(Disclaimer: atheist)

Who says it's undirected? To us mortals, a lot of things seem random (radioactive decay, genetic mutations, etc.), but who says these things are undirected? A process which seems random to us could make perfect sense to a deity, and could even be directly controlled by said deity. I don't see the need for mutual exclusion here.

"Solving the global warming problem once and for all!"

"But..."

"Once and for all!"

Dig up, stupid!

Reminds me of the people who insist that any sort of business conversation happen in person, no matter how far away they are. Need to have a 15 minute chat with some guy in California? Here's your plane ticket, see you in 3 days. VoIP? Never heard of him, here's your taxi to the airport.

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Also, the title/summary calls it "Apps Engine", which confuses App Engine (cloud hosting) with Google Apps (domain/email/document hosting).

Paragraph 1: "We support the First Amendment." (It's scary enough that you even have to say such a thing nowadays)

Paragraph 2: "No First Amendment activities in the trains, boarding areas, or any other part of our property." (I love the "expressive activities" buzzphrase in this one)

This week on CS:GO, the Jetsons travel back in time to visit de_bedrock.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/status-4-evar/

There's a menu option for that? I just use Ctrl-U (Cmd-U on Mac).

If taxes are punishment, what are the rest of us being punished for?

We're talking about people who make more than a quarter million a year (half million for couples). Even in California, that'll buy you a nice house, 2 cars, steak for dinner every night, with enough left over to satisfy all your hobbies and vacation needs. Paying an additional few percent on the money earned after the first quarter/half million will not only save the economy, but most of the people making that much money won't even notice.

It's not punishment, it's being a good citizen.

Marginal Tax Rates... Please stop pretending that the top earners pay the top tax rate on every dollar they earn. They get the same tax breaks as the lower/middle class on the first couple hundred thousand dollars they earn. And the reason that so many people pay zero income tax is because they work 3 jobs and yet still don't have enough money to pay rent, feed their families, and put enough gas in the car to get to their 3 jobs.

Is that you, Mr Boehner? We've been living under the Bush Tax Cuts (TM) for 10 years, where are all these jobs I keep hearing about? Why are American corporations pulling in embarrassingly high profits, then laying off/outsourcing their workforce? Why are companies giving 8-figure bonuses to their CEOs and then pleading poverty at tax time?

This isn't anything like the Ubisoft situation, which consists mainly of a bunch of PHBs making bad decisions about piracy. From TFA:

Honestly I think this is a good thing. It was always too tempting to load up a character editor and give myself lots of cool toys. Now, when someone sees you in D3, they know you've put effort (or money, lol) into what you've accomplished with that character. Also, it's The Cloud (TM), so all your characters are there-- even the single player ones-- no matter which machine you use.

As for the real-money auction thing, that does seem a bit off, but I think it's worth waiting to see how it pans out.

I'm pretty sure different groups of researchers can work on all of those problems simultaneously.

I am in absolute awe after watching the video about the new rover. As people bicker over whether NASA's miniscule budget is worth it, because "space isn't important", it's nice that NASA can still bring out that child-like wonder in me. How can you not be amazed that we can send a robot like this to another planet, land it safely with precision, and study the composition of the planet from millions of miles away? Isn't that awe worth a few billion dollars a year, even if "it doesn't benefit me"?

(Also, it has a laser tricorder. I mean, come on.)