Let's come up with a new one for them in short order.

nobody is going to come after you for copying and p(a|o)sting on a comment thread

Maybe my sarcasm meter is in need of some maintenance, but this happens all the time. Just check out the Righthaven/LVJR lawsuits for a small sampling.

Buying 100,000 shares of already issued stock is an investment, but does nothing to create jobs.

Perhaps not directly, but if you invest those 100,000 shares in the company I work for, their stock price might go up, allowing me to sell my shares for even more, and then I can buy stuff from local businesses, like the small local home builder that I just hired to build my house.

Investing in already issued stocks doesn't mean the money disappears, it just means its harder to trace its effect on the economy.

Isn't the iPod Touch just an iPhone with out the 3G antenna? The 64GB version of that is only $400. Does it really cost that much more to add an antenna?

Good thing he's not hiring the Soviet Military. Some Swedish economics professor built a submarine that went to a depth of 10,000 feet. He later designed one that already accomplished this feat in 1960. So the design is not a problem. The X-prize isn't about getting it done, it's about getting private funding to do it twice. James Cameron should have plenty of money to accomplish this.

I'm so indie...

I mean, it makes no sense for the Author's Guild to castigate Amazon yet remain silent in regard to Apple. Since anything Apple immediately hits the airwaves

I think you have the reason why the Author's Guild is being silent. Their blathering about the TTS feature against Amazon was ridiculed by everyone that heard the story. The only reason they didn't get more ridicule was that the story wasn't broadly heard. Put Apple in the story and everyone would be ridiculing them.

That saves a step for ingredients->food, but it doesn't at all save on ingredients->stomach. In fact, what you propose makes it worse, because instead of going to the supermarket several times per week, they are now going to the cafeteria several times per day.

As for adoption, I know gay couples who have adopted, and in all cases the kid is far better off than they were in the care of the government.

Almost ALL kids are better off after being adopted then being in the care of the government. Gay or straight adoptive parents has nothing to do with it.

Most of the f'd up people in this world are the direct result of a HETEROSEXUAL union.

With the exception of the relatively very small amount of sperm donations to lesbian mothers, ALL f'd up people are a result of a heterosexual union. Coincidentally, and with the same exceptions, ALL non-f'd up people are also a result of a heterosexual union.

I'd love to see a study following kids who go through foster homes vs. kids in homosexual adoptions.

There was a study not that long ago showing the children of lesbian parents fare better than most of their peers. However, as the linked article explains, the biggest reason for this is "[t]hese are not accidental children".

Is English not your first language? Do you not understand the difference between "species" and "life"? Abiogenesis deals with how life started. If a book about it were to be titled similar to Darwin's work it would be titled "On the Origin of Life".

Mines still rotting in the hall. Mom keeps telling me she's going to make stew out of him.

It's pretty hard to see with the small font and all, but I found it.

There is no check to our exploitation

Seems like that statement is incongruous with the following:

and it will be the end of us.

require a certain number of trained/intelligent people to continue to operate

Lack of food and fresh water will crash our population

Short of gouging out my eyes so I can't see billboards while I drive home...

Or you could move to Seattle's eastside, especially along I-90. First time I drove a long that stretch I was amazed at the lack of billboards. Especially compared with I-15 in the Salt Lake metro area.

Also, the copying of "the book you're writing for O'Reilly" WOULD be copyright infringement as long as you have written copyright info in it somewhere

You don't have to write any copyright info in it. The moment you write anything, it is copyrighted. You do have to register it to file suit however. Which means you can add copyright infringement to "take pictures of every page of your diary". Though you'd have to register your diary before filing that infringement suit.