Yes, the language changes. Inasmuch as people can change the language, people can resist it changing. I resist the language changing primarily when the change makes the language less precise. Other changes tend not to trouble me.

In any case, I don't believe the formal definitions of the words have yet changed so you are incorrect. Read a dictionary for usage and compare "less" and "fewer" and become less ignorant.

And, most people fail to realize that this is a problem because the word should be "fewer" not "less". Double shudder.

Private schools in the U.S. often do not have as many resources as public schools. The curriculum they teach is typically better because they do not have to make the compromises public schools do, but it is often too expensive for them to provide the "extra"s that public schools can offer, like special education, solid sports programs, the variety of music education, the scope of science classes, any sort of student counseling, and many other things. Most of these are beyond the reach of all but the most lucrative private schools which are surpassing difficult to afford (think $12,000 to $25,000 per year for G9-G12). Even the teachers at private schools are paid worse than at public schools. However, you get teachers who are happier to not have to teach any but the brightest and most willing students and are willing to accept lower pay to do so.

My children both attended private schools for a couple of years. The first school was possibly the best in the city, curriculum-wise. When we found that my daughter had a bit of trouble with reading and was falling behind, they had nothing for her except to tell us to seek private tutoring. We tried another private, all-girls school for her and had only a little better success. When my son, on the other hand, progressed so rapidly he out-paced the class, again they had had nothing for him but to advance him long before he was emotionally ready. Therefore, he languished in boredom like you hear about in public school.

When a pay cut came along for me in the downturn, I had was forced to move them both to public school, a solution I was already considering for my daughter due to the availability of reading specialists. Both are now flourishing in an environment that has a far greater variety of challenges for my son and the help my daughter needed (she now reads above grade level.) This is certainly not what I thought I'd learn, but there you have it.

Private schools have many trade-offs aside from the additional cost.

I don't know about other places, but in the U.S. and Canada practically every house is just about as open-source as it gets. Every house is built from materials manufactured to standards that have no royalties that I am aware of (2x4 lumber, PVC plumbing, nails, screws, plywood, wiring, fixtures, etc.) Not only that, but the materials are cheaply available to anyone at a nearby home-improvement store or lumber-yard. About the only thing that is not "open-source" is the plan for a typical spec-home. However, free plans are available and, really, making plans for a house isn't rocket-surgery.

So, given all this, what is it about the effort described in this story that makes it more "open source" than your typical house?

But, most importantly, make sure you have other options first.

Your perfectly valid point being that CmdrTaco didn't "stumble upon" this table, but rather is probably failing to credit PVP with drawing his attention to it.

"White" employees? Bah ha ha ha ha hahaaaa. ha ha.... ha .... ha.

You clearly do not work in high tech.

What's better? Watching some smug, self-righteous prick choke on his own bile.

That is because Lincoln was not iconic. Mustang, Corvette, Camaro, these are iconic names. Any car so named is expected to live up to certain values. That is why the Mustang II was so reviled. It is also why the Ford Probe didn't replace the Mustang and get it's name back in the '80s. About a year out of coming to market, the marketers wised up and changed those plans. Further, GM, Ford and Chrysler have a long history of bringing models into other brands. Making the Mustang a Mercury Capri did not hurt the Mustang brand one iota.

Saab had a very strong identity in the 80's and 90s. This last decade made it almost completely non-interesting. Re-badging a Subaru that failed at paying even lip-service to that identity was offensive to those who loved Saabs. GM clearly simply intended to milk the Saab fandom for every penny and cast it off. This end is no accident.

If someone comes into unfettered possession of that information, yes, they may legally publish it as they see fit in the U.S. Suppose you were to personally tell me, a stranger, that information. Do you honestly think there are laws to prevent me from disclosing it to anyone I liked? Think again. There are specific laws to protect this kind of information in a sort of "blanket privacy contract" between you and certain entities you do business with so you, the consumer, do not have to navigate a minefield of contract law every time you see a doctor for a cold, but that differs substantially from this law that states that something you know and learned without any restriction whatsoever, you are no longer permitted to utter.

"...permission from my father to allow her to request that I read it."

There, fixed that for ya.

You had a Monster Manual??? Luxury! But you tell kids these days that and they won't believe you.

I would tell you that I did, in fact, have a first edition white box set of D&D AND a copy of Chainmail, but you would only mock me so I won't. :-)

I spent an entire summer doing exactly that (data entry on an 029). I spent every penny I made on AD&D :-)