Which is censorship if you're doing it for any reason other than that it wouldn't sell enough.

I don't anyone suggested it's unconstitutional, but are you opposed to government censorship because you actually think it's a bad idea, or just because the constitution forbids it?

I'd be afraid, if this became common, lots of people would wait longer before moving forward, so they can keep the engine off more. That's likely to make the traffic jams a lot worse, and cost more fuel overall.

They want to name important ships after cities and states, and they aren't making heavy cruisers and battleships anymore.

And too many of the questions don't have clear answers.

What was your first pet? We had a dog and two cats when I was born.
What's your favorite band? Depends when you ask me.
What was your first car? Could be any of four, depending on what qualifies as mine.
What city were you born in? "Elkins", "Elkins, WV", "Elkins West Virginia"?

Sure, I can just pick one, but am I going to pick the same thing six months from now?

Well, Internal Affairs. Unfortunately, we've all seen so many cop shows that we're conditioned to think of Internal Affairs as the enemy, when it should be seen as the single most noble public-service position there is.

That's what you should do, yes, but it's not what really happens.

My wife was on a murder jury where everyone agreed that the only witness they didn't think was lying was the medical examiner, and there were several unaddressed questions. The best she could do was to talk them down to second degree.

No, that's Radio Shack, or a Yahoo yellow pages search for small computer stores.

Best Buy used to be great for CDs, but now most of them only have about two rows. The rest of the space has gone to TVs.

And probably poorly. I'm unlikely to ever be enpaneled for any significant criminal case, because if I have any questions that the testimony didn't answer, I'm going to consider that reasonable doubt.

Juries shouldn't be doing their own investigations in secret, but they should be able to ask witnesses questions, and send requests for more testimony. They should also have complete access to transcripts and crime scene photographs.

Sometimes, but a lot will depend on the size of the conference room. At my office, we replaced one of our projectors with a 57" TV earlier this year.

Wasn't that Punky Brewster?

Sure, for a little while. What you're describing, though, is a case of money completely leaving our economy, and not generally for anything that improves our productivity.

Money is just a proxy, and long-term, we need to be providing roughly as much value to other economies as they provide to us. Otherwise, we're just expecting tribute from all those other countries.

And some just get depressed watching cut flowers die.

If you're trying to use anal as birth control, watch out where semen leaks to afterwards. Pregnancies are still quite possibly.

How about "because I am polite"? I open doors for everyone.

Sure, you're paying for it anyway, but what's the point of the extra complexity you get from splitting it out?