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Comment Homeschooling is... (Score 2) 421

Homeschooling is all day, all week, all year, for life.

We homeschool.
We started when our kids were born.
They learn every day.
Every day of the week.
Every week of the year.
It's lifetime learning.

They still get to be kids.
And they work on our farm.
Their mastery is far above public, and private, school levels for the same age.
They don't spend weeks and months forgetting stuff over vacations and summer.
They don't waste gobs of time on wait-wait-wait and sitting around as is the way of modern schooling.
They take responsibility for learning as they develop that ability rather than being tracked by an artificial curriculum which wastes time on politically correct nonsense.
They learn real science untainted by PC sensitivities.
They love learning. The joy of it isn't killed by the grey public school agenda.

This is like life used to be and better than the disconnected of today which is a result of the dystopia of urban culture.

Comment None (Score 1, Troll) 131

Don't travel to conferences. Waste of time, money and other resources. Far better to use discussion groups, forums, webinars, email, etc. Physical conferences are dinosaurs. Most have died off. Some just don't know they're zombies but will soon fall apart. This is particularly true for tech conferences. We don't need to be in a place to communicate and techies know that better than anyone.

What is particularly obscene is the conferences by politicos and ecos to solve world hunger, solve pollution, solve global warming, etc. They jet around the world polluting all the way, eat huge fancy meals and declare what the rest of us should do to fix things. Hypocrites.

Comment Re:Prime Reason Not to Buy eBooks (Score 2) 172

Sometimes people on this site seem to have an instinctual fan-boy reflex that by-passes rational thought. Even a small amount of thought would point out:

-The Sony eReaders will die eventually - Bye-bye books for most people who aren't sophisticated enough to transfer to other formats and devices.
-DRM will prevent a lot of people, the majority of people, from accessing their documents. bye-bye books!

It would be really nice if fan-boys or stooges and plants for Sony didn't spread misinformation.

Comment Sub-Human? (Score 1) 125

"With a 3-hour battery life, the exoskeleton allows users to walk at a normal pace and, in its prototype form, it can lift objects with a mass of up to 30 kilograms."

Wow. Color me very unimpressed so far. My biological battery lasts 48 hours (extreme) and lets me lift about 120 Kg fully and regularly as well as a lot more occasionally. I can also run.

Seriously though, while this is not "Super Strength" as the headline claims it is an interesting advancement. What we need next is a "Robot Suit that gives Editors Super Human Writing Powers" so they can actually write headlines.

Comment Liking Linkin' Love (Score 4, Insightful) 113

It is rather odd for them to try and tax people for talking about them, which is what this amounts to being. Even worse, they are taxing the people who are polite enough to provide a referential link back that would allow the reader to go to the source which then enables the source to earn something be it reputation, selling something or serving ad copy up which is how newspapers traditionally paid for their paper and ink.

Myself, I love being linked to. Please, link away because that's how the love is spread and the web grows.

Comment Re:Glad to see you use the term 'assemble' (Score 1) 391

Yeah, wannabees... Back in my day we had to mine the sand to get the silicone and arsenic for fabricating our own IC chips in discrete logic sets like 555, 556, NAND, and more from whence we built the super duper hoola hoop pooper scooper computers of yesteryear that still control your dreaded tax and social security administration system. Bow down, lower, lower, before the immense power of discrete logic chips! Peons, heads to the floor!

Now I'll be happy if I can get this MacBook Pro to reboot...

Comment Forget Europe (Score 1, Insightful) 135

I would like to suggest that Google forget the European regulators. That solves the problem.

The Europeans have not right to hide information from the world nor do they have any right to determine how things are happening outside their countries. Google should simply refuse to 'forget'. At the very least 'forgetting' should only be for requests within the European dimwits's borders. The rest of the world should remember, remember...

Comment Not (Score 1) 544

I've never, ever heard someone ask for a slideout keyboard on their phone. Mechanical buttons are just one more thing to break down. The touch screens are much more reliable. If you really want a keyboard, just use a bluetooth keyboard. I do have one of those which is nice for writing long documents but not something I want all the time, not even 0.1% of the time.

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