There's no reason you have to answer work calls outside of your scheduled work hours. If they want you on call 24/7 then ask for compensation.

This.

I had the luck of not getting into AP English during my eleventh year of public education. Instead, I ended up in the lower honors English course. The students in the AP English course read all the books that were going to be on the final AP test and learned how to do well on the test by taking multiple practice AP exams throughout the year. The class I was in was required to read a short essay or story, one to five pages, and then write a 1,000 to 1,500 word essay on the reading. This was a weekly assignment with readings being assigned on Mondays and written responses due the following Monday. We would receive grades, edits and comments from the previous week on Mondays as well. The grades were simply minus, check or plus. Three times a semester we had scheduled individual meetings with the teacher to discuss our writing, but he was available to discuss writing after class or during lunch most days. At the end of the year we were required to compile a writing packet where we included all of our weekly writing assignments along with four that we chose to rewrite. We were also asked to include a one page justification on our expectation for a final grade. This packet constituted two-thirds of the final grade. I feel that each of us in that English class leaned much more useful English skills than the AP class.

I think there needs to be a combination of higher pay and actually evaluating and promoting/firing teachers based on their performance. As far as I understand, it is quite difficult to be fired from teaching after one's been employed to tenure, which should be gotten rid of. As for the pay issue, I know plenty of intelligent people who spent the time to get post-graduate degrees who would not teach k-12 because they can get significantly more income through other occupations.

Go easy on the punctuation.

You can spin an engine with electricity. Propeller airplanes are powered by rotating engines. Therefore, you can make an airplane that can fly with electricity and not fuel.

It might not be a 747 but it'll still fly.

Wow, I bought a late model Olevia for $350 back in 2007 and it's still going strong. Why anyone would waste a paycheck on a TV is beyond me. And this coming from a guy with a full up home audio setup.

Or connect everything up to your router and get control through your phone/tablet/laptop. My receiver, TiVo and AppleTV all have remotes on my iPhone.

Global Positioning System (GPS)

Your use of the word "enjoin" suggests that you were trying to be a pretentious ass. The word you were looking for was "join."

Imagine if this person had a child in their home. The trauma of that type of raid would probably be much worse than the risk of serving the arrest without SWAT.

Totally out of my element here, but would it be possible to spoof an iPad into thinking it was on the network that was directly connected to the Time Warner cable subscriber while some place not in the household? Seems plausible, but then again, a whole lot of people think that what happens in 24 is possible in real life.

That's something that I wish Google had been a little more proactive about. If the Android license had some requirement for support of some sort in regards to updates I think the entire Android environment would benefit tremendously. That being said, Google has more of a challenge on their hands compared to Apple because Google went to all (or most) handset and networks.

The person you're replying to is what's known as a troll, and you should not feed him.

When I was growing up we had "rationing" of electricity. It was called California, circa 2000AD.