I'd doubt the validity of a breathalyzer test being held in uncontrolled conditions by poorly trained workers cranking people through on an industrial scale. That does not give them the right to draw my blood. If I've hurt someone, been speeding, etc then punish me for it and otherwise f off.

I don't drink [alcohol] but I might become very irate if some creepy cop started poking me with needles without my consent (which I would not give).

God not being real is no more logical than God being real. Existence of anything is a contradiction.

My own twisted thought is that we all exist in some sort of feedback loop by which God is constantly recreated in an evolution process. At some point we'll all converge into some sort of super intelligent omnipresent collective that functions so smoothly that we're essentially a single being. By definition God exists in all times and places so once we reach a level of technology where we can achieve those key features we'll have evolved into God. And if that ever happens then God will exist here and now too. Sort of an Omega Point concept.

We have a pet bunny and my daughter last year was convinced he was responsible for the toys and candy.

We only have one or two presents from Santa and the rest from family.. but who cares about praise, credit, etc??? The point is giving happiness to others. Otherwise, why bother. When I donate to the toy drive I don't write my name on each gift so the recipient will know who to credit.

Really Christmas has zero to do with religion. You can choose to include religion but there is no need to. It's mostly a time of spending time with family and friends and giving to those less fortunate than yourself. We touched on the nativity and Santa but neither was a big emphasis. Most of our emphasis with our daughter was on choosing gifts for people and toys for the toy drive.

I don't understand people insisting on different names and days for their Christmas-that-isn't-Christmas holidays. Stop bickering over stupid issues and just enjoy the holiday.

Have to agree with the kids angle. Besides drinking sucks anyway. Not sure I know the meaning of a day off.

Because only dorks celebrate anything but Christmas. It's really whatever you want it to be about any way so why bother coming up with your own name and being different just for the sake of grinching everyone else?

Real men measure by their own personal unit system. I don't use inches or miles but I do have a foot, a hand, a finger, and an arm.

I hate unions but we need some kind of professional standard. Schools crank our thousands of CS grads every year that have no idea how to program anything. Those dimwits go out and represent themselves as programmers. After working through a few hopeless degree wielders employers get the idea that the best they can do is hire these guys in bulk at minimum wage and set them loose like the proverbial monkeys with typewriters which totally screws up the job market for developers. Certifications aren't any better. Students have been taught how to build a doghouse and suddenly they're thrown into a job market where they are expected to build skyscrapers. Of course they're going to be in over their head. And years of experience isn't a good judge either because it could be years done doing the same exact thing over and over or they could just be bad at it. And employers usually have no idea if you're doing a good job or not other than being disappointed that programming isn't as easy as typing their idea into a word processor.

Some sort of mentor organization and judgement by more experienced peers as to when a level of competence has been obtained would be more useful I think.

Starting a business and making it successful is fairly easy - just boring and hard work. It's more a matter of not doing anything stupid. Find something that is well understood, copy everything others do right, and correct the things they suck at. Keep doing it without screwing up. Decent marketing, decent prices, decent customer service, and decent treatment of your employees, contractors, and suppliers.

The geek need for a business buddy is just so you can work on the interesting hard parts while somebody else bothers with the boring stuff.

Ideas are rarely that important to success. Noticing when things suck and being willing to admit they suck and fix them even if it makes you look like a complete jerk is the vital part.

I use Bing you insensitive clod! It's so comforting knowing that Bing users don't see all that bad stuff about me.

I usually don't install Flash or Java on my computers. Seems to help browser stability a lot and I seldom miss them. Usually it's on stupid things like fast food chains that opt for useless blinking sites instead of actually providing the information I want (hours for my local locations.. nutrition facts that aren't three years out of date). For the most part Javascript has sped up and gotten functional enough that you don't need Java and HTML and CSS can so most of what people use Flash for.

I want my head wired up and put in a jar Futurama style. My body should be frozen, shattered, and the frozen bits launched into space.

How would the screen break besides user abuse? They're pretty durable so I doubt they are spontaneously breaking as the user slides their finger around and taps the icons. Not an iPhone but my toddler has been hauling around an iTouch for two years without so much as scratching the screen. The only parts showing wear are the buttons. I've broken phone screens before but despite a muchmlarger screen the iTouch ahs held up much better.

I'd guess the people who break their screen don't use a screen protector, leave it banging against their keys, drop it, etc.

I suggest a Parrot to Dalvik translator as it'd let developers use any language that compiles to Parrot. Python, Perl, etc. Java is a suck language anyway and Android breaks from many Java conventions anyway.