I don't know much about art but the idea of someone launching random street junk into space as a "satellite" made me laugh, and I think a big part of art is about provoking a reaction.

I know this is the way our government works, tacking on all sorts of stupid shit but it still seems absurd.

Yes, on a graph it will be a flat-line. But "flat-lining" is when someone's heart is no longer beating.

It doesn't matter if the processes that create the output are in your office, your server room or even your building. You're providing the services that produce the output the business needs and the business management wants. If I.T. has made the transition in your workplace to service provider you will always have a place as the person making sure the desired output is delivered. If management still sees I.T. as the people who take care of the computers then yes you'd have something to worry about.

Now the legions of contractors and subcontractors will sweep in on a tidal wave of self-service and mediocrity to see who can offer the lowest price for their labor and the best kickbacks to the politicians and NRC people in charge of protecting us.

It doesn't matter how good your design is or how strict your regulations are when the people that build, own, maintain and oversee nuclear power plants prize money over all other things, including the safety of the population. This is why we continue to have huge industrial disasters. Not because nuclear power is unsafe, or drilling for oil in the gulf is unsafe. It's because the people in positions of responsibility are weak, selfish idiots.

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."