This is pretty unethical. They aren't proving anything - the results of the experiment had already been shown in the Milgram experiment years ago. They knew what would happen and are using the subject's reactions and pain for entertainment.

As people have mentioned above, the subjects in the Milgram experiment had psychological impacts that probably bothered them for years to come. Why do that to someone for entertainment?

Hahahaha! Classic! Hello Beardy, can't believe you made an appearance on the blog.

Give the dog a pat from me.

I'm not sure exactly what species hemp is but originally it was one and the same as marijuana used for smoking. Now they have bred a plant that is the same but without the THC so you can smoke a dozen pairs of jeans and you won't get stoned. But back in the day you could get stoned if you smoked enough rope - I remember one of the characters in To Kill A Mockingbird smoking string.

And as for comments above from Gorf and CrypticJ - I'm always amazed at the number of people who will just listen to what the authorities tell them and us it to make their own moral decisions - why not grow up, do some reading and make your own mind up? Because evidence tells us there is no real reason for these drugs to be illegal and the fact that they are illegal does nothing to stop people taking them anyway.

I would postulate that, should you add the restaurant bill and average tip charge together then perform some statistical mumbojumbo and compare the total average price of a restaurant meal and staff wages between a typical "below minimum wage" US restaurant and a standard "minimum wage" European, Australian or other restaurant, prices and wages probably work out to be fairly similar.

So why not just give the staff the standard minimum wage, up the food prices a bit to keep the restaurant's profit the same, and avoid all the angst that the whole stupid tipping scenario causes?

Honestly, I just can't understand why doing a service job in a restaurant is paid differently from every other job in the world.

@dutchboy

"You are saying that on an American blog"

Is this really an American blog? Or is the internet international? Seriously, you Americans can be so self-centred sometimes. I'm sure thousands of people from other countries (such as myself) read this blog.

I don't understand all the problems with lethal injection. I mean, junkies do it every day with just 1 chemical (and apparently enjoy it too), not the 2 or 3 that are used for criminals which results in complication and possible mistakes. Why not just give them a massive overdose of an opiate of some kind?

Ban the Japanese.

How dare they open a cafe for atheists only.

Anyone eating at this cafe will burn in everlasting damnation.

I think you guys at neatorama need to devise some way of displaying the time of comments in local time wherever you are in the world.

The last comment was at 7:51pm. Where? Here? There?

I was going to comment but the last one was probably at 7:51pm + 24 hours ago so there's no point.

oops too late

When I go to the dog park, my dog runs around like mad, humps all the other dogs until their owner gets pissed off, eats any available food then refuses to come when it's time to go home.

So I would agree with the "social skills of teenagers" bit.

Ooh you cat owners are so defensive aren't you?

"Well my cat's very smart actually, he comes when I call him."

Wow. Very impressive.

Everyone knows dogs are smarter. Just deal with it.

Who was the fool who decided to fill the thing with a highly flammable gas?

Its a media beatup!

http://www.smh.com.au/national/web-of-lies-uk-press-plays-up-spider-invasion-20090508-axgx.html

And I quote:

"Mr Geiszler laughed off the coverage this morning, telling brisbanetimes.com.au it had been "blown out of all proportion and massively sensationalised."

"There have been no more than 10 sightings of these spiders here," Mr Geiszler said.

"There is definitely not an invasion or a plague or anything like that.

"It is unusual only because they are not seen very often. They are quite shy and don't come into contact with humans very often.""

@Johnny Cat -

I'm trying to work out what these "tax benefit" comments are about. I guess laws must be different between the US and Australia but here in Aus, you can only deduct tax on interest payments if the property is an investment property - ie. a property that you don't live in but rent out to others. The house you bought to live in you can't claim any tax back on.

But I'd love to be able to! Is that really the case in the US? I'm assuming the US is where you are writing from...