THIS! Also, most people will just go along with yet more laws "for their security" that make it harder to get Halloween costumes (think how toy guns cause freak outs -- now imagine cop uniforms) and much scarier BS because of one isolated incident.

Remember the shoe bomber's idea wasn't even feasible, but you still take your shoes off in the airport.

That is EXACTLY what I was thinking.

Although it sounds a lot like Midas Touch already.

Or if that ceases to work, the HOA could just HIRE someone cheaper to clean it up cheaper than running genetic tests.

But that's too hard.

Replace "drone" with "nanotechnology" and you've got a Neal Stephenson novel.

No, really, I think it was "Diamond Age".

Unless they have late dvds. Hang onto them!

Or to stab only humans who commit crimes, but have overrides for the people who run the company. Oh, and the definition of crime varies to pretty much anything.

I think I saw a documentary about it once. Took place in Detroit as a test bed.

And the plural of anecdote is data.

Oh, wait.

Actually they're afraid of novelty items. I bet fake dog poop would do the same thing.

LOBBYISTS!!!

THIS!!!! I remember reading /. when Columbine happened. The sentiment was much more "I remember being teased and angry but unsure what to do. Thank goodness I didn't do that." and then a hearty middle finger and solidarity against Tipper Gore wanting to ban video games. I think there were some teen suicides[0], and it was the same thing of "I almost did that too." Sure, we had the usual "I fought my bullies, etc." but it was almost more of a how to guide, or "throw a fist before a bullet" sort of thing, not "Wow, what a pussy."

Seriously, /., remember where you came from.

[0] Note that as a child of the 80's, "teen suicide" was an "epidemic" then too. Our parents' media blamed it on punk rock and D&D. Same shit, different day.

Didn't I just see this movie in the theater? Is this a viral ad for Gravity?

I was thinking that too. Standard Silicon Valley procedure. The other big one is "We're combining these two sites, even though some of you already commute over an hour and this will make it longer, but we promise there will be synergy with you all working together."

Technically, beer is food, and alcohol is a waste product of yeast.

So you could say the poo to food kid did win. ;)

I know you were joking. And I was tacking on, jokingly as well, that both parties listen to corporate "persons" that pay their campaign funds. It's part of how we got in this mess (not just the current shutdown).

No, all wrong. They're all listening to people.

Remember, the Supreme Court tells us that corporations are people.