They need to add a button to Facebook so that if anybody feels like they're going to get the clap, they can push it and immediately generate a medical response.

China doesn't have the capability to attack the US militarily but it can cause a significant amount of damage by attacking the US economy and promoting anarchy amongst the US population. The bonus is the possibility of carrying out this attack anonymously. Once the electrical grid is down, not only does the US economy take a hit but people start rioting and looting. The police and military would crack down on its own population and start fueling rage directed towards the authorities. Instead of everybody coming together against a foreign military, the population would focus their anger against their government and each other. Don't forget that the USSR was brought down by having its economy slowly crushed and having the people turned against the government.

The big mitigating factor of course is that China's own economy and foreign reserves depend on the health of the US economy.

A bad Bitdefender update prevented all Windows binaries from running a few months ago. It would start popping up errors saying all my services were failing and wouldn't launch any applications. I actually formatted and reinstalled my laptop because I thought the whole thing was infected with a virus. What a pain in the ass.

I like how there's this assumption that Google was somehow oblivious to what kind of content was actually posted on youtube. That's just a pretense user-generated content providers maintain in the hopes of getting out of legal trouble. It's like the Pirate bay half-heartedly trying to convince a jury that they just host Linux distributions. If somebody with an IQ of 60 can figure it out how to find pirated content on youtube, then so can the collective executive and legal team at google. The only question is whether there's documentation that proves they actually knew.

Look, if you're running a web site that makes its money from ads, you have to understand the problems with your own business model. You have to understand that people can and will block ads, and factor that in as a risk to your business. If ad revenues are dropping and you have to lay off staff then let me get out my little violin because that happens for a multitude of reasons across the entire business world. Simply find a way to make it work -- find a different way to make money, cut costs, make it difficult to block your ads, etc. The customer/reader is not beholden in any way to keep you in business by behaving the way that you expect them to. If your web site fails, it's because you're a poor business person and not because of the world around you.

Here in Ontario, Canada we must send our children to the closest school in our chosen school board (secular or Catholic). My parents had to fight to send my sister to an English-only school when she wasn't doing well in our designated school, which was French immersion.

Why would a terrorist even have to do that? You can opt for a pat-down search instead. Has security started groping people in their underwear area?

This is Amsterdam we're talking about. My guess is they'd toss any pot they found in the bin with the water bottles. The Americans have drug dogs on the exit ramp of that flight so anybody that gets caught with their pot in Amsterdam should probably be considered lucky.

I took the Schiphol - Detroit flight last January and there were no full body scanners. All passengers were subject to an interview by a security officer and had to receive a signed sticker, and we had to pass through security at the gate.

It's extremely strange that the bomber was allowed on with no passport, because you have to go through passport control when you land in the US. He would have been arrested and deported on the spot. Both the security measures above should have stopped the guy. Maybe he bypassed gate security altogether, in which case it doesn't matter what kind of fancy scanners they are using. I find it hard to believe that security would confiscate your water but not care if you didn't have a passport.

What are you saying, IT jobs should be paying close to the poverty line? You don't think that the skills and knowledge an IT worker possesses is worth $20k more than the poverty line? Even a low end IT work requires considerably more knowledge and training than somebody flipping burgers or mopping floors.

You can buy $40 shower gel, and people actually buy it? That's ground for marital strife right there.

The people who are voting for the drug organizations are idiots who need to put down the bong for long enough to see that there are other human being starving and dying and suffering. The thought that people are putting the legalization of a recreational drug over say giving somebody a hot meal sickens me.

I believe the US army already tested this theory in Mogadishu and it didn't work out too well.

Silk made it easier to pull out the arrow because the fabric covered the arrowhead's barb and prevented it from tearing the flesh when being pulled out.

What incentive is there for anyone to actually revive some dead person in say 100 years, except perhaps for novelty or science? Does anyone feel such a void left by their great-great grandparents that they feel compelled to resurrect them? Let's face it, we're all just average people. We might think that we're all wonderful, smart and special but in reality we're not sufficient outliers in society to the point where anyone's going to care.