Some public school administrators are largely a joke.

And so are some private school administrators. Private schools can mostly be divided into expensive, mostly secular, ones, which do well; Catholic schools, which do on average a little worse than public schools, and conservative religious schools, which are generally crap.

Private schools tend to be run more like companies and lousy administrators don't last.

Where does this myth that private sector companies somehow are run competently and effectively come from? Have people not worked

I don't really get why, the built-in browser and Dolphin are exactly the same thing.

The built-in browser on my Epic 4G doesn't support the useful extensions that Dolphin does. Text selection for copy/paste also works better under Dolphin.

Wrong....There are a number of generic traits which show an extremely high correlation with psychopathy. That doesn't mean they ARE a psychopath, however

You say I'm wrong, then go on to agree with me. You seem to be confused. I suggest you re-read my post and contemplate the difference between "one-to-one correspondence" and "extremely high correlation".

It would also be nice if you provided a link to appropriate research. My quick googling finds just one study of one genetic trait that corresponds to psychopathic tendencies only in those who grow up poor . If you've got other research, please link to it. Thanks.

I think socialism is about the only likely outcome of all of this

What in the world does an economic system based where workers and the people, rather than a state-backed owning class, control the means of production, have to do with anything under discussion here? Or do you just have no idea what "socialism" means?

So perhaps some genetic traits can be secret but others should be divulged under certain circumstances. No psychopaths in political office, as police or teachers.

Thank you for perfectly illustrating the danger here.

There is no genetic trait that corresponds one-to-one with psychopathy. There may (or may not) be certain genetic traits associated with a increased risk of psychopathy. As this distinction is pretty much lost on the general public, it is important that we do on brand people who have a greater change of developing psychopathy as actually being psychopaths. This is why genetic privacy is crucially important.

If there's a problem, change the law...

And changing the law is exactly what's under consideration here. May I direct your attention to the fine headline. Thank you.

I wouldn't want you driving me if you kept on fishing a phone out of your pocket to tell you the time.

I wouldn't want you driving me if you kept looking at your wrist, rather than the road, to tell you the time.

This is a very stupid argument.

A few observations:

1) We don't need constant updates on the time.

2) Clocks are everywhere, including cars. That wasn't always the case, some of us are old enough to remember when a clock in a car was a luxury item. But now they're built in to pretty much everything electronic, so watches are less necessary than they were a few decades ago.

3) Some people have an social/emotional attachment to wristwatches, apparently using them as some sort of status broadcast. I don't understand that bit of primate behavior, but the use of wristwatch as ornamentation by some subcultures should be noted and may account for some of the bizarre vehemence in discussions of this topic.

4) A clip watch is the best solution, anyone not using one is wrong -- I have spoken. :-)

How does a phone in your pocket tell you the time?

There's a reason wristwatches supplanted pocket ones.

On the other hand, a watch in your pocket or clipped to a belt loop doesn't irritate your wrist. Once I started typing on computers regularly, in my teens, I started to find wristwatches really annoying. (Yes, I'm old enough that computers were not found in people's homes when I was a kid. Get off my lawn.)

I use a clip watch on a belt loop. It's about as convenient to access a clip watch as a wristwatch. Also a handy place to keep a mini LED flashlight, or anything else small. When I want to bring the fancy,I have a nice pocket watch, which does take an additional moment to access, but won't get banged into things.

Visible firearms do cause a disturbance, and it makes perfect sense that they can make an officer feel uncomfortable, because they are an existential threat to the officer.

Cop's firearms do cause a disturbance, and it makes perfect sense that they can make an citizen feel uncomfortable, because they are an existential threat to the citizen.

I'm more worried about guns in the hands of cops -- members of an organization with a demonstrated tendency towards illegitimate violence -- than guns in the hands of a random citizen.

the good ones won't step up to do anything about the few "bad" ones that there are.

They are not good cops, then. Any cop who know about a crime and fails to report it because that crime was committed by one of his fellow officers, isn't doing his job, and is therefore by definition a bad cop.