In some states you can request the evidence. In WI for instance you can ask to see the radar gun (with read speed still displayed) as well as the certification information for said gun. Generally this is a bad idea, since it will take you from "maybe get out of this with a warning" into "they will throw everything they can at you even if they can't get you for speeding".

In theory yes, in practice it's unlikely to ever come up. Wear leveling does wonders, over provisioning does more on top.

If SSDs had come first you'd be saying the same thing about HDDs: Don't HDDs have fragile mechanical parts that fail randomly?

There's 3 types of people:

1) People who lose tools by accident
2) People who steal tools on purpose
3) People who don't lose or steal tools

You might prevent or reduce losses from category 1. You will create a minor inconvenience for people in category 2. And you will piss off everyone in category 3 who will feel like they're no longer trusted.

You can't just ramp up and down a nuclear power plant when the sun goes behind a cloud (exaggeration for affect). It takes a long time for a reactor to heat up and an even longer time for it to cool down. They are very poor when it comes to the use you are advocating.

Alternatively, what they're saying is that it's going to be really really hard and we should take every opportunity possible. Just because small changes aren't enough by themselves doesn't mean small changes don't have a positive impact.

Central to what they are saying is that it isn't enough to be cheaper than coal, you have to be so much cheaper than coal that power companies shutter their coal plants ahead of schedule. We are still building coal plants today, not all that many of them but a few. They will be in operation for 40-50 years according to the plans laid down when they were built.

Anything that touches your skin is disposed of or sterilized. The total service would include 2 minutes to your place, 15 minutes to get you loaded up (I've seen this take up to an hour when my neighbor was unconscious for unclear reasons), 2 minutes back, half hour of wiping down every surface you touched or might have touched, half hour of taking stock of what was used and restocking it, and a half hour of documenting all of that for the insurance costs. I don't think 2 hours is an unrealistic estimate.

And like I said, most days those guys are probably sitting around, getting 1 or two calls per day. Your bill covers that waiting around time also. If it didn't, they wouldn't be waiting around. And if they weren't waiting around, you wouldn't get treatment for half an hour or more when you need it.

Today:
"There's no reason for such firms to be willing to cooperate with state agencies over child abuse but not over combating terrorism"

Tomorrow:
"There's no reason for such firms to be willing to cooperate with state agencies over terrorism but not over combating organized crime"

[etc]

Soon enough:
"There's no reason for such firms to be willing to cooperate with state agencies over petty theft but not over combating traffic violations"

$485 actually... just doesn't seem that bonkers to me, sorry. Two medical professionals, probably 2 hours when all is said and done. Any equipment they used on you must be either disposed of and replaced or sterilized. And you're not just paying for those 2 hours, you're paying for them to be sitting around waiting for you to need them. Now arguably that's an externality that perhaps shouldn't be shoveled onto each individual's bill, but changing that would require a very significant overhaul of the system.

What need of a comet? Species are already dying off at rates not seen in hundreds of millions of years.

Lots of men do, more of them probably should. Lots of women don't. Lot's more are done with that part of their lives. Also, in the US, the law requires only 6 weeks of leave, which doesn't have to be paid, and you aren't guaranteed the same position when you return. And men have the same rights to the same leave when their kids are born.

Not to mention, removing the women would still fail the test. The way to pass the test is not to have one less woman out of a group of twenty, rather it's to have at least two.

Well, since Verizon won't update the drivers for the NFC chip in my phone (Note 3), the only way I ever use Wallet is for digital goods (mostly purchasing Humble Bundles). Guess I'll to switch to Amazon Payments (no way in hell is paypal getting my info).

Direct final fantasy sequels have never sold well because they're not perceived to be part of the "real" series. They always felt like "direct to dvd" sequels, money grabs at best, shovelware at worst. Final Fantasy X-2 sold very poorly even with the fantastic reception FFX had, and X-2 wasn't a terrible game (thought it was a bit obnoxious at times).

The stuff about bullies is a red herring; school shooters are not significantly more bullied than the average. If I had to guess, mass violence works in the brain much the same way that suicide does. There are pressures going every direction in our minds and mechanisms evolved to dampen them before they get too off kilter and cause us to do something horrible that we wouldn't normally do. Sometimes the mechanisms break or are missing or are overwhelmed. We should be putting more effort into identifying when this happens and getting the person help before they do something terrible.