Still doesn't do Quechua, which is spoken by over 14 million people.

I grew up in a tourist town and learned early that more people are killed crossing with the light than are killed jay walking, probably because the jay walker is actually paying attention to traffic rather than just assuming that the signal is correct.

I generally wear boots, and will give them a good kick in the quarter panel if they've cut me off. Scares the crap out of them, they think they've hit someone and their insurance will go up.

The issue I run into more often in Bellevue is people coming out of a parking lot driveway waiting for traffic to clear and only looking one direction to see if cars are coming, oblivious to the fact that pedestrians even exist. (The T-Mobile headquarters is especially bad for this.) If I'm in front of them and they start to move I'll slap my hand down hard on their hood to let them know I'm there. The better ones are appalled that they almost ran someone down, the executive-looking BMW types are just annoyed that I've touched their precious baby.

Generally if they're too stupid to use GPS they'll probably be too stupid to know how to read a map as well. So now they're stuck at home, I'd say that's a win for everyone! (except them of course)

Some stupid woman in my wife's store ran into a post in the middle of the aisle Saturday night because she was too busy texting. She then proceeded to the front of the store, demanded to see the manager on duty, and told her that there should be a beeper on the post so that people would know it was there.

You really don't understand evolution at all. The development of morality stems from evolution among social animals such as buffalo, horses or chickens. Observe a herd of horses, a pack of canines, or a flock of crows. They each have a moral structure to their societies, which has evolved to further their species' survival (an individual's survival is unimportant to evolution, only the group's survival).

Rather amusing that a religious fanatic quotes an atheist politician's words celebrating a battle fought to overthrow a practice supported by both the Old and New Testament.

I've noticed this on the bus, generally if some jackass is taking up a second seat with his bag on a crowded bus they're under 30. There's one jerk who sits in the back row and deliberately sits spanning two seats, even when there are dozens of people standing. I make it a point to make him move over so that I can sit down, and if there is anyone nearby who I think needs the seat more I'll almost immediately get up and offer it to them.

Dyson is a nuclear physicist, not a climatologist or specialist in modeling of complex systems. Not sure why you think we should take his word over, for example, Russ Finegold (also very intelligent, but not a climatologist or system modeler.)

To be truthful I rather doubt the quality of science, there aren't many aeronautical engineers competent to do astrophysical research.

Government??? The government doesn't own the hospital, care to clarify your point? The judge is protecting the interests of the healthcare conglomerates from the threat of 400,000 injured customers.

The hospital **will** be facing fines for the breach, HIPAA violations are expensive. Hospitals have been cutting IT staff in recent years as a penny-smart/pound-foolish cost-saving measure, wonder if this will show Franciscan Healthcare how stupid that is.

I don't see which "St. Joseph's Hospital" is being referenced, there are a ton of them out there, but most of them are owned by the Franciscan order of Catholic monks. The Franciscans, the Dominicans and the Sisters Of Providence nuns are three of the largest hospital chain owners in North America currently. The judge is not likely directly in the pocket of the Church, but several other for-profit "healthcare" corporations are headquartered in Texas so he is probably looking out for the financial well being of the entire industry by setting this precedent.5722719

When the second amendment was written they specifically said "Arms", not pistols, long guns, swords, etc. for a reason. At the time most merchantmen carried cannons, port cities had their own batteries of cannon, frontier communities would buy multi-barrel muskets as protection against Indians and brigands, and the "town hall cannon" was not just an ornament. The amendment is an artifact of the time in which it was written, and definitely needs updating, but most people (on both sides of the issue) are unaware of the context in which it was written.

Wow, so much stupid in such a short post. One of the oldest villages yet uncovered existed in the Atacama Desert on the Peruvian coast. The invention of adobe in both the New and Old worlds appears to have happened about the same time. When the European barbarians arrived the Inca and Aztec capitals were two or three times the size of any city in Europe or anywhere else outside China, cleaner, better organized, and more advanced in almost everything but weaponry. The first Spaniards who floated down the Amazon reported thriving cities and extensive fields all along the river. Goods were exchanged between the high Andes and the lower Amazon. By the time the Portuguese had arrived to explore the Amazon disease had killed 90+ percent of the population and the jungle was reclaiming land down to the river's banks.

The two principal advantages the Europeans had were 1) unrivaled ignorant religious fanaticism unequaled until the modern Wahabist movement, and 2) their habit of living in a level of filth unknown at any other point in human history which ensured the survivors were immune to, and carriers of, almost every disease known to mankind.

even though it's been forced to have a rethink about its go-to-market strategy

And here is the example that every other frelling company out there needs to learn; if people don't want to use your product the way you expect them to you need to change your expectations. The classic demonstration of this is the Ford Edsel, but there is no lack of newer examples, such as why did MS go forward with Win 8 even after the test users uniformly hated the new interface? Ballmer had decided that users were going to conform to his product, with end the result that huge enterprise customers (and many of MS's internal users) refused to upgrade. Google is doing the smart thing, they've got a product that is useful in many scenarios, just not popular in the scenario they originally envisioned. They're going to work on the markets where it makes sense now, such as security, medical systems, and architectural design.