Repeat that after me, Mr. Fjord.

It is expected that there will be areas of happy, mild weather in any scenario you care to imagine. It is to be expected that a bunch of locals in regions suffering from happy, mild weather might not be as concerned about the issue as someone who had their house wiped out by a tornado.

But it the concerns and insights of either set of persons would be irrelevant to the discussion of GLOBAL climate change (hint, the word that is BOLDED is important).

Climate in not weather. Weather is not climate.

If you want a dead Greek guy, I suppose the AMA (Academy of Model Aeronautics) could channel Icarus.

The American Medical Association? I should think not. If you did that, each drone would cost something north of 5 figures and could only be used by someone who went through a decades long training program while channeling hallucinations from some old dead Greek guy.

Not a very good idea.

Enforceability is one thing but a few high profile cases will take the wind out of many peoples rotors. As to whether or not the FAA can regulate UAVs - it's pretty clear that they have broad powers of regulation when it comes to aircraft safety. UAVs that potentially serve as hazards to aircraft in flight or around a runway would easily fall under FAA jurisdiction. Kids flying something in their back yard - that's the big issue. If you look at the one 'hobby' that UAVs most closely resemble, model rocketry, you find a reasonable distinction between activities that are regulated by the FAA and ones that are not. It did take an act of Congress to carve this 'exception' out so the assumption is that, yes, the FAA could do this but the Congress doesn't want them to.

We may need to see something similar.

Incorrect. The physical damage from alcohol is due to two factors: direct toxic effect of the alcohol, mostly on various bits of the nervous system and aldehyde and ketone formation with subsequent liver damage. Alcohol does contribute to calorie intake but this is only a modestly important part of the disease.

You can keep you sugar bogey man bottled up for now.

'There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies and statistics'

Mark Twain (or Benjamin Disraeli or somebody else)

Not to worry, we're going to see the downsides of freely available marijuana in the near term. Hint: concentrating the very potent strains available today (for example, brownies, hash oil or whatever the hell they're calling it these days) can induce a psychosis in some folks. Psychotic folks do dangerous / stupid things.

Is it anywhere near the extent of alcohol related harms? Nope. But don't pretend that ANY drug is harmless.

"Poison is in everything, and no thing is without poison.
The dosage makes it either a poison or a remedy."

Paracelsus, 1700's I believe.

Not really. While you can go for a long time on sub replacement calories, you do need something. The vast majority of people will start going major league ketogenic, then hallucinate after about 48 hours. Try it sometime. If you're trying to 'survive' - and by that I mean you are in a dangerous situation that requires physical and mental effort to stay alive, starving isn't the best way to ensure survival.

That said, as soon as the TV and Twitter shut down, the majority of the US populace will be frozen in place, catatonic and confused. Easy pickings for the Zombies.

They're considered an offshoot rather than a direct lineal ancestor (at least for most of us ... I'm not too sure about our CEO).

Sorry. You're correct. My bad.

When your bill is in arrears.

Oops. One step too far. You fell over the believable cliff.

Come on. While I'm not happy about the rampant data mining going on everywhere and the premise of TFA is faintly ridiculous (we know where all the really sick people are - they're in and out of the ER all the time - we don't need no stinkin' data mining) you just might imagine that somebody is going to do a few checks internally.

Even in this Evil Pantopicon, one pack of cigs isn't going to flag anything. One pack of cigs every day, OTOH, just might.

I really don't see this being much of an issue. The insurance companies have all the data they need to screen for potential expensive, er, ill, patients. They don't need to look for Twinkie ingestion. This whole thing is a bunch of junior executives getting a hold of too much cocaine and hookers. Or cocaine anyway.

Dick Tracy comics?

The ONLY winners in that scenario would be the lawyers.

'You know how the Premiere loves surprises ... "