Could this be because it's easier to get diagnosed with diabetes, COPD, or other non-healthy conditions than it was in 2002? I've heard enough anecdotal evidence to make me ask the question, but it would be nice to see a study. How many people who were considered healthy in 2002 could visit a doctor in 2013 and be declared unhealthy, and how does that fraction vary by country? Unless an article can control for that variable, the other numbers don't really mean much.

But if all the scientists and engineers are going to work on THC, will they get anything done?

The equation is irrelevant. The Chelonian Uncertainty Principle demonstrates that the more accurately you know the momentum of a turtle, the less accurately you know its position. Since any usefully accurate value for its quantum wavelength would need very high accuracy for its momentum, you would never be able to find the turtle for which you had made your calculations, especially since they can look just like little rocks under the water and are naturally given to hiding.

The Turtle Moves!

Wish I could remember what movie it's from: "There should be a test before people can become parents. Beyond the practical, I mean."

Certainly wouldn't want anyone to think you were doing something as dangerous as making a finger-gun sign when you were just engaging in the traditionally constructive stigmatization of school colleagues as losers who deserve an identifying tattoo on their forehead to protect society from accidentally interacting with their feeble selves. Catching a glimpse of a mimed gun might lead to emotional problems later in life, so it's best to clamp down on such foolishness.

Damn! I've been out of the country for a long time, and haven't followed baseball, but the Expos moved to Washington D.C.?

Why do I need to learn about things this way? Now it really is the "National" league that it always claimed to be, leaving the "American" league the old "North America" excuse.

My first thought too. If the thing the machine sells is worth so much (maybe train tickets), then the money in there is probably still worth more than free tickets until the hack is patched.

I can't imagine enjoying The Sandman more on e-book than in those nice "Absolute" anthologies.

Just because a response is possible doesn't mean defense is pointless. The idea is just to make it difficult and risky enough that the payoff isn't worth it.

If a virus is discovered 99% of the time, then 1% can still cause a lot of damage, and erasing a virus doesn't worry the other virus installations. Detecting and investigating 99% of attempted attacks by people might worry other human attackers.

It's also easy to test whether a commercial virus scanner will detect a new prototype virus. I expect this system would be stored and used in a way to make it difficult for attackers to acquire a copy for the development and testing of social attacks.

I'm not a big apple fan, but their solution in the Apple II was an Escape key with an extra-strong spring under it. Don't know when they stopped using those.

What killed Uru for me was that it stopped being pure puzzle-solving, and added technical run-and-jump obstacles. Sure, sometimes the solution was to push a chair off of a cliff above to create something to step on in the water, but then they also required pressing the jump button at just the right time. The brilliance of Myst and the sequels was that you had all the time in the world to think about the puzzle, and when you knew the answer, you could pretty much get it to work first time. Another great thing about it was that nobody ever explained the rules, and it wasn't always obvious whether an object represented a puzzle that would help you progress, or if it was just an interesting piece of scenery.

I'm typically in neutral at a red light, so does that make it OK? Does the gear matter, or is it because you are in the lane rather than on the shoulder? If a stationary car gets into an accident, isn't that always the other driver's fault anyhow?

Close. You were thinking of the fleury. Following the paper dollar notes being dropped from circulation in 1987, the public backlash led to derisive nick-names like "loony" for the new coins. This was resolved by renaming the currency by a popular vote on 26 May, 1989. Under the new system, 100 fleurys = 1 gretzky.

They used to say that you can pick your friends, and you can pick your nose, but you can't pick your friend's nose.

Now you can. With your friend's own hand.

You think? I've always thought that doppelzout Dropje was saltier than any NaCl snack because it used ammonium chloride (NH4Cl). That stuff is proper salty.