HR 313: criminalize any drug activity by U.S. citizens overseas, even if legal in the foreign country

I haven't dug into the full text of the bill, but the summary on govtrack clearly does not agree with your summary.

"Drug Trafficking Safe Harbor Elimination Act of 2011 - Amends the Controlled Substances Act to provide that anyone within the United States who enters into a conspiracy to possess or traffic in controlled substances outside the United States, or who aids or abets others in such conduct, shall be subject to the same penalties that would apply to such conduct if it were to occur within the United States. Excludes simple possession of a controlled substance from the application of this Act."

The law would only apply to people conspiring or aiding or abetting within the United States. It also explicitly does not apply at all to some drug activity ("simple possession", whatever that is).

So as long as you wait until you're out of the country before you begin conspiring or aiding or abetting, then you're clear of this law. You can still fly to Amsterdam with intent to toke up. Just don't make specific plans with anyone else (that would be conspiracy) to do anything more than "simple possession" before you leave.

Mathematicians in Love

Also:
Postsingular, Hylozoic
White Light

To be fair, the fee for the review should only be charged if the customer is found guilty. If the customer is innocent, then the accuser should be charged a fee. In addition to the amount for the review, the accuser should be forced to pay for at least one month of service for the customer, to compensate him for the inconvenience.

No, to be fair the accuser should always pay. If the customer is found guilty the accuser has extra ammunition for a lawsuit, where they can recover that fee as part of the damages.

You were right, version numbers really are like body language: whatever you "read" from them is your imagination, projection, or wishful thinking.

The word for that is "anarchist".

I think it's reasonable to own 1000 cars, but you should not be allowed to drive more than 10 at the same time.

Just last week I replaced some R20 incandescent reflector bulbs with brand new Philips CFLs. They take about 10 minutes to reach full brightness. I smell bullshit.

Resolvers generally query multiple (or all) name servers for the domain simultaneously, and take whichever response comes back first. As long as one server is responding reliably, everything will work transparently for clients, though perhaps a bit slower. If that one server ever drops a packet then clients could see a long delay or outright lookup failure.

Or maybe because Fuck Apple In The Ear. I will never give a fucking cent to Apple because of this patent bullshit they're pulling.

Well, I might reconsider IF they drop all their patent suits, AND open-source all their software, AND donate all their cash reserves to charity, AND move all their manufacturing to America, AND a lot of other impossible things happen.

Fuck you, Apple. Fuck you.

There are some atheists who don't care whether bible-style gods exist or not, because they consider such gods contemptible and unworthy of worship or even consideration.

Why in the world do you expect that lawmakers will be beholden to the laws they make?

It's a reasonable expectation in an unreasonable world.

Sorry, it's more important that we kill each other than understand our place in the universe. Have a good day.

Understanding our place in the universe doesn't cost billions of dollars. Just open the bible!

/satire
(not serious)

Either 0 or 1, depending on what I'm doing. Usually 0 but occasionally 1.

Protip: Always write to a singular audience. If you want to pluralize the audience, use first-person ("How many of us...?").

Please stop feeding Apple's "we invented everything!" hubris. This is just a computer attached to a monitor, which is an obvious combination that has been around since there have been computers small enough to attach to monitors.

If it costs us a mere 1-2% of our GDP each year to prevent that change, over the course of 100 years that adds up: Current World GDP (About 64 Trillion USD) * 1.02 ^ 100 = $ 460 Trillion Dollars

wat

That does not add up.

Try 0.01 * $64T * 100 = $64T. Or $128T for 2%.