You don't understand what a "monopoly" is, do you? Look it up, you might be surprised!

You forget that, in the USA, corporations _are_ people. Therefore they aren't made up of people, because they are their own living and thinking entity.

Say you're a carpenter. You go home after work, go to your garage, and make a cabinet. You made this cabinet with your tools and your time. Say you sell that cabinet. Are you required to give your employer the money you made on that cabinet? Hell no.

This is why I never understood the whole tech sector employer thing of "anything YOU make is OURS."

I don't know what it was like when you went to school, but in the high school I went to the teachers didn't have much scheduled time to work on such things. You got a half day every couple of months. You got one "free" period most days, but not every day, which was pretty much your lunch break. What scheduled time do you speak of? Both of my parents were teachers. You know what those half days consisted of? Mostly meetings. Again, not much scheduled time to work on lesson plans and the such. Teachers worked on all that stuff at home. Scheduled time my pink behind...

So they made a USB 3.0 flash drive that has a decent amount of space on it, priced it at a multiple more than the competition, and that's it? It doesn't even come with Windows 8, which is the purpose of buying this product. Great story brought to you by /., now advertising products that many will never, ever need (or want)!

I'll agree that swimming in a pool is one of the safer sports you can be in. For the sake of argument, change that pool to the ocean, and all bets are off. People do swim for sport in oceans, so it's a valid argument.

Anyway, taking in a lungful of water and getting pneumonia as a result isn't fun. Missing the wall that you're supposed to turn on and instead going into it head-first isn't fun either. Competitive swimming is hard stuff. You use your entire body to go as fast as you can, sometimes for as long as you can. Anyone who has done sports can tell you that when your body gets really, really run down from the competition you're in, strange things can happen. Misjudgments happen ("where's that wall? shit!" *headcrack*). Tiredness can cause you to not get your head out of the water fully and take in a big old lung of water instead of air. Even a small bit of water in the lungs can lead to sickness.

But I make these points just for the argument. People say swimming is one of the safest things in the world to do, and I have to come up with something that says, no, it's not. But to argue with myself, I had a number of swim team friends in high school and I can't remember anything really bad ever happening to any of them because of swimming. Every other sport had its broken bones, sprains, concussions (back then those didn't matter so much), and the rare ligament tear. Believe me, once you see someone go down with a ACL tear 15 feet away from you, you never want that to happen to yourself.

So what you're saying is.. "I've never heard of it. I'm smart as a whip. If I haven't heard it, it can't be true!" All you had to do was go to Google (heard of it?) and type in "soccer player brain damage" and... well, I won't ruin the surprise for you.

Well, I hope your son never plays soccer beyond the Recreational level. Part of the game is heading the ball, which can travel quite fast. It may be a very light ball compared to other sports, but remember your physics lessons: it doesn't matter what it weighs if it's moving fast enough. Pro soccer players (the linked article is about a pro sport, yeah?) often have brain damage from taking hundreds of shots to the noggin from a ball traveling 60+ mph; and that's the low end of a kick, there are players who can kick for 80+ mph, and a few who claim 90+ mph.
I think you're suffering from a condition called "over-protective parent disorder." ALL sports have risk involved. Some more than others, yes, but the two examples you give are also dangerous. ACL/MCL tears and ankle problems (along with the above example) are major parts of soccer. Swimming? Drowning doesn't seem to be very fun- and yes, it does happen.

Really? I've heard people in conversation say just that. They wouldn't take more money because it meant they would have to pay x% more in taxes, so they stuck to the lower amount because in the end, they would have made more. Again, that's just overheard conversations from years of working in restaurants, so I don't know if those people ever did go for a bigger payout or not. I'm sure that if they talked to an accountant they could have figured out how to compensate for the higher tax bracket and make their higher earnings pay more.

You do know you don't need a license to drive, right? I mean, it's legally required, but you don't need to swipe it through a reader to authorize you to a car. All you need is a key and the vehicle it goes to, and you can drive. They could take away a license on the third DUI and a person will still drive around and go anywhere they want, racking up more DUIs.

Oops, typo. it should read: "*anything* that suddenly appears in the vehicle's path, not just humans."
They put preview on postings for a reason, I guess I should take advantage of that...

You're assuming that the car will only recognize humans when determining whether to stop or slow down. What about animals that run out in front of the car, such as a deer? Would the car not stop or slow down because it's not human? I should hope they build in enough intelligence into the car to be able to stop or slow down for *anything* that suddenly appears in the vehicle's path, just humans. That includes such a thing as a moving "shrub."