It doesn't work that way. Before deliberating the judge provides the jury with instructions. These instructions generally quote the pertinent laws and provide definitions as provided in statute or case law. While deliberating, jurors can ask for further definitions, clarification, etc. if needed and the judge had discretion whether or not to provide the information. This keeps jurors from accidentally introducing the definition of "sexual assault" as defined in New Mexico when the trial is in Florida. I think one of the more common issues of what jurors have to deal with in a criminal trial is exactly what "beyond a reasonable doubt" means. This phrase has different meanings in different jurisdictions.

And we teach this weapon of war called MATH to kids in grade school?!

While it didn't involve foreign troops operating freely within the Continental United States its very existence was at stake during WWII. Japan fully intended and tried to occupy the United States. There was combat in Hawaii and Alaska. Japanese subs operated freely along the West Coast and sunk a number of US, Canadian and Mexican vessels. Japanese built incendiary devices lit forest fires across the West. Naval action by Germany could be seen from the shores on the East Coast as well.

If possible, get 500 Euro notes in the first place. It's a denser storage medium.

Hey, I remember IE on HP/UX...

Using PACTOR III it is possible to (1) connect to the Internet. It is (2) unencrypted and not only (3) proprietary -- it's sole source is SCS. Applying the same logic which prohibits the use of D-Star, PAC III stations should be prohibited too.

I say this is simply ridiculous. It's not uncommon at all for a beekeeper to lose half of his hives in a season due to mites, foulbrood, starvation, genetics, poor management or any number of other known and unknown reasons. It's not uncommon for someone with two hives to lose one or both of them over a 3 month period -- the length of this study. The comparison of two queens is bogus too. The variability in quality (genetics) between two queens from even the best breeders can be enormous. Having read many studies about honeybee management I can say beekeepers insist on much better science than this. Proper studies involve groups of hundreds of hives; control for genetics, disease, management practices; and occur over multiple seasons.

How can one understand advances in military technology without an understanding of, for example, Newton's kinematics equations?

Since when is the Pope an authority on ethics?

I don't think so. The British Navy is sending ships to Spain to help transport stranded passengers from there to the UK. Brits in the US still have to get to Spain.

The ISS was not the driving force behind the shuttle's size. The opposite is true. Various ISS modules were sized specifically to fit the shuttle's cargo bay.

The shuttle was designed in the 1970s -- first seeing flight in 1981. The ISS wasn't even seriously contemplated until after the fall of the Soviet Union. Thus, it couldn't have played a role any aspect of the design of the shuttle. In fact, before the collapse of the Soviet Union, the United States began work on its own Space Station Freedom in response to Mir's accomplishments. It simply wasn't politically feasible for the Cold War rivals to cooperate on a significant international project until they both toned down their ideology a bit.

While it is widely believed that no commercial traffic is allowed on the amateur bands, this is incorrect. In 1993 the FCC issued a report significantly broadening what is allowed in terms of commercial traffic. These changes are reflected in the current regs. Please see Part 97.113. Commercial traffic which benefits either the operator or his employer are prohibited. Requesting a web page which contains advertisements is just fine. Ordering a pizza online is just fine too (although using SSL is not). You can even email some friends about that old rig you are selling for $50 due to an exemption in Part 97.113(a)(3). Sending instructions to your stock broker or notifying a business client you'll be late, on the other hand, clearly are not OK.

Just analog sound? Hardly... In addition to the vast array of commercial spec digital modes at the Radio Amateur's disposal, we use a few home grown modes: PSK31, WSJT, and WSPR. Radio Amateurs are an incredibly innovate bunch and lead the way in narrow band long distance communications -- North America to Europe for example -- emitting far less power than a typical cell phone. Remember too, Morse is generally transmitted via CW (Continuous Wave). That's ON/OFF keying. That's digital.

While console access via serial port has long been a given on commercial Unix and network hardware, it never caught on in the PC world. Sure, there are specific manufacturers and replacement BIOS options available to allow low level configuration of a PC via the serial port but this should have been standard from the '80s. I truly don't understand why PC manufacturers never saw the value in being able to view boot messages and configure BIOS options via the good ol' serial port.

The cubesat platform has provided a means for quite a few orbiting radio amateur experiments.