You never talk bad (in public) about a rival who is dead. It's poor form.

Had Jobs still been alive, things would be different.

I feel your pain. I used to program in Assembly and, god help me, COBOL.
Assembly went away, but the knowledge of COBOL will take a 9mm to erase.

Thanks for the education on this. The worst teachers I've ever had, were all unionized, hence my dislike of them.

(1) Make schooling, from grades 10-12, voluntary. This is a two-fold solution:
(a) It gets rid of those that are disruptive and don't want to be there anyway, leaving:
(b) more time for those that are there to learn, and more resources from the teachers can be devoted to smaller classes.

(2) Those that drop out, are placed in a trade school, or join the military, their choice.

(3) Stop teaching to the test. I understand (at least where I live anyway) that school budgets are tied to SOL test scores, but it screws things up, and makes it worse, not better.

(4) Dump the teacher's union. Give teachers the authority to make the changes needed in education.

(5) Don't be afraid to fail students and/or hold them back if they need it, but that need will be reduced with the implementation of (1)

(6) Separation of school and private sector. By this I mean stop mucking about with textbooks (religious nuts and anti-science folks, I'm looking at you)
Publish fact, wingnut theories are left to churches and out of school time (or college, take your pick)

(7) There is no step (7)

Decades ago (aka, mid 80s) this unique-to-my-city electronics joint opened up. Best Buy sized long before BB was around. During their grand opening, they had fog machines going,laser light shows, booth babes, the whole 9 yards.
My friend goes in and buys a laserdisc player from them, and buys an extended 3 year warranty as well. The extended warranty however, wasn't through the manufacturer of the LD player, but rather the store itself. Paid a ruddy fortune for the extended warranty as I recall (almost as much ad the LD player itself)
Less than 3 months later, the store was closed.

I've been by your vacation home in Belize. It's still for sale, do the proceeds go to you if/when it sells, or does the gov't get it?

If the gov't gets it, can you lower the pricetag so I can afford it please?

At least not yet, best you can do is click on a link to "register your interest"
What's next? a kickstarter campaign?
Vapourware/slashvertisement of the worst kind.

FTA:

>>the Belgian association of authors, composers and publishers,....

Ok, so we block all references to anything named by those authors, composers and publishers, so no trace of them exist on the internet (in Belgium anyway) so no one can pirate their stuff.

No?

A very close friend of mine's sister suffers from that. Came on in her mid to late 20s, she threw away her entire life as she spiraled down the path of insanity. It really is heartbreaking to watch

These apple-wanna be keyboards don't cut it. Go back to the IBM-era thinkpad keyboards or something.

you condescending asshole. There is a look you get from film that cannot be duplicated any other way.

Would be a simple matter of returning quality to their products.
They can start with their driver software, that alone would raise my opinion of them.

By tracking down and eliminating all the stupid ones?
Or all members of Congress.
But I repeat myself.

AutoCAD was very expensive and you needed a dongle to run the software. No dongle, software won't run.

Hard to pirate around that.
Not impossible. But hard.

3rd world countries get a pass on pollution thanks to the Kyoto Treaty, the pollution isn't really happening.

Meanwhile my electric bill keeps going up.
Thanks US Gov't!