The idea that they release everything in one big blob is also interesting. I would have no problem if they stretched it out over time. But I'm curious how this works out as when I do play catch up with certain shows I do end up doing it all in one go.

OP said "Nicolas Sarkozy, the worst criminal this country has ever known". Nothing about 'president', 'Emperor' or elections was specified.

No they aren't. With charging kiosks in malls and such, like these or these I would say that they are pretty common.

the use of force by officers and assaults on officers drops by as much as 60%

Uh huh, and do you know why that is? That's because if you annoy a cop, you get charged with "assault on a police officer" even if you didn't touch them. With a video recorder serving as a witness, the cops know they can't engage in what is commonly called "testilying."

In my city, the charges cops love to slap anyone they don't like with include AOAPO and "disturbing the peace" - the latter of which basically consists of "a crowd gathered because of you."

I knew someone - a sub-5-foot-tall, sub-100-lb girl - whose birthday party was ended by cops because it was too loud. Fair enough. She provides her information to one cop, and then a second cop comes in and asks her for her personal information again a few minutes later. She asks him why - she just gave it to the other cop. He refuses to say why, and she asks him again why he can't get the information from the other cop.

Next thing she remembers, her head is slammed on the countertop and she's in cuffs. Spent the night in jail, and the next day in court answering charges including disorderly conduct, resisting arrest, and assault on a police officer.

The judge looks at her, then looks at the cop, who's a burly nearly-6-foot-tall dude, then looks at the charges and says "Seriously? SHE resisted arrest and assaulted YOU? You've got to be kidding me. Dismissed."

Wasted thousands of dollars in legal fees, because some dickhead cop broke the law and filed false charges, lied in his report, and lied in court.

I suspect that mass refusal to enter the body scanners would result in the use of metal detectors. The TSA is not going to punish more than a tiny minority of people, because they know that they are unpopular. They know that libertarian politicians want to ax their entire agency. They know that respected researchers like Bruce Schneier have nothing but bad things to say about their approach to security. They know that they are less popular than the IRS. Their actions now are about public relations, trying to keep the amount of negative press to a minimum.

I had a similar experience. I opted out, and then they noticed the line getting too long -- so they just let people through metal detectors. I was still waiting for my pat-down until I demanded that I be allowed through and accused them of punishing me for exercising my rights.

My experiences with the TSA's airport security have led me to conclude the following:

1. They hire the least intelligent people they can find. People who do not ask questions, because they lack the intelligence needed to do so.
2. They are terrified of any further resentment by the public. They are more concerned about their image than about keeping us safe (but we knew that anyway).

On the one hand, I would prefer if wars were always soldier-versus-soldier. On the other hand, I would rather see a robot on the battlefield making automatic decisions about what to attack than a bomb dropped from an airplane -- at least a robot can be programmed not to kill civilians or needlessly destroy civilian infrastructure (e.g. schools, hospitals).

Where I see a problem is with robots being programmed to recklessly kill -- a genocide could be committed rapidly by robots, which would require no indoctrination and would not refuse to target a particular group. I also see an issue akin to the problem with landmines, where robots might remain hidden, armed, and active long after a war ends. There is also the issue of robots recording or not recording their actions, which might be a concern during a war crimes trial (soldiers can testify that they were ordered to shoot children or deploy nerve gas; robots might not record such details).

Robots should find an empty field somewhere and self-destruct after some period of time without receiving commands. We do not want to wind up with the same situation we have with land mines -- dangerous leftovers from wars that ended decades ago. Imagine an autonomous robot getting lost during a war, only to get uncovered 10 years after the war ends and going on a rampage (say, killing every armed police officer it finds)...

If an infected application can affect other applications, it is an OS issue. Your infected web browser should not be able to read your GPG keys, but right now most GNU/Linux distros do nothing to stop that from happening.

No form, and no amount, of ionizing radiation is safe.

And yet the original wasn't called humanball, and whatever drugs are involved, the game still definitely involves bases.

Annnd... there's a beach ball on the field.......

one of my favorite scenes.

I don't care what sport it is - when contracts worth millions of dollars are on the line, there will always be talented people willing to do whatever they have to in order to stay competitive and even excel.