Hmm, 62K seizures in 13 years across the entire nation...

So, a bit fewer than 5K per year nationwide. Which is considerably lower than your chance of getting killed in an auto accident (about 33K per year).

So, while it's pretty clearly corrupt and of questionable Constitutionality, it's not so prevalent as to make it something to really worry about if I have seven times as much chance of being killed in an auto accident (or twice as much chance of being murdered).

Note that I am not endorsing this sort of behaviour by police/judges/feds. Merely pointing out that TFA is aiming to be rather more alarmist than reality requires....

Especially in the US, a lot of these kinds of incidents end with the person getting a gun, going back to the office and wiping out those that have wronged them.

I take it that these kinds of incident are vanishingly rare, then?

Or is it just that your definition of "a lot" is pretty much the same as "almost noone"?

Because, when all is said and done, the kind of shooting you describe is rare enough to make national news.

Which is not actually the same thing as "common"....

It is a miss conception that I fell into.

You missed conception? I'm assuming it was a timing issue, though you might have other fertility problems. I suggest a specialist...

Or is it a misconception that you missed conception?

LIfe expectancy at birth doesn't really apply to many slashdotters - not many of us are under one year of age.

Well, I'd count the Holocaust as a more severe violation of human rights of an entire people. But that's just me.

If you're looking for duration, though, I'd tend to look toward Apartheid first.

Closer to home (if you're an Ami, anyway), the treatment of the natives during the 19th century, perhaps.

See, it's not all that hard to find examples of things that make a trade embargo look pretty penny-ante.

Or are you one of those people that think that not trading with someone is evil in and of itself?

...she now goes back to her regular full-time, tenured professor job in New York?

It was, perhaps, silly to dump her for 30-year-old activities.

It was also, perhaps, silly to lie about that sort of thing (assuming she was actively communicating with the one in jail for armed robbery).

Nonetheless, it's not like it really hurts her - she's back being a college professor already (ain't tenure great?)....

but the serious accidents caused by texting whilst driving happen when the car is moving at a significant pace.

Yep.

On the other hand, there's not that much evidence that there are millions of such accidents every year.

And if there were a million such accidents a year, that would mean that you have maybe a 1% chance of being in such an accident annually. And there aren't a million such accidents a year.

Annoying? You bet! Potentially deadly? Surely is!

Likely? Not hardly....

Believe it or not, most scientists have a tremendous amount of integrity and follow the rigor required by the scientific method.

Didn't we see an article recently (like this AM for me) discussing lack of reproducability in studies?

And not as in "noone bothered to reproduce our study", but "we couldn't even reproduce our own study when someone paid us to"....

The US has a murder/homicide rate about ten times less than Venezuela, which is also "firearms-free"....

The murder rate has far more to do with cultural issues than with availability of weapons of any particular type.

Well, this may help:

The "exciting choice" will be available as early as 2016.

The "safe choice" is unlikely to be available this side of 2020, given Boeing's previous performance.

Note, of course, that availability of Boeing's product is entirely predicated on the Feds continuing to shower money on them - they don't do "speculative". On the other hand, SpaceX will man-rate Dragon whether whichever choice is made....

Ironically, if you do text and drive, you are likely to become disabled.

Based on US auto-accident rates, unless virtually everyone (99.99+%) of the population does NOT text while driving, it is rather UNLIKELY that you will become disabled as a result....

a house every 10y??? You are surely mad or are houses in Murica of this bad quality?

House I'm living in now is 40 years old or a bit more.

House I lived in previously was 50 years old, or a bit more.

Only people I know personally who live in a house less than ten years old just built the house....

Who cares that the guy who doesn't like you can access it, if all he can do is make you slightly sleepy.

Depends on where you are, I guess. Being made"slightly sleepy" while driving down the Interstate would be more problematic than the same while sitting in an easy chair at home....

Right. Go to Google and search for the phrase "map of Europe". The first thing you will see is a link to the Google Maps map of Europe.

And the second thing I see is a list of images for "map of europe".

And then there's Worldatlas.com, mapsofworld.com, raileurope.com, etc.

Interestingly, of those four choices, only the googlemaps version is (debatably) current. The others don't yet show the Crimean Peninsula as part of Russia, though the Googlemaps version seems to (looks like it has a border between Crimea and Ukraine). Note also that, looking at those maps of Europe and zooming in on Ukraine, the Googlemaps version shows more detail than the other maps.

Note that the raileurope.com page doesn't even show a map of Europe.

Note finally that I don't use Google to find a continental map all that often (actually, I never do - this was the first time). I'm much more likely to ask for a specific street address (or a name, like Stonehenge) than even the name of a city, much less a country, much less a continent....

All that aside, if Europe really wants Googlemaps displayed as just another search result (where it will likely be number one for the most part), I've got no problems with that. Of course, if they insist that something other than the best (read: most popular) map be shown first, I'll have issues....