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And somewhere the intern with a reddit account who came up with this idea is hiding under a desk.

Pain? Try prison. I've already done that. Maybe you've heard of a few? Wait, a computer matched her with him? My voice is my passport. Verify me. Shoes? Fancy. It would be a breakthrough of Gaussian proportions. But no one has figured it out. Yet.

I find myself quoting that movie all the time.

I left Maryland last year. Taxes were bad, but you know what was the nail in the coffin for us? I kid you not, it was the speed camera program.

I realize that's a silly thing, but we lived in Columbia, so we needed a car. It has gotten so bad that we couldn't drive anywhere without expecting a nasty little notice shaking us down for $60 for whatever infraction they accused us of. It's one thing if we were being unsafe (for the record, I've been driving for well over 20 years and never been in an accident that I was at fault in), but this wasn't about safety. We're talking open stretches of road with a little speed trap 35mph school zone at 10 PM. Or a right-hand turn at a read light because you didn't stop "behind the line".

I know the popular response is "follow the law" but MD has a record of doing things to make even that harder. They shortened yellow lights at intersections. They post speed limits in hard-to-see places. They know exactly what they're doing because they make millions and millions on this program.

If you want to know what a police state looks like with NSA-style video surveillance, drive a car in Maryland. It's hard to believe that this state was once a center of individual liberty.

Because Bill is a politician in scientist's clothing.

/r/molecularbioguy put this much more articulately than I will but here's my question.

What do you think of the conflation of scientific discourse with political discourse. In recent years, scientists have begun to speak in absolute terms using things like consensus to support their ideas. Science is portrayed as something you 'believe in' (hinted at by your AMA subject above) and people with different ideas are often called 'deniers.'

A quest to 'end anti-scientific thinking' is decidedly not science, yet I have no doubt you will rely on your credibility as a scientist to bolster your case. Is this not a misappropriation of science in support of an agenda?