Companies will also flee towards Switzerland as it's the only other semi tax haven in Europe, and since the Swiss did not outspend their tax receipts, they're in a financially pretty good shape and thus taxes will most likely stay low.

No, one would have to weed out socialism for this. And not to store it underground to make it reappear hundreds of years later.

A antibiotics-resistant version of Yersinia pestis would be optimal - high killing rate, high infection rate, and the disease spread can only be stopped with drastic measures.

If I were a terrorist, I'd forego using Ebola since this disease kills it's host rather fast. Too fast for a successful spread of the disease.

Depends. There are certainly some high-ranking officials going visiting prostitutes. Attach the device to their car, and the county/state has the sex&crime scandal it needs.

100 US-$ is still no deterrent. Go to Singapore.

1200 SGD for one offense, the SGD is maybe 80 US cents. Kind of works.

They tried that in the UK, in Germany and some other places. And guess what - they still have guns. Better use ShotSpotter if it really works, at least with non-sound-suppressed guns.

The problem is not the huge amount of guns (Switzerland, Norway, Finland and even Sweden have a rather high gun density, but rather little violent crime), but the social breakdown of society. If you want to fix that, it's either by making these people think that legal work is more desirable than ten years in a hellhole of jail, or by simply having a death squad clean up the gangs, sans due process.

Down in Switzerland, they need to be registered as a financial intermediary, at least. Which basically means that if they aren't, any enterprising lawyer could catch them for not fulfilling the legal rules regarding money laundering. And regardless of what they talk about tax laws, the Swiss money laundering rules are strict.

Maye I'm just very good, but so far, I haven't been able to kill my manual transmission in a BMW E36, and that's wth more than 120k miles on it. Also, when buying such cars used, one can save a lot of money if the previous owner wasn't a moron.

Then go for a 12 gauge shotgun with bird shot. Perfect up to 10 meters, and yes, it can and does kill, even with less-than-perfect shot placement. At less than five meters, you have the same effect as a huge Glaser safety slug that upon impact, transforms from a solid bullet into a frangible one, for a fraction of the cost of that new-fangled bullet and it's legal everywhere where smooth-bore shotguns are legal (which might make it California, Ohio and New Jersey-legal).

However, there's not much over-penetration, if any. A brick wall will stop the pellets, and at more than 10m, even a wooden door might.

And most criminals, upon hearing a shotgun being racked WILL rethink their idea to burglarize your home. And if you're against taking life, just do what Marsellus Wallace did in Pulp Fiction on Zed.

Simpler.

Gun conrol is not about guns, but about control.

The device looks like a prime candidate for sidetalking, at least to me.

In our company, we have resorted to implementing a fascist GPO to solve the problem. Actually, in the untrusted zone, IE can't:

- run javascript
- directly launch an associated application (like a PDF)
- run Flash
- run ActiveX
- change of the default home page
- install toolbars
- use any other search provider except Google

amongst others. It has become a sport to lock down IE as much as possible without removing it completely - this encourages using other browsers.

Annoying people so much that they switch browsers has actually been the best strategy so far to prevent IE security problems in a predominantly windows company.