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It's not uncommon for Americans to name their kids after cities, although many cities were named after people to begin with. I went to high school with girls named Dallas and Austin; Brooklyn and Savannah are both in the top 100 baby girl names list. See http://baby-names.familyeducation.com/lists/named-for-cities/?detoured=1 for more cities that are also popular baby names.

http://genealogy.familyeducation.com/surname-origin/sussman

While I have nothing to prove one way or the other, it’s entirely probable that she is Jewish. The country’s Law of Return grants all Jews and those of Jewish lineage the right to Israeli citizenship. Anonymous Coward’s point was that, as a Jew, with a right even to claim Israeli citizenship if she so desired, she has every right to protest Israel’s actions. It’s no different from you or I, as Americans, having every right to protest America’s actions.

I think she is mislead and terribly uninformed, but she has a right to her opinion.

While you can get by at home with just free weights and body exercises, there are certain muscle groups where you will have to resort to funky positions and additional effort if you don't have machines.

Yea, I don't like "public exercising" much either. But if you have a flexi schedule, you can pretty much have the gym to yourself at non-peak hours on work days; most people only get in after work or during the weekends.

Choosing a gym
http://life.familyeducation.com/exercise/fitness/35978.html

The only truly intuitive user interface I can think of offhand is the nipple.

Nipples, at least human nipples aren't intuitive either. Birth units in hospitals have to teach mothers to teach babies to breastfeed.

No - they shouldn't block Wikipedia.
  Instead students should be taught critical thinking skills and how to be skeptical of any information.
  Textbooks are full of errors (see http://amasci.com/miscon/miscon.html, http://www.textbookreviews.org/index.html?content= http%3A//www.textbookreviews.org/California_announ cement.html%3Fshownews and http://school.familyeducation.com/education-and-st ate/history/38673.html or do you believe that Daniel Boone was in the Continental Congress and that Sputnik was a nuclear warhead?)

Wikipedia can be an excellent source of information. It is typically much more current than other sources and had great introductory articles on many technical subjects. The links it has can often lead to further research. The page history can provide insight into underlying controversy.

Clearly, Wikipedia is not perfect: it can be gamed, like Stephen's Colbert's drive to increase the number of elephants in Africa; is subject to fanatic bias; and what's the popular conception isn't necessarily the truth.

Instead students should learn to question everything, parse the logical structures, and not rely on single source for information. In this way Wikipedia can be an excellent teaching tool.

So that leaves us with four choices for their school nights. We can drug them into a stupor. We can have them sit quietly in a corner for the entire night. We can nuke them from orbit. Or we can STOP IT WITH THIS OVERPROTECTIVE BULLSHIT AND LET THEM BE KIDS, FOR CHRIST'S SAKE!

-Eric

http://familyeducation.com/article/0,1120,58-17910 ,00.html

http://learninfreedom.org/socialization.html

http://www.pregnancy.org/article.php?sid=189

I look for some studies that showed public shooling was better, but there aren't any.

Would you imprison a two year old for, well, anything? Why not? Of course because they are incapable of realising that if they stick a hairpin into a power outlet (ie "investigating their world" aka "trying shit out") they might start a fire that burns down their house.

Similarly teenagers are literally incapable of realising that there are consequences to their actions- the part of the brain required to do so simply does not develop until they are in their early twenties. Simple. Scientific. Fact. They might look like adults but they do not think like adults.

Now, how about this lynch mob turn around and go home.

what he did cost people lots of time and money.

Now come on, that's not really a valid reason to send people to jail is it? If it were they'd be full of old grannies that take to long to cross the road.

18 year olds are literally incapable of understanding the consequences of their actions. Literally. The problem is that they look an awful lot like us adults despite the fact that they incapable of thinking as adults. See here for details or do a Google on something like "teenage brain research"; it's pretty recent and the law hasn't even begun to catch up.

you sir, are lost if you think an 18 yr. old that knows how to code (sorta) and re-used known virus code to make another virus, is "lacking the moral logic to recognize what he was doing is wrong".

Uhm actually recent brain research has shown that teenagers are *incapable* of realising that there are consequences to their actions- the connections between the left and right side of the brains required to make that link simply do not develop until they are in their early twenties.

Here's an article that describes it in more detail.

More:

Study Finds Home Schooled Children Better at Social Skills
Children Educated at Home Don't Become Social Misfits
Developmental Phases of Social Development
A Game of Socialization
Homeschooling and the Myth of Socialization
Marvin Minsky Comment on Schooling
THE MYTH OF SOCIALIZATION AND THE VALUE OF PLAY
Questioning Socialization
Sociability of Students in a Home-based Charter School
Social Development or Socialization?
Social Skills and Homeschooling: Myths and Facts
SOCIALIZATION ISSUES
That Dreaded "S" Word

Google is your friend.

http://www.familyeducation.com/article/0,1120,58-1 7910,00.html
http://learninfreedom.org/socialization.html
http://www.geocities.com/athens/oracle/4336/social .html
http://www.faqfarm.com/Parenting/Homeschooling/525

I know of no studies that show homeschooled kids are "socially inept" or otherwise have any social problems whatsoever. On the contrary, an awful lot of information exists that says otherwise.

Maybe someone can find a better link, but it seems the "prior art" is the current mechanism for "anti-patents"

Why did its inventor, an English chemist named John Walker, never patent the match?