"As black and white as we try to make the matter, we will never give bees the same protection as pandas."

Oh, yeah, you go Galt all over that peon!

Didn't you know, General Patreus fucked that rig in part of a transconceptual three-way with decency.

I'd imagine the differences between the Mayans and Incans and their distance was sufficient that they would only have vague cultural similarities, but there are tribes around today that have maintained some connection to the old empires.

I think it's fair to say that even if the people of the Mayan civilization were not wiped out, the social constructs that made them a historically notable civilization were dissolved by a loss of agricultural excess. This is pretty similar to the fall of the Roman Empire - it's not that Italian peninsula was…

This. It blows my mind when people say the movie was over-the-top or goofy. DID YOU SEE THE SOURCE MATERIAL? Racing in a volcano, or against a quarter-mile long, (spoiler alert) gold-infused supertruck? Straight out of the headlines!

This comment is quite understated, though there is perhaps room for more refinement and simplicity.

Actually, I thought the ad stated they'd secretly been backing up his memories. So he only has to authorize them to use them, not record them.

"Why don't you keep studying it first, then start comparing different species?"

Any sources for this?

Surely they'd tweet a correction!

"Do you not think it is just a case that software is not advancing as fast as hardware?"

The 90s were a rough period because Moore's Law was in effect all over the place, so you'd often see games right after one another that would obsolete a system which mastered another game just a year or so older than it. We're now at a point where the costs and benefits for pushing technical boundaries just isn't so…

Danke!

I wonder how that will interact with light & radio signals sent out from Earth? Would this potentially create paradoxes where you can hear a signal and return before it was sent? Or would the warping essentially prevent any time dilation issues?

Just look at it this way: if you want to succeed with the new commenting system, you can't just sit there in the thread waiting for quality content to be dumped in your lap. You have to go and make the opportunities to find golden posts. Like a Real American Hero.

You're technically supposed to pay a 'use tax' for purchases made out-of-state, but since there's no easy way of enforcing that, it's pretty much been "lol wut taxes" for the average shopper. Increased online sales + revenue issues = time to end that little inflow problem, it seems.

Because the Republican Party is the home of Libertarians and Dominionists. The latter have been mostly indoctrinated to accept a minimalist concept for governmental power economically, while some amount of the former fiscal conservative wing has bought into the authoritarian state model from the Religious Right on…

"...voting for Obama simply because he is black..."

If you're talking about CCG players, it's actually something quite different. Good CCG players tend to have a good head for statistics, and especially with situations where teams end up having members face each other, they will tend to go for what they feel is the more optimal end result rather than play it out.…