According to the Bureau of Justice Statistics, there are approximately 6,937,600 offenders under the supervision of adult correctional systems at yearend 2012. Approximately 2.2 million are incarcerated. The remainder are on parole or under community supervision (i.e probation.) I would suggest that your 50k number is low, by at least an order of magnitude.

Yep, learn the difference between "grid tied" and "grid interactive" systems. The latter will operate locally when the grid drops out; the former will not.

I'm dealing with family members who are obese. You would think, by their reactions, "choice" was the nickname of Satan. I've heard the littany of excuses from the thyroid to the social environment. At the end of the day, the "choice" exists as to what you shovel into your pie hole with your own hand. You might have a metabolism that compels you to eat, but nobody but yourself decides *what* you eat. There is no shadowy figure holding a gun to your head, threatening your very life unless you eat that Family Size bag of Doritos in one sitting.

I've watched an obese family member make and eat an entire batch of cookies because she was feeling bad, and had to suffer through her diatribe about how "it's not my fault" and "why won't someone else solve my problems for me?" crapola. There can be no respect in these situations. And putting these people on continuous medication programs will only further absolve them of responsibility for their actions.

Folks seem to be misunderstanding the purpose of the phone. It's not for your convenience. The phone is a conduit to connect your wallet to a carrier's bank account. That's why *every* carrier is willing to "give" you a phone for a substantial discount. Allowing you to change the phone's capabilities is equivalent to turning off the money stream.

Now, if they could get a piece of the action, that's a horse of a different color.

[facepalm]

And how do you plan to validate their public key without a CA?

That's easy - just have the phones exchange keys over Bluetooth.

There are many laws, including the 14th Amendment to the US Constitution, that cover equal treatment of people. Horses are not people, and do not enjoy the same rights and legal protections we do. In fact, horses are often ground up into food and adhesives.

I am currently an officer of the ""He-Man Women Hater's Club." As a private club, I may deny you and anyone else admittance to said club, for pretty much any reason - I don't like your hair; you have the wrong color eyes; it's Tuesday. My behavior may be unfair, or even discriminatory, but it's not illegal*, and you may pound sand.


*Note that certain establishments, like restaurants, do come under legal scrutiny because they have an interaction with the public. There are many other examples where discriminatory behavior is prohibited, but a private horse registry ain't one of them.

Monopolies are bad. I'm not contesting that. However, it's completely specious to claim "monopoly" on the basis that the American Quarter Horse Association controls the American Quarter Horse Association Registry. Of course they do, it's their registry. The statement "none of the other horse registries accept clones either." tends to indicate that there are multiple registries ... aka "not a monopoly." I suspect these registries won't allow you to register your cheeseburger, nor your motorcycle. I'm sure several of the My Little Pony characters are quarterhorses. Can they be registered too?

Now, if the registries are colluding in an oligopolistic fashion, and are taking anti-competitive measures, then there is actionable stuff there. However, if the AQHA has a policy of not registering cloned animals, so be it.

The quarter horse association, which has a registry of 751,747 animals, stated in court that it is a private organization and has the right to decide its membership rules.

I'm with the Quarter Horse Association on this one. They're not the government. They have no "fairness" obligation to everyone. I don't see how they can be accused of holding a monopoly when "no other horse breeding registry allows cloned animals ..." indicates that they ain't the only game in town. Start your own damned registry if you don't like the current offerings. If the incumbents run you out of Dodge on a rail, then you have an actionable claim based on anti-competitive business practices. But I don't see how you can claim "monopoly" simply because you don't like a private organization's rules.

Hey, I just started the "No Clones Alllowed Horse Registry." Can these two horse breeders sue me and force my no-clones registry to accept their cloned animals?

That's not "stupid," that's "cost shifting." If you're trying to win a contest, you might even call it "strategy."

Doesn't seem to work with my Motorola V750. How about a 1-finger gesture?

Worst case? Sentient plants growin' across interstellar space (a la "Jayce and the Wheeled Warriors.")

More than likely, the $20 "advance" was a trap. If Mann had deposited the $20 payment, her opponent could have demonstrated that the expired contract wasn't expired, as evidenced by the payment that was accepted. Returning it was the right thing to do.

The "uncertainty" in this principle is whether or not you will be mauled by a ball of fur-and-claws should you open said box. Your curiosity compels you to determine if the box contains a cat ... because it's kinda stupid like that. However, your self-preservation instinct is aware of the potential to condense an angry-cat reality via observation. What to do? What to do? ...

Oh, open the goddamned box already, ferchrssakes.!

The FCC charges commercial users a license fee for trunked radio services. Often, a company will buy the spectrum license for a region, then offer services to customers within that region. The expense is in the fees.