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That would be better addressed as a reply to rgMekanic, who equated men wanting to show their junk ("chickenskin dufflebag") with women wanting to bare their breasts, a comparison I also take exception to.

Is it okay for men to show their junk? No? Is it okay for women to show their junk? No? Then what the hell does that have to do with the lack of equality with how men and women's breasts are treated?

He said "[t]his is a generalization," but here you go, champ: If I expand my search to "traffic fine" and "traffic ticket," rather than just "parking fine" and "parking ticket," I get these: http://www.newser.com/story/235077/woman-says-she-was-jailed-for-weeks-just-for-being-poor.html...

I have not, but so far you've not shown relevance, have not addressed my points, or offered facts or solid reasoning to support your own positions. You've not even stated your own area of expertise, while calling into question my own. In short, you've done little more than pound on the table.

How is the owner's failure to read the manual the fault of the manufacturer? Failure to read the manual places the blame for any avoidable accidents or malfunctions squarely on the shoulders of the owners. Or are we to protect people from themselves and their own stupidity, impatience, and/or...

You're reading entirely too much into that definition. What do you think would happen to a Cessna 172 with an active autopilot, if another aircraft crossed its flight path at close range? Hint: most aircraft autopilots are even less "intelligent" than Tesla's.

Next up: the Facebook Company Store.

Is that an indictment of the sentence he received-- which I believe is appropriate for the number of laws he broke-- or of the too-short sentences some violent criminals receive?

Urea might be a contributing factor, but I believe bacteria are the primary culprit. For myself, I shower daily and use antiperspirant, and I do not smell as a result. If I change from antiperspirant to deodorant, I begin to smell within two days, despite the daily showers. If it were just...

Nobody mentions/remembers the movie Runaway? Bah, now I feel old.

I think there are also conflicting governmental elements/organizations at play here. The dedicated cybersecurity/attack groups do pretty well-- Stuxnet, anyone?-- but those groups either don't want, or are not allowed, to disseminate what they know to the rest of the government and/or private...

Sometimes eggs have a small crack, which causes egg-whites to be pushed out of the egg during boiling.

It's called "collimation." Contrary to popular belief, 'super-highly parallel light' (itty-bitty spot) is not a requirement for lasers, although the design of most lasers is such that the beam is narrow. Narrow, but not perfectly parallel. What starts as a "small dot" eventually expands to a...

Who said one precluded the other? People are stupid. Personally, I've never considered Apple-- the company-- to be Communist lefty hippies. Many of their users, on the other hand...

Transparent aluminum, this is not. :p

It's "Orcrist," not "Orcist," you heathen! :D

You can bet that, if Tesla builds its battery plant in Texas, Texas will repeal that law or grant Tesla an exemption, which would be one more reason for Tesla to build in Texas: to wring a concession from the state for their direct-to-consumer sales model. No, there's no real chance Tesla...

Don't knock RFC 1149, man. http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc1149 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IP_over_Avian_Carriers http://www.blug.linux.no/rfc1149/ (implementation blog, with photos!)

They might if someone pushes things a step further and has the neighborhood declared a 'historical' area, at which point any changes to the exteriors of the houses-- facade, paint, landscape, etc-- have to be approved by some kind of committee or agency.

In California, if you are receiving mileage compensation from your employer, you are not legally allowed to deduct mileage from your income taxes. The employer is deducting the employee's mileage compensation as a business expense, so both the employer and employee receiving deductions for the...

This does not make sense. AC-to-DC power supplies are supposed to decouple the AC input from the DC output with a transformer, which serves the dual purpose of reducing the voltage (from 220v to 12v or 5v, for example) and isolating the device from utility power, to prevent the raw...

One can only hope...

I have two words for Mr. King: "tortious interference."

Spock: Your use of language has altered since our arrival. It is currently laced with, shall we say, more colorful metaphors: "double dumb-ass on you" and so forth. Kirk: Oh, you mean the profanity? Spock: Yes. Kirk: Well that's simply the way they talk here. Nobody pays any attention...

I generally like the 1130 series, but we've had them deployed for years and have discovered an unfortunate fault: the APs (using dual radios, at least) get so hot that they cook their shells. The top cover, which is meant to slide away to expose the jacks, becomes brittle and the plastic...

That "simple three digit number" is for reporting emergencies only, like fire, battery, or other imminent threats to life and limb. If you see someone pissing on someone else's car, 911 really doesn't want your call.

Idioms about pots, kettles, and glass houses fill my mind in a swirling, chaotic tempest...

"Thank you for calling Mega Deletions. If you want to delete all data from all Mega Uploads servers internationally and then forward this call to your attorney, press 1 now." <boop>

Please don't quote Florian Mueller. The man's a shill, and more often wrong than right. (See coverage of Oracle vs Google for details.)

Everyone needs a hobby...

Or worse: NOT being shot, but having your fingers cut off anyway. :eek:

My second post was no more than an expansion of the first; the first stands on its own, for anyone with two or more brain cells to rub together. You mean... like you did to the politician presenting the proposal-- the one who isn't even present to defend himself? Do you think I care? Let me...

Yes, but my assumption is that you don't know a whole lot about the U.S. power grid, power generation, or electricity in general. This assumption is based on what you've written so far, and my opinion is only becoming stronger as this discussion progresses. First, to an extent, that is almost...

Then I thank God you're not in charge of the project here in the People's Republic of California. In California, most of the urban interstate and state highways are illuminated. Tie-in can, and probably will, occur at those points-- doing so would not be much different than grid-tying a...

The solution to that is to spin off the subsidiary-- in this case T-Mobile-- as its own standalone company. In effect, T-Mobile would 'buy' itself from Deutsche Telekom. One of the bigger problems with this, from DT's perspective, is that it wouldn't give them the immediate influx of cash that...

First, not every earthquake produces a tsunami, but most tsunamis are produced by earthquakes. Second, they were aware of the tsunami risk. As has been mentioned already, in this thread and elsewhere, the reactor plants were protected by barriers, at least one of which was around 20 feet high...

I assume by your emotes that you meant that to be humorous. Unfortunately, there are folks with limited technical knowledge and/or logical thought ability who will accept what you say as a serious point. For those people, let me offer this refutation: Entering someone's house, whether through...

Can I go for the third option: it wasn't bad enough.

Don't worry, Ace. It's only embarrassing if someone else notices... :p

Not just that, but have they checked the motor vehicle laws for the intervening states? Oh, and as for the comment/question by Ualdayan about the costs being excessive, the answer is: no. $11,037 divided by eleven days and further divided by three officers is $334.45 per officer per day...