Quick Google search shows that 300,000 people are killed by obesity each year. Time to ban cheeseburgers.

Please let the madness of trying to ban / legislate away all the things that can hurt us.

The question becomes how far is too far? I think as long as I wake up each morning without fearing for my life, then a reasonable level of safety has been achieved.

I like to talk on the phone while driving. BTW, I find the radio much more distracting.

Depending on how Microsoft classifies it's workforce, this may be a simple labeling issue, Many companies call future development work R&D for tax purposes. I believe you can deduct or amortize part of your R&D budget. So, Windows 8 may very well be "R&D".

I wrote a quick app to test this a while back. This is called the Martingale system.

Needless to say it doesn't work. Millions of iterations showed that most of the time, you hit the table limit long before a winning bet during a loosing streak (which happens very frequently). You end up betting millions to gain $10.

The casinos love it when you try this, btw.

In a coin flip, past performance is not an indicator of future events.