Make sure you offer your services next time the police have to control a psychotic patient. You have no idea how much damage a crazy or drugged person can do. The Taser offered a solution that was safer for the suspect, safer for the officers, and safer for everyone nearby.

It's a whole lot safer for her that way. Taser wounds are a lot less painful than torn ligaments, broken bones, etc., that she might have if the Taser wasn't available. She should have complied.

Nonsense. There is a use of force continuum; a range of force used to correspond to levels of resistance: officers use force one level above the level of resistance. There are a range of options between yelling at someone and shooting them. Where in that continuum the Taser is used is dependent on department policy. Some departments use it at lower levels to avoid going hands-on with a suspect. Others use it at higher levels (as opposed to a baton). The Taser most definitely isn't a replacement for lethal force. Less lethal shotgun rounds and other less-lethal tools are used for that in the rare circumstance that everything works out just right: the right tool and certified operator is present, other officers are available with lethal force to cover him, the suspect is the just the right distance away with clear line of sight, etc. It's way more complicated than most people realize.

How about the thousands who die every day after drinking water?

In Indiana, formal courses are optional. They were way too expensive for my family to afford to send four kids through. Instead, we are required to hold the permit for a certain amount of time (6 months?) and then pass a written exam (the exact same test as for the permit) and a practical exam. I would like to see simulator-based testing to check reaction times in collision scenarios.

You cannot even permit charging. If I were stupid enough to plug a non-approved USB device into an AF computer, I could look forward to losing my network privileges, having a nice discussion with the base commander, and possibly going to jail and losing my job for future violations. The military takes USB devices and other IA issues very, very seriously.

errr... "one" --> "only".

So, who maneuvered this one into being, so that one they and their closest friends can approve people for this TLD? Oh, and we should start teaching the uneducated public that *.secure is the only way for a site to be trustworthy, so that those key players can make even more money from certificates that cost nearly nothing to generate.

British.

Motorcycles wouldn't be permitted on a driverless road. In fact, motorcycles would probably be permitted only on unpopular rural roads before long, and banned after that as being only for senseless inconsiderate adrenaline seekers.

You wouldn't want to ride in one of those. It would be abused, puked in, with bodily fluids everywhere. If you owned the car, you would have some incentive to keep it clean and functioning properly.

These visions of old people taking to driving again couldn't become reality because a basic requirement of these automated vehicles would have be manual override capability. Just like autopilot for planes, you really need a qualified driver willing to take control of the vehicle quickly should something unexpected happen that the programmer didn't account for. Sometimes things fall out of the sky, or a police officer needs to take control of an intersection, or a child on a bicycle in front of you is behaving erratically, and you know as an experienced human that he could swing out in front of your vehicle at any time.

What good are blind people for studies regarding frame rates? (kidding...)

If they hadn't been told, would many of them even realize it was projected at 48P?

$25 is more than three times what I pay monthly for Netflix. It is also significantly more than I would pay to view it in a theater at full 4K resolution. If I am only going to view a movie twice by myself, is it really worth paying $12.50 per view?