Why "or"?

The article attempts to rule out any logical reasons for aliens to visit us. What if they are just cthulhu style evil and wish our destruction / consumption? Not as fun to think about compared to your compassionate aliens.

I somewhat agree, but it is exciting to think that this is just the ground floor of something awesome. I tend to look at this as a technology in its infancy, using plastics and non-durable materials.

Give it time, in a matter of years technology will allow the plastics to be replaced with hard metals, etc.

Hmm, I tend to believe lawyers only need a pat on the back when you are wielding a dagger.

Brian Ross would be so proud of you.

Oh wise one, please enlighten us to how Tea Party members are terrorists.

Neither. The purpose of a police weapon is to immediately stop a threat. Current technology dictates that a jacketed hollow point round causing massive body trauma is the superior choice.

If you are serious about tazers, you should put yourself in the shoes of a policeman for one second and realize just how ludicrous a tazer is in a firefight. When projectiles are rocketing towards you, ripping through the aluminum of the automobile you are hiding behind, and smashing holes into the brick wall behind you, why dont you get out our tazer and go try to "take them alive". Sigh.

Worried? No
Tired of war? Yes
Tired of hearing the rhetoric? Yes

Windows 7 (32bit) + 4gb ram + Visual Studio + Chrome browser = oom.

"Fastest growing animals ever" HA!

You need to come to my home state and take a look at some of the mammals we have here. They truck around in their motorized wheelchairs in the isles of Walmart.

The US tax code needs a massive overhaul and simplification, and the IRS simply needs to be dismantled.

Maybe I should send that as an email so the IRS will read it.

Now that is just crazy talk

Yeah but megametre sounds much cooler. Like Megadeth, Megatron, Megaboz ...

Yet if the cash in your wallet represents anything more than chump change, expect it to be "hacked" the next time you run into the authorities.

Bingo.

There are already companies that wont ship to or do business with California / NY /etc residents etc because of onerous regulations.

Imagine if you tried to create a new Facebook (or whatever) account and you were not able to because California was your home state, and the company decided it would be too much trouble to comply with all that states demands.