Any popular-science article's scientific relevance is inversely proportional to the number of times the word "quantum" appears in said article.

I counted 14, so that makes this article 1/14 = .071, or 7% scientifically relevant (or 93% poetry).

Two things seems ot be missing from a lot of posts around here - emergence and evolution.

"Maybe if it didn't work, life might still exist, but we would all be engaged in a desperate struggle for survival. Every day, most of us would be struggling for food, for water, to avoid freezing or broiling. We would prey on each other, much as other animals actually kill and consume other thinking, emotional creatures merely for the chemicals in their bodies. Many people would be so pained by merely being alive, even without any unmet material needs, that their lives would be a misery to them. "

This did happen - we came from that! But you are putting the cart before the horse. We didn't end up humans and then find ourselves struggling to survive - we became human out of our struggle for survival.

This way of thinking is very apparent in Davies interview and in many posts here. It reminds me of colonialists who wanted to civilize native people's, to "advance" them. Just because you find yourself in a world that meets your needs perfectly does not mean that that world was "meant" for you. It is all very silly and lazy thinking. At it's root, it is childish.

When I read the title of the article, "They don't own the Democratic Party," I thought they were talking about Israel. Then I remembered - Israel owns both parties.

God forbid the average American with an internet connection takes ownership of his or her government. It's not like it's a democracy or anything.

Sorry to inconvenience you, Mr. Biden (er, I mean Rahm Emanuel). Could I have a few tens of thousands of dollars so that I can build a house and throw rocks at Palestinian school children walking across my back alley?

checkmarks illustrated for us a great example of how NOT to run an IT department.

"Needless to say, one time he accidentally deleted a bunch of items and wanted to have them restored. Well, our network people told him no, that they had warned him on the dangers of treating email like a big-ass file cabinet."

Needless to say, that is their job! If the partner or whomever wants to store his emails and/or files a certain way, then IT's function is to support that employee's information needs. This is a complete role reversal. Now, it is true that a consultation with IT and the partners should have been made early on in order to understand the parameters, limits, and valid usages of the information systems at their disposal. But to say "No?" I wonder if the person who said no was fired.

From many articles and opinions I have read over the last several months, I think it is coming to the point where employees need to be trained on email policies and procedures besides just "delete after 30 days." It is a matter of productivity now, not just storage. Indeed, at a place I used to work email was integrated into the business process workflow.

I am a fan of Britney Spears only because of what I have seen the media do to her and what the media has become.

I think she was talented enough to earn her success. Madonna was just as silly and trite in her day as Britney was in a schoolgirl uniform. And, I liked Britney even more on the Vanity Fair cover when she had body fat. I like her now just to spite Sarah Silverman.

Let's talk about Sarah. She is not funny, she is asinine - kids in my 8th grade class were funnier, and more creative; her husband is talentless unless as a sidekick; and what the hell was Jeff Ross doing on camera? What does he have to do with MTV?

Britney made much more of herself in 25 years than Sarah has in 40. And she gave the world much more creative and enjoyable art.

The comedy scene is being over-run by adolescent idiots who think saying "vagina" 15 times in row is the most hilarious thing ever done. And they are making millions doing it.

Hollywood is being overrun by SNL hacks and bitter fags like Perez Hilton and the TMZ guy, whose nose is so far up Paris Hilton's ass it would break if she ever crossed her legs.

I say go, Britney! I dig your curves, and I hope you and your kids can emerge from the cesspool that is Hollywood and the modern music industry.

Oh yeah, we were talking about music, weren't we..

Heard any lately?

I can't believe how many people here equate having lots of money to being immune from suffering. That is astounding.

And, this whole female-body image thing is due to one overwhelming force: gay men. Women are being "told" by the fashion and Hollywood industries to look like prepubescent boys because that is what gay men like, and gay men run Hollywood and the fashion industry.

Duh.