http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jumping_to_conclusions

Not that one.

That does sound like a good technique, if you can call it good. I'm really only opposed to the characteristic European smugness regarding the policy. Governments do terrible, monstrous things to their own citizens that make most capital crimes seem like jaywalking. Limiting their power to kill is reasonable.

A world where no one kills anyone else seems a lot better to me, and we'd all be better served focusing on bringing that about than arguing about how to kill or not kill a bunch of weirdos who are going to be safely imprisoned until they die.

It isn't that insane. Instead of remapping one page at a time the queue up a number of changes and commit them all at once. This is because on stock Linux every page table re-map creates a lot of cache coherency traffic to make sure all the processors know of the new mapping. By committing them all at once they only need one round of that.

http://www.azulsystems.com/sites/default/files/images/c4_paper_acm.pdf

Section 5.1 is where it starts going into some details on that.

As a result, they're harming innocent people and costing lives because of politically motivated drug shortages. Which side of the Atlantic was being barbaric, again?

I managed it, so it's possible for anyone.

Don't be rough on him--it's more expensive when you have to pay for an escort, too.

You probably meant yore.

Converting Renminbi to foreign currencies is a big one. There's a hard limit on the amount of RMB that can be exchanged for foreign currency per person per year, enforced by the Chinese government. Much of the European usage was supposed to be in the same vein.

Of course, you can feel free to dismiss them as unimportant if they're not important to you.

And if they worked like a deathstar beam weapon after charging up, better still.

Cancer is a whole spectrum of diseases with different causes, effects, mortality rates, etc. This question is only a little less silly than asking why we haven't cured all disease yet.

With clear-minded, rational and thoughtful voters like you, how could democracy ever fail? "Agree with me or go starve" is a little extreme, don't you think? Free exchange of ideas is essential to successful democracy.

According to Russell, the principle behind the so-called Malthusian catastrophe was discovered by Condorcet, who didn't consider it an issue, because he assumed that birth control would be mandatory. The answer has been obvious for over 200 years.

I'll assume you're talking about GMOs as food. Golden rice, which has been mentioned several times in the comments, was developed out of humanitarian concern and, as far as I can tell, is not encumbered by patents. Misguided and ignorant activists are prepared to let malnourished children go blind rather than allow them a staple crop providing vitamin A.