What is intelligence? A person could be very good at accepted finance, for example a nobel prize, but send the economy off the cliff that might trigger WW3 and end all human life. Is that intelligent?

"Knowledge without mental discipline is furniture without a room." LOL!

Algebra forms the basis for mathematical reasoning. How can you problem solve if you do not know how algebra works? The real problem is how math is taught. It is designed for teachers to teach to a test and formula, not designed for the student to immerse himself in fascination. So once again the problem is the teacher, not the student. Get rid of public education. Love this "It could, for example, teach students how the Consumer Price Index is computed, what is included and how each item in the index is weighted — and include discussion about which items should be included and what weights they should be given. " Really??? Then more Americans would understand how their government is lying about inflation. Understanding that and exponential growth would start a revolution.

Is that company's security (if they know how HTTPS proxy) any worse than the banks? We don't hear about bank compromises because like Fed loans they are hidden from us. A company's network is not your personal fiefdom. I prefer spelling out policy, including "reasonable time for personal matters." Then look at Internet reports to make sure there is no abuse. When you force HTTPS proxy, you block out the chance a user does a direct connect to a compromised site that loads malware.

When ever I see someone using ALL CAPS in csr apps, I know we are not dealing with the brightest bulbs. There are very good reasons for punctuation let's innovate and use all lower case!

I have never come across porn on Wikimedia. Yes, you can look up porn stars with urls and see positions, but that is porn? German porn???

"Fuck it, I'm just going to stay home and watch every episode of Game of Thrones and eat Cheetos until I fall asleep." Funny!!!

Apple makes it own hardware and associated software as the "whole" product. It does not have a monopoly as tablets are not commodity hardware dominated by Apple software practices locking out competition using threats and kickbacks like MS did.

That's what you get with monopoly government driven product. How about a physical button you have to hold for two seconds to register the vote to trip the digital relay to register the vote?

Not much will protect against a direct strike except maybe a high rod to attract it to ground. When I was in 6th grade running just behind my friend to get to his house in a bad storm a lighting bolt struck right between us leaving a mark. Talk about a weird, close call!

Does anyone understand what the P/E is anymore? Facebook will have earnings about 35 cents per share. That is a P/E of ~60. So an investor will need 60 years to get a return on investment assuming the share price and/or dividends pay out. And it is assured that FB will sell 2nd and 3rd rounds of stock so its P/E will stay high.

Words and Phrases and Sentences are only symbols to represent ideas and relations. The musics and contemplation and experience create new words as required. The strength of English is the connotations which if used right will amuse people without them knowing why.

Boom, boom, boom.

This boondoggle is entirely due to the powerful farm lobby and that mostly benefits large industrial farm companies. We need to end the Agricultural Department as Ron Paul suggests.Why should farming be any different than other industries know that all farmers have internet tech, futures trading, and other modern things?

3D for CAD/CAM would be nice. No one that I know of regularly broadcasts 3D so whats the point? Even if a sports event is 3d like last year US Open if you get it over cable tv you are SOL. I bought a 42' 3D 1080p Panasonic Viera Plasma because the price was just too good; cheaper than the 2D at the time (about 6 months ago).