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I don't practice corporal punishment. But, I do have rules and consequences, and if they break the rules, there are often varying punitive consequences. Does all punishment have to be corporal?

If you do not impose your will on them, there is no need to "discipline" them. IMO. So, if our country had no laws, then there would be no crime? I didn't realize you were an anarchist. Interesting! Apples and oranges.....comparing 300 million people to a 4 & 2 year old is not even on the same planet. Nice try! Got anything else? So, rules and consequences are fine for you and me, but not for a 4 year old? When do 4 year olds get to learn about these sorts of things? Do they take a class in high school where they learn that suddenly there are rules?

that was just a phone fat-finger. Are you on your period?

If you do not impose your will on them, there is no need to "discipline" them. IMO. So, if our country had no laws, then there would be no crime? I didn't realize you were an anarchist. Interesting!

Kevbone, curious: what sort of punishment/consequences do you utilize irt your children?

Just because there are two sides, with equally passionate convictions, doesn't mean the truth necessarily lies in the middle. One side could just be wrong.

Hey, kimmi, how many American kids do u think have to worry about contaminated Indian pharmaceuticals?

No need french bread? I need!

But, valuation is not everything. MS has signifigantly more assets than apple (cash and investments). And more employees. Does "largest company" also mean "most profitable?"

i bought my 8 year-old daughter a cell phone with sprint, a sort of "emergency-only" plan that has essentially no minutes (i.e. for emergencies). I pay about $19 a month. You could also go the pre-paid phone option. Both would probably serve the "reach out and touch someone" model better than a ham, unless your wife and all your friends are going to also by hams and keep them on all the time. Sounds like you just want an excuse to get into radio! NTTAWTT.

So just ditch the cell phone. Why do you need to replace it with a HAM? Switching from one drug to another? You survived back in the 80s without a HAM license, either.

the germ-theory of disease is a hoax. Polio was an inside job.

How is apple the "largest computer company" in America? I think you mean "most valuable." Microsoft is HUUUUUUGE.

damn Mark, how old ARE you?

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http://www.bmj.com/content/342/bmj.c5347.full Are you defending the fraud, kimmo? Or just saying that it was an "honest mistake" and not a fraud?

You've been misled. REI is definitely a consumer co-op. That doesn't mean it can't be a corporation, or that it is anymore ethical than any other company. Best Western is also a co-op (a retail co-op), whose members are hotel operators.

Have never seen a blue screen on Windows 7 or Windows Server 2008 and I've been running a bunch of both for a couple of years. My laptop running win7 bluescreens very occasionally. They've updated the text, though. To be fair, though, that thing rattles around on my bike twice a day, so I'm surprised the disk still spins.

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Didn't he also lose his medical license?

my first touchscreen was your mom

i learned BASIC on an epson qx-10. green monochrome. disk loaded. awesome. i had a moonlanding game, written in BASIC, and I learned I could modify the source so that I could land at any velocity and any angle without blowing up. haxx0rz!

I had a Mac Classic around that time, with an external harddrive. Then I upgraded to a Mac II. I don't remember the specs, but it was impressive for it's time -- rotating monitor (landscape/portrait), color printer, and a writing pad and stylus. Mac were pretty advanced. They even had those fancy 3.5 floppies. It was the bomb-diggity. I don't know why my father wouldn't let me sell THAT to buy a PC. Anybody remember the talking moose? He was basically Microsoft Bob for the Apple. "Save a tree, eat a beaver."

The only thing second to his love of apple was probably his love of motorcycles. I think I wasn't quite 10 when he bought me my first bike -- an 80cc yamaha fatcat. The wheels were so buoyant that I discovered I could drive it across deep ponds if I was going fast enough and didn't let the throttle slip (or the engine compression would suck water in the tailpipe.) I remember him standing next to me at the store, arms folded, tsk-tsking me... "you're gonna regret this!" I bought a 486 DX2 with 66 mhz!!! I later spent an ENTIRE weekend installing a CD-ROM drive. Do you remember autoexec.bat and config.sys? Good times!