5.5 is "Can cause major damage to poorly constructed buildings over small regions. At most slight damage to well-designed buildings" It's only "a large truck going by" if you're not really that close to the epicenter...if your criteria is for an earthquake that you're not near, then whatever, a 9.9 you can't even feel at all (if you're on the other side of the world).
No, the first step to installing the pirate stuff isn't the homebrew channel. The first step is buying a Wii. Nintendo should eliminate that step first. This is just insane. Only a few years ago it was utterly unimaginable that hardware makers would try their best to lock users out of their own systems. When Nintendo tried with the NES they were bitchslapped so hard in court. Now it's got the weight of law behind it, it's a high crime to run software on your own hardware, and perfectly acceptable to push updates with the sole purpose of bricking consoles that have "unauthorized" content. Fuck you, Nintendo. It's not unauthorized. I authorized it. Where's the part where I can choose not to authorize Nintendo to violently update my system? That's right, they are mandatory, aren't they. You can decline to install, sure (though the EULA actually says you cannot, that Nintendo can install updates without permission), if you don't mind never playing any new games ever again.
Trials aren't a last resort because they don't accept terminal patients. The main reason is terminal patients die and that makes your treatment look bad. The secondary reason is that, like you, they think it is immoral to give somebody with 0% chance a non-zero chance, since no matter how low that chance, they'll gladly take it. If somebody would have died in a week without treatment, and accept a risky treatment and die, the moral police consider that murder. Not treating them is fine, even if it had a 99.99999% chance of success, because inaction is allowing God's work to progress uninhibited. Passive killing isn't murder, it's Divine.
Which is why this plugin is necessary. When a site that supports HTTPS is added to the plugin, it gets special rules for resolving. So, you can go to http://some_site.com/ and it will automatically redirect to https://their.host.com/~their_account_id, including fixing all of their intra-site URLs. That's how it works for wikia, which hosts many wikis besides Wikipedia. They're all available as subdirectories from the main host, though, so this plugin can get them all working. (No images though).
So, you shouldn't deploy software that doesn't, as the retarded article says, properly handle people with names that are over 65,000 characters long, where some portions are case sensitive, so if that part is lowercase instead of upper, that's a different name. But other parts are case insensitive, so its still the same name even in all caps. Oh, did I also mention that some of the letters in the name aren't part of any character set, so they can't even be typed in the first place? Because the article says that assuming names can even be text at all is wrong and your software is broken if you made that stupid assumption. (See Prince) PS, that person with the 65 thousand letter long name? He has 8,000 aliases and needs to enter all of them, better hope you allow that many aliases. Also, there is a huge subset of his name in common with a friend of his, but they are not related, it is sheer coincidence, you better not assume relation just because only two people in the world have the same last few hundred words of their name in common! Also, his brother has no name. Not, like his name is "No name" or he goes by "The artist formerly known as Prince", as in, his name is just the empty string, so your software better fucking not have name as a required field!
Patents forbid the use of any patented device, not just the sale or manufacture. There's fortunately something called the Exhaustion Doctrine, that says as soon as a patent holder has sold a device in an unrestricted manner on the open market, their patent rights have been exhausted. So, if you buy a MPEG-4 encoder card without any restrictions on that purchase, all patent rights to it are supposed to be done. However, you'll have to go to court to prove that.
Additionally, it's not very surefire of a defense at all, due to the fact that the courts are at best a crapshoot, and at worst a popularity contest. LG licensed some patents to Intel, with the condition that Intel inform all buyers of Intel chips that the LG patents are only licensed on the condition that you only use the chip with Intel hardware. In defiance of this notification, a computer reseller violated patent law by selling systems built with Intel chips, but containing non-Intel brand peripherals. Though the computer retailer lost, it eventually reached the Supreme Court, where it was ruled unanimously against LG. This is contrary to all previous lower court rulings, that held that just a note on the box constitutes a "restriction" and so the patents remain in full force. The Supreme Court said that since the reseller didn't need a patent, the note from Intel that they don't get one doesn't really matter, and doesn't constitute an implicit contract.
Its a fantasy to think that we can run out Hummers off of windmills next year.
Therefore we should immediately halt all research into anything that isn't oil. Brilliant. "This treatment shows promise for treating leukemia, but doesn't help at all with breast cancer, back to the drawing board until you fucking eggheads come up with a REAL solution." Remember, if something isn't a silver-bullet cure-all panacea, it's totally pointless.
The same thing is true in the USA, and older than the 60s: Selling the Brooklyn Bridge. Though jokes about it abound, several different Con men have "sold" it many times over in the past. It invariably ends with a sucker trying to build a toll both, waving a deed at the police, then being hauled off the bridge.
Absurd slippery slope aside...yes, you should be "indoctrinating" children with the fact that not everything they read is 100% true. Children are trusting by default. And until they're fairly mature (12 or so, so around about Jr. High), they cannot think abstractly in any great detail. So, while logically a child may understand that not everything a person says is true, and may also understand that books are written by people, without explicit instruction, they will absolutely not come to the conclusion that a book can be wrong. Can be a story, yes, and stories are about made up situations. But not plain wrong.
So the point is, if you give a 10 year old a book, that you tell them is not a story, but about real events, then by default they will believe it when it says that blacks are an inferior sort of person. So you really do have to either wait until they are older, or explicitly tell them that in the past, people believed different things than they do now, and that not everything a book says is always going to be true.
In another example, "Water Babies" is a "classic work" of children's fiction. It describes people being as fat as a negro, as lazy as a negro, greedy as a jew, things being fuller than a jew's coinpurse, etc. An 8 year old reading that book will not think "Hmmm, those seem to be unfair similes, they must have been OK at the time" they will just think "Those are acceptable comparisons". There are exceptional children who are far more abstract and introspective at a younger age, but it's quite rare, mental development typically follows a pretty fixed progression. So, with almost any small child, if you tell them that a well respected historical figure said this, they will believe it.
That's just a muddling of the term "Singularity". By the original definition, anything that has enough mass to have a Schwarzschild radius greater than it's physical radius is a singularity. Singularity comes from "singular term", which in Mathematics, means a term that is undefined. The term in this case is part of the Schwarzschild Solution to Einstein's field equations for gravitational fields. It has a 1 / (2M-r) term, and so if you get too close, the term is undefined and physics as we know it breaks. So, anything that has a "wall" at which point everything breaks is called a singularity. You are correct that it's not necessary to have an infinitely dense point-mass at the center of a singularity, (and in fact it might not even be possible to get such a point mass). But it's still a singularity. But, nothing says things can't escape. They just can't cross the event horizon. So, if you do something that messes with a blackhole's rotation, the horizon will move. Something on one side would then be on the other. It still couldn't cross it, but there you go! It's also possible there's no such thing as a singularity, because our equations are wrong, and aren't actually undefined at that point.
Exactly that has happened before. Workers showed up to work, and found that the CEO had stolen all of the storage servers and fled the country, after changing all the locks and leaving notes that they were all fired. He then sold the game they were making to another company, making a lot of money and not having to pay back rent, back wages, back anything.
No, you're misunderstanding. They didn't get their prize revoked because the machine said "Win" when it should have said "Lose". They lost the money because it's one of those progressive machines that has a sign on it that says what the current total is. If you win, you get some percent of the current jackpot, which is itself a percent of the total money people have been betting. And, if you hit the jackpot, you get whatever the sign says.
So, they saw a machine that says "11,000,000" on it, they won, and the casino is saying "Sucks to be you, that was a typo, it should have said eleven hundred not eleven million, here's your money now fuck off". Nobody was losing anything, because the error was that it the jackpot wasn't being computer properly; either it wasn't being decremented when people won, or it was incrementing incorrectly when people were playing.
Take the anti-school anti-government arguments to their logical conclusion: A student shoots another student across the street from the school. That's attempted murder, it's a criminal matter. But, the school has NO jurisdiction, right? We don't want it turning into fascism where the principal of a highschool is the absolute ruler of the country, right? So, then, they have NO right to suspend this student? While he's out on bail, he HAS TO BE ALLOWED TO ATTEND?
At any rate, accusing the principal of being a pedophile is defamation per se. Now, the supreme court has allowed a parody defense for defamation against a public figure, which I guess maybe a principal is, now? But, not if it's done with malice. The student was pissed off and so forged evidence that the principal was a practicing pedophile. That sounds like malice to me. Everybody who is saying that the school should have used legal channels instead, is saying that the principal should have sued, and almost certainly won, for hundreds of thousands. (Per se means you get statutory damages without having to show measurable harm). Yeah, it seems much more reasonable to bankrupt the student than give them a ten day suspension and ask for an apology. What the fuck is wrong with all of you? Are you utterly and irredeemably insane?
Oh, and in 17 US states, making false accusations of crimes is criminal defamation. Not in PA, but it's not true in GENERAL that making false accusations can't get you in prison.
You missed a few. The officer doesn't have to have written the correct plate on the ticket. The officer doesn't have to have correctly identified the color of the vehicle. The officer doesn't have to have correctly identified the type of vehicle. In other words, you categorically cannot win. And, you missed the important one. The judge can increase your penalty. If you fight a ticket, you can be ordered to pay double AND lose your license for a year.
Wrong, concentration matters a great deal. Your stomach doesn't instantly absorb its contents into your blood. It works away at it slowly. If alcohol is concentrated 10x, then its going to be absorbed a lot faster. Maybe not 10x faster, but still, faster. You can see the same principle in beer-free beers. They contain around 0.5% alcohol, the same 10x dilution as with the distilled vs. regular beer. But, drinking 10 won't get you as drunk as 1 regular beer. Because it takes time to drink it, and you'll have 10x as much stuff going through your digestive system, slowing the rate of absorption down. Beyond that, your alcohol metabolism is more or less a fixed rate for removing ethanol and methanol from your blood. Odds are pretty good that on nonalcoholic beer, your stomach won't keep up with your metabolism, and your blood alcohol level will never be more than a tiny amount, if it reads as non-zero at all. So, while it won't be worse by orders of magnitude, it will be worse. In something that's freeze distilled to 10x concentration, you will absorb the same amount methanol a whole lot faster, and your metabolism will not keep up with breaking it down. Beyond which, you can fit a lot more in your stomach.
On the other hand, beer doesn't really contain any methanol worth speaking of, since that's mostly made from the fermentation of pectin, not found in grains. On the other hand, apples do contain pectin, and apple cider/brandy contains methanol. So, applejack was probably unsafe to drink regularly and in large amounts, because concentration does matter! But, no worries, modern applejack usually isn't distilled cider, it's fortified cider. They take 5-10% cider, and just top it up with pure grain ethanol until it hits 40%.
What? They'll never sell meth OTC, it's addiction potential is too high. And extract byproducts? Meth isn't a blend of a lot of chemicals, like say, an herbal product, it's a chemical. A single one. You can't extract juts the good parts. But, it's not unreasonable to imagine that, for severe memory problems, Meth might eventually get approved. It's already approved and prescribed for ADD, plus used off-label for narcolepsy and depression. Even if not approved for memory, a doctor might still prescribe it off-label for such a purpose. Just remember, for lots of the "designer" drugs like Meth, GHB, Ecstacy, etc. the recreational dose is much higher than the therapeutic dose. So, being prescribed it doesn't mean you go around tweaking on Meth all the time. The doses are low, and they don't let you fill the script all at once, because you COULD purify it into higher doses.
The only way this could ever end up as something OTC would be if they figure out why, and design a new drug with the same memory enhancing effect, which by a stroke of luck has no serious side effects, isn't (too) addictive, and also evades the moral police by not having a euphoric or inebriating effect. Then it has to be tested for a few decades to PROVE it's totally harmless, then it MIGHT get approved for use without a prescription. (Of course, if they find this similar chemical in a plant, you can sell it as "herbal" straight away, with zero testing or oversight, since it's considered neither a food nor a drug, and the FDA has no jurisdiction).
Well, except on May 24th the creators of the "Everybody Draw Mohammad" page deleted it themselves. Note that although the Slashdot summary says Facebook deleted it, the actual article only quotes FB as saying "The page has been removed" without ever declaring that they did so themselves. The stated reason is it became a 24/7 job to delete the endless flood of people calling for genocide against the muslims, and people posting gay porn of Obama and Muhammad (roughly 90% of the image submissions), or posting Muslims being disemboweled by assorted Aryan Americans. (I'm sure they were also tired of doing the converse). Naturally, pulling the page caused those same people to turn their hatred on the creators, calling them secret Muslim terrorists, and expressing murderous outrage that they ever dared to censor in the first place.
It still happens. In Calgary there's a commuter train system. There were plans to extend it all the way to the airport on the edge of town. The Cab Drivers Union protested, said that if it got built there would never again be a single taxi in the entire city for all eternity, the cabbies would all move and the union would bankrupt anybody who tried to run a cab company with scabs. So the plans were scrapped, if you want to leave the airport, you do it by cab or you walk. Only they don't even pretend to do it for other reasons like they used to. It's bald faced strong arming. "If you get in our way, we will kill you".
It's also been the same with music. When the player pianio was invented, the sheetmusic industry tried to have it crimanlized to own one, saying its only purpose was copyright infringement, and allowing it to exist would mean the absolute and utter end of music. Then when the wax cylandar was invented, same thing, had to be made illegal or it would destroy music utterly. Then it took off and the sheet music industry turned into the recording industry. Then the tapedeck was invented. Once again, if it was not made illegal, music would be utterly finished forever. Then music was fine, and in fact, bands like Metallica made a name for themselves only due to giving out tapes for people to copy and share with their friends. And now those same bands that only exist due to "copyright violations" are saying that the internet will utterly destroy music forever. Just like the MPAA said the VCR was worse than just murdering movie makers, because at least if you just killed them it would be over quick! Now, of course, they make most of their money from tapes and DVDs, so it's the internet that's the threat. Even though the make larger and larger profits each year, growing well faster than inflation. (And, in fact, although they make record profits, every single movie in the past 100 years has been a loss and has thus qualified for capital loss tax writeoffs. Being a loss also lets you not pay any money to people stupid enough to sign for a share of the profits. Sir Alec Guiness wasn't paid for Star Wars, Marvel wasn't paid for Spiderman or X-Men, all movies that "lost millions")
Irony only means hypocrisy in Greek. Since you're not speaking Greek, maybe you should look it up. An ironic event or action is something that has the opposite result as expected. It's not an action itself that's contrary to your expectations. If Warner Bros. takes actions to fight piracy, but it just makes piracy more prevalent, that's ironic. If Warner Bros. takes actions to fight piracy, but failed to license the technology, that's just hypocrisy. Or, it would be, except that Warner Bros. has a patent on their technology, and are being sued by a patent troll that read that patent and copy&pasted it into their own, then sued, but even forgot to fucking replace the Warner Bros. Patent # with their own patent in a few places.
They didn't steal anything, they didn't copyright infringe anything. A patent troll company got a patent on something Warner Bros. not only did before the troll filed for a patent, but, in fact, something Warner Bros. PATENTED before the troll filed for a patent. And, in the troll's legal filling, their lawyer repeatedly cited Warner Bros. patent #, instead of their own.
So...I write a program. I decide to GPL it. I put up the program on my website, and also on the same website, I put up "source.tgz". I have just violated the GPL? Because I can't ensure that my website will be up for 3 years? You're disagreeing with the GNU FAQ, which says that's OK. I wonder why.
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5.5 is "Can cause major damage to poorly constructed buildings over small regions. At most slight damage to well-designed buildings" It's only "a large truck going by" if you're not really that close to the epicenter...if your criteria is for an earthquake that you're not near, then whatever, a 9.9 you can't even feel at all (if you're on the other side of the world).
No, the first step to installing the pirate stuff isn't the homebrew channel. The first step is buying a Wii. Nintendo should eliminate that step first. This is just insane. Only a few years ago it was utterly unimaginable that hardware makers would try their best to lock users out of their own systems. When Nintendo tried with the NES they were bitchslapped so hard in court. Now it's got the weight of law behind it, it's a high crime to run software on your own hardware, and perfectly acceptable to push updates with the sole purpose of bricking consoles that have "unauthorized" content. Fuck you, Nintendo. It's not unauthorized. I authorized it. Where's the part where I can choose not to authorize Nintendo to violently update my system? That's right, they are mandatory, aren't they. You can decline to install, sure (though the EULA actually says you cannot, that Nintendo can install updates without permission), if you don't mind never playing any new games ever again.
Trials aren't a last resort because they don't accept terminal patients. The main reason is terminal patients die and that makes your treatment look bad. The secondary reason is that, like you, they think it is immoral to give somebody with 0% chance a non-zero chance, since no matter how low that chance, they'll gladly take it. If somebody would have died in a week without treatment, and accept a risky treatment and die, the moral police consider that murder. Not treating them is fine, even if it had a 99.99999% chance of success, because inaction is allowing God's work to progress uninhibited. Passive killing isn't murder, it's Divine.
They can't be copyrighted, that's why they need a new law giving them eternal ownership of them.
Which is why this plugin is necessary. When a site that supports HTTPS is added to the plugin, it gets special rules for resolving. So, you can go to http://some_site.com/ and it will automatically redirect to https://their.host.com/~their_account_id, including fixing all of their intra-site URLs. That's how it works for wikia, which hosts many wikis besides Wikipedia. They're all available as subdirectories from the main host, though, so this plugin can get them all working. (No images though).
So, you shouldn't deploy software that doesn't, as the retarded article says, properly handle people with names that are over 65,000 characters long, where some portions are case sensitive, so if that part is lowercase instead of upper, that's a different name. But other parts are case insensitive, so its still the same name even in all caps. Oh, did I also mention that some of the letters in the name aren't part of any character set, so they can't even be typed in the first place? Because the article says that assuming names can even be text at all is wrong and your software is broken if you made that stupid assumption. (See Prince) PS, that person with the 65 thousand letter long name? He has 8,000 aliases and needs to enter all of them, better hope you allow that many aliases. Also, there is a huge subset of his name in common with a friend of his, but they are not related, it is sheer coincidence, you better not assume relation just because only two people in the world have the same last few hundred words of their name in common! Also, his brother has no name. Not, like his name is "No name" or he goes by "The artist formerly known as Prince", as in, his name is just the empty string, so your software better fucking not have name as a required field!
Patents forbid the use of any patented device, not just the sale or manufacture. There's fortunately something called the Exhaustion Doctrine, that says as soon as a patent holder has sold a device in an unrestricted manner on the open market, their patent rights have been exhausted. So, if you buy a MPEG-4 encoder card without any restrictions on that purchase, all patent rights to it are supposed to be done. However, you'll have to go to court to prove that.
Additionally, it's not very surefire of a defense at all, due to the fact that the courts are at best a crapshoot, and at worst a popularity contest. LG licensed some patents to Intel, with the condition that Intel inform all buyers of Intel chips that the LG patents are only licensed on the condition that you only use the chip with Intel hardware. In defiance of this notification, a computer reseller violated patent law by selling systems built with Intel chips, but containing non-Intel brand peripherals. Though the computer retailer lost, it eventually reached the Supreme Court, where it was ruled unanimously against LG. This is contrary to all previous lower court rulings, that held that just a note on the box constitutes a "restriction" and so the patents remain in full force. The Supreme Court said that since the reseller didn't need a patent, the note from Intel that they don't get one doesn't really matter, and doesn't constitute an implicit contract.
Therefore we should immediately halt all research into anything that isn't oil. Brilliant. "This treatment shows promise for treating leukemia, but doesn't help at all with breast cancer, back to the drawing board until you fucking eggheads come up with a REAL solution." Remember, if something isn't a silver-bullet cure-all panacea, it's totally pointless.
The same thing is true in the USA, and older than the 60s: Selling the Brooklyn Bridge. Though jokes about it abound, several different Con men have "sold" it many times over in the past. It invariably ends with a sucker trying to build a toll both, waving a deed at the police, then being hauled off the bridge.
Absurd slippery slope aside...yes, you should be "indoctrinating" children with the fact that not everything they read is 100% true. Children are trusting by default. And until they're fairly mature (12 or so, so around about Jr. High), they cannot think abstractly in any great detail. So, while logically a child may understand that not everything a person says is true, and may also understand that books are written by people, without explicit instruction, they will absolutely not come to the conclusion that a book can be wrong. Can be a story, yes, and stories are about made up situations. But not plain wrong.
So the point is, if you give a 10 year old a book, that you tell them is not a story, but about real events, then by default they will believe it when it says that blacks are an inferior sort of person. So you really do have to either wait until they are older, or explicitly tell them that in the past, people believed different things than they do now, and that not everything a book says is always going to be true.
In another example, "Water Babies" is a "classic work" of children's fiction. It describes people being as fat as a negro, as lazy as a negro, greedy as a jew, things being fuller than a jew's coinpurse, etc. An 8 year old reading that book will not think "Hmmm, those seem to be unfair similes, they must have been OK at the time" they will just think "Those are acceptable comparisons". There are exceptional children who are far more abstract and introspective at a younger age, but it's quite rare, mental development typically follows a pretty fixed progression. So, with almost any small child, if you tell them that a well respected historical figure said this, they will believe it.
That's just a muddling of the term "Singularity". By the original definition, anything that has enough mass to have a Schwarzschild radius greater than it's physical radius is a singularity. Singularity comes from "singular term", which in Mathematics, means a term that is undefined. The term in this case is part of the Schwarzschild Solution to Einstein's field equations for gravitational fields. It has a 1 / (2M-r) term, and so if you get too close, the term is undefined and physics as we know it breaks. So, anything that has a "wall" at which point everything breaks is called a singularity. You are correct that it's not necessary to have an infinitely dense point-mass at the center of a singularity, (and in fact it might not even be possible to get such a point mass). But it's still a singularity. But, nothing says things can't escape. They just can't cross the event horizon. So, if you do something that messes with a blackhole's rotation, the horizon will move. Something on one side would then be on the other. It still couldn't cross it, but there you go! It's also possible there's no such thing as a singularity, because our equations are wrong, and aren't actually undefined at that point.
Exactly that has happened before. Workers showed up to work, and found that the CEO had stolen all of the storage servers and fled the country, after changing all the locks and leaving notes that they were all fired. He then sold the game they were making to another company, making a lot of money and not having to pay back rent, back wages, back anything.
The university isn't hosting it, he is.
The university isn't hosting it.
No, you're misunderstanding. They didn't get their prize revoked because the machine said "Win" when it should have said "Lose". They lost the money because it's one of those progressive machines that has a sign on it that says what the current total is. If you win, you get some percent of the current jackpot, which is itself a percent of the total money people have been betting. And, if you hit the jackpot, you get whatever the sign says.
So, they saw a machine that says "11,000,000" on it, they won, and the casino is saying "Sucks to be you, that was a typo, it should have said eleven hundred not eleven million, here's your money now fuck off". Nobody was losing anything, because the error was that it the jackpot wasn't being computer properly; either it wasn't being decremented when people won, or it was incrementing incorrectly when people were playing.
Take the anti-school anti-government arguments to their logical conclusion: A student shoots another student across the street from the school. That's attempted murder, it's a criminal matter. But, the school has NO jurisdiction, right? We don't want it turning into fascism where the principal of a highschool is the absolute ruler of the country, right? So, then, they have NO right to suspend this student? While he's out on bail, he HAS TO BE ALLOWED TO ATTEND?
At any rate, accusing the principal of being a pedophile is defamation per se. Now, the supreme court has allowed a parody defense for defamation against a public figure, which I guess maybe a principal is, now? But, not if it's done with malice. The student was pissed off and so forged evidence that the principal was a practicing pedophile. That sounds like malice to me. Everybody who is saying that the school should have used legal channels instead, is saying that the principal should have sued, and almost certainly won, for hundreds of thousands. (Per se means you get statutory damages without having to show measurable harm). Yeah, it seems much more reasonable to bankrupt the student than give them a ten day suspension and ask for an apology. What the fuck is wrong with all of you? Are you utterly and irredeemably insane?
Oh, and in 17 US states, making false accusations of crimes is criminal defamation. Not in PA, but it's not true in GENERAL that making false accusations can't get you in prison.
You missed a few. The officer doesn't have to have written the correct plate on the ticket. The officer doesn't have to have correctly identified the color of the vehicle. The officer doesn't have to have correctly identified the type of vehicle. In other words, you categorically cannot win. And, you missed the important one. The judge can increase your penalty. If you fight a ticket, you can be ordered to pay double AND lose your license for a year.
Wrong, concentration matters a great deal. Your stomach doesn't instantly absorb its contents into your blood. It works away at it slowly. If alcohol is concentrated 10x, then its going to be absorbed a lot faster. Maybe not 10x faster, but still, faster. You can see the same principle in beer-free beers. They contain around 0.5% alcohol, the same 10x dilution as with the distilled vs. regular beer. But, drinking 10 won't get you as drunk as 1 regular beer. Because it takes time to drink it, and you'll have 10x as much stuff going through your digestive system, slowing the rate of absorption down. Beyond that, your alcohol metabolism is more or less a fixed rate for removing ethanol and methanol from your blood. Odds are pretty good that on nonalcoholic beer, your stomach won't keep up with your metabolism, and your blood alcohol level will never be more than a tiny amount, if it reads as non-zero at all. So, while it won't be worse by orders of magnitude, it will be worse. In something that's freeze distilled to 10x concentration, you will absorb the same amount methanol a whole lot faster, and your metabolism will not keep up with breaking it down. Beyond which, you can fit a lot more in your stomach.
On the other hand, beer doesn't really contain any methanol worth speaking of, since that's mostly made from the fermentation of pectin, not found in grains. On the other hand, apples do contain pectin, and apple cider/brandy contains methanol. So, applejack was probably unsafe to drink regularly and in large amounts, because concentration does matter! But, no worries, modern applejack usually isn't distilled cider, it's fortified cider. They take 5-10% cider, and just top it up with pure grain ethanol until it hits 40%.
What? They'll never sell meth OTC, it's addiction potential is too high. And extract byproducts? Meth isn't a blend of a lot of chemicals, like say, an herbal product, it's a chemical. A single one. You can't extract juts the good parts. But, it's not unreasonable to imagine that, for severe memory problems, Meth might eventually get approved. It's already approved and prescribed for ADD, plus used off-label for narcolepsy and depression. Even if not approved for memory, a doctor might still prescribe it off-label for such a purpose. Just remember, for lots of the "designer" drugs like Meth, GHB, Ecstacy, etc. the recreational dose is much higher than the therapeutic dose. So, being prescribed it doesn't mean you go around tweaking on Meth all the time. The doses are low, and they don't let you fill the script all at once, because you COULD purify it into higher doses.
The only way this could ever end up as something OTC would be if they figure out why, and design a new drug with the same memory enhancing effect, which by a stroke of luck has no serious side effects, isn't (too) addictive, and also evades the moral police by not having a euphoric or inebriating effect. Then it has to be tested for a few decades to PROVE it's totally harmless, then it MIGHT get approved for use without a prescription. (Of course, if they find this similar chemical in a plant, you can sell it as "herbal" straight away, with zero testing or oversight, since it's considered neither a food nor a drug, and the FDA has no jurisdiction).
They were going to, but used Google maps for directions and got hit by a train.
Well, except on May 24th the creators of the "Everybody Draw Mohammad" page deleted it themselves. Note that although the Slashdot summary says Facebook deleted it, the actual article only quotes FB as saying "The page has been removed" without ever declaring that they did so themselves. The stated reason is it became a 24/7 job to delete the endless flood of people calling for genocide against the muslims, and people posting gay porn of Obama and Muhammad (roughly 90% of the image submissions), or posting Muslims being disemboweled by assorted Aryan Americans. (I'm sure they were also tired of doing the converse). Naturally, pulling the page caused those same people to turn their hatred on the creators, calling them secret Muslim terrorists, and expressing murderous outrage that they ever dared to censor in the first place.
It still happens. In Calgary there's a commuter train system. There were plans to extend it all the way to the airport on the edge of town. The Cab Drivers Union protested, said that if it got built there would never again be a single taxi in the entire city for all eternity, the cabbies would all move and the union would bankrupt anybody who tried to run a cab company with scabs. So the plans were scrapped, if you want to leave the airport, you do it by cab or you walk. Only they don't even pretend to do it for other reasons like they used to. It's bald faced strong arming. "If you get in our way, we will kill you".
It's also been the same with music. When the player pianio was invented, the sheetmusic industry tried to have it crimanlized to own one, saying its only purpose was copyright infringement, and allowing it to exist would mean the absolute and utter end of music. Then when the wax cylandar was invented, same thing, had to be made illegal or it would destroy music utterly. Then it took off and the sheet music industry turned into the recording industry. Then the tapedeck was invented. Once again, if it was not made illegal, music would be utterly finished forever. Then music was fine, and in fact, bands like Metallica made a name for themselves only due to giving out tapes for people to copy and share with their friends. And now those same bands that only exist due to "copyright violations" are saying that the internet will utterly destroy music forever. Just like the MPAA said the VCR was worse than just murdering movie makers, because at least if you just killed them it would be over quick! Now, of course, they make most of their money from tapes and DVDs, so it's the internet that's the threat. Even though the make larger and larger profits each year, growing well faster than inflation. (And, in fact, although they make record profits, every single movie in the past 100 years has been a loss and has thus qualified for capital loss tax writeoffs. Being a loss also lets you not pay any money to people stupid enough to sign for a share of the profits. Sir Alec Guiness wasn't paid for Star Wars, Marvel wasn't paid for Spiderman or X-Men, all movies that "lost millions")
Irony only means hypocrisy in Greek. Since you're not speaking Greek, maybe you should look it up. An ironic event or action is something that has the opposite result as expected. It's not an action itself that's contrary to your expectations. If Warner Bros. takes actions to fight piracy, but it just makes piracy more prevalent, that's ironic. If Warner Bros. takes actions to fight piracy, but failed to license the technology, that's just hypocrisy. Or, it would be, except that Warner Bros. has a patent on their technology, and are being sued by a patent troll that read that patent and copy&pasted it into their own, then sued, but even forgot to fucking replace the Warner Bros. Patent # with their own patent in a few places.
They didn't steal anything, they didn't copyright infringe anything. A patent troll company got a patent on something Warner Bros. not only did before the troll filed for a patent, but, in fact, something Warner Bros. PATENTED before the troll filed for a patent. And, in the troll's legal filling, their lawyer repeatedly cited Warner Bros. patent #, instead of their own.
So...I write a program. I decide to GPL it. I put up the program on my website, and also on the same website, I put up "source.tgz". I have just violated the GPL? Because I can't ensure that my website will be up for 3 years? You're disagreeing with the GNU FAQ, which says that's OK. I wonder why.