If so.. yes.

Look- I donate to the police survivors fund each year, but the drug war, militarization of police, and grossly racially imbalanced police forces lead to these events.

Freddie Gray's record was minor drug infractions which wouldn't even be a problem in three states any more.

Once he was arrested the first time, he had no hope of ever getting a good job with an arrest record. Once he had a conviction, it was over.

Well I grew up rich, and I think people have a social responsibility to each other.

Is my story any more relevant than yours? Did growing up poor provide you with special insights?

I mean aside from how to cook Kraft dinner.

Planes show an even greater advantage for me, as when I drive a car I tend to throw cigarette butts and plastic bottles out the windows, and they pollute the side of the road.

Combine a large war with disruption of the JIT we have now for food and medicine. Bad combo.

Most do. Some groups still have large families.

Once we are all well educated and not poor, population growth will come to be dominated by those groups.

You should consider human culture as a bacterial culture and "wealth and education" as penicillin. It's a good holding action but it isn't the solution everyone thinks it is.

We have the resources to support 9 to 10 billion people for a while (and there's good reasons why they think it will top out there) but the quality of life for many will be much lower.

I don't think population will top out there. I think the part of the population which has a high breeding rate will come to dominate the population and population growth will resume.

So yea-- I think we are pretty much doomed to a multi-billion die off event sometime in the next 100 years.

What the fuck? You know nothing about stocks, why are you talking about it?

The company effectively did change. Investors were expecting $470-485 million sales, and it actually came out to $435 million, and revenue went down 9%. Really shitty news. Naturally, it drove the price down. If news on twitter had been great, the stock would have jumped.

This is a non-story. The stock would have done the exact same thing if they had released the information at the proper time. It just would have done it a day later.

If you think I'm wrong, then BUY EVERYTHING YOU FUCKING CAN IN THIS STOCK. If it sank due to a non-issue, then it should snap up 20% tomorrow.

"What the fuck is a pre-embryo."

In the article, they stated that a "pre-embryo" is "an embryo that has not yet been implanted".

Something wrong with that? I think it suffices for the purposes of a magazine article. As long as they define their terms, I find it highly unlikely that they are using linguistic subterfuge to further some weird political agenda.

"If the biomatter belongs to a specific person, then it is their biomatter."

OK, so according to you, the sperm belong to the guy and the eggs to the woman, right?
Well, given the fact that they have no way of removing the man's biomatter from the pre-embryo without destroying the woman's biomatter, can you see why the issue is "hotly contested"?

It's already just $100. I don't know your financial situation, but if something came out in 2013 and, two years later, you're still eagerly awaiting it getting discounted, you probably should have just bought it in the first place.

Why is the "genocide" label so important? There was undoubtedly mass murder and mass relocation/"ethnic cleansing".
Do the Armenians get some special prize, or extended privileges because their dead ancestors were victims of "genocide"? Do they get to extort present day Turkey for "reparations" or something?

Furthermore, why doesn't anyone seem to give a damn about the Ukrainian genocide (The "Holodomor") of the 1920s and 1930s? We hear about the Armenians and we hear a lot about the Jews, but even with Ukraine being a focal point for recent news, the genocide of the Ukrainians by the Bolsheviks is skipped over like it never happened.

Where's the Tux Racer demolition derby?

Right, it sucks that they had to close all the schools, in order to afford this :(

I don't know about a Communist plot or thyroid problems, but numerous studies have suggested that fluoride lowers IQ:

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pm...

Besides, the primary mechanism by which fluoride arrests tooth decay is in a surface application. Fluoridated toothpastes usually carry a "Keep out of reach of children" warning. The directions also state that for children under 6, such products should be used in small quantities and with thorough rinsing to ensure that it isn't swallowed.

Drinking fluoride to prevent tooth decay is like drinking sunblock to prevent sunburn.

I'm not a bitter taster so they all work for me.

I use a mixture of multiple artificial sweeteners in my coffee. Some sacharine and a little stevia. Sometimes some monk fruit sugar. Some times some xylitol or erythritol.

To many people stevia tastes horrible.

No, but people are a lot more likely to browse a web site than they are to download a program.