Lego don't even need to short the classic sets. If people are willing to pay these extreme prices for the sets it means that they are in demand. It makes sense for a company to produce and sell products which are in demand.

+1 whoosh?

He didn't add "you dead" to the statement, he only added "dead".

If Google have so offended you by putting them a manuscript on the internet, you should email them. I'm sure they will be happy to refund you the money you spent on it and reimburse you for the time you spent helping them do it. As lucm mentioned: what have you done to bring the Da Vinci manuscripts to the world?

Whether you believe in the sky-wizard or not, lots of people do and understanding exactly what they believe and why they believe it is the first step toward helping them.

I thought your comment started out with people writing on especially expensive meat (given the comment you were replying to it made sense.)

As I read your comment anyway I may as well reply. A good example is the pork/shellfish restrictions in the bible. It was very important for the people back then to not eat these as they quickly go bad in the desert and will make you very sick. These days we have refrigeration readily available so it's not so much of a concern. We should be preserving this knowledge and applying it to the way we choose to live our lives, but we should be doing that in the context of all the knowledge we've gained in the intervening millennia.

Compared to the libertarian paradise of Somalia?

You must be associating with some very maladjusted people. Most cultures I have encountered treat other cultures methods of dealing with their grief with respect.

They used a taser, so they didn't care about injuring her. Also, the lady was only 80 pounds and I've subdued a 9 year old without injury who was getting close to that weight.

While I agree that we really don't want to descend into all out anarchy we can't fight the power through the courts and the media unless other people are willing to fight them physically to give us things to show.

Using a taser is at least equivalent to smacking someone in the face with a batton. If the policeman had thrown the lady over his shoulder and carried her out we'd all be laughing about it now, but he decided to be a dick and electrocute her, which has lead us to this discussion.

I still don't understand why a bottle of milk is a half gallon, while a bottle of soda is 2L. Or why the engine in my car is 3.0L but the gas tank is 14 gallons.

Maybe that's the reason we use 000 in Australia.

Because now we live in a totalitarian regime, where the "authorities" must be obeyed?

Giving tasers to the police was supposed to be a way for them to protect themselves from violent people without using guns. If this old lady was really threatening them then they need to be kicked off the force for being too unfit to serve as a police officer.

Exactly, if I type "Taj Mahal Restaurant" I'm not particularly interested in a blogger telling me that he saw Taj Mahal last night at a restaurant.

Sometimes I feel that i need to make my search terms too specific but when I really want to find specific information I like the new way a whole lot more.

Actually it is correct, he has indeed been charged with rape. If he had said that Assange had committed rape that would be incorrect and libelous, but it's not a requirement to be charged.