To avoid some of the more recent and/or immediately comes-to-mind, there's always Lloyd Alexander's Chronicles of Prydain and Jane Yolen's Pit Dragon Trilogy. And for popular there's Ursula LeGuin's Earthsea series, although some of those might be best to wait a few years past 8.

Or perhaps it would allow foreign students to work, so that they aren't taking money from financial aid available to them from the University? That would seem to make it just as easy for more American students to be able to afford attendance, which looks like a win for everyone...

But no, Dey took are jorbs!

But it is projected that in a few years that more kids will be born out of wedlock than in (it is slightly over 40% now).

That doesn't in any way invalidate what has been said. Birth out of wedlock doesn't rule out later marriages, whether to the biological father or some other male to serve as a step-father. As it stands right now, you're just getting up on the soap-box and pulling numbers out of your ass to attempt to justify your position. I won't disagree with your point about parent involvement, however.

I think that maybe this might lead to the year of the linux desktop!

...Or you're building castles in the sand.

Allegedly he did, but nobody was there to witness it. I'm not sure that counts.

It's more an electrochemical signal, though, not really anything to do with the energy of radio waves. It's electrical in the sense that it's charged (ions), not in the sense that there's an actual stream of electrons moving along like wires.

I've always kind of wondered if they mostly stuck to rivers and lakes, and used their long necks to reach out and graze trees/shrubs/what have you along the banks.

Honestly, the majority of the time I've bought parts lately Amazon's been cheaper even than Newegg. I think the last two years or so, all of my PC parts have come from Amazon instead of Newegg.

Bad troll is bad.

Actually it's within 100 miles.

Time to retire to a remote cave in an uncharted region of the world, then. It's amusing that techies can be luddites too.

So that large states could drown out the voice of smaller states? Yeah, that sounds like a real bargain! Apathetic voting-age individuals will always come up with another "reason" why they don't bother voting. I suppose on the positive side, though, you'd only have to deal with annoying campaign ads if you lived in New York and California...