Every security feature you just mentioned can be very easily defeated by pretty much anyone with enough know-how; even 10" steel walls are nothing and they wouldn't even need dynamite - no explosives necessary...

I've seen quite a few opened via one's teeth without damage...it's a risk, but it depends on just how damn bad you want that beer...

The question of whether they were already closed or not is one that should be asked; no doubt about it. And, through the courts, those questions will be answered (if it comes to that). The $250 billion might be exaggerated by the French, but we all know that any loophole that can be exploited by a corporation will…

Step one would be to select leaders with the willingness and political bravery to approach these issues...unfortunately, every electable politician that turns up on the ballot has been thoroughly bathed in cash by the system and, in their own interest, chooses to only speak and debate on social issues utterly…

Unless France demands payment via non-fiat currency - $250 billion in pennies, nickels, dimes, quarters, and any leftover discontinued dollar coins (and I would do it, dammit)... Then, no rectangles...

If legitimate wrongdoing has occurred, then the timing of discovering and rectifying the wrongdoing should be irrelevant... Most national economies are in the tank; why the sudden backlash against France for closing corporate loopholes utilized only to usurp the law anyways?—We should be doing the same damn thing…

Agreed. She was long gone physiologically....unless shrunken brains are proven to be fully aware; then you'd have an entirely different hypothetical on your hands...

Agreed - someone is going to wind up with mustard gas in their house; I can see it now...

There are pockets remaining of the middle class that still retain leisure time - if they have interests in movies, this would suit them well; but, for the majority of Americans who are still trying to retain the facade of middle-class, they're getting pounded by over-employment at low-wage jobs - this tends not to…

I will have a nice day living & not having to read about the alternative which would have happened. But I don't see how I could have read about the alternative story - where the FBI didn't recruit and didn't militarize and didn't provide equipment for an Islamic kid. The news doesn't report on things that don't…

Of course they'll never end the war on drugs, especially with this economy. With the need for jobs and the endless debate on how to create them, you have to admit that there is a lot of jobs involved in this war, and not just government jobs since the war is being privatized. Granted, the vast majority of those…

"'I hope it will be a good America.'

Antibiotics - easily obtainable, even Vancomycin - the atom bomb of antibiotics; injections of morphine - not a chance...

Up until you started talking about your method of obtaining and abusing schedule II narcotics, I have had the same experience over the last two or three years. I remember when I started using Tramadol. I was a severe alcoholic, and this drug was able to pull me from the abyss. I honestly do believe that Tramadol,…

Perhaps the app creators set the prices early on and released without adjusting for inflation. If they started work in early 2011, then QE2 and QE3 can get you some artificially low prices. Who knows? After the election, we'll all be laughing at the prices it quotes when x service is 1,000%+ its normal (1960ish)…

Or en dashes... The em dash works well for dialogue, I think; or maybe a non-enclosed clause ending a sentence... Who knows though? It seems like every damn organization these days has its own manual of style. Maybe we'll all be using the em dash instead of apostrophes in the near future...who the hell really knows?

Okay, so we've got Tasers approved; now can I assume we're working on getting handgun executions post-tasering approved...? Or at the very least the approval of a dozen cops to come over and beat the hell out of and cripple the subdued minor. God I hope these studies are in progress - I need to feel safe at all…

Where I work, it's in-store credit they give you for the difference and its limited to 14 days after the purchase and yes I just admitted that I work in retail...

I think you didn't read the intention of the award...

Why would the NSA need to try that hard at cracking the device's PIN when they could just have the owner of the device detained and crack their face so much easier...?