You don't need iPads in the classroom. School districts would be better off hiring more/better teachers and funding extra-curricular activities than they would spending millions on hardware that is easily broken, stolen, and has a limited lifetime of less than 2 years. There are so many better ways to spend that kind of money. Apple has enough money. They don't need more from our already pathetically underfunded school systems.

In many cases you are not free to do this, as celebrities and their likenesses are trademarked and highly regulated. I imagine if you tried to use Ronald Reagan in any significant way in a novel or artwork you'd hear from his estate. Unless it was fair use or parody, and then you have a lot more flexibility.

Also only serve your guests tap water so as not to use up your bottle water supply? Feed them only leftovers so not to tap into your personal food storage? Only let them watch TV on the small TV in the bedroom so you don't eat up electricity from the big screen??? Make them sit in the cold and dark by refusing to turn on the lights and heat, y'know, cause that shit costs money?

Geez, remind me never to be an invited guest over to your house. You sound like a real winner.

You mean not everyone has a Hadoop cluster under their desk???

Ummm... yeah... ok...

Did you forget to take your meds today? Let me guess, you also believe that both Jesus and Santa Claus are white?

There is a far distinction between the 2004 election that led to Dubya's second term (and this bill under him) and the 2012 election. The Tea Party didn't exist in 2004, and Republicans weren't nearly as batshit crazy and anti-everyone non-male, non-white, non-wealthy, and non-straight as they are now.

Because every 4 years people prove they are fucking stupid and incapable of doing what's best for them. 47% of Americans voted Republican against their own best self-interests. They clearly are not qualified to choose a light bulb on their own.

...to find one of Dick Cheney's summer mansions built there. Apparently it's his favorite home away from home where he's free to let it all hang out. His tentacles, that is.

How does it compare in per-core performance to Intel chips? Everything else is just meaningless techno-babble.

Do you want $3,300 or nothing? Because if Spotify has to pay more they'll go under, which means you'll get NOTHING.

I'm sorry, once he was dead all bets are off, despite what the ridiculous copyright laws say. Laws that lock up works for nearly a century after someone dies is a fucking joke. The people shouldn't have to wait 150 years for content to enter the public domain. If his heirs want money they can get up off their asses and get a job like everyone else.

Because they don't want to pay you what you're worth. They'd rather hire someone younger, with less skills, that they can pay 1/3rd or less of what they'd pay you, who won't demand vacation pay, sick leave, time off, health benefits, or complain about working 80-hour weeks on salary.

As long as I can form a coalition that gets equal time promoting piracy and clearly exposes the Hollywood MAFIAA for what it really is I have no problem with this.

Otherwise it's essentially Nazi-style propaganda, which has no place in our schools. Sorry MAFIAA, but no.

Sorry, I call bullshit. You keep talking about this place, but I just don't believe you. Shilling much?

Maybe you can convert them all to coal*. Cause that will surely be a better, cleaner option, no?

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Let's burn coal instead. Cause that's clearly so much better for us.

We had a wood burning stove and fireplace growing up. No one in my family has asthma or any lung-related problems. People have been burning wood as fuel for eons. This is so fucking ridiculous. Seriously, the EPA has nothing better to do than go after people who choose to not give their money to big oil/coal? Gee, I wonder who paid for this "study"?