As a US resident, my oldest of three kids is entering middle school era, and the education landscape in the US is daunting. Seems like private school investment in middle is best bang for buck, then inevitable undergrad tuition aid. Wife+I make >300k per article, any action we can take to help? :sweat-smile: I hate to offer problems without suggested solutions. What do you think?

I don't understand how people justify these ludicrous bills. Wifi everywhere, get fring+skype, gtalk for texts when you can, then pay as you go passed that. Platinumtel offers sprint service with whatever sprint android phone you have (through ptel.ws byod). I pay ~4.50$/month (after 180$ evo 3d craigslist + 40$ byod). Families must be in the multiple hundreds and I laugh out loud every time I see 1-5% of peoples income go toward phones. Yeah yeah you use your phone? Fine, I hope you like paying an extra 80$, or 17.77 times more than I pay. For one, that's 8 pizzas, 2 raspberry pis, 5+ indie games, a new set of memory, or an ssd EVERY MONTH For a family, thats a 24" monitor, .1 motorcycles, or a new processor EVERY MONTH. I don't understand the priorities but more power to ya.

Being too clean also brings forth a prevalent and more dangerous issue in recent decades: auto immune disorders, which is more deadly than having an impotent immune system. Also with antibacterial soap brings: anti-bacterial resistant infections, of which many people carry today. In the US, around 2.8% of people have just one of these resistant infections: MRSA. Disclaimer: didn't read the article. Sources: Wiki, Graham P, Lin S, Larson E (2006). "A U.S. population-based survey of Staphylococcus aureus colonization". Ann Intern Med 144 (5): 318–25. PMID 16520472.

It worked fine for me so far (a year). I'd think it would work for programmers/sys admins who can administer their own systems. We saved a grand up front for each system and haven't spent a dime yet for replacements, even though we budgeted. What gear are you guys getting that breaks in 18 months? Hard drives break plenty, but that's it. That happens no matter what, and is an insignificant cost. My western digital caviar experience is too positive to be swayed otherwise, and I can't wait until SSDs because solid enough to last as long as ram. On top of that, we can upgrade our stuff for cheap. How does that figure in to dell? Still tax deductible, that seems a moot point. If it's all about money, why would I not squint at prices? Also, we use fedora. I'm sure windows increases the cost a ton. We got i5 750s, 4GB memory, 1TB WD hdds, gtx 260s, and premium asus boards. Cost effective, fast, solid.

Need to hear? As if there were some morality associated with hearing particular events some group of people attribute importance to? Need to hear it or else what? To me I'd think the only logical conclusion to me not hearing news is that I wouldn't be informed of it, not like I 'm any less of a man. Want != Need, and different people have different wants.

Don't jump the gun... with insane health reforms he might incite the US to civil war. I know I'm more annoyed at him than at W.

Vista eats that for breakfast, I need my 340.3 undecillion bytes!

Pics or didn't happen!

It's not the common sense of the driver, but the law enforcer. The law enforcer can already pull someone over if they deem it dangerous, while they probably won't pull them over while texting if it's not dangerous. Yes, I believe there are safe texting while driving scenarios, but this law rules them all out at the get-go.

I thought http://www.superbike.co.uk/imageBank/2/2007_CBR600RR.jpg was their response to segway. Cheaper, safer, faster, cooler.

They could have a list of possibilities, generated by computer or human. Then- They throw out the same word several times and aggregate the answers. Comparing elements in the aggregates they see how many people chose a particular word. When the probability that the word is wrong reaches near zero, they introduce it to the database. Don't know how they did it, that's just one of the ways they could have. Not a cure-all, but it helps with the scans I suppose.

If the trial is any indicator, then the speed of the pidgeon was 4096MB / 68 minutes * 60 seconds/minute = 1.003921569 MB/s. Even if they fail, I wouldn't consider Telkom a terrible ISP, given this test alone.

It's the doctor's they employ, obviously. The VA picks the doctor leftovers. You can't honestly believe all doctor's are created equal? Bad doctor's exist - and more are on the payroll of the US government rather than private practice. Seems like the comment was just nitpicky without any real point.

Troll? Really?

I did the same and I agree, different experiences with different shoes. I ended up with comfortable shoes that supposedly fixed everything, but after a while my knees started hurting. I started running barefoot, and my running style accomodated the shoe change. After a few days the knee problem went away and I currently have no problems. Now a couple of years in that's all I do. Side benefit: tough skin underfoot (for beach)