"Unschooling: For those kids who aspire to be the dish washers of the future"

But seriously, is there any less way to be prepared for higher education (higher, meaning anything from 3rd grade on up)?

The latest and currently most popular sport: cow charging. Almost any motor vehicle will do. Ram it into the cow, and listen to it's hilarious confused mooooooooo,

The freedom is freedom from arrest or detention. You are free to say whatever horrid you want, just as I am free to get a bullhorn and call you a moron. You may get a bigger bullhorn if you wish. We may continue as nauseum barring noise complaints and assuming we are not trespassing. I fully support the ability of the KKK or whoever to march down the road, but they are not guaranteed that I won't show up with a counter-demonstration to drown them out. All the 1st amendment guarantees (a guarantee all to often violated) is that the police or other agents of the government won't come to drag either of us away. If a university invites some xenophobic yahoo to speak and the students jeer him out of the hall that is not censorship, just as it isn't censorship if they don't invite him to speak at all.

What I mean by "having its business stolen" is having someone else market or give away the idea that has cost the firm or individual(s) time and trouble to develop.

Take Robert Kearns, who invented the windshield wiper delay, for example. He came up with the idea of how to solve an annoyance that most of us experience from time to time. He went to the considerable time and expense of developing, perfecting, and patenting his idea, then approached the large auto manufacturers, asking them if they'd like to license his patent. They rebuffed him and proceeded to use his invention to make millions of dollars. It took him decades to get any compensation for his initial R&D. As far as competing on the strength of his products in a "free market", he could hardly have been able to start his own automobile manufacturer so he could sell his invention; would you argue, however, that Detroit was entitled to make money from his idea without compensating him?

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Perhaps. But they still have a long way to go on $/GB. Just checking my local price guide it's 0.09 $/GB for 1.5TB HDDs and 3.75 $/GB for the cheapest SSD. But yeah, booting off SSD and having a HDD for media sure.

Me too.

I've always loved that. [Note sarcasm]

Citation points to an article or other site stating the information you just did is close-to or completely correct. So that's different from you doing you research and saying what you've found, uh, why? Oh, because you didn't post all of the gathered information behind your point. And the site listed as the citation did. All of it.

NOTE SARCASM.

Trust is one of those taboo words.

Tho i don't have any intention of promoting ms, the OO.o Impress ribbon for some reason made me think way back to circa 1992 or 1994 and some of the jumbo-ish Word Perfect icons. If they were resizable, and if one could nest a few together under larger, more used buttons/icons, they'd almost look ribbon-ish, less the boundary/shadow effects.