Exactly! You wouldn't believe what they're charging for a bottle of nitroglycerin.

I agree, I've often wondered when Google is going to make a voice command and dictation program.
I guess you could always just dictate to your voicemail box until then.

You'll be able to run Office and watch a flash video in Firefox...
At the same time.

The problem, as I see it, is that the schools teach for testability: it's easy to confirm that you have loaded a student's heads with facts (like who was elected president in 1972, or the molecular weight of radioactive elemental carbon) when instead they should spend more time teaching the harder to measure, yet infinitely essential, logic skills that would let them apply said facts.

Or, as my pun-infested brain likes to think of it: Schools should be teaching the trivium, not trivia.

People who live in glass houses shouldn't live so close to the road.

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It seems like wheels are better than feet. If this is true, why aren't they found in nature?

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Yeah, and after summer we have to learn the same things over again. I've learned the scientific method 3 times in the past 3 years.

I agree completely.

I'm currently a sophomore in high school and I'm taking two math classes (Geometry and Algebra II; I'm trying to catch up) with two different teachers.

I feel like I'm learning much more in Geometry than in Algebra II. In Geometry, the average class consists of first taking notes, with the teacher actually explaining why the math works. Then, we will do a worksheet or something. We almost never have homework (maybe we will have to finish something we started in class if it's not done before the end of class) and I've yet to use my book at all.

But in Algebra II, it's different. First, we check our homework. If someone doesn't understand a problem, the teacher will do it on the overhead without really explaining anything. Then she will either collect it to be graded, just check to see if we have it, or give us a quiz on it. Or maybe we'll have a drill. Then, we're given an assignment that will last until the end of the class. For homework, we get the next two sections in the book, the last half of what we just learned and the first half of what we're going to learn the next class.

I feel like I've barely learned anything in Algebra II, and what I have learned, I don't have a very good understanding of because we rushed through it in class. But in Geometry, I'm doing great and I understand everything very well.

tl;dr: Some teachers don't put in as much effort as others.

Parties don't usually make you cringe.

But on Windows 7 they do.

I agree. I would like to learn more about the would like to give it a try if I can afford it and I'm quite excited about it.

Approximately everyone.

... that you accidentally the whole verb.

It's got what Martian plants crave.