GP has a point. Most large organisms reproduce sexually for this very reason. The few that don't are relics living on isolated islands. Asexual reproduction makes organisms extremely vulnerable to pathogens, so most of them have already gone extinct. Many species can choose whether to reproduce sexually or asexually; they almost always choose sex when available because it gives so many advantages to their offspring.

How his post was flamebait I have yet to figure out.

/rant on
A lot of libertarian types' arguments aren't worth listening to. They are mostly half-educated hacks whose entire philosophy is based on one value, "freedom", don't realize that most people have many competing values, and can't appreciate nuance just like most extremists.
/rant off

Hubble's discoveries have had a major impact on the way I view the universe. Its old images are still my screen-saver, I can't wait to update them. If any NASA/astronomer types are reading this, I want to give you a huge heart-felt THANK YOU.

If the rates were that low this website would long ago have become nothing but ads. It must be hard to know where to draw the line for them, but I agree it seems like Blizz has gotten a lot of (unnecessary?) exposure lately. I like most Blizzard games, so I don't really mind.

This website made an editorial decision to cover news (though Soulskill's taste is often terrible) about games. Blizzard games are very popular, so I'm not surprised they get a lot of attention.

Which is why I'm waiting in vain for a stand-alone WoW battlefield/arena game. No matter how well scripted the battles, fighting against AI is really boring after you beat the boss the first time.

I RTFA and tried to figure out how they are 100% certain the glycine is from space. Apparently it's because of the isotope ratios of C12 and C13, with more C13 being present in space. My question is, how much glycine did they collect? The link to the analytics on NASA's website keeps timing out.

Dude just take his advice and STFU. My mom was fat my whole life growing up, she tried a million diets through the years then five years ago she went on the south beach diet and has remained skinny since... Her greatest regret in life is not knowing about the diet earlier. Stop whining about long term statistics for weight loss and look instead at the long term effects of being fat.

Sorry about your wife's allergies, why don't you try eating spicy food on weekdays and making out on the weekends? If I had to choose between a woman and spice, well, there's just no contest. But again, look on the bright side, it's really easy to accidentally kill her off if you get sick of her.

So it's clear that you're not only fat but also retarded. Maybe you're just confused about a simple fact:
muscle != fat.
Muscle burns energy while at rest and active, fat stores the energy. Weight training bulks up your muscle, not your fat, and the larger your muscle mass, the less you need to exercise to shed fat. Here's a tip: your largest muscles are in your legs and ass, so buy an exercise bike and work on making them bigger. Hope that clears things up for you.

How much wood would a wood-chuck chuck if a wood-chuck could chuck wood?

Most species on the planet would be better off if humans ruined their own civilizations; it's the asteroids and supernovas they're really afraid of.

Do you work for Twitter or something? Are they paying you to post this? Twitter hasn't killed anything except time wasted talking about it. Talking about twitter in a story about news strikes me as odd, given that all I can communicate via Twitter is a headline. I like reading stories, not tweets.

But there should be a "-1, Stupid" option.

The question you posed in the subject line was answered by the content of your post. Is there a way to mod 'null'?

But apparently they paid for the data. Some peddler was trying to sell it to major news organizations and they're the ones who decided to buy it after several refused. You skipped that part, otherwise nice post.

You're the one who will be sorry when your children develop their own unbiased opinions in a few years, and lose respect for you based on yours. My dad is a huge Rush Limbaugh/O'Reilly fan who I can't even talk to anymore about the real world or politics anymore. I'm not gay, but I feel my understanding of human sexuality is so much more advanced than his that it would be a waste of time to bring up anything remotely related to the topic. By the time he gave me the 'sex talk' I had already lost my virginity and read many books on the topic, so I was already years ahead of whatever pitiful information he shared in his 'chat'. Sounds like your children are headed down the same path.

No, what you are describing is called obsolescence. Wikipedia says:

What libertarians don't realize is that almost nothing is perfectly competitive, everything has externalities, and almost all goods are 'public' to some extent.

The value of news is very difficult to measure and price, so a market failure here is no surprise.