I wouldn't consider it traveling, but I lived in Okinawa for a decade.

Wouldn't matter either way, I could just absorb language textbooks.

Private prisons are better in that they can generate their own funding for their facilities, but their fault lies in lobbying.

Alas I would only have book knowledge on a particular subject and not actual experience. I guess I'm only cut out to be a super-researcher.

I'd most likely want the ability to acquire the "experience of reading" contained by books through touch. I'd go to libraries and touch every book on subjects that I want to improve on and move on to the next library until I'm practically a master of those subjects.

Least? Not being able to shut it off. Any time I pick up a book that I want to read for enjoyment, it will feel as if I'm rereading a book that I'm already familiar with.

Internet advertisements that pretend to be download buttons, 1 mil. visitor winners, etc. They should be held to a higher standard where they can't falsely advertise.

Who cares? Religion is so flexible a thing these days that I'm sure they could just create their own brand of nomadic buddhism where the main tenet is not having a roof to live under and living as long as the people around you are charitable.

Its really terrible that the author mentions alcohol; that's already an established stereotype of beggars. Including that only reaffirms a person's belief about beggars and reaffirms that we should shun this activity. Who knows why they beg? Some that were mentioned in the article were sleeping out in the open, a common sign of homelessness. What if they are not boozing up by trying to get on their feet? As for why the con, people are far more charitable to a holy man than they are to the common man.

In a perfect world computers would be pre-installed with a variant of Linux and only by personal choice would someone put down $100+ for the Windows OS.

Why does it seem that many mentally ill people are obsessed with the military? There are many things in life one could obsess about, why that?

The circumstances are bizarre, but the story does seem sound. Most murders occur between people who are familiar to one another and additionally have motive. This random attack displays neither familiarity nor motive. If he was forcibly under the influence of a substance and had no motive, then the mens rea is not satisfied for it to be considered a crime.

Alternatively, I think ambien could have been used rather than roofies. One of its common side-effects are extraordinary sleep-walking and no recollection. Furthermore, I've heard that it enhances sexual experience.

That is exactly it. Nowadays I can hardly stand the portrayal of fictional trial proceedings, because a part of me always says "wait you can't do that!"

Interesting. I'm surprised he would rebuild after having suffered such terrible loss; I know that I wouldn't be able to stand living in the same building were my love and employees lived, even if I guess that it isn't exactly the same building.

No, because it wouldn't sell. Live trials tend to be mundane and even the popular Judge Judy type shows are only entertaining because they are short and snarky. Even if it was edited so that it would be episodic, it still wouldn't be that great.