It does sound like a good idea, but there's no serious discussion about it.

As a resident of Massachusetts, that's news to me! Looks more like a couple op eds discussing it than any serious debate.

If you like cooperative games, you might try Arkham Horror though it takes a bit more setup

But (as that article mentions), good distractions are the ones that aren't important and don't involve interactions. Having your coworker come chat for a bit isn't a distraction you can ignore (politely).

Very similar to a project someone did a couple years ago that did the exact same thing: http://jomegat.wordpress.com/2...

True - in general, the better quality refrigerators will cost more, but the inverse it not true.

If I didn't have a credit card I guess I'd use a debit card or go to the bank to take out cash. It would be more of a hassle, but those are the alternatives. It's true I do have to pay my bill every month - takes about 5 minutes to login to the website, review the month's purchases, and click "pay bill". I could have it automatically pay (sort of like a debit card), but I like to see what I spent money on the most over the month. Not really a cost.

I also get 1-3% cash back so the higher prices that everyone pays get to me in the form of a check every few months.

How would you be dependent? Just don't spend more money than you have and you get an interest free loan for the month + extra protection if someone steals it (because it's not your money!).

Newer fridges are much more energy-efficient and cheaper compared to those old models. If you bought an expensive one marked as reliable instead of the cheapest one out there then it would last more than 5 years. The stuff that wasn't as over engineered from the past hasn't survived so we only see the stuff that was.

That's not something specific to smartphones - that's something that comes from phone companies and voice mail (compared to answering machines of the past) in general. My smartphone has a voice mail app now that lets me just select the message and click "play" - a large improvement.

The 160 character limit is for 7 bit characters. Twitter uses standard 8 bit characters so is limited to 140.

Though with a max speed of 25mph, they're probably factoring "cuteness" more than wind resistance.

If they were terrorists, the TSA probably should have done something like stopped them from getting on the airplane and calling law enforcement. It's somewhat ridiculous to think that there are potential terrorists getting on planes and all we're doing about them is throwing their bombs in the trash before the board.

The TSA actually relaxed regulations on knitting needles after noticing that no one has ever hijacked anything with them.

Yeah, and it could take years for the content to travel across the country. Now it takes milliseconds, so copyright should be scaled appropriately as well.