Multiplication also has a geometric definition.

Your dad's hard physical labor probably had the opposite effect on his youthful appearance than you think it had. He probably stayed looking young not despite, but because of the labor. I (and other people that I have spoken to) find that people who do physical labor for a living stay looking younger than people that do "desk" work. After all, exercise is generally considered the closest thing to a fountain of youth that we have yet found.

Numbers don't lie and neither do statistics. A more accurate appraisal would be "You can make ignorant and naive people believe anything."

Competency exams exclude that particular loophole.

It's not that, it's just the cable industry is so inefficient and in bed with government institutions that it has no incentive to innovate quite simply. If the market were to "free up" a bit, we might see some competition pushing for quality.

The US Government has its own web standards. That juvenile crap would never make it through the review process. Developers can't just post anything they damn well please on government web pages. There are very strict presentation standards. Wait and see...the site will either improve quickly or be yanked altogether. I Guarantee.

[...]good genes will take you only so far. Many people are given similar abilities but, like any walk of life, success is achieved by those who work at it. These people devote their lives to training their bodies - using the word freaks dismisses their huge perseverance and mental strength.

I see this line of reasoning eventually devolving into determinism vs. free will. Let's just agree that it takes both an excellent body and an excellent disposition to become a top athlete.

It will suck, obviously. After all, it's a lolly.. :-)

Sorry, fresh out of godzillas.

Over here, having the gun in your hand is warning enough, and shooting in the air is a misdemeanor, I think. You're only supposed to shoot the target.

All your examples are proportional: all it means is that you don't shoot someone unless you are in imminent danger of life/serious injury.

With a gun or knife. Tae Kwon Do is a sport.

It's not a theory, it's a doctrine.

Really, the BSA has never been more than a minor annoyance in the background. Noisy and irritating, but hardly threatening for most people.

The RIAA (and MPAA) are proving that they're willing to punish people for ten times their annual livelihood, even when not guilty. That is enough to make them a danger to everyone, and thus much more reviled.

Of course, on the flip side I'd point out the endless Sims add-on packs which choke the top positions of the PC gaming sales charts, despite the fact that there are large communities modding clothing, furniture etc for the game.

I'm quoting WP but it would be easy to find other sources -- I studied that in highschool, so it's not exactly rocket science:

Monetarism today is mainly associated with the work of Milton Friedman, who was among the generation of economists to accept Keynesian economics and then criticize it on his own terms. Friedman and Anna Schwartz wrote an influential book, Monetary History of the United States 1867-1960, and argued that "inflation is always and everywhere a monetary phenomenon." Friedman advocated a central bank policy aimed at keeping the supply and demand for money at equilibrium, as measured by growth in productivity and demand. The monetarist argument that the demand for money is a stable function gained considerable support during the late 1960s and 1970s from the work of David Laidler. The former head of the United States Federal Reserve, Alan Greenspan, is generally regarded as monetarist in his policy orientation. The European Central Bank officially bases its monetary policy on money supply targets.

Critics of monetarism include both neo-Keynesians who argue that demand for money is intrinsic to supply, and some conservative economists who argue that demand for money cannot be predicted. Joseph Stiglitz has argued that the relationship between inflation and money supply growth is weak when inflation is low.

You're saying Milton Friedman is a keynesianist. That's just fucking retarded. Or you're trolling, but since people have upvoted you, I have to assume some people are misguided enough to believe this ridiculous bullshit.

Uhm, in non-trivial slice of your examples that would be not C, but Ada.

Its 2010

Is that you, John Titor?