I'm wondering why it's not a function of tire slip vs distance traveled. If your GPS says you traveled further than your tires rotated, you're on a slippery surface and need to change driving tactics. Notify once, not constantly. Or turn on a dash icon. (Or leave me the hell alone; I learned to drive under such conditions and I can figure it out myself, thanks very much.)

As to cold being a factor... ice at -40 is not slippery; it can be downright sticky.

Amusing, given your name.

Financial resources aren't the only factor. There are officers, spies and double agents, secure facilities that could be better used for other projects, communications bottlenecks.

Why not attribute the exploits to all "six" teams, rather than having a conspicuous gap from 1 to 5?

What if the entire MKULTRA project was a scam meant to cause the USSR to waste resources to close this imaginary weapons gap? A few "top secret" documents leaked here; a few rumours there; Common sense says no, but there's always a nagging little doubt in the back of the mind to drive the necessary paranoia. It's perfect.

Mine's a box. Granted, it is made of metal and plastic, rather than cardboard, but that doesn't matter. Boxes can be made of all sorts of materials. Why do you think it isn't a box?

How, exactly, does that stop your friends from mailing you Christmas cards?

Because not being able to tell us is a data point as well.

Yes, it's the switches that go. Either they stop switching, or they double click on their own. That's the only reason I've replaced mice other than upgrading from ball mice to optical, and from PS/2 to USB.

The purpose of the government is to implement and regulate broadcast standards. It is the government's job to make them turn down the volume.

So how do you get your Christmas cards?

Ahh! So it's meant to mean we can't prove or disprove spiritual claims by looking at merely physical evidence?

If I'm trying to support a claim that is 80% extraordinary, does my evidence have to be 80% extraordinary too, or can I get by with two pieces of 40% extraordinary evidence? I mean, Sagan's statement is a nice sentiment and makes a great sound bite, and all, but the moment you start judging the ordinariness or extraordinariness of claims and evidence you start to stumble off the path of science. Science is simple: Either the evidence supports the claim or it doesn't. That's all that should matter.

Nonsense. That's not how science works. The basic idea behind science is that if an observation contradicts a conjecture, then the conjecture is false. That's it. If the observations do not contradict the conjecture, science makes no claim.

Their sky god has them blow stuff up by running our sky carriages into our sky scrapers. Our sky god has us forgive them, and even love them. No doubt in my mind which one needs to be destroyed first.