I didn't see the specifics of the problems but I had a very strong feeling that there's no planning for safe failure.

> Readers have a 20% reduction in the risk of dying before their time.

> Readers are 2.5 times less likely to contract Alzheimers.

As usual, mixing up cause and effect. Reading requires mental effort--those starting down the path to Alzheimers will find it harder and thus do less of it. It's like the stunt the medicare advantage plan providers used to pull of making their pitches on the second floor of a building without elevators.

The distinction between physical and legal presence is something that most people don't think about but it's effectively impossible for society to operate any other way. With land borders you technically could put the border station exactly on the boundary, but that would be quite problematic and is never done. There is also the problem that most countries have exit controls, also--after you pass the exit control you are no longer legally in the country even though you physically still are.

Then when you throw in reality it gets even more complex. I have been on a plane that skipped landing in Taipei and proceeded to Hong Kong (I won't call it diverted as the flight was Tokyo - Taipei - Hong Kong, we were just going to get off in Taipei.) Passports never looked at, we were shuffled around through the secure area of the airport and put on another plane that was flying the reverse route. And I have made a transit of Botswana by train without ever encountering any officials from Botswana. The only officials we saw were from Zimbabwe (where we boarded the train) and South Africa (where it was going.)

And we got caught in no-man's-land between Rwanda and Congo. Cleared Rwanda exit control, proceeded across the border (land crossing) to Congo, they said sorry, border's closed until after the election. We had a still-valid but useless visa for Congo, our visa for Rwanda was single entry and had been used. The Rwandan officials saw the problem and cancelled our exit from Rwanda.

And I have done US pre-clearance from Canada, legally I was in the US, not Canada, before boarding the flight. This does more than simply move the officials, the flight was treated as a domestic US flight and could land at airports without international facilities. And, back in the less formal days we ended up going through Singapore without our passports ever being seen other than in our hands. (On arrival, we lost an object on the airplane and spent a while hunting for it, by the time we got to the officials they were done with everyone else, they were talking to each other and just waved us through. Then, on departure the idiot taxi driver took us to the cable car station instead of the train station. The train started to roll while we were still in line--several of us with first-world passports got waved through. The train was moving slowly enough we managed to catch up to a door before we ran out of platform.)

In the US there's no self indictment but it's interpreted as applying to anything in your mind, not to physical things. You can not be compelled to answer a question (except if you have been granted immunity about what you will say) but things like your fingerprints are fair game. Likewise, your phone.

The part of this case that I find bad is that there are no charges. This was a fishing expedition, cops can't get warrants for fishing expeditions. I find using the border patrol's ability to inspect arriving individuals for local law enforcement way out of line.

There's no thought of anything but cars, last spring at least there was a construction spot where they set up some barriers that force a pedestrian into a 35 mph traffic lane (decelerating from 55, so a lot of drivers are going faster than 35.) And while pedestrians at that spot would be extremely rare (there's nothing beyond it--the only pedestrians would be those who were actually seeking nothing. Namely, hikers) there is a decent amount of bike traffic there.

It's always how vehicle safety data is calculated.

With human drivers it matters--high mileage drivers are more likely to be driving tired or in poor conditions, low mileage drivers often are losing their abilities. Thus you see elevated risk on the ends of the curve. That doesn't apply to machines, though.

But while states realistically can crack most anything it doesn't mean they can crack *every*thing. There are simply too many flash drives crossing the border every day.

But there is a big flaw I see: 8gb. You're carting around an 8gb flash drive these days??

My wife had an MRI, incidental find on it caused a PET CT scan.

CPR is simply buying time, at best it can delay death in the hope the doctors can do something about whatever caused the heart to quit. Usually they can't.

AED is different. Despite what Hollywood would have you believe the shocker does not start your heart and it is never used on a stopped heart. Shocking is about the heart beating ineffectively. It has a chance of actually treating the problem, not merely buying time. If the heart is stopped the AED just sits there and says continue CPR. And people blame it for being defective.