Lol, those were the days we played in the forest behind our house because even the closest grocery store was near eighty miles away and the town connected to our forest service station (we lived on forest service grounds) was two miles away on the log truck-choked freeway. Ahh... in the winter, though, we'd be wetting down the trail going from our yard to the compound street (with the garden hose)... after building a ramp on it, of course. We'd get so much air...

This has been a nice discussion to read but the concerned parent was looking for a parenting tool. As for a solution, the only thing I know off the top of my head (it's free, as well) is the firefox plugin that's a child-safe browser. It may not allow minecraft since that isn't completely child-safe due to no one policing the chat and/or no child-safe chat controls. I know of a perfect solution for an android smartphone so I'm sure there's something out there. You could bite the bullet at $40 a year per computer that one of the first respondants mentioned (they were modded to a 2- insightful, I believe, so only a portion of their message shows on its own)

There's also many janitorial cleaners that have acid in them. I remember when I owned a janitorial business, there was this one toilet bowl cleaner we had. This was our last-ditch effort to clean a toilet. Basically, if it wasn't coming clean for anything else, we used it. The top two ingredients were hydrochloric and hydrofluoric acid. The warning on the bottle told you not to put it in a metal container, due to risk of explosion. What the cleaner basically did was etch off a few layers of porcelain from the toilet. Any stain on said porcelain was gone, with the porcelain. Anyone can walk into a janitorial supply place... they typically sell to both businesses and the public (heck especially nowadays, with the way the economy has gone). Just another suggestion of where to get acid, is all... Make sure to read the warnings on the label of whatever you choose... I'm sure they've done the idiot tests so you don't have to.

Hey, at least he didn't stop at certain parts of the movie and rewind to watch them again a billion times in a row...

Yeah, you somehow have to stop the money that goes into the game (if at all) and possibly offer a safe alternative to occupy their time, like a browser game where the building or working times gets up to 8 hours or more. If there's 8 hours where they can't do anything, it leaves them time to get up and do stuff, at least... and perhaps it'll keep them from going back to the MMO when the cash for it comes back. Nile Online, Evony and Gladiatus all can take a bunch of time where you do nothing at all.

I rarely drink anything like this. First off, there's a lot of sugar in it and too much sugar at once will either give me a migraine or put me to sleep. I can never drink one can of soda in one day because of that. Secondly, I don't like carbonation. It gets trapped in my stomach too often. Even if I get a soda to drink I have to de-carbonate it before I can drink it. Third, the caffeine puts me to sleep. If I want something that will put me to sleep, I'd rather drink hot chocolate. It at least tastes better. Most of the time, I drink water. Sometimes, I drink milk, homemade smoothies or a tea. When I have a craving or need to sleep easier, I drink hot chocolate made out of cocoa powder. I think the largest consumption of caffeine I have is green tea.

I didn't vote him in... too bad others did. Granted, it's good to get better gas mileage vehicles but we really need to focus on alternative fuels. Better gas mileage only lengthens the time we can run on gas rather than actually finding a resource we can use that's better for the planet and won't run out or won't run out so quickly. Likewise, having alternative fuels means we have the ability to use more than one or two kinds. We just have to figure out the specifics... like how to store enough of the different fuels at gas stations without it being a fiasco.

I think Mythbusters found that 45 m/h was the cut-off point where AC was more efficient but I think it was something not noticeable for, say, one trip... I forget, though. However, on the air circulation thing... I really liked how the vents were in my old Honda Civic Wagon (1981). You opened those puppies up and you got a good air flow and the air was colder than the air I got out of other vehicles (when put on vent or something similar and all three: the middle heat setting, cold setting and well, on the hot, it was about as warm or a little warmer). Likewise, in my 1979 Jimmy, I had an electric back window. I'd roll that puppy down either halfway or more, then crack open the driver side window (the other two door windows weren't powered and were the only other two that could be rolled down). I'm sure that probably created some drag but you couldn't even have loose papers or anything without seeing a paper tornado inside the truck. Yeah, I had a few light items in there loose, once, when I did that... strange thing is they never exited the vehicle. I think the out was probably the driver window? With it cracked, they wouldn't be able to get out (I did have to pull over and re-situate things because I couldn't likely bat at papers flying in my face while driving). This tornado started up around 35 m/h, if I remember right. That system worked on every day except the very hottest of days in the summer... then, I'd turn on the AC.

Lol and you think you had a reason to laugh... my old 81 Honda Civic Wagon averaged 45 mpg. My brother's 83 Honda Civic (not wagon style) averaged 40 mpg. These are both still in the carburetor days! Now, the difference between the two? My brother's was automatic and mine was manual tranny, so my Civic got the slightly larger engine, which meant more efficiency. Not to mention the fact that I could fit a full oak table (leaves and all) into the back of the thing and even easily go up steep hills with that in the back (helped someone move... the next trip was the eight oak chairs).

I was merely stating that you cut a piece out of a part of my reply to someone's statement, which WASN'T saying my reasons were better than a celebrity's. You, sir, are probably just here to get the flaming going on the board. That's cool, though... not something I'm into but I'm sure you'll have an audience. Go on, I'm sure they're waiting.

Yeah, especially the fact that you cut out the rest of the meaning to that comment.

Personally, as a friend, I'm willing to go hard drive shopping with them, refer them to places or whatever it takes but I won't buy the thing for them (maybe good friends but not friends I'm not so close to) because most likely, I won't get re-imbursed even for the hard drive. Yeah, I trust my close friends but others have to prove themselves to me... been duped in the past. However, I'd be happy to refer them or go with them. For most, I can refer. I know enough places of varying qualities that I can assuredly fit a product/customer service of a place to the people I know. If the person is an idiot, I would at least refer them to a place where the people who work there know what they're doing, realize they're an idiot and are nice enough to make sure they get what they want and need. If the service leaves them to make some choices where something can go wrong, I'll definitely help them shop.

I'd like to just mention this... Geek Squad has despoiled the holy sanctuary of the geek and brought in preppies- possibly what I call yuppie larvae. (Those who are going to grow up to be yuppies or otherwise of the persuasion that views what the popular stations- radio, tv or internet- websites, etc. as the holy grail of society.)

Lmao, that's good... even my dad isn't that bad. Granted, he doesn't know how to say he wants to attach an image to an email and send it to someone but- well, he's too penny-pinching to buy a brand new computer, anyway. If he wasn't, he might do something like this. He did set his browser settings so that he was "secure", once. Of course, he couldn't even see anything on the internet but I guess you can't get much more secure than that. My mom is better off- at least she can viably use a computer. She, of course, takes a nose-dive when it comes to keeping the thing clean. I delete EVERY email from her that has an attachment... for the safety of my computer. She looks at anything and everything on the internet and likely, gets all the malware, viruses, etc. out there. Hmm.. I don't know many people out there who know enough about computers to actually think about building their own. I'm considering it for my next one. This one was built by someone who probably shouldn't have built it but I did get it working properly. It was a good learning experience- much like my first car.

That's beyond beauty, though. I bet she also can breathe better now and otherwise physically function better. I think what most people are talking about with reconstructive surgery are the people who do it that are obsessed with having the D-cup boobs or whatever.