... Oh, wait! It's already happening!

Google needs to step in and produce Android for Desktop. The market share is ripe for the picking.

Gentle handling. Also, they had a control for this using injection of the stress-related hormone corticosterone, which failed to produce the changes they saw with sleep deprivation. This is in Science, they don't muck around too much there.

This, in a nutshell, is why your first foreign language is the hardest, then things get easier (especially if you stick to one family, e.g. European).

If you can formulate an objective measure for "sloppy thinking" and/or "depth of thought", I will apply with you for a grant from the NSF to do the study, and then write the paper together. One thing though - you will have to convince me that there's a chance you can convince them to cough up the cash. Until then, I'm going with feeling here.

People who are encouraged as kids to be sloppy about their writing tend to emerge from adolescence sloppy about their thinking too. This is a cliche but it is, unfortunately, quite an accurate one. There are exceptions to every rule, of course, but where I live there is a generation of people who can't spell or read efficiently and this is reflected in how shallow their thoughts are.

Comet impacts lasted 32,000 years and writing /. stories took 50 seconds.

In Kazakhstan, we just use ducks.

Laser light is collimated and therefore much more dangerous to your retinae.

... as I said, reflections of their populaces.

Your leaders, sir, have been put there by voters. One of those voters may even have been you. So don't put the blame on them. In democratic and pseudo-democratic countries, leaders are just reflections of their populaces.

Oh, and just to make sure you don't think this comes from some partisan BS, the other side would have done precisely the same thing.

Now go and get yourself a serious government.

Not entirely zero sum. Theoretically, if these contraptions make people more conscious of their driving, thinking "oh wait, big brother's watching so maybe I'll cut the stunts" etc., this might actually lead to a reduction in their accident rates. Which means insurance companies pay less, have larger margins, and in an efficient market, this means they can afford to lower prices. Also, as some posters here demonstrated, people who agree to put this thing in their cars are usually safe drivers. So if an insurance company attracts them by dangling low prices in exchange for outing themselves as nerdy drivers, they can reduce their accident rates, thus their margins, and the lower prices might even end up increasing their profits.

If everyone had just surrendered to the Japanese, there would have been much fewer deaths in the Pacific theater in WWII. The point of fighting that war was not about saving the quantity of lives, but the quality of them.

If you smoke enough pot, as the authors of this cheap attempt at attention-grabbing surely must have, you start seeing double and 5V turns to 55W...

This is how they "stay under the radar". Smells like a publicity stunt.