Would be interesting if they tried this technique to find osama. The guy put out some videos at some point and im assuming they weren't all from a cave.

This article seems to disagree with you:

http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/d5fa0660-7b95-11de-9772-00144feabdc0.html#axzz2ElVkh9ow

"Beyond rebates, another key concern is the practice of flashing prices, which helps market makers or investors discover where others want to buy or sell stocks. This practice is widely used by high frequency traders and is allowed by BATS, Direct Edge and Nasdaq OMX, while NYSE Euronext has been a vocal critic against the practice."

This was an older article, but still... What do you say about this?

Also important and that no one has mentioned yet is the contraction ratio. The muscle does no good if it can only contract 1% of it's length...

I think the government is actually thinking that obese people cost a crapload of money. I don't think this has anything to do with happiness.

http://edition.cnn.com/2012/07/03/opinion/bergen-drones-taliban-pakistan/index.html

So an interesting question would be to imagine what would happen if WMD's existed in the Star Trek universe. What would the federation do to an empire with clear intentions to build planet destroying weapons? What if such planet busting weapons existed? Would the federation limit its proliferation?

Gotta love how tv is so different from the real world...

(not a total star trek fan, so not entirely sure if this has been covered...)

If it turns out anything like Virtual Case File http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtual_Case_File ,
we have nothing to worry about. Actually half serious.

They can also use ultrasound to guide the needle/probe/injector to the tumor.

What if this guy said he had to get a degree to increase his income to support his family, or to support a sick family member? Would your advice be any different in this case?

On the flip side, these soldiers are also separated by their fight or flight response and so-called blood lust. In my opinion, a sniper is less likely to innocents because he is scare or trigger happy. Whether these snipers kill innocents for sport is a different story.

But I truly believe that these drones are making life safer for civilians. These drones can loiter for many hours to properly identify their targets. There is a chain of command for release of weapons. All telemetry is recorded, so there is a record of actions which allows for consequences.

You say there is less motivation to peacefully settle arguments. Do you really truly believe that everything can be settled diplomatically? I think the whole idea of war is to make it the other idea side so scared, disrupted, demoralized, that the sue for peace. Having better ways to do that accomplishes this mission.

From what I understand, the o-ring on the solid rocket booster and not fuel tank failed. Also, the SRB were cast in pieces because it is impossible to cast and pour such a large amount of rocket propellant at once. (I learned this on slashdot. Someone with better knowledge please chime in.)

Please be more careful with you posts. Politics may have played a role in the tragedy, but not in the way you imply.

The point is that obscenity laws are vague (i know it when i see it) and vary between communities. The problem is that this arrest of the pedophilia book guy provides the precedence for the most conservative/repressive community to basically imposes its morals on the whole of the internet.

It may be about pedophilia now, but there is really no limit to what they can and will prosecute next.

First they came for the pedophilia authors...

Only that you might end up like the pedophilia book guy. He was arrested on obscenity charges in florida after sending his book there. The obscenity laws are quite clear, they can charge anyone who publishes or distributes obscene material. They wouldn't go after Amazon, but they sure as hell will go after the little guy.

http://law.onecle.com/florida/crimes/847.011.html

I assume of course that you didn't read the paper. The paper are from some academics who postulate the operation of these scanners through physics and analysis of published pictures from the scanner. We have no idea whether the TSA actually tested the device.

Those scans have very low resolution and don't look like "naked" pictures at all. If this was the best the scanners could do, I don't think most people would be worried. I wonder if this is a deliberate attempt by the government at disinformation.