If you are going by yourself to pickup your dry cleaning, then cars are insanely over-engineered for the task.

Hollywood’s right to make bad business decisions stops at the point where it threatens our freedom of speech.

Best summary of why to fight SOPA/PIPA I’ve read.

Since 9/11, the U.S. has spent more than $1.1 trillion on homeland security.

To a large number of security analysts, this expenditure makes no sense. The vast cost is not worth the infinitesimal benefit. Not only has the actual threat from terror been exaggerated, they say, but the great bulk of the post-9/11 measures to contain it are little more than what Schneier mocks as “security theater”:

The human body’s physical “fight or flight” response evolved to help it evade a dangerous situation, which historically involved extreme physical exertion. The rush of steroids into the bloodstream essentially turns off unnecessary systems, including some higher thinking processes, to aid in escape. Unfortunately, as we’ve evolved into more intelligent beings, that response hasn’t evolved along with us.

In Europe however, it has just been decided that the machines form a risk to passenger’s health and safety, and therefore cannot be used.