Pedantic. If you pretend to not know what "West Coast" means in the US people are going to think you're a moron.

Motorcycles are too dangerous in all areas if you're being honest with yourself. But, totally worth it. If I gotta go, I wanna go in a fiery wreck! I'm being sarcastic, but I love motorcycling.

I'd flavor your comment with this:

The term "obvious" in the patent world has been significantly watered down in recent times. Consider for example that adding an eraser to the back of a pencil was considered "obvious" and therefore, not patentable in its time.

First, this is an incredibly evil idea. Why would we dedicate any more time and money to these people? When does inventing new forms of torture tax society more than the criminals?

Second, a good gut check for the consideration of new tools for the government is this: "How will this be abused?" I think the implications here speak for themselves.

Finally, What gives you the right to inflict these kinds of hypothetical punishment? When have you become worse than the criminal that you're punishing? This post is ethically disgusting.

News at 11.

Pre-WWII Jews had nothing to hide.

Pre-Red scare communist sympathizers had nothing to hide...

It must be nice to know you don't have anything to hide that might soon become taboo...

DF reference (+1)

Regardless of who you replied to, you are missing the point.

I've found the only way to get 'good' science articles is via direct press release. And most scientists, engineers etc. heave a big sigh, throw their hands up and say: "well, they're not gonna fucking get it anyway, so why bother." I know I do.

Sometimes I pretend to be a more stereotypically introverted engineer than I am to avoid stupid conversations that revolve around sensationalized 'news' like this.

Can we do ? Yep. Will people get hurt? Yep, probably. Is it worth it? Yeah, maybe.

You're still managing to miss the point

The point is this: New stuff is hard. Bad stuff is bad. We should try anyway.

Not only is this hilarious, but it perfectly illustrates how ridiculous this article really is.

Better summary:
There are problems with what we're trying to do. Some of them surprising. There are also probably solutions that we haven't figured out yet.

No mod points.. :( lol'd at work though. Well done.

Citation?

People who don't care about murder laws don't care about gun laws. All states have outlawed murder as far as I know. Chicago is no stranger to gun related homicide despite the ban.

That is true. But the oft quoted 'You can have any color you want, as long as its black' was in response to the fact that it really was all that was available to the assembly line vehicle. As far as this being an example for companies that couldn't adapt, Ford did eventually come around to the 'customer is always right' mentality because of the competition with GM as stated above.