In Australia, though it might vary from state to state, you can request a blood test. If there’s no booze bus right there in which they’ll take it, you might be able to make the cop go to the pathologist with you within a few hours during which you might dip under the limit if it was borderline. Never heard of anyone actually pulling this stunt, I’m sure it would royally piss off the cop.

There’s a huge black market for tobacco products here in Australia and it’s completely legal, simply having the tax on it so high has led to massive smuggling operations, black market cigarettes in many convenience stores, and a fire bombing epidemic of those same convenience stores for carrying competitors black market cigs. It doesn’t even need to be illegal. Just too expensive.

I wonder if no one is left at Microsoft that knows enough about the core systems to actually improve those… So the best they can do is throw more shit on top

Does this put your standard US citizen on the same level as Saudi or Qatari slave?