Next they're gonna make a game out of finding out who's going to those demonstrations and protests.

That one will be a blast. I'm sure there are lots of techies who will gladly play that game.

Or maybe a game where you get to control a mech and use a nerve agent on the protesters.

It's my understanding that this is happening with no user error at all.

Now you know that's not true. The article and summary specifically make it clear that bad information is being input by users

Universities don't care about educating students

Universities cannot care because they are not human beings, they are institutions.

It's up to the teachers to care. This is my belief as a lifelong teacher in higher education.

I don't mean to demean your point, but anthropomorphization of institutions, corporations, governments, etc has made it easier for us to get into the situation we're in today, at least in developed nations.

In the US, institutions are supposed to care, corporations have human rights and religious beliefs and can be involved in elections and government is ascribed all manner of human attributes. It cheapens the human attributes and it gives non-human entities an exalted status they do not deserve.

If poor people are overweight, then they just need to spend more time with their personal trainers.

Clearly, it's a matter of laziness.

and thank you for reading this week's episode of "Taking The Analogy Too Seriously"

join us next week when "hearing hoofbeats and thinking of zebras instead of horses" will be used to illuminate the principle of Occam's Razor

and DavidClarkeHR will ask "Are we on the Serengeti Plains of Tanzania? Because if we're on the Serengeti, I think this ruins the analogy"

But really and truly, nationalized health care>entrenched government corruption.... hell, I could even learn to yell at hockey games.

Just because the US is in third place is no reason to gloat.

It might not be so simple as that: people who travel by different means are travelling a different set of routes:

If you embark on a mass transit system you are effectively traversing a graph with a bunch of nodes that are (as a factor of time of day/day of week, rather than distance) more or less frequently linked to one another. When the link is available, taking it will get you to the next node in an amount of time only very weakly correlated with distance (the bigger variable usually being the number of stops made, the closest equivalent to 'traffic' and the biggest drag on theoretical maximum speed).

Similarly, pedestrians are likely acutely aware of distance, because they have to walk it and because they move slowly; but are probably a poor source of information on things like one-way streets, traffic signals, etc. because they move more or less freely except at road crossings.

Why would it even be expected that people using different types of transportation would treat the same information as salient? In other news, people who fly exhibit a poor understanding of hiking conditions...

Well, most of the time it's pretty prosaic; but it is one of those diseases that doesn't need to kill you to ruin your day. Probably more importantly the vaccine is prosaic (and less unpleasant) even more often, which makes taking the risk seem like a dubious choice.

A couple of months ago, I switched to AIMP. I hate iTunes like sin itself. Never liked anything about it. If I didn't have to use it to put files onto my wife's iPad, I wouldn't allow it anywhere in my house. I can't believe that in 2013 she can only use an iPad properly with one computer.

AIMP even works with most Winamp plug-ins, has a clean interface and light footprint. The skin I'm using has some nice meters, a proper equalizer and everything I'd want in a player.

I'd still be using Winamp, but I'm pissed that it's going away, so I just decided to uninstall it once and for all.

The potential for encephalitis can be a bit of a downer, even in the nonlethal cases. As much as I think 'neurological sequelae' is a cool phrase, it isn't one you want to see in your file.

Which is all the more reason why the US should have opposed the apartheid government and supported Mandela.

It didn't happen because Maggie Thatcher was making money off her husbands investments in the apartheid regime.

You can be as suspicious as you'd like. Mandela sought help from the West before going to the Soviet Union.

Margaret Thatcher's investments in apartheid South Africa made it a no-go. So, Mandela, unlike Reagan and Thatcher, did what he thought was best for the people of his country, black and white.

they don't

this idea is stupid

I don't particularly like the Tories. I think they're greedy and selfish, but one thing they have is economic competence and credibility.

You can read the newspaper and you still believe this? "Competence and credibility"?

If that is the case, then why is it considered common knowledge by now that the core of the actual armed resistance are jihadists?

What makes you think this is "common knowledge"?

Everything I've read shows the opposite. Maybe your common knowledge and my common knowledge are different.