I'd rather skip the unforeseen accidents and just get the American Dental Association (or similar) to vouch for its wondrous therapeutic benefits. That way I can get the fools to dump it into the water themselves.

Now, now, let's be fair, we shouldn't leave out those that would require triple the dose.

What if it was beer?

Perhaps, but the design is still somewhat myopic. It solves one problem but leaves open others. The world's oceans for instance, make for the one of the best conveyors of leaked radioactive material. To my view at least they would also be far more prone to weather related disasters even if they weren't as affected by seismic events--though I'm not really sure how they're an improvement with respect to Tsunami and rogue waves.

The single largest contributor to nuclear reactor safety, or more precisely the lack thereof is that the overwhelming majority of the ones currently in operation were built decades ago from designs dating back 50+ years. The engineers of my grandparent's generation did wonderful work for their time, their understanding and their available technology. But to continue to rely upon BWRs, especially ones built so long ago is the folly and the reason nuclear power gets the reputation it does.

Espionage is never legitimate unless you consider it acceptable for others to do it to you in the manner in which you do it to them. The hypocrisy of the NSA, CIA, GCHQ, BND, Mossad, FSB, etc. is grossly palpable. Everyone seems to do it, yet it's "shame on you" if anyone does it them. Pulling down the curtains was an important demonstration of collective, well deserved shame.

This crap belongs in movies and video games, not the real world. The citizenry of the world's nations should not be the game pieces used in the amusement and distraction of political and military rulers.

You always know who someone's competitors are by whom they attack and the measure of how threatened they feel by how aggressive and unscrupulous they do so.

So let me get this straight. Mercedes expects their cars to crap out nearly the moment they drive off the lot and they will happily sell you a subsidy to cover their cost on a warranting the vehicle you purchased? Holy sh*t that's quite a business model, sign me up!.

I'm confused. Wasn't the last car capable of a having an after-market head unit installed manufactured a solid 10 years ago? I fail to see the point. The number of such cars is on a rapid decline. For collectors if you're going to buy an ancient car, then wouldn't you be buying it for nostalgia's sake and want the old crappy radio that came with it?

I'm not quite certain how from a population of 316M people you can obtain 52M photos when the point of collection are federal background checks. With roughly 200M persons of working age, that would mean that within the next two years roughly 1 out of 4 people will be facing a work related federal security clearance check or having criminal charges filed against them. I'm not buying it. Either the 52M is bogus or they're collecting photos by other less savory mean.

I'm not sure they'd really need to bother with this for the anal probes to be justified in their mind.

Now get off my lawn!

The studies involving "hands-free" are flawed in as much as they do not factor out the influence of the conversation itself. Last I checked, no one was advocating for a "conversation" ban, just the mobile facilitating a subset of conversations.

More accurately, if this was an advertised feature of the phone, it would not be purchased.

• 1 in 4 use a cell phone
• 1 in 4 are talking to a passenger
• 1 in 4 are eating/drinking
• 3 in 4 would be eliminated if a modest amount of competency processing rapidly evolving environments while simultaneously operating a vehicle were required to obtain/maintain a license.