You assume publicity could actually get someone to watch a Seth Rogan movie. Publicity could get folks to do some things, but not something that horrible.

Two years ago, the intelligent, thinking people realized that the most powerful person in the US government, the president, can't even get a blow job without the whole country hearing about it.

Wow! I thought that was more like 1998-ish - closer to ten years ago. I know I wanted to forget about 2000 and the Bush election and a lot of Obama's terms, but I didn't want to forget it so much I traveled in time like you!

Well, you must be smoking something assuming that Idaho would legalize. Boise might be down with it, but the rest of state, due to its high rate of Mormon population, will never let it happen. Remember that Mormonism is a high indicator of Libertarian- (or Republican-) leaning behavior. They'll vote as Mormons first, not as Libertarians. And Mormons don't want legal weed in Idaho.

That would be the drama-mongers and the drama-mongees.

With your current background, you could get a job in technical writing. Every firm that does engineering needs people like you who:

* Understand the subject matter
* Can write about it readably

When you say pencil, I'm pretty sure you mean "graphite". A lovely and useful substance, to be sure, but not especially close to graphene.

Virgin Submarine Plan - the "Eaten Alive" of enterprises...

It would be. So would learning how to change the paper in a printer. So would be training for reading documentation thoroughly. And giving presentations. And enough accounting and finance to get by talking with a CFO. There are many things that could be useful to many students. But this is CS. And there's already a lot of material to cover. Teaching is no more important than any of those other things.

That's effectively what they are. They don't do the testing. They simply tell you how much testing you have to do before you don't get charged with a federal crime by selling your poison. If you left it to the courts (which is what all Libertarian types like to do), you'd be decrying judges finding against doctors who prescribed under-tested products because that's not "free market" either. So to fight it, you go about bandying "facts" like implying that the FDA does the testing. They don't they just set the standards. Or should theree be no standards? Do you hate them, as well?

Just face it - you folks hate government and there's not a damn thing it ever does right in your eyes. As such, you're not adding to the debate - you're just mouthing platitudes. Yes we remember your side of the issue. Though, honestly, we've heard it before. And sadly, it's just as stupid now as when we first heard it. It's as religious to the free market as Catholics are to Christ. Take your faith-based economics and go away.

Only two? I got a boatload. Although now I just look at those phrases as tools in a game played to separate fools from money. In the end, they're only Rorschach ink blots showing the con men the fastest path between the marks' hopes and fears.

As usual, normal technology caveats apply. Don't discard wheat needlessly, but do your best to look in places where the wheat/chaff ratio is relatively high. And that ain't IoT.

Picking the rulers?!

Oh, how quaint hat you really think there is any difference other than in the level of technology involved.

Yes, there are. For example, we don't hold them to the same level of accountability as people. We do not punish corporations nearly as hard as individuals. What this says about our morality is as fascinating as the legal reasoning behind the quasi-personage of the state (which is no more a "given" than our morality).

Hmmm... Never got past (2) - or at least what seems to pass for (2) in the TLA's eyes. Didn't care much. I guess that means I'm even more of a degenerate.

So we'd do better splitting on what people vote on? Bad information and demagoguery? Maybe with a dash of party-line built in?

Actually, that sounds like what we have today.

Jean McKenzie has been Executive Vice President of Mattel since September 2012. She was named President of American Girl Jan. 1, 2013. Prior to re-joining Mattel in 2011 as Senior Vice President-Marketing, she was President and CEO of Gateway Learning Corporation and Senior Vice President for The Walt Disney Company. From 1989-1998, Ms. McKenzie served in various executive positions at Mattel working on the Barbie brand, most recently as Executive Vice President and GM of Worldwide Barbie for Mattel.

Not sure if this makes the screw-up better or worse...