LOL! I had been thinking about something similar for when mine grow up. My version would have waivers against the young punk man prosecuting or suing me should he need some "correction" after hurting my daughter.

It all depends on where I choose to eat out, I suppose... :)

No, I can't. There's a lot I don't know about nuclear physics, RF energy, and sea water chemistry. What I do know, though, leads me to suspect the claim, while possible, is not highly probable.

It would depend on what in the salt water is being burned. If the chemical reation is H2O —RF energy—> H2 + O2 —combustion—> H2O, then the RF generator would consume more energy than is liberated by burning hydrogen. On the other hand, if there something else in the salt water that is burning, then it is possible, in theory, for a net energy gain.

Someone at that university should gather statistics on assaults with baseball bats, and use them to demand that the school stop its baseball program.

Feagler says, "We do a rotten job of supplying health care to those we send to fight (in Iraq)". What makes him think the same government will do any better in supplying health care to 300 million Americans?

Where does that "extra money" come from? Employers will have two options - (A) raise rates or (B) hire fewer workers. Option (A) means you pay more for goods and services. Option (B) means that there are fewer opportunities for low-skill workers to learn critical job skills.

There's also option (C) - hire under the table.

Just a Vogon survey crew...

Just imagine the terror in that thug's eyes if you had whipped the door open and shook your windchimes at him!

How would like to be told that you were selected to be the 0.8 person?

There are many curricula available - the problem is finding a suitable one from a list of many. My wife is the one who does most of the research into selecting the curriculum we use. She tends to be particular about the details, while I have a "just-buy-one" mentality. She'll look at 20+ vendors at a convention; I'd probably pick the first one that looks good.

One aspect that has helped us is that we meet with a small group of homeschoolers to do science and some rec activities as a group. The moms rotate on leading science. The group also has "moms' nights" to meet for planning and support. It was also helpful to talk with friends who had already done homeschooling before.

With regards to what was said about "online charter schools" - many are being operated by government schools/agencies. You get a ready-made curriculum (and have to follow it); they get the funding that's tied to enrollment. The Home School Legal Defense Assn has decided that such programs do not officially count as homeschooling, and will not provide council for families participating in such programs.

Last - homeschooling takes a lot of time, and over time the barrier between "School" and "Life" blurs. We take vacations, but visit historical/cultural sites along the way. I work on the car or around the house, and I have my kids help and try things.

Just my $.02

There are many curricula available - the problem is finding a suitable one from a list of many. My wife is the one who does most of the research into selecting the curriculum we use. She tends to be particular about the details, while I have a "just-buy-one" mentality. She'll look at 20+ vendors at a convention; I'd probably pick the first one that looks good.

One aspect that has helped us is that we meet with a small group of homeschoolers to do science and some rec activities as a group. The moms rotate on leading science. The group also has "moms' nights" to meet for planning and support. It was also helpful to talk with friends who had already done homeschooling before.

With regards to what was said about "online charter schools" - many are being operated by government schools/agencies. You get a ready-made curriculum (and have to follow it); they get the funding that's tied to enrollment. The Home School Legal Defense Assn has decided that such programs do not officially count as homeschooling, and will not provide council for families participating in such programs.

Last - homeschooling takes a lot of time, and over time the barrier between "School" and "Life" blurs. We take vacations, but visit historical/cultural sites along the way. I work on the car or around the house, and I have my kids help and try things.

Just my $.02

Hasn't warfare, through most of history, generally included the civilian population? Women raped; men enslaved; villages razed; cities surrounded, burned, starved, or infected; crops trampled; children killed; and so on?

From what I have heard from people who know better than I, ethanol is a net energy sink. It takes more energy to get a gallon of corn ethanol than you get from burning it. In the mean time, you might as well be burning money.

There are a number of things that the United States can do to improve our "energy independence". More refineries, more offshore drilling. etc. However, oil is (and will continue to be) a global commodity. IIRC, we get a lot of our our from Mexico and Venzuela; Alaska's oil goes to Japan; Europe gets it from the ME. Even if the U.S. still had "neutral" oil imports, price would be affected by global events.

They breed faster than they die?

ROUS ping!

I was told, by somebody who knows the costs, that it is a wonder anybody sells gas at all. You have to buy very expensive tanks. You have to monitor/test these tanks and the soil around them at regular intervals. After about 15-20 years, you have to yank the old tanks out of the ground and replace them. You get a thin profit margin on the product you sell. All this time, you can be sued if anyone local finds gas (oil, MTBE, etc.) in their ground water and decides you have deep pockets and can be blamed (rightly or wrongly).

You’re OK. On June 5 1944, the surrender crowd would have leaked the plans to the press and called the weather that day “disasterous”. On June 5 1945 they would have had a one year commemoration of the “slaughter” of U.S. troops on the beaches of Normandy, and would be demanding that occupying U.S. forces should be withdrawing from the “quagmire” of a European civil war.

"Drop your weapons, you have twenty seconds to comply!"

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"You now have ten seconds!"

Perhaps a flyer listing the names of the Duke 88 - distributed around the campus, with an appropriate illustration...

DUKE 88 GATHER TO DISCUSS "RAPE" CASE