That's because they can only delude themselves to a certain extent. Deep down they know that when they die that's it. Nothing. But they try and believe that's not true. So, of course, because they spend their whole lives desperately clutching a delusion, they never come to terms with oblivion. All but the most gullible ones live their lives desperately fearing reality.

You mean you didn't find it funny - which is not the same thing at all.

I found it funny, therefore the gp is funny.

He died for a better life?

That's like fighting for peace. Or fucking for celibacy.

It's so i can put my music on it and get better sound quality when i play it on my car stereo.

Unfortunately all theories about the origins of sexuality have been comprehensively debunked. Nobody really has any idea - although plenty of people think they do.

Personally i don't see why it matters. Why should somebody's sexuality be of any concern to anyone else? The only sane reason to care is if you want to fuck them.

That's irrelevant. The gp said "Without a species, the genes are dead-enders." - which is always true. Sooner or later something about the environment changes and makes it inhospitable for any given phenotype. The species survives if there are a sufficient range of different phenotypes that some individuls can cope with the changes. That's why potato blight caused famine in Ireland.

Those data? Please keep that sort of language to the pretentious halls of academia! ICT people generally say "that data".

Data is not plural - any more than sand is. You don't say "the sand on the beach are golden", do you? Why not, if you say "data are"? In both cases we're talking about things in bulk, not a collection of individual data items or sand grains.

And what's "data" the plural of, anyway? Not "datum" - the plural of that is "datums", as in

As GPS, a satellite-based location system, matured and became accessible to the public, the need to extend and better define the earth's spheroid and associated datums became more pressing.

(ESRI.com)

Treating the word "data" as if it's plural is nothing but pretentious academic wank.

I know nothing about not ever drinking, but a few years back i went for a year without drinking alcohol (or coffee or tea, etc) - and when i woke up in the mornings that was pretty much the best i'd felt all my life!

Unfortunately, circumstances conspired to gradually start me drinking again.

That's because your cardiologist owns shares in pharmaceutical companies.

My television watching has stayed the same for decades: 0.

Television is a device which sucks your mind out through your eyes.

Of course it will. But RO is very expensive and complicated and requires specialised maintenance. It's also not mentioned in TFA (although it could be in the video, i don't know - reading TFA is quite uncool enough on /. - without watching TFV).

I don't know what you're on, but maybe it's the pharms in recycled water. How is recycled water not the topic? Are you suggesting "Water From Human Waste" isn't recycled?

Calm down child, you'll have a seizure if you're not careful. TFA doesn't mention reverse osmosis - which is very expensive and slow.

Maybe. But dinosaurs didn't take pharmaceutical drugs.

That's undisputable. However, it's what's dissolved in it that's the problem. Sewage contains pharmaceuticals and hormones - none of which are removed by the treatment process. Generally, recycled water isn't even tested for them.