Visible spectrum, or all light?

...creates reality. I like it.

"Explanation: We're doing what we've been instructed to do by Big Money interests in government for the last 30 years."

That's because Apple, at that time, was run by the kind of people that would fire Steve Jobs.

"You don't give them enough credit and your apparent fear of them being so potentially bad is rather unkind and frankly I think unmerited."

Horseshit.

I live in a town with a large Air Force Base and have had several former friends do tours in Afghanistan and Iraq. I say "former friends" because when they got back, they were unrecognizable from a personality perspective. Distant, scary, intense. These were people without a lot of options, largely, in the first place and when they're not deployed, even the AF guys around town are often insufferable assholes.

When 100,000 of these guys get back, a solid percentage of them are going to be ticking time-bombs of insanity. We're going to have big problems on our hands, I fear.

How many academic articles does one need, anyway?

I mean, I've wanted a way to grab two or three in my lifetime without going through the University, but really? Stealing academic articles?

Fascinating.

THAT'S what they'd do with the technology? Eliminate the wall switch?

Some solutions go looking for a problem, I suppose.

...you have hit upon the core issue. Police work would be a lot easier if not for free public wi-fi...

Dude sold a deputy a sawed-off shotgun. As far as I remember, there was no automatic weaponry involved on the part of the Weavers.

....much better to lie there on your face with a dozen guns in your back and a dozen high school dropouts screaming "pedophile" at you. THAT'S the key to effective law enforcement.

...that's what I'm doing with my home entertainment setup, now that my PS3 doesn't work anymore.

Seriously, Sony...just give it up. Open up your system and get to work on the PS4.

It's not a crime to be an ass.

Typically, my discovery tends to run along the lines of this:

"My computer pops up this error message when I log in," says mother-in-law.
"That's letting you know that the anti-virus and anti-malware software I installed needed to be updated two months ago."
"Well now it won't let me access my Facebook."
"Your machine is cursed with viruses that have corrupted your system software."
"Can you fix it?"
"Probably...I'm busy these days, but maybe I can get by there this week."
(two days later, from the library on Facebook)
"Sorry you haven't gotten my critical Charles Stanley updates in your e-mails. My son-in-law said he was coming by two days ago but I haven't seen him. Guess I'll just continue to go to the library to spam you."

It's more like showing them that computers don't have to be virus-laden pieces of shit to access their Facebook and e-mail. I, on the other hand, don't find the Mac limiting in the least, and in fact, I find it liberating in that I find myself free of bruises from beating my head against a wall.

Since I (finally) convinced my parents to buy a MacBook to replace their aging piece of lard Dell laptop and Compaq desktops, they have had zero difficulties. I've been to fix my mother-in-law's craptacular PC a dozen times.

I've decided to let people know I'll recommend, purchase, configure and maintain their Macs, but I won't touch a Windows PC.