So I buy a $30 audiobook AND a $10 paper book.

I've spent over a month living in Italy. Yes, its pretty, and yes I had a lot of fun. However, I would never want to live there. It's full of too many uneducated conservative homophobic people.

You're unconcerned that beans and rice do not actually constitute a healthy meal? Also, that the kids would not eat it? Listen, I am all about healthier lunch menus, unfortunately, America is not willing to pay for it, and I would not get behind the idea that we should direct educational funds from books to…

So because you liked your PE class and it was good means all people liked their PE classes and they are good? Are you that dumb?

The price of the lunches are more or less below cost. They pay what it costs to purchase, prepare, and serve the food. Many kids are on free/reduced lunch though and pay less or nothing. The price for these meals is covered by the feds at a fixed rate of about $2.60 a meal, schools who can't make that price work eat…

I'm sure we could starve them into submission. I have a cousin who is 8 and severely underweight because he will only eat about 3 food items (his parents are quite wealthy). You could probably starve them sure, and they will be hungry all day and go home and eat candybars.

That could be a cool idea, but the kinds of problems with it are really what explains every misconception about school lunch. In my city many of the elementary schools do not actually have a kitchen, there simply isn't one. They get deliveries at lunch from a central kitchen and keep it warm on site. They use…

Right, not to mention the fact that there is nothing to be gained by starving them into submission.

Actually this varies a lot by lab. A friend of mine is a manager at an animal facility and some labs have technicians who do the animal-care chores and some have students do it. The students may do it on rotations or may just take care of the animals they use. My friend's job is to make sure everyone is in…

I work in an elementary school. Last year I worked in one which had 95% of the kids on free and reduced lunch. Here were my observations about the food:

I work in an elementary school. I'll tell you this: If the kids don't like the food, they won't eat it.

Alkaline hydrolysis would indicate that its the opposite of being dissolved in acid.

Goldwave, audacity looks like a mess in comparison. It's free but will give you a nag unless you pay for it.

I find my BB to be 'too' helpful. I purposefully put in earbuds to avoid constant offers for assistance. Mainly because I know more than the associates most of the time.

this win yes

This seems to go against the logic used in the warentless GPS case. They ruled that just because you could (in theory) visually surveil someone continuously doesn't mean you can use the GPS.

What is this blogpost? A piece of marketing reprinted from a press package.

Sometimes there is content on a website that I really need to access and sometimes its flash and so sometimes I just need my phone to do things even if they are slow and irritating.

If this was done with chicks who were showing their boobs their would be outrage.

Ahhh nothing I love more than scifi made by people who don't read scifi.