It's just rocks and sand.. Piracy is probably the only viable enterprise going there. It's more of an impromptu tax really and these robot counter-measures just unethical tax evasion. Pirate ships may also serve as fishing boats and refugee transport..

What you are missing is that our children are worth more than we were. The equation is simple enough - longer lives, less risk and fewer births makes each of our children very precious. Healthcare industry fatcats making shit up? Would you be talking about dentists fixing buckteeth? ADHD is real enough, but before we put up with it or beat the kid or put him in a special class for specially fucked up kids but those are not options for an only child today.

If it tells you when it moves without you knowing then you know and it doesn't need to tell you, or if it tells you without you knowing then you don't know and the telling isn't required. Take your scooter with you to class if you love it that much.

/.ers offering parenting wisdom? If you introduce your child to cleaning he will keep your house and those around it clean forever. True for how many children? Mine clean up only in minecraft. I love playing sport but my efforts to get my kids to enjoy sport have come to nothing.

I have 2x Netgear WNR3500L bridged that have been running ddr-wrt trouble free for almost a year. They are cheap and have 8MB flash and 64MB ram.

The problem is caused by our retirement plans. Here we are buying scarce resources with our excess cash and building grand homes that nobody needs so that people yet to be born have to buy it all from us later when we are no longer able to work but can still breath. Money can't buy much fun when you are nearly dead so why let ourselves do this wasteful hoarding? It's time for a retirement plan prohibition, for the common good.

The average ./er is mid forties so having grandparents is scarce than being them here.

Here you are advocating violent crime in response to somebody showing disrespect for the dead on the internet. Is that civilized? Being asbergers is a mitigating factor but his lousy lawyer said there were none.

We are talking about US children and not a road building machine? Tell those 7 and 8 year kids that programming is making those games they play on their xboxes and that it can take many lifetimes of programming to make a few minutes of fun something that many programmers don't have that much of. I have an 8 year old and I haven't tried to explain programming to him but I think that if I show him how to assign a keyboard macro in Starcraft he will get the idea.

You are right Telecom isn't state owned. Why did I think it was? That only leaves US influence.

It's a stupid law - probably got NZ a gold star with the US state department and expected to save some international bandwidth making state owned Telecom more profitable. The result will be risk aversive homes, libraries and schools without internet.