Apple should teach teachers to use a computer first. Biggest help desk request we get: Can I get a shortcut to the email on my desktop?" We use G-Suite. Teachers struggle selecting the correct printer - each teacher has a laser printer. I see way too many flash drives filled with links to files; not the files. If I ask a teacher "Where are your Word documents?" The teacher will open Word :"There they are". No, that's a list of recently opened docs. All this in front of a class of students. If students see teachers struggle with the basics that has to be a turn-off. When a computer takes too long to boot the computer is labelled as old or slow when in the background the network is doing its thing. What good is a new highway if few know how to drive?

Not just homicides; suicides too. Guns make deadly violence too easy. An emotionally distraught person may see an easy exit with a gun. No gun? Well then it might be more difficult if a ladder and and rope is needed and oh crap what knot to use - prolly have to look that up. Just sayin' the harder it is to do something the less likely it is to be done.

In my school district the biggest help desk request is to have a shortcut to the email system placed on the desktop. We use GSuite. Never mind paper jams or broken ethernet cables or student destroyed chrome books. Think English teacher Ms. Jane is going to replace a pencil-through the display or swap out a chrome book top case? Like she has time for that. One day, perhaps, teachers will have to supply their own equipment... and that day will be when public schooling no longer exists. So maybe in the education field he's not far off?

Death and taxes... for the poor.

The blades can be re-purposed into skateboard parks.

We've been wrong before. What if there is no water ice in these dark crater bottoms? Or perhaps this ice is spread-out or not easily available? Before blowing billions of dollars on this project let's hope this resource is a bird-in-the-hand; not based on a handful of kicked-up OH ions.

Not only this but a network engineer in my school district has taken it upon himself to block all other browsers from effectively working on our network. Having decreed "We are a google only network". Has even blocked Duckduckgo. Yes, we are a GAFE district. It has come to a point where I over heard a grade 7 student say she had a gmail account but didn't know what email was - when she was asked to send an email to he teacher.

We aren't fully using the intelligence to which we have access now. We we could use is more compassion and empathy.

Let us not forget newer players: The Koreans. My Korean built $9K 2005 Chevy Aveo is still going strong after 230K + miles. Always a delight, while in the Aveo, to follow a new-ish Cadillac or Lincoln, and just can't help but notice that fancy new car has a defective or dead tail light. Yes, small potatoes. but for a $60-$70-$80K vehicle one would expect the tail light to work... it's just that I see it all the time in rush hour traffic.

Will this stop exiting shoppers who have "sampled" fresh produce? Will the attendant make the grazing shopper pay for that grape? Now that they've told us the cameras monitor changes in gaze and gait for could not someone practice theft techniques - to perfect a theft without altering known behaviors? Do people from different cultures exhibit different bodily movements when preparing to commit a theft? But, no cash in the store no cash robberies.

Prognosticators have been wrong before. While it is easy to poke fun at the unusual who knows, perhaps in a few years dental floss will come with AI. The thought of not having AI floss will be unthinkable.

Comcast got me $15.95 for an internet connection kit.The tech said there would be no internet access until this kit (piece of velcro, length of coax, and a splitter) were installed. I already had a cable modem; everything was working before this junk arrived. Guess I was lucky.

Likely someone at JPL uploaded all mission data to Google drive; now they can't find it because no one remembers what they named the file.

Lucky to be alive; still rattled. Both are likely to be employed; both will not be 100% on task the next day at work. Who pays for the loss of productivity - a loss that could persist? Sleepless nights? This is an event not soon to be forgotten by those falsely accused.

Was it just last week some Russian official nailed it, saying North Korea is reacting to US provocations? The US and other international players have been screwing with North Korea for a long time - pushing all the right buttons to make it appear as though NK is crazy. Think of North Korea as a porcupine: small, almost invisible; poke it and it will stick it to you. https://dissidentvoice.org/201...