Will the orangutan be an Argentine citizen?

I do hope you mean "on my bare behind."

Since changed DNA is located only in the portion of the exerciser's body that was used in exercise, it seems clear that the best approach is to provide frequent endurance training for the organs of reproduction. After all, the DNA in your legs doesn't get passed on to your offspring.

I'm pleased to hear about this, because I've been considering a career change. Nice to know there are some new options:

DJ = Death Jockey -- provide color commentary

Emcee - Mortician of Ceremonies ("Hi, I'm Ebeneezer Grimsuit, and this is "Good Mourning America....")

...it's a very slow day at the office.

We had a death in the family. An older person.

The rest of the family was scattered across Europe, North America, and Asia. We had about 30 people at the ceremony in North America, and nearly as many watching by Skype from around the world. It was a good thing.

You may or may not want this for yourself or your loved ones, but I cannot imagine why funeral directors-- craven, predatory businesses--would be entitled to an opinion on the subject. I'm also annoyed by the failure to recognize that many families and traditions cremate or otherwise dispose of the body, but of course this point exposes the argument about needing a body for the family to grieve properly as the nonsense it is.

This just seems like another attempt by the funeral industry to exploit grief for proft, hoping to find a way to extract a few more dollars (maybe by renting larger rooms?) from people that have already been bilked out the cost of "deluxe" caskets.

So you're proposing to replace torture with brain surgery? How is that better? Why would we think that the detainees would provide better evidence under surgery than under water boarding and hummus enemas? The interrogators still wouldn't have the means to evaluate the responses, and would just accept the answers that match their preconceptions.

I don't think I'll be able to understand your point without a car analogy... please help.

By which logic, nobody should ever go to jail for murder. After all, the victim can't testify...

Yeah, coding would be good knowledge for people on the hill, especially in the light of legislation about H-1 visas and the like. No disagreement.

That said, I think general science literacy would have greater overall impact and make a greater positive impact on my life and my confidence in the direction that things are going.

Really, I don't need my legislators to know how to program, because I don't know that programming skills are what's needed to produce good legislation and policy.

Basic literacy in science, and the honesty to make evidence-based decisions would be much higher on my list of essential skills for congressvermin.

The sample was a set of legal briefs, but the conclusions were about judges. Small samples may work, but you can't sample population A to make an inference about unrelated population B.

By analogy, the fact that my ice cream truck only sells half as much ice cream as I expect doesn't tell me that there aren't many kids in the neighborhood. Maybe my prices are crazy. Maybe my only flavor is chocolate-chutney ripple. Maybe the scary clown on the top of my truck frightens children away. From looking at my inventory, there's probably not enough information to tell.

The fact that judges didn't read pages and 3 and 4 of the briefs could be because the documents were late, incorrectly presented, or manifestly incorrect on the first page.

No need to read the rest.

I am not at all sure that the benefit of "creating a degree of transparency to improve public trust" will outweigh the benefit of maintaining a degree of secrecy to permit the improper activities. The loss of freedom for some police will be tangible; the gain in reputation will not be. The only hope would be to have this imposed on police departments from outside.

Keeping the classified material more than 7 meters away from the cell phones doesn't seem like that hard a measure to put in place. Maybe you could put a source of interference near the phone lockers if you wanted extra security.

Shitty customer service is not a strategy.

I was doing computer work in the 1980s. I worked with women who were programming, doing VAX & mainframe admin, and performing actual rigorous systems analysis.

The claim that women are not interested in technology or computing is just false.