Would've made for a more interesting article.

If you expose a product to at least 100 million people you're going to collect some of those who have addictive personalities. If you think it requires modern marketing analysis to create an addictive game, replacing "real" content with material designed to addict then you must have missed out on the late 1970s/early 1980s when kids were glued to arcade games. Space Invaders, Pac-Man et al were drawing children intro scrounging for every last quarter just for one more play. This happened worldwide, with none of the benefit of the cold, computer-aided fine-tuning that we're told is luring people in.

Can they make a video game more addictive? Possibly, but the idea that only specialized work on a title is what makes people addicted to it is not accurate.

We're probably 20 years away from that if you consider how much testing will need to be done prior to extensive legal challenges and official tests in various cities and states. It will be the greatest legal tool for oppression mankind has ever known.

I have BPPV so I get dizzy pretty easily but after at least twenty MRIs I've never felt anything other than claustrophobia. I wonder if you have to go in head first to get the effect.

I can't support unions when they use the same kind of illegal tactics as employers. I believe in the power of the strike to compel owners to behave responsibly. I do not believe in illegal or simply irresponsible actions to try and achieve that result.

We read about fines like this all the time but there is no follow-up to see if they are ever paid. It's similar to the drug busts where law enforcement agencies assign an arbitrary massively inflated value to the confiscated material to make themselves look good. Agencies declare these fines so they look good in the press, but are they ever actually paid? In full? On time?

It's a self-promotion piece that tries to pull disparate internet issues together and fails.

I don't understand this article at all because emergency dispatching is not prioritized based on the caller's choice of priority. I could have ten calls at once all insisting they are the top priority and that information would be irrelevant. The nature of the emergency is what's important, not how badly the caller wants assistance.

I dispatched during the L.A. riots and believe me every caller wanted someone to help them RIGHT NOW and I don't blame them. But calls for people being beaten got priority over property crime calls. I question the thought process behind this article that dispatchers do not or cannot already properly prioritize calls.

Any politician who believes that somewhere in America schoolchildren are being "indoctrinated in socialism" must have his motives questioned. This was not about accuracy, this was about a politician chasing the socialism bugbear. It was a strange political agenda couched in the name of accuracy. The validity of the change is undermined by the agenda and acting on one part without addressing the other is disingenuous.

The law was prompted by a bad motive and the citizens should not be held to a higher, more objective standard when assessing the law than the people who sponsored it and put it into place.

From the article:

"But on Monday, Senate floor sponsor Sen. Mark Madsen, R-Eagle Mountain, said in some states children are being indoctrinated in socialism via some curriculum.

“This is happening at least in some places in our country, so I believe this is all the more important in this state, so that we can protect our children from such curriculum,” Madsen said."

What a wonderfully bigoted, one-sided view of things. Do you provide this service professionally?

...it's the people producing it that are dangerous.

The goal is to make money for government contractors and politcians, not enhance safety. Inefficient, ineffective solutions produce much more profit for government contractors and the politicians that support them.

When I lived in Vancouver, B.C. in the 1980s these "super-quake" stories about the northwest were common, and just as full of lurid and horrible details of destruction. It's not that I think the stories are incorrect so much as they serve no purpose other than to feed the human hunger for new and overwhelming things to fear.

I've lived in Los Angeles since I left Vancouver and been faced with the same cycle of destruction predictions and they serve no useful purpose. They are not instructive. They just terrify people to no real end. How are people supposed to respond to a supposedly impending natural disaster that spells utter destruction? Should we abandon every part of the U.S. that has been under "super-quake" warning for the last 100 years? So there goes the entire west coast? What about the New Madrid fault? Ok, we'll clear out the midwest from top to bottom. Hmm, isn't there a big fault in the northeast that threatens Quebec and New York? Then everyone can move to the southeast. Where they'll all get killed by hurricanes.

I've been playing computer and console games as long as they've existed and the environment in RDR blew me away. Great set design and decoration, wonderful sound and lighting. As impressive as the density is of cityscapes like GTA 4 and Saints Row 2 convincing nature settings are extremely hard to pull off but RDR does it. Sun, dust, shade, scrub, elevation changes... it makes the attempt by games like Oblivion and Fallen Earth almost laughable.

I've spent the first hour just riding around and hunting, or looking for people to interact with.