1. Proof is for liquor and mathematics

You shouldn't put those two together. Remember, don't drink and derive!

Not unless you take the key out of the ignition lock.

Part of the reason for a corporation is that you dissociate financial liability between the corporation itself and its employees.

No, a corporation doesn't do that at all. A corporation dissociates liability between the corporation itself and its *owners* (aka shareholders). A bankrupt corporation does not cost its shareholders more than their shares becoming worthless.

Measure of Man? Eh. It had noble intentions, but it snapped my suspension of disbelief cleanly in two. First of all, the central conflict driving the plot made no sense. "Data is a toaster, and toasters have no rights." Uh, yeah. Toasters aren't granted commissions in Starfleet, either. Surely Data's status as a sentient being had to have been definitively settled when he was admitted to Starfleet Academy. And then the secondary complications were so contrived as to be ludicrous. The Starfleet legal system seems to have been meticulously designed to provide for maximum melodrama. The case has to be prosecuted by the first officer, no one else? Or else the defendant is automatically convicted? Really? Anybody who enjoys Star Trek can't examine the hand-waving too closely, granted. But in this case, the absurdity piled on absurdity was too much for me to take.

....makes me giggle.

Why? The bill is all about transparency.

Just not transparency for the government.

Yes, but that was considered the state's business, not subject to regulation by the US Constitution. In fact, when the Constitution was written, one of the main reasons the Bill of Rights prohibited Congress from making any law respecting an establishment of a religion was that the states wanted to be sure that the new Federal government didn't interfere with *their* establishment of a relgigion; there was state funding of the Anglican Church in some southern states, and of the Congregational Church in New England. The Supreme Court did not rule against state and local funding of churches on US Constitutional grounds until 1947.

Baidu claims to have the "mission of providing the best way for people to find what they're looking for online" which is blatant false advertising.

Well, no, it's not, because it's totally meaningless. What's "best"? "Best" is meaningless until it is associated with some set of standards. It can mean the way that's best for the Chinese government, in which case it's totally true.

Baidu is forced on people by the Chinese government.

In China, yes. The US Constitution and US law do not, of course, apply in China. Who in the US is being *forced* to use Baidu? I'm not--in fact, I never use it. Nobody I know is forced to use it. Who in the US is being forced to use it?

This stuff isn't at a high enough concentration to alter the population dynamics of any bacteria in the gut (the most likely target, there should be few bacteria anywhere else but on the skin). But the concern it the dosage would be high enough to trigger an anaphylactoid response as that system comes with a nice group of biological amplifiers as standard equipment.

Homeopathic concentrations are so dilute that the odds are you won't get a *single molecule* of whatever the active ingredient was supposed to be. That's why homeopathy is regarded as quackery by anybody with an understanding of high-school chemistry.

Diablo II? Bah. The original, accept no imitations:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

If Alabama does something completely ridiculous in its penal system no-one says that 'the US is doing this...'

Outside the US? Yeah, they do, actually.

"Do you like my hat? It's made of MONEY!"

I make scrambled eggs in the morning, with mushrooms, onions, and red bell peppers. I consider them to be sweet, but have no idea of where they are on that scale.

Bell peppers are indeed 0 SHU. No heat at all.

That's why we drink it here!

You mean the one where the Klingons looked like sad rejects from the late Beatnik period?

Personally, I always liked Voltaire's description:

What is with the Klingons? Remember in the day
They looked like Puerto Ricans and they dressed in gold lame.