Now the "truthers" will confuse that with the wacky "nano-thermite" they are so keen on, and come out believing this actually supports their case for demolition conspiracy.

Also, the lab that did this test, are they hiring?

Your results may vary, usually by state law.

I think the political debates ought to be preceded by an "academic decathlon" style competition, televised, and their scores commented on by smart people. At least one of the events should be "can you do your own taxes without an accountant," to make it clear that tax laws are too complicated. And rather than speaking/interviewing (we already know politicians can do that), there should be a practical skills competition - can they change a tire, build a treehouse, and balanace a checkbook?

But they are loaning us the dollars we are paying them with, and charging interest. As long as the interest rate they charge exceeds inflation, they'll still get paid.

When the imprecision of the definition of the unit is exceeded by the imprecision of the experiment, we usually call that "not a problem."

By that standard, the Catholic Church should make me a saint, because I'm not the Devil.

I like where this is going.

Troll Bayou or Troll Hollow, perhaps, but I'm pretty sure "Trollhaven" is up for grabs.

What really needs to happen is they need to have to pay extra penalty, to be set aside to fight just the sort of thing they tried to do. Also, disbar or dismember the guilty attorneys.

It would probably be easier to get widespread testing and awareness worldwide than to get people to stop having sex. Easier, as in "just this side of impossible," as people are incredibly hard to educate.

Debt collectors and banks? They shouldn't be robocalling. Those situations are where they have a pre-existing relationship with the person being called, and aren't cold-calling anybody.

Robocalls are the telephone equivalent of spam. Why is it I can put a "No solicitors" sign on my door, but my phone must be subject to cold-calling from telemarketers, solicitations for "charities" and political groups, and any scammer who can operate a telephone? And they want to make it easier to bother lots of people at a time by allowing robocalling?

If anything, every telemarketing call should have to be hand-dialed, etc., no computer assistance. Think of the jobs that would be created.... Do it for the economy.

I wonder how soon the phone companies will work out a deal to let telemarketers call the phone customers, for a fee - because we know how much they care about the customers.

Depending on where you live, being unable to get on an airplane can be a severe limit on your liberty.

By America's rules, that isn't an act of war though.

If you are going for body count, you'd use shrapnel. Greatly increases the injury radius. Did this guy even have a plan for a target that would notice, or was it just curiousity and telling the "fellow conspirators" what they seemed to want to hear?

Then you go to the list called "These names were suspected of terrorism, but absolutely nothing was found. Yet."