if you drive on the roads in the US, you have to be insured.

how come I don't hear the uproar about that?

the dems are NOT in charge! if they were, they would be able to get things done.

what we have is a deadlock since the R's will do anything to stop obama from trying to make changes.

I'm not a big obama fan (anymore) but I certainly am not going to think the dem's have any kind of real control, today. things are locked up and the total lack of progress we see is proof of that.

And one other thing, if anybody out there knows:

Uracil is a modified Thymine, in vivo DNA where uracil is incorporated into the chain is repaired by a specific enzyme. Does the Thymine naturally degrade to Uracil over time?

1. They had problems with modern human DNA contamination (not sure why they couldn't get everything clean but since they're the leading edge lab in this sort of thing, it must be a real issue).
2. They had to limit analysis to fragment lengths around 45 base pairs to avoid this contamination. That's tiny compared to what one normally uses.
3. They only had enough to sequence the mitochondrial DNA.
4. It's only one person.

So, it's confusing but it seems from the outside to be due to a limited data set. Now, this sort of thing is at the limit of our current technology and the lab is working to replicate and amplify the data (and work on the somatic genome). So stay confused and stay tuned.

Well, on the basis that malloc() and free() are opposites, and writing to free()d memory is delusional, delusional == free.

On the other hand, look at what America has been fine with imposing on other nations, then what it has been fine living with within itself. America has never been about upholding the standards it claims.

As for freedom, from pretty much the very beginning, Constitutional "rights" have been revealed as merely permissions granted to whoever those in power happened to like. (Hence the amazing numbers of prisoners promising to vote in favour of those in power at the time magically getting dispensation, and the amazing problems minorities with a habit of voting the wrong way have.) There are no "rights" in America, never have been. You can't remove, grant or even waive rights - they exist or they don't and that's the end of it. (On matters of rights, I can be complete Kant.) Permissions are the only things you can ever add or subtract, and since everything in the Constitution has been put on hold or removed at some point, everything in the Constitution is a permission.

But that's fine with Americans, provided it's some other person getting these pseudo-rights pulled, ideally if they're from the wrong political party or the wrong ethnicity, or (in this case) testifying for the wrong side. People want THEIR freedoms and the freedoms of "their side" defended, "the other side" gets whatever crumbs are thrown their way. And that is why Americans are generally elitist snobs of an order pre-WW1 Europe could only ever have dreamed of aspiring to. Even the worst of the empires treated "non-conformists" better than that. Admittedly, in many cases, by shooting them, but that's still treating them as equals of dogs. The US treats undesirables (ie: those who don't think the same) as closer to pond scum.

Judges have never been taken seriously, when decisions run against the government. There have been Supreme Court rulings awarding the Black Hills to the Sioux. The government, for 50? 60? years has managed to ignore the ruling. That covers a lot of Presidents in both parties. But it includes an awful lot more voters, who (by re-electing anyone at all) are active supporters of the Government's refusal to follow SCOTUS orders. You are putting people in power who you know, full well, will not obey judge rulings they do not like. The upshot of that is that I have bugger-all pity when those same politicians disregard (or creatively interpret) rulings that happen to affect you or your "side". You're discovering the price of giving them that power.

The only downside is that everyone in the world, free or otherwise, must pay the price for these games. You have robbed us all of what liberty we had, just so that the right people were oppressed.

That's a good story. Sometimes there are good reasons to put up with a mess. Glad to see it was for something worthwhile.

Mr Snowden did illegal things, but he is a hero, honestly, which could be illustrated no more clearly than your post.

So if they cought and prosecuted one person for the LA riots, they should charge him with $2 billion in damages, and as other people are convicted, he sues the second person for $1 billion, and the third for $666 million, and the second again for another $333 million? Sounds like a silly system.

Well, that's begging the question. We don't *know* that Senator Markey or anyone on his staff are illiterate; we only know that they aren't as careful with proofreading as they could be.

That said, I'll attempt to answer your question: because he (or his staff) is raising a serious, important point. That's not enough for you to listen to him? It's not enough that he served thirty years on the House Committee on Communications and Technology either? He (and his staff and the secretarial pool in his office) have to be *infallible* in matters of proofreading before you'll listen?

Ah yes, the culture of "zing". It's much more important to catch a politician (or more likely, one of his staff) in a typo than to pay attention to the substance of what he's written.

My hat's off to you. You, sir, are obviously a genius.

It's true, for the same reason a watched pot never boils. If you are doing something (even if just actively squirting it with your finger), it distracts you from the time it takes to fill it. The water flow will be sufficiently similar that the "difference" is the mind trick. Timed, they should be nearly equal. But in "feel" squirting should feel like less.

All your rights are free, but you're not permitted to have either Rights or Freedoms.

Ah, I see. You just don't understand what you posted.

Give it another go. You'll figure it out. (Hint: It does support your claim. Quite the opposite, in fact.)

Fly to Cuba, Cuba to Canada. Not hard.

this is agent 5443117 You have lost over 40 loyalty points in this month and are dangerously close to being selected for reeducation. Be careful or you may enjoy a visit from some friendly adjustment specalists.

Oh, your milk is going to spoil in 2 days, go buy a new gallon tonight.