There are devices where a bad actor could cause the device to kill someone. An AICD could be programmed to give a shock at the point in the cardiac cycle where itâ(TM)d cause the heart to arrest and then be programmed not to give itâ(TM)s usual life saving shock.

Staying calm, cool and collected in a life threatening emergency situation such as this requires bravery. That's why she's appropriately being called brave.

No, because people on bicycles and on foot are not piloting objects weighing thousands of pounds at high speed capable of killing and maiming others. The aggressive prosecution should be focussed on those killing people, not on people harmlessly breaking laws that were designed not for them but automobiles. That should happen irrespective of how annoyed drivers like you get that people use other forms of transportation.

Spoken like a true suburb dweller.

Nope. Everyone is a singular pronoun.

Unintended consequences, eh.

Seems like this would apply to libraries as well - all books that don't have an equivalent "accessible" version would be in violation of the ADA.

This is one of most depressing posts I've read on here in a while.

A fair contest would have subjected Watson to a delay that would be equivalent to a human's average response time (how quickly a human can push his thumb down to activate the buzzer), however many milliseconds that would be.

That's only if you measure quality of life by size of house you can live in. For many people, living in the middle of Iowa would represent a 500% quality of life decrease, as some people value other qualities of cities.

There is not a single place in the U.S. that requires that income.

If you're going to be a grammar nazi, you should at least have a good command of grammar.

It's not the "past tense." It's the present perfect, and 'led' is the past participle.

Health insurance does not pay for Viagra unless it is used for pulmonary hypertension, a bonafide medical condition.

any = singular

way = singular

anyway

I spent a couple of weeks in rural Honduras on a medical mission, and we were in a remote village where there was no clean water, goats roamed the dirt "streets," people lived in mud huts, and to get to the closest physician you had to walk about 20 hours to the nearest town. No electricity and no land lines.

Yet, a bunch of people in this town had cell phones, and service was available and reliable. Honduras's cell coverage was far better than the coverage here in the states, and people in dirty poor areas use them as their only means of communication to the outside world, oftentimes to their relatives in the United States. Doctors without Borders put in a clinic that can be used by visiting physicians, and it has solar panels. People pay a nominal fee to charge their phones off the solar panels.

Smart phones? Yeah, I didn't see any of those. But as they become more ubiquitous and less expensive, I can see them taking hold even in places like this.

That is ridiculous. You were in your own home, and you were displaying a firearm to show that you had the means to protect your family. Brandishing a firearm is legal when you are concerned about your own safety. How do you think a concealed carry permit holder can draw a firearm to defend himself? By brandishing it, of course.

I'd have had one serious conversation with the lieutenant of that police department. Brandishing their firearms and detaining your whole family like that was excessive.