About the spinning and not being dizzy. A therapist told my stepson this is a sign of severe congestion in the inner ear, and that working to reduce that might help with his overall balance and some other things. I have no idea if that's true, but you might look into that.

Sort of anyway? Seems to that the networks of hackers and bad guy developers has always been sharing notes and code, and that this technique has long been used as an "intelligence amplifier" allowing a loose collection of bad guys who couldn't or at least didn't get real jobs to create some powerful malware tools. Which are often then used by someone else with slightly less coding sense and much more ambition to make some money, and to spread the idea of making money this way to others. The whole industry is a lot like multi-level marketing that way.

How often in the real world do you find yourself thinking. "Gee he's never really done this before in an applied, practical setting. That makes his skills fresher!" In my case that would be a big never.

Except for the fact that in some very real ways the CB radio was actually useful. Useful primarily for finding out where the police were on the interstate, so you wouldn't get a ticket for going over the new, and much hated 55 mph speed limit, useful for calling for help traveling or talking to your buddies following you in the next car. Weather and road conditions passed from truckers and motorists etc. They certainly created and highlighted a subculture many of us would like to think of as unintelligent and coarse, that is truckers, truck stop folks and the very rural, but CB communications was also very practical. No one has tweeted to me that there was a speed trap around the bend.

Amazingly, that will be my reaction as well. The ability to broadcast txt messages indiscriminately, and read the txts of others broadcast thusly. Just doesn't do anything for me.

The exhaust of automobiles is a very significant source of the terrible air quality in American cities. Americans breathe the air in those cities...... Right?

But you can, and we do all the time. The amount of effort you put into protecting them from themselves, that is the cost to all of us, should be done so as to achieve the greatest "good" to society as a whole, not to try and achieve perfection. Speed limits protect you from yourself. Seat belts. Curve signs. The ban on general ownership of machine guns and artillery etc. Building codes, electrical codes. We could just let the market take care of all that stuff as well, but it doesn't really work that way.

Simplistic. Surcharges on fuel would be a way to make the owners of bigger, heavier more polluting vehicles pay their fair share of the costs of roads and bridges, etc. The idea that all taxes should be to fund the government and that we should let the market allocate resources is a good one, but nothing is that simple.

The whole point of "the cloud" network computing, etc. Whatever we're calling it these days. Is that they want to keep charging us over and over for the same thing. They want us to rent everything from them. The computing platform, the phone, the device, the apps, as a result they can even own our data. Have fun with that if you want to a digital serf. You can opt not to use a lot of these gadgets, they're bad business models, and one can be a nerd without owning all those faddish gadgets.

Get off my lawn.