No, I just don't believe I need to make up stories about a god, or to believe in other peoples made up stories. And I especially don't believe that morality can only come from the make believe god.

Which I think points to it not really being about religion. After all, in a way this debases christianity, the christians don't want to think of pets going to heaven because they seem incapable of belief. Now we're to believe that just beyond the pearly gates there's a hobby lobby ?

No, this is just another dig at anything Obama says and another way to prolong the debate about abortion to keep the cash flowing instead of actually taking commonsense steps to reduce the number of abortions.

London cabbies have a history of spouting right wing horseshit continuously as they drive you along, it doesn't seem to have the lasting effect on the passengers that the mayor fears.

No, more like androids

Maybe if you plan to park for > 4 hours you should arrange to have your car towed to some out of the way parking lot and then delivered back to a nearby parking spot just before you will need it again.

No, no it didn't happen. La La La La La - I can't hear you

The problem for me is that while I can just about convince myself that I have a mental picture of the electrons in a wire being attracted to the nuclei in a parallel wire due to their relative motion making them appear to be more densely packed because of Lorentz contraction. I can't picture what relativistic affects might come into play between two electrons, or even, say, two parallel beams of electrons, that would be ascribed to a magnetic force. If anyone can point me toward an internet resource that provides a simple explanation I'd be grateful.

Presumably when they realized that the attacker had access to their control panel they shoulda coulda (yes I know I hate that too) called Amazon and had them shut everything down until order could be restored.

surely it's just a matter of arranging to get it hit by debris heading in the right direction and small/slow enough not to destroy the cubesat. Bonus points if cubesat captures the debris and takes it out of orbit at end of life.

I have a Hantek 6022BE and I'm please with it, but my needs were modest, just show a few waveforms to the kids at school

the senior engineers that tested the system consider it undetectable. The intern just smiled and said nothing...

I don't know... I'm a big fan of popcorn.

At last, it's not just me then !

Not to mention that I remember multiple cases a few years back of large amounts of government data (tapes, laptops etc.) getting lost, it seemed, on a regular basis.Oh hey, wikipedia even has a page on it.

Certainly there is a place for severe punishment for horrible crimes, but this is mostly about portraying a group of people as undesirable. The UK government has a history of creating commercials that make thieves out to be subhuman, you wouldn't catch them doing the same to nefarious bankers. It's just old fashioned them and us politics. What they don't realize is that if you daemonize a hacker, she just runs in the background.