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• Mark on The Scale of the Universe 2: That was wonderful but they left out... your Mom.
  
  
• Mudak on Twitter, Weibo Spread Rumors of North Korean Leader Kim Jong-un’s Assassination: I guess this is possible but my instinct says it didn't happen. And I'll stand by that until I'm proven wrong.
  
  
• Mark on Latin American leaders assail U.S. drug ‘market’: Seems like "regulatory options" would be the code for decriminalization but in any case what other option besides decrim would there be? Seems like the market option is working right now to send boatloads of cash to the criminals.
  
  
• mykolas on EXCUSE ME! Congressman “Freedom” How Many Times Did You Vote FOR The Patriot Act?: Oh and to the word Fascist, I add Pig.
  
  
• mykolas on EXCUSE ME! Congressman “Freedom” How Many Times Did You Vote FOR The Patriot Act?: Who took the cork out of this guy's a_hole so he can talk? Perhaps he should bend over and screw one of those black market light bulbs tightly up there. It would do the country, wait world, good.
  
  
• Spaceman Spiff on EXCUSE ME! Congressman “Freedom” How Many Times Did You Vote FOR The Patriot Act?: Fascism in homilies...
  
  
• z-reserve on EXCUSE ME! Congressman “Freedom” How Many Times Did You Vote FOR The Patriot Act?: This must be that Diet Ideology thing : all the rhetorics, none of that pesky thinking. That said, me makes good points about government intervention within our daily lives. And that Obamacare thing was so watered down to please the Republicans either in House and Congress to make much of a change (though i'm sure it makes a change for the people eligible to it), I'm sure it helps them more than the Democrats; it became one of their campaign tools.
  
  
• Roland Hesz on EXCUSE ME! Congressman “Freedom” How Many Times Did You Vote FOR The Patriot Act?: "I'm an idiot and I'm proud of it" - says Rep. Steve King - "I'm doing my best to increase government spending, because I am a conservative." Wait, what?
  
  
• SjG on Time laps footage of LA traffic: I can see my house from here!
  
  
• itspast on Tribler Makes BitTorrent Impossible to Shut Down: Skynet? Is it self aware yet?
  
  
• matt w. on Your Phone Loses Value Pretty Fast (Unless It’s an iPhone): The market is the only reliable (i.e., real) way to determine value. Duh. That's how we can tell how valuable CEO's and hedge fund managers are. And cocaine-way more expensive than flour.
  
  
• Jan-Mark on Time laps footage of LA traffic: LOL
  
  
• Desiato on Geoffrey R. Stone: Is Money Speech?: As I said, I'm completely in favor of encouraging people to be independent and critical thinkers. It'd be great if people, especially kids, learned how they're being manipulated by advertising. BUT that's separate from the fact that I think advertisers have an incentive to continually find new ways to influence people. They'll adapt. A more interesting question to me is whether (& what) regulation is compatible with the First Amendment. There's an expectation in the U.S. that each voter get a roughly equal vote, but not (yet) that each citizen get roughly equal means to speech.
  
  
• Mykolas on The town I was born in isn’t bothered by winter..: @Jan-Mark - wat geen kluning?
  
  
• Mykolas on Geoffrey R. Stone: Is Money Speech?: @Desiato - advertising does work and that is unfortunate. If people were educated more, its affect would be muted. I draw your attention to http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/27/business/media/27adco.html and this US gov site http://www.admongo.gov/ which teach kids how it works and how to defend themselves. To me it should be remedial education to all adults.