We clearly disagree on a lot of things, but I would happily put my hypothetical kids in a school system run by you.

My only question is, if we have plenty of money for schools already, where are we wasting it? It's clearly not on teacher salaries, and from what I read our average classroom size is pretty high, so it's not that we have too many teachers. I hear a lot of talk about crumbling infrastructure, so I don't expect that we're building lavish classrooms. So, I'm willing to believe we're already spending enough on education, but can you tell me where's it all going? This is not a rhetorical question - I'd really like to know.

I forgot to add that if you elect people that believe that government is the problem, you get shitty government - they don't believe it can work so they don't actually try.

Look at the difference in FEMA under Clinton and Bush - that's the difference between people who believe in good government and those who don't.

I don't believe that government is the answer for every problem, there are a lot of crappy laws out there, and the federal government has overstepped it's authority in a lot of areas. I might actually agree with you that it shouldn't be involved in education, but providing funding, especially in the current economic environment, seems like it could be helpful.

Oh yes, no "partisan bickering." This is the Obama Way: let's not bicker. Just agree with me!

You're dishonestly trying to frame the debate: I want a good education for my kids, which REQUIRES that the federal government is not involved.

Aside from the useless snipe at Obama, this is a ridiculous statement. Someone who believes the federal government can't get anything right isn't serious about good government. I bet you think our military is pretty well run right? Isn't that the federal government? How about that nifty internet all the kids love - didn't that spring forth from federal research? Despite all the hand-wringing about social security from people who don't want to pay SS taxes, that has been efficiently providing for the elderly for years, and certainly looks a lot safer than my IRA right now - thank god this recession will be over long before I retire.

If the federal government can't get anything right, why do we have it at all?

Right, nobody has any Objective-C code lying around. Despite the fact that both C and C++ code integrates with Objective-C easily.

You have clearly never tried it. I started iPhone development a couple of months ago, and I found 3rd-party BSD licensed code for basically everything I needed.

Ok, I'm getting sick of this claim. There is no proof that Apple has ever deliberately bricked devices. This is completely unfounded.

In fact, go back and look at the reports of iPhones breaking, and you'll see that most of them started working again with a later OS release. About the only thing that happens on upgrade with jailbroken phones these days is that they are locked again.