In the realm of stats on all the bad things that are possible, some new "stats" are emerging in the realms of studies being done using ArCGIS and other technologies - and instead of the models used to substantiate "current" EPA rules/parameters and thresholds which were based on a single human, single town, etc... These new studies are looking broadly at entire populations, whole cities and towns when it comes to affects on water, sewage, and so on and the "collective affects" not a mile or two from a site, but downstream, other towns and cities and in some cases affects to other states. An example of this is some of the studies of wastewater in large cities like St Louis, or Grants Pass in Oregon & practically most countries in the EU where it's used extensively to review for the presence of Covid in the waste treatment systems. In the EU - many countries established stronger methods to tamp down the spread where wastewater with Covid was highest. So back to the fracking topic in the article, we all know it's bad, awful and all the above. The science that even "allows" it to occur once approved is being challenged in many areas now - simply because the laws and regulations that allow it now are 1) vastly underserving the lands, people and environment limited in and 2) because of the archaic laws that don't take enough into consideration currently. The new technology and science will require the impact and affect to vastly broader areas and especially when that meets populations - and then when those in the affected populations carry it downstream, literally. Power plants, factories, pipelines, drilling, mining & the like both existing and new would be the targets - as we know that the "affect" isn't limited to the land beneath it or the sky directly above it. Enter stage right, those on the SCOTUS - which is currently in favor of removing current regulation and disallowing future science and regulations from being updated, let alone created - because they know where it'll lead. Instead, they're digging in and have all commented to the fact that corporations would continue to win and people, will lose more than ever. Keep in mind that corporations are now on par with people now (Citizens United) -so the next dominoes will fall when it comes to considerations as to the fallout in the rivers, lands, peoples in our country. This battle is relatively easy - do a better job in determining the overall affects of a given project, particular to environmental and human impacts, BEFORE being allowed to build. Regulation is the layer that takes "us" into equation. This is the opposite of how it's been done today however & and we continue to see the ramifications. Fracking is one prime example, cause where else would you see fracking chems in drinking water that can also catch fire. Or, living in Flint much of these 50+ years - seeing it happen and continue to be politicized is a showcase on how these battles will are playing out - with corporations and politics winning and people continuing to lose

Do men still get to buy the "blue pill" ? Simply ridiculous where were headed - separate church and state otherwise we'll have battles and mini civil wars against our own citizens No company should ever be able to wield power like this - hence the reason why we needed to take the reigns over health care (no one wanted to do anything about it)

If there was ever a case to NOT allow lobbying, corporations and the like - this is a prime example of what NOT to do. When an entire state decides to ignore science for the benefit of ANY industry - good or bad, it's corruption. We will have to then assume that either by changing the law via legislation and/or forcefully rejecting non-science ideology, can we ever hope to move this country forward. I can see it now - "kids, you'll not want to live in Wyoming - pretty place and all, but the water isn't drinkable, and all the animals have died - but there's good jobs because of all the fracking and such. There was a law back in 2014 that passed, that said people could ignore science to benefit large corporations, so they simply re-wrote textbooks to be on "their side". Now, the beautiful state of Wyoming is nothing like it used to be...." Ultimate example of ass-holism

No matter how many certs one can get these days to carry (see below) and even if this shooter had none of them, this is the world we live in. The US (for the 1st time) topped more deaths from US handguns/weapons than ALL WARS combined that we've been involved in as a country. Nope - guns aren't a problem, it's those damned people. We have and have become so amazingly ignorant in this day and age [ Concealed Handgun License/Permit (CHL/CHP), Concealed Carry Weapons (CCW), Concealed (Defensive/Deadly) Weapon Permit/License (CDWL/CWP/CWL), Concealed Carry Permit/License (CCP/CCL), License To Carry (Firearms) (LTC/LTCF), Carry of Concealed Deadly Weapon license (CCDW), Concealed Pistol License (CPL)]

Microsoft abandoned all reason when they decided on the panel-concept as they left the typical Windows user in the dark in regards to the bread-n-butter items like: Start menu, desktop, libraries, drag-n-drop, copy/paste, control panel, etc... Instead, they rushed to production another unpolished product (WinMe, Vista) that wasn't thoughtful to the typical use. Offering an upgrade for FREE didn't solve a thing and in many regards causes more harm than good (provided you can get the upgrade to work, and after it's done, it doesn't break more things than it addresses (WiFi)). For the regular consumer, this is far beyond a daunting task. I'm recommending all my Windows users to convert to Mac ? Why ? They want to browse the web (check) They want to view/save/backup pictures and videos (check) They want intuitive and easy to use (check) They don't want to mess with Antivirus crap anymore (check) They want a fast machine (check) They don't care about upgrading the mobo, hdd, or anything else (check) They want great tech support (check, check) They're tired of changes to the OS that affect how they work (check) They don't want to fix it themselves (check) They don't use it at work [ IT depts will never move from W7] (check) They're tired of Office changes - now costing $100 (Office 365) just to keep using it (check) They're NOT gamers (check) and the list goes on... They don't care about cost (see iPad and iPhone sales) in general, and are quickly realizing the world of Android isn't quite as great as it was cracked up to be; esp. in the phone market where many devices aren't upgradeable or quickly abandoned in 1 year ( thanks Samsung, LG and HTC) Enough said... we may also very well be seeing the death of Microsoft IF W9 isn't a wholesale change that incorporates the base-required functionality that Win7 brought to the table. Hardwarde is one thing, but the OS is integral - just ask Blackberry

Seconded here - when you include the horrible ice storm just before Christmas - which shut most of the state down, and a storm a week later - and now this, what is one of the worst storms in the Midwest. And we've barely begun January.... Folks will start to realize, when more towns are destroyed with tornadoes, or buried in more hurricanes, or in this case - reliving the fantastical from 'The Day After Tomorrow'

Another attempt to get around currency.... We've seen it before and hopefully, it will be soon forgotten. To place a monetary system completely within a privatized (business) environment only provides that business the benefits and pitfalls.... Going from "physical" to "virtual" money will never fly in as much as the billionaires of the world would love to tell you otherwise WHY? Because they control the market, the playmakers and the deal brokers - it's their game.... and most normal folks don't play in that arena. We simply sit by and watch their money pile up higher and higher & bitcoin would be no different

This sounds like a story from The Onion... and the length they went to reproduce the "hack" is ridiculuous. Is this the kind of review I'll pin my decision on when deciding on getting a 5s??? NO ! Garbage reporting - worthless before it was written

Great points here - leading by example. Sooooooooooooo much of our societal issues are caused by learned behavior. In this case, kids learning the "wrong way" - typically caused by an adult of some sort. You want change, look to the parents 1st and many times you'll see why the kid is the way they are

Many folks (parents, educators, teachers, doctors - practically anyone with good common sense) in general would say the same thing.... We look around and wonder why kids have issues in school and seem to be getting worse... 15 years ago, it was the gaming industry only today, it's anything on a tablet or a smartphone, and the gaming industry making the app We've literally gone through 20+ years of providing something to kids to take their attention away from what most should be focused on We've shoved god only knows what (drugs) down their throats for the epidemic that is ADHD and labeled them along the way. Society blames teachers - If more parents took more responsibility like this, we'd be much better off in general - especially when it comes to raising kids. ANYTHING that's done too much can cause problems - doesn't have to be technology like smartphones or tablets and apps. Moderation is key to balance - and when kids are loading apps that allow them to "kill" their classmates as soon as their cameraphone targets them using it's camera, we really have to look at the WTF? factor of it all.

Congress is immoral - and mostly the GOP and TeaParty nuts causing ignoramous ideas such as this... they are, by their own definition - a terrorist organization

So now when the analyst hears traffic that Joe H. in Evansville, IN is plotting and actively planning an attack on US soil - they will not be permitted to do anything about, if indeed they can have access to that info at all? Nor will they have any capability to alert anyone - instantly throwing us back to Sept 10, 2001. Congress needs to be fired in 2014 because for the last 2.5 years they have failed at every turn in being functional or helpful... and contradict themselves at every turn. The GOP in Congress and TeaParty whack-jobs simply need to be removed, as they're clueless to anything but their own ideology, and need to head back to back-water "name their town" and re-join their cult and place themselves out of societies way.

Too bad for Samsung, since most tech articles are stating that manufacturers are planning to go small again -that the current "SUPER SIZED" effort isn't doing anything - and pointing to sales numbers of Samsung levelling off in the super sized screen category. Great news - because a 6.x" screen on a phone is RIDICULOUS!!! and is now no longer a functional phone (let me hold my netbook up to my ear - how does it look?) Stupid is as stupid does - as long as the stupid buyer bears it

Has he really done that? What do we want from our govt? We failed to act on "secret knowledge" that existed prior to 9/11 - and then it happened. We then put into play capabilities and allowed actions to occur at high levels, in an effort to prevent another attack from happening. Through two administrations now and two wars - we've not seen another attack on US soil and Bin Laden and many others like him are dead. This is precisely what we asked our govt and the soldiers fighting for our country to do. Do we really expect to read about what secret activities our nation is mixed in, spread across the media pages? for the sake of transparency? NO!!! WHY? CONTEXT - if the average citizen really thinks that only knowing half the story is ALL they need to make any informed decision, then we're all screwed. Personally, I say classify every damn thing there is - because treasonous jerks like Snowden just don't get it, especially in this day and age of giving every little piece of data you can muster. What he did was treason against the USA and as such, should be punishable under all the applicable laws on our books. If a soldier had done this - they'd be in jail If a politician had done this - they'd be investigated Flooding the worlds data wires with the intent of our military and armed forces is TREASON - it isn't FREEDOM of information, it's classified and highly sensitive info, that for all we know - will cost us more American lives today, tomorrow or down the road. End of the story

The reason is those dark-room Liberal media types that started it all - you know, the ones who live in the shadows, waiting to strike Like the ones who said Trayvon was innocent - it's so clear the Liberal media is wrong on this one. We should all be able to gun down another citizen if we think they don't belong in our neighborhood. Like the Creation Museum in Missouri - who says humans and dinos lived at exactly the same time (albeit not millions and millions of years ago) and that science has always been wrong about this...so we'll build a multi-million dollar fake-Smithsonian that will set the records straight, and align itself with the principles of several large and fairly well endowed churches (Sou(cough) Baptist, etc...) Literally - a segment of our country is living on Fantasy Island, corrupting politics, everyday society and affecting millions of people because of their assinine decisions or power they hold and based on nothing but simple faith. To call them the equal of the Muslim Brotherhood or Al Queda is no longer a stretch or "bad" to say Not a lot of people actually support the alien known as Inhofe from Oklahoma, but GOP controlled senate and House have screwed the districts in OK - that no others will ever get to serve. Common sense, nahhhhh, God tells me what's right and wrong..... every day. Science? - rubbish, the Bible already has it down in spades - who needs science Denmark looks better every day