Duh! You need to be one of the overseas viewers who don't pay anything at all for the service. Greedy Brit :P

Nothing, because free will isn't really a meaningful concept. It all falls apart when you try to define it.

When definition proves difficult, often a series of examples allows the definition to be communicated indirectly.

I'll start the ball rolling by responding only with the word 'cheese' as a full explanation of your incorrectness.

I guess it's more difficult to profit long-term from rehabilitation.

What kind of business model would it be for those organizations running prisons if they start creating less demand for their services? No, what they need to do it increase demand or at least arrange circumstances such that there's an increasingly slippery slope leading towards uptake of their services.

On behalf of the bacteria, I would object most vehemently at your disparaging comparison.

I think Kefir is going to be preferable to eating dirt since they all live nicely in the human gut. The stuff in dirt ...??

The people who have Crohn's disease and going for the autoimmune treatment have been to Africa to stomp in some piles of shit to contract hookworm. Supposedly that works. I've heard it's possible to mail-order a porcine whipworm from Thailand which is more controlled and less likely to get out of control.

It's all banned here in the US, so they just do lots of bowel resections. That probably pays more too.

Regarding MS specifically, there's a physician in Italy who is claiming ~85% remission of MS after brain veinous intervention. He has some theory about excess iron in the nervous system, but even if that's not right, if the vein blockage is causative there's still something causing that (which could be autoimmune mediated).

Does anyone know if/why Netflix doesn't just have CDN servers located directly on Verizon's network?

Verizon is a 'cable tv' provider through FiOS. They have incentive for Netflix to fail.

Right, but the scientists decision to use a certain set of quasars could be influenced just as much as their decision to set the experiments parameters a certain way could be.

There are hundreds of thousands of CEOs in the US with a median pay less than $200K per BLS.

If you include every single corporation in the United States, including my little mom and pop home business, the average still comes out to more than three quarters of a million dollars.

My guess is that each of those people is worth every penny. Why? Because they're entertainers, and the value of an entertainer is very easy for their employer to figure out.

I thought they were journalists.

If they're entertainers, they are not, by definition, journalists.

We'll find out most likely next time the minimum wage goes up.

No, you won't.

The minimum wage has been raised lots of times and it's never caused higher unemployment.

I've heard of states (or counties or cities) giving breaks to corporations for income, property, or other taxes, but I've never heard of an arrangement where the company is allowed to keep any withholdings from employee's payrolls as you claim... do you have a concrete example you could share?

No problem. Reuters says there are at least 2700 companies with such arrangements.

http://www.csmonitor.com/Comme...

http://thinkprogress.org/econo...

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/...

Yes, but let's not leave out the CEO's of the big Political PAC's, the Union bosses (who essentially bribe politicians to ensure they have huge salaries), the public school system administrators

Before you decide to include that group with CEO's (whose average salary is $6.7 million), why don't you take a guess at how much the most highly paid CEO of a political PAC, union boss or public school administrator makes.

Not the average mind, why don't you guess at how much the most highly paid of those three groups makes?

As a hint, I'll tell you that the top three highest-paid union bosses are heads of unions of professional atheletes. Now hurry and go see how their salary compares to the $6.7 million average that a CEO makes.

And if that doesn't embarrass you enough, why don't you go see how much the highest-paid public school administrator makes?

Connectbot suffers from a lack of landscape mode. There are a few other things that would make it more usable also. It's free though.

If the scientists free will in choosing the settings of the detectors can't be trusted, how can their free will in choosing the quasars that will choose the settings of the detectors be trusted?