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As I read the second article, the only role "Big Brother" has here is funding [to the tune of $15K - peanuts!] a device to measure the usage of water in hotels. After that, it's up to the free market to decide whether it's useful or not - and I'm guessing hotels will be torn between saving on...

I started out staying in the right lane, but found maintaining a steady speed often impossible, too many drivers entering/exiting forcing me to speed up or slow down to accommodate them. I try to keep speed and lane changes to a minimum, so the middle lane works for me.

It "proves" nothing at all.

I believe you nailed it: "stories" like this are meant to stir fake outrage, [and it works] in order to distract attention from what is actually being accomplished by legislators - and it works at that, too. Bravo for the vid clip, couldn't have said it better. "We are number one in just 3...

Ted Cruz has about as much chance of being POTUS as the Easter Bunny. :o

I agree that it was a very bad idea, because real genuine conversations can't be forced. Not to mention that in the setting of a retail business, where others are waiting to be served, conversation is far from a a crowd pleaser. I can't agree with dragging Obama into it, though. It's true that...

This time, I clicked on the link within the linked article, which explains that the water measurement device is a wireless contraption designed by students, and that the free market, not the government, will decide if it is a good idea. Hotels can choose to use it or not, and guests can check...

As I said: this particular incident didn't appear to be racially motivated. If the students & other protesters feel it was, there will be facts and figures to back them up. The relevance of the other incidents in the spotlight lately is that it may give people hope that their complaints of...

I prefer the middle lane. As Turtle's post mentioned, there are fewer "opportunities for interaction" than the right lane, and if I'm not passing, I don't belong in the left lane, even when it's allowed. The 'opportunities for interaction' is why I dislike driving in states with different...

You'll never know, lol.

What happens if you hire your nephew and it doesn't work out? Say, the van needs a major repair, which you should pay for, but you believe it's due to his negligence? Or he decides he doesn't like living in a tin can? I don't think you have any idea how many things can go wrong with hiring a...

I guess "questioning" someone who is standing up is too hard, as the agents "took him down" before he had a chance to get belligerent. [When I worked on the Trauma Unit at a Level 1 inner city hospital, intoxicated patients were frequent - I know how it can be. Oddly enough, not one of them ever...

Not a believer in the 'butterfly effect', huh? ;) Seriously: paying more attention to how much water we use is like recycling: it's something we need a nudge to do, [most of us] because it's easier not to. Anyhow, all they're doing is trying to find out how much of an issue it is - nobody's...

If it comes to that, sure. Just like it took the Feds to make some stop dumping toxic chemicals in the rivers, or strip mining & clear cutting entire states, for their own benefit. Because some people are just too self centered to care about anyone else. So what if California runs out of water...

Another benefit to the well equipped sleeper is meals - you'll eat better and spend less when you cook your own, rather than relying on restaurants.:D

He said he thinks it's an idea with merit [I agree] but it would not be permitted in the US, and he's right about that, the Repubs would be reading Dr Seuss from here to eternity to stop it from a vote. If you "read between the lines" and "interpret" that to mean we WILL be required to vote...

The race component wasn't part of the early reports, [except Johnson yelled it while on the ground, when he was shocked] so it's not my misunderstanding, it's a late addition, lol. And I think it's a false one - the ABC agents have been in trouble before, for arresting a woman whose case of...

Now we know you don't know what's going on, because the Va U student incident doesn't allege racism, it's about the aggression of LEOs. They wanted to talk to the student, so they took him to the ground, after which he needed stitches. He wasn't being arrested, or handcuffed, and there was...

My response was directed to this comment, in post #22 What's utterly retarded is that statement and its complete lack of logic or justification. It's obvious from the video that it is indeed an ATTACK - assault and battery to be exact, upon a white girl and her 5 year old brother by another...

The news outlets are using it to inform the populace. Those who read the entire story may be outraged at the need for ABC agents to "take to the ground" someone they want to "talk to", but they will also know that the victim is requesting that people respond calmly, and not go off rioting in the...