I'm still seeing these burnt up Nvidia chips get replaced with the same identical board on warranty repairs, and still finding busted caps on certain (cough gx270 gx280 cough) models.

I'll take government bias over corporate bias any day of the week. I'm pretty sure what the government is trying to sell me. Untangling the various interests of the corporate media would be too much like work :) That's not even taking the constant commercial interruption into account. I'll bet I receive nearly double the content over a similar time period when I'm catching up on the BBC over NPR in the mornings.

Tony Jaa in The Protector. One of the best single shot scene's I've ever seen for sure.

They have a thing called National Public Radio, which provides access to news, weather, and emergency information when the net is down :D CANCEL THAT CABLE!

Couldn't a self-respecting nerd simply bypass the paid priority by tunneling into a non-double-dipped protocol? (ping tunnel comes to mind). If mole-bashing becomes an issue, simply tunnel through a protocol they cannot mess with, like http. Tunneling may be in a nerd only realm now, but it could easily become as ubiquitous as (insert kid friendly p2p app) here.

The reason all modern d-pads suck is that Nintendo has a patent on the "good" d-pad :)

http://www.amazon.com/Mitsubishi-WD-60735-60-Inch-1080p-HDTV/dp/B00166BNFS For the full stereoscopic 3d support :)

A Tom Waits reference. And not one single person got it. What is the world coming to?

There is no such thing as a relevant ad. Unless I am looking to buy something, I don't wanna see your product. Even if I am looking to buy something . . . I sure as heck ain't going to find it through your ad. I'm going to find it through careful research, done by multiple third parties. This is why I have no television, no radio, and you can pry my adblock out of my cold dead fingers.

Someone might want to mention that New Super Mario Bros. doesn't work with the precompiled Dolphin, you've gotta compile the latest build for this game to make it past the title screen. So there, I mentioned it.

Unschooler seven years, Elijah, age 7

Example: I know at least one guy with a High School Diploma, who can't read. My Unschooler, reads better than his schooled friends, with no formal reading program whatsoever. Hey, Elijah, can you read me this is about as formal as we get :)

Unschooler seven years, Elijah, age 7

Agreed, but discipline doesn't just come from kindergarten and drill Seargents. You can have some at home too :)

Unshcooler seven years, Elijah age seven.

Sorry, but there comes a time when there's just no getting around the fact that you have to sit at a desk and do some fucking work.

I'd like to raise a child who thinks there are options other than those :)

Unschooler seven years, of Elijah, age seven.

I agree with you to an extent, but I think you are misunderstanding what unschooling is. It is a rejection of the structure and content of the public schools, but its not a rejection of all authority. We are quite strict about the amount of time Elijah spends on math vs, on video games, for example. A large percentage of human knowledge is quite painful to learn. There seems to be no way around forcing the multiplication tables; however, there are plenty of subjects that require no forcing whatsoever, and benefit greatly from removing the authority figure. Take literature for example, there is no worse pain than reading a book you hate, as there is no greater pleasure in reading a book you love.