Put the CD or DVD into the cup-holder slot. Reboot the machine. Answer the simple questions (which are "What language and time zone do you want?" kind of simple, not "What's your BIOS version and disk geometry?" kind of simple.)
If I wanted to run Gentoo or Linux From Scratch or A Really Old Slackware Version, I know where to find them. I'm running Linux to get some work done, not to tweak compatibility settings.
The dice are just rolling around in your head...
Frumious as it sounds, it's better than naming your movie production companies "Manetheran" and "Red Eagle" (i.e. straight out of the books), producing an allegedly crappy version of the books, and then suing.
I've actually seen data from my laptop showing up on a TV. It was out of sync, so it was only part of the screen, repeated multiple times and scrolling slowly. This was back in the 90s, probably a 640x480 screen, and probably the radiation was mostly emitted from the external-video-monitor port (VGA or whatever we used back then.)
If I'm running (yeah, like that happens a lot), a phone's annoying, though an armband helps. A well-designed small pedometer wouldn't be as annoying, but the basic $5 waist-band-clip step-counter pedometers fall off.
For walking, though, I'm normally wearing clothes with pockets, and the phone's not an problem; if I wanted to track motion with it it would be fine. (The basic $5 waist-band-clip step-counter pedometers? Still fall off.)
Informed stupidity may still be stupidity, but the places that have been requiring that "personal belief exemption" parents discuss the issues with a doctor before being allowed to use that excuse have found it's pretty effective. It doesn't stop all the stupidity, but maybe half. (I'd prefer the requirement to be "discuss with a doctor EVERY year" as opposed to just once, but it's a start.)
Most of the allergy issues with vaccines are egg allergies (many vaccines are or were grown on egg media), and they usually do have diagnosis from professionals because (unless they're vegans or Hindus), their kid was getting allergic reactions to something and they tracked it down to being eggs.
There are also kids who have impaired immune systems, typically because of chemotherapy.
No, Obama wasn't on the fence about vaccinations in 2008 - the right-wing news sources claiming that are disproved by the actual video of the actual talk.
But it's no wonder that people freaked out about Perry mandating the HPV vaccine (one of the few sensible things he's done.) Not only does it cost over $100, but it requires admitting that your precious snowflake teenager might (gasp!) have sex, which you know is Just Not Possible because Abstinence Only Education says they shouldn't (and teaches them not to trust condoms as well.)
I haven't done much with the RPi, partly because my TV got packed away during some construction and I haven't dragged it back out after that got finished, and the monitors I have at work use VGA or DisplayPort. But the times I've tried using it with borrowed HDMI monitors, it was really picky about staying in sync. Maybe it's a power problem? One reason I picked the RPi over the BeagleBone Black was it claimed to do 1080p at 60 Hz vs. only 30 on the BBB, but it wasn't handling 60Hz very well even just running simple Raspbian. (Of course, it could also have been the monitor I was using.)
If you're going to be archaic and use Greek letters, you've got to decide how archaic you want to be. San alphabetizes between Pi and Qoppa, which comes before Rho. The Greeks got their letters from the Phoenicians, who used more sibilants than the Greeks did, so San eventually got dropped in favor of Sigma, which was pretty much the same sound for them. (They kept Sigma, Xi, and Zeta.) And Qoppa mostly got replaced with Kappa after a while. (There were other letters as well; Digamma looks like an F, and fit into the F/V/W letter space, used for words like woinos (wine, which mostly dropped the digamma by the classical period, but earlier writers like Homer used it.)
Kids learning from an encyclopedia discussed pregnancy? Wow, remember the days before birth control, when the kid would have learned that from having younger siblings magically appear! Can't have that, and forget having farm animals around (except the newt that the kid turned the principal into.)
Calling another kid black? Depends on what happened.
After all, the kid did turn the teacher into a newt. (And because of Zero Tolerance, the fact that she got better just doesn't excuse it.)
Zero Tolerance is mostly a War on Drugs thing. (And don't believe the right-wingers when they say that political correctness is only a left-wing liberal liberal liberal Commie behaviour.)
The incident you're talking about was an outsider coming to the school; a zero-tolerance policy wouldn't have stopped it.
The Tao is like a glob pattern: used but never used up. It is like the extern void: filled with infinite possibilities.
