1). Look up a local sex offender on online registry
2). Snap some candid photos of them in public
3). Threaten to make a myspace profile in their name unless the pay up
4). Profit!

From what I remember about database theory, the logical and correct thing to do in the case that two tables do not have a common primary key is to either A) not relate the tables, as doing so would be prone to producing errors, or B) create a third table to relate the primary keys of one table with the other.

It would be interesting to see if the actual statute included rules for what was supposed to happen in such cases. However, something makes me rather doubtful that anything like that crossed our elected officials' minds.

In the US, we have a nice little thing called due process, which guarantees (or at least it used to) that, before a person could be deprived of their rights in such a way as having a camera installed in their home, they are entitled to a fair and impartial trial by a jury of their peers.

Can't they just make more by pouring some ink on a piece of paper and folding it in half? I thought the point of these was what the patient in question thought they looked like, not the appearance of the actual ink-blot. I could be wrong though.

The author suggests that math be taught more as an art than a dry requisite skill. This presents somewhat of a problem though: A great deal of a person's mathematical ability depends on how strongly they understand the foundation of a particular area of study. If we were to treat math courses as "elective", I could forsee all sorts of problems arising.

I've always done well in math and enjoyed it thoroughly, but I'm not to naive as to say that I would enjoy learning about differential equations without first understanding functions, slopes, derivatives, etc. Taylor Series, Fourier Transforms--these are all beautiful and intricate mathematical concepts, but without understanding the fundamental building blocks which make infinite series work, they are all but useless.

Okay, so kids, to see if you have attention deficit disorder, I'm going to start by reading you "The Great Gatsby", by F. Scott Fitzgerald...

(Several Hours Later)
--So we beat on, boats against the current, bourne back ceaselessly into the past.

So children, who can tell me the kind of car that Gatsby drove in chapter three? Anybody? My god, these kids all have ADD!

It never ceases to amaze me how many taxpayer dollars and how much court time could be saved if legislators simply read and understood the documents they are supposed to be upholding.

Although, the setting and scenes of the movie, as well as the characters' personae, were generally accurate, the thing that killed it for me was the "red matter".

Seriously, one of the reasons that I've always liked Star Trek is that the technology and phenomenon used has some sort of grounding in real (or at least theoretical) physics: The introduction of some arcane black hole-producing substance made me WTF for the rest of the movie.

THEN WHO WAS PARADOX????

They should've just had Q show up at the end and fix the timeline.

Sadly, neither party seems to be particularly true to their own ideals anymore. The Dems claim that they are the party of the workers and unions, yet they use taxpayer dollars to bailout the big corporations instead of helping the increasingly unemployed population. The GOP claims to favor less government regulation and intrusion in people's lives, yet doesn't object when the government ruins the lives of non-violent drug users, tells people they can't have sex if it's for money, or makes any other legislation of the perceived morality of someone's private life.

The two parties in this country are more alike than you think. And they both want more power and money in their pockets than anything else.

It seems like we're fighting this never ending battle to shove more worthless equipment into cars while at the same time attempting to increase fuel efficiency. We'll never be able to have both. Every ill-conceived and improperly tested safety feature that's put in a vehicle will either increase its weight, sap power from the engine, or both. Call me nostalgic if you want, but I miss the cars of 20 to 30 years ago: Light, fuel efficient, and simple. I highly doubt that any of the cars coming out today will be running a few decades from now, what with all the cheaply made electronics that are essential to their function.

If you want my two cents, I'd say that all cars should be made with five-point safety harnesses and a roll cage integrated into the frame. This would be light, not require constant electronic monitoring of status, and sufficiently protect the vehicle's occupants. After all, race drivers have had these for years with mostly positive outcomes.

Are you crazy? We can't have students learning to think critically and logically--they might end up voting for third parties or worse. And encouraging debate? Do you just want to ruin our carefully constructed tapestry of political-correctness and cultural-sensitivity?

By heating up the upper and middle levels of an infant hurricane, they say they could disrupt the flows of air that power the enormous storms.

So what happens if you heat the lower layers? Sorry, just my evil genius side coming out.

You think that's bad? Just wait until the government introduces a new "hurricane prevention excise tax".