Clearly, the people reading such comments are the ones responsible for them; othewise the poster wouldn't make the effort.

I was of the impression that anything that accesses the cell network already has a unique IMEI adddress and that devices that access networks have a unique MAC address. What does this provide that they don't? It would seem this information could be spoofed at least as easily as such hardware addresses.

Spend some time around a 2-year old and you'll realize all kids start as psychopaths, some grow out of it, some become Wall Street bankers.

... and little else will change.

... what really need are laws keeping Congress out of science. Of course, government funding is needed, but in the area of administration Congress can't even keep their own house, (or their own House), in order.

Quite truthy, but that overlooks an increasing population that exceeded agricultural demand and the fact that the peasants doing the work were now in the same boat as the factory workers; they were disposable labor. Of course, you can lay some of the blame for that on social change, but much of the social change on the farm was driven by the changes in town and the financial impacts that had for the feudal model.

Bear in mind, they were characteristically also evicted from their homes by the lord, who still owned their homes.

Not exactly. Their jobs on the land evaporated, leaving them the choice of starving or trying to find work in town. Unless you want to argue death by starvation is a viable choice.

A serf in the Middle Ages was usually reasonably well cared for by his lord. For instance, many, if not most, had access to free medical care, such as it was, as the lord didn't want to lose his property. With the dawn of the Industrial Age, that all went away as the factory owner had no investment in his workers and they were easily replaceable. The life of those workers was, generally, much worse than their predecessor serfs.

Today, H1-B visas are about the same phenomenon. Make workers a disposable commodity and the riches you accrue will be without limit. But all of this overlooks the ascent of robotics, which truly will replace human workers. It will be less effective to throw you shoe in the works when the works just throw it back at you.

Of course, Monty Python revealed to us that sperm in general is sacred: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fUspLVStPbk

Sex with relatives, at that.

Are you sure you aren't mything the point?

Yes, let's all worship angiosperms.

Be aware, however, that side effects of this action can include headaches, nausea, starvation, failure to evolve and a nasty rash of nonexistence.