Because a jury or lower court is very unlikely to accept their argument. At the level of the Supreme Court, the argument would be unlikely to fly either. Liberal justices are more likely to support less repressive drug policies, but hate the principle of limiting federal power. Conservative justices want to limit federal overreach, and give power back to the states, but are not going to do it through drug law reform or any other limits on moral authoritarianism.

Fixing drug prohibition is not going to happen through the courts or the politicians. It is going to happen bottom-up through the referendum process, as has already happened in Colorado and Washington.

Anti-radiation missiles. Any source transmitting with enough power to jam the signal would be a very conspicuous and short lived target.

I fail to see any sarcasm. Your post is a simple statement of fact: Military planes exist to carry out military operations. Duh.

The important thing is that the government of France, a deeply indebted country with 11% unemployment, is focused like a laser beam on giving businesses yet another reason not to locate in their country.

Not necessarily. Instead, you could offer financial incentives for disgruntled employees to rat on the companies they work for.

Except that it is easy to generate artificial gravity by rotating the space station.

Why? It seems like a fair sentence to me. There was no "whistleblowing" here that I can see. His disclosure compromised field agents, and could have done real harm. He was apparently just leaking classified info for his own benefit. This guy was not a Snowden, or even a Manning.

No. Many modern fingerprint scanners check for a pulse, and/or detect subsurface structures that do not show up in a lifted print. Apple claimed that this scanner did both of these checks, but apparently they were lying, and it actually does neither.

Actually, many people have up to ten fingers. Personally, I use my big toe.

But this shows that Apple was less than honest in their claims about pulse detection, and sub-surface tissue detection.

In some areas of Europe, McDonalds order-takers have been replaced with touch screens. As you would expect, automation tends to be higher in places with higher wages.

The whole point of the ISS was to give the space shuttle something to do. Using heavy lift rockets would have defeated its purpose.

There are three qualities you want in a capacitor:
1. Cheap
2. Reliable
3. High Capacitance

You can pick any two:
1 & 2 = Ceramic
1 & 3 = Electrolytic
2 & 3 = Tantalum

No it doesn't. If their job is to do an automated task, the task can have a built in quality control. If they don't meet a minimum standard, then they don't get paid.

Example: My wife runs a educational website where teachers/parents can upload content. But before kids can access the content, it must be reviewed for inappropriate content (porn, profanity, etc). She uses Amazon's Mechanical Turk to hire workers to screen the content. 90% of the content is new, but 10% is randomly inserted content that has already been screened, and is known to be either be either appropriate or inappropriate. If the Turkers don't handle these tests properly, then their work is discarded, and they don't get paid .

The workers she hires are from India, Pakistan, Philippines, Indonesia, etc. But never from America. I see no reason that welfare recipients shouldn't be put to work on tasks like this instead of munching potato chips in front of the TV.

Also, this thing is huge. Several times the size of a Raspberry Pi. It appears to require a wall wart, whereas a RPI can be powered from USB.

... and none of the GPIO pins can do hardware PWM. So this board is not much use for robotics.

Of course not. He is earning a living. Why would it be better if he was on the dole? The safety net should be for people that can't work, not those who just don't want to.