Europe isn't a nation o_0 and I would prefer to live in Asia, South America, Canada or Australia over the US too.. so I don't think I'm particularly "continentalist". I just think that Switzerland and Scandinavia do a lot of things very right.

That doesn't make sense, since shit is by definition what your body is not using (or has finished using). Of course shit is used as fertiliser, so likely some of your body used to be shit at some point :p

(there is a lot to be said for a good bassy rumble though :D )

I don't think price is necessarily anything to go by when it comes to headset quality, and I can't recommend any as I've not bought any for years sorry. Just check plenty of Amazon reviews and you should get a good idea of build quality, etc

How much more scientific are you expecting to get than papers describing the results of scientific studies? o_0

I'm not "nationalist", I think it's weird to be proud of somewhere simply because you live there. And I think a lot of countries in Europe are politically better than my own. You're assuming quite a lot there.

Yes of course, if she's been eating it. She literally will have some parts of her body that are made from your semen. I don't see what's so confusing that you have to ask about it.

Maybe for the first one, but if you read even a little into how your diet affects the body then you should know that sugar is inflammatory.. but here you go

Effect of various carbohydrates on immune system. This shows that ingesting sugar weakens your immune system, and that fasting actually boosts it (which may be a reason that we sometimes lose our appetite when we're sick).

Sugar and inflammation. Though if you wanted, you could just try it yourself. Increasing your sugar intake also causes your body to retain more water and salt.

Does most of the food that you have also contain artificial preservatives? I doubt it. I have to avoid sulphites. They're found in pretty much all wine, some beers (anything German is usually fine thanks to the Reinheitsgebot), cider, dried fruits, glucose syrup, any processed corn ingredient (maize starch, corn flour, HFCS, etc), and more..

I hope you're not including things like health care in what a "nanny state" provides. There are quite a few countries that have good national healthcare, without necessarily having the other problems that they US has. From what I know of everyday life in the US from friends and Slashdot posters, I'm very happy to live in Europe. The weird thing is that even those getting fucked over by the US government are sometimes still so proud and patriotic, and so against anything that may be perceived as being too "communist".

There are other obvious differences too though, like diet. You literally are what you eat. High sugar intake weakens your immune system, and is inflammatory. Artificial preservatives kill bacteria in your gut, furthering the lack of "good bacteria" that we hear about. Reading about this over-use of anti-biotics in livestock is making me seriously consider becoming a vegetarian :/ I hope it doesn't end up in milk and cheese.. though it probably does..

Yep, you have elections to essentially vote for one of two parties, or another party with equally power hungry ass-hats who don't really care much about improving the country as a whole.

The whole point is that your current system (and that in other countries, sure, but it's currently most apparent in the US) is a broken mess.

I don't want lower taxes. I did when I didn't make much money, but I think tax is a Good Thing. Once I started making around 25000GBP a year, I didn't worry about money any more, because I have enough to cover the basics, plus some on the side for toys/savings. Now that I'm making even more, I'm actually happy for some of my earnings to be taxed at 40%.

"Lower taxes" sounds nice in theory, but overall it only fucks over the poor even more. "Lower taxes for low income groups" sounds good, but just saying "lower taxes"? Not so much.

I'd think it would be more like teaching it collision avoidance, and to be especially careful with certain classes of objects. Programming a car to follow a road is relatively simple. Programming it to avoid crashing into other road users and pedestrians is more complicated.

That's what headphones are for. Seriously, even if noise wasn't an issue, I used to notice that headphones actually made me a better player in online games, because I could more accurately judge where an enemy was just from the sound alone. So, unless you've got a perfectly positioned surround sound setup hooked up to the PC, headphones are probably best for everyone.

Mozilla are giving the choice, they just are trying to decide on a sane default. Aside from the advertising issue, blocking third party cookies could break behaviour that the user is expecting. I haven't really looked into it, but maybe things like sites which use your Facebook account for authentication for example? I get that a lot of Slashdotters aren't interested in that type of facility, but your average internet user doesn't want their browser screwing around with what they can do online, no matter the reasoning behind it.