"Every 3rd should walk in darkness."

Haha. Scripture in a nutshell. Idiocy in such poetic language.

^Modern politics in a nutshell.

Sadly, this is pretty much what Bill Maher's show has become. I used to be a fan, but it's pointless to watch it now. He's fallen off the deep end. While not super funny, this skit basically captures every one of his shows the last few years in a nutshell: He calls everyone in the US stupid, and the audience applauds. They go into a discussion on the same topics (week after week), and the same guests (they're actually different people, but they're the same), agree with everything he says and/or make canned 'talking points' that you can tell they are regurgitating.

Quite sad, I used to enjoy this show.

Holy cow this is me in a nutshell! Im at the shares to much information with the grocer stage. Or random sift stage.

Hi @rembar,

I'm always happy to discuss things with fellow advocates of science. First of all, thanks for administrating the Science channel.

The video doesn't appear to claim Muslims produce only 1% of scientific papers, but instead claims the "Islamic World" produces only 1% of scientific papers. Indeed, the author of the original article is a Muslim living in Britain who is arguing for greater scientific funding in the Islamic World and that "A cultural renaissance leading to a knowledge-based society is urgently required if the Muslim world is to accept and embrace [the scientific spirit.]" He's referring to Islamic societies, not Muslims like himself living outside of Islamic societies.

I think you're right that there's a terminology error in the video description submitted by @BicycleRepairMan , in which "Muslims" should be replaced with "[the Islamic World]." In a nutshell, the video gets it right, but the video description gets it wrong.

Thanks for bringing attention to that important distinction.

No. You can prove they pissed in your water. That's ample. If someone is dumping pollutants into that water, you could also prove that and seek damages. Same with pollutants in the air. You always have to mitigate damages. Let's be reasonable, please.

Then why can't I say "all carbon emissions beyond a certain amount cause damage", and then set up a system of permits for emissions that are sold at auction (and tradeable thereafter), and then charge people who emit more carbon than they have permits for with theft (or vandalism or reckless endangerment, etc.)?

That's cap & trade in a nutshell.

Speculation. A cost-effective way to discredit environmental movements is to pick on Gore? And, is it just insidious right-wing political groups? Maybe draw a dastardly twisty mustache on these shadowy groups while you're at it. The founder of the weather channel is evil! Kill him with fire!

Dude, you're the one who brought up Al Gore's legal situation into a conversation about the environment. Clearly you thought that was germane somehow. I don't, but it's a totally standard political tactic to engage in ad hominem attacks like that.

It's such a well-worn tactic that it's become running gag on left-wing blogs to title any link to a news story about the effects of global warming "Al Gore is Fat."

Oh, and before I forget, here's another lawsuit I would expect a libertarian to endorse: the Pakistani people filing a class-action lawsuit against every major energy company for the damages caused by their recent flooding.

Another: Russia does a class-action lawsuit against every major energy company for the damages caused by their outbreak of wildfires.

A final thought, all the wildlife killed by the BP oil spill, who's got standing to sue for damages for them? For that matter, what's the settlement value for a Brown Pelican or a sea turtle? What if some species was made extinct by it?

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>> ^gwiz665:

You're all retards!
There, that's mink in a nutshell. I don't miss that.

Nobody knew me like he did...

You're all retards!

There, that's mink in a nutshell. I don't miss that.

"...banks have clients betting on one side or another of just about every possible transaction."

And that's the problem with Wall Street and our entire system in a nutshell.

People are "betting" with their money.

They are not "investing" it into anything tangible or long-term.

It makes no difference which one of us you vote for, either way, your planet is DOOOOMED!

American politics in a nutshell!

If I could up vote 10 times I would, In a nutshell....FUCK YEAH baby

*Quadrupleupvotepromote Genji's comment-

I'm sure people like WP and QM don't even know what a Pashtun is. They just want to put on their big "USA #1" foam finger and advocate for the mass slaughter of hundreds of thousands of innocent civilians, while they pontificate anonymously on an interwebs forum.

There's your pseudo academic patriotism right there in a nutshell.

Portal in a Nutshell. (MAJOR SPOILERS - you'd be better off just playing the thing yourself - it's a perfect game IMO)

Created by Valve, makers of Half-Life, Left 4 Dead and Team Fortress, Portal is at it's heart an ingeneous puzzle game that focuses around a Portal gun. This gun is basically a wormhole gun that allows you to project entry/exit points onto walls, ceilings and floors which you can then travel through. The physics in the game are perfect and momentum figures into the puzzles in a very satisfying way. The increasingly more challenging levels are all based around getting from the beginning of the level to the end, and some of the later ones take some real brain power to figure out.

Beyond this, they've crafted a fairly brilliant story, narrated by the only speaking character in the game, GLaDOS, who is the insane computer in charge of the research facility that you are trapped in. The dialog is very witty and the rapidly decreasing mental state of GLaDOS's AI, and adds a lot of tension to the game. You slowly realize that there are major problems with this facility, and things unfold in an interesting way.

At one point, you are tasked with caring for a 'companion cube'. Later you are asked to 'kill' the cube by dropping it into an incinerator. Later in the game GLaDOS reprimands you for doing this.

As a reward for completing all of the research challenges, you are promised a tasty slice of cake. As inevitably escape research maze, you find notes from others who have presumably escaped too. You find things on the wall that say 'The Cake Is A Lie'.

Great boss battle at the end, and just when you think the fun is over, GLaDOS herself sings this amazing hilarious song by Johnathan Coultan.

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Am I the last gamer on Earth to not know what the deal is with this game? The limit of my knowledge involves overplayed jokes about some cake or something.

>> ^spawnflagger:

If the iPad was made in USA, it would probably cost $2000+ (and that would be from a highly automated robotic assembly line).


That's the problem in a nutshell. We value everyday low prices over human rights. We didn't really abolish slavery, we just exported it. We are sick.

>> ^campionidelmondo:

>> ^dystopianfuturetoday:
What's to keep this from becoming the status quo if it isn't already? This, in a nutshell, is why I fear the Ron Paul Love-o-lution. Foxconn could not happen today in America because of regulations, but with each little bit of accountability that republicans, libertarians and democrats strip away, the closer we get.

You vote with your wallet, that's how. If you don't like the Foxconn way of business stop buying their products. It's more powerful and effective than any politician will ever be.


In a world where the most abusive corporations are the most successful, where wage slavery, layoffs and outsourcing equal Wall Street success, where Wal*Mart is the President of our consumerist democracy, the concept of "voting with you wallet" is impotent to the point of meaningless.

Foxconn makes products for both Apple and Microsoft, so people who want to vote against Foxconn with their wallets don't get to use computers or the internet. No food from big agra either, or drugs from big pharma, so dissenting members of a consumerist democracy don't get the luxury of produce or medicine.

Consumerism is not an effective form of democracy. "Voting with your wallet" is the kind of pseudo-populist nonsense that corporate think tanks come up with to manipulate gullible people. I'm surprised how successful they are in getting regular folks to regurgitate their propaganda, but I guess that's why they get the big bucks. A world champion has no business regurgitating this kind of propaganda.