@pandafresh: "Make some effort at something."

@Mikekearn has an overly long username: If you really cared though, you'd ignore all that "economics" stuff, and pressure companies to buy more expensive materials. It's not like there was war and genocide in Africa before those damn Westerners started buying diamonds and video games - so if nobody bought any minerals…

"Quaaaaid! Start the reactor. Free mars..."

@Robert Kotick: "Right now we're selling millions and millions and millions of phones, and Apple is selling zero phone. In six months, they'll have the most expensive phone, by far, ever in the marketplace and ... lets see! What's the expression? Lets see how the competition goes." — Steve Ballmer

@Grahamunculus the Corpse Golem: My assumption is that it's just because they don't have a "Best Six RPGs Rolled Into One" category, or maybe a "Best Anything Anywhere Ever" category.

@Turkeyslam: Nope, it's from the Mount Pinatubo eruption. Thankfully the vulcanologists had given enough warning that all the residents that lived around the volcano were evacuated well before it blew. The volcanologists and journalists that had flown in to take pictures didn't all make it back out again.

@Turkeyslam: Better question: Can you outdrive the pyroclastic flow?

@thesircuddles: Which is why Steam costs so much I guess.

@the real that guy dave: Comparing the government control of private business when they're doing something I like to the government control of private business when they're doing something I don't like isn't fair at all! It makes all the people that agitate for more government and less government simultaneously seem…

@Knurft: Reading the article in the article in the article, it looks like that the Havard people said that the cloud itself was, IN THE PICTURE, 5,000 years old, and the Discovery people wrongly relayed this as the supernova happening "5,000 years ago", not realizing that the picture took, as you stated, something…

@staySICK: ... There's a word for that: Plateaued. Just, you know, as a heads up.

@Bryan: "Mac gamers"?

@Limeade: "hypersexualize and idealize both men and women equally in games"

@wetworker: Madness?

@Gareth Freshwater: It's very easy to ask this question now.

@selderane: _Wow_

@seedypete: Well maybe she can't - but I can!

@Seraphic Star: One of my favorite quotes from Evan Sayet about this particular mindset - "[One of this mindset] looks back on 50,000 years, 100,000 years of human civilization, and knows only one thing for sure: that none of the ideas that mankind has come up with—none of the religions, none of the philos­ophies,…

@ShadowOdin of dubious snowiness: Ooh, they could make an RTS with different playable factions!

@tandyman: