You get the 12 mile military and 200 mile fishing limits for your land per international law. However, this must be land above the water. You cannot find land under the surface, dump tons of dirt on it, and claim those rights, per same law.

This doesn't mean you can't create the islands, but you can't do the 12 mile/200 mile thing. China thinks it can.

Money, being literally coins of precious metal, had intrinsic worth. Said government or bank could go to hell or lose a war, and you still have the value.

In that way, it started as merely another form of trade, a convenience to hold value from one sale until you found what you wanted to buy.

If the US went belly up, you have numbers on paper. When Kuwait was invaded, they were on a gold standard, but good luck going down to the Kuwaiti government requesting gold for paper, with a Saddam guy there.

From a US perspective, perhaps. But truth is not a defense in Europe, even for public figures (who thus use censorship to protect their power by preventing criticism.)

The legal power to silence criticism is at the core of the absolutist nature of the First Amendment. Government doesn't get to decide what kinds of criticism are permitted, by them, the people in power with police behind them.

Well that's why you have to stop Europe from demanding worldwide compliance, so dictatorships can't use it as precedence.

It's the wrong kind of precidence, showing governments with the power to censor.

How do you prosecute people for not forseeing a double-whammy overcoming triple redundancy?

Humanity learns these things the hard way. And if someone imagined it later, talk to politicians and businessmen for not upgrading it, not engineers.

Also, wtf with the pylon issue, people? Just put the generators on the third floor of a mildly reinforced building, i.e. metal beams sunk into cement, details left for a sophomore civil engineer. No need for something Daffy Duck might like.

Well, what's BBC-America supposed to do? Now their only British show for us is Star Trek: Next Generation.

I say we follow the Dutch model of compassion. They pay prostitutes to jerk off people in hospitals.

I'm not gonna remember a number like that!

If I need to bypass a child filter for a porn site in some hellish future UK dystopia, I'll just go ask a kid.

This. The early days of the Internet were loaded with "Enter credit card number to verify your are legally an adult", and soon someone in Asia was charging stuff to you and threatening to send letters to your employer to ask why you are a scumbucket who doesn't pay their porn bills for Eatgerbilass.com.

I'm sure some politicians would be fine with that as a cryptic disincentive to something they frown upon (when preening in public, not when their wives to shopping of course) and even having to give a real name for that matter.

Terrible idea. This varies depending on time of year, did it just rain, etc. What about calibration tests?

It is useless for comparison between cities, or even as a representative number for a particular city.

Walmart also has the cheapest glucose strips around, about $9 for 50 of the ReLion Prime. This whomps the ass of the OneTouch generic shared among pharmacy chains, at $37/50, when I switched several years ago.

When the biggest complaint TV shows like Simpsons, Family Guy, and South Park can make is they are saving people too much money, well...

Meanwhile, in a worldwide collapse due to war or an asteroid, Type 2s find themselves losing weight and the need for insulin. Their arteries clear, their blood pressure drops, their life expectancy skyrockets...to 60.

This scares the shit out of me, a guy with almost 30 years of programming experience. What the hell is Grampa supposed to do?

Well, not me, I mean my grandpa. My proverbial grandpa, my real ones died before I was born. My in-law, let's say, or dad. Ok most of them are dead, too, and I guess I am the patriarch of my family now.

Ok, grampa and expert computer programmer are merged now. I do not want to burn CDs, or type on command lines, or go get drivers myself for freaking major party 3d cards. If I don't wanna deal, what is grandp...nevermind.

Do charlatans have a right to stir up fear to enrich themselves via books and useless substitutes, with no evidence of a problem whatsoever and tons of evidence in safety?

Pardon me, I have to go buy gluten-free cheeseburger buns. It must be a valid concern, right? Also, I am getting a vaccine without thimerosol or adjuvants, whew!

Stop posting all those Windows 10 OMG!!! threads.