Hannibal Chew?

Shut up, and stop asking that. Signed, Blizzard.

Actually, it wasn't very nice of the NY Times to not put the stats they used to suggest a boycott of Apple into any sort of context. So I'll do that for them ... 18 suicides per million workers at Foxconn? OK, that's very sad, but the Chinese national average is 220 per million. More than 12X higher. 7 fatal workplace injuries per million workers at Foxconn? Agains, tragic. But the US(!) national average is 35. 5X more. Average salary for production workers at Foxconn only $6,000? To us privileged Westerners, that seems like a pittance. The average for China as a whole? $4,500 or 25% less than Foxconn workers. I'm not suggesting that Foxconn is a dream job, without harsh conditions etc etc. But to not provide context for your statistics is disingeous at best, and deliberately dishonest at worst. And what, exactly, would a boycott actually do?

Do you know how hard that video was for me to find because you didn't put a link into your reply? I had to ask my kid for help to find it.

Minor flaw in your logic re: free will. The notion of "free will" runs contrary to the existence of your god. Since the Christian god is omnipotent, and supposedly knows all, including the future, then we have no free will to choose anything, since someone/something already knows what we'll "choose." Therefore we live in a deterministic universe where evil can't exist because evil requires free will to choose a path without anyone, including a god, knowing what you'll choose until you do so. Yet, if he's not omnipotent, he's not god. I know there's a counter-argument to this ... but since the whole notion of god is silly to begin with and unfalsifiable, I'll just stick with the real world I can see and touch.

Pfffft ... Stana Katic would've had Baldwin on the ground in cuffs before he even drew that weapon.

Same bloody thing.

On page one there's the (ACSM) up in the corner ... maybe written down to remind the guy what the key is or how to translate it? What if each letter in the message is offset by some sort of repeating pattern based on those four letters?

Sorry, every child is born an atheist. They become religious when someone tells them what to think, instead of how to think. That can be parents when they are toddlers ("Hey, daddy was right about fire being hot, maybe the misogynistic sky fairy he tells me will punish me for eternity if I don't follow his rules must be true too!"), an authority figure when they're an angst-ridden teen ("But we all love you sister Hannah ... everyone in the congregation think you're just the way the lord intended. Don't listen to those mean bullies who call you fat/gay/stupid"), a particularly charismatic pastor ("No, really, if you have sex with me it's what god wants."), etc. The only thing Rowthorn might have right is that religious people *may* procreate more and therefore teach/indoctrinate their larger broods to despise and ridicule anyone who believes anything else except their particular beliefs. But religion as a gene? Come on, really? I'll buy into common mythologies as deep-rooted societal stories, but even kids have to learn those.