It strikes me along the same lines as new TV set offerings. TV manufacturers are trying everything to get that next big hardware push like they had when people were converting to HD flat screens. They've tried 3D, Some of them are trying curved screens, and 4K is the next thing they'll try.

This strikes me as a similar last ditch effort to get their ecosystem out to more people and grab up a new segment of hardware. We went from Laptops to Smartphones first, then tablets, and now they're going to try wearables.

I think what we will find is that the consumer is not a bottomless well that will continue to buy into new hardware markets. Sure, some of them will, but the market penetration will get smaller and smaller as more odd-ball form factors are tried. It's probably a big enough market to have a couple products sell in okay numbers, but I think manufacturers will quickly realize that this market is not as big as they hoped and it will then stagnate as far as hardware improvements go.

Are you saying that a year in prison is not long enough for illegal use of a database? That seems like a suitable punishment to me.

All the things you mention are not born out of religious faith. They are born out of organized religious groups (churchs, etc.) that twist people's faith to their advantage.

If you want to hate someone because they believe there is a spiritual being that pulls the strings of the world, well that's being bigoted against a person that has beliefs that can't be proven.

If you want to hate someone because they preach about the sins of other groups/religions and promote violence and attacks on those groups, that is fine.

The fine line is that many people that speak like you do go beyond hating the people that use religion to promote violence and hate, and start hating people just because they believe in something that you don't believe in.

It's glass fibers in a plastic matrix. Polyester plastic is a common matrix material for fiberglass, but others can be used as well. Without the plastic, the glass fibers would not hold together other than woven mats that would then basically be a glass fiber textile.

I still hold by my position that society has been trying to dictate the way people live their lives for thousands of years not based solely on crimes with victims but by a persons behavior as well. Etiquette, morality, traditional gender roles, fraternal groups, religious organizations. There have always been groups of people that pressure others to conform. People on the outside are treated poorly. I'm not saying that this is how things should be.

Your comment said trying to control other people's lives was profoundly anti-social. I'm telling you this is the essence of what social organization is. The best you can do is find a social group that has similar beliefs and behaviors to your own.

Really only if you consider eating too much and not being able to handle the intense high ODing on it. I generally consider an overdose to be a life threatening situation, as in actually life threatening, not that you believe you're dying.

Really, this problem wouldn't be so bad if people didn't consume normal brownies in massive quantities. If you just ate a normal amount of the pot brownies you'd be less likely to have this issue.

Perhaps you've just heard of this thing called society. It has been all about conforming to social norms with punishments for doing tabboo things for thousands of years now. The only real changes have been what is a norm and what is a tabboo.

I think the general idea is that if accidents and natural causes were the top causes of death, people would be living longer before dying. Yes, death is certain, but it comes a lot sooner the worse your behavior is.

There are countless children that never met their father even though he is alive and well somewhere. Countless more that have slight recollections of a parent from when they were young and before they left their lives. People don't follow through on their responsibilities and you can't force someone to raise their children properly. Is it really worse for a child to be orphaned because their parent killed themself with a gun, than to be orphaned because their parent just left?

That's a valid option to improve your experience. I like the AC's approach too, if a site is overbearing with their multi-page articles, overlays, and ads, just stop reading the page at all and don't go back. That's the true method to "vote with your feet" on the web.

When we've burned up enough coal to reach that point everyone in those other countries will be screwed too.

You can't compare insolation levels like that either. comparisons of Germany to Alaska insolation levels are over an entire year. During that year, there are parts of Alaska with days that are under a few hours, and parts of the year where there is constant sunshine. The time of the year in Alaska that people need energy the most is in the dark cold winter, but that is precisely when there is little to no sun at all. If storing solar energy for the night is a hard problem, imagine trying to store it for the winter.

a wide variety of sources? You mean Kazakhstan or Canada. They control just over 50% of worldwide Uranium production. Australia, Namibia and Niger have the next 25%. Then you have Russia, Uzbekistan, and the US. That's really it. Full list here

Of course Canada and Australia (the US too, but they're at 3% of the market and probably use most of it internally) would most likely not have any problems selling Uranium to Germany in the future

Funny thing is your average hard drug dealer does the same thing. They make money at the detriment of their loyal customers. They know they'll keep coming back because they are horribly addicted and have nothing else to do. If they eventually do lose a customer, they find a new crowd of young customers that haven't gone through the cycle as many times to get jaded.

Much better examples of red flags.You're right those are all bad signs. I also think it's interesting that he mentioned Freescale first and it didn't come into existence until 20 years after he started in the field.

I certainly wouldn't give him any money, but then again I don't give money to any kickstarter projects. I think its best use is for more arts and media focused projects. Movies, games, and other consumable content. People have been trying to use it as a replacement for angel investing for technical products and that is ripe for scamming.