And if someone is taking notes during the previews, with the phone kept low and unobtrusive, what would you do?

As long as we're allowed to use it on the party's politicians when they inevitably start trying to pull the wool over our eyes.

Just out of curiosity, do you enforce this during the previews? I don't make or take calls in the theatre, but I do make notes during the previews about the upcoming movies I think I might be interested in. Once the previews end, the phone goes off, but cell phones nowadays aren't just phones, they are often our memory.

So, is this going to bring a new meaning to the term "computer virus"? As in an actual biological virus might affect the hardware.

Sure enough, we're there.

Pretty soon the word "racism" will be devoid of all meaning, due to being constantly diluted and trivialized by constantly being used where it does not apply.

What makes you think we haven't actually gotten there already?

The badge access was probably run by a Windows computer.

Wow. A message from an alternate universe.

Well, not for long, no.

But we weren't trying to prevent other people from standing on the same shoulders.

Lee will have to engage an attorney to deal with this, which will eat up a shit load more of his time for no good reason.

Well, it looks like Lee has already gotten at least one offer from a lawyer to handle this pro-bono.

Is this anything like the game of Rouge, where you've been miniaturized and have to descend the layers of a woman's handbag? Watch out for things wrapped in tissue, they're deadly.

That's if the SMS can actually be sent to Google Voice. I've run into situations where SMSs can't be sent to Google Voice. Just today, I was using a web site that wants to verify your account by sending you an SMS. If I put in my Google Voice number, the site came back with an error. And this is not the first time I've run into this.

Good luck getting an evidence-based culture developed in the face of the entrenched Bulverism of modern political discourse. Even more generally, we don't argue over the issues at hand, we argue over why the other side shouldn't be listened to (and Bulverism is just one tool in that arsenal). Not even the geeks or the scientists are immune. If you really want to move to an evidence-based culture, you're going to first have to pull people's focus off of defeating the opposition, and onto actually investigating the truth or falsity of particular issues. As C. S. Lewis put it "Until Bulverism is crushed, reason can play no effective part in human affairs". There's your assignment. Get to it.