And does your friend still respect him/her-self on Saturday morning?

Are you implying the Germans (and other parts of the world) have not figured this out? that they sit in the dark all evening?
Yes - of course solar is not the only energy source but then again typically, consumption is substantially lower for much of those dark hours so you don't require as much infrastructure to meet the demand...

To a certain extent, I agree. I just wish that someone would tell the Germans that their grandmothers should find and put their bikini tops on and that thongs on octogenarians (of either gender) just aren't right.

Do you really - I mean, really - think that you are at the risk of experiencing tyranny from your duly elected government in the US? Give your head a shake.

I knew I came to /. for a reason... and I just figured out that it is to get expert advice on social skills and how to meet girls

ahhh...if they have facial recognition software do they also need the RFID's? Isn't that overly redundant?

Unless the materials mined in space magically disappear, will they not have survived their impact with the Earth's surface when their spaceship lands?

And once you try to bring them into the US, US laws apply... think CITES (the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species) i.e., you might be able to legally catch a three pecker wood toad in BoraBora but if its protected under CITES, you face legal consequences if you're caught bringing it into the US. And, I think they'd notice an arriving spaceship...

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> this will never get off the ground

That's because it's a car.... not an airplane. Jeez... look who's the smarty-pants now

I expect that anything that is mobile is more difficult to penetrate... virgin or otherwise

1+1=3 but only for very large values of 1

Gravity makes things fall so it was Isaac Newton who caused the decline of the Roman Empire (and it was Michael J Fox who transported him back in time to do the deed)

> Uh, maybe the fact I'm not pointing my gun at them?

You're assuming that everyone [with a gun] is capable of behaving rationally in an entirely irrational situation. you are pointing your gun at someone else just like the initial shooter is doing. Do you trust the person on the far side of the theater to know that you're not an accomplice?

> and no amount of fact or rational thought can change that.

And you are entitled to your opinion too (even if it is wrong)

Yeah... I happen to presume that taking a hand gun to the theater is idiotic but that is just my personal opinion... in fact, I think it says a lot about your culture (or personal insecurity) if you feel that you need to do this. Of course, you are entitle to disagree.

No, I cannot cite examples... it was a question (i.e., how... [sorry I forgot the question mark at the end]).

Can you provide examples to support your claim?

> Still there is a chance that you would be able to do that under lucky circumstances. And that chance justifies permission to carry weapons.

This sort of attitude strikes me as just nuts. You're in a dark crowded space full of panicking people with a handgun that is not particularly accurate under ideal circumstances. Once you start shooting, how are the other whackjobs with guns (oops, my bias slipped out there) supposed to know whether you're one of the 'good guys' or not? In the best possible scenario you injure the shooter so they can face trial... in all of the other out comes, there are more deaths and injuries and you run the risk of getting shot yourself.

That hardly sounds stabilizing to me.

"evolution is a really really bad theory for explaining the transition from nothingness to human life"

I agree - a deity proclaiming "let there be life" is far more plausible