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Comment Re:this person is full of shit. (Score 1) 353

it's a boon for the vast amount of people out there.

I agree with the last phrase of your comment, but you could say the same thing about the car, and I don't think you're suggesting that 12 year olds should be supplied with those? Or are you?

The article is, after all, about children.

Comment Re:this person is full of shit. (Score 1) 353

Nice theory, but I wonder how many teenagers you have in the house? How many of those have other issues that constant internet activity exacerbates?

Not that anecdotal evidence is data, but; you go ahead and tell me how healthy it is for a gender confused 12 year old to be given a data enabled iPhone by his/her non-custodial parent, who then can not remove the device even after stark evidence of grooming messaging taking place, because they threaten to suicide if it's taken away.

Yeah, that's the same behaviour we had to deal with as kids, in no way whatsoever.

Comment Re:Get rid of the financial incentive... (Score 1) 760

I get where you're going but cash is fungible and what the town spends it on, or if it even bothers to comply with state laws about where the money goes, is less easy to control. And if the "town" doesn't have the fine revenue, they have less money to fund the police, so it makes little difference if the cops hand it to the town to hand back to the police. By which I mean the town often appears to be directing the police to raise revenue.

Then you get ridiculous situations like:
http://theind.com/article-8237...
http://theadvocate.com/news/le...

Where the town is collecting ticket revenue and not passing it along to the state as the law requires, ostensibly via some loophole. Then the state suggests putting up flashing "speed trap" signs outside your town, because that's adult.

Or these guys that were running the police force to fund the town:
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/fl...
So if they can't have the fine revenue they have no use for police at all!

Comment Re:Sounds good (Score 1) 760

The trouble with the 85th percentile rule is that it works against people that want the speed limits higher, even if they're in the greater percentage.

i.e. traditionally the unlimited speed was assessed on a road, and the limit set at or below the speed that 85% of people were travelling. Now, the enforcement here is so strict that people are generally doing 5 under the posted speed limit, so they're dropping the speed limits all over the place!

Comment Re:well.. (Score 2) 760

The problem you have with your system is that the fines are retained by the police, they should go into state revenue without earmarks.

That said, they're still really enthusiastic to fine speeders here; they still get to swagger and chide you like a naughty child after breaking more laws than the person they're "in pursuit" of, that hasn't actually fled.

Comment Re:Dialects != Language (Score 1) 667

Linguists know that a language is just a dialect with an army.

Exactly so, but would you think it's acceptable to write a contract in "redneck"? The introduction to the article implies that small groups, "youfs" for example, write correctly because they write as their contemporaries write, it's not comparable to entire countries.

Admittedly, the body of the article is a long way from the opening paragraph and I suspect a (sub?)editor is at fault. The body is about obscure grammar rules most people don't know, and elements of style which even Oxford and Cambridge can't agree on.

Comment Re:I can't find the commercial speech section (Score 1) 239

I think you can blame the people that over-egg the pudding by putting multiple full-screen ad breaks in videos and generally making the experience so bad people seek a technological fix to their perceived problem with those videos and yours are collateral damage.

Naturally, most of the really bad videos are things like BBC shows that people have no moral right to watch or monetise.. but I'm sure both can give you lots of reasons why they're not hurting anyone.

Comment Re: Well, then I guess (Score 1) 284

A lot of elderly people on fixed incomes get pushed out of their houses because they can no longer pay the property taxes on houses they own outright -- their fixed incomes don't increase to match the increase in value and taxes.

Good?

The baby boomers are going to be sitting on an ocean of "urealised wealth" while insisting they're paid pensions and medical costs so they can eventually divest their property onto the next generation which will be at about the same time of life by the time they die... WHY do retirees need to live near work?

Submission + - Apple, Microsoft and Google need just one mobile improvement -- battery life (betanews.com)

Mark Wilson writes: Let’s face it, you’ve picked the mobile operating system you like. Whether you’ve opted for an iPhone, a Lumia handset or a device running Android, the chances are you’re not going to switch allegiances no matter what others may do or say to try to convince you otherwise. At the same time, few people would argue that their handset of choice is perfect.

You’ve picked your side when it comes to OS, but what about the handset itself? Apple, Samsung, HTC et al keep releasing slightly tweaked versions of last year’s handset, perhaps adding a faster processor, a larger screen and more memory. One thing is constantly overlooked, however — battery life. And it’s time for things to change.

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