Well, if someone has to spell out the obvious for you:

I enjoy watching the cognitive dissonance when they pick them up. They, at once, are either angry or ashamed for having had their phones taken away, but then they see it has been charged and their faces turn to grudgingly happy. It’s the little things...

As a high school teacher, I can say without a doubt one can shut down both locked iOS and locked Android phones. I confiscate about half a dozen daily from kids who are using them in class and lock them before handing them over, shut them down, put them on a charger, and return them at the end of the class period.

It seems counterintuitive to a) strive to show women as equals to men, and b) continue to report “women’s” records in gender-neutral activities, such as spacewalking.

The problem, IMO, is that when the government gets involved, people assume the issue is handled. Then, they are very surprised when the extremely fallible and easy-to-work-around government regulators neglect to protect the public.

... triggered by the US Housing market crash, which was brought on by unscrupulous misuse of governmental banking and lending policies.

This is exactly right. The $19Trillion going to clean energy by governmental fiat is now NOT going to other things, like cancer research or better cars or better agriculture or wherever the invisible hand of the free market would take it.

Um, no, *you* fuck off.

How is this tech news, Gizmodo?

Oh, yes. The two-year-old who is throwing a tantrum and kicking at your shins should be given the lollipop he wants.

“Francois”

Intercepting a high, fast flier from the ground is a fairly challenging task. The target is in the mid to upper 30s and doing about .84 IMN. If you’re behind him, you’ll be struggling to climb and accelerate and run him down before you run yourself out of gas. Even if you’re in front of him, making the intercept…

In your article, you frequently compared positive G and “eyeball back” G (the kind you feel in an accelerating car) without differentiating between the two. The two have very different effects, in terms of what they do to a human body under high G loads.

So, there’s all this space junk up there, orbiting around. Obviously, if its orbit decays enough to touch atmosphere, it will further slow and descend until it becomes a meteor and ceases to be a problem (an orbital one, anyway.)

I have to say, when I’m travelling alone and seated in the jet, watching the stream of passengers making their way down the aisle, I am always hoping for a small, well-groomed person to be my seat neighbor. With few exceptions, this ideal person is a woman. Our shoulders don’t touch. Her elbow can sit aft and mine…

Maybe if, rather than being shouted down before they can say a word, they were given the opportunity to speak, you might be able to better understand your fascination.

Technically, “red” country. Buh bye.

When a person tries to kill herself, is the recommended remedy to give her what she claims she lacks that would supposedly make them happy/complete/not suicidal anymore? Because, this is a very dangerous precedent.

Amen. As an SMU grad who was there for the Death Penalty, it sickens me to see Penn State back on top after only a slap on the wrist for repeated instances of institutionally-condoned, homosexual pedophilic rape. My school, by comparison, is still wallowing below .500 and is only, now, 25 years later showing signs…

It just doesn’t sound very funny.