the start menu still contains a mini start screen. George Lucas pulled this shit in the prequels by wedging jar jar binks into the last one, and you know what it has in common? Lucas and Microsoft are doing it as a big "Fuck You" to their respective audiences for refusing to accept what everyone but the author knew sucked. Saying "continuum is the future" is a strange way of saying, "Listening to your fucking customers is a novel approach microsoft is begrudgingly accepting piecemeal after a blinding 2 years of profit loss"

I have had the equivalent agency in my state threaten to take my children. They have never been abused, neglected, or mistreated in any fashion. However, in my state, it is illegal for you to have more than one child. Well, effectively anyway. It is illegal for you to be on a different level of your house than your child, and we had twins and another girl a year older. In order to obey the law, you would have to carry all three of them with you when you put one of them to bed.

Because that's how you get legislation.

The electrical infrastructure to deliver 'fuel' to just about any corner of the continent is already in place. Basically, you charge your car wherever you park it. A gas station is a destination

GM has a crap Volt and a concept car Bolt which wont even be selling for another two years.... GM is not a competitor to Tesla - Teslas competitors are BMW, Audi, Lexus and Tesla is destroying them

This is based on my personal experience with the California special education system in the 1970's and 1980's. Also based on personal observations while the school districts don't have money for school supplies and reducing classroom size, they have no problem finding money to build a brand new football field in recent years. From my conversations with other people across the country, this seems to be the norm for public education.

The state pays the school district a certain amount of money for each student who attends for a full school day. For this example, let's say $1 per day for a normal student. The state pays $3 (3 x $1) per day for a special ed student to compensate for whatever special needs. Most often or not, the school district will keep the $3 and have the special ed student shoved into a regular classroom (sometimes that means having a desk outside of the classroom). With the public education system, collecting the money was the primary educational objective.

I was misdiagnosed as a mentally retarded in the first grade due to an undiagnosed hearing problem in one ear. My teachers were routinely surprised when I blew out the annual evaluation exam on the genius side, calling it a stastical fluke. Nothing was more prized in the special ed classes than a well-behaved idiot who brings in 3X funding.

I'm pretty sure I knew math, science and sometimes English better than my teachers through high school. Experienced teachers know how to deal with students like us - how would this be any different?

> Corporatocracy (tm).

We _already_ have a word; plutocracy, and/or oligarchy

There is no need to coin a new word -- although yours isn't bad.

This is what democracy is all about.

I despise Facebook but it's something of a necessary evil when you have friends scattered all over the world.

That is a lie. Why would you pick classes that wouldn't transfer?

When I taught at Tri-County Tech, nearly all of my student's credits would transfer to real schools. Our classes were stupid easy and you got credit for some very hard college classes. It was a great scam for the students.

The real scam is that all this free and easy money doesn't go to education. It goes to educators -- educators all too willing to just take all that extra money to provide classes that are "stupid easy".

The students are just mules that move the money from tax payers to professional educators.

This matters to me more than your claims of "all modern operating systems taking full advantage of the RAM". If the operating system takes full advantage of the RAM, it may not be to my best benefit.