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> it is by default legal until we decide to make it illegal. No, it's legal because of the Federal Arbitration Act passing in 1925. Prior to that, waiving of such rights "in advanc…

The idea is that the sound of an impact drill adds to the noise pollution of a supposedly "natural" area, and that they're "too easy" so they result in a proliferation of bolts in …

> The US doctrine have always been fleet warfare with large formations of US ships sailing alone on the open sea or in some water they have complete dominance over One of the probl…

> I wonder why signatures replaced signet rings? As the need for legal documentation spread downward from the upper classes, they needed an identification method that anyone could …

The problem is that a lot of people aren't capable of working remotely and/or treat work from home as a day off. Well, that's half the problem. The other half is the tendency of ma…

>closing the fuel cycle loop in a way that is proliferation resistant Isn't simply using a non-PUREX reprocessing method sufficient? Realistically, a "nuclear club" nation like the…

>Turns out the answer was _always_ "No." My experience has been the opposite. I bought a Pebble so I could know whether I had to put down my tools, pull out my phone, and answer a …

no, it just prolongs the inevitable. The first player to gain an edge on the others still eventually wins, it's just that it takes hours instead of minutes.

That's not the reason. Benadryl being in blister packs long predates its use in meth cooking, like by 30 years. The real reason is more likely marketing. If they sold them in a bot…

>But reading McMH does not compete with browsing those real estate listings. So it's probably fair use. No facet of the fair use defense is based on the fact that one is exploiting…

>due to flaws in their reasoning or refusal to consistently apply their own reasoning for personal reasons That's not the entirety of it. The problem is that these ethical problems…

Yep. Though as with most things, it's not so much about changing people's minds as it is waiting for the old folks to die: >Approval of black-white marriage is higher among younger…

The physical vinyl won't outlast your digital, it'll just fail more gracefully, slowly losing fidelity every time you scrape it with a needle. You're just replacing a small chance …

Thing is, it arrest actually IS a problem. It's often said that any decent prosecutor can indict a ham sandwich. Throw in a dash of racism or classism, and you've got a recipe for …

The way I see it, they probably did it somewhat incrementally. To some degree, they've ALWAYS programmed the ECUs "to the test", because isn't that basically what the authorities w…

There should probably be a restriction on offering plea bargains, basically eliminating "plead to a lesser charge". The DA should be allowed to prosecute no more than the charges t…

In jurisdictions friendly to the US anti-pirating effort, they've largely adopted a legal standard of "I know pirating when I see it" rather than following the strict definition ou…

Indeed, Martha Stewart is a prime example of how NOT to deal with the SEC. Turns out she wasn't guilty of insider trading, but she still went to jail for lying to the SEC about the…

YMMV with Nextdoor . THe only thing I can vouch for about my neighbors on Nextdoor is that they're all batshit insane racists.

>The percentage of alcohol users (ie almost everybody) who become alcoholic is quite low. The percentage of heroin or meth users who become heroin or meth addicts is very high inde…

I've seen people drink themselves over the course of a year into a state of health similar to what you allude to with "a year of meth, oh my". I've also known meth users who were h…

There are sanctions in place against individual Venezuelan officials for their part in human rights abuses, and a general embargo on arms, but other than that, no. The US is still …

The practice of wearing a surgical mask in asian countries is far more than 10 years old. I saw it in Hong Kong and Shanghai in the 70's.

Most of the power generation reactors in the US are privately owned, so probably about the same.

"Irradiated" and "radioactive" are not the same thing. An irradiated sandwich poses absolutely no threat to its consumer.