The drive is 160MB not GB as I understand it.

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Dear god, we must burn that book!

Precious, my precious, and the principal would shrivel and would be forever drawn to the ring. ;D A side note: a gaming server I play on requires you to be respectful to players and admins, therefore using the word retarted is not allowed. I called my retarted after another called my mental abilities into question. An admin began to have a conversation about that worn not being allowed and I would be kicked. Self deprecation is not allowed, damn it!

I agree with your statement about schools not being so much a place of learning as detention. My daughter identified her former middle school as a prison. I don't feel she was exaggerating. Lack of windows in some classes, 4 minutes to get from class to class, not being let into school except 10 minutes before being tardy, except for extreme weather. In my opinion the short time between classes is meant to cut down on student interaction and any trouble that might arise.

How did religion come into this conversation? Zero tolerance policies are not based on religious views.

Who is we? So far we have heard from one of how many citizen of your country? You cannot begin to speak for them all. Surveillance may be something we have to live with, but does not mean we have to like it, or put up with it. One cannot trust to do no wrong. I am sure we can agree on this. Power corrupts, absolute power corrupts absolutely. We need not head down that road. We have a choice.

Phones don't come with analog or digital brakeouts. Can't compare the Pi to a phone. Apples and oranges.

The gas company provides a service to you. Feel free to replace the utility of your choice. Are you at all freaked out if the utility company takes inventory of your room/bedroom?

I can differentiate the cause and effect of wind speed vs. Wind turbine rotation. Wind will cause the wind turbine to turn, while wind turbine rotating will not cause wind, unless the generator of wind turbine doubles as a motor to turn the propellers and cause the wind. Prove me wrong .

Every statue with a historical figure on horseback, includes the horses ass, therefore statues of horse ass exist.

What in Davy Jonesâ(TM) locker did ye just bark at me, ye scurvy bilgerat? Iâ(TM)ll have ye know I be the meanest cutthroat on the seven seas, and Iâ(TM)ve led numerous raids on fishing villages, and raped over 300 wenches. I be trained in hit-and-run pillaging and be the deadliest with a pistol of all the captains on the high seas. Ye be nothing to me but another source oâ(TM) swag. Iâ(TM)ll have yer guts for garters and keel haul ye like never been done before, hear me true. You think ye can hide behind your newfangled computing device? Think twice on that, scallywag. As we parley I be contacting my secret network oâ(TM) pirates across the sea and yer port is being tracked right now so ye better prepare for the typhoon, weevil. The kind oâ(TM) monsoon thatâ(TM)ll wipe ye off the map. Youâ(TM)re sharkbait, fool. I can sail anywhere, in any waters, and can kill ye in oâ(TM)er seven hundred ways, and that be just with me hook and fist. Not only do I be top oâ(TM) the line with a cutlass, but I have an entire pirate fleet at my beck and call and Iâ(TM)ll damned sure use it all to wipe yer arse off oâ(TM) the world, ye dog. If only ye had had the foresight to know what devilish wrath your jibe was about to incur, ye might have belayed the comment. But ye couldnâ(TM)t, ye didnâ(TM)t, and now yeâ(TM)ll pay the ultimate toll, you buffoon. Iâ(TM)ll shit fury all over ye and yeâ(TM)ll drown in the depths oâ(TM) it. Youâ(TM)re fish food now.

What is something went wrong and you wanted a human the wheels again, and the AI had different ideas? You already gave away all control.

I can see many things wrong with the idea. Are you a machine? No. I believe you. Are you going to go all self aware and kill us? No. I believe you. At least teach them to be bad liars please!

Is it a full moon or are you cranky for other reasons? I think there are better way of expressing opinions than the F word.