And which one of those two reactions sounds less traumatic for everyone involved?

Perhaps if certain people would stop being so uptight, this whole issue would just go away. If you're not interested in the booth babes then just ignore them. And if someone grabs your ass without permission, just tell them off and walk away.

If (straight) men treated women the same way they treat other men, our species would be extinct pretty quickly.

I think you're confusing "True or False" with immortals again.

Why should I assume they are false? To assume anything is foolish, particularly in the given example where it is more likely the statements are true. The correct answer to the question of whether any of those statements is true is "Probably". Claiming something is false because you don't have all the facts is just as bad as claiming it's true.

This "critical thinking" you espouse sounds more like simple contrariness.

The guy who wrote that article is an idiot. As if voting for one of two identical, corporate-owned candidates or a handful of third-party wackos with no chance of being elected is going to make any difference. He chastises the young for not voting and claims "their influence on politics has vast, untapped potential" that could somehow be realized just by voting. He calls the 2010 election "one of the most critical elections in years that tipped the balance of power in Congress." Seriously, just how different do you think our situation would be right now if every election in 2010 had gone the other way? That's why the protesters are protesting instead of voting, because they know that voting accomplishes nothing when the system has already been gamed to make sure the corporations win no matter what happens in the voting booth. In the US, voting is nothing but the opiate of the politically-minded masses.

And yes, I did vote in 2010 for one of the third-party wackos, for all the good it does.

Whoosh!

The part that ends with "expensive legal fees." Unfortunately, just having the law on your side isn't enough to prevail in the US legal system.

You are both right, in a way. Much of the heat stored in the Earth was created by gravity originally through the kinetic energy it instilled in the proto-planetary bodies that formed it, but gravity does not create additional heat in stationary objects. The energy created by a force is measured by the distance over which that force is applied. So an object at rest, such as the Earth (at rest relative to itself), does not produce any energy from its own gravity. It did produce that energy at the time it formed, however, by applying the force of gravity over the distance that the falling proto-planetary bodies traveled to reach their final relative position. (It's true that the Earth's insides aren't exactly static, but there is very little net movement any more and so very little net change in internal energy due to Earth's gravity. Ask yourself how much the earth shrinks each year due to gravitational compression.)

Think of dropping an object. When you hold it up and drop it, gravity gives it energy in the form of kinentic energy. When it hits the ground, it releases that energy as heat and sound. Once it's just sitting there gravity continues to act on it, but it doesn't generate any more energy it in it.

The formula at work here is: Work = Force * distance. Work is a form of energy and winds up as heat eventually (as all energy does).

Yes, he did.

And his is better since it goes down 37,000 ft, even if there's no place to go that's 37,000 ft down.

That seems like it would work out pretty well, actually. Child molesters are very unlikely to have any interest in doing anything inappropriate to the elderly ("Too Old; Do Not Want!"). And being forced to take care of the elderly seems like a fitting punishment for molesting children.

Exactly. What happens when these cyanobacteria get free? Will they cover the entire world's oceans with an oil slick? Would that interfere with the water cycle and potentially end all life as we know it? Or would it just radically alter the ocean's ecosystem as oil-consuming bacteria rise to prominence to break down the new food supply?

The 800 barrels per acre is per year, not per day. So you'd actually need 5380830 square miles, assuming they can't improve the efficiency.

According to Google Maps it is 219 miles from NYC to Boston. That means to that the average speed need to make the trip in 4 hours is 219 / 4 = 54.75 miles per hour, not 88. Considering the speed limit for most of I-95 and I-90 over this stretch is 65 miles per hour (occasionally dropping down to 55 miles per hour), I doubt the state police are going to have a lot of opportunities to extract funds from you.

Plenty if you actually found hard evidence to support your position (instead of just repeating whatever you heard on FOX News) and managed to get some attention amidst all the fools crying wolf.

I agree completely. The things that Mr. Lee was upset about are very real, serious problems. And he had some very good ideas about how to solve them. The problem was he chose a very poor way to express himself.