Stupid me. Turns out they could give away billions of dollars with no consequence to their profitability or financial stability. Thanks for the lesson!! And what's this "google" thing you talk about?

When they start a teaser with one of those green chicks, then we'll call it progress.

Who says his only treatment option was to make him feel ok about torture? If torturing people was the obvious source of his symptoms wouldn't the obvious cure be to tell him to stop torturing people and maybe find a different line of work? How this not be a much better solution than simply walking away?

You just don't understand what money is in the end. It isn't some independently existing phenomenon or object that can literally be possessed or given away (though it definitely seems to work like that on the micro scale of our own financial lives). It simply represents how we value our accumulated (and potential)…

So what do you have to do to get one of these ATVs named after you? I would love to see my namesake arc out of existence high above me some day.

Well done.

Why is it evil? That seems similar to the attitude that views sex as a necessary evil. Both sex and dominance are necessary elements of a functional mammalian society; we might as well go about attempting them in the most rational and fair manner possible rather than dismissing them as immoral or evil. How would you…

Artists are very much interested in their craft, what they often want to avoid is the consequences of success at their craft (fame, hectic lifestyle, expectations, etc.) This is very different from actually disliking the activity itself.

A bold statement. Could you list any other human activity in which those who least desire participation in it are inevitably the most qualified for it?

So.... anarchism?

This was a study about population not power; greater numbers rarely correlate to greater power in society. I'd hazard a guess that the cultures with greater numbers of women which still experienced a rise in violence were still male-dominated cultures motivated by competition rather than insecurity.

What about Chris Hadfield? Dude sang you a song from fucking space... What more do we have to do to win some of your love...?

Everyone in Canada is responsible for the "reprehensible" things we're doing (and have done) to the environment (ever considered the carbon footprint of the this internet thing you're using?). Scapegoating oil companies, logging companies and the current government for our oil based economy is the shallowest and least…

Well then,... hate on...

Clear cutting for lumber has destroyed far more pristine wilderness in Canada (and still does) than the oil sands, but I guess hating on logging companies is out fashion these days.

No "Specter of the Gun"? Definitely one of the most cerebral ST episodes.

It's still a gross over simplification dismiss racism/misogyny as a product of brainwashing by a cynical elite throughout history. Ruling involves sowing accord and harmony as much as it does sowing division and fear depending on the type of ruler and the situation they're in.

That would be one long and successful conspiracy... Racism, or hatred of the "other" has been with us since the beginning of any kind of social organization. Hatred of the other tribe, nation, culture, was so "natural" throughout human history that hardly anyone actually noticed it, or saw it worthy of comment, until…

And then she married him...

If Baghdad falls the world will instantly become a very different place.