The FDA decided in 2010 that services claiming to evaluate a customer's risk of disease must be cleared by regulators if the companies sell directly to consumers

So a bunch of un-elected bureaucrats decided whether same un-elected bureaucrats had the power to regulate a product or service? Mind you, I'm not questioning whether this is a good product or not-- just whether the FDA should be deciding what's in its jurisdiction. Where are the progressives clamoring for "checks and balances"?

What's it like being so willfully ignorant? Any headaches, nausea, diarrhea?

Prohibition killed hundreds, if not thousands of them.

That explains why I have a "Tsimane Altruism Fee" on my latest water bill.

Beer is the cause of, and solution to, all of life's problems.

You assume the average Slashdotter (in 2013) understands that. On Slashdot 2003, this was expected.

"Pursue new opportunities"

Somebody explain to me how the fact that one company is failing somehow tells us that government should run everything?

Wrong. They will not build any more coal power plants IN THREE HIGH-SMOG regions. They are also implementing cap-and-trade, which probably works well when you're already fascist.

Unfortunately, the american lifestyle is a model that most Chinese dream of right now.

It's a shame they don't dream of human rights and a democratic form of government.

German greens might allow Hamburg to flood just to make a political point

Wow... don't you prosecute corrupt politicians there? Because doing something like that would be treason if it were enemy troops rather than the river threatening the city.

Meanwhile, Barack Obama continues to police the world while polishing his Nobel Peace Prize.

I wonder what the impact would be if you went upstairs for dinner instead of making your mom call down to the basement 15 times.

Next time I get one of these scams, I plan to type the scammer's words into the Eliza program and respond with what it says. Maybe I can find a copy of the Dr. SBAITSO that came with Sound Blaster cards and run that in a DOS box to make it easier. I could just tell him I lost my larynx to cancer.

You live as a couple in a small flat in a temperate area, and wonder why someone who might be living in a house with kids-- possibly in a rural, subtropical zone where they might need air conditioning, water pump, sewage pump, etc.-- uses more power?