I'll bite. I've been there. By your definition I'm one of the apparent "inattentive parents" and I think you "don't know what the fuck [you]'re talking about".

I'm there for my kids all the time. We do stuff together. We talk. We figure out right from wrong and it doesn't stop this from happening. Why, because a 12 yo lacks the maturity of a full grown adult.

Case in point, my A/B student (so not some dummy or delinquent). Placed on suspension and probation for terroristic threats.

Ignored by a kid that used to be a friend, said inflammatory things about having people ready to jump him. The twist, the kid didn't care. The kid didn't report it, it was another school official who overheard everything.

In this case, language designed to elicit a response was purposely chosen. Does a kid have the maturity level to realize the consequences of doing so? Um, no, not at 12 and not having had this experience.

Have you ever used language to piss someone off on purpose? How would you keep the emotions of an 12 year old in check while they're at school? How was the school district zero tolerance policy beneficial in preventing this from happening? What would you have done as a parent to make sure your kid never said something stupid? Do you even have a kid? If you don't have the answers then STFU!

Kenton County Kentucky. And yes, I think it's silly in the extreme. I walked or cycled nearly a mile to school every day. It was only uphill one way in the wintertime, but you can still get off my lawn!

Yes, because the schools in my county switched to busing all the students. They're not even allowed near the street until high school! Really sucks for my kids because, despite living less than half a mile from school, they can't participate in after hour activities unless someone can pick them up. Hard to do when work is 30 minutes or more away.

Ah, an AC who has never been harassed by a cop. Sorry pal, once it happens, you'll never feel the same level of trust that you do now. Ignorance == Bliss

This is one of the most sensible ideas I've read online in ages!

Actually, yes, 10 years ago the tablet computer did exist. It wasn't a capacitive touch screen available to everyone+dog, but I know I coveted the touch devices that were hitting the computing market more than 10 years ago. There was one in particular that was very promising and ran linux but never got past prototype stages.

Even smartphones were around back in the day. The term smartphone is 14 years old and I remember co-workers with handsprings that could make and receive phone calls over 10 years ago.

I'm not arguing that technology is screaming forward at an unprecedented pace, but it's not nearly as fast as everyone wants us to think. Apple, Samsung and Nokia didn't just spring out of the woodwork 5 years ago with fantastic new phones. They built on the work done by others, many of whom couldn't innovate fast enough to even exist today.

Flying cars on the other hand just seem to have stagnated for the past 40+ years.

Really? Didn't seem like it when I was getting back off my honeymoon. I wasn't searched, but the the cop at the airport really wanted "snoopy" to investigate me further.

I will say that I am sure that I stood out from the crowd. Hair bleached from 2 years of Mexico sun, face and arms equally tanned. I was also dressed head to toe in traditional white cotton Jarocho clothing. I probably was extra haggard from a severe second degree sunburn all across my back and shoulders.

If the handler was trained to avoid a false positive, why was he so sure that the dog needed to have a go at me? He was dragging the dog by the leash to have a go at my suitcase and carry on. The pooch was clearly disinterested and I am 100% certain I wasn't carrying anything that would have triggered a reaction.

The puzzle is based around the possible sets of siblings. You have to understand that.

I like to look at it as coins. Take a 10 cent coin and a 5 cent coin with distinct heads or tails. There are the following possible combinations:

10 | 5
H | H
H | T
T | H
T | T

They are very distinct in the sense that if we toss the coins, we have a 25% chance of any combination appearing. If we're told that in a given toss, there was one that was heads and are now asked what is the probability of the other being heads, it is one in 3 since we've eliminated the third option.

The point is, the boy/girl combinations really are distinct and unique outcomes that do factor into the overall probability.

iWhooosh!

You mean you didn't like all the ACTA stories?

And as much as you have thinking about it, Richard Stallmans way of life starts making sense. The thing I do like about stallman, is that unlike many ofther extremists, he doesnt push his ideals where they aren't wanted. If asked to speak on the topic he will, and at lenght, but he doesnt go around lobbying govertment to make sure all software development is open source and free, he just wants to make sure there is enough of it that you can create a "free" computer system if you want to.
The hardest stuff to do as open source is the hardware, becasue this does cost a lot of money to develop and reproduce, but guess what, Linux juns just fine on my Mac too, and even when using OS X, based on Unix, most of the software I do use is opensource. I dont need iWork, or MS Office, Open Office does the job, Handbrake takes care of video file transcoding and ripping my own DVDs, VLC plays nearly everything, GCC and other compilers still work in Linux and OS X. Infact lots of opensource stuff works better in OS X than windows because of a smaller number of different systems that might be running it, not like with Windows, which might be XP, Vista, Win7, Server2003, 2007, etc. Most of the intel systems would have gone 10.5 altleast, and most PPC systems will be there as the last stop before 10.6. (also PPC based Macs make good linux systems too)

The fact that the GP only said that the name and the icon are closed invalidates your entire comment. Open Source means that you can get the source code, that is it. Free Software means that the software provides the user with certain freedoms, like the freedom to modify and redistribute. You don't have the right to redistribute your changed version as Firefox, therefore it can be argued that it is not Free Software. Nowhere did the GP claim that Firefox's code was not Open Source.

I'm a psychotherapeutic expert but not a brain expert and much of this knowledge is being updated with fMRI scanning.

As I said, we tend to use both sides of the brain all the time.

There's also a question of defining "logic". Spatial logic would be processed more in the right hemisphere I suspect