How can you have any pudding if you don't eat your meat?

Bacon is huge. Definitely add it if you're cooking in the oven. I prefer grilling mine, though. They soak up mad grill flavor!

The rent in southern california is already too damn high. Please do not come to southern california.

Whether they get a "good deal" on the military equipment isn't the point. Does any of that unneeded equipment cost more than a camera? Then get the camera instead.

Just test on the 101 in Los Angeles. You'll never hit 70MPH.

Kickstarter happened. Go back to any point in history and you will find people who would have taken free money had that been an option. Don't act like those were more virtuous times. The option to find backers/suckers (other than family) just didn't exist.

Though everyone in Chicago is used to the endless taxation (of which the red light cameras are just one example), the more recent speed cameras they installed (and continue to install) felt more like a revenue generator than the former. People could see the potential harm-reduction of red light cameras, but not so much with the speed-trap cameras. We all knew both were just new means of taxation, but the speed cameras felt more brazen. Of course, after Daley sold the city's parking to a private company, I think everyone just became even more calloused and defeated with the endless cash-grabbing by the city.

And when they came back home, they would be free to play whatever games they chose.

Couldn't make it to the last sentence of TFS, eh?

This, to me, sounds like an argument for investing in UX and a user community. Again, they should be investing in all of these things. But, if I had to pick two, I'd be a lazy bastard and let the community support my product for me. Especially if I'm unable to provide quality/updated documentation.

Ah, that's a good read. Thanks for the link -- I wasn't aware of the cash-based budgeting tactic. I'd mod you up/informative if I hadn't already participated in the thread.

Not any more: this year the state is looking forward to a surplus of $4.2 billion.

You seem to think teachers have a level of autonomy that they just don't have. There are likely teachers plenty capable of such feats. "Why they can't implement a solution" involves many more variables and pressure from all sides.

I've unfortunately got one of those monopolies as my ISP (Time Warner), but they don't force their hardware on you. Bought my own Surfboard modem and my own RT-N66U router. Full control, and don't have to pay their stupid monthly leases for equipment.

I'm running Merlin's on my RT-N66U and love it. From what I've read, the Asus router's are pretty good at being un-bricked, too (though I haven't had any problem switching between firmware). A couple people mentioned the price being high, but $120 seems pretty reasonable to me (considering I'll probably keep it a few years). It's more than a TP-Link or a Buffalo will cost you, but the construction quality is much better.