Er... What “dark side of the moon”? :)

What a beautiful sight. The F-16 is still my favorite fighter after all these years. Sadly it can’t accelerate vertically, unlike the almost-as-cool F-15.

Yes, I was quite aware of that.

My point was that unless this guy is actually a Native American, it means jack shit what his opinion is.

If some people enjoy choking a dirty brown indian, who is anyone to say they can’t??

Hah, must be fate :).

And Kylo was funny, in the appropriate Star Wars kind of way (storm troopers turning around and walking the other way when they are about to walk in on one of his outbursts). That is so Star Wars in a way the prequels missed completely.

That's an interesting theory, and there is a plausible argument for it, but there's no way they're gonna go that way. They'll keep things simple, and Rey will be the obvious thing (a Skywalker).

Others have touched on this - there is good historical precedent. Germany went from losing WW1, through a devastating financial crisis, to become a force that could almost conquer the planet not many years later.

which is pretty much the foundation of all language

Woosh!

Did you click the “Get Started” button?

Hmmm... This is annoying: if I choose professional developer / mobile, cross platform (or “all”) is not an available option (even though that is a common real world scenario).

Oh, I bet the researchers never thought of that! You’re clearly much smarter than them, so you should contact them to point out the obvious flaw in their study that nobody but you, not even their peers who would have reviewed the paper, noticed!

100’s of thousands of dollars spent on tests they wouldn’t do just to cover their asses or make someone happy

Oh, I’m wrong? Well, personally I’m not interested in reading and basing my beliefs on the opinions of some guy I’ve never heard of, just because he wrote a book. Rather, I’ll base them on actual peer reviewed scientific studies. Now, if you can instead post some reputable studies that support your point, I might be…

So instead of stopping the screening, maybe we could stop doing stupid things afterwards?

It’s a difficult balancing act. Consider this (obviously very simplified) scenario: Say screening detects the early stage cancer X in 5 people. If left untreated, one of those will die of that cancer. If treated, none will die of the cancer but one will die as a consequence of the treatment. Should we treat the cancer?

Kinda like pretending like everyone hates the Star Wars prequels

The number of unnecessary medical tests is driven largely by the threat of litigation. Basically, greedy people and lawyers have made healthcare expensive.