The only thing you get from Android app updates is more ads. I let it update my kitchen timer app. The new version was the same as the old one but came with fucking banner ads. So I've learned to never, ever update anything on my phone.

But that's not as bad as Google who pushed a Chrome update that removed the buttons from the scrollbar. I guess nobody at Google has ever used a touch pad.

Evolution is taught in U.S. schools. Once in a while some gray haired old man in some podunk backwoods county tries to change that and makes us all look bad. So don't believe everything you read on Slashdot.

Here on the east coast, water quantity is just not an issue. Agriculture depends mainly on rainwater - of which there is plenty - and residential use will never deplete the groundwater. Quality is the problem. With every residential well comes a septic system and a drain field. The more densely populated areas that still aren't serviced by public utilities are ending up with contaminated wells.
   

They already do, 55 congress members and electoral votes at a time.

Like when someone brings a breathalyzer to a party. You'd think reasonable people would make sure they didn't drink too much. Nope. It becomes a contest to see who can blow the highest reading.

Hey Californians. I live on the other coast and I have a hole in my back yard where I can pump all the water out I could ever want - for free.

Then buy some stock.

America used to be a lot more sink-or-swim. Work hard, innovate, or you die. Health care ended up being tied to employment because everybody worked. It was our grandparents who made this nation the greatest in the world. Now we're well on our way to a European social-wellfare system, and Universal Healthcare will be part of that after Obamacare fails (listen to Obama's speeches before he became a Senator - this is just one step in his plan).

Universal healthcare, living wage, equal outcomes. It's all coming. Along with it comes the loss of the U.S. competitive edge. Work hard? Why bother. Just join the Occupy Wallstreet crowd and stand in line for a government handout.

It's all well and good until there's nobody left to pay for it.

Same thing happened to a cat I had for 12 years. Liver cancer. The vet also told me I could put her through surgery and chemo, but that it would be wrong to do that to a cat. That was a surprising thing to hear from someone who stood to make a pretty big profit off me, and I was emotional enough at the time that I might have done it. That was 15 years ago and thinking about that still brings tears to my eyes.

You did the right thing for your friend.

You think that's bad? Wait a few years until there's some kind of real problem and they come at you with a $3000 proposal for treatment and an application for a consumer credit account. No joke. People get very emotional about their pets. I knew a woman who put her dog through chemotherapy on credit and couldn't pay her rent.

I've been using Yahoo mail since almost the beginning and still do.

I changed my password as soon as I heard about this. Or, I tried to. Yahoo makes it so difficult to change your password that I actually had to go to Google and search for "How do I change my Yahoo password". Then once I figured out where to go (none of the links worked - I had to paste it from an answers.yahoo.com reply), the AJAXified page wouldn't work in Firefox on Linux, so I had to fire up my work PC and use IE.

Unbelievable.

While I was there, I deleted an old yahoo personals alias (also didn't work in Firefox - had to use IE), and then changed my backup email. But that didn't work either - the link in the confirmation email went to an error page.