Not to be too snarky, but can I pick C) non of the above and just use cell phones to make phone calls, not as a half-assed computer? I have a lovely little netbook for that.

You are correct in that it is more or less equally silly.

I think you have a fundamental misunderstanding of the goals of the scientific process. Unfortunately you are not alone, since this sort of comments pops up in every science thread on this site.

I love you.

People forget that Adam Smith's 'free markets' were markets that had freedom of entry and exit, not markets free of regulation. Your example is a good one because it shows how gov't participation takes an area that, because of the infrastructure required, is a difficult market to enter for a new player and transforms it into a 'free market', where new participants can enter with little cost.

And then we will read more. Please, take your ball and go home.

That would be the same guy. Lazarus Long: a character I was never sure why we were supposed to care about.

Stalin was No True Scotsman!

Well shit, I guess that I and my brother, sons of a homosexual man and a straight woman, can't possibly exist, and thus won't be able to produce children and grandchildren to look back on you with contempt.

Did you read the linked paper?

But it will be in the Pirate Bay edition.

And yet, when I was a legal resident of Japan with a valid work visa and entry permit (obtained for $50 several weeks before leaving) I was fingerprinted every time I reentered. But we never hear of people railing against the injustice of Japan's policies? Dow we simply hold them to a lower standard or does nobody go there? Or is it just more fun to yell at the US?

Really we never took pride in being a melting pot at the time immigration was happening. WE look back with pride on our own ancestors while complaining about the hordes of dirty foreigners who are ruining the country now, and we more or less always have. I am always struck by how unchanging nativist sentiment in this country is. In the 1840s and 50s it was the No Nothing party complaining about the Germans and Irish flooding the country, then it was the Italians and other undesirable Southern Europeans and Catholics, then it was the Eastern Europeans and most especially the Jews. Xenophobia has always been a fixture of this country's political discourse, only mellowed by the passage of time and the death of racists.

I would say it is somewhat unsurprising that a chiropractic adjustment helped with head and neck pain. The point where you should start to get a bit more skeptical is where they start telling you an adjustment can fix you stomach trouble, your insomnia, your depression, your cancer, your alcoholism etc.

In Ireland they like to give directions that include things that aren't there anymore: 'Well you gown the road and turn left at the old church...that is to say the church isn't there anymore, but turn where it used to be.' My wife didn't believe me till someone gave directions on out honeymoon to 'go past the pink house. Now you can't see the house from the road but...'