Of course not. I'm asking why they seem to have intentionally doomed my brilliance to obscurity.

I would say that the Gawker network has way more problems. I regularly drop amazingly witty comments and never see the flood of responses I know they happen to generate. Also, my star is invisible. Please fix your system.

Woo alarm. Somebody page James Randi.

You are saying they shouldn't care, but you haven't sufficiently explained why. We know that empathy is an instinct of our species, despite not being the product of strict logic. As it turns out, there are rewards for altruistic behaviors at the brain level. In other words, charity, kindness, justice, and empathy are…

Beliefs and ideas have tangible consequences and differing necessary approaches. Unless they simply don't care about their fellow man, both theists and atheists must promote their ideas about what solutions will promote the greater cause of increased well-being. I find it harder to understand how people think being…

Extreme Like.

Suddenly I have the urge to get my ass to Mars.

Your post was too long. The article, on the other hand, I see no problem with.

Isn't the Wacom Bamboo tablet pretty inexpensive? I'm not an expert though, and I don't use them. I just haven't been privy to a decent pitch for them.

Scrutiny would be better applied by all participants in the discussion. Even if I tend to agree with the concept that corporations will generally tend toward screwing over the public or getting away with what they can, for people to scream the accusation, they should probably not exaggerate their claims or wilfully…

Yes. I second your XBMC request and add one for Boxee.

Despite my criticism of them, first and foremost I like Apple's products, but a few suggestions here and there. I realize some of them are not specific to OS X, but also iLife. Seeing as how a huge draw to their platform is iLife integration, it seems pertinent to include. Although I'm sure you would argue I'm not…

Use Handbrake. Use the encoding settings that match which devices you want to encode to (AppleTV, etc). Not sure about Blu-ray as it has no native support, but I think MakeMKV works with an external BD drive. Use iTunes or Toast for your audio rips.

HAHAHAHAHAHA. Thanks. I needed a good laugh today.

No love for XBMC (or its various forks)? IMHO, DLNA isn't very exciting. For those with expansive libraries who started before people cared about adhering to strict naming conventions, or have just allowed their libraries to get out of hand, XBMC and its various forks are much more appealing in terms of media…

XBMC Live is my favorite version of XBMC for stability and speed. Unfortunately, this comes at a price as emulators are damn near impossible to setup on the platform. No window managers, sound issues, and the need to manually install controller drivers (wii-remotes are a pain). Forums aren't helpful either. After a…

Sugar, sugar, not sugar, sugar.

This is true for right now. The long-term impacts could actually starve nations dependent on agricultural technology if we influence the market forces in the other direction. Organic pesticides contain the same compounds as synthetic, just in lower concentrations (and thus more is used). Methods without pesticides…

Organic is a hoax anyway. I used to think there was something to it, but there is no evidence to prove it is any safer than foods that are raised or handled properly. It's pseudoscience, quackery, and expensive yuppy crap that will actually end up starving third-world countries by promoting smaller yields over larger…

I'm not sure why everyone sees this as an opportunity to exempt Scientology because it is no less crazy than a lot of other mystical garbage that we subscribe to. Is the point of the article that Scientology is exclusively at fault for being delusional bullshit, or just that it is one example of delusional bullshit?…