I don't come from that part of the country, so never got used to the thought. The whole lack of decent muscle structure, fat, and greasy-ness really didn't appeal, either. Not to mention what they eat unless you clean 'em out.

When I help friends with their hardware problems, I have to yet to find a desktop power supply that didn't have a fried, dehydrated gecko in it. Sometimes the spiders are epic, also. (What the heck to they eat?)

Us: "Can we get some more bread?"

Clarification?

They already have I think. You measure their super computers by the Acre, not the gigaflop or terrabyte.

Ah. Yer p'rolly right about that. I'm using the old school dictionary for "suck it up".

Nitro on the package isn't a issue for me, I understand what it does. The "chemical delivery system", the thing that does the absorption through the skin, now *that* I don't necessarily trust.

Spoken like a true younger person.

Well, we could go by the past performance of the Church.

Although teen and twenty something parenting works to some extent (usually with a broad range of performance I've found, see: everyone around you), I'm in 100% agreement with you.

Man goes to a bar, picks up a woman, takes her home. They are getting undressed and as the man pulls down his drawers, the woman looks over and says, "Who are you gonna please with *that*?"

There was a guy back in 85' that had a bulletin board that featured women smoking. Only 5% of the pictures were nekkid ones. He was clearing $17,000, a month. In 85' dollars. Man did I have to wonder at my $28K/yr job at the time.

"No one ever got fired for buying IBM." — Old saying from before I can remember.

"You don't need to swear to be offensive or pointed." Served up with a juxtaposition and counterpoint, a swear word flaunt, and a dash of not so smooth humor.

That's trvth. But the market presentation included other world problems to solve, not solutions (the presentation team had already done that part - that's why they got called in.) They just had trouble mapping across from their world to the other world, which I take to be a culture problem.

A couple of things come to mind about this.

That's not actually the problem, I suspect. The good teachers know this, and tell the parents. It's the parents that don't do anything.

Nope (read: transmitting not transmuting). The math and study that went into that data stream rate is almost magical. Low power transmitter coupled with a hostile transmission environment means that the signal, message structure and protocols must handle everything, known and unknown. And it does.

Your school opinion may need modification. Recent Stanford study:

I'm always drawn to the number of times the French people have thrown out their government because they didn't like what they were doing (with no judgement on whether I agreed with them.) Since the French revolution, I think it's 17 times. American? 0. (The two parties don't count - I can't tell them apart on…