Well played, sir... Well played

I'm not sure the DOT, paid for through fuel taxes and registration fees paid *directly by the people that are using that infrastructure* can really be thrown into the socialist mould. Probably the same for municipal water/trash/sewer.

You can certainly argue it. It's when it's passed off as a foregone conclusion that the teeth gnashing kicks in.

Maybe I'm being too critical, but my opinion boils down to this: If you work hard at something, you deserve to reap the benefits. If you do not work hard at something, you deserve nothing.

So because you've done something the hard way, others shouldn't be able to do it the easy way when that becomes possible? How about you start using this if/when it becomes available to normal people and stop working harder than you already are to get the same results?

One of the problems with wanting to lose weight is by the time you become a large tub, you no longer have enough muscle to move around and exercise

Or you could, you know, reduce calorie intake and do something less strenuous like walking for a half hour each day to keep your metabolism from crashing.

A morbidly obese individual can drop 100lbs of pure fat in 6 months doing that - I've done it.

Do you want to live someplace with Whole Foods and yoga studios, or with megachurches and gun shops?

Can I live some place with Whole Foods, gun shops and no Yoga studios or Megachurches? Maybe with a computer store or two nearby?

'Segregation' and stratification can still be close to continuous in reality.

If they made their tracking "services" an opt-in proposition, *that* would prove to me and probably all other Google skeptics that they truly were out to do no evil

As much as I like the I idea of "Don't Be Evil" as an unofficial motto, I can't buy into to idea of classifying every action that is not overtly good as Evil by default.

There are a lot of things that people, companies, groups, governments and others do that are pretty much guaranteed to piss someone off or run afoul of their moral code even if most other people consider it benign.

Opt-out search: Yes, that sucks. Yes, that's a pain in the ass. Yes, you have every right to get up on a soapbox and rally against it.

Evil? Grow up.

"That which doesn't kill you only makes you stronger."

"Tell that to someone with Polio"

You might want to actually *read* the article you linked to:

The currently available literature indicates that nicotine, on its own, does not promote the development of cancer in healthy tissue and has no mutagenic properties

I won't try and say that the residue left in those computers by cigarette smoke doesn't have carcinogens in it, but nicotine isn't one of them.

Of 2,900 students in the study who had had a drink in the past month, 39% of those who had mixed an energy drink with alcohol had ridden with a drunk driver, compared with 23% of those who had a plain alcoholic drink. More than 12% of students who had consumed an energy drink with alcohol had been hurt or injured, compared with 6% who had consumed a plain alcoholic drink.

causality is overrated anyway

One of the things about being a part of a society is that you are allowed to care about things that don't directly affect you personally

I don't think "society" is a requirement for that

I would think this would be better:
http://www.eternalimage.net/star_trek.php

They determined that Hydrogen Sulfide did not work in Pigs despite working in Mice. It seems doubtful that it will work in humans as pigs are a much closer analog to us.

I was disappointed with all the jokers saying they forgot what they were going to post but then I realized they could all actually be from the same person...

They probably wouldn't make a good representative sample, but you could take the source code of projects that were formerly closed and subsequently opened to see how many errors they averaged. The ID engines come immediately to mind.