If you are going to make ad-hominem attacks you could at least back them up with some evidence. Have you actually watched her videos and can you refute them in any way, or do you just not like her message or her personally?

I actually watched her videos and I didn't see any outright lies in them. She seems knowledgeable about the subject and made some good points.

Can you point to any specific examples of her lying? Not just misunderstanding or disagreeing with you, but actually trying to mislead the audience.

You make a valid point, but it isn't nearly as bad as it is for women. For example, it's extremely rare to have female characters that don't fit some obvious trope and have, you know, actual personalities.

Many games suffer from "Smurfette Syndrome", where they have one female character among an ensemble cast of males. She almost always tends to have "Female Personality Disorder", i.e. dresses in pink, is a bit bratty or sassy, or fits some other lame sterotype. Many of them are just female versions of male characters, or little more than prizes that get kidnapped at the start and deliver the Smooch of Victory when the guy saves them. Of course many of the male characters will be paper thin too, but at least they get a bit of variety and have attributes other than "is male".

There are also quite a few reasonable male characters in games. Half Life comes to mind, where you play a middle aged scientist. Even in games like Call of Duty and Battlefield the males tend to be realistic for trained military men, even if they are stereotypically butch. It's not perfect, but it isn't nearly as bad as it is for female characters.

One of the most notorious Reddit trolls was outed as a 49 year old father: http://gawker.com/5950981/unma...

You said it "over 100 miles from Vegas" so...

Unfortunately we didn't have this debate when they installed a vast network of cameras with automatic number-plate recognition and a huge back-end database to handle the data. The police are never going to give up their grip on that particular tool willingly, so we are stuck with it.

We actually tried that in the UK, at places like Sellafield, and it didn't work out very well. Stuff started to grow in the ponds, rain water mixed in, birds picked it up and flew off with it, it evaporated into rainwater...

These days average is watching hours of streaming video from Netflix, YouTube, Amazon, Hulu and all the others.

Reminds me of conversations I used to have with people buying 160GB hard drives. Does ATT consider 1KB = 2^10 or 10^3 bytes?

The US isn't the only country with nuclear power. Some like China and India have been pushing it hard and investing vast amounts of money in developing it, yet have still failed to deal with this problem.

Also, nit-picking perhaps but "several decades" implies nuclear was being blocked back in the 50s, which clearly it wasn't.

It's pretty pathetic that the pro-nuclear crowd have to blame unnamed eco-hippies for all their woes. A bunch of apparently quite dumb, reactionary and fearful people somehow dictate policy for multi billion dollar industry with armies of lawyers and wads of cash to throw at lobbying.

The simple reality is that all this wonderful new technology just isn't economically viable. The cost of development and the risk that after spending tens of billions it won't work or make any money is just too high. There are too many unknowns and uncertainties, and a general reluctance to invest in a technology that takes decades to pay off when alternatives are growing so rapidly.

Just look at how hard energy companies are fighting the future to preserve their current revenue streams. Considering how scared they are of what seems inevitable, would you want want to give them money?

Tragically Flash support still seems to be working. I was hoping that moving to 64 bit would break it.

Neither do I, but fortunately my neighbour does.

Fortunately your internet connection speed is (hopefully) increasing too, so the time to restore all that data from your widely distributed off-site "backup" is decreasing in proportion.

These days probably 60-70% of the data on my drives is basically an caching the internet.