Yeah, I knew someone that had 3 daughters. He worked multiple jobs at a time all with the plan that he would live after he retired. Heck, he was up front with his wife that if she didn't want to enjoy retirement, that he would write from whatever scenic place he was at. He was a good person, but planned to enjoy tomorrow rather than today. He never took off sick because he planned on using his sick pay to help fund his retirement. He died at the age of 48 from colon cancer. His wife died at 49 from the same.

I'm from Houston and our Harris County Forensics Lab was infamous in the 90s for rigging DNA to fit the case. So call me skeptical of any dna being kept in a database. Garbage in and get garbage out. Also with the concept of chimera’s I question the use of DNA to exonerate anyone (from a crime or being a father.) If your arms can have different DNA, it all comes down to which arm the lab tech takes a sample.

I always thought it was interesting that when it comes to the economy at the federal level we help the largest electorate first and then sprinkle out economic help just enough to get buy in from other representatives.

There's no progressive economic incentives such as having large military bases or other major federal buildings (such as NASA) located in economically challenged regions.

When it comes time to vote on keeping the current budget, they want the states with the most reps to have a vested interest in keeping the status quo or increasing it. It doesn't matter if we'd save money elsewhere. It doesn't matter if it would do more economic benefit to have federal offices located somewhere else. All that matters is keeping the votes you have and possibly expanding it. Want to guess why NASA hasn't been hurt worse over the years? or why it has been a slow painful cutting? It has offices in most of the states.

So if you are from one of the major states, such as California, Texas, or New York, how likely are you to want to cause economic trouble for your state?

which makes me wish the Supreme Court hadn't also given companies the same rights as individual citizens. It is like they can have it both ways. At the heart a company is an idea and you can't throw an idea in jail. You can penalize it and put CEOs or more likely peons in jail, but you can't just close it down for yelling fire in a crowded theater.

Ruin enough people's lives and you will have lots of the wrong sort of people mad at you. This is how real revolutions begin.

Depends on how slowly it happens. If it happens slowly enough the next generation just assumes this is the way it is. The drug war has ruined tons of people's lives and we have neither won the war nor declared it legal.

one reason for a serial killer? ok...war. Personally during a war, I'd rather have the Dexter style serial killer on my side.

Many of these bad traits were useful to us during our evolution and are very valid on that basis alone.

normal cats are very social. When wild, female cats form large social groups.

The worst part of this poll currently is 24% of slashdot has not experience any trouble with police. I'm sure some have at least heard of their friends troubles, but I suspect many of that 24% have no understanding.

I've run into a few people at work that think there should be one penalty for crimes and that is death with no chance of appeal. When I question them about that choice, it always turns out they have never had the misfortune of appearing to be on the wrong side of the law. I then ask them about innocent people convicted and they act like that never happens, see Thin Blue Line Documentary. Then I ask them if they want 99% of the population killed because the FBI believes that 99% have committed a crime worthy of some jail time.

"The secret of a great success for which you are at a loss to account is a crime that has never been found out, because it was properly executed." by -Honore de Balzac

which is normally paraphrased as 'Behind every great fortune there is a crime'.

Thus the only way an honest man can get into congress is if a corrupt man helps him get there.

Which leads into this quote "Now and then an innocent man is sent to the legislature." by Kin Hubbard (1868-1930)

ah, so you too watched the documentary Deadgirl

Actually if we didn't have the word race, we'd just have France's problem of trying to prove racial bias without using the word.

Removing words will not solve the problem. It just makes it harder to talk about it.

One of my favorite episodes of "It takes a thief" involved breaking into a frat house. Jon was casing the place and just decided to do the robbery right then. After getting the frat boys to sign up for the show and setting up the cameras, they led the 'officers' into a van to talk about the show that they were supposedly going to start filming tomorrow. Mean while Jon started. Jon had one accomplice, a girl, to distract the guys downstairs while he walked around inside. Every time someone spotted him he faked like he was talking on a cell phone. No one stopped him or questioned his right to be there. He broke into room after room and robbed everything.

yes, but who is John Galt?

correct and it exposes the lie that if ones own religion dominated the world, everything would be peaceful. It would not be. We would find something to fight about....