This may be a nit, but my understanding is that a grand jury or other process binding a defendant over for trial is on the basis that the prosecution has enough evidence to convict in the absence of any refutation offered by the defence.

Over twenty years ago the USPS was working on a plan to install Group IV fax machines in post offices and offer a very fast document delivery service. Congress stopped them because they thought it would compete with private services. (Group IV fax produces copy about like a laser printer, and about as fast, but requires ISDN.) I suspect the same would have happened had they tried to offer email.

All they are asking for is a registered voter's name and date of birth. Email addresses are no problem; use throw aways from foreign ISPs. Then start reading those obituaries.

In a major campaign lists generated by canvassing of voters who have moved would work also, although getting birth dates might be slightly harder.

I don't think there is a defense against that. You have to sign a third party release for your current insurance, and the insurance companies pool data. Physicians have to code diagnoses and treatments and key them into the system to get paid. Your nosey friends might not have access, but the people you most worry about do.

I wonder how much more might have been gained from that amount of targeted R&D.

We let some starve now for the benefit of many, and the great benefit of a few. Is that also evil? Property rights do something similar, as does military conscription.

Rawls seemed to answer many of the objections to utilitarianism with his rule utilitarianism. Of course, no ethical theory conforms perfectly to our moral sense, but I guess ours differs profoundly to that of our grandfathers.

One problem is that corn sugar is a synonym for dextrose, which is used as an adjunct in brewing. I don't think fructose is as fermentable, which would result in a very different product.

Wooden nickels, of course.

Not bad, but pair with somebody. Test each others code, balance off the bugs, and pay for the difference in beers, or some other appropriate currency. Just gloating might do.