It should not be the accepted norm that knocking off a 711 or similar petty crime involve threat to life with a gun (or a knife, baseball bat etc. The list of convenient weapons starts to tail off after a while, guns are a particular problem though). If you want to avoid laws regarding the mere possession of objects then at least allow that anyone that makes threats more credible by the use of a weapon should be punished severely.
That seems sensible to me, what are the arguments against it ?

No, it was only for vision care. Dental, Mental and Bodily health were all to be covered federally.

Really, does he believe that business is administered so flawlessly that people's earnest efforts to learn how to do it better are worthless ?
It is disrespectful of him to trash people who act sincerely to improve their skills in managing business. Even if there are plenty of cynical MBAs out there, I have met plenty of cynical engineers too; it does not make the study of engineering any less worthy a pursuit.

no more freaky looking than the pentagon. And when the kids go out to recess they can't be seen from the road.

When I read the news of its latest spike the first place my thoughts ran to was that it was being deliberately manipulated.

It probably doesn't have GPS or even accelerometers, otherwise it would not need to plug into the data socket in the car. I can imagine the next generation will have them though. It can't take much to build a box that sits between the monitor and the car and "forgets" about selected categories of things.

I think he means if you leave the device at home and use the car without it your insurance is void.

Actually Skype (google+ etc.) video and VOIP all work pretty well over Exede as it has ample bandwidth to support HD and the delay is much lower than older solutions. You should try them out for yourself.

The problem with coverage of far N. Alaska is that any geostationary satellite appears near to or below the horizon (for the same reason that the sun is) causing scintillation and line-of-sight issues . S. Alaska is fine though. C-band is pretty much immune to rain, but there is such limited capacity available, it's expensive, there may be licensing issues, it usually uses larger antennas etc. Ku band was state of the art 10 years ago but Ka band is the new thing. Both Ku and Ka band is affected by rain, but these days the systems compensate for rain to the extent that they can by adjusting power levels, symbol rates or forward error correction, it makes them pretty robust, much more robust than older solutions.

Disclaimer: I'm in the business

Just don't put your horse mask on and hang around the meat section.

The willfully ignorant will just keep their phones turned on and when they make or receive a call they will simply say they did not understand the complex new rules.It comes from a deep rooted belief that rules simply do not apply to them, that all rules are silly.

President Francois Hollande claimed to have issued a stern rebuke to President Obama in a phone conversation with his wife

FTFY

I don't know, there's a lot of people drawing reasonable paychecks on the back of this health system being such a cluster. What would all the medical billing specialists do ?

According to Wikipedia: JBoss was developed by JBoss, now a division of Red Hat. Licensed under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License, JBoss is free and open source software

Which platform did they use to implement this ?

Well at least the lab canteen may be the best place to jump to a competitor.