Did you RTFA? Toyota is mentioned twice, and only in the context of Toyota the vehicle make, not Toyota the company. NASA is not being hired by Toyota. NASA is being called in by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration of the USDOT to look at the vehicles, because the NHTSA apparently does not have the expertise to handle the investigation as to why the vehicles are suffering from the uncontrolled acceleration. The US government, not Toyota, is paying scientists from another federal program 3 million dollars to investigate the problem, which is actually bad PR for Toyota. This makes it look like they cannot explain their own problem, let alone fix it, and the US government has to do clean up work to get to the root of these failures.

Perhaps the poster meant Code Monkey? Or maybe the poster is afraid that first they check our service monkey's diapers, then they check our code monkey's diapers?

In the quoted Wikipedia article, it also states that "food processing" is considered to be a part of the large umbrella that is "manufacturing". If you look to another link, here, you will see that the processed food industry has a sales total of 3.2 billion dollars. Looking at a response to your post by Masked Slacker, the Federal Reserve report estimated that

So, I feel that there may be some room to argue that America is not the same kind of manufacturing entity it once was. According to the numbers (which, admittedly, come from different reports and cannot be guaranteed to be the best for this comparison), the food processing industry drives about 84% of the manufacturing total in America. The biggest manufacturers in the food industry are Nestle and PepsiCo, not the Hoover (now a part of Techtronic Industries, in Hong Kong), Fridgidaire (now a part of Electrolux, which appears to be made mostly in Eastern Europe, though there still may be an Ohio factory), and other manufacturers that were synonymous with the "Made in America" quality of the 50's and 60's.

FTFA:

The Indian military is interested in the many uses of Bhut paste? I ... I don't know how to respond to this in a mature manner.

Is it just me, or does the good Dr. Rolf Heuer resemble a slightly shaggier Dr. Breen? Huh ...

Actually, they do not know where I live. They need a mailing address, not a home address, and that is what they have. I use online systems for most of my regular documents from them, and use interoffice mail for most of the rest. There is a rare occasion where they send something to my mailing address (tax forms, etc). None of this really matters, anyways, as the Netflix account is in the wife-to-be's name.

I am curious which passport you have that includes your address. If I recall correctly, mine does not have an address in it. To verify, I looked to see what goes into a passport:

• Photograph
• Type [of document, which is "P" for "passport"]
• Code [of the issuing country, which is "USA" for "United States of America"]
• Passport No.
• Surname
• Given Name(s)
• Nationality [which is "United States of America"]
• Date of Birth
• Place of Birth (lists only the state followed by "USA" for those born in the United States)
• Sex
• Date of Issue
• Date of Expiration
• Authority
• Endorsements

No address. A passport will not tell your employer where you live. At best, they will know which state you were born in.

This is not the sound of a *fwoosh* as your joke goes by, just a slight clarification as to what the bill is actually saying. The bill actually says that I, as an individual, can put as much salt into my food as I want. You, as the restaurant owner / chef / waitstaff / bartender, cannot do it for me.

Quite frankly, I don't think that this law goes far enough. Butter, oil, and any possible allergen should be kept out before it makes it makes it to the table. That way I get to be the one to choose my food should taste. My options may well be, bad, really bad, and god-awful, but at least I am empowered! I have the right to choose ... flavor?

Next time someone offers me their two cents, I may be less likely to accept it ... gives a whole new perspective to some of the shitty ideas I hear disguised as free advice.

... saying that no, the slime mold looked more like the Virgin Mary. Pilgrims from around the world are planning on heading to the site in the weeks ahead to pay their respects before it starts to more closely resemble Elvis or the Three Stooges.

I think that a part of the point being made was that no good can come to you if you are always watched. Something that you do could be incriminating at some point, now or in the future. This is in-line with the "do not talk to police" recommendations from law professors and police (link here). Basically, it won't be used for you, only against you. You mentioned that it would be great to be able to go to police to have them track down the folks who break into your house. I have a strange feeling that there are a handful of ways to get past security cameras - people robbing banks, convenience stores, etc have all used "masking technology" for quite some time. Furthermore, depending on quality of the resolution of the images, it gets much easier to make a rudimentary disguise that would incriminate someone else. I won't touch on any of the other topics brought up by other posters about arguments on "average citizens" and disadvantages that might crop up, for I feel those points have been well-addressed.

Well, laws do vary by state, but a bar can lose their liquor license if they over serve a customer at the very least, and can be liable for various civil and criminal offenses in accordance with the "dram shop liability laws" of the region. This link to an article from Massachusetts discusses a 1.9 million dollar suit that was settled out of court due to liability issues - http://www.bostonaccidentlawyerblog.com/alcoholliquor_liability/

Maybe his video games are ... I don't know, Steam powered? No plastic casing, no plastic cartridge, no shipping container, etc.

No, we just wanted to confirm that the Atlantic Ocean contained more than trace elements of water. Initial data appears to indicate a successful mission, but it will take months of data processing to have a final answer.

As opposed to a game with good-guy tactics, where you ... kill people nicely? Not to mention that "good-guy tactics" include using white phosphorus on civilian populations to "better hide troop movements", and where rubble and limbs are sorted through to find out if the bombed building actually includes the relevant parts of the bad guy that was supposed to be there (but maybe wasn't).