I miss the "older stories" button myself since it just made more sense to me, but there are links for Today, Yesterday, etc. at the bottom on the main page that load each days stories in chronological order (newest first), or at least did a little while ago.

Seriously? I probably shouldn't respond to an AC troll...

I'll more than likely end up rooting my kid's tablet (more than likely using towelroot, seems easy enough). The main reason I haven't is that I'll catch all sorts of hell if I lose the saved states on several apps. There are two main reasons, no piracy involved:

1. I can't currently update any apps. My google-fu suggests there are duplicate files that need to be deleted, and neither I nor the installer have permissions to do so. (OT rant: WTF is up with Android throwing an "insufficient space on device" error for pretty much any problem?)

2. If I want to leave a couple hundred MB for overhead, the internal storage doesn't have much space left. Google decided that Jelly Bean can't store apps to a uSD card by default (why?), and changing that requires root.

Well, if code written by physicists is anything like code written by chemists, while I don't necessarily disagree with your implied assessment about the code quality, it's not necessarily because people don't take the time to learn the language.

More than likely, whatever code you've seen was written to solve a specific problem that one particular researcher had. Next, a boss or colleague said something like "great, that works, maybe somebody else could benefit from it, share your code". But since the program is already done as far as everyone is concerned, and both time and funding are tight, a standard disclaimer gets attached (feel free to use/modify, probably under a BSD-like license, not our responsibility if this code bricks your workstation, please acknowledge us if you do anything useful with our code), a quick 1-2 page "how to" gets written, and a tarball gets made with all of that plus one working example of any required input files.

I'm sorry, you're confusing Irish with Welsh.

AC beat me to it, I was going to ask where GP can get a combine for $100k, because I can make a fortune reselling them at twice that price and make a lot of farmers very happy at the same time. It's not uncommon for 10+ small-medium farmers to form a sort of co-op to share just a few pieces of large equipment.

I think it's actually simpler to refer to the 3 Gs: God, guns, and gays. Although they do seem to be losing the war on that last one...

This is exactly why Verizon hangs on despite costing more, and FWIW why I use them. Their coverage is pretty much everywhere; the only places I've ever had any issue with signal are pretty fringe (i.e. various passes in the Rockies, in the basement at work surrounded by lots of metal, etc.). I suppose it all depends on what you want from your service, but if I'm going to have a mobile phone, I want it to work when I'm mobile.

Many (most?) parts of the US work the same way. I believe you can be cited for not having the proper license on you - probably something like a $50-100 fine depending on where you are - but as long as you can produce it within a set time (usually 48-72 hours) and your license wasn't already suspended for some other reason, that's probably the end of it.

We do lock up way too many people for relatively trivial things, and have some truly fucked up laws on the books, but wherever GP was does things differently from most of the rest of the country.

Based on what I've read, he'll be going to trial in MD on the trying to have people killed charges in the not too distant future.

Nope, parent couldn't have any bias at all. I mean, it's just not possible that while there are many school districts that require ALL students to take the SAT or ACT at some point (skewing the average down) and no homeschooler who's not planning to go to college would ever take these tests (skewing the average up), comparing the scores is a totally legitimate way to "prove" that homeschooling is better.

While I agree with most of your points, thanks for making this one, this is my biggest issue with homeschooling in general. Most parents are simply NOT qualified to teach. This has nothing to do with a piece of paper or whatever the parent may have previously studied. Most people simply aren't good at something, some aren't good at much of anything, and extremely few if any are good at everything. And just because you're good at something doesn't mean you can teach. I had good and bad teachers going through school. And some of the worst teachers I ever had were Nobel laureates.

In the end it's a personal choice, but I hope someone who chooses to homeschool does it in an informed manner, in the best interest of the child (i.e. not because a parent doesn't want to let go), and does it not to limit what the child may be exposed to (most who homeschool for religious reasons). Also, do your homework, see what resources are available to homeschoolers in your community. If you had little interest in and did poorly studying history yourself, you probably won't teach it to your child effectively.

The Constitution mentions citizenship in a very few places, for example as a prerequisite to run for President. There's not such limit on the Bill of Rights, or most other parts of the document for that matter.

That doesn't stop a certain portion of people from deciding that these protections don't apply to non-citizens, and this sadly includes some judges. I'm not sure where they think that leaves anyone with a green card or a visa.

Based on Hollywood accounting? Something in the vicinity of zero./sarcasm