Actually, I think that useful computation per joule is all the rage all over the device size scale. See? This one works everywhere.

I think you've just solved the age-old puzzle of why species in different places had different color patterns. So far, everyone thought it was due to adaptive radiation and stuff, but of course, that is nonsense. Everyone sane knows that God created the world 6e3 years ago or so. Therefore, what logically happened was that birds migrated using the patterns on their bodies as maps, with the same-patterned birds ending up in the same place. Makes perfect sense!

Just don't forget to pick a trireme with wing mirrors.

Most exaggerated phrase ever

Kids these days. No respect for your elders. Now, get the hell off his lawn.

How many percent of the population in the hippies period actually qualified as hippies?

The portrayal of behavioral addiction as just being due to the addict being weak-willed has not been current for several decades. If you know any psychologists, I would suggest asking them about the subject -- it's quite interesting. There are methods of treating addiction, but telling them to just quit doing it is very rarely successful.

Most addicts initially made poor choices to get themselves into the situation that they are in. But once they are, they need help to get back out. We don't deny people medical care if they injure themselves in pursuit of an extreme sport, for instance -- so why deny people medical help to recover from an addiction?

This is absolutely ludicrous. This happens in *every* generation. Every generation says to their children: "we were better mannered, we didn't have premarital sex, we didn't have teenage sex, people didn't do drugs, we worked harder...". Apparently, they also had shorter memories (and in those case when they actually did work longer and harder (19th century), they had to because the productivity was lousy).

Also, I've noticed that "work ethic" is a shibboleth of religious wackos. Any other, normal, non-sociopathic person simply values high output per unit of effort without feeling the need to make such a fuss about it. It's simple economy.

An addiction is not just a "time sink." It's an addiction when you can't stop a behavior, even when it is harming your life.

Acknowledging that some people are addicted to internet usage, and need help, is not the same as saying that the internet is "bad." There's no need to get so defensive about it.

It's a time-honored tradition that the developing country gets screwed by the rich foreign investors. ;-) So no, that would be ridiculous and unprecedented.

For some of us, the thought of 72 hours without a book - or some written text in general - is equally frightening. Also, the authors are apparently confused by the distinction between online games and the Internet at large.

That's not even necessary. Seeing that pigeon starts with pig-, all pigeons are automatically suspect in the eyes of Egyptian authorities.

Hide! Spies of Sarucohen!

I agree 100%. I actually moved to a better town to get my kids into a better school. The local school from my former home town had a crackhead blow his brains out on the playground. The kids found him the next day inside a playground feature. Allison can eat a bag of dicks.

And hey! If you really want to have a better school experience for everyone - take 5% of the defense budget and put it into schools. It would probably be 100 times the money they're used to having.

Garbage in, garbage out. So forgive me if I don't feel like playing. I'd like my kids to wind up better than the baggy pants wearing drug addled dipshits from my previous home town.

And good luck to you. I hope you get your children into the best place they can be.

This (^^^) is a nonsensical comment. There are certainly many things you can measure in psychology. Why, according to your views, apparently any study of human feelings themselves is impossible simply because feelings are involved! Your examples are meaningless as well. Science is primarily a very specific method for gaining knowledge, which your "examples" don't reflect at all. This has nothing to do with numbers.