I've never drank and don't plan to. I just tell people I'm allergic to X in the alcohol. It's easier than trying to make up a reason for why I don't drink and people don't think I'm weird.
> In taller buildings (I visited a DC with around 20 stories IIRC) the stories are not rigidly connected together, so that instead of swaying (and possibly toppling) during an earthquake, the building just kind of wobbles.
This is the reason why Japanese pagodas have survived for so long.
The attack is on the authoritative name servers, not a DNS resolver. A public DNS resolver will query the authoritative name server for a record if it doesn't exist in it's cache.