so here is the main response to this: "some parents can't afford it, so they don't have the chance to be able to do it, and their children deserve to have the chance of receiving cash compensation."

but what you're failing to understand is that some parents choose to instill a work ethic using means that don't require cash compensation... if these cash compensation bribe programs become ubiquitous, you are denying the parents who are well off enough to provide cash compensation, but choose not to, to reward their children using means they see fit.

show me the numbers on stable parents that don't want this program and broke parents that do.

"corporations don't make laws or form government you silly twit."

Where have you been living the last 50 years? Certainly not on Earth. Money is what elects candidates, and corporate money is thousands of times stronger than the population. Combine that with no term limits on Congress, and recent scotus decisions like:

http://www.scotuswiki.com/index.php?title=Citizens_United_v._Federal_Election_Commission

The US is as close to fascism as you can get without actually officially declaring itself fascist.

It doesn't really help when your password is [dictionary-word]N
Where N=number of times you've had to change your password.

Good! Splendid! If this means that infernal twitterbird gets removed from all those sites it has been showing up I'd say have them plaster all their twittertwatter with Re: herbal v14gr4 poker gambling ads 'till the cows come home.

Twitter is a bad idea. It might fit in the attention-span deficient, Idol-aspiring 5 minutes of fame ideal of a dumbed-down happy consumer society but I don't want that fork of the decision tree to become the set future. There is still time to change track.

Throw the switch! Kill the bird! Stamp it down!

Next on the menu: Holler, the new twitter! Scream out loud to all the world!

One question that comes to my mind: could advanced autopilot tech lead to more ubiquitous personal aircraft? I don't really know anything about it, but I've always assumed that one of the big hurdles preventing us from having "flying cars" (by which I don't necessarily mean an actual car, but something lots of individuals could buy and fly under casual circumstances) is the difficulty of learning to fly safely. If you could program a destination and have the entire trip flown by an autopilot, from takeoff to landing, would that help the situation?

A little, but not much. The main difficulty in learning to fly safely has less to do with physical skill and far more to do with good judgement. Airplanes still are rather marginal beasts, in the sense that they can easily be flown into situations that are rather hard to get out of. Let's assume that we have invented and installed a magical autopilot system that does what you described. What situations will it help with, and which ones will it not help with?

IT WILL HELP WHEN...

- A pilot gets lost. Hopefully this problem will go away.

- A pilot flies into unexpected IFR (instrument) flying conditions. Press the button, and the airplane magically keeps itself upright and lands them somewhere safe. This is probably the biggest gain in safety right here.

- A pilot 'loses it' - gets airsick, incapacitated, etc.

IT WON'T HELP WHEN...

- The pilot doesn't put enough fuel on for the flying they want to do. This is, sadly, more common than you would think.

- The pilot flies into thunderstorms, freezing rain, etc. Bad weather that can knock a plane from the sky has always existed, and pilots keep flying into it. Our abilities to automatically predict and avoid such weather is still very, very limited.

- The pilot doesn't maintain the aircraft or magic autopilot system, and something breaks at an inoppurtune time.

- The pilot overloads the aircraft with too much stuff, or balances it badly. The predictable (but unknown to the autopilot) lack of performance that will result could be deadly.

- And, of course, engine failures requiring off-airport landings. The recent USAir landing in the Hudson illustrates where a skilled human is most valuable.

Food for thought.

No, you can't use Firebug with IETab.

But if you use the real IE, you can use the IE Developer tools, so I don't understand why a web developer would ever want to use IE Tab.