So, I guess the whole thing comes down to: When is an online order 'complete'?

After the buyer has both paid for and taken delivery of the item.

You must own a business.

So, what you're saying is, the business can take my money, 'ship' the product (Ground, of course), then, on the last day before it's delivered, cancel the shipping and have it returned to them, all that time keeping my money in their bank accounts, earning them interest, and only then refund me? Bull.

On the other hand... if the price said $3000, BUT the cash register rings up $300, they need not honor the $300 price: if the clerk catches the error, before finalizing the transaction. If the clerk doesn't catch the error --- tells the customer this is what their price is: then the deal is final after the customer pays.

Similarly IF THE WEBSITE advertises $1000, but when you got to checkout, your total shows $100. The customer should expect the store won't honor the $100 price; if their online shopping cart disagrees with the advertised price.

So, I guess the whole thing comes down to: When is an online order 'complete'? When they say 'thanks for your order', and email you a confirmation? (That's what I'd say.) Or when they actually ship? Or when you get the order delivered?

You're talking about the BandAid method. BandAids come with "Sterility Guaranteed unless opened" printed on them. Of course, you can't check to see if they're sterile without opening them, and then they are no longer guaranteed to be sterile.

Unless they're magic, they have to get energy from somewhere for all that shuffling.

Exactly.

For zombies to move, their muscles must be working. For their muscles to work, they must have a source of energy. Absent 'magic', that source of energy is blood sugar and oxygen, which needs to be delivered to the muscles by the circulatory system. This means zombies have hearts that beat, lungs that breathe, and blood that flows. (So, basically, aren't they are still alive?) So shooting them Not in the head would still result in blood loss (zombies don't perform First Aid on themselves), and would result in 'killing' them. This also means that zombies need to eat something, otherwise they'd all be dead due to starvation in a few weeks. (no food= no blood sugar= no muscles moving)

This is why the 'infected' type zombies are more logical than the original 'magical dead coming back to un-life' zombies.

When a new expensive electric vehicle catches fire, it is news. Maybe not stop-the-presses news, but news nonetheless.

Yup. Comes down to observer bias, just like nuclear energy. A nuke plant has an accident that results in a tiny leak of radioactive steam (resulting in exactly 0 deaths)? OH NOES!! THE WURST THING EVAR!!!!! But if a coal power plant spits out literally TONS of CO2, ash, soot (and even radioactive isotopes that were in the coal!), and that's a "Meh".

FBI will have a new addition to their "uniform" - alpaca socks.
And they can also buy absurd amounts of quality coffee. This is actually it, there is nothing else you can use your bitcoins for.

Lies.

http://usebitcoins.info/

There are thousands of businesses that accept Bitcoins.

DUI, per se, that is, driving with a BAC over a certain number, is not harmful. Getting into an accident is harmful. And there is some evidence that people who DUI have a higher chance of getting into accidents.

Of course, there is just as much evidence that being fat/out of shape due to poor eating/exercising habits is harmful. For instance, it takes real time and money to send an ambulance out when you get a heart attack (caused by cholesterol caused by poor eating). Government mandated diets and exercise regimens for everyone!! And the cops should have the right to warrantlessly search your kitchen to make sure you don't have unhealthy food!

Streaming means you are at the mercy of the provider. If they determine it is not profitable enough to carry a particular show/movie, then you lose access to it. Probably forever.

At least if you "hoard" it, you have a local copy you can watch whenever.

Pulling his gun out and threatening Trayvon with it wouldn't leave any marks.

Oh, I always change my mind when presented with irrefutable evidence such as "That sucks" or "shitty idea". I do my best to ignore things like 'arguments', 'reasoning' or 'logic'- those only serve to inflame the situation.

I see you've never had your server compromised.

"The certifier contacts the sender and demands an explanation. If sender was hacked, they fix the security hole and tell certifier they
did so. If spam was not spam, or a misunderstanding, they explain."

A hacked server might result in the revocation of the certification (and thus the UN-certification of all the emails sent by it), but the company can simply re-certify (with a new key pair).

And of course nobody can spoof an email header or perform a Joe Job.

What's what the Public-key cryptography is for. No email can pretend to be from your server, unless it has an encrypted header encrypted with your private key. Which is, you know, private.

These are just two obvious holes. There are certainly more.

Actually, they're not holes at all.

When a flash mob forms and disrupts all the robots at once,

http://www.larryniven.net/stories/cloak_of_anarchy.shtml

What a well-thought-out and detailed response. I particularly like that way you went into detail on every point you raised, weighing the pros and the cons.

Just switch over to Email Certification.

Long story short, everyone who wants to send Certified mail has to be 'certified' by their ISP. (UN-certified mail would still be possible, if
you wish.) Getting certified is nothing more than providing enough information to positively identify you, and costs a nominal fee.
In return, you create a public/private key pair, and give the public one to the certifier. The private key goes into your email server, which
adds some headers to each outgoing email. One of these is encrypted with the private key. When someone with a certification-compliant email
program receives a certified email, the program reads the headers, connects to the certifer's certification server, and downloads the public
key. It then uses the public key to decrypt the encrypted header. If successful, it proves that email came from the specified server, and no one
else.

If you get spam, your email client has a big 'report certified spam' button. Click it, and an email is auto-launched to the certifier of the
sender. The certifier contacts the sender and demands an explanation. If sender was hacked, they fix the security hole and tell certifier they
did so. If spam was not spam, or a misunderstanding, they explain.

If, OTOH, the sender does not reply, then the certifier revokes their certification, and from that moment on, all their (the senders) emails are
UN-certified.

What if a Certifier themselves is 'evil'? Well, it's certainly possible to have blacklists like they do now, but, instead of blacklisting IP
addresses, which get re-assigned and cause trouble for their new owners, it would be evil Certifiers that get listed and blocked.
Eventually, it'll reach a point where any spam that is sent out will get the sender 'de-certified' almost immediately. That means everyone else
probably never ends up seeing the spam at all (depending on how their clients handle un-certified emails. Most people will probably auto-trash
them.)

However, white lists are still possible. If you like getting emails from a certain un-certified sources, just white-list them, and you'll
continue to get them. You can also use challenge-response or keyword set-ups for people sending you un-certified email.

TL;DR:
By proving who sent the email (or, more precisely, which server did), Email Certification can hold the server owner responsible. If they send
spam, they get de-certified, which means in all likely hood, they lose the ability to email anyone at all. Spammers who can't get certified
can't send emails anyone will see.

At the same time, if the job will take an hour when proper safety measures are followed but if you take more than 45 minutes, you're fired, the fault lies with management. It's not uncommon for employers to pay lip service to safety but then structure things to assure it will be ignored.

A simple letter/email to your boss with pointing this out ("safe practices take one hour, minimum, you say it must be done in 45minutes- are you telling me to be unsafe?"), and requesting a (written) response usually sort these matters out. None but the stupidest manager will put their job on the line by stating in writing that you must not follow standard safety practices. And the ones that do... you sue.