He was unhappy that new routers in the future might be incompatible with his old printer, necessitating him replacing his printer... but that assumes he has to replace his router. Getting mad about it now is something like shouting at clouds.

Because let's face it, it's pretty unrealistic to get bent out of shape because you can't buy daisy wheels or get 14k modem service anymore. Technology will evolve and things we use today will become obsolete, and we'll replace them when we have to or when we want to. Nobody is coming into your house and taking your 802.11b router away from you; on the other hand, there's no sane reason to believe that you'll always be able to buy compatible accessories.

Then why are you replacing your functional 802.11g router, smart guy?

I wonder if "First time accepted submitter inqrorken" comes from a warm climate; I remember that the facilities managers at a national park near where I lived would price out fuel oil, diesel, and Jet-A for oil-burning home heat in the employee housing every hear. The prices fluctuate based on a lot of factors, including refinery over-runs, gluts and shortages based on transport industries, etc., so while it was unlikely, it wasn't unheard of for Jet-A to be the cheapest option.

Comparing today's HP to the HP of the 80s, I'm inclined to side with Schiller.

If your password for Adobe is Adobe123, and Adobe leaks your password (AGAIN), nobody is going to be getting into your email, or your facebook account, or your bank account, etc., etc.

This whole friggin' story could have been avoided if Poindexter had taken off his stupid Google Glass in a MOVIE THEATER.

That said, if I owned the theater, I would have just kicked him out and told him his business wasn't welcome.

And replace them with what, MREs? Because...?

You do realize that they have to eat either way, right, and that the only difference here is that they will prioritize the fresh food for consumption first. Obviously they need preserved food but there's no reason for them to eat it exclusively, since its only advantage is that it lasts longer. This is what the world's navies have known for only about three thousand years...

The ban is for participating. He will certainly never be awarded a grant as a principle investigator ever again, which has already crippled his career. At best, in the future, he might be able to limp along somewhere as a second-rung researcher.

What this means he can't work for any federally-financed research in any capacity (as an employee, collaborator, in-kind supporter, etc.) for three years. Since pretty much all research in his field includes some federal component, that's a three year exile from his entire career, and about as close as you can get to a career death sentence.

You know how a Mac is a tough sell to "internet tough guys" because they bitch about how it can't be upgraded, even though they typically just buy all new parts and build new PCs for each upgrade cycle rather than swapping individual parts?

Think the same thing, only "tough truck guys," people who have probably never done any body work on a car, will complain that they can't repair aluminum themselves even though repairing steel is "trivial" or something. Aluminum comes up as a candidate for car manufacture every decade or so, and I distinctly remember this "complaint" from the last time around.

Wow. Such skeptic. Much insight. Many original thoughts.

Nice backpedal, but it doesn't matter. I have no intention of convincing you that you're wrong, since it's pretty clear that you're willfully ignorant.

I responded twice because I wanted to make sure that other casual readers that spotted your unfortunately modded crap would have a chance to see it picked apart. To the uninitiated like yourself, the "chlorinated organics are as safe as chlorinated bleach" line sounds perfectly logical, since they both have the same word in them. It's important that people who actually have the ability to discern such differences can see them pointed out, so that they don't pick up a new and dangerously false misconception.

I'm not saying they were completely ignored, but there weren't any histrionics. It was a fire DRILL, not a fire, and we kids just goofed off on the playground. The cops certainly weren't concerned either; they made a cursory check because that's their job.

Fast forward to 2007, I'm working as a teacher at a very large, affluent suburban school, and the *one* time in six years that we got a bomb threat caused absolute pandemonium. Lockdown, class cancelled for the rest of the day, helicopters flying overhead, and a student's diorama (found in a hallway) was treated like a suspected IED. Local news went into hysterics and interviewed concerned parents outside the school, asking them about 911. The next day, attendance was about 50%.

I'd call what happened when I was a kid routine, and I agree with the OP that kids calling in bomb threats was so common when we were growing up that it was practically a cliche. I'm not defending it, and only a really stupid or sociopathic kid would have done it, but it happened and it happened much more often than it does now.

I'd call what happened when I was a teacher insane.

And yet it happened at least every other year for me, and I went to middle and high school in the early/mid 90s in a tiny town in the middle of nowhere. We'd go into fire-drill mode and the cops would do a quick search of the school. Then we'd go back and take our tests.

Don't expect anybody to take you seriously if the best you can do is counter an anecdote with an anecdote, because yours is no more valid than his or mine.

Wrong, so wrong, on so many levels. You have absolutely no idea what you are talking about from a chemical or medical perspective.

Your chlorinated kitchen cleanser uses chlorine bleach (sodium hypochlorite). It kills because it is a strong oxidizer.

Triclosan and triclocarban are organic molecules (two benzene rings with a bridge) with chlorine atoms substituted for some of the hydrogens. They are capable of entering cells and disrupting enzyme pathways, a completely different approach from bleach, and one that is essentially the same as most oral antibiotics. The biggest practical difference between these antimicrobials and many antibiotics is that ingesting these compounds in sufficient strength to kill bacteria would also kill you.

The difference between triclocarban and sodium hypochlorite is, chemically, the difference between oil and water: THEY ARE NOT EVEN CLOSE IN PROPERTIES OR FUNCTION.

The concentrations of these chemicals when used in surgical soaps is many, many times higher than it is in personal care products, because we place a premium on sterility for surgery. The quantity present in most personal care products is pointless for the intended purpose, and they have been demonstrated to be endocrine disruptors, to accumulate in human tissue, to accumulate in the solid byproduct of waste-water treatment, to accumulate in sediment downstream of said treatment plants, and there is a strong suggestion that these environmental reservoirs will exert a selective pressure towards resistance in the exact bugs that we don't want to resist them.