They are prescription only here as well but many patients will bully doctors into doing this; doctors also err on the side of caution because of lawsuits. Agree on the ads - if only doctors are allowed to make the decision, they should be the only ones ads are targeted at (in medical journals, etc).

I think other areas are the cause. You don't see China or India leading the world with billions of dollars of research on how life began (because it really isn't a priority). Creation vs evolution doesn't affect chemistry, physics, or 90% of biology. I know several very smart and productive hard science PhDs who espouse creationist viewpoints; somehow it doesn't affect their work (they obviously don't work in evolutionary biology though).

Democracy vs. Republic is not an irrelevant semantics bandwagon. While dictatorships reinforce the rights of a small minority against the majority, pure democracy leads to the majority oppressing the minority. This is why a republic is necessary to protect the rights of the minority as well.

Not going to call you a "liberal", "faggot", "commie", "pinko" etc but I will say you have a thin skin. There is a reason it's called a joke. Same reason we call Mac users gay and Southerners toothless.

I know plenty of military who have gotten the extra screening on flights. And didn't the late Ted Kennedy (or some other congress person) get denied a flight since his name was similar to one on the watch list?

This. The old mental hospitals - descendants of the insane asylums - were rightly criticized for some incidents of brutality, etc. However, the pendulum swung the other way with psychs trying to keep the mentally ill completely re-integrated into society while giving meds and treatment on an outpatient basis. However, this resulted in the mentally ill missing treatment (often because of the illness), and becoming a danger to themselves and others. During a couple stints of doing volunteer work with the homeless, there seemed to be 2 major classes of homeless; those such as families or others temporarily homeless for a while due to hard luck/economy/etc and a larger group that was more or less permanently homeless since their mental conditions either directly or indirectly through caused addictions prevented them from holding down jobs.

What were the charges? If they were running the Dutch end of an import-export op I can see the US trying to get jurisdiction, but how would the US even find out about simple posession/smoking/dealing within Holland?

Consent of the governed is considered to apply to tourists/other non-citizen visitors since it is assumed that by traveling to another country they voluntarily place themselves under the jurisdiction of those laws (if a Dutch citizen doesn't want to risk the high drug penalties in Singapore, for example, he can just stay and smoke up in Holland). Citizens are then (theoretically) granted the right to vote on their laws since they have no "home country" to go back to. Where it gets sticky in this case is determining if "traveling" virtually to the US servers is equivalent to getting on a plane and flying to the US. WRT UK citizens being charged for posting hate speech on US servers, nations also claim extraterritorial jurisdiction over their citizens - for example, US citizens who travel to Thailand for example to have sex with small children can be prosecuted in the US just as if they committed the crime here.

I'm sure a lot of whites in the south were uneasy when blacks rode their buses/ate in their diners - was it fair to take away their rights since the "majority" was afraid? That is why we are a republic and not a democracy.

That was the point - the cops targeted him since he fought the first one

I'm now offering marriage services to anyone who wants to marry anything that doesn't decline (and is present). You might want to add (and isn't drugged or unconscious). Otherwise you might get a flood of Slashdotters with potential brides.

Nope, you oversimplified to change the meaning unfortunately. His example was (both black and white men) can marry a black woman since black men have the same rights as white men (both black and white men) can marry a white woman since white men have the same rights as black men (both black and white women) can marry a black man since white women have the same rights as black women (both black and white women) can marry a white man since black women have the same rights as white women Your: - A homosexual man can marry a woman; he can not marry a man. - A heterosexual man can marry a woman; he can not marry a man. simplifies to a man can marry a woman; he can not marry a man. Doesn't discriminate by sexual orientation there.

The punishment for contempt would still work if it included a jury trial like any other crime - disobey a cop/interfere with an investigation and get locked up for 6 months (for example) after proper criminal proceedings. In the same way, once proven that you disobeyed a valid court order, you would be charged with contempt of court and locked up for 6 months. In some situations, this can encourage more serious crimes. For example, someone ordered to reveal if they had any other assets, could (1. refuse to answer and be thrown in prison indefinitely) or (2. perjure themselves and receive a maximum sentence of 5 years (assuming US federal code)).

It should be fairly easy to reverse engineer - Sigma and Tokina among others produce third-party lenses that mate with Canon/Nikon/etc DSLRs.

Actually, many sims do not require force feedback. Pilots generally learn the "mechanics" of feel and how to control a plane in relatively inexpensive prop/jet trainers in basic pilot training. Much of what sims are used for is switchology - how to run checklists and operate all the complex electronic gear in a modern cockpit. With the more rote items committed to muscle memory, pilots can focus on the "feel" in the actual airplane since their flow/checks come automatically. In addition, very realistic emergency procedure training can be had since it is difficult to safely simulate many emergencies in the actual aircraft. Finally, for aircrew who are already proficient in the aircraft, new tactics/procedures can be tried much more quickly and easily than trying to schedule/fly an actual flight.