(I'd imagine 200kW is needed for regular orbital corrections for the full ISS when all modules are in place, but I'm probably wrong. But here's something better:)
No--because of NASA cuts, lawmakers have just ruled that physicists must add an additional ISS equation to quantum mechanics, governing the behavior of the ISS in orbit around Earth, so that quantization will inhibit orbital decay. They picked an equation where the only resonant energies were the only interesting orbits. Since the energies are quantized, we can't just nudge the ISS a little bit at a time, now that it has its own wavefunction, duh!

Come to think of it, I bet I could design a super-efficient combustion engine that relies on macro-scale space quantization. I bet I can lobby a group to get my favorite wavefunction on the books for that, as well! ;)

"[A] strange sad feeling grew on me, remembering when my income was mine. I *think*, not really sure, I was able to buy CDs and food, not only food."

Maybe thepiratebay can use this to gain political favor: "Saving the marriages of savvy Internet users!"

We're guaranteed the right to assembly, but not the right to unharrassed assembly *g*
Or maybe we're guaranteed the right to assembly, provided we own rebreather gas masks (for pepper spray), bullet vests (for tasers), body armor (for rubber bullets), silvered full body suits with Peltier coolers mounted on heatsinks with large fans (for infrared heat guns), and earplugs rated for 60dB reduction (for sound cannons) at frequencies up to at least 60kHz (for ultrasonic pain generators). Until, of course, that type of body protection is considered a military-grade weapon and heavy penalties are given to a citizen for owning or using these banned items...
"What good is a phone call, if you are unable to speak?"

I think a more accurate way of saying it would be:

Your brother technically made the choice that led to his own death. However, there is a good chance he would have not made that choice had the State not grouped marijuana in with meth, pcp, coke, heroin, etc., which are at least tens of thousands of times more dangerous, and mushrooms and acid, which are hundreds of times more dangerous. In truth, cigarettes and alcohol are thousands of times more dangerous. Why doesn't the State provide accurate statistics of addiction potential, long-term health effects, likelihood of overdose (defined as death or organ damage during use, or maybe anything requiring medical treatment excluding shooting people tripping with thorazine, which has been shown to be more likely to cause a bad experience than letting the hallucinogen or entheogen wear off), etc.? There's a lot of conjecture about that, but there is some info from NORML and a lot of academic study of Prohibition and its conjectured, eventual effects on our drug policy.
Accurate information could well have saved your brother's life---we don't know---but if we had a study with a sort of "control group" (though it wouldn't be a blind study), comparing two similar countries where pot is treated differently (there's arguably at least one, the Netherlands, maybe two if you include Mexico), and see what happens, we could give some loose statistics about the likelihood that your brother would still be here.

I am sorry for your loss as well. You can probably indirectly blame the State, but we can only surmise what could have happened, sadly.

[Note to future employers scouring the web for dirty secrets: having an opinion on the drug policy doesn't mean I do drugs---perhaps I just care about how the State treats so many people I have read stories about in the paper.]

Living in Delaware, I'm well aware that many tiny buildings with very few employees are the corporate 'headquarters' for companies that do no significant business here.

Maybe it's wrong, maybe it's not. Companies do tend to be careful, though. I'm not sure what to think of the situation, but I've seen a lot of bizarre corporate behavior here, so if that's any indication, this might warrant additional investigation.

Hmm, thanks. I hate to hurt living beings if I can avoid it, so if I can get them out of my food supply while killing as few as possible, that would rock. (For the record, I still eat beef.. but see the work of Temple Grandin for butchering farms.)

Where's the most inexpensive place to find it in a retail store? And online?

As we all learned from the documentary Event Horizon [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0119081/], the scientific data recovered has to be destroyed in order to save any remaining personnel, and the emotional and physical effects on crewmembers traveling through "unusual" regions of time or space involves hematemesis, self-disfiguration by manual removal of the eyeballs and subsequent severing of the optic nerve bundles and cauterization and suturing of the eyelids, and mumbling in classical Latin while having a sore throat. Unfortunately, you can find these conditions at hospitals, so there's really no benefit to experiencing the psychoses involved.

I'm an idiot when it comes to soldering, but I know that industrial soldering techniques (dipping a circuit board precisely into a pool of solder) need to go through stress-testing and QA. Any joints that show signs of stress should be manually soldered. Use the right solvents to clean, right flux for flow, tin carefully, solder with the appropriate type of solder, and clean off the remaining flux.

I suck at soldering and know nearly nothing about it, but, you'd think electronics manufacturers would know more than me... I guess not?

I have ants where I live, and I've experimented by killing and collecting dead ants, then crushing them and spreading the juices around.

The ants don't care about their own dead, apparently. I find trails of ants all the time where dead ants are scattered along the trail. It doesn't deter them one bit...

Maybe every time police acquire evidence through means the regular public could not do, they have to mention it to that person within six months. That person has the ability to file a complaint, not with the same police department (since people might worry about complaining to the same group of people that was watching them---quite understandably), but perhaps to an independent office whose actions have to be transparent by law (and are regularly checked up on by a significant and random (reappointed every 3 months, for example; not a long time period like some organizations are re-appointed) portion Congress, not by a commitee). Statistics about the complaints filed would, by law, be available to anyone by phone call, website, or snail-mail, so the public would be able to fully assess whether the random group of Congress members, studying the actions of police departments gathering substantial evidence, would be able to raise their voice if the group was ignoring complaints for some departments, etc.

This is something taxpayer dollars ought to be paying for; we pay for law enforcement, so we should pay for its oversight (not by raising tax dollars, though, since that would be arguably unfair).

If someone knows of a system that does this sort of thing already (besides the courts; it's ridiculous to expect someone to pay $500 for a lawyer's time just to raise a minor complaint), and has vast public oversight, I'd be happy to know...

But at least you don't need to ranlib after you ar! ... Thinking about the fact that I walk around making wisecracks like that, wow, now I know why people call me such a computer geek.

Your eyeballs would have to pass a sufficient amount of IR/UV to the back of the eye -- I'm not sure if they do. If only a tiny bit gets through, you could play with UV and IR light sources in an otherwise dark room, but as far as seeing the UV coloration on flower petals, for example, you'd probably be out of luck, as your eyes would be swamped with visible light.
(Biologists who study vision, please correct me if I'm wrong)

And, brown versus light pink? Surely you mean they say "light brownish off-white" to refer to the very light reddish tan that appears light pink to people who don't have thousands of mental snapshots of flashy pink outfits to compare them to. ;)
[Yeah, I know that's a stereotype, and many women hate pink, including my girlfriend, but hey, it's a joke]

I have a weasel. It rocks and does what you would expect. Anything you can do with a keyboard and monitor (unless the BIOS puts the machine into non-text mode on startup with no option for non-graphics all just to print a bullshit logo, which some do...) can be done via serial connection. Just get an old 25mhz sparc sun box or something to connect to the serial port, and you instantly have another network node that lets you screw with the bios.

(The question is, how did PCs become servers without this kind of functionality already??? ... I'm sure you've seen the datacenters where people walk around with fancy tablets to plug into PC 'servers' just to reboot them .... efficient?!?!?!)

He didn't say we should repeal laws about driving while intoxicated.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DNA_methylation makes it sound, to me, that it's probably do-able in a lab (very difficultly), or perhaps we can just get a way to bioengineer a strain of micro-organism to methylate certain areas and sequences as appropriate. Or, perhaps we can use enzymes in human cells that induce the appropriate methylation and find a way to make the enzymes function in vitro.

Either way, the methylation assay they've developed may be useful for now, but probably don't be for long.

Disclaimer: IANA-{genetic-engineer/biologist/biochemist}.