The only way to make it work is with an inhuman amount of brutality. It is within our power to eradicate their entire territory with nuclear weapons, and I promise you, nothing will rise up there to take its place (not for a few hundred years until the radiation dies down anyway). The rest of the world may then turn against the United States, but the ISIS problem would be 100% solved.

In other words, no, it never really works. That level of violence is self-defeating. ISIS is finding that much out themselves though, because all their Muslim neighbors (and *especially* Jordan) hate them with a passion. I agree that the U.S. needs to help put a stop to them, but cancers like ISIS do tend to get killed off pretty handily by the rest of the world.

I don't think that would be considered battery since the action is against the car - vandalism or destruction of property I could easily see though. Poisoning is because you are taking action against their person (also poisoning of almost any kind if a felony in most jurisdictions).

That's just lazy conmanship. You die with the lie son - tech support doesn't get angry, tech support patiently explains again and again what they want you to do. Needs to be a practiced fake cheerful voice right up to the point they hang up on you.

Most people won't risk jail time to cover their employer's ass. Perjury is actually a fairly serious offense. Why would you risk lying to the court for a minimum wage job?

On last week's episode of CSI Las Vegas they had a no-audio web cam quality recording of two guys chatting in a green house and they used (I shit you not) vibrations from the leaves to rebuild an audio of what the two were saying. I face-palmed so hard.

I love the episode in one of the later seasons where Horatio is stranded in South America (part of the Mala Noche story arc) and he's given a gun with like 8 bullets in it then proceeds to face off against 10 guys armed with automatic weapons, already drawn and trained on him, and he *still wins* and makes it back to the United States. It was ridiculousness cubed, but it was all part of the fun of that show.

Came in here exactly to say this. I bought one a few years ago and never had to fight with old ports again. Wonderful device.

Where you live maybe. Here we had a high of 84 and a low of 51.

Wait...so the other 40% of homosexual men are celibate or virgins? Your stats appear to be made up.

Most such laws have some form of acceptable corporal punishment though. A quick swat on the butt will teach a child not to reach for a hot stove a lot quicker and more effectively than trying to manage the behavior with time outs. Or worse, letting them actually burn themselves on it =/

XKCD has this covered.

Can't believe no one else posted that yet.

Doesn't Microsoft own Skype now anyway? Seems like that would just make it easier to find you.

Their Software Assurance program has done almost exactly this for businesses for years. Bringing it to consumers seems perfectly logical to me.

That is an interesting question - what if you end up with a YY chromosome pair. I wonder what would happen?

I just wanted to point out that these are two different things. If there's two organisms involved then it's sexual reproduction. For it to be truly asexual you would have to fuse genetic material from two eggs from the same woman - this is actually worse than inbreeding a brother and sister because *every* bad recessive gene you have has a 50/50 chance to present both copies in the offspring. With siblings at least about half your genes are different. Two different women wouldn't present this problem, but that is not asexual reproduction.