For those who don't know, disconnect the computer from the internet, or don't connect it to the internet during OOBE, and the option to create a local account will be there. If you get to the point that it will only allow a MS account, disconnect from the internet, click the back option in the upper left corner, and then the option will display. Yes, they really, really want the user to create MS account, but it is an easy work-around to get to the local account.

I signed on for 1099 work with a company which asked for a NCA. After signing they refused to give me work. The agreement stated that I would not compete against them in their specific field, which is also mine. They signed me up to work for them under the guise that they would just not send me any work and put me out of business. I sued them for the loss of work that I would have potentially profited from for the entire year. I won. The judge stated that nobody can stop me from working, and that predatory practices such as theirs are frowned upon. He said if you want the business, work for it. Since then I have taken the judge's advice and I have taken a significant number of that company's contracts.

I am curious as to how the authorities found out about this. I would like to assume that people don't generally brag about their paid sexual experiences. If she lied about her age to get on the site, then why is this man fully to blame? Did she disclose her age to him before engaging in sex? Does she 'look' 16? Did he record the encounter? Was the whole thing a setup? We need more information, I think.

is the worst company I have ever worked with, both professionally and privately. Comcast gets trashed due to their practices, but Frontiers may be worse. Anything they say I take as a grain of salt. I don't trust them and I assume that everything that comes out of the mouths of their people is a lie. Just my 2 cents.

I ran into this documentary on YouTube quite by accident. I didn't realize it was over 3 hours long until I got into it a ways. It is called JFK to 911 Everything Is A Rich Man's Trick

I have homeschooled my two boys since middle school. It took about 3 weeks to see a change in their personality. After 6 months, I could see a fundamental change in their scholastic abilities. After 5 years, the oldest is preparing for college and the younger is a very bright student. The best thing is that they have learned how to learn, so the time that I spend with them on each subject becomes less as time goes by, but I can see that they are still learning through their writing, and during conversation. And just like the article suggests, I never help them with their homework. Well, not unless they ask. My only regret is not having the time or the resources to branch out with science. Our science is nearly all academic with very few projects. They will have to get a more significant scientific education through higher education. Regardless, they still will receive more instruction in the sciences than they would have had from attending a public or charter school. As far as the nonsense about homeshooled kids not having social skills...I do not agree. I am fortunate to have intelligent children. I am complimented regularly on their intelligence and behavior. I do not worry about their emotional well-being nor do I find the need to keep tabs on them due to the company that they keep.

There are several ways that you could increase the storage on your system. One would be to increase the size of each of your physical disks and keep your existing setup. Another would be to add SATA cards with eSATA external plugs and add additional drives to an external eSATA enclosure. My concern with external enclosures, however, is heat dissipation. Heat is often a destroyer of drives, but there are external enclosures available that address that problem. You could replace the case where you could add additional drives, but eventually you would be back in the same situation that you are in now. However, a combination of these options would not only allow you to currently increase the size of your storage but also allow for you to have room to grow in the future. That would not be the most cost-effective approach for short term growth but would be most effective for long term growth. Replace the case with a case that has more expansion bays for HDDs, add eSATA cards, upgrade some of your drives, and put the old drives in external eSATA enclosures. If you wanted to go to a rack system, then you would have substantially more room for growth, a specatucular setup, but would not be near as cost-effective. As for your HTPC software, I currently use XBMC in a HTPC case using an old PC with a core2 duo CPU and several gigs of RAM booting from a 4GB usb drive. XBMC covers everything that I need and streams my movies(h.264)/music(mp3)/pictures without an issue. I even bought some fancy remote to work with it, although my family prefer a wireless mouse over the air-mouse. My server uses an Antec 180 case with a AMS SATA Backplane Module modded to fit into the 5.25" bays. I still have room for a Blue Ray burner and I can fit 11 drives in the case, for a current total of 31 GB inside of one case. I use five 120mm and one 80mm SilenX fans in the case for quiet/reliability/performance. My two cents. Hope it helps.