When pigs fly. That's my take on it.

He was also an obese asthmatic and died from the strain of trying to run away from a volcano.

Oh, sexconker, you and your stories - "the study is wrong", "beer kills brain cells".... Now let's go back to that ... building ... thingie ... where our beds and TV ... is.

for example deadbolts are legally limited to 1" in throw length so that they can be broken by emergency personnel if necessary, say when a fire occurs.

Wow, that seems like a ridiculous law. No one really needs to break through the front door of a house. If it's a true emergency, you can always break a window. I haven't seen a house yet that didn't have easily-broken windows. A fireman's axe should have no problem breaking through a window and quickly removing any dangerous shards.

Android does sandbox apps. The default internal directory for each app can only be read/written by itself. Prior to version 4.2, the SD card was public and could be read/written by anyone. 4.2 and later, only parts of the SD cared are publicly readable and only parts are publicly writable.

In both cases before and after 4.2 uninstalling will remove the private directory. It will also remove any private directory on the SD card, so long as the app used the default location. Some apps don't, purposely, so their data will persist if reinstalled.

So now we know why Charlie Gordon didn't stay smart - he was too old.

In spite of your rant, the actual amount of voter fraud is miniscule, on the order of a few dozen per national election. And no, illegal aliens only vote in the fevered imaginations of the gonzo right, and not in any reality that doesn't involve paranoid flights of fancy.

Pointing out that a notable point has an intuitive representation is not the same as arguing that the unit of measure is intuitive, just to state the obvious.

I'll most certainly grant that having freezing at one end of the 0-100 spectrum is super-convenient, since knowing when it's freezing outside is actually of use to us and placing it at 0 makes a great deal of sense. In comparison, having it at 32 feels downright arbitrary. But what about the other end? Setting aside grade school, when was the last time that you actually checked the temperature of boiling water, rather than simply applying heat until you brought it to a boil? If you forgot that 100C corresponded to when water boiled, would it actually make any difference at all, or are the degrees beyond about 40C ones that you really don't need to know at all for everyday life? Which is to say, I was discussing the entirety of the 0-100 scale in each system and their relative benefits.

Consider the sorts of human-level descriptions we'd typically apply to ranges of temperatures. Terms like, "freezing", "cold", "chilly", "cool", "pleasant", "warm", and "hot" can each correspond to incrementing ranges of 10 in the Fahrenheit system: 30s, 40s, 50s, 60s, 70s, 80s, and 90s, respectively. But due to the lower level of granularity in Celsius (each Celsius degree is 9/5 the size of a Fahrenheit degree) and differences in points of origin for the units, we end up with more arbitrary cutoffs for those sorts of human-level descriptors. It may just be my ignorance due to having not grown up in and around Celsius, but how would you describe, say, the 20s? The 10s? To me, they seem to span too wide a range to fit neatly into a descriptor like the ones I used above, and any attempt at defining a range in which those sorts of descriptors would apply would necessarily involve picking seemingly arbitrary points.

Continuing, in Fahrenheit, we know that at the bottom of the scale is one extreme of what humans can reasonably endure, and at the other end is the other extreme. Granted, it wasn't designed that way, but it does roughly work out that way, and as such it's simple to make use of in daily life.

Again, I don't think that these sorts of niceties/minor benefits in favor of Fahrenheit outweigh the overall benefits that come with switching everything to metric, including temperature, but denying that any benefits at all exist is, as I said, a pet peeve of mine.

I should have added "close relatives and friends of the family"

Except that.... The "think of the children" thing is BS.

Well over 50% of all child abuse is perpetrated by mothers, another 30% by fathers. The rest is perpetrated by close relatives (brothers, aunts, and such). The actual "stranger danger" stuff is minimal; about 110 cases a year out of what, 30,000,000 minors.

So for 110 crimes a year we're supposed to "think of the children" and let Big Brother into all of our communication.

No mandatory door locks before 9/11.

If what you say about republicans is true, then democrats are akin to the khamer rouge. And please, I live in Canada, I've lived in Europe. The US is one of very *few* western countries that doesn't have a requirement of voter ID.

This has nothing to do with "making it harder" especially when states are willing to hand out the ID for free. It seems to me, that democrats would be much happier to let people vote as many times as they can and "call it democracy." I mean it's not like there haven't been a string of democrats having been charged in the last year for election fraud or anything right? I mean there was one two days ago, that was charged with 19 counts I believe.

The US is a deeply racist society? I haven't read anything so funny in all my life. I'm guessing you've never traveled to japan, s.korea, malaysia or anything. You want to see deeply racist, try looking there. Or better yet, go look at the middle east...you'll see what a deeply racist society looks like. I do find it funny though that you use key words and talking points right out of the various left-wing pundits though. Perhaps you're so biased, and so deeply ingrained in your own bigotry that you can't see what you're actually saying.

Right, like the uproar against the Patriot Act. Oh wait.....

Let's face it, Big Brother Government knows no political boundaries.

Likewise. I've got a Windows 7 gaming rig that has seen LOTS of installs and uninstalls, driver updates and Windows updates and have seen zero performance reduction.

Maybe this was a thing in Windows 95, but I'm not sure it's a thing now as long as you're not getting infected with malware.