Are you sure it doesn't need Freedom-â(TM)?

(To me, that sounds like a free ATM, and that's very uncapitalist!)

Lithium Polymer batter? Now that's a quick energy charge!

Sorry to burst your bubble, but Argentina is in America.

I knew I recognised it! The "Just Read The Instructions" would have been obvious; don't know how I forgot the OCISLY! Jernau (Morat) Gurgeh and Flere Imsaho (if I recall their names correctly, and I think I do) are my favourite pair of reluctant protagonists; so much so that the Player of Games is my favourite scifi novel, I just haven't read it in a couple years.

Who named that ship, Iain M. Banks?!

It's a... brass instrument for communist? I must admit, that's a new euphemism for me!

A viable human would be able to survive independently; an embryo can't. Should it be illegal to remove cancer cells? They're human cells, after all, so killing them would be unethical. If you think that's disingenious, consider that an embryo (and a fetus) fit the description of a parasite to a T.

That is GPs point: they DID well, they aren't DOING well. That is; they excelled at science and math when they were forced to be equal under USSR rule, they aren't nearly as successful now.

Pain in the ass ass? Well, I can see where you're coming from; the PETA is mainly a PITA...

The 100 billion number was from memory from something I read a couple years ago; a quick google found http://www.prb.org/Publication... which estimated 108 billion (I did say approximately!) in 2011. As to everybody dying? Welllll... In the Many Universes interpretation of QT, there are an infinite number of universes, one of which exists solely for your survival. If that holds true, somehow (in that universe) you'll survive past the heat death of the universe; or you'll find a way to avoid it altogether.

Bumhuggery?

Ah, well, yes.... No.

You only have an approximate 92.5% success ratio backing that sentiment. Why? Because there have, throughout human history (and prehistory) lived approximately one hundred billion human beings on Earth; of these, about seven and a half billion still lives. So; so far, on Earth, the fatality rate for human beings is ~92.5%.

I thought you were going to start quoting Whitesnake! Then I realized it would've been "I", not "We"... Disappointed! :-/

Of course they score top in satisfaction; psychological fact: if you're invested (economically or otherwise) in your purchase, you're more likely to be positively inclined towards to it than if you're not. Just being more expensive makes anything get higher ratings.

I read that as "FBI Director James Cagney"...