Actually - They didn't teach me either. There is this invention that we used to use for math - called your head. You can do very complicated math "In your head".

Funny story. Worked with a brilliant engineer years ago. He was born a decade and a day after I was. I had to use pencil and paper for the SAT - you learned to do simple math very accurately and very quickly "In your head". He was of the age that you got to take in an approved calculator into the SAT test. They no longer required to do Math "In your head". When we played darts - he couldn't add up the scores because he never had to.

You are learning to type - that is finger placement and styles. Keyboard layouts are all basically the same (Except for the Microsoft keyboard that puts the 6 key in the wrong place) and it is just a matter of slight adjustments. There is not a difference in the layout between a modern keyboard and an old manual typewriter... There are differences in travel, sound, and other things - but those aren't needed to deal with muscle memory and having your fingers know how to type.

No - the point is to learn typing. Once you learn to type you can efficiently learn the technology of the limited computers. Frankly - the only class that has any value to me from high school was my freshman year typing class taught on an old IBM Selectric typewriter. Heck - the description in the summary is begging for a typewriter.

Technology for technology sake is never the answer - old school devices still rule, there is usually never a need for fancy modern devices, they just make thinks easier and more convenient if you happen to have money (and in this case electricity)

Or is it slashdotted already. You would think Stanford would have better infrastructure

on an airline.
As a country we aren't willing to pay extra for good service on an airline - it is all about who has the lowest fair on expedia/priceline/... not which brand has good customer service. As a country we are not willing to pay for extras like good customer service, quality, or good business practices. Anyone old enough when the big selling point of walmart was "Made in America"? It was great - walmart was great - jobs were great... Then it was time to lower prices - either by breaking the labor force in the USA or shipping manufacturing somewhere "cheaper". Now walmart requires suppliers to have a plan to manage their manufacturing in China... No more Made in the USA there.
It is a shame isn't it.

So a bright light is expected to travel down the ear canal - cross the several membranes between the ear and the brain and have a measurable effect on your brain (even assuming that the photoreceptors ARE there). I'm buying it just as much as the Browser IQ article from earlier.
I want to see some peer review first

Your Karma just ran over my Dogma

I am assuming that they use stored electricity... But not all that power will be provided by the catapult. There are engines on the plane that produce thrust as well running at full throttle. I would assume that they can provide some of that 153 MW of work during the launch.

You are not required to own automobile insurance in any state that I am aware of. People are capable of walking, biking, taking a bus, hiring a taxi for that matter, my young daughter has no need for car insurance for another 4-5 years. If you decide it is more convenient to buy a car, pay for insurance and gas - that is great, your free choice.

Very true. Hard to know what not to love in a 1500 page bill that is a bunch of densely written diffs to the current laws. I would much prefer to read the thousands of pages of what the law actually says with the diffs applied.
Now on to answer your questions:
What not to love, The requirement to give 1099 forms to any business a company does 600 dollars worth of business with in a year. Imagine you are an independent truck owner - you drive around the country delivering goods. You fill up on diesel at various stops along the way buying 2-300 dollars worth of diesel at a stop. You are responsible for figuring out which companies (realize the gas stations are usually private small companies owned by local franchises) you bought 600 dollars worth of gas from, what their business location is (No - it isn't cheveron, and probably isn't on the receipt) and delivering the documents to them annually. How much will this paperwork cost you, what happens when you make a mistake (really, did you know that some guy owns a gas station in florida and north dakota for some unknown reason?) - what does this have to do with the delivery of health care anyway?

What not to love, The requirement to pay for a product merely for being alive in the country. As an older American, insurance is a great deal - I will spend more than 10-15K in healthcare costs a year. As a young single male, well - lets just say if I see a doctor this year, it is unusual, I am wasting all of my premium. I am forced to pay for this just for being alive in the country now

What not to love, All of the mandates on what coverage has to include. Let me guess, you add required services to a bid, you expect the price to go up. Seems normal to me

What not to love, All of the wheeling and dealing that went into getting all 60 democrats in the senate to vote yes, if you want "good" insurance that covers a lot of things, so it costs 10K a year - you have to pay extra (unless you are in a union). If you happen to live in a few states with smart senators that hold out, your state gets a break by not having to implement things that are required of the rest of the country (so we are all paying for Nebraska now - wish I lived there, or better wish my senator wasn't such a tow the party line guy that they didn't have to pay him off to get a yes vote out of him)

I could go on for a while... next time someone wants to vote on a 1500 page bill, lets give people enough time to read 1500 pages (3-4 days? I mean it would be your full time job) so we can actually know what is in the bill before it is voted on.

Ok - time for a few corrections
1) First Intel (after initially responding poorly to the bug) fully recalled the product without question. If you had a processor in question, you could ask for and recieve a replacement. Please see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pentium_FDIV_bug
2) The flaw was caused by a bad division lookup table, not the mathematical nuance of binary logic gates. What I think you are trying to describe is the fact that floating point numbers are not percise, and you never compare them directly, only compare if they are within a small delta of each other.

40 Million payout. 1/100th of that payout is 400K.

Frankly, I have about 1/2 of that in accounts now at 40. I plan on having about 1/20th of that by the time I retire in 25 years. That said - the guy was fired for cause - why are you paying him off with a golden parachute. If I wrote a fraudulent expense report for a few hundred dollars, I expect I would be fired and the police knocking on my door asking some questions about my behavior.

Ah lack of understanding of the constitutions amendments strikes again...

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.

Where in that text do you see something that says AT&T can not tell you to stop being a jerk to their CEO. Where in there does it say that Slashdot is required to keep your post showing, where does it say that you are allowed to yell fire in a crowded theater.

All it says is that CONGRESS can not pass laws that abridge your right to speech. If you are talking poorly in my house - I have every right to ask you to leave.

Next

I always liked the "Strangest Abuse of the Rules" catagory winner for Hello World
char*_="Hello world.\n";

That is it - the whole program.

No - what has happened is that almost every (all that I have seen - but that isn't anywhere close to an exhaustive search) consumer router now comes with a "setup" disk. You attach the router to your computer - run the setup disk and it prompts you to give it a password. From there it created a file that you put onto a USB key that you can give all of your friends to import into the Windows Wireless profile manager - and imagine that... easy security.

Just realize that your dad will loose this file AND the password - requiring a cross country flight to visit.