Actually, the man who created the polio vaccine did not patent it, which is why it was so cheap and why so many people that should've died remained alive. He understood his duty as a scientist was to help mankind and refused to profit on his drug. The result? The end of polio. Perhaps more people could learn from him.

You aren't very good at reading comprehension, are you? I mean, your gift for invention is amazing, and your ability to take an obvious statement and draw completely unrelated conclusions is top notch.

#shrug Presumably, costs will go down over time. I'm a bit of a leftie on most issues, but I find it hard to get upset about the cost in itself — rather, I think that 1) there should be ongoing research to find ways to get that cost down, and this research should be encouraged — amongst other parties — by the…

No. You're using a false analogy and complicating the concept. Being asleep and being awake are simply different states of the same subject. An old subject and its clone are not different states of the same subject, they are two separate subjects. It does not matter if the two contain the same information, i.e.…

It's just a variation of the Theseus's ship paradox. And my response to it is the same: neither you nor the ship actually exist. The identity of an object is a constructed thing, Theseus's ship is a ship because we say it's a ship- to the laws of physics, it's just another pile of matter. The same is true of your…

This does not contradict the argument here... The question is, when you disassemble a person and convert them to energy, are you killing them? Many would argue that just because you use that energy to create new particles and assemble them into a new person at the other end of the transporter beam, doesn't mean that…

Most of these webcomics rely on observational humor to convey their jokes. The strength of observational humor is that it resonates particularly well with audience members who have had similar experiences and share a similar philosophical outlook with the author or comedian in question.

Not this shit again.

"I only game for how shiny the graphics are, after all. To hell with the "game" part. I just want to stare at pixels and analyze them and maybe start tugging it a lil' bit."

I learned fairly recently that giraffes have really brutal battles for dominance, where they swing their necks like clubs at each other:

I totally agree. After reading about this game for months and all of the hype surrounding it, I couldn't contain my surprise and disappointment when there was no single-player mode.

You're acting way more dramatic than this guy is.

No wonder they'll be free, people just paid 60$ for a game that has nothing but different types of multiplayer deathmatches.

seeing as how we paid for a full game and got half of one, i think it's pretty much included in the price.

Why are you reporting this as if we're surprised it's free? Are things that bad that it needs to be said?

Random Space Jesus didn't say, "because fuck you."

At least there wasn't a random Godchild who basically goes 'because fuck you' ala Mass Effect 3. That bastard AI could control an entire armada of reapers but apparently couldn't activate a switch, tell the reapers to stop killing, or overload a transmitter by itself without requiring you to kill yourself in the…

Are they also supposed to forgive the men above those abusive priests who shielded them from the law?

This has been going on for decades. They've had plenty of time to investigate this and they decided to cover it up instead. It's not unreasonable to want change right this minute. They've had so much time that most of the child victims are now middle aged. No more excuses.

Inverted Y makes perfect sense for anybody who's ever held a video camera or operated one on a tripod.