Aspartame—the artificial sweetener found in drinks like Diet Coke—is not good for you.

Counterpoint:
Aspartame is fine for you as long as you don’t consume an implausibly high quantity of it. Lots more on this here:

1) Aspartame has never been conclusively shown to have any negative health effects. To suggest otherwise is not only irresponsible journalism, but shoddy science.

You are so wrong that if someone started a Kickstarter for a method of turning wrong into renewable energy, I’d back it on the strength of your comments alone. I would pledge into “dinner with someone” tier, because it would be a sure bet that solves the world’s energy crises forever.

Federal scientist here. The raw data we collect has to go through a time-consuming check/approval process before it’s fit for public consumption because people rely on that data for recreation/agriculture/infrastructure/construction. Our data is also collected and transmitted via telemetry, which like NASA’s, isn’t…

Science is so freaking cool. I wonder how the March On Monsanto idiots will feel when their only options are GMOs or starvation?

It’s actually a great ploy by publishers. They have been windowing paper books like mad the last few years. When you can buy a paperback for less than the e-book, despite the latter being a lot cheaper to make and dispatch, you know they are inflating the paper market.

I couldn’t read through all 700-some replies, but I didn’t see Anne McCaffrey’s Dragonriders of Pern series. Instrumental in my formative years, and still a fantastic read after all this time. From the Weyrs, to the Holds, to Harper Hall (Master Robinton is by far the most interesting and layered patriarchal character…

I agree except theaters don’t hike prices for kicks, they do it because movie companies take so much of the gross that it requires theatres to sell high priced crappy popcorn to make any money.

Kim Dotcom articulated the issue many years ago: consumers want new product released across all platforms on the same day and will decide for themselves how they wish to consume it (in theaters, at home, through game device, laptop, pad, etc.).

GIMP is a PhotoShop alternative in the same way that you with an ice cream scoop is an alternative to having the surgeon remove your appendix. You might get the same result but one is going to be a damn site more painful...