'Cuz old people could never have "da skillz", right? Un-fiucking-believable...

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[citation needed] ..., and please, don't trot out the the magical a-biogenic nonsense. [quote] The existence of hydrocarbons on Titan, a moon of Saturn, and venting from the deepest oceans points to the probability that hydrocarbons don't have anything more to do with fossils than anything else in the earth's crust.

LOL. Sorry I bothered with the warning. I see you've got something even better than magic. We'll jes commence ta drillin' on Titan. Yeah, that's definitely going to be a commercially successful venture.

Retired PM here...
Amen, brother. Comparing survival rates of in-hospital cardiac arrest cases and pre-hospital cardiac arrest cases is an absurd comparison. The are not the same population, at all. Given the mean response time for ALS to reach the arrest patient in the field, a 10% number is impressive. Definitive care is definitive care and the sooner it is delivered, the better the outcome, period. Adding the transport delay the time to definitive care will drive survival rates down. This has been well-established for decades. Sanghavi's conclusions are, to say the least, worthless.

"Renewable energy technologies, as they exist today, simply won't work."
So, what? We should stop pursuing them altogether?

In what world will that happen? Maybe you didn't get the memo, but "trickle down economics" has been shown to be just so much B.S.

...I would never have done something like that.

...at enforcing a whole lot of laws that actually defined apartheid. In other words, it wasn't the policing that made apartheid evil, it was the notion (codified into law) that people deserved different things because of the color of their skin. We don't have that.

What you gain is the opportunity (because you didn't get shot in the head) to use the system to punish those who've abused their power. If you think that belligerence is the only proper response to such abuses, you've already lost.

Regulations, like the Telephone Consumer Protection Act, are for little people. This is about corporate profit and we will decide which regulations we will observe and which we will ignore. And if you don't like it, by your own legislators and regulators.

Regards,
Your Friends at RIAA/MPAA

Can you say pork? How about, complete waste of taxpayers' money? If the mythical free market wants to speculate on the profitability of asteroid mining, fine, but make them do it on their own fucking dime.

Cool! I was immediately thinking of Dr. Forbin's misadventure when I read the summary. Yeah, so what could possibly go wrong with letting the machines take more of role in securing themselves from "unauthorized access"?

Exactly. You, and Barb, and Mattel are free to say unacceptable things all day long. You are free to try to place those utterings on any media you can find, but you are most certainly not guaranteed the right to use someone else's media for that purpose. You are also not protected from having your utterings labeled as "unacceptable", racist, misogynist, "of Satan", or any other term. Get over it.

Penis jokes, and then it has the temerity to tell someone to "grow up"... Further comment hardly seems sporting.

Yep. Make the infrastructure a public utility. That is the only solution that makes sense in a market where a natural monopoly exists. With a truly robust infrastructure in place, true competition can exist, on a level playing field. Of course, the so called "conservatives" will resist this at every turn, because they don't really believe in free markets, they just like to give lip service to it because it sells votes in Tea Party land like nobody's business.