Do you want Mad Max? Because THAT'S how you get Mad Max.

... you need to contact a lawyer. You need to support her and find ways to communicate as well, but finding a good lawyer is, sadly, almost as critical.

Everything you will want to try is going to require enormous sums of money, money the insurance company is not going to give you willingly. They may provide her care, they may pay for some baseline therapy, but they are not going to pay for exotic therapies.

Money from a lawsuit can help pay for these therapies. Money from a lawsuit can get her home renovated to handle her expected condition for the foreseeable future.

Someone messed up. You wife's sister should not end up in a closet, bankrupting families in the attempt to improve her life.

Get a lawyer.

Can you apply a different brake pressure to each one of your 4 wheels?

I don't like this method of adding or subtracting, but they added one step to make it look even that much worse.

Every child should be taught what numbers are needed to get to the next or previous ten. Counting by tens (or hundreds, thousands, etc) needs to be ingrained because we are base 10 people. They need to memorize those simple additions and subtractions (going to the next or previous 10).

This particular example should have been taught as you need 8 to go from 12 to 20, you need 10 to go from 20 to 30, and you need 2 to go from 30 to 32. So, 8+10+2=20. 32-12 = 20. It gets them thinking about both sides of the equation now, instead of reinventing the equals sign when you get to algebra.

Yes, you need to understand conceptually what 32-12 physically means, but you also need to be able to just do simple math automatically as well. That is where quality teaching comes into play. You need to make sure that point is driven home, both concepts are needed. If teachers are on auto pilot, and saying, just do it this way (the conceptual way) because that is what is going to be on the standardized test, and completely ignoring ingrained automatic addition and subtraction, then they have gone too far on the other side.

TLDR, It seems educators got hammered for the "old way" of teaching math that produced little calculators, but some are correcting too far on the conceptual side now, and handicapping children by not giving them tools to quickly add and subtract in their day to day lives.

I've got one sound for ya... Flush. Chewie is gonna be in Episode 7.

This data is exactly how the Chinese put most of the US based solar panel makers out of business.

My experience with DirecTv has been fine. I have been a customer for 4 years now and only lose the signal when its absolutely down pouring outside. After your two year contract is up, call them back and ask for a discount for another year commitment and you get $20 off per month. I have done that twice now. I hope that discount doesn't go away, but with AT&T, I have a feeling they will clamp down on all the super secret best friends discounts available from DirecTv Maybe its because i have newer equipment than older customers of DirecTv, but in general, the picture is very clear and way higher quality than the crappy cable company alternative (Knology, now WowWay). I have whole home DVR and it works well.

Dammit Slashdot!! Where are my mod points!!!

They don't do any worse than public schools, even though they kick out bad performing students and don't have to handle special education students.

They remove funding for the public school facilities, which are mostly fixed.

So if they are not any better, even cherry picking from the student body, why have them at all?

If all you want is to be weightless, the Vomit Comet is a much cheaper alternative for about $5,000.

If you are paying the $245,000 premium, I would think they would want to get the official astronaut status of 62 miles.

There is a shortage of skilled labor in the US willing to work for slave labor rates. That is the real story.

And what was the final failure rate for the space shuttle? 133 launches, 2 catastrophic failures. That is way, way higher than any expected failure rate initially published. All that extra billions and billions of dollars they said they needed didn't give them any edge over reliable cargo launchers.

You don't know what peak oil is.

We are not finding new oil reserves faster than the rate of growth of oil usage.

We are always finding new oil, but the Chinese and other emerging industrial countries are consuming it faster than we are finding it.

New forms of energy are being stifled / legislatively hindered by oil interests. Why else are states trying to pass laws to tax solar panel installations?

Its no coincidence the car had 30 pounds of marijuana in it.

The Supreme Court just condoned Parallel Reconstruction. The gist of it is that the DEA or police obtain information illegally. They then report "anonymous" tips to the police. The police then pull over the car and say "We smelled marijuana." This excuse for illegal search and seizure has already been condoned. Courts have granted police infallible senses of smell. They search the car and find the material they know is already there.

Welcome to police state USA. If someone in power doesn't like you, you can see how it goes.

Its not just cost. As a beginner, your shots go all over and you end up playing very slow. This tends to piss off people behind you and it can make for an unpleasant afternoon after a while.

I am not saying its right or anything, but its definitely a turn off for new players.