I think we make that clear in the post. This isn't the kind of thing you do for "Hey how's it going," this is the kind of thing you do when you're sending tax documents to your accountant or medical records to your doctor.

That's all well and good, but it assumes the only reason you should care about internet privacy is because of NSA this and FBI that. I completely and totally agree with you, but the government is not the only entity that's interested in intruding on your privacy, nor should we behave like they are, even if they're the…

here is what i do:

Missing #1: Switch to Linux. And even if by default is far more trustable than Windows and Mac OS X, there are special pourpose linux distributions to make things even safer, like Whonix (that runs in virtualbox) and Tails (runs from a pendrive or livecd).

Do not do this. This is hoarding. You will end up like my grandmother with 200 butter wrappers in your freezer when you die.

So what they're really saying is that poor children are now going hungry.

the point was, people are so broke they stopped eating cheap bad food, now they are eating no food, which is cheaper because it is free. Starving will never cost anything. Hopefully. Otherwise, that would make a shitty situation even shittier.

You know what would get rid of obesity rates in poor families even faster? Getting rid of poor families...

It's probably because the poor can no longer afford to eat poorly, now they are just starving.

Maybe they just can't afford food since they are poor.

This makes me sad for the current education system. I can do all the grammar questions but only because I had the best English teacher in the entire United States in the 8th and 9th grade. He made us do old school sentence diagrams and learn every type of adjective, adverb, noun clause and participial phrase. And…

I would argue that, a certain amount of the memorization of facts is important and that our scorn of rote learning is problematic. Without a large set of pegs on which to hang your hat of the moment, so to speak, learning loses context, becomes discrete points that learners surmise are the whole board. Without…

Good points, but do you think there is some value in learning certain things by rote? If I know certain basic principles (such as the spelling and grammar used in this test) I can then use my intelligence and problem-solving skills in combination with my rote-learned knowledge.

"The bullets of critical thinking are facts" is excellent.

I also don't know if you knew that I was being quite literal in my quotes. "Wait, can you repeat/explain that again?" said in an ungracious, rude tone is common in my class. "Wait, could you explain how the [major groove allows for specificity of DNA-protein binding or specific topic of choice] again? What about the…

Yeah, like 2013 is a festival of creativity and critical thinking.

One more time, for clarification. This is what I was referring to: somebody asking for repeat or re-explanation so they could write it down in their notes word for word. I wasn't backpedaling at all. I was trying to give you a specific example with context.

In the US, at least, it was free. This was more the issue:

Because the poor are not a protected class.

It is incredibly variable between women.