In fact, there are several microprocessors that offer FAR less than this that are still regularly used. The ATmega8 microprocessor has only 1KiB on the chip for example. It is very unlikely at all that you can find a 100MiB micro for only $3.

One has to wonder how valuable the teaching actually is. For example you didn't get it and never learned, while the GP had it and picked it up naturally afterward. I wonder if we do in fact subconsciously pick up *something* useful from the teaching in high school, even if it doesn't seem the case. I too similarly learnt via high school first then picked up the rest myself. I guess we'd probably need more than anecdotal evidence to find this out though.

Do you have some different definition of electronic to the rest of us? Doesn't matter it its simple or not, hooking up a resistance to a power supply is still electronic.

Yes because we can so trust the parents to have the teenager's interests in mind when it comes to these things. Anyway aren't there like different speed limits per area? what if a parent were to set it to 50 and you were bleeping as speeding around in the country.