Because they believe they MIGHT get better.

I can't speak for anyone else, but I'm pretty religious and I actually like my life. I enjoy spending time with my family and I'd like to hang around for a while. I actually don't spend a great deal of time thinking about the afterlife. I find that living my beliefs makes me happier in this life.

The stratosphere is about 8-15 km above sea level, depending on latitude. To put this in perspective, the top of Mt. Everest is two-ish km shy of the stratosphere.

What's that? I'm detecting a hint of sarcasm in the parent post.

Wow, slashdotters must have a REALLY low opinion of lawyers to have modded this insightful instead of funny.

Damn Canadians...

I don't know, but I know that he won't be saying it in court!

Spoken like someone who has never actually read a scientific paper. Any paper I've seen will give you: (1) the historical context for why they are doing a study, (2) the assumptions made in doing the study, (3) details on the observational data and model used in completing the study, and (4) a RANGE of possible results. It is true that the media typically doesn't do a good job of reporting uncertainties, but don't accuse the scientists of sloppiness when you're completely unaware of what goes into a scientific paper.

I don't like this at all. Suspend her, give her detention, whatever. But don't frisk and arrest her for texting. What the hell is happening to our schools?

Mario has been doing this for years, and he doesn't even need the "small unmanned boat". http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Super_Mario_Sunshine

That's all right. Our Secretary of the Treasury doesn't know how to pay his taxes.

In our case, yes the light was in each frame. It showed my wife's car entering the intersection with a red light, and leaving it around 2 seconds later (also with a red light). Like I said, I was pretty impressed.

Utah actually does have "bars" in addition to these private clubs. But the bars can only serve beer and wine. http://www.visitutah.org/liquorlaws.htm

In Cobb County, GA, they provide about four of five pictures, effectively giving you a time profile of the infraction. I was rather impressed when my wife's ticket arrived in the mail. They really made it quite clear that she was moving through the red light.

You must be kidding me. All right, here's the scenario. Three 30 year olds walk into a bar. One looks about 20, one about 30, and the other about 40. You're the bartender. What do you do? 1. Ask the one who looks 20 for his ID, but not the other, thereby offending him. 2. Ask only the two who looks like they're under 40. 3. For goodness sake, just ask ALL three of them for their IDs and be done with it!