Your right on the mark. I live in a affluent New England town with one of the highest rated school systems. I was disgusted with the school system this past year. This year in first grade we got a young (mid 20 yr old) teacher who did nothing but stifle creativity. When I asked about art and music she said that that's what the 'specials' are for. The specials are art, gym, library, music. They only do each one once a week. It was a really struggle to get through the year. I saw the spark in these kids eyes extinguished. Talking to the principal and superintendent of schools yielded no results.

Last year my daughter had an amazing Kindergarten teacher. One that has been around for 40 years. She constantly bucked the system by really focusing on creativity for the kids. And when they worked hard they were taken outside for extra recess or other activities. She ignored the principal and directives from the school and I tell you the kids that came out of her class are amazing. It's a shame that she is a rare breed these days and I fear the future generations will have no teachers like her....

I have been using Sage's Fundrasing 100 for the last 8 years. It is a decent product. However Sage is killing it off and hopefully migrating their customer base to their Millennium product. So far I'm not thrilled with Millennium but they are making changes to it to accommodate the functionality that FR100 users are accustom to. Something to look at as an option.

Another option is to look at GiftWorks. It is a good program for small to medium nonproftis. If you are on the large side of mediums it may not work well for you.

They already have table saws that do this: http://www.sawstop.com/howitworks/videos.php

Take a look at Saw Stop. A table saw that cuts wood and not a hot dog. http://www.sawstop.com/

You took the words right out of my mouth. Plone is one of the most expandable and extensible CMS's out there.

Citations? I've been deploying Plone sites for 8 years now. Plone was a giant step forward from doing it all in Zope CMS. I'm also not sure what you consider are huge resource hog? The only time I ever see even the slightest hesitation is when loading portal_view_customizations.

Customization is simple and these days doesn't require much if any modifications of the templates. It appears that you have not taken the time to use the product correctly or you wouldn't be slinging fud like that.

I think the GP is wrong. I'll bet you find that in most cases people are hooking back up with high school sweethearts or other long lost boy/girl friends. So these people are not "strangers". Still not excuse for unprotected sex though.

What states? Citation needed. I do not believe it's actually illegal in any state.

Was this even an article? I'm really surprised that there was no mention of the Telebit Trailblazer or AppleCat? Both extraordinary modems that I had the honor of owning.

Lame.

Wish I had mod points right now. Finally a dead on post. This girl needs to understand the rest of the world is not like the US and her rights don't extend outside it's boarders. She's just lucky she didn't pull this BS in some third world country otherwise she may have just disappeared.

In my business I always purchase the HP extended warranties on the laptops. Never on desktops as I consider them disposable. HP's service has always been very good. Next day onsite replacement of any faulty parts with no questions asked.

I never purchased them in the past. However in the last five years I bought two that have been worth their weight in gold. The first was a high end refrigerator that I got from Lowes. The extended warranty was less than 4% of the total cost. One month out of the factory 1 yr warranty the refrigerator stopped working. Service came out on a holiday weekend and swapped out all the electronics. It ended up not fixing the problem and the following week I got a brand new replacement. Even better was they reset the warranty to start over again. My Dad has a little lower end refrigerator like mine and had a simple repair that ran him $800. Definitely money well spent.

The other was I purchased a car that was just coming off lease. For 2k I was able to extend the bumper to bumper warranty for 7 more years. About two years later, which was just over the 5 year factory warranty, I had a major transmission problem. Not a penny out of pocket for the tow or repairs. No doubt the total repair cost was more than I paid for the warranty. If anything else goes wrong it's just more money in my pocket.

I think on low end electronics or where the warranty is in excess of 5% of the original purchase price you are better off passing.

I have to tell you that this argument is getting really old. Not all teachers make nothing. As a matter of fact I think many people would be happy bringing in 50k as starting pay these days. Not to mention the jobs are pretty secure in comparison to the general business environment and get the summers off.

I make this statement because these days I do a lot of work for a local non profit. A few years ago they sent out their annual solicitation to the teachers. There was a husband and wife team that had been in this city's school system for a long time and didn't donate anything. Of course we knew they had the means as they both made over 100k. We knew this as it was published in the newspaper a few months before when the city announced the top paid employees. Upon asking them why they did not donate they said they were teachers and could not afford to donate. I was quite annoyed at this response and mentioned that I had seen their names on the list. The woman then fired back that well that may be true but they had struggled as underpaid teachers for a long time. Of course this argument makes no sense and I didn't want to aggravate them so I just let it go.

I do agree that teachers are very important and should be compensated appropriately but the old blanket argument that they are very underpaid just doesn't hold water anymore...

I think a larger portion of readers understood than you think. If you haven't heard of the Xen hypervisor or this type of virtualization then you probably have nothing to do with managing a server farm. If someone in that business has not heard of Xen then maybe they should be in another line of work.

I agree that keeping up with all tech would be a full time job. However this is pretty main stream stuff.

S.