Hospitals care about their patients security.

I'm guessing you never worked for a hospital.

This is actually pretty insightful. Yes, many, many people shouldn't be running their own generators. I can get a 20kW generator from the local home depot for $5,000, but it's probably not meant to run forever. I imagine one that is meant to deliver 20kW constantly costs more. And you have to fuel it. And hire someone to come fix it when it breaks. Clearly, that's a bad idea.

What if you already own a power company? What if you've already made the investment in generators and people who know how to run them? What if the cost of your operation is less than the power vendors (once you cut through all the hype)? What if you count the cost you'd incur by dismantling your expensive operation only to realize a few years later that you're actually spending more now and you have to go buy a bunch of generators and hire a bunch of people who know how to run them again, just to get where you started?

As a parent of teens, no way.

I know it's popular to point the finger at parents and say it's all our fault, but a metric ton of the bad things my kids learned, they learned in the public schools I'm compelled to send them to unless I can afford to send them to private schools, which I can't. They weren't taught these things at home. They were taught NOT to do a multitude of things at home, but kids don't always listen, or they'll listen to their peers, not their parents.

As a parent of teens, you also don't have 24x7 control over the kid. Sometimes they are at school. Really, the only way to exercise 24x7 control is lock them up, which would be abusive. If you don't do that, sometimes they're going to do things they wouldn't if you'd have been standing over their shoulder. Another problem is that if you're always standing over their shoulder, they never learn to act as a responsible individual because you're always there, coercing the "responsible" part.

I used to think like you, that parents should be held accountable for their childrens' misdeeds. Then I had kids and realized that you simply do the very best you can with your kids, and you hope like crazy that it's enough. The only sure way to avoid getting a huge bill like you propose would be for everyone to simply not have children.

Truly, this wouldn't be GM putting the buggy whip manufacturers out of business, it's GM expecting they can make everyone buy a buggy whip when they already own a car. I guess this is what we get for bailing out stupid companies rather than letting them die.

What kind of idiot thinks clicking the Facebook like button DOESN'T tell your friends you liked something?

Quite near in time and space was the mass-murder committed by Anders Bering Breivik. in Utöya which killed 69 people. This was in a country were even the life-sentence is prohibited, Breivik was sentenced for 21 years.

Interesting. And you think we're the ones doing it wrong?

To be perfectly honest, I think we're both doing it wrong. A guy like Breivik should never see the light of day again. He's too much of a risk. Everyone he would be around deserves safety from him more than he deserves freedom. I'd generally rather not execute people just because sometimes we get the wrong guy. I think the state killing an innocent person is too great a price if what we're buying is vengeance or just not having to pay to house a criminal. Consider housing them the price of not executing the occasional wrong guy.

He'd have probably racked up more than $48,000 in donations from happy moviegoers who don't have to deal with people who are too lazy to walk outside if they have to reply to a text or take a call.

...the notion that if you can't make software bug free, you may as well not bother is just stupid on a scale that's hard to comprehend. I skimmed as much of that article I could stomach, but I'm done.

If we can't make cars crash proof, we may as well not make them safer.
If we can't make people immortal, we may as well stop advancing medicine.

You know what? If you can't find perfect stories, you may as well stop posting junk like this.

SO much this. It's their one main job, and they habitually fail to do it.

This is mostly beautiful. I have reservations on #6. I'm ok with taking guns away from violent criminals. I don't think educating everyone is going to change the culture of idiots who walk around with a gun in their pants now waiting to shoot someone for "disrespecting" them or being in the wrong neighborhood. Giving them a gun course isn't going to un-Hollywoodize firearms.

My child was harassing another kid in school. It went on for months. The other kid didn't want to go to school anymore. It was a Big Deal. Finally, the parent called me because she wasn't successful in getting the school to stop it. I called the principal and asked basically "where the hell is your anti bullying policy" and got the same response. He didn't consider it bullying. As you said, "WTF?!?!?!?!". The first I'd ever heard of this was when the other parent called me. More parents need to get involved in schools. Show up at school board meetings. Read them the riot act when they need it. Campaign against the bad ones at election time and for the good ones.

Oh, and you can bet my kid stopped that crap that day.

Essentially I believe that it could be harmful for young babies/toddlers to have too many vaccines administered at the same time - 3 vaccines during the same office visit, for example. I can only imagine how many adults would opt for several shots at the same time.

This is exactly the problem. You believe that based on what? This adult would opt for several shots at the same time. Saves me another trip to the doctor and possibly another copay.

I'm surprised the amount of negativity the community has presented on this subject.

Irrationality can be very annoying. We have this amazing thing called science that lets us tease truth out of nature, and a vocal subset of the population wants to go back to the dark ages of superstition and fear. This is frustrating when the consequences are entirely predictable, and include helpless kids getting sick or dying.

But we need to find the cause for autism.

On that, I couldn't agree more. The Wakefields and McCarthys of the world have done incalculable harm in dragging us down this blind alley.

When my old MX-3 was new, it was nearly silent. I was in a parking lot and saw some friends of mine. I drove up literally within 2 feet of them before they heard me.

Internal combustion cars can be darn near silent, too. I'm not aware of any requirement that they make some minimum of noise. Even if there is, cars moving at speed may not be making enough noise for you to hear before they hit you.

They hop in their car, step on the gas, and rush off from a standstill. Sure, visually you can see it's a soft shoulder, but audibly, your brain hasn't bothered to think about dirt or gravel noises. The first sound most audiences associate with a fast departure like that is a squealing tire.

Yes, but why do people think that? Could it be because they've seen it on TV? Having driven cars pretty hard in my youth, they just don't do some of the things you guys make them do. You're filling in the sounds people expect to hear, but we only expect to hear them because someone else put them there before, causing us to hear them.

Fights are another example. Nobody sounds like that when they get hit.

A device as heavy as a phone in a pocket while running is annoyingly unpleasant. I have a stretchy belt that holds mine snugly so it doesn't bounce. I suppose I'm agreeing with you. I don't need a wearable smart phone, I just need to wrap a thing around my smart phone which makes it wearable.

Also, I don't have to track my fitness, because I am usually there myself to observe my fitness with my own eyes.

Eh, what works for you and what works for others are just different things. I can observe my own fitness right now, but having actually tracked it for years, it's nice now and again to be reminded that I'm in a lot better shape than when I started. Also, gamification works. I was surprised that once my company started giving us not really enough money to care about to wear one of those devices, I changed my behavior to get the rewards. For some people, tracking your fitness correlates with improving your fitness.