This is /. so I'm going to need a car analogy.

If they convicted everyone there who was a thief, who would be left?

I trust Google with way too much as it is. And practices like this only make me even more determined to avoid them as much as reasonably possible. It's bad enough that pretty much every website out there now is feeding them tracking data (seriously, use Firefox with NoScript and just look at all the sites using Google-analytics, it's *everywhere*). I certainly am *not* about to let them takeover my entire browser too.

They'll have to content themselves with just reading my gmail.

I like to use the unicorn comparison. When anyone gives me the "Well, that doesn't prove that this thing ISN'T true," I challenge them to prove to me that unicorns DON'T exist.

The "real understanding" is that it's bullshit. And he does a masterful job of exposing it as such, and helping people become better equipped to resist con men who would prey on them.

Penn and Teller make pretty good money too. Good for him, good for them. I have no objection at all to someone making HONEST money.

Time and numbers.

That's true, but it always gives renewed faith to us non-faithful.

In an age where so many skeptics are shouted down, it's nice to have a champion. Randi is *my* Jesus.

Oh my god, if Randi's last debunking were a major debunking of Scientology, I think I would just orgasm right there. That's like a lifelong bank robber pulling off a multi-billion dollar robbery of the Federal Reserve as his retirement heist.

That's actually my favorite part of Randi debunkings. One of the best moments in Tonight Show history (aside from when they kicked Jay Leno's talentless ass to the curb briefly), was when Johnny Carson (who had secretly been working with Randi) confronted Uri Geller with a Randi test. Randi had figured our how Geller was bending spoons and had set up some spoons that Geller couldn't rig as part of the test. The look on Geller's face was priceless. Suddenly he was stumbling backwards over excuses why his "psychic" powers had suddenly failed him. I think the best he could do was some bullshit along the lines of "the auras aren't right" or some such crap. You could tell Carson was doing his best not to crack up. If only more journalists had done what a comic talk show host did that night, Geller would have never been able to defraud as many people as he had up to that point. It was a good thing.