They could turn the room into a Faraday cage. It's probably pretty expensive, but it is legal.

Ah, so they are 3X as likely to be overweight as skinny, not 3X as likely to be overweight as the general population. That makes sense.

"Hoarders are 3X as likely to be overweight or obese."

I know, I was just being hyperbolic. I don't literally think it makes you a weirdo. The point is, it's a niche use case. The number of times most people have to compare content in two windows is maybe 1% of the time. And yet OSs have all sorts of buttons, widgets and aero-snap features to aid people who browse…

If you're doing that type of stuff regularly, you should really be using two monitors.

I love this idea, because I think it reflects how most people use their computers: with all of their applications maximized, flipping back and forth between them as needed. People who browse the web in an unmaximized window are over 50 and/or weirdos.

Yeah, this is probably a low point in his career.

The girl I had asked to prom was kind and very pretty and I didn't know her all that well. She was a friend of a friend. The party after prom was at some uncle's lake house way out in the country. My date and I were getting on well when a rabbit ran out in the road. I have a firm belief that you shouldn't risk your…

It was indeed Auto-Tune. (Disclaimer: I know this from NPR and Wikipedia, not from a love for Cher trivia.)

No. Christians believe in free will. If God were responsible for everything, there would be no free will. Christians believe the actual cause of our problems is ourselves, so, in this case, whoever spread the contaminated manure on the field.

Christian (or at least, educated Christians) wouldn't believe that. That's Jerry Falwell/Westborough Baptist Church territory.

I thought Cher taught us about Auto-Tune.

That's nothing. The plane itself is 50 million pounds.

To be fair, it's not about profit. We have too few people donating organs and people are dying because of it. Providing cash incentives would increase organ donations and save lives. It's a terrible, terrible idea, but the people who support the plan have good intentions. They just hold a Utopian view of the free…

You can already be jailed for sharing an all-you-can-eat salad for theft of services. Or for stealing cable, which is even more similar. Criminalizing Netflix sharing seems a bit silly, but it was probably already illegal anyway.

We don't have to choose between doing nothing and doing something. We can choose between maintaining the current level of spending, or increasing it. The question is, will the additional money spent be worth the money we save by solving crimes and deterring others. How much more money would have had to be spent on…

That would be a good argument if California had a lot of excess prison capacity. California is overcrowded, so pursuing any policy that would put more people behind bars would also require building more prisons.

Murder is completely different issue. We're talking about dedicating more resources to catch laptop thieves. Since laptops are fairly replaceable, it might just be best to live with a certain level of theft rather than spend thousands of dollars investigating every incident.

I wonder if it would even be worth it. Not only did tax payers fund the investigation, but they're going to be paying $47,000 per year to house the thief if he goes to prison. More police funding might deter other thefts, but the smart criminals will adapt and become harder to catch, while the dumb criminals will keep…

In other words, if you're smart about fees, everyone else on the plane will be paying for your flight.