Probably; it's California.

This type of thing is de facto legal as a final sentence. Far more restrictive travel bans are commonplace in certain situations, such as when someone is sentenced to probation. It's usually laid out in terms like "You are not allowed to leave the State of X, and must notify the court if you plan to travel outside of County Y". That's a lot more restrictive than banning a Floridian from traveling within D.C.

CoD and FIFA mentioned in the same breath... I never thought I'd see the day.

Do you have a source for that? Certainly there are narcs, but I've never heard of any of them enrolling in high schools undercover. Cops threatening high school kids who got caught anyway to cough up some names, sure. But when they invest an undercover agent (= lots of money), it's going to be for a big investigation, not to find out which high school kid sold a dimebag to which other high school kid.

Maybe the terrorists aren't as fixated on planes as the westerners are after 9/11? I've noticed that when you add "...on a plane" or "...at an airport" to things that people otherwise wouldn't care about, suddenly it's a huge issue. While there are certainly special considerations that need to be made for safety in the context of air travel, there's many easier ways for terrorists to make a statement and kill a bunch of people. Fill a U-Haul with a couple tons of explosive. Fill smaller containers with explosive and distribute them around a city. Walk into a crowd and open fire. Let out poisonous gas in a subway or other enclosed space. Car bombs in particular happen on an almost monthly basis in the middle east, and there have been quite a few high-profile terrorist attacks in the west since 9/11, none of them have involved planes. Boston bombing, Madrid bombing, London bombing, Charlie Hebdo, Ft. Hood. Terrorists aren't looking at planes.

I'm with you in doubting that you could get hundreds of thousands of dollars out of a single exchange. But it's valuable enough for the darknet drug dealers to rely on. There are several exchanges that you could pull USD out of, so that adds a multiplier. There are also goods you can buy directly with BTC, computer equipment and Tesla cars at least, maybe more that I'm unaware of.

If you know your virtual and meatspace markets well enough, you can also make "withdrawals" from your BTC wallet by buying and selling drugs, quintupling or more the "face value" of your BTC on a legal exchange. This, of course, involves significant risk.

The Hindenburg always gets brought up here - I'm sure it was a big thing half a century ago. Now, much of the general public probably doesn't know what "Hindenburg" is, and the ones who are scared of airships are the same group who are scared of normal aircraft. I think the bigger thing here, in terms of travel, is that it only goes 80 knots. You can do 80 knots easily in an economy car. Legally too, in many places. 747s cruise at several hundred knots, around 250 IIRC. There's no reason to take this airship for long distance travel unless your goal is chillin' on the ship and looking out the window.

Usually I'm against nanny-stating, but in this case there is a clear and immediate problem, and there is a quick way to mitigate it. What I hope will happen is that this will (1) put more focus on pollution in France, and (2) teach the people there alternate ways to go about their day that won't pump gobs of pollution into the air.

Not to mention, India's got a few nukes of their own. I don't know if they have a delivery system that will work after a first strike though.

This link to the fucking article:
http://www.hindustantimes.com/...
Has a fucking hilarious picture that you fucking have to see. Made my fucking day.

I know that I personally avoid interacting with, looking at, or even being near children due to the pedo hysteria. I'm not even your stereotypical pedobear (people think I'm under 20 by appearance all the time). I'll go to the other side of the street when I see a kid coming. I'll keep towards the other side of the park if there's kids there. Parent or no parent.
I wonder what this kind of treatment is doing to the kids. Do kids growing up these days feel more excluded from society?

You want to rag on "stupid americans [sic]" and you don't know where Uruguay is? It's a country in South America.

Yes. Southern Antarctica is closer to the pole, Northern Antarctica is farther from the pole (towards and including the coasts). It's mostly not relevant to the geography of the Antarctic, though, so people name Antarctic regions by the bays, features like ice shelves, or western/eastern Antarctica.

What's the difference between switching email clients and switching browsers? The last office job I had, it didn't matter which browser OR which email client you used.

Judging by your UID you probably graduated college 15 years ago. Things have changed since then, especially since 2008. College doesn't guarantee a reasonable job. I got a degree in computer networking in 2012, and haven't been able to advance past a call center yet. Those who have, from my observation, have been the well-connected (which is a privilege), and to a lesser extent the ass-kissers and the bullshitters. Or, they already have 5 -10 years of experience in the relevant field, so they get considered for jobs that are off-limits to recent graduate - or even non-recent graduates who haven't been able to land a relevant job.