KOL is an excellent example of this - they've fostered a great community interaction and have weekly back and forth with the player base over current development. They've done everything else 'wrong' but they succeed (so far) anyway. Highly recommended.

IT workers wear phones. IT workers are traditionally heavily caffeinated, at least I am, so that's 100% of IT workers. Caffeine also has effects on bone loss. http://www.ajcn.org/content/74/5/694.short The problem is that if both of these things are true I should be so brittle that I can't walk without my bones crumbling under my own weight.

But string theory . . .that's still totally legit right? Right?!?

Where the hell else are kids going to be active if not when they are locked up in school all day!

I have a small family farm - we raise pigs and chickens on pasture ( and we would never dream of using antibiotics on an animal that wasn't sick). Farms like the ones you described are propped up by subsidies that allow the farm to ignore the true costs of their operation. If that farm charged prices based on the true costs, I could more easily compete. Clearly there are additional factors, but it's hard enough to sell someone on quality or the ethics of how your animals are raised when the competitions prices are lowered by a big check from the taxpayers. To make matters worse, things like this http://nonais.org/2010/09/23/s510-depredation/ and this http://nonais.org/but-what-is-nais/ certainly don't help small farms, but are indicative of how the federal government approaches this subject - send more money to big farms, make it harder for the small ones. I'm not saying government has no place in food safety, but you appear to be pinning problems on what you perceive as 'unabashed capitalism' and that just isn't the case.

The vast majority of computer users would never notice. Most PC users don't need the games you are worried about, or want them. They want web, email, and pictures of kittens. They should be using Macs, linux is a good second best. In the meantime they use windows, and their children and neighbors stop over to remove malware and reboot the box every few months. But if assuming that your own perspective is the only one that's important works for you, then go with it I suppose.

I don't have cable. I don't have DSL. I almost didn't have satellite due to line of site restrictions. So I almost had cellular as my only option. I'm not sure how not having the other three makes you less likely to have the last. Is it a great option? No - but it's a choice to live somewhere that doesn't have those options. You are not entitled to the internet for free, and no one has to run tens of thousands of dollars of cable to your house just so you can.

That's just not true. I don't have any lines to my house and I use satellite. Don't have line of site? Use a cellular connection. There are options.

Information Technology - meeting your needs at 32 feet per second squared.

I was horrible at math until I got a teacher who tried something new - she told me to work my way through the book at my own pace and let her know when I was done - I finished high school algebra in a few weeks, after getting D's in (almost) every previous math class. Not everyone will thrive in that scenario, but the point is that it's all in the approach - a few weeks of effective education can be more valuable than years of ineffective droning in front of a blackboard.

No wait . . . 12 beers.