It's also a lot cheaper than drones (once the high cost of building the tunnels has been paid). Rail like systems are way more fuel efficient than drones which consume energy proportional to their weight and the weight of their payloads just to stay above ground. That's not feasible in a modern world where there is a constant shortage of energy.

How is scientology any less of a religion than christianity or islam or mormons or any other belief system?

Simple, there are no profound supernatural events or beings involved in the creation of scientology, whereas other religions are based on (real or alleged) supernatural beings/events.

Perhaps but Starcraft is older than COD.
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But gee, do coca-cola ads satisfy your thirst by handing you a bottle, like music on radio satisfies your thirst to listen to music? Music on radio is entertainment first, and advertising on a secondary or tertiary level, whereas the coca-cola ads are just... ads.

Also, your analogy is bogus: coke bottles can bought multiple times to the same customer justifying multiple ads to the same person whereas a song can only be sold once to a listener.

And if 5-10% of listeners (like you) haven't heard that song, is it still considered new and therefore advertising? AFAIK, AM/FM stations play the same old songs (top 40 or top 100) for decades on end. If you listen to their stations for even 1-2 hours a day, it's unlikely you'll come upon a new song except the latest hits. Sorry, you can't claim "advertising," while playing some Elvis' song.

Who is getting paid and who is paying?

Also, if your radio station is making $1 million in yearly revenue, how is paying $500 for the content (songs) considered fair?

That's because radio is free advertising for the artists. Now they want the free advertising and to get paid for it, too?

It's advertising only if the artist is unknown or the song is brand new. When they play an already popular oldie (anything older than 2-3 years), that's for entertainment and (radio station's) profit. In the latter case, the radio station owes the artists for any radio play since they make money off advertisements between the songs.

the QWERTY layout was designed to SLOW down typists of the day,

Just so you know, that's a myth.

I decided to investigate the myth. I created a simple script to output letter frequencies for large pieces of text and this is what I obtained for the book "War and Peace," by Tolstoy:

E: 315232, T: 226406, A: 205807, O: 192879
N: 184174, I: 174282, H: 167404, S: 162894
R: 148428, D: 118289, L: 96527, U: 65433
M: 61646, C: 61624, W: 59207, F: 54896
G: 51326, Y: 46266, P: 45533, B: 34659
V: 27086, K: 20431, X: 4384, J: 2574
Z: 2387, Q: 2330

Most high frequency letters: E, T, A, O, N, I, H, S don't fall on the home row of the QWERTY layout. Whereas all these letters belong in the home row of the Dvorak layout.

Is there valid reason why low frequency letters like K and J are in the home row of QWERTY other than to slow down typing?

Parallel processing isn't just dumping cell phones into a big pile and applying some power. Node interconnect matters, cache matters, memory & bus bandwidth matters, etc. and off the shelf ARMs are vastly outmatched in all of these areas.

But isn't the main difference between consumer Core i7 processors and Xeons is that the latter can be connected to other Xeons to provide more processing power? Well you can still get the same effect by connecting thousands of consumer Core i7 PCs via ethernet. It may cost more money, power and space, but you get the same computing power as a Xeon-based supercomputer.

One makes art for the sake of art, and one does not expect to be compensated for it.

That would be true if art were created and hidden from everyone (art for art's sake only). But in reality, art is created for the benefit and enjoyment of others, and often to feed the ego of the creator. So you think the consumers of art should benefit from art, but it's despicable for the creator to benefit from his own work? That's some self-serving, slave-driving bullshit.

Calling the modern content garbage is an insult to garbage everywhere...

And how many times a day do you stop doing everything and stare at garbage for 5-20 minutes?

yeah, fuck all those content creators on youtube

So is google planning on paying 50-70% of their subscription fee to content creators? After all, without content, YouTube is useless and distributors should not be making all the money, like on rest of the internet. Flickr does not pay its photographers, stackoverflow.com, etc others do not.

Back in the day when I was a pupil I had "library addiction" for several years. I spent most of my free time in the library reading books... Nobody in their right mind would have thought it was a problem. This "Internet addiction" is not different in any way I can see.

Except reading books is much harder (mental energy-wise) compared to browsing internet forums like facebook, slashdot, reddit etc. The latter are like junk food or vegging in front of TV, whereas reading real books is more like eating wholesome food.

And (in that bright, cheery voice) your grade is dependent on their grade.

Nooo. Your grade is dependent on the maximum of either person's grade. Suppose you write version X of the assignment and your partner, version Y. You both decide X is the better version and submit that and get the same grade. But since it's pair programming, you both collaborate in writing the best version X interactively and parallely instead of developing X and Y separately and then choosing or combining both implementations.

My problem with this arrangement is that if a dumb student (F grade) is paired with a smart student (A+ grade), then both students get good grades (A+) compared to two average students (C grade) paired together who only get average grades (C). That's unfair to the average students, both at school and when applying for a job.

here's what you should do: get a medical degree, go into business, charge a fair market value, and advertise the hell out of it.

Given the law of supply and demand, patients should be flocking to you in droves. Other physicians will then be forced to lower their prices to compete. Let the invisible hand of the market take care of it!

That's what many app developers thought about low prices. They priced their apps $1 (instead of $5 to $20) assuming they'd get tons of purchases. But the number of buyers did not increase and now consumers expected every app to be priced $1. Although I agree about unfair prices: getting treated for fever/flu and other simple problems should not cost $750-$1000.

Maybe doctors don't to be fair, they want to be filthy rich.

There is no ONE answer to the meaning of life. Let's say a computer does compute some answer X as the meaning of life. We can easily find Y, an alternative answer, that is in no way related to X, and another answer Z, that is not related to X or Y and so on. This (pseudo) proof shows that there is no ONE answer to the meaning of life.