edit: animated bestiality on page 17.

Another thing is when nitwits link porn and call it something else, which is what lead slashdot to post the root domain for all links (specifically goatse, AFAIK).

My mother-in-law was trying to buy her son a basketball for Christmas and went to Dicks.com to locate one. Unless you have the "is there a porn pun to this search string?" brain-filter on all of the time, it can occasionally happen.

We play a game to search for something totally innocuous with Google Image search and see how many pages we can get through before finding porn.
One can get to page 11 of "photo" results for the search string "Slashdot" before finding a naked woman's ass.

Honestly, no; it gives me a bit of a superiority complex to not be told what to do when by a TV schedule.

lol; I think they mean the boat / pump thing will be underwater, not the jetpack. Divers are limited by physiological things when ascending and descending, not how fast they can swim. SCUBA certification organizations will tell you one foot per second up and down is about the limit. They already have underwater propulsion things (little units you hang on to that you point in the direction you want to go, and they run of batteries) to combat currents, long distance requirements, etc. that are about as good as required.

The marginal cost of making phone calls is much higher than that of sending spam e-mail.

Say it takes one person one second per 100 e-mails, and that same person a bare minimum of 10 seconds for one phone call (likely longer, going for easy math) that makes telesales 1000 times as time-consuming, and thus expensive.

Source?

(Sorry about the lame reply to my own post, but, there is no post editing...)

If you think about which large employer has the crappiest employees (hint: U.S. Govt, in the U.S.), this employer also has the most fact-based hiring process. The cool companies are the fly-by-the-seat-of-your-pants experiential interviews with questions that dig into your personality traits.

Would you be more comfortable with the hiring manager deciding, based on your interview and his personal opinion thereof, that you were a pessimist and not hiring you?

Interviews are personality tests - if the hiring process were fact-based, you would sit in a chair and fill out a quiz on job-related information, they would score the quiz, and hand out the job.

Your characterization is a bit off - Galt was successful at what he did, and explicitly would not accept financial support from the government.

The heads of companies being bailed-out are the Jim Taggarts; those held at the top by corruption and tradition. Without government bail-out, Galt would stay at the top, or rise to the top, and the Jim Taggart-like folks would fall. Yes, it would take time, they have lots of money to burn through first, but that money burn is proper re-distribution of wealth.

Improper redistribution of wealth is as you describe - printing money and handing it to people undeservedly. This directly leads to increased demand for goods, supply doesn't change, prices go up. You cannot couch this as a tax refund either; if we actually refunded taxes paid by the people back to the people, this would be legitimate, but that money (and lots more) has already been spent.

The Romans did not invent wine; wine as we know it was first produced in The Republic of Georgia in about 6000 BC. The Roman empire never stretched far enough East of the Black Sea to encompass the area that is now Georgia.