"Paleo" is just plain stupid. I don't mean the concept, I mean the well-marketed fad diet. The things it excludes are just odd. No beans? Like ancient ancestors didn't eat snap peas and similar legumes whenever they could get them. The fruits it excludes are a bit weird and to a lesser degree it's exclusion of dairy.…

But it is OK to not vaccinate your child, right? I always go to the internet for parenting advice so I am really counting on you guys for a good answer, here.

That would be determined as for any crime. If it was accidental, then the punishment is minor but sufficient to encourage greater rigor. If the illegal collection of evidence was intentional and instructed then the person and every person involved in the decision should be nailed to the wall on criminal violation of…

Just so, and any violation of those civil rights should be punished. That doesn't mean that one crime (violation of civil rights) erases the other crime. There may be cases, such as entrapment, where that might be the case, but illegal collection of evidence doesn't seem to change the issue of if a crime has been…

The government is us. We should not want people to get away with crimes. The entities that illegally obtained the evidence should be punished appropriately to discourage future illegal collection evidence as we don't want that either.

As a counterpoint, perhaps legal bodies should be punished sufficiently to discourage obtaining evidence illegally but the evidence permitted anyway. I don't think a civil society should be based on using technicalities to "get away with it."

In general the law should not be hampered by technicalities. If people broke the law obtaining the evidence, then those that did should be sufficiently punished to encourage them and others to never do it again. However, the illegally obtained evidence remains and if it implicates a crime, it should be used. Lawful…

It really isn't. Not even in this kind of journalism. The ideas you present should be shocking, the words on their own need not be. Using profanity for punctuation simply exhibits a paucity of vocabulary.

No he didn't. Communication with politicians is a matter of public record. They did it to themselves:

Probably use the same kind of brake that Otis made it's name on. You don't need cables for a brake.

Counterweights can be replaced with energy capture systems. Going down can recharge batteries that would, in turn be depleted when going up. Just like regenerative braking in electric cars and trains. If you make the shafts like large linear motors, I think you have the problem mostly solved. Building it would be a…

FWIW and for anyone still interested, the visitor's comment kicks off the waiting period because it provide a crucial piece of information that no dragon knows and that is that the sets of dragons of green eyes must cumulatively intersect on at least one dragon. Before the visitor makes the statement, the set of…

A truck bed might be about large enough to put an astronaut and a deep sleep apparatus...

I went to Turkey not too long ago. Kusadasi. I can't concur with the "friendly" part. While walking through the town, one shop owner grabbed my and tried to haul me into his store and yelled at me when I walked away. Another yelled at my daughter for asking the price of a thing. It was far from the best experience in…

All dragons see 99 dragons with green eyes. All dragons think they may not have green eyes. All dragons think all the other dragons see either 98 or 99 dragons with green eyes. Being unable to discuss it, all dragons must wait until the 100th day to know if their eyes are green or not and, at that moment, realize they…

I follow all of that, but why does the visitor's statement, a fact which is already known to all the dragons, start the clock ticking? What piece of information does it add that wasn't previously present to kick off the sequence that leads to the dragons turning to sparrows at midnight on the 100th day?

So about 6'x6'x13'

And that is why you should use a new condom every time. Sheesh. Who uses the same condom for 10 years?

"At the cost of never being able to take it off, of course." might have been what threw people.

"Criminals tend to prefer a clean getaway, and the perceived threat of being caught and fought deters most of them." But this argument doesn't apply to carrying firearms...