Does this count Netflix or just satellite/cable with ads? Maybe 1-5 hours of cable but almost 10 hours Netflix weekly. I think I would have to make time out of my day to painfully punish someone if I have to watch commercials with Netflix. I mostly have a TV show streaming while I crank away support tickets at work.

I wonder if his home owner's insurance will pay up even though he refused fire protection.

I hate the blue glow, but my wife likes it and helps with caring for the baby in the middle of the night. Fan and alarm clock.

Seriously. What will impact the children's learning more. This radically new, applicable and informative assignment or a report summarizing the history of warfare from their wonderful textbooks?

This sounded like an amazing assignment. When you choose a side in a debate for class, you are asked to think of every tactic the opposite side will try to use against you. I don't see how an assignment like this would be considered overly insensitive unless it was assigned out of the blue. If it was suggested in the class syllabus and had good justification as a learning experience, then I don't see why it should fly. Wouldn't it be one hell of a learning experience to have your student experience 24 hours in jail to learn about risk and consequence? Wouldn't it be just as valuable to write a report thinking like a terrorist? I think radical assignments like this impacts a student's learning more then any other ho-hum history report would. Wake up parents and look at the world. People spend their lives (and giving them freely) planning to commit terrorist acts. By sheltering our children from reality, they may end up believing everything they see on TV and not KNOW the real world.

That sounds awesome. Can you provide a link to a how-to that can be followed to learn to tinker with these things?

I also feel compelled to open my door into their badly parked car. Also, park somewhere else if you can't fit into the compact spot! I think I saw an Escalade spend 5 minutes backing up and pulling into a parking spot too small for it.

YES! Starwars in 3D would be awesome. I think just releasing it on 3D BluRay would justify the purchase of a 3D TV.

I support your statements in here. Story is king for me. I barely touch the multiplayer aspect of the games I own. I love going through the singleplayer story of any game, no matter how short it is to experience what the writers and art staff created. Singleplayer is like the modern opera, to enjoy the show played out before you. Yes, you can die, but that is what save points are for.

Video games are a very active form of entertainment. Compared to TV which pushes the viewer towards and alpha state, video games boost the beta. This means that your brain is very active and focused on the task. World of Warcraft, just being a game is going to produce a higher level thinker (no pun intended) and critical thinker. Since WoW is a very social game, you get training on how not only to interact with people, but how to interact with them in a way that pushes you towards the same goal. A manager would love a trained WoW raider in his team. Give him a task and he will definitely play well with others while striving for the win.

Of the games I play, I like the single player aspect of it. I would like to pay less for the original game and have it exclude multiplayer. Only if I felt the itch to play multiplayer I could pay for it at a future date.