But kids CAN play with things like this:
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg21929275.800-kindergarten-coders-can-program-before-they-can-read.html

PETER
Ok, will do. This isn't so bad, huh?
Making bucks, getting exercise, working outside.

LAWRENCE
Fuckin' A.

This whole scenario is crazy anyway. I could understand the mistake of the doors remaining locked from the outside, but shouldn't some of the doors already have a release from the inside that people use when the building's locked after hours? Otherwise, people could be locked in all night just because they worked late.

Do people that age just drop dead?

Suicide does the trick.

Most cars sold in the USA in the 1980s did have onboard computers... they just weren't OBD-II yet. If you have EFI of any variety, it's guaranteed you have one.

1980, in general, but I believe some luxury makes used rudimentary computers before then. Cars during the 1970s had no ECU, but electronic ignition replaced points. <oldfart>I bought a replacement electronic ignition module for my LTD at Kmart for $35. Those were the days! </oldfart>

Carburetors? Finicky, complicated beasts! I've made it a policy not to trust any newfangled internal combustion engine! *climbs into Doble*

MTBE is being phased on in favor of... you guessed it... ethanol. We're getting 15% worse mileage because of the inferior energy density of ethanol, not MTBE. MTBE is being phased out because once or twice, some idiot allowed some to get into our drinking water and... birth defects? Cancer? Nope, the water tastes bad. No other ill effect has been proven. Because the water tastes bad when MTBE gets in it (apparently, filters and RO don't work anymore), we've sold out to Big Corn.

What's the purpose of the regulations requiring a large minimum delivery charge on private letters to ensure that the post office can easily undercut them? How about the monopoly on mail box delivery?

The bulk mail envelope didn't earn them only 25 cents. They earned thousands, perhaps millions over time, from a business that elected to use the USPS bulk mail service for marketing. In return, the USPS promised to use its best effort to deliver the mail. Just like raising taxes, reducing services is not a purely profitable endeavor. If the post office decides it's not worth delivering your bulk mail to the residence, you might decide it's not worth using this method of marketing anymore.

It's just business.

Your repeated ignorance and vulgarity really makes we wish I hadn't already posted in this discussion. Modding you down would have been more productive.

The budget was never balanced, unless you think counting Social Security tax receipts as part of the general fund is OK. It has been done since FDR, and it's sleazy accounting that would get a CFO fired.

I suggest you stop being partisan and learn to have a healthy skepticism of all politicians. Carrying the water for any party encourages them to continue abusing us.

A Republican President signed it, but the bill was sponsored by more Dems than Rs and both houses were Dem controlled. We don't have a list of yeas and nays, so I can't say for sure but it looks like a bipartisan effort.

The team proposes that with the right training, it could be possible to help psychopaths activate their 'empathy switch', which could bring them a step closer to rehabilitation.

But why would they want to? It's far more advantageous for them to continue pretending they care about others.

So you think there's more platinum used in catalytic converters than gold in jewelry, electronics, aerospace, and medicine? Gold reacts with damn near nothing. That has great value.