Mantraps would also work. I.e. trap doors that open up with a 20ft fall (you could put a net at the bottom if you wanted to be nice.
Basically, it would be rather simple to create an invisible moat and anyone that gets past the invisible moat should probably just
be shot as it's then obviously not an accident.

Or just practice when he's not there. It's not like he's there all day every day. He goes on plenty of out of town trips and even
if he didn't there is no reason that you couldn't still practice with him there as long as everyone was properly informed.
Lifeguards routinely have fake drownings to keep them on their toes. Guests are used to it and it doesn't cause any alarm.

Add to that that a nuclear plant should probably have a fixed lifespan. After 50 years, they shut it down, dismantle it, and haul it all away.
It's too easy for an aging infrustructure to be neglected and shortcuts to be taken. It would be better to create a new one than to let an
aging one hobble along until something breaks.

It won't even do that. 85% of the shows that I watch, I watch pirated versions on youtube just by typing in the episode title.
This doesn't work for newly released movies but most older movies and almost all older tv shows are available for free
on youtube. If they can't police youtube then they are fighting a battle they can't win.

This used to be assumed but now days, I can't imagine a state actually revoking a corporate charter. I wonder when the last
time it was even attempted or if it could even be done to a multinational. Probably the best a state could do now days would
be to pass a law outlawing that company's product.

This isn't entirely true. I've lived in several comunities that provide service via wifi. One of them all you needed was line of site of
any watertower. Another had several large towers that blanketed the community. My father and my brother installed their own
towers and beam a signal 5 miles from one house to the other. If you're on the fringe of their coverage there is no reason that they
couldn't install a simple wifi tower and get it the remaining fraction of a mile.

Sadly, the powers that be disagree.
They would rather have you dead than wounded. It's the reason that there is an international ban on weapons that make you blind or deaf. Wounded soldiers are costly and make people see the real cost of war while dead soldiers are quickly forgotten.

What's strange though is that the article makes no mention of an alternating schedule. If it was alternating between odd and even
then this seems like a weird but reasonable solution. Just banning even number plates without alternating is very bizarre. Why not
just ban all the cars?

Oh, and #1 is laptop batteries, but that doesn't really count as they only have about a 1-2 year lifespan.
I usually have to replace the batteries at least once before reaching EOL on my laptops.

I've NEVER had a harddrive failure on any system, ever. On laptops, the first thing to go seems to
always be either the keyboard, the fan, or the touchpad in that order. On non-laptops it has always
been the power supply, the motherboard, or a fan in that order. I usually replace a system at the 5-7
year mark and I've been very lucky that I've never lost a harddrive which would obviously be the
hardest to replace as I don't really take many backups.

I'm pretty sure that's the definition of satire. They exagerate something stupid to make it sound stupider so people realize how stupid it is.

Yeah, you're lucky. South Park did a great episode on this where the two choices to vote for were a Giant Duche or a Turd Sandwich.
I always vote but I also continue to "throw my vote away" by voting for a third party because to me voting for the "lesser of two evils"
is no choice at all when for everything I care about the republicans and democrats are virtually indistiguishable. They pretent to be
different but they are usually squabling over a few million here or there while the TRILLIONS they are spending on war, etc... are
virtually the same. They'll brag about a 100 million dollar tax cut on a 4 trillion dollar budget. For anyone who isn't paying attention,
that's the equivalent of bragging that you cut out 1 dollar of expenses from your 40k a year paycheck.

This reminds me of the movie Paycheck: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt03...
The ultimate non-compete because you don't remember what you did.

This is exactly why there should be a specific amount.
There is no way I would sign something like that and no sane person should either.
If it went to court, no sane judge should allow it to stand and the person should be
able to claim they signed it under duress as there is no other logical reason someone
would sign something like that.

A hit contract is illegal because murder is illegal and furthermore isn't a contract between two people but rather involves a third person.
A non-compete contract is more akin to a contract that says if you quit, you have to give us back your bonus or a prenumpt agreement.
Yeah, it's a crappy contract and can be really unfair if one of the parties is desperate but I'm not sure if it should be illegal.
I would be curious what the penalty is for a non-compete. If there is no penalty then I don't know how they would enforce it. If it's
that they have to give them back the prior 3 years bonuses then this should be easily enforcable and also probably should be legal.
Basically, I would be in favor of specific penalties for non-compete but not a vague "you can not work under any circumstance" clause.