In related news, the price of PCs in Italy just shot up by about 100 Euros.

The biggest failing autonomous cars have is assuming they are *not* surrounded by malicious, aggressive, incompetent, brain-dead animals.

The one thing about salt is that it does make stuff tasty, often the highly processed stuff, making it easy to overdo it. Avoiding salt sort of automatically helps one to cut out the heavily processed foods.

Bingo. Processed foods are basically built out of salt and high levels of carbohydrates, which is just a fancy way of saying 'do you want a large order of diabetes with that'?

Where UK citizens would take a month long holiday every year because of the generous vacation time afforded by most European countries, the United States doesn't guarantee any paid vacation or sick time.

Even US worker bees that do have a fair amount of vacation time available to them rarely dare take even 5 days at a time off. Why? The not unfounded fear that some bean-counter or your PHB will start thinking, 'hey, maybe we don't need the guy on vacation AT ALL'. So even while on vacay, we sufferers of never-ending Puritanism can't fully relax due to the fear of a pink slip waiting for us in reward for our holiday tan.

I assume the security of the connection is haphazard, because, hey it's only an effing voice call. That, or backdoor mandated by the TLAs.

The farm he spent his entire life building is going to literally be turned into an open pit 150ft deep. ... He plans to use his new found wealth to buy some land that has a trout stream running through it up the road and spend the rest of his days fishing.

Odds are he outlives the fishing.

In any other scientific debate, you never hear about "Higgs Boson Deniers" or "String Theory Fanatics" or "Standard Model dinosaurs". As a matter of fact, this is pretty much the only scientific area where EVERY commentator acts as though they are experts.

Simple. The Kochs and their whores can't make money off any of that.

Hey, Beeb. If you don't like people pirating your content (I don't, other than watching YouTube), them let them buy access, FFS. I'd be willing to pay a modest fee to watch domestic BBC programs for the convenience of not having to wait months / years / never (Porridge) for the content to show up in alternative media.

Hitler chose Wagner; neo-fascists always choose hard rock .

I know that doesn't sound like a big deal but cops let thousands of people off per day on minor things where people just need a warning.

Virtually none of them being young black men, which is the exact problem typifying US LEO since the Jim Crow days.

So that's the real end goal - to get religion - or more correctly, Christianity, back into schools so everyone becomes a "good little Christian boy".

more correctly, the Southern Baptist form of Christianity, which from science to women's rights, are in total agreement with Wahhabism.

A self-inflicted single point of failure to a mission-critical network? TWC, you are now qualified to be a government contractor!

After she's well-hammered by 3 or 4 untainted drinks, will she still have the ability or memory to 'run the test' on the potentially last fateful drink of the night?

More to the point: stay the eff out of bars and never go to a frat party of any type.

PC LOAD LETTER

What people fail to understand is that the government is *huge* and as easy as it is to find laughable examples of waste, abuse, and outright incompetence, that's only one end of the bell curve.

"Did you really think they were spending $500 on a hammer?"