I confess I have conflicting opinions about Penn and Teller (just as they have conflicting opinions about many things.) And I have no desire to defend their libertarian views.

However, it is clear that Pen and Teller do not support pseudoscience. In fact, they go out of their way to debunk it. This is even mentioned in the very wikipedia link you supply.

I assume you are trying to claim that libertarianism itself is a kind of pseudoscience. I'm not a libertarian, but even I must disagree with that. It is a philosophy.

Anyone who reads those links can see that Tenebrousedge is right and you are not.

I wouldn't go so far as to say that truth "doesn't matter" in those fields. Rather, they pursue truth through different forms of expression, kind of in the sense of Plato's forms. There's "truth" in a Picasso painting, a Frost poem or a Beethoven piano sonata. It's just not the kind of objective, rational truth that science pursues.

This, exactly. And I'd go further: in general, adherents to pseudo-science are either deceived about the truth, or have bought into the deception despite the refutation of pseudo-scientific claims. Art, on the other hand, doesn't try to "claim" anything about the truth, it just endeavors to express examples of it.

For some reason, slashdot insisted on mangling the href. Here's the correct url without html parsing:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R...

No, it is not an assumption. Hubble (and others) confirmed it by comparing redshifts with distances measured independently.

Most of us route the packets to our computer. Why do you listen to them on your hi-fi system?

I just had a mental image of a pimped-out Tesla with massive heatsink fins sticking out of the hood. Brings the concept of a "hot rod" to a whole new level...

Yes! Thank you! Redundant superlatives are a bugaboo of mine too. Our struggle against them never ends.

It's a shame. People like us are really unique.

Wait...

You just gave me a whole new perspective on self-driving cars. *shudder*

Grandpa ... I told you not to post to /. until after you took your metamucil.

JK :-P

According to studies, passengers can observe when it is safe to talk and therefore conversations with them are less of a risk than conversations on a cell phone.

I don't think you're interpreting the results correctly. Of all the accidents Ham radio operators or truck-drivers get into, what percentage involve their radio(s)? That's the question.

Probably a dilute form of something that causes dehydration. Take your pick what that is, dilute it a lot, and then drink it. Voila, cure for dehydration. Homeopathy works! [Not.]

Only if it's diluted in enough water to drown you.

Thanks for the correction.

In effect, the IRS is treating Bitcoin like any other "foreign" currency, which amounts to the same thing as treating it as property. When you sell (i.e., spend) Bitcoin, you're realizing a profit or loss, depending on the value it had when you received (bought) it, compared to the value it had when you sold it.

IANAA, but as I read this, it means that if you get paid for work in Bitcoin, you would pay tax on its value at that time, and that value would be considered your cost-basis for future sales of Bitcoin, so you don't get taxed twice on the cost-basis amount.