Here's the gist of the article, and also an explanation of why it isn't really interesting at all:

“This is a fascinating phenomenon and nobody has really much idea of what’s going on. What we do know is that it’s absolutely essential to not jump to conclusions about what’s going on. Time and time again over the decades past demographers have been brutally misled by short-term phenomena, by statistics gathered only over a few years. Blips happen for all manner of impenetrable reasons. In this case we’re talking about people born in a small segment of time, around 1900, and most of them born in particular countries and going through certain types of life they might not have gone through had they been born 20 years previously or 20 years later. There are many factors called ‘cohort effects’ that can cause early life phenomena to have an influence on longevity.” Bottom line: don’t believe the hype.

Stupidity is not a valid excuse. Each person is responsible for his or her own actions and "they told me to do it" does not take away your own responsibility. In 2003, there were 14 million people demonstrating globally against Bush's war plans, millions of those were Americans. No one was forced to be ignorant, no one was forced not to read up on the real motives behind the war and no one was forced to go around the world killing people that had never done them any harm. They did it on their own violition and should, if the world was just, be punished for it just like Bush himself.

And yet, despite what the economists tell us, they rock us all when it comes to living standards. Least number of homeless people, least amount of murder per capita in the world, healthiest population and the most high-tech gadgets in the world. All over the world you see Japanese tourists spending money like crazy because they think our prices are so low. The economists doesn't know shit because they have it all backwards. Normal people see economy and growth rates as a means to make our lives better and improve our society. Economists see society and peoples lives as a means to jack up the growth rates and maximize GDP.

Insert the obligatory comment about how one could easily fool this sytem and therefore their research is completely useless. The researchers did not think about people changing their shoes, but the slashdotters did!

Then youtube should also be punished because it is using lots of obnoxious ads above the fold. Even worse as they are often in flash and therefore competing with the video player itself for resources.

Even if you don't believe the Iranian story, you still got to give them credit for coming up with a pretty believable sounding explanation. That's more than the US Air Force could apparently. It doesn't sound so far fetched to me that they could have found an exploitable vulnerability in the drones navigation system. Even if they really wish it were true, Iranian engineers aren't any dumber than American ones.

And "Do Shit Right The First Time" is an euphism for "I have no fucking clue what I'm doing which is why this web gui is taking me two months to complete." :)

Hosts is neither an acronym nor an abbrevation.

Hey! Look at me! I'm a pro-Zionist bigot who can make shit up and get +5 modded without giving a single fucking source for my believable albeit completely false statements.

Do you ever in your nationalistic fervor reflect upon the fact that in the last major bout between Israel and Hamas in December 2008, 1200 Palestinians were killed and what, 2 Israelis were? All 1200 were terrorists so it doesn't matter? Why is it that for every one Israeli killed, hundreds of Palestinians die and Israel can still maintain an image of taking the high ground and being the victim?