Yes, this. Although I'd disagree that Celsius has *one* minor convenience point:

0C == frozen roads and preserved food
100C == boiling water and sterile food

They'll probably outsource it all to the UK like the rest of ECHELON. I mean Google doesn't pay f#ck all tax here so why should the the rest of the USA

Really? That's so racist towards the Irish.

If only there was a +6 insightful...

Sounds like the cloud version or RAID 0, great if you just need performance and don't expect any reliability...

Same here luckily. Where I'm from it's also highly unlikely the assailant will have a gun.

Cricket 'strikes' is a terrible analogy to use in this case. Cricket differs from Baseball in that you can face many, many balls before you are out.

You are only out if one of these things happens:

1. The bowler ('pitcher' in BB) hits the stumps behind the batsman, this is called being 'bowled out'
2. The ball is caught directly from the batsman's strike ('caught out')
3. The fielders manage to hit the stumps with the ball before the batsman has finished his run ('run out')
4. The batsman blocks a ball that would have hit the stumps with his body instead of his bat (this is called LBW, Leg Before Wicket)

These are the most common ways to be out, there are other ways to be out, but to get back on topic: to compare the six strikes system to Cricket would seem to suggest that you are not 'out' until they have proved your guilt.

I don't think he was joking.

I submitted the story after seeing it on the BBC and was surprised to see it wasn't already listed here.

Approx. 2 hours after submitting the story it was accepted.

I guess the lesson here is don't crowd-source if expediency is of the essence. In this case I can't see a few hours making a difference, it's not exactly a 'developing story'.

Correlation != causation

I haven't had a cold since I started taking that homeopathic medicine...

Citation Needed...

Not because what you're saying is necessarily untrue but because I want more details, such as what sort of weight gain do each of these effects cause? I mean if we're talking about a study where they managed to measure an average of 0.5% increase in weight gain over 2000 people than it doesn't really explain how people are getting to 500lbs.

Assuming they are found guilty they should be hit with massive fines AND jail sentences.

If Aaron Swarts can be threatened with 30 years and massive fines for essentially a victimless crime...

Can you do an 'obligatory UserFriendly' around here or is it just for XKCD?

That's fair enough, I can't argue with that, the only reason I mentioned it was because I noticed so many examples in one day...

I probably didn't help my cause by triple posting either!