My mistake. The properly attributed quote is above: http://science.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=2550102&cid=38206204/

You know what they call alternative medicine that works?


Medicine.

I'm here all week. Tip your veal, etc.

A quote from Carlin. I tried to edit this down but all of it is good and each paragraph builds on the last. Skip to the bottom for TL:DR summary.

"Boy everyone in this country is running around yammering about their fucking rights. "I have a right, you have no right, we have a right."

Folks I hate to spoil your fun, but... there's no such thing as rights. They're imaginary. We made 'em up. Like the boogie man. Like Three Little Pigs, Pinocio, Mother Goose, shit like that. Rights are an idea. They're just imaginary. They're a cute idea. Cute. But that's all. Cute...and fictional. But if you think you do have rights, let me ask you this, "where do they come from?" People say, "They come from God. They're God given rights." Awww fuck, here we go again...here we go again.

The God excuse, the last refuge of a man with no answers and no argument, "It came from God." Anything we can't describe must have come from God. Personally folks, I believe that if your rights came from God, he would've given you the right for some food every day, and he would've given you the right to a roof over your head. GOD would've been looking out for ya. You know that.

He wouldn't have been worried making sure you have a gun so you can get drunk on Sunday night and kill your girlfriend's parents.

But let's say it's true. Let's say that God gave us these rights. Why would he give us a certain number of rights?

The Bill of Rights of this country has 10 stipulations. OK...10 rights. And apparently God was doing sloppy work that week, because we've had to ammend the bill of rights an additional 17 times. So God forgot a couple of things, like...SLAVERY. Just fuckin' slipped his mind.

But let's say...let's say God gave us the original 10. He gave the british 13. The british Bill of Rights has 13 stipulations. The Germans have 29, the Belgians have 25, the Sweedish have only 6, and some people in the world have no rights at all. What kind of a fuckin' god damn god given deal is that!?...NO RIGHTS AT ALL!? Why would God give different people in different countries a different numbers of different rights? Boredom? Amusement? Bad arithmetic? Do we find out at long last after all this time that God is weak in math skills? Doesn't sound like divine planning to me. Sounds more like human planning . Sounds more like one group trying to control another group. In other words...business as usual in America.

Now, if you think you do have rights, I have one last assignment for ya. Next time you're at the computer get on the Internet, go to Wikipedia. When you get to Wikipedia, in the search field for Wikipedia, i want to type in, "Japanese-Americans 1942" and you'll find out all about your precious fucking rights. Alright. You know about it.

In 1942 there were 110,000 Japanese-American citizens, in good standing, law abiding people, who were thrown into internment camps simply because their parents were born in the wrong country. That's all they did wrong. They had no right to a lawyer, no right to a fair trial, no right to a jury of their peers, no right to due process of any kind. The only right they had was...right this way! Into the internment camps.

Just when these American citizens needed their rights the most...their government took them away. and rights aren't rights if someone can take em away. They're priveledges. That's all we've ever had in this country is a bill of TEMPORARY priviledges; and if you read the news, even badly, you know the list get's shorter, and shorter, and shorter.

You don't have rights, you have privilages and they can be taken away.

there is no compelling reason to switch. Whatever platform you currently have and invested time in is probably good enough for you and switching isn't going to solve that many more problems.

This is the same reason I give as to why the US is not on metric. :)

A quick google reveals...
drug-dealers: http://www.tsa.gov/press/happenings/seattle_drug_bust.shtm/
money-launderers: http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20110605/22322814558/senator-schumer-says-bitcoin-is-money-laundering.shtml/
terrorists: http://blog.tsa.gov/2010/11/new-tsa-pat-down-procedures.html/
pedophiles: http://news.cnet.com/8301-31921_3-20078653-281/police-internet-providers-must-keep-user-logs/

These are all from this decade. It may be an old meme but it is still relevant.

From wikipedia:
Thing a Week One (2006)
Thing a Week Two (2006)
Thing a Week Three (2006)
Thing a Week Four (2006)
Artificial Heart (2011)

You went from writing a thing a week for 4 albums in a year to a 5 year break from new material. What happened?

A lot of home invasions start with the attacker shouting POLICE! A criminal is not above impersonating an officer.

"Space, the final frontier" puts it at 1964.

Your argument against abiogenesis is the same one used for arguments against evolution. Here is the evolution rebuttal: Blind Watchmaker

It does not refute your argument specifically but one point is valid. Pieces of metal are not individual molecules. Molecules attract and repel each other in certain ways. They do it differently after you heat them. They do it differently in the presence of other chemicals (catalysts).br>
There are theories about how proteins could come to be withour DNA or RNA. Metabolism First