Really? So we think N Korea is just going to start shelling the corporate headquarters of any company they don't like? I don't think this is a realistic concern.

The ridiculous thing about Sony's decision is:

1) Japanese companies consult with and defer to their government about everything, much more than American companies do.

2) The current Japanese government is happy to give the finger to South Korea and China.

I think the problem is that we never know who we'll be fighting next. A-10s fly low and slow, and would be completely vulnerable to an enemy with moderate AA capabilities. Sure, maybe we're "lucky" and the next war is against a ragtag militia in the mountains that can't shoot them down. But if we butt heads with Iran or North Korea, the A-10s all have to stay home.

Beheading isn't quick. Heads are responsive for awhile after you cut them off, so they're experiencing something, and I bet they don't like it. If you're going to kill something violently, I think you need to smash up the brain ASAP.

If you're willing to drop the violence requirement, I think you'd find this useful:

http://videosift.com/video/How-to-Kill-a-Human-Being

I wouldn't put blame on any individual parents. And certainly everything I've read says not to stress kids out about elimination. Given where this kid seems to be, the dad is probably reacting fine (minus filming it).

It is pretty weird though that we westerners teach our babies to poop on themselves. It's by no means universal. If you give infants an cleaner way to poop, they'll generally use it. Anal control shows up naturally as soon as they start eating solid foods.

Or in my part of the country, shoots it.

I looked at their website.

They won't even tell you what these cost.

If they were anywhere near the ballpark of existing methods, they'd be crowing about it to anyone who would listen. If these things paid for themselves in 5 years or even 10 years, every city in the country would be lining up to float some bonds. This is a manufactured product, installed by hand trying to compete with a bucket of sludge dumped out of a truck. It's not going to be 50% more expensive. It's going to be 20 times more expensive.

I'm an environmentalist, but I'm not interested in projects that are so expensive that they'll never be implemented. That's a carbon savings of zero.

Maybe we should stop replacing stadiums every 10 years and get to work on those bridges that are falling down. Or hell, how much fiber could you string for the cost of one of these?

Energy cost nothing. How about the cost in dollars. Sure any solar panel will eventually pay for itself, so why isn't every surface in the world covered in them yet?

Common sense, combined with the fact that he never in 7 minutes makes any mention of the fixed upfront cost, leads me to believe that this would be the boondoggle to end all boondoggles. Hell, even just burying our utility wires underground is too expensive for any but the richest or densest cities.

You may not like it, but it's not a strawman argument. If we were fracking in Uganda and shipping the gas here, no one would be complaining. Any serious environmentalist would rather we burn natural gas than coal or oil.

I'm not in a position to argue about why Americans use so much oil. But the fact is that they do, and if natural gas displaces that, then you calculate the net benefit. The only way oil comes out on top is Nimbyism and a disregard for the people we kill overseas.

As long as we Americans want to waste cheap electricity and drive SUVs, we don't really get to complain about where it comes from. Sure, fracking needs some common sense regulation, but let's talk about how many people have died to maintain our supply of cheap foreign oil.

This is self centered NIMBYism at its worst. Either put solar panels on your house and drive a Volt, or shut up.

The homeless are pretty mobile. If there's a lot in your city, it's probably because they chose to be there. Conversely, cities generally don't solve their homelessness problems by building them all houses. They do it by making it so inhospitable that they leave.

TPP is primarily a way of strengthening ties with counties that might otherwise be economically (and later otherwise) reliant on a stronger and more aggressive China. If these particulars are true, that's a shame because the treaty will not pass the Senate, nor should it. However, the Russian state is hardly a neutral party in this. They border the Pacific too, and you'll notice they weren't highlighted in red.

I don't think any modern source contends that British were outnumbered 10-1, or anything close to it. Makes good drama though I guess.

I agree with this so much. I've had students who got the shakes when they had no one to talk to and weren't allowed to use their cell phones (like when waiting for the rest of the class to finish an exam). People need to spend some time in their own heads once in awhile.

Didn't Raven's Jedi Knight games have yellow and purple light sabers all over the place? I wonder how they got away with that.