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I got my daughter Snap Circuits two years ago and we try to do a page in the book each night. https://www.amazon.com/Snap-Ci... last year we got her the Osmo Genius Kit https://www.amazon.com/Osmo-TP... this year I went with the Wonder Workshop Dash Robot and the lego attachment arms. https://www.amazon.com/Wonder-...

I got my daughter Snap Circuits two years ago and we try to do a page in the book each night. https://www.amazon.com/Snap-Ci... last year we got her the Osmo Genius Kit https://www.amazon.com/Osmo-TP... this year I went with the Wonder Workshop Dash Robot and the lego attachment arms. https://www.amazon.com/Wonder-...

I got my daughter Snap Circuits two years ago and we try to do a page in the book each night. https://www.amazon.com/Snap-Ci... last year we got her the Osmo Genius Kit https://www.amazon.com/Osmo-TP... this year I went with the Wonder Workshop Dash Robot and the lego attachment arms. https://www.amazon.com/Wonder-...

I'd say a chemistry set, but they have been completely nerfed to the point of not being interesting anymore.

Yes, there has been a war on chemistry now for at least 30 years. Most outlets selling chemicals to hobbyists have disappeared.

However even now there are some decent options.

The only chemistry set on the market worth considering is the Thames & Kosmos C3000 set for $280. The less expensive Thames & Kosmos chem sets are not bad - they all have some real chemistry in them - but too limited. The Thamses & Kosmos set might get you busted in Texas though since it contains an Erlenmeyer flask (a special license is needed to possess one).

But you can buy any chemical or equipment needed for a legitimate hobby from Elemental Scientific LLC, and there is a nice book available by Robert Bruce Thompson called Illustrated Guide to Home Chemistry Experiments which tells you everything you need to get. And, even better, Elemental Scientific sells its own chemistry sets based on the Thompson book! You buy the equipment and chemical sets separately.

They are turning 7 soon.

Legos and the basic Perplexus. The latter is a difficult game of angular motion.

Here it is:
https://www.amazon.com/Perplex...

I can't get you that, but would you settle for Uranium?

I'll see your uranium ore, and raise you. This should have traces of plutonium:
https://www.amazon.com/Images-...

I can't get you that, but would you settle for Uranium?

I'll see your uranium ore, and raise you. This should have traces of plutonium:
https://www.amazon.com/Images-...

A rock tumbler requires patience but has an awesome payoff.

A metal detector has a sense of adventure, finding bits of jewelry and coins at a playground or park.

A rock tumbler requires patience but has an awesome payoff.

A metal detector has a sense of adventure, finding bits of jewelry and coins at a playground or park.

I can't get you that, but would you settle for Uranium?

> I would also argue that a lot of people might choose alternatives like 'make me comfortable as long as possible' at those prices.

End of life issues are definitely adding to rising costs.

People seem to be moving away from the concept that death is inevitable, especially when making decisions on behalf of elderly loved ones who are unable to speak for themselves.

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/09...

https://www.amazon.com/Knockin...

They're not even available later. They're not available at all. Look at all the Netflix movies that are only on DVD. Last night I looked for The Lobster and found it was only on DVD.

Stream it on Amazon Prime for free. https://www.amazon.com/Lobster...

Hmmm fed backed student loans are now thought to contribute to spiraling education costs.

Only by those who haven't researched the topic. Read Why Does College Cost So Much? for a good run down of the actual evidence, and student loans barely register. It basically all comes down to every labor intensive service which requires highly educated and difficult to automate practitioners, whether they be doctors or professors, has grown in cost much faster than inflation.

While I agree with what you said about content disappearing, you've got everything else wrong (in fact, it looks like you're deliberately misstating things). A la carte pricing commoditizes the layers of the TV watching stack, allowing us to shop around and swap out parts we don't care about. Even for people who were taking full advantage of everything their package offered, it's almost assuredly cheaper with a la carte pricing, and for everyone else it certainly is.

Using my own town as an example, Suddenlink is the lone cable provider and their cheapest TV+Internet plan is $98.95 per month for new customers. The same Internet access is $39.95 when purchased separately as a new customer, so we can say that basic cable costs $59 each month, and that's before you include HBO ($+19/mo.), which, I'll note, you conveniently forgot to include in your traditional package example. Broken out that way, it should be obvious just how bad of a deal it actually is, since it's easy to find basic content for less than $59.

With that same $59/mo., we could pick up ALL of these:
1) Access Slim bundle from Playstation Vue for $29.99
2) CBS All Access for $5.99
3) HBO Now for $14.99
4) Amazon Prime for $8.25

All of which is to say, you can stretch your dollars a LOT further by going a la carte, since you'd be gaining HBO content, DVR functionality across all of your devices, and all of the benefits of Amazon Prime (e.g. free two-day shipping, unlimited music streaming, unlimited photo storage, etc.). And that's assuming you actually wanted everything in the basic package to begin with. For our family, we don't care about sports, we don't care about live TV, we don't care about current seasons, and we'd rather binge watch, so Internet+Netflix is more than enough for us.

But even if you're not so extreme, you can still shave dollars in other ways. Don't care about ESPN? Drop to Sling's $25 Blue package. Don't care about seeing CBS live? Save another $6. Don't care about live TV at all? Get Hulu's day-after content and save $22 from what you'd spend on Vue. Don't care about current seasons? Netflix or Amazon gets you old seasons plus a catalog of movies. Hell, you might already have Amazon Prime for the other benefits it provides, so it may be no added cost at all.

And now that our Internet isn't packaged with our content, we can swap the Internet service out. 50Mbps is already 5x more bandwidth than we need for two 1080p streams (which is the most strain we put on our connection), so the moment a cheaper plan is offered by an ISP in our area (fingers crossed), we'll be shaving even more off our bill.

If anyone is trying to revise history, it's you.

Yes it was Reagan.
No, it wasnt a democratic congress.
No, the democrats in congress at that time could not be considered progressive (much as you like to use the word as an invective).

Deinstitutionalization began in California, just before Reagan became governor. It was a response to a set of legitimate problems, originally as a concept of trying to get patients into more local care, with less federal and state funding. But that didnt happen, patients instead began ending up on the streets or in privately run (for profit) facilities.

And then Reagan as governor continued it, expanded it, oversaw the increasing privatization of it, and got paid by the people who profited off of the privatization.

At the national level, Carter and the Congress (the one you mistakenly say was to blame...) crafted a law, just before Reagan became president, to roll back deinstitutionalization, and provide federal funding to be gin getting a handle on the growing problem.

and Reagan along with a Republican controlled Congress killed the law as soon as he became president.

From American Psychosis:

In November 1980, Republican Ronald Reagan overwhelmingly defeated Jimmy Carter, who received less than 42% of the popular vote, for president. Republicans took control of the Senate (53 to 46), the first time they had dominated either chamber since 1954. Although the House remained under Democratic control (243 to 192), their margin was actually much slimmer, because many southern “boll weevil” Democrats voted with the Republicans.

One month prior to the election, President Carter had signed the Mental Health Systems Act, which had proposed to continue the federal community mental health centers program , although with some additional state involvement. Consistent with the report of the Carter Commission, the act also included a provision for federal grants “for projects for the prevention of mental illness and the promotion of positive mental health,” an indication of how little learning had taken place among the Carter Commission members and professionals at NIMH. With President Reagan and the Republicans taking over, the Mental Health Systems Act was discarded before the ink had dried and the CMHC funds were simply block granted to the states. The CMHC program had not only died but been buried as well. An autopsy could have listed the cause of death as naiveté complicated by grandiosity.

President Reagan never understood mental illness. Like Richard Nixon, he was a product of the Southern California culture that associated psychiatry with Communism. Two months after taking office, Reagan was shot by John Hinckley, a young man with untreated schizophrenia. Two years later, Reagan called Dr. Roger Peele, then director of St. Elizabeths Hospital, where Hinckley was being treated, and tried to arrange to meet with Hinckley, so that Reagan could forgive him. Peele tactfully told the president that this was not a good idea. Reagan was also exposed to the consequences of untreated mental illness through the two sons of Roy Miller, his personal tax advisor. Both sons developed schizophrenia; one committed suicide in 1981, and the other killed his mother in 1983. Despite such personal exposure, Reagan never exhibited any interest in the need for research or better treatment for serious mental illness.

[..]

California has traditionally been on the cutting edge of American cultural developments, with Anaheim and Modesto experiencing changes before Atlanta and Moline. This was also true in the exodus of patients from state psychiatric hospitals. Beginning in the late 1950s, California became the national leader in aggressively moving patients from state hospitals to nursing homes and board-and-care homes, known in other states by names such as group homes, boarding homes

People will become professional NPCs in virtual reality.

There are several DVRs that record Over-The-Air television. https://www.amazon.com/s/ref=n... I had the MediaSonic HomeWorx (which sells for $29) that I used for a while. But in the end I just decided I didn't need a DVR.

> More like pseudo-assembly than high-level pseudo-code.

It is actually worse then that. You learn some bullshit imaginary assembly language MMIX, instead of a pragmatic real assembly language like 6502, x86, or ARM which you could have immediately tried out. And while an assembler and debugger exist for MMIX this is yet more time you need to waste on some obscure, niche, proprietary language and toolchain.

That said, what The Art of Computer Programming lacks in quality it makes up in quantity.

> and understood it right away from CLR

100% agree that Introduction to Algorithms is a fantastic book! It definitely is on the "short list" of every books a computer programmer should own.

For something on the same type of topics but I found a little more readable, my algorithm design class used this book: https://www.amazon.com/gp/prod...

I've found this to provide some drastic speedups for some methods of searching and sorting I wouldn't have otherwise considered. Many of the methods are really pretty simple once you understand them.

Have you ever tried to punch through a window? I don't think it's as easy as it is on TV. I guess you can use a belt buckle to help, but you still probably injure your hand. Anyone know?

That's why in my car I keep a knife that has both a seatbelt cutter and a point for breaking windows. Never know if I will be trapped in the car or if I ever have to help someone out of theirs, so it's good to have in case of emergency. Worth the $20 price tag IMO.

Well, I started out with a triple major in Physics, Math and Computer Science, but eventually dropped out for a while and became a Hippie. I didn't actually pick up my Physics from the Principia, but I did go to a Jesuit University and actually had to read it. I cannot adequately express how valuable this book has been to me.

Dean Kamen dropped out of school, went to the library, studied Newton's Principia, and went on to be an awesome inventor and thinker.

Eli Goldratt used the thinking processes in the Principia to turn USA manufacturing and business methods on their respective heads. Read his books, "The Goal", "It's not Luck" and "Critical Chain" for some really interesting examples of thinking. He wrote a terrific book, "The Choice" https://www.amazon.com/Choice-... which clearly describes how useful Newton's methods are.

In fact, I keep re-reading parts just for the imaginative spark.

OK, I admit to being an assembly language addict. I think describing tasks in machine language is as stimulating as a book full of logic puzzles. (But let me still recommend ANY book by Raymond Smullyan, such as, "The Lady or the Tiger?" https://www.amazon.com/Lady-Ti... )

I also admit to programing in LISP and using Jan Lukasiewicz's notation for symbolic logic.

I suppose you should keep these things in mind while evaluating my recommendations.

1. There's a certain number where something becomes an impulse buy. For me and 3d printers that was $200. Ultimately I decided that with inflation, I spent more on my original NES set years and years ago.

Makerbot could have killed it at that price, and still can if they can figure out how to do it at this price.

2. The only hurdle past price is having the needed skills to create things in 3d. Printing other peoples stuff off the web gets old after a while. Luckily the 3d modeling software I taught myself to use really well can output STL files.

Please note that in order to use this device on your new MacBookPro that you'll require a special USB-3->USB-C adapter.

Pah. This just proves what a superior technology USB-C is - devices to fry your USB-C laptop have been available online for ages!

I searched Amazon for "iPhone charger", and sorted the results by price low-to-high. This was the first result that was actually a charger (their search algorithm apparently needs work). https://www.amazon.com/SMTSMT-...

Right on the page, it says "Ships from and sold by SMTSMT-Store", which means a company called SMTSMT-Store, rather than Amazon, is the legal seller and therefore the entity liable for any quality issues with the merchandise. Amazon in this case is simply the platform hosting a storefront for SMTSMT-Store.

If you buy a USB car charger from a company called SMTSMT-Store, you can probably expect it to explode.

Here you go. This meets all of the requirements you've listed.

https://amazon.com/gp/product/B01HETGX00

Buddhism Without Beliefs is where I started...

Speaking of reading, the 30 year old book linked below, published by a US writer, is very informative and praiseworthy of the USSR's accomplishments. Perhaps that is why it's out-of-print and never revised.

https://www.amazon.com/Soviet-...

>Most people don't post to such boards.

Lol, right. Just like the people who don't leave reviews for products that haven't purchased on Amazon! I mean, who would do such thing?

Trump Make America Great Again Red Cap Collectible Ornament

Trump is gonna take care of you now. He will take care of you REAL GOOD.

Dude, if you are that sore still, you should've taken advantage of some yuuuge discounts on vaseline yesterday...

In the late 1960s, Jacques Cousteau documented dead coral regions in the Red Sea in his book Life and Death in a Coral Sea. This during a time when people thought we were slipping into another Ice Age.

I'm totally sick of the hyperbolic propaganda. Stop lying.

A good book on the Constitution is here: https://www.amazon.com/America...

You'll be even better if you drink your coffee black and only drink water instead of sugary drinks. If you like bubbles, get a Soda Stream or other carbonator.

I recommend C++: The Good Parts :)

Security must be built from the ground up, it's not something that can be tacked on as an afterthought.

"I just don't believe a word Microsoft says about monitoring or not monitoring users anymore, period."

Correct, the big reason is the rich fear the political awakening of the masses, so they are integrating spying into everything to defend themselves.

Basically the rich are worried the average everyday joe will wake up to the fact governments never worked for the people, aka they don't work for us, hence the spying. They are afraid that one day the average person might get a clue politically.

See here former national security advisor of the united states:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n7ZyJw_cHJY

The Grand Chessboard: American Primacy And Its Geostrategic Imperatives

https://www.amazon.com/Grand-Chessboard-American-Geostrategic-Imperatives/dp/0465027261/

The man in the video wrote the above book, once you read it you'll understand that it is the citizens they are worried about, which is why all states are secretly going into lockdown/military alert status and the rule of law is effectively over.

See here on the american militaries assessment of our future dystopia:

https://theintercept.com/2016/10/13/pentagon-video-warns-of-unavoidable-dystopian-future-for-worlds-biggest-cities/

More reading:

https://williamblum.org/

That's what they should do. A free verson with spyware and ads, and a premium version. I would pay $$$ for Win 10 no spyware edition.

Not sure if you and GP are trolls, or just misled, but this confusion is an intentional side-effect of Microsoft's strategy. Let us nip it at the bud here on Slashdot: Windows 10 was never really "free". You could still go out and buy it at stores. New computers included it via OEM so you can be sure it wasn't "free" for system builders. For existing Windows 7 and Windows 8 ones, the free-as-in-beer upgrade period ended after exactly one year.
As proof, here is the $90+Amazon's listing by MS itself.

Did you Google "stop amazon marketing email"? Did you find this page, which tells you how to unsubscribe from Amazon marketing e-mails?

Do you know how to read? Did your read my post? I specifically said that I REPEATEDLY asked to be taken off their spam list, and they DID NOT HONOR the request. Furthermore, they have specifically told me that there is NO WAY to be removed from "marketplace" spam. There is NO opt-out.

Follow your own directions, then order a few products. You WILL be spammed.

These people are spammers, and I have specifically and repeatedly said I want off the marketing list.

Did you Google "stop amazon marketing email"? Did you find this page, which tells you how to unsubscribe from Amazon marketing e-mails? To save you a click:

1. Go to E-mail Preferences & Notifications
2. Select Do not send me marketing e-mail.
3 Click Save.

These people are spammers, and I have specifically and repeatedly said I want off the marketing list.

Did you Google "stop amazon marketing email"? Did you find this page, which tells you how to unsubscribe from Amazon marketing e-mails? To save you a click:

1. Go to E-mail Preferences & Notifications
2. Select Do not send me marketing e-mail.
3 Click Save.

Here is my laptop with a 960m...
https://smile.amazon.com/gp/pr...

Here ya go:

https://smile.amazon.com/gp/pr...

It probably would even run MacOS, or just run it in a VM if the hardware isn't compatible.

So in one sentence you complain about projecting pre-existing biases, and in the next you start making wild guesses based on stereotypes.

Here's some items you might find useful.

Read this,

https://www.amazon.com/Venus-D...

Then this,

https://www.amazon.com/Venus-S...

Then tell me what you think.

Read this,

https://www.amazon.com/Venus-D...

Then this,

https://www.amazon.com/Venus-S...

Then tell me what you think.

There is no need to over regulate this marketplace. A class action lawsuit serves just fine. Especially if they are marketed under store brand names, sue the store.

A non-profit testing group could be setup by all sorts of industries to verify these kinds of things. There is NO need for additional government regulations that already require products to label their ingredients properly.

The other option is to stop buying the cheap products that are rip offs of the real (more expensive) products, where you know they are already taking shortcuts.

https://www.amazon.com/Aubrey-...

vs

https://www.walmart.com/ip/Fru...

Literally six times more expensive for the real stuff.

I have covered this in a previous post that the US needs to take a lesson from the supplement industry laws in Australia. They are required in short to correctly label ingredients and contents, are subject to random sample testing and if any health claims are made are required to show structure and function of th ingredients involved in the claim similar to FDA standards in Phase 1 trials. (Safety, Structure, function and Pharmacodynamics)

I am drafting a letter to President elect Trump concerning this as well as a copy to the FDA administration. I am not holding my breath though.

There is no need to over regulate this marketplace. A class action lawsuit serves just fine. Especially if they are marketed under store brand names, sue the store.

A non-profit testing group could be setup by all sorts of industries to verify these kinds of things. There is NO need for additional government regulations that already require products to label their ingredients properly.

The other option is to stop buying the cheap products that are rip offs of the real (more expensive) products, where you know they are already taking shortcuts.

https://www.amazon.com/Aubrey-...

vs

https://www.walmart.com/ip/Fru...

Literally six times more expensive for the real stuff.

Not surprising given the stories in Poorly Made in China

There are some cheap ones like the Blackberry Music Gateway, but the maximum output is pretty weak. On the recommendation of someone else who was in my situation, I got a Himbox HB01, which came with a lighter->dual USB adapter for power. If you're in an older car, it can even do the hands-free thing for your phone, but that would have visible cables (the microphone is in the Bluetooth receiver). I set my phone to connect to the built-in for calls (so numbers show up on the display, and the microphone is hidden) and only use the Himbox for audio.

It was only $30, and it works really well for this situation. Like I said, if you have a power outlet in the console, and an aux jack in the console, all it costs you is a bit of space at the bottom. I don't ever listen to the radio except for the occasional bit of news, so it's quite seamless for the vast majority of my usage. I don't need the phone mounted because my car's built-in GPS is Good Enough even with somewhat outdated maps - the areas that aren't on the maps are places that were developed recently, so audio from Google Maps is enough (the roads in newer developments are spaced out more, so there's less chance of missing a turn).

Incidentally, assuming you're in the UK, this appears to be an updated version. £21.99, only £2 more than the older version.