Who is your insurer? I've never had a problem using my auto insurance without a lawyer.

Like most pre-1969 first ammendment rulings, Chaplinksy v. New Hampshire was likely overturned by Brandenburg v. Ohio. Subsequent cases like R.A.V. v. City of St. Paul and Snyder v. Phelps would suggest that the "fighting words" doctrine is pretty much dead letter now.

Yo momma so Catholic, you're gonna punch me over this joke.

While Francis insisted that it was an "aberration" to kill in the name of God and said religion can never be used to justify violence, he said there was a limit to free speech when it concerned offending someone's religious beliefs.

If he supports limits on free speech, then he does think religion can be used to justify violence, as the threat of violence if the only way any such limits can be enforced. Just because the person engaged in the violence has a shiny police badge and permission from the government doesn't make them fundamentally different from the Charlie Hebido attackers.

We went to check on Seaborg's plutonium, only to discover it had been replaced with a piece of uranium-235!!

mini quakes along active fault lines release pent-up energy that protects against "the big one"

This is something you hear people say a lot, but as I point out below, the science suggests it isn't true in most cases.

Except around extremely large interplate faults, earthquakes are time independent; the chance of there being an earthquake tomorrow depends very little on whether the last earthquake was yesterday or 100 years ago.

As an example, Time-independent and Time-dependent Seismic Hazard Assessment for the State of California: Uniform California Earthquake Rupture Forecast Model 1.0

In this paper we have presented both time-independent and time-dependent probabilities for several faults and statewide ground motion hazard maps for California that show the value of peak ground acceleration with a 10% probability of exceedance for a time period of 30 years starting in 2006. The timedependent maps differ by about 10% to 15% from the timeindependent maps near A-fault sources (figure 4). However, for most of California, located well away from the time-dependent sources, the ground motions are similar.

If fracking is causing seismic activity on interior faults, you're just getting more earthquakes, not reducing the chances of large future ones.

A hammer isn't a value system either. That doesn't make carpenters inherently untrustworthy.

While I'm definitely not a fan of their ouvre, Fox News is the fourth most popular cable channel, behind only Disney, Nickelodeon, and Adult Swim. As much as you may not like that, they certainly do have a "large enough following".

Then there's no such thing as a news service. Some may be more informative than others, but they're all ultimately entertainment.

First they lose all the Time Warner channels, then they lost CBS, now they lost all the Fox Channels...

Pretty soon there's going to be no actual channels left on DISH.

Like Hans Blix!

This could actually be a good thing. The existence of security breach insurance would necessarily require quantifying how much risk a particular organization creates. The insurer is now a third party that has an incentive to make sure the company is following best practices and the ability to punish companies that don't (through denial of coverage or through increased premiums).

Looks like spottswoode is some faggy yourowpeeing.

Spottswoode: This isn't about sex, Anonymous Coward, it's about trust!

No, I completely get your point. You're completly missing my point: pointing out that Argument A for conclusion X is a bad argument does not mean I disagree with conclusion X. It doesn't matter how fantastic Liberal Arts degrees are, bringing up Peter Jackson as an argument as to why they are is a crappy argument.