Governments pay every Tuesday after the first Monday in November.

Congrats you baited me. The Government is not in charge of your healthcare any more than the SEC is in charge of your stock portfolio. ACA created a regulated market for private insurance. The person deciding whether or not you get surgery is a medical director at a *private* insurance company. Not a government official. If anything, ACA made it harder for insurance companies to deny coverage for certain types of care. This Republican talking point is way over-played and not based on facts.

Go-live fiascos like this are quite common in the private sector. Large corporate bureaucracies can be just as bad, if not worse, than government. The difference is that this particular SNAFU is getting dissected in the press. It's a great opportunity to learn about the complexities involved when deploying large, complex, federated systems. I guarantee you there are people in the private sector pushing these articles to their corp. IT as a way to shame CIOs and CEOs into cutting the red tape, procurement hurdles, fiefdoms, and archaic development methodologies in their own organizations. If you want something meaningful from this event, learn from it rather than pointing fingers at "The Government." These are problems in most large organizations.

Political dissidents, whistle blowers... and FREEDOM LOVERS.

Mod up. He paid ultimate price for what he believed. There is not a stronger litmus test for one's character.

The product you're selling also has to be good. "Fool me once..."

Not as authoritative as you thought:
"A coalition of electronics recyclers are disputing the Retina MacBook Pro's newly minted EPEAT "Gold" status, noting that the industrial-strength glue holding the battery in place runs afoul of rules designed to make computers easier to recycle. It turns out that the Gold rating was handed to Apple by none other than Apple itself, though EPEAT can require Apple to remove the rating after evaluating its assessment of standard criteria."

Source:"all of Apple’s Mac line had top EPEAT ratings, with the exception of the company’s new MacBook Pro with Retina Display."

"...all qualifying products." I didn't hear that future products (like additional retina screen lap tops) will be EPEAT.

Who knew the surrender button was such a desirable feature?

Mostly enterprise planning incompetence. We have "legacy" corporate encryption and security cripple-ware that only works on XP machines... the 2-year project completed last year.

Thank you. This thread is a pos if you are interested in learning the topic. This is why people hate nerds.

Just so we are clear, the GP is saying that the companies above should have the freedom to reach their audiences and customers without being selectively blocked by ISPs.

Freedom is not having my business's website blocked by my customers' ISP.

He needs a mentor that can keep up with him. Rather than focusing on high school vs. college, I'd focus on finding the best possible person to set him down a fulfilling path for his life. That teacher or mentor could be in a University or high school. Putting this kid in any classroom is like handing out the keys to a Formula 1 car. You'll want to make sure that the driver can steer this mind towards reaching its full potential (both in achievement and personal fulfillment).