Do you realize ads subsidize and offset a lot of costs for the consumer?
Um, who do you think pays for those ads?
The owner of a chain of furniture stores once told me that the cost of advertising raises the retail cost by ~15%:
Someone has to pay for those SuperBowl ads, glossy mag ads, billboards, etc. ad nauseum.
>>The fact it [human cloning] can be done begins to move us away
>>from some of the mysteries surrounding human beings;
>>things like the existence of a soul, which frankly is pure imagination
>He is making scientific conclusions based on his faith that the soul is not real.
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Um, who do you think pays for those ads?
The owner of a chain of furniture stores once told me that the cost of advertising raises the retail cost by ~15%: Someone has to pay for those SuperBowl ads, glossy mag ads, billboards, etc. ad nauseum.
Stupid, stupid asteroid.
I suppose there's a 1/233 chance we'll all be retiring that day.
I'll be ready by then I'm sure.
>>from some of the mysteries surrounding human beings;
>>things like the existence of a soul, which frankly is pure imagination
>He is making scientific conclusions based on his faith that the soul is not real.
Nonsense.
Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.
There is no evidence of a soul, despite millennia of religious dogma.
>That's just stupid.
No it's not.
If someone claimed to be able to do backflips over the moon, they wouldn't merit much debate, nor much credibility, would they?
The more vicious the racist, the more likely that the "race" they're defending consider them worthless pieces of shit.
Take the parent poster, for example...
EU countries' proclivity to sell any military technology to anybody
Yeah. EU sells anything to anyone, unlike everyone else, right?
Has anyone sold more weapons to more despotic dictators than USA? Anyone?
Oh well, it does tend to be humourous when those weapons get turned back on America.
Nicely completed sentence there, buttfuck.
Nice buttfuck there, coward.
Take that, Jesus.
PS What Would Jesus Watch?
I didn't know grandmothers required electricity.
Time to upgrade your granny - all the newer models run on AC/DC.
first bloody post or what?
okay, not FP.
I don't think too many guys go to clubs with the goal of getting a woman pregnant :-)
Your point may be valid, but I'm afraid it's wasted, since it was posted on slashdot where knowledge of the subject is purely theoretical.
[ducks [and runs] ]
rbokay, I'll shut up now.
Impossible. You have a /. user id - no non-solitary sex for you!
Anyway, how does one pronounce USian? Like Use-ian (think Asian), or You-Ess-Ian?