Your 3-year-old daughter is not setting up VPNs.

The reason your school hasn't gone full-bore with technology is because technology doesn't really revolutionize education.

Plus, it makes no sense to spend time and money implementing RSS for parents unless all the parents will use it.

Paper forms are the lowest common denominator and will be around for a long time.

This is the kind of embarrassing sophomoric musing that most people would be ashamed to read let alone write. Let's cut this guy some slack, in 5 or 10 years he's going to feel really stupid.

I have long suspected that phone service would be almost free if the government didn't force me to subsidize low-income subscribers.

What rubbish, next you'll be telling me that we should teach probability and statistical inference in high school.

It sounds like this regimen could be incorporated into sex, or masturbation if you're creative.

preemptive "slashdot readers don't have sex, lol"

Here's a breakdown of how it will work:

1. People act in their own rational self interest and stop buying Sony products.
2. Sony runs out of money, disappears
3. Other companies compete to fill the gap

This is economics 101, people!

With all the damage they've been doing to their reputation the invisible hand is surely about to come down, hard.

I bet you think Neil Gaiman came up with the concept of Gods, too.

Just listen to some of the shit he says to Terry Gross:

http://www.erim.net/archives/gene-simmons-and-terry-gross-inteview

You have. Thunderbird includes archival folders and a Lucene search engine.

It's anti-social to object to meaningless phrasing?

Unless the F-16s are going to be running on something that the average person would identify as "fat" rather than "jet fuel" then the headline as written is pretty stupid.

Even if a fuel is made from animal fats, it stops being fat when its refined into fuel. If my faucet breaks and I melt some ice cubes, it would be similarly stupid to say "Ice has replaced water in my glass."

The oil is being replaced by oil. This story is insulting to the intelligence.

It is true that some individuals have and continue to achieve the things you mention. However, the parent is making a critique of our behavior as a group.

While I neither agree nor disagree, your hasty reply intended to dismiss as pessimistic an opinion that hits close to home only seems to make his point wouldn't you say user 465911?

Let me counter your anecdote with two of my own. In the house of one of my childhood friends, multiple TVs were on almost 24 hours a day. You could not speak to any member of that family while in the same room as one of those TVs without their gaze migrating away from you and back to the TV.

Needless to say, this was not a healthy family and it did not stay together long.

My parents severely restricted my access to TV and incidentally I went to better schools and I earn more money than my childhood friends who had TVs in their rooms.

What do these anecdotes have to do with the effects of TV on 2-year-olds? Not a lot.