Biggest time suck? There has to be 101 better ways to word that.

The appropriate number of days since your last login, is 42.

You're thinking of slow cookers they tend to have glass lids. Every pressure cooker that I've owned has had a metal lid. I don't remember seeing any glass topped pressure cookers, not saying they don't exist, but I haven't seen any.

Unfortunately, we have done so much to militarize the police that sometimes they forget they are civilians.

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The most reliable research available indicates that there are only 100-130 cases of stranger abductions a year in the United States. The F.B.I. handled 93 cases of stranger abductions cases in 2001. That figure is actually a decrease from years past, especially during the 1980s when the average per year hovered around 200 incidents a year.

There are only 12 states (Alabama, Arizona, Delaware, Florida, Kentucky, Mississippi, Nebraska, Nevada, Tennessee, Virginia, Washington, and Wyoming) where Felons may permanently lose the right to vote. I say may, because some of these 12 states have provisions where some Felons may apply for restoration of their voting rights. Further some only permanently restrict voting rights based the type of felony. For more information look here: http://felonvoting.procon.org/view.resource.php?resourceID=286

My first thought was 'how are they going to cut off the Somali pirate's Internet connection from Europe,' then I remembered this is Slashdot, where not all pirates are real pirates.