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Comment Re:What? (Score 1) 223

With crayons you can colors to make new colors which allows you to far exceed the 16k colors, and they let you work in a larger color range. Layers are easily done by coloring with one crayon over another. You change the opacity of the drawing tool by changing how hard you press on the crayon. You can undo and erase by coloring over what you've already done.

Now it's my turn: What do I select in sketchpad to make a color change with temperature? Pressure? UV light? Indoor vs outdoor light? Water? 'Invisible Ink' that shows up under acids (lemon juice)? These are all things that I was able to do with crayons when I was a kid.

Comment Re:What? (Score 2) 223

How does connect the dots with a crayon increase creativity more than an iPad where they can learn to play music, finger paint, and read.

The crayon is only limited by the imagination of the kid (and reality), while the iPad is limited by both the imagination of the kid and the programmer.

For example: When I was in first grade we learned about the primary colors and how mixing them would give other colors. Our 'homework' was to color in this venn diagram type thing, so there would be a 'red' circle and a 'blue' circle and where they overlapped was purple. Now just about every kid in the class used a red crayon to color in the red part, a blue crayon for the blue part, and a purple crayon for the purple part (I think this was how the task was presented to us). One kid however used the red and the blue crayons in the purple area to make it purple, and it worked pretty well. If he had been doing the same sort of thing on in an app then he would have only worked if it was something the programmer thought of and took the time to put in.

Comment Re:You're looking in the wrong place (Score 3, Informative) 537

If it was a White Extremest Christian my money is on property damage, or arson at most.

Yep, everyone refers to the 168 dead from the Oklahoma City bombing as "property damage" and no one ever refers to Timothy McVeigh as a terrorist.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/national/longterm/oklahoma/stories/ok042597.htm
http://edition.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0106/09/pitn.00.html
http://abcnews.go.com/US/story?id=93055&page=1

Unless you don't count CNN, ABC and the Washington Post as "MSM".

Comment Re:So what? (Score 2, Informative) 1046

Really?
From Florida Statute 776.032 Immunity from criminal prosecution and civil action for justifiable use of force
"(1) A person who uses force as permitted in 776.012 [Use of force in defense of person] is justified in using such force and is immune from criminal prosecution and civil action for the use of such force..."
"(2) A law enforcement agency may use standard procedures for investigating the use of force as described in subsection (1), but the agency may not arrest the person for using force unless it determines that there is probable cause that the force that was used was unlawful."

Sure sounds like they can't be arrested to me.

Comment Re:Never happened before..nope (Score 2) 326

This American Life isn't a news program, in fact they specifically point this out if you go to their web page. The best way to describe TAL in a sentence is a program that presents a series of stories (I'd call them essays) around some theme for the purpose of entertaining the listener. Some of the stories are based factual information, but others are total fiction.

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