1 in 8 so it shouldn't take too long for you find someone that you know and care about who was a victim.

Because there are only four stories: Man vs. Man, Man vs. Nature, Man vs. Himself, Man vs. God/the supernatural.

Patrick Rothfuss, author of The Name of the Wind, recommended this book on his blog http://www.patrickrothfuss.com/blog/2009/08/things-i-like-magicians-and-faeries-of.html

Way to totally dismiss not only the entire study, but the whole academic discipline in which it resides. You're right, tho, just dismissing it out of hand is way easier than actually reading the study (20 frakin pages! Who has time for that?) or discussing any of the points it brings up.

From TFA: "The study only included visible characters that were clearly human."

Wow, victim blaming at it's finest. She didn't let anything happen to her. This was done to her by people in authority, people she's been told her whole life to trust, respect and obey, and given that this girl had no history of discipline problems, I'd say she learned the "follow the rules, do as you're told" lesson pretty dammed well. At some point, one of the adults, one of the people in fucking charge, should have stopped and asked, "Is it right that we force a child to strip nude to satisfy our (highly unsubstantiated and to this point wholly disproved) theory?" This case, with the way they threatened and used their positions of power and authority to assault this girl has way more in common with a relative or family friend sexually abusing a child than any of the faculty involved care to contemplate. Same dynamic of power and powerlessness at play. Do kids who get raped by their parents or aunts or uncles "let" it happen to them too?

The point of the shoes is that they're a little more dignified than bolting a tracking device to their wrist. My only experience with Alzheimers was with my great grandmother, but due to confusion and dementia, she often didn't realize she was ill and would resent efforts to keep her safe. If you tried to force her to wear a bracelet or something it would have gotten ugly. The shoes are very innocuous and the patient may not even realize or remember they have GPS and not object to them.

Why do people who understand the limitations of GPS always seem to think those limitations preclude GPS as being a solution to anything?