Since they can't get the consent of random passersby, the person riding in the vehicle is the only one who can knowingly evaluate and accept the risk. So put a clause in whatever the person signs to ride in the vehicle that they consent to the risk to their life, or they can't ride.

Had one, watched the 'feed' content become less and less updates from my friends, more and more video, copypasta, and things I don't care about. Deactivated it 4 or 5 months ago. The only thing that makes me think about going back is that I'm missing out on event invites.

While springing forward and falling back may be losing popularity, if it were abolished I am guessing that the debate between whether to permanently revert to standard time or always stay on daylight saving time would evoke a lot of strong reaction.

They're the only ones I know of that have pledged to spend almost a billion dollars to influence the next election.

So public disclosure of the terms is "likely to lead this to go immediately into the public debate on an ill-informed basis", and yet aren't secret terms and meetings guaranteed to result in ill-informed debate? If the agreement were truly in the public interest, then it sounds like Groser is saying is that the public is too stupid to be persuaded to support the agreement via educational campaigns. The reality is that these agreements are trying to achieve aims that are in the interests of corporations and other mega-donors, not further the interest of the people, and that's what they don't want known.

I'd be fine if we got rid of DST but kept everyone 'sprung forward' an hour. I'm a night owl so any daylight earlier than 8:00 am is wasted on me.

Unfortunately, what you don't own is Congress.

Let's wait for this discussion until a computer has something interesting to say.

if I won the powerball tomorrow, I doubt I'd even go back in to collect the few personal things I keep at my desk.

Maybe you need to look into getting a different job.

I was thinking about this type of response, commonly given when someone says they don't love their job, when I was reading another article where 'college grads with degree in X can't find work'. There the common advice was "maybe you should have gotten a degree in something more practical."

"Why bother? They'll be correct again in a few months."

once they have 18 months they'll say it's not long enough and they need 36 months. Rinse and repeat until logs are retained for the lifetime of the customer plus 70 years.

I'd prefer it not hang and use 99% of the CPU when I close it.

BP, to its credit, has accepted responsibility even though its almost certainly not to blame.

Just like the companies whose foreign factories run sweatshops and use child labor aren't to blame? If it's BP's well, they have a responsibility to ensure the other companies they hire operate in a responsible fashion, even it it entails having a full time BP employee stay on the rig to inspect and monitor what's going on.

Buy one for all your friends!

Since when is gun registration violating innocent until proven guilty?
Is it the same way as driver and vehicle licensing violates it?
That is... not at all?

Driving is a privilege that can be revoked, registration to allow the authorities to verify that you're still worthy of the privilege makes sense. Gun ownership is a right. The only benefit of registration is so that police can identify suspects if a particular type of weapon is used in a crime. There's your presumption of guilt.