You claim the intellectual high ground, and yet you have no problem extrapolating the opinions of all Americans from those of a random selection of commenters?

There may be some truth to that, but it doesn't change the fact that forcing an employer to not fire someone is itself and abridgment of someones freedom.

That's an interesting possibility, but the tinfoil hat wearing part of me still worries where that will lead.

Were not infallible when it comes to deciding what's best for our brains. Remember lobotomies? For a time society agreed those were beneficial as well.

If were going to judge people by their brains and whatnot rather than just their actions, why stop at using it as evidence? Why not preemptively imprison or euthanize people with "defective" brain types, or force them to undergo "corrective" surgery? While were at it, why just sociopaths? Why not identify revolutionary or disobedient brain types and "fix" those as well?

The fact that you got modded up is a bit disconcerting. The vast majority of police armor is either class II or IIIA. The lowest class even rated for any rifles is III.

IIIA is rated up to 427m/s for 124gr 9mm FMJ rounds. Even assault rifles like the ak47 fire 200gr bullets at at least 700m/s. OP is dead on, light rifles (ak, m4 ect) firmly outclass police body armor. If the attacker's wielding a full power rifle like the m14 or an m700 in .300, the officer might as well be wearing a thick sweater.

I don't know what gave you this impression.

The fundamental philosophy of "anti-nanny staters" is that it's not the governments job to protect people from themselves. Your mistaken if you believe that the majority of us take drug use to be an exception to this principle.

Lol, that's great. I wish I had mod points.

Am I the only one thinking wearing it down with solvent or electrolysis might be the way to go? It looks like they've got pretty good access, they could even pour a silicone sealant past it to keep the solvent out of places it shouldn't be, then peel it out afterward.
 

Only at NASA can a stuck knob result in 6 months of delays.

Alright fair enough, I mean that's what I did, but alot of slashdoters like myself whould first grumble about there not being a link to said article in the story. So I figured near the top of the comments was the next best thing.

Also, I've already got excelent karma. Once they come out with a +2 Godlike-Karma-bonus you can legitimatly troll me for karma-whoring.

ZFS:

(sorry for the double post, should have included the quote from the beginning)

ZFS

Tell me about it.

Back when I was in high school I would've responded to one of those lectures with "that's what you guys said about learning to write in cursive" and leave it at that.

Get with the times man.

10 Mb/s is fine sure, if you ok with your furnace topping out at 20 kilio-tweets/sec. I'll bet your furnace isn't even HD capable.

The same way they get their manicures.

The new "infofuse" satisfies the militaries desire to replace emergency Morse code lamps which are considered unfit for military use in that they are neither extremely expensive, awkward to use or proprietary.

The new equipment is expected to be welcomed by troops later this year when it will issued along with the militaries new grid based individual communication radios or gbicr's for short.

The 50 billion dollar gbicr system will allow an individual soldiers to communicate with any other soldier by simply punching the recipients unique 31 digit alphanumeric identification code into the device and speaking with them via the devices built in speaker and microphone. Through extensive use of advanced nanomaterials, the finished device is expected to be as small in size and weight as an average house brick.