It counts against your minutes if you are on a pay-as-you-go non-unlimited plan. For unlimited pre-paid and postpaid plans, they are not counted for billing purposes.

no one should be in solitary for 37 years.

Everyone knows that solitary confinement is the quickest way out of prison. There are many documentary movies from Hollywood that prove it: Count of Monte Cristo, Shawshank Redemption, Felon, Escape Plan, Law Abiding Citizen,.... and those are just the ones I've seen recently.

If you're going to special education teachers, speech therapists, and OT/PT therapists, you're going to the wrong people. Those people may be able to help in a limited role, but a ABA therapists is more what you're looking for to work on all-the-above.

With a son with Aspergers, I would call around to ABA therapy centers and see if they have peer groups. It sounds like that is exactly what you are looking for. When my wife worked at a local center as an office admin, my son with Aspergers went as a "client", and my middle son went as a volunteer peer. Sometimes my son would be paired up with another individual on the spectrum, other times a volunteer. It all depended on what aspect of communication they were going to work on.

The trick is that you give her an answer but not an answer to specifically her question, and then shift it to a different conversation. For instance:

Wife: Honey, do I look ok in this dress?
Husband: Babe, you look great in everything but even better out of it.

If you follow it up with trying to get her out of it, and do it enough times, eventually she'll start to ask you less. Or at least that is what I hope will someday happen with my wife.

I don't know about cleaner sound, but if you use a red sharpie the sound will be warmer.

I can't seem to find it now, but I remember seeing a product review I think on Amazon that was exclaiming how awesome some ridiculously priced optical cable was for a audio system because the fiber optic cable had a red tint to it imparting a warmer sound for the listener.

I think the SMTP protocol is relatively fine. I'd love to see some semblance of standardization for HTML layout in email messages. I understand how and why we are where we are today, but it's ridiculous how many hoops you have to jump through just to get a decent email to render correctly across all major email platforms.

(Bluetooth) dongles are widely available, just as software to read the data (Free, open and closed) for all major OS.

Dongles are cheap. The information they give you is fairly useless in diagnosing specific hardware faults, sensor codes, etc unless you have the factory proprietary software.

Want to modulate the ABS module to purge air and replace the brake fluid? Sorry.

Want to see which wheel is giving you the TPMS low pressure error even though they are all properly inflated? Sorry.

Want to see specifically why a code is being thrown that disengages the AWD? Sorry.

Well, sorry for me unless I get a Tech2 scanner maybe for $1500 used, or $4000 new off fleabay.

By the way, Band Aid is a genericised trademark (meaning they can't really sue you for using it, fallout from Johnson & Johnson vs. Geldof et. al which set precedent in that names that have fallen into everyday vernacular aren't really defensible

Do you have anything that supports that position?

Trademarks have always applied to a particular field. McDonalds Heating and Air Conditioning isn't going to cross over into McDonalds the fast food restaurant's turf and it's very unlikely the two would be confused for one another. Band-aids are often used generically, but the trademark hasn't been legally genericized like aspirin, heroin, or cellophane have.

It's in the same category as Kleenex, Xerox, and Popsicle that are still legally held trademarks and will be defended if someone in that field attempts to use that name, but get used in common culture as if they were generic.

Marketing demographic information most liklely. It doesn't say how accurate or what the source of that portion of the data is.

Like many companies, my company has various different methods that we obtain leads. We automatically run every lead through a service to obtain demographic information about the email address that can tell us household size, residence value, own or rent, income, education level, field of employment, interests, age, etc. All those go towards scoring the lead as it relates to our target market.

While a data breach is a data breach, if it's somewhat public information or otherwise readily available from any number of other sources it's not like the damage from having income information is catastrophic.

why are we even building flammable houses?

I don't know, maybe to save a human life?

I kept with all the bloated Samsung crap on my S4 before I switched to a Google Edition-based rom and haven't looked back. I don't think there's a single feature that the Samsung software gave me that the Google Edition software doesn't do better, or that I just didn't care about the gimmicks of TouchWiz.

Email? Not sure about. How do you verify who you are with many people having unsecured email accounts on home computers, cell phones, etc.

My doctor has a secure portal where I can ask questions, read replies, see what my recent prescriptions were for and dosage, find out results of lab work if the doctor has released them, etc. Quite handy. More inconvenient than just email, but a lot better than nothing.

With modern tech, private toll roads would work even better than they have in the past.

Yeah. It's worked out really well for selling (actually leasing) the Indiana Toll Road. The current owners of the lease filed for bankruptcy last year after operating the road for 8 years. The tolls on the road hadn't increased for 20 years prior to the lease being signed in 2006, but nearly doubled coinciding the beginning of the lease, with yearly guaranteed rate increases every year since. The road's condition is horrible, and one major interchange near Chicago where I80/I-90/I94 intersect has been closed because they don't know what the hell to do with it since they don't have any money.

Privatization rules, since Indiana made $3.8b off of the deal. Except when the private company can't operate what they paid for and live up to their end of the bargain.

Raises hand. At least when I need a specific resistor NOW. Those resistors you speak of that cost .001 each only cost that amount when you buy a reel of 1000 of them.

I get most of my components through Digikey, and if I only needed five 10k ohm 1/4 watt resistors resistors, it'd cost me $.50, plus $3.22 for shipping and I'd have to wait 2-3 days. If I order on Thursday or Friday, there's probably an extra day or two for the weekend.

Or, I could go down to RadioShack and buy a 5-pack for $1.19, have it in about 10 minutes round trip, and work on my project.

RS sucks if you plan ahead, can order in a large enough quantity, and package a bunch of items together to spread out (or eliminate) the cost of shipping. It's convenient if you only need one or two of something, you need it NOW, or you otherwise can justify paying considerably more per-item, but still relatively a small amount.

and what MakerBot is doing to try to salvage its open-source cred

Yeah. Good luck with that salvage job.