A good teacher would put you and me in different classrooms.

That is so cool. Hey, crazy/happy slingshot man, can you make it concealable?

Nice. Can you next share what over the counter hardware items can be inhaled to cause a high?

If we could simply do away with articles and comments that treat matters of taste as absolutes, it would not only improve the discourse immensely, it would weed out the arrogant folk who lack the imagination to deal with other people's thoughts as being worthy of respect. Where what you like. Nobody possesses the…

Ha ha. Way to go, Sam. Based on the comments below, you hit a nerve right where you were aiming. You totally flushed out all of the blabbers. BTW, most of the annoying phone talkers I've experienced are housewives sharing their whereabouts. "I'm in the produce aisle now." I'm always struck by the thought that…

I stopped worrying about dying young when I turned 50.

Well said. The beauty of PC is the user is completely in control. Removing bloatware is pretty straight forward. As you say, all technology should be as user controlled as a PC.

It sounds like you hold out some hope that Google could pull it off. I agree it would take some miracle or major tech breakthrough. But I also think it is clear that whoever controls communication/information controls everything. So I'm praying for the miracle. At least till now, Google seems on the side of citizen…

Good point. The corporations are able to rip off the general public because the majority is gullible and uneducated and mostly could care less. But what if a group of those who do care formed their own carrier? I think that's what we were hoping Google was up to. What do you think would happen? I have my own…

I'm tempted to try this just to become important enough to attract the wraith of Jeff Bezos. But I thought he was still alive! Hmm. All the more interesting. Or maybe I would just get his wrath. Which is still probably worth something for my self esteem.

Ain't science wonerful! Now the real skill is to use this technology while texting and driving.

Serious movie goers look back on the year with gratitude for the truly great motion picture: Transformers, Dark of the Moon.

Around here the driving texters don't so much have their heads up there sweatshirts as another popular dark place.

I wouldn't judge you. Just don't try it while I'm driving while texting under sweatshirt cover. I mean, I already have enough on my plate there.

Just pull your sweatshirt over your head. Problem solved.

Thank you. A person who can rethink and accept another point of view instead of becoming argumentative and defensive is a rare one. I have always considered that quality to be indicative of the highest order of intelligence. For that reason, I enjoyed our conversation. For the record, I love all the Bond movies…

This is what disturbs us the most! The public has begun to believe that no standards of objectivity really exist. In fact, reason and the Scientific Method have led the human race out of superstition and into at least the hope of enlightenment. The standards for realistic inquiry and reasonable discourse exist, my…

please, just don't use the above apology as an excuse to ignore the conventions of objectivity. I agree with all you wrote, it just worries me a bit because our culture seems to be drifting far away from fact based reporting. Fewer and fewer people even know the difference between fact and opinion. If I want to…

Objective evidence concerning the superiority or inferiority of any artistic endeavor doesn't really exist in the same way as, say, the speed of a given hard drive. The science of evaluating art is known as art criticism. To be clear, most movie critics don't really apply the tenets of art criticism, though they…

Not at all. As long as you present your opinion as an opinion, we don't have a problem. But the author of the article took the same stance by presenting your opinion as more than that. To avoid future entanglements, since they seem to disturb you, stay away from phrases like "the Brosnan movies sucked". You will…