States' Rights? Ring a fucking bell with anyone?

...except for raking all the motherloving leaves!!!!!!!!!!

What a cool story! Wish I'd known it was going on.

"basic web browsing" is technically an unsupported feature, but it's been present for a long time now. free as in beer, to boot!

I AM a war monger, you insensitive clod! (first /. post from my kindle!)

"On places like slashdot I like the more relaxed atmosphere and I'm not going to proofread and re-read everything I write, otherwise it would consume way too much time. I can live with people poking at my grammar and other errors."

Uh uh, no fucking way, asshole. YOU are the one who wanted to jump down America's throat for being "ignorant." Fine, do so. But, in your first sentence, try not to make at least 3 errors. First, you did not capitalize "America." Second, "it's" instead of "its," as already mentioned. Third, you used a comma after "ignorance" when the appropriate punctuation mark would have been a semicolon. By the way, asshole, I'm a math major, not an English major. And I'm drunk.

"But america seems to be special in that it prides itself on it's ignorance, try having an intelligent discussion about ideology with many Americans to see what I mean. "

...citation needed.

Again.

This is just Obama's plan to drastically reduce the size of the military!! Would YOU stay if you had to work with Office 2007 AND Vista? Think about it.

"14+ cm"

How in the world did I never think of measuring in *centimeters* before reading your post? Brilliant! Genius! Thank you! Thank you!

"Flamamable" is easy, so I'll skip it. As for the other -- just think "inflamed" hemorrhoids. They don't call them that 'cause they *don't* burn!

His failure to cite was the best part! It made me feel all warm and fuzzy to see he was modded to 5 -- WITHOUT a citation. It means we're all family here, we get jokes without having to have the punch lines explained to us. To the GP -- Bravo sir! Bravo!

So once this is done, can I IM other drivers and give them driving tips? Like, oh, I don't know -- "Hey buddy! If you'd bothered to use your freakin' turn signal, I coulda made my left, and not had to wait another ten minutes for an opening in traffic! Thanks a lot!" Because, if so? Sign me up!

We need to borrow enough money from them to mobilize our forces and kick their asses!

Not only because of the risk of big brother hocking it downtown, but also for what I would think are even graver concerns. Take my situation, for starters. I'm a computer professional. I know all about the dangers of the Internet. I have a brilliant, beautiful, innocent, obedient, *GOOD* 10 year old daughter, who would LOVE for me to get her a netbook. Pink, of course. I'm terrified at the prospect of turning my little girl -- smart and good as she is -- loose on the Internet. Sure, there are lots of things I can do at home to protect her -- heck, I've even toyed with the idea of installing a keylogger on her system when I feel the time is right (ok, maybe that's going too far). And this is a kid I can TRUST! But what about when she's got her new toy at her friend's house? OK, ok, enough about my situation -- I think we can handle it. Now consider the situations of the children we're talking about today. (I'll be making a lot of assumptions and generalizations here -- please forgive me). No tech/Internet savvy authority figure at home. Heck, maybe not much of an authority figure at home at all! Peer pressures my daughter can't even imagine. Way too much unsupervised free time. A totally different upbringing than the one my kids have received. What's going to keep these kids safe? Oh well, I'm probably being naive and alarmist. And maybe for nothing, since the laptops will probably stay at the school anyway (no, I didn't RTFA).