Meanwhile, another person has dropped two different weights from the Tower of Pisa, and observed that they landed at the same time.

And this just in: high-resolution photos taken from the International Space Station appear to confirm that the Earth is approximately spherical in shape. Experiments intended to determine whether objects in motion tend to stay in motion, are underway.

In this case, the concern, which I think is fairly small but I can't deny that weirder things have happened, is that what's considered a normal, "meets expectations," level of productivity could be based on results obtained through the use of these grey-market or black-market drugs. This takes an already high-strung workforce and puts unreasonable expectations on them, such that more people may abuse these drugs and suffer the negative ramifications of them, who wouldn't otherwise be inclined to try them in the first place.

I struggle enough with caffeine and the negative effects of trying to keep intake manageable that I can't imagine how bad an addictive substance with much worse withdrawal symptoms would be.

Bitcoin has no inherent worth. At least fiat currency, in physical form, can be burned for heat or used to clean-up after using the bathroom, or melted down and used for weights for fishing.

Bitcoin has no tangible component at all, so it has no inherent worth. It's value is entirely dependent on the demand for it by others.

I really, really wanted to buy a Nexus 6, but between the lack of modular battery and the lack of SD slot, I don't think that it's the right phone for me. Shame really, I want the right LTE bands and all of the other stuff that it has, but I also want the ability to have modular storage.

When the officer comes to your window with exasperated claims about the speeds he had to reach to catch up to you, and then asks you why he pulled you over instead of telling you why he pulled you over, then the tone of the traffic stop is set by officer.

Up until that point I had operated under the assumption that the police would treat me fairly. That stop combined with the two court appearances to get the citation dismissed completely dispelled any belief in the Joe-Friday cop.

...make people, not computers, buy and sell.

It'll never happen, but given that it may be hard to convince a jury that the DoJ's claim is true due to the technical nature of the 'crime', I don't see how it's going to improve when commodities and stock traders can manipulate the markets simply through the act of offering to buy and sell.

I'm sure you had the same level of skepticism towards an article published in Rolling Stone last fall.

I saw a movie like this once ... it had zombies or something.

California HSR is a joke. The cost of the project is already exceeding what was promised to the voters of the bond. Which means, it won't be nearly done for the price promised to tax payers by the liberal democrats who want the thing. Not only that, the estimated cost of tickets has already exceeded the cost of airline tickets for the same trip, and are considerably more than gas / mileage in a car.

It would be cheaper to give every California family a Tesla and build electric charging stations in every town.

But, actual costs aren't the issue, or so liberals love to tell us. I have no idea why liberals love trains so much, they are just another mode of transportation.

Officers can find ways to bring criminal complaints if they want. I was once pulled over for supposedly squealing tires and was issued a misdemeanor citation rather than a civil traffic citation because the officer had a bug up his ass. Even the prosecutor felt it was a waste of his time, so it got dismissed. Thankfully it resulted in citation with a requirement to appear rather than arrest, but either way the officer had a choice in how he handled the situation and he chose to be a dick.

Properly used, drug dogs are good at detecting drugs. The problem isn't the dogs, it is the handlers. A trained drug dog can "alert" when given a cue by the handler, falsely indicating drugs, when the dog didn't sniff any. There is no way to interrogate a drug dog in court about what it was smelling or if it was just following daddy's orders to alert on cue.

I would, if I were a lawyer, put a drug dog as a witness, and if I could get it to cue up an alert, then I would call for dismissal of all things after the dog alerted.

.. and here's a source that says there's a cover-up, that ISIS is indeed there. Link

Are they there? Beats me. If they are, if they're smart, they'll stay in Mexico. We Texans have lots of guns, after all.

Doesn't negate "line of sight". Infrared is typically line of sight, but also can bounce off walls. And if anyone walks between the remote and the TV, it just doesn't work.

The classic phrase is "film at 11".

Your reasoning is also highly suspect, as it rests on the completely unwarranted assumption that corporate leaders act on the collective will of their employees, or even of their shareholders.

Drawbacks are huge.