I'll have to side with Apple in this one just because I have little trust in a company that was given $249 million by the government, then stiffed the American people by going bankrupt and selling itself to China.

This is why the statistics on this article are bogus. The banks in Europe claim C&P is foolproof, so if your money is stolen it's "the user's fault", and it's not "fraud". Kind of like how our unemployment rate in the USA is so low because they decided that people who gave up looking for work don't count, and people who are working 20-30 hours a week do.

I'd like whatever plugin it is that keeps Firefox from ballooning to 1+ GB of RAM if I have a few tabs open.

I don't even know where you're going with 'personal liberty.' The economic system has so little to do with what you're allowed to say, which god you're allowed to worship, or how you spend your free time as to be completely orthogonal.

We have three essential freedoms: life, liberty, and property. Taxes reduce our property, so their use must be as guarded as are the limits on the other two. You almost hit on it with your last example; indeed, if I choose to spend my free time in an activity that I can no longer afford due to high taxation, that's a clear negative impact due to the economic system.

They link to this chart, which actually contradicts what they say unless you use a bizarre interpretation of it that would indicate a 230 pound man would also have a .05% BAC after one drink.

Yep, that's the only option. There's nothing between doing nothing and that option. It's all we have. And if anyone starts to talk about mitigation strategies, planning ahead of time or devoting a single cent of taxpayer money toward preparing for it, we are just all going to have a meltdown and throw a tantrum with teabags on our hats. Thank god we have these strawman arguments for what these ivory tower Oxford elitists are telling us to do: eliminate the human race to protect the human race. I cannot believe they would actually come to that conclusion but there it is, right in the article. Those environmentalists will have us starving in mud huts by the end of the month if we just sit by and let this academic report go unabated and without criticism!

*tortured sigh*

Because private schools are PRIVATE. You don't have to send your kids there.

No, I had absolutely no idea!

If the elementary school system is biased against girls in the sciences, it's pretty ironic because near 100% of the teachers in those grades are female. By the way, why is no one concerned about the gender bias in elementary educators?

Were you 18? If my parents didn't stand up for me-- and mind you, they always did-- I would have pursued legal means. I know that's a daunting task for a teenager, but some lawyer somewhere would have enjoyed some pro bono publicity.

Change doesn't happen overnight, since in general established companies don't hire women fresh out of college as CEOs. The average age of a CEO is in the 50s. The policies of the 1980s and 1990s are producing today's CEOs.

If Kim Jong-Un starts a war with the only world superpower and their allies over unarmed, unmanned aircraft launched by civilian hobbyists, he'll get what he deserves.

It's too bad the Allies released those photos of the concentration camps. They were literally working for the Nazis and their SS arm.

Some of their speakers were surprisingly good. I had two bookshelf speakers that had PLASTIC boxes, and they sounded great. They were left behind by one of my dad's tenants. They even had low enough sensitivity to work with the Pro Audio Spectrum card on my 486, which couldn't have had more than 2W of power (sound cards often had amplified outputs on them in the 90s). TIE Fighter sounded killer on those...