If you aren't trying to create a new word, it's TANSTAAFL. There Ain't No Such Thing As A Free Lunch. See: http://www.jargon.net/jargonfile/t/TANSTAAFL.html

I suppose so, if they actually think you are like them. Osama bin Laden doesn't think you are like him, and isn't going to respond to nice treatment. He want's you to bow to Mecca, and doesn't plan on stopping until you do. Or is bowing to Osama's will part of 'being fair and decent'?

Envy is a simple emotion. You want what the other guy has. Handling it so it doesn't cause trouble is not simple, and I didn't say it was.

You really must have a strange reading of history to believe that dropping your weapons and turning your back on Genghis Khan would have saved your life. You can mean no harm to a thief or rapist and even prove it to a thief or rapist, but that certainly won't stop them from their predilections, it just makes it easier.

There's a whole world of options between pacifist (means them no harm) and murderous psychopath (will kill them if you get a chance). You've totally left out any options for self-defense which seems insane.

And yet, that would do nothing for the folks who want us dead or enslaved because we don't kneel in the right direction when we pray. Envy is only one of the evil impulses out there, and even that simple problem isn't as easily appeased as you think it is.

Nonsense. Quite a few election officials, like the one that 'found' a box of ballots in his trunk in the Franken/Coleman election, can get all the private time he or she needs with the machine, though it may be more difficult in your particular precinct.

Or you have the election recount panel (in MN again) that had an initial count of 1100 ballots but found only 1000 paper ballots in the boxes. They decided to keep the initial count, even though the mostly likely scenario was that somebody double fed a batch of ballots through the scanner. Like the guy said, "It's not who votes that counts but who counts the votes."

No, it's the MS Research dept that could be said to be getting something for free. They are getting money and not producing anything of worth.

The shareholders paid for their shares. And before the money is given to the Research dept, it belongs to the shareholders. If Bill Gates can't do something with that money to make more money, then he should be returning it to the shareholders so they can use it. Whether the shareholders use that money to invent a cancer cure, or go to Cancun is none of your business.