Given the addiction factor, this might actually be the next step in the gun-control lobby's efforts to ban all arms, from nuclear warheads to nerf guns and pointy things. Think about it, all of those aimless, wandering, zomboid Petville addicts, wandering around with access to the real world, including guns, pointy things, and schools. It's almost as if they WANT another pointy-thing attack to occur in a school! It's the fuckin' Cloward–Piven strategy, man!

Don't they have a huge prison population? Why can't they just have some of their more troublesome prisoners volunteer theirs? You know, the ones in trouble for spilling state "secrets", even if they're beyond obvious to everyone and his dog.

Now with 30% more sprinkles.

to nominate Microsoft Windows for this award?

Carry the media? That's a load of crap. IT'll just get confiscated at the border. Pay someone to put the data somewhere within whatever country you're in now on a VPN and you just copy it over once you get to your destination.

No, he's saying that the insurance companies pay either a set price or don't negotiate a lower price than the maker asks. So, since people don't balk and walk away from the higher price (because insurance gets it for them), there is no incentive to lower the prices. Kind of like how the US Gov't is forbidden from negotiating down medicine prices, and consequently us Americans have to pay an arm and leg for meds. Essentially, Insurance companies decouple the supply-demand relationship by hiding the true cost to consumers.

Herpy Derpy had a cell-phone,
Whose cell-phone was theft prone.
All of the chief's canines,
and all of the chief's policemen
couldn't find the cell-phone even with tracking software on it again.

Wow. Maybe England would like to run the broadband to the rural areas of the US. I can barely get 1.5Mbps. And I only live two miles from town along a main road.

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That's why you get on the internet at the library and do your taxes there. Duh.

Actually, the hearsay rule only stops the defendant from using it. The feds are allowed to use all the hearsay they want in prosecution, according to my understanding of the federal rules of evidence.

Maybe I'm stupid, but since Android is already open-source, wouldn't someone just fork off the last open version?

If NASA wants their rocket fuel to be green, all they have to do is add a whole lot of green food dye to the tanks before filling them!

I can only hope they can get Calc up to the responsiveness of 2007 Excel, especially in the area of charts and graphs. I'm a big fan of Libre, but when it comes down to interoperability between Word Processor and Spreadsheet, Word and Excel win hands down. Add to that the fact that Excel seems to do a better job with charts and visual representation of data, and that's why I prefer (for now) to do my scientific data processing with Excel.

Why did it take a constitutional amendment to enact prohibition, but drugs are illegal without a special amendment? I never did understand that.