The first fatal casualty in The War on Drugs (TM) was an honest justice system, with someone in the back screaming 'She's got a gun!' while bursting through the front door of a knock and announce.

Just try saying that fast three times: tax disk; tax disk; tax disk.

I hear they're also available where they sell seashells by the seashore.

that means members of the FBI should be subject to extradition and trial in those other countries just as they would be if they had been caught (and prosecuted) for breaking American law.

Oh, my aching sides! Are you here all week?

Each app gets a separate Linux user, so it's data is separate and inaccessible to other apps.

Ignoring the endless screens of permission requests with each update, including your mothers maiden name and bra size. But yeah, sandboxes are great.

It shouldn't be called the Internet of Things; it should be honestly called the Panopticon of Things.

But expecting honesty from the largest tech company is like expecting the DOJ to prosecute bankers.

Whenever you look up at the near side of the moon, you see a face looking back at you.

Nope. Never.

I saw my first gun-packing meathead in Walmart last week end (why, he was White - how did you guess?). I was very tempted to go up to him and ask :"What are you so scared of, that you have to carry a gun in public?" We all should, every time.

Unless you're living in Beirut, the real reason for 'packing' is race-based fear and / or small, limp junk.

I first read the trilogy when I was an atheist, and it helped remove that particular hurdle in my later study of the world religions that lead to my conversion to Catholicism.

So you highest belief set is Empire.

Just like having a water filter and/or softener at the entrance of a house's service, LED bullbs (and other electronics) might live up to their projected lifetimes if they were fed with filtered, rock-solid power, free of spikes and sags.

...the best approach is to continue and fix the flaws as they are found.

You mean *after* they've been known about for years by blackhats - or far more likely and terrifying - the TLAs.

Coming soon: Roundup-ready bacteria!!

"The rat has no voluntary control of its limbs, but the severed spinal cord can be reactivated and stimulated to perform natural walking. We can control in real-time how the rat moves forward and how high it lifts its legs."

This also accidentally describes the nearly-attained goals of the US state security organs (with assists from the POTUS and the Supremes).

Moving an animal disease lab from an isolated island to within eyesight of a college football stadium: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Bio_and_Agro-Defense_Facility

This Pat Roberts pork barrel is pathological.

Or at least, cracks (and bends) are starting to appear...

Being Black in Ferguson is taxed, as 70% of their budget comes from traffic tickets and court costs and draconian fines such as being 5 minutes late to your kangaroo court hearing.