Forget about hips or knees (which are amazingly well suited for walking upright, by the way). Look at male nipples. There is nothing intelligent or "by design" about it. Unless we are talking about a very incompetent designer.

I know a bunch of people who cheated back in college on a regular basis and they are still going strong. Doesn't surprise me really, since getting ahead in life often hinges on gaining an (often unfair) advantage over the competitors.

How did you figure that one out?

You think those words were put in there just to avoid ugly pagination?

No, it is not. Not any more than any other forms of mental disease.

Not a sledge hammer. An orbitoclast.

From the wiki page you link to it sounds like he was convicted for being in violation of 18 U.S.C. 922o, which says:

1. Except as provided in paragraph (2), it shall be unlawful for any person to transfer or possess a machinegun.
2. This subsection does not apply with respect to—
   1. a transfer to or by, or possession by or under the authority of, the United States or any department or agency thereof or a State, or a department, agency, or political subdivision thereof; or
   2. any lawful transfer or lawful possession of a machinegun that was lawfully possessed before the date this subsection takes effect.

There is nothing in there about the firearm having to cross state lines, so he was clearly in violation of the law by possessing it without authorization. As for weather this was a matter of interstate commerce at all, the wiki page says he was selling the machine gun kits over the Internet. I rest my case. As I had suspected, while your TrueStory (TM) had a kernel of truth, you got a bit creative with the details.

Do you have some links to these TrueStories (TM)?

Why not target the telecoms then, like the NSA does? Why one email provider?

So this is, like, vaccination 2.0. Is this a ploy to make vaccination more palatable to the freaks who think vaccines cause autism?

You won't be looking at it that way when you pay $80 for a ticket and have to freeze your ass for 3 hours in 25 F weather just to see 11 minutes of action.

However, a rugby game has about 74 minutes of game play (out of 80). Soccer stands at about 80/90. I don't know the stats for ice hockey and basketball, but I bet they are not as abysmal as they are for football. If you bothered to read the article I linked to, you would have noticed that there is more dead time than just commercials. Like, an old man scratching his head with a pencil, while his players walk around the field, doing nothing, and the refs are watching tv. So, yeah, I do feel short changed at 11/174.

You would be twiddling your thumbs most of the time even if you were watching it in the US, because there are only 11 minutes of actual play time in a 3 hour long game. That is why the ads are the centrepiece of the show.

The ISPs won't have to pay for it. You will, through taxes. And most people will be happy to do so, although they would foam at the mouth if they were asked to pay for universal health care for their children.

Not everything at Whole Foods is locally grown, but many items (especially dairy and produce) are, an those are clearly labeled as such. So, if one cares about buying locally grown stuff, one can, but human nature always gets in the way.

There is nothing now that stops people from buying the higher priced, locally produced food at Whole Foods. For some reason, most of them choose to buy the cheap stuff at Stop'n'Shop. I think that reason is called human nature.