No, not strange. Just because I watch the occasional youtube video doesn't mean that I'm storing any of my stuff in the cloud. If I want to keep a copy, I use a Firefox extension to make a local copy, which is then "mine."

Same here in the USofA. However, milk used for cheese, ice cream, yogurt or other dairy products doesn't get the Vitamin D treatment.

Well, if that's true, maybe you should talk to your mother about cooking more nutritious meals.

These include vitamin D in the elderly for bone strength...

A little over a year ago I took a fall and ended up with compression fractures of my backbone. It turns out that I was both low on Vitamin D and had developed osteoporosis. Right now, I'm taking Vitamin D, Calcium and Magnesium, all by prescription, trying to rebuild my bones. If you have any real reason to worry about bone loss, you probably want to be taking all three, because your bones need them. Of course, if you're healthy, taking them just in case is more likely to enrich your urine than anything else.

Why should I store any of my media (or other data, for that matter) anyplace else? Storing it in the cloud only works for as long as your cloud provider stays in business, and what I store is my business and nobody else's.

Back in '72, when I was in the Navy, I worked on a radar-guided anti-aircraft missile. (Never mind which one.) Its on-board guidance was designed so that if you jammed the signals, the missile would home on the jammer instead. Not quite the same as what you're talking about, but similar.

I've never bought or connected a mouse to any computer I've owned. I've always used trackballs (not trackpads, TYVM) and find them far, far more reliable than any mouse I've ever used at work.

A dirty bomb isn't a crime of opportunity, any more than another type of bomb. Let's not pretend otherwise.

Maybe not, but when the theft was discovered, nobody had any way of knowing if the thieves knew what they were taking. I think that the authorities were afraid that it was stolen specifically for the cobalt, and if so, if somebody was planning to build a dirty bomb for some insane reason.

That was my thought. I wonder if the perps heard some of the reports of what they'd taken, realized what they had and abandoned it.

I don't know how true it is, but I've been told that one of the reasons for absurdly detailed job requirements is the way HR drones translate what the people doing the hiring say into what they look for in applicants. That is, if the manager says, "It would be nice if we could get somebody who was familiar with $FOO," HR will translate that into "Must have 2 years experience with $FOO." The manager might not have a problem with training the new hire, but because of the way HR re-writes the requirements, nobody that doesn't already have the training will be called in for an interview.

Absolutely. I'd much rather have a pretty nurse fingering my prick instead of pricking my finger.

Diabetics take a course...

Whatever gave you that idea? When I started on insulin, I was told how much to put in the syringe, and the nurse checked to see if I'd gotten it right. I did, because when I was younger I'd been the caregiver for a diabetic friend who'd lost his sight and set up his daily injection, although I'd never needed to give them. That and a few instructions about how and where to inject were all of the training I got.

The first time I did it, I'll admit, was rather difficult, because it took a bit of time to get used to the idea. The second day was easier, and I got lucky because I put the needle in exactly the right place and didn't feel it at all. From then on, it's not been very hard at all.

Absolutely! I'm Type II, and I check my blood sugar twice a day, always using the side of a finger. Sometimes, when I'm getting my vitals taken at the doctor, they want/need to check again, and I always make sure that they don't use the pad or, in some ways worse, the fingertip. (Try typing within several hours of having blood taken from your fingertip, and you'll know why.) In one case, I actually had to demand to speak to a supervisor after an arrogant tech insisted that he knew better than I did about where to take the blood. He ended up getting chewed out, doing things the way I wanted and apologizing (probably the worst punishment) for not listening to me.

"It's not evil until you're caught."

Living in cities under sea level? That went well for New Orleans didn't it?

Actually, it has. New Orleans was founded in 1718, almost three centuries ago, and it's mostly recovered by now from the worst civil engineering disaster in US history.