This is how a functioning free market with real transparency should work. For everyone gaming the system, someone else will game THAT system. Anyone who invests in stocks should realize, however, that it's a network of government-run casinos, not a good basis for a stable economy. That lesson may or not may be sinking in.

Whoops, disregard this comment, I posted in the wrong thread. VERY MUCH SO.

This is how a functioning free market with real transparency should work. For everyone gaming the system, someone else will game THAT system. Anyone who invests in stocks should realize, however, that it's a network of government-run casinos, not a good basis for a stable economy. That lesson may or not may be sinking in.

As long as government has no power to keep the frontier CLOSED, free enterprise will have as much of a chance as anyone else to OPEN it.

I don't want to associate "icy plumes" with Uranus... or anybody's.

I thought 14 was the age of consent in Spain. Juanita... come in here. I have to ask you something...

Pretty much describes Superman from his first appearance. Not a whole lot of character complexity there to dig out.

When a group of people say, "massively open X will threaten Y freedom!" ... what they are really saying is, "massively open X will actually increase Y freedom, but it will also threaten our pleasantly feathered nests!"

They're just like onions. Layers, layers, layers.

Unfortunately death is also pretty effective at getting rid of people who are just in the vicinity of young assholes (when those young assholes happen to be fond of guns, knives, alcohol, cars, trucks)

Wasn't aware there was any controversy about this. I always thought it was believed to be a meteor or comet. Of course, I underestimated the power of human imagination. I shouldn't be surprised that some people out there thought it was OMG ALIENS or maybe a strange dark matter bomb placed by the Romulans. After all, if there's a needlessly complicated, idiotic rationale for how the Pyramids have straight walls, there must be one for a giant explosion in Siberia.

I have news for you. They already do. Watch anyone try to walk or eat dinner without constantly consulting their smartphone. They have us trained well. Unfortunately, sometimes they train us to walk into walls or off of sidewalks into oncoming traffic, so it might not be a mutually beneficial symbiotic relationship...

KHAAAAAAAAAAAAAN!!!!! Oh, fine, I know we're talking robots, not genetically augmented humans, but I had to scream it.

Stun guns don't kill people, people kill people!

Whale-Fil-A... Steak & Whale... International House of Whale Cakes... Captain Ahab's... Del Ballena Taco... Whale and Panda Express...