I remember being taught that you don't get into ANYONE'S personal space unless they say it's OK. By my parents. Kids who hadn't figured it out got told that in school as well. This was in the 1970's. I have kids now, and yes, they're told to respect other people's boundaries at home and at school. They need to be…

The Rhode Island education commissioner has links to groups getting substantial funding from testing and other "educational" corporations who are trying to reallocate public education spending to their coffers. It's a common problem around the country. Things need to change, but spending money on standardized tests…

My partner and I had a very different situation - she ended up with a c-section on our first after a very long non-productive labor, she wasn't dilating enough, and the ob noticed that the baby was in trouble. Turns out the cord got wrapped around his neck. The ob tried a couple of things to try to avoid it (can't…

Actually, in our community, trash has to be in trash bags in cans (nearly everyone uses the large bins with wheels), and they pull the bags out and throw them in the truck. Having a bare 8" or 10" knife in a bag is a good way for a garbage collector to get hurt if it's shifted in the bag.

I've got a Windows XP VM that I use at work for certain administrative/management tools. Daily. It's a decade old, no joke. I've upgraded it to newer virtual hardware, patched it, etc. It's had tools added and removed. Been working since 2002. Probably going to retire it soon.

VOTE: Sony SLT-A65

I'll preface this by saying that if someone is abusive or dangerous, won't get treatment for substance abuse, has a massive gambling/spending problem and won't get treatment, all bets are off. Helping and sticking with someone doesn't extend to letting them drag you down.

Part of what we have here is NY City and State gov'ts taking a "hands-off" approach to this community. The recent trial notwithstanding, it's been very hard to get the DA's office to investigate sexual assault allegations for years. There are reports that Ultra-Orthodox private schools - which are still required to…

The big issue is that if something goes wrong, you're going to get charged with child neglect. In fact, some states have defined minimum age when you can legally allow a child to stay home alone. It depends on whether or not the kid can handle it - in other words - whether or not something goes wrong.

Actually, I've got some sympathy for your position. I'd probably be willing to pay $20 a month for full iPlayer access in the United States. But I don't have that option because between the BBC, its Governors and BBC Worldwide, there's no agreement on how to do this. They'd even talked about doing it, but as an iPad…

Here's another one - if you don't want ice cream that takes like crap all the time, don't buy Breyers. Actually, if you want something that can be legally sold as "ice cream", don't buy Breyers. They're now loading so many gums and other stuff into it that some flavors are a "frozen dessert" under the law, rather than…

A warning sign - if ABC starts showing sitcom episodes out of order, as they recently did with "Don't Trust the B_", they're about to cancel it. They did the same thing to "The Job" years ago.

Farreley's novel "Outside Providence" is actually pretty good. And it's better than the movie based on it, but the movie isn't bad either. It's nothing much like their other work. Really sincere.

I'm using Start8 on my two systems. I upgraded them mainly for the performance bump on both systemsand the better battery life on the laptop. Both of which I've got - the two systems are a really running better.

You can have all the Christ you want. Please don't feel that everyone else has to provide you with extra Christ at every opportunity.

One way of ending up on a list like this is to have someone who claims you owe them money take a civil action against you in a local court, not go to any great effort to serve you, and when you don't show up, ask for summary judgement. In some cases people are ending up in prison for contempt when they never heard…

About 32,000 - all in Adobe Lightroom, and I'm scanning in a few sets of old negatives a week with a film scanner in addition to new images. It's about 700 GB. I have it on internal SATA storage, and I'm using Crashplan+ to back it up remotely and to a local 3TB external drive.

The big question here - why did a (Republican) FBI agent called on by his friend Jill Kelley actually send this up the food chain? It doesn't sound like she even started with the local authorities. It's amazingly hard to get any "cyber harassment" investigated, even when there's more to go on than there was here. So,…