I like how you consider bringing business to China "evil." Many Chinese citizens are in need of work, and their laws allow foreign investors to take advantage of the cheap labor available. True, the U.S. isn't in the best economic situation, but it's still not "evil" to give work to people in another country who need it, even if you don't like their government.

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Seems like people have forgotten about the R Kelly incident already.

Called it.

I agree with this. The majority of people who conduct these studies and find that video games "make people more violent" are generally trying to prove that they do. Probably everyone can attest to at least one friend they know that acts more aggressive while playing games, but definitely not after. My own brother swears like a sailor when he plays flash games about amoebas and Tetris and the like; it's more of a competitive aggression than a response to violence.

Also, in terms of desensitizing, it's more likely that the news desensitizes people than violent video games. Nobody even flinches nowadays when they hear about another car bomb or some other terrorist attack. Killings happen daily; it's a pretty well-known fact. When the news constantly report it, people stop caring. Playing Halo 3 or COD: Modern Warfare 2 aren't what make people yawn when they hear about the latest tragedy befalling people in Darfur, Rwanda, etc. It's the fact that when news stations constantly report such things, they simply become... expected.

There are only three companies that I'd expect to ever surprise me with the markets they might potentially invade in the future: Walmart, Microsoft, and Google. I frankly would not be surprised if Walmart set their sights on the internet, nor if Google came out with their own phone service (emphasis on the service, I know they already have the Nexus). I can definitely also see Microsoft coming out with their own "smartphone".

Yes, Google should have some competition, however do you really think that Microsoft really needs to get any bigger? We've been hearing about Apple and Google going at each other's throats for quite some time now. I'd like to see if Apple ever steps up with a search engine of their own.

That was not my argument at all.

That is what I was refuting. I did not say that there was not a maximum temperature (although I am not aware of one), what I said was that there is no temperature at which "nothing can exist."

I guess you haven't heard of Google's free internet service.

They can just say it's foreign or something. That way, they can keep charging more for their services while offering less :)

Everyone knows this isn't true. Why do you think Comcast still has customers?

That can never happen. Heat refers to basically motion. If there is a lot of motion (i.e. energy/heat), then it is obviously hotter. A particle can "not move" only so much, and there can't be conditions in which a particle cannot exist, yet still be in motion.

Einstein already suggested something like this, however he never did any research since the soup wasn't kosher.

4 trillion Celsius refers to the collisions, not the temperature of the collider. At that small scale, it's not exactly "hot". Now if it were 4,000,000,000,273 Kelvin, then THAT would be hot.

Surprised? How long have you been a /. member for? I've been a member for just a year and I already feel emasculated by all the kids who improve upon a technology before they stop wetting their beds.