Hell if I know, I just pay the bill each month.

Was one of my all time favorites. Getting to be James Bond, oil slicks, missiles, machine guns. Pure fun!

I read about the 3d printed prosthetic hand weeks before on here. I think that's great news, too. One thing about internet forums like this, there's room for all of it. -- No trees were harmed in the posting of this message, though a few electrons were greatly inconvenienced.

Most hospital equipment doesn't undergo the type of stress a handgun does when fired. This type of test shows that the metal produced is just as strong and even stronger than machined metal. 20,000 psi is pretty intense.

At least we won't have to worry about any more lobbyists in Washington under this administration.

Start button? I haven't been able to download it and try it yet, but every review I've read says the "Start Button" just flips you back out to the tiled Metro UI. That's not a start button. The start button lets users get to the app they want to run in 2-3 clicks. That #$*$@&@ed up Metro UI takes 10 times as long to do the same thing. F#$k Microsoft, the only reason I had one Windows computer left at home was for Netflix, but that's not enough anymore, Windows is gone.

This is something that should be addressed by market demands. If people want to see it in games, they'll demand it of the developers and it should happen. If they don't want it and it gets put in anyway, the game will fail, no one will buy it and no one will ever see it.

Couldn't agree more. All those "evil capitalists" are the ones that have already put in the work, hours, resources and risk to make their business successful. So many new businesses fail in their first year, meaning those "evil capitalists" lost everything they put into it with no reward whatsoever. To demonize the few that do become successful will wind up being the downfall of our civilization. Between government meddling with regulations, oversight and taxation, and the whole "occupy" crowd making villains of those who have sacrificed for years to become successful, it's a wonder any entrepreneurs still exist. The risk and the demonization just isn't worth it anymore.

To say that digital information is just bits and copyrighting the ordering of them shouldn't be allowed is just naive. By that reasoning, any novel is just letters, arranged in a certain way and shouldn't be copyrightable. Any item produced is just atoms, arranged in a certain way and shouldn't be copyrightable. People have to work to create these WORKS of music, art, programming, whatever the item may be. They deserve fair compensation for that work, as they have families, bills, things they have to pay to survive. What OP is trying to get across is that stealing intellectual property is no different than any other crime, it's not victimless. While his example may be a bit extreme, I'd be more likely to use "maybe stealing money from the banks would make them more likely to just give it away, but that doesn't make it right."

This government shutdown doesn't even put a blip on my radar screen. Much less hassle than even a 10 minute power outage. Turn the national parks over to the states, highway maintenance as well and seal the doors on the federal buildings. Good riddance!

Rote memorization is the only way to learn the fundamentals, addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, but those aren't taught any more. No kids are required to memorize math tables unless it's done by a parent. More complex ideas require teaching a kid how to think, but if they're busy counting on their fingers to subtract 7 from 13, more complex problems will never sink in.

I agree, nothing wrong with teaching "some students" a different way of doing it. But when the teacher's throw out a tried and true way of doing something to benefit the few, thus causing it to be more complex and difficult for the many, that's a problem. It's unfortunate that your son struggles with a method of learning that works for most other people, but that's no reason for people to advocate tossing out the entire system and starting from scratch. There will always be some people that don't get it no matter what method is used or taught.

This is a new one to me... the "US Inch-standard system?" I always grew up hearing it called the "English System of Measurement" for the country it originated in, England....

Don't think I've ever seen a better example of the English word "oxymoron" than "Democrat logic"....

Not saying there's never room for improvement, I'm saying there's no need to fix what already works and has worked well for centuries. The constant plea from the teacher's unions is that we just need to spend more money per student when we already spend more money per student than any other civilized nation and still graduate kids that can't read and write at an elementary school grade level. One room school houses with a single teacher for all grades used to be able to teach the basics, no reason they shouldn't be able to now with the resources available.