We've had that expertise for decades yet not a single American city has this kind of flood prevention system. European cities do, but American cities. Why? Because America's love-affair with capitalism is inherently short-sighted.

There's definitely some domestic conflict there.

While I agree with you, as someone who knows something about genetics and statistics, there are actual scientific reasons to study males in preference to females, especially at the early stages of research. In this study for example, the researchers were at least in part looking at the X-chromosome. As you most likely…

Slight problem with that theory (one of many) is that Australian Aboriginals never learned how to make stone tools. They still wouldn't have a clue. They never advanced past the "invention" of the stick. 40,000 years in Australia and the best they could manage to come up with was a somewhat pointy stick. They're the…

I don't disagree that the corporatization of the corrections system is antithetical to reducing crime, but I'm not sure having a prison system run by competing gangs would produce a better outcome. Rehabilitation should be the goal of any prison system (otherwise it's a pointless half-way house for criminals who come…

You want to reform a mass murderer? Are you actively trying to be retarded?

Are you kidding? He'd be like a god to the Aryan Brotherhood. He'd be running the prison within 24 hours.

Think? You're telling someone else to think? This person murdered 77 people, mostly children. He can NEVER be let out of prison. EVER. Are you as crazy as he is? Norway should do what, give him time off for good behavior and let him out on parole? Because we can be super confident that he won't go on a mass murder…

If the boy, Anzick-1, "belonged to a population that is directly ancestral to the South American tribes" (but not directly ancestral to the North American tribes - because he's less related to them), how are today's Native Americans (I'm presuming this refers to native North Americans) "direct descendants of the…

Okay, so seriously, WTF was going on in Hungary? Were they lacing the water supply with acid to keep the population confused and pliant or what?

Well as I said, I'm not dismissing cost as an issue because it is, I just wanted everyone to be clear that it does not cost $900,000 a year to feed a giraffe. And you're right, it's not a member of an endangered species (though some sub-species of giraffe are endangered, but I'm assuming it isn't a member of one of…

The religion might have but the people didn't just spring out of thin air. I think you'll find even they are prepared to admit that they have been around longer than that. And I wouldn't go around telling Jews that someone else lived in Israel before them. I think you'll find such an opinion to be unpopular.

What? It was found in Israel. Fucking Hell. The Holocaust doesn't mean we have to disregard basic facts. Jesus Christ (or Abraham, as the case may be).

That's for all 6,000 animals. It doesn't cost $900,000 a year to feed one giraffe. And that's 6,000 vertebrates. That's an average of $150 a year each. So even if a giraffe is at the upper end of the scale, it likely costs less than $5,000 a year to feed one. And that's highly unlikely since they're herbivores.

Apparently Jews.

A pay-walled garden actually.

Smart cards today; the metric system tomorrow. We will drag you kicking and screaming into the 20th century whether you like it or not.

And that's exactly why it bombed at the box office.

This looks like the Borg designed it. Oh, it's German. Close enough.

I think I'm most bothered by this statement: