No, really? A private enterprise is allowed to profit off its business provided it does so in a manner that is not fraudulent? Shocking!

Canadian Charter of Rights (part of the constitution), 2: Everyone has the following fundamental freedoms: (a) freedom of conscience and religion; (b) freedom of thought, belief, opinion and expression, including freedom of the press and other media of communication; (c) freedom of peaceful assembly; and (d) freedom of association.

Most of the people you meet in real-life, someone you know has met in real life before, and has added to facebook. It's not that hard to see that if someone suddenly becomes friend with people in your social circle, they are likely to become friends with you too.

But if I stop telling that lie, then I'll have to admit there is more to Belgium than waffles and beer. And then I'll have to figure out what that more actually is! Stereotypical jokes are way more fun.

PS I've had good american beer, so in all seriousness, I agree with you. And Kronenbourg is just as bad as Bud Light.

What's the difference between american beer and having sex in a boat?

None; both are fucking close to water.

Ta-dam, tching!

Only until there is an earthquake strong enough to unseal it. The current reactor was also placed within a concrete and steel reinforcement vessel....

In as much as the political world is corrupt, it is because it departed from representing the will of the people and became a corporation itself. Therefore, corporate malfeasance, including when the government does it.

The US law says: "In determining the meaning of any Act of Congress, unless the context indicates otherwise-- the words "person" and "whoever" include corporations, companies, associations, firms, partnerships, societies, and joint stock companies, as well as individuals;".

Now, I agree with you that this is not a natural law. All it would take is a simple act of congress to change it. But, the law being what it is.... You can't argue in front of the supreme court that you think a law is wrong. To do that, you have to go to congress.

I scanned through the article and from what I see, they have made an equivalence between the maths used in string theory and the maths used in entanglement. This is interesting in itself, because this allowed them to port a result from string theory to entanglement theory, a result which was not known before and could be falsified.

However, this is like saying that the mathematical theory used to count apples harvested from an orchard (addition of natural numbers) is the same as the mathematical theory behind the algorithm the slashcode uses to count the number of comments below threshold (addition of natural numbers). It allows one to port result from ancient mathematics to modern applications without having to rederive everything from first principles; it does not mean that sub-threshold comments are, deep down, really made of apples.

Normally, I would find this hilarious. I guess it's a bad day.

I've got a bike, an excellent public transport system for things that aren't nearby, and car-sharing for things that are too large to fit in buses or too isolated to be on a bus route. Car sharing allows me to get 50 MPG when a Smart is all I need and I can get a pickup truck when I need it.

To create a picture in your mind:

86M barrels per day corresponds to ~158 m^3/s.

This is equivalent to the average discharge of a middlish river. The Shannon, for example, has a discharge of 186 m^3/s. The Potomac has ~300m^3/s on average. The River Thames is only ~65m^3/s.

So, stand on the London bridge and have a look below. The total usage of oil in the world is twice that, every single second.

Sorry, I meant "enforce your contract". However, I am certain you will have to sue one or two to force them to actually respect the contract before they start taking the clause seriously.