Don't deposit anything to a bank. Stop your direct deposit. Get a paycheck and cash it. (or work in a business that works with cash) Don't write checks. Don't use Debit. Don't use credit.
Go to the utility company and pay cash for your bills (that you can), and purchase and send a money order for any bills that you do not have the ability to pay in person.
Pay cash for every transaction.
I am willing to bet that you will ***NOT*** incur any debt during that time. In fact you will become less in debt, because you are making payments on bills from your credit past.
And you know, there's nothing as anonymous as a stack of $20 bills....
There is a great reasturant here in Phoenix (Family run southern style food) that has a sign outside with both big and small printing. I'll use CAPS and lowercase to illustrate the sign:
ALL THE FOOD
we think YOU CAN EAT!
Keep in mind that from the street, you can't see the little print, but as you walk to the door, it is fairly clear.
Now, the portions are large, the food delcious, the menu never changes (heck, there are no menus per se, the price list is painted on all the walls) but it is not a buffet style all you can eat place. I love to go there and am now craving it something fierce.
1. "That 100 GB hard drive is really 100GB." 2. "Duke Nukem Forever will be released 'Soon' " 3. "I just poured hot grits down my pants" 4. This item left blank on purpose. 5. "The 'New Economy' is for real and here to stay"
All the mirrors that I've seen work at the same "speed of light". Do you have some freaky mirror that shows you what you looked like a half second ago? If so, that's cool.
Compared to the HREF weapon that is the slashdotmain page???
What good is a web server it cannot withstand a blast from this awesome HREF weapon that is launched from basements, living rooms and bedrooms around the world?
Are you saying that you haven't modded your toilet tank yet???
Sheesh! I mean really, you aren't even beginning to be cool unless your can has neon lights (that are sound reactive no less), a window, and an extra 3 gal holding capacity. Heck, I'm suprised that you don't have it hooked up to your computer's water cooling system. (it's not like you need *cold* wather to flush) Heck, it dosen't matter that the computer is across the hall and down 2 doors, you just use the raceways that used to house your cat5 to hold the water tubing to and from your system. (You do need to take extra care to ensure that you do not allow air into your tubing when you flush. No need to a thermal induced core dump when you dispose of your bio dump)
Of course, this is humor, but I would not be suprised if someone thinks that these are great ideas and goes ahead and tries this crap.
Regardless of the United States Supreme Court's ruling, the words "under God" will be in the Pledge.
It really comes down to 2 options: 1. The SC rules that it is NOT UNCONSTITUTIONAL IRC, this has already happened not once, but twice. Life goes on until the next time it is challenged. *yawn*
2. The SC rules that the words "under God" ARE UNCONSTITUTIONAL If this happens, then things get fun. I would not be suprised to see a Constitutional Amendment proposed that specifically states that the United States of America has a Pledge of Allegiance and specifically states what that pledge is. This pledge will include the words "under God" This proposal will be approved in the House and Senate with speed to match the " Oops, We Forgot to Give Authority to Implement the Do Not Call List Bill" (Not the real name) that was passed within days of the courts ruling that the previous bill passed wasn't done right. Within weeks, enough states will have ratified he new proposed Constitutional Amendment, making any claims that the pledge is unconstitional moot, since something specified in the constitution cannot be unconstitutional. (Did I just say that?) You see, that is how checks and balances work, congress passes a law, president vetoes it, congress overrides the veto, the courts rule it unconstutional, the congress amendmends the constitution, the states ratify the change. Like I said, it gets fun then.
Now, a real Conspericy Nut (IANACN, Figure it out) would go on to state that the whole process has been initated to get the American Voting Sheep used to congress messing with the Constitution, by floating out some softball issue like the Pledge, then propose something else, then something else, then what the heck, repeal one or two existing amendments, then add another one or two... Rinse, and repeat... If it goes in reeeeaaaalllly slowly, it dosen't hurt as much, I've been told.
Again IANACN, but I do love to play Devil's Advocate.
Then again, I could be wrong. It's be known to happen regularly.
My favorite computer bug was the opti 895 chipset.
You see, the opti 895 was a chipset for a i486 processor based motherboard. The 486 processor's ZIF socket (The mdern kind with a lever, before that you had to press the procesor into a socket and hope that you aren't breaking the traces on the motherboard) had an extra row of pins to accomidate the Pentium OverDrive Processor. This processor actually put a P5 core in a motherboard designd for a i486 processor. The nifty thing was ha it worked at all.
Getting to the bug: The outer row of pins on the socket for the 486 were only power and ground for the extra power consumption for the PODP. The specs were clear which ones were Vcc and which were Vss. Well, the opti 895 had 2 of the pins backwards. This was never found in testing. Many many boards were sold from various Tiwanese manufacturers. The boards ran fin until you purchased and installed a PODP into yhe board and powered up. The chipset would short, get HOTHOTHOT, start glowing, and burst into flame within minutes.
This was bought to out (I was working for Intel as OverDrive Processor support at the time) about a week after product launch. Can you imagine how that call went?
Caller: Uhhh... I installed tha part into my computer and it burst into flames...
Tech: Yes, the speed improvement is quite impressive.
C: No, you dont understand. My computer actually caught on fire.
T: (silence)
C: Hello?
T: Am I to understand that you have a fire in your computer?
C: Yeah, the smoke is getting pretty bad.
T: You mean to tell me that it is STILL ON FIRE?
C: Well yeah, the manual says to call you with the system in the current condition.
The motherboard was sent in (we replaced the system with a new name brand machine) and the chip was redisned so that one of the pins was removed. (Pin A4, IIRC)
I have NO idea how many motherboards we ended up replacing , but I know it was a bunch, even though it wasn't Intel's fault that opti couldn't read a pinout diagram.
I always thought that the tolerances for heatup/cooldown for the pits onthe CDRW needed to be pretty specific. If the pits on a cdrw don't heat up and cool off fast enough for a 52x speed then bad things will happen. So ya make a fre coasters and then have to throttle down to 32x or whatever. I realise that I may be very wrong about this. Heck, I'm still using a 4x4x16 yahama scsi model.
I eat cheerios for breakfast, not because it will enlighten me, or expand my horizens, but because I want something sweet and somewhat tiding in the morning.
OT: I laugh every time I see a Cheerios ad that touts the cholesterol reducing properties of the cereal. One of the ingredients is Trisodiumphosphate. You can purchase TSP in most "Home Depot" type stores in the paint section. It removes wax residue from walls. Wax remover, cholesterol remover... How do they DO that?
Superman is suppose to give patriotic speeches and such, which would require Keanu to talk, which is bad.
Oh, you mean that actors must have clarity and eloquence. I would like to remind you of the patriotic speech given by John J. Rambo at the end of "Rambo: First Blood Part II" delivered by the silver tongued actor Sylvester Stallone.
Flashlight. Preferably a mini mag light. They're bright as hell and they're easy to hold in your teeth when you need both hands =)
Forget holding it in your teeth. One of the best signs of a true tech-geek is use of something like this:
http://www.orderoutdoors.com/niteize/hband.htm
Not only is highly functional, but it repels chicks better than a pocket protector. (Don't let the picture of the female wearing this item throw you off, she was PAID to have her picture taken with it. I'm not convinced that it isn't a retouch job)
Actually, if you view condoms/diaphragms as an "anti-copy protection" the DMCA may make tampering with them (such as intentional improper use or intentional sabotage) illegal.:)
I can just see some sleazeball Hollywood exec suing his mistress for not aborting a pregnancy under the DMCA. "That is an illegal copy of my genetic code. I claim full copyright on my genetic sequence!"
Maybe the government shouldn't have the power to tell me what kind of #$(*&#$* television I can buy?
You can buy whatever TV you want. You can purchase a vintage 1970 Zenith 15" floor console and set it up. You can purchase a 1985 "cable-ready" setup and use it. You can purchase a 2000 flat screen plasma display. Heck, if you want to buy an Etch-A-Sketch and mount it on the wall (Ohh, it's so thin!) and call it TV and there's *NOTHING* that anyone can or would do to you.
What the government *CAN* do however, is tell the broadcasters that service your area to turn off the signal that your "legacy" systems require to tune "off the air" programming.
Does this mean that your old TV is now landfill fodder? Maybe. You see, this only applies to "off the air" programming. Your local cable company will still be able to offer "legacy" cable service if they want. Of course, you will have to do some tricks to get that old Zenith working on cable, and don't get me started on the hacking needed to get that Etch-A-Sketch to be "Cable-Ready"...
Or as in this case, Why are stories that are based on the gods of one religion allowed, while a story that does not mention a single name of another religion is banned?
"Greek mythology is not a religion in any meaningful way, because nobody takes it literally."
Are you certain that nobody takes it literally? I'd be willing to wager that somewhere in this wide world of ours, that somebody somewhere believes that the gods depicted in the stories are real and worship them in some way. Heck, there may be someone that believes the stories are fact for all I know. However, even if nobody is currently worshiping these gods, it is a fact that in the past, these gods were worshiped. Temples were created in their names. They were the basis for a Religion.
I just picked greek mythology out of the air, I could have chosen Roman or Egyptian just as easily.
When Moses asked at the burning bush "Now they may say to me, 'What is His name?' What shall I say to them?" he asked because while he was a Jew, he was raised with the Egyptian belief system of many gods, and he thought that he was talking to one of those gods.
Why is it that the "ancient writings" of one "ancient religion" are accepted, when the "ancient writings" of another are not?
(By banned I mean it was banned from being read in the classroom as part of school work or assignments, students can still check them out from the Library of course, I mean they/are/ damn nearly classics and all.:-D )
Do they use Greek Mythology as part of school work or assignments? If so, I smell a double standard that may need exploration.
Does the term "prisoner of war" require that an actual war be taking place? Has congress actually declared "war" in the last few years?
In the same vein, you should think about the rights that are being trampled on because we are "at war"...
According to the US Constitution, the leglislative branch of the Federal Government has to declare war, not the President, not his staff, not the military, not the media.
Where do get the idea that you have a right to make money off of an investment of stock? You have a right to choose what kind of investment you make. You have a right to choose to invest in any number of stocks and mutual funds. You have a right to choose to invest in CDs or bonds. You have a right to choose to "invest" in coffee cans in which to to bury your money. You have a right to choose to "invest" in State lottery tickets. You have a right to choose to "invest" in your favorite number on the roulette wheel in Las Vegas.
What you do not have is the right to demand that your choice of investment is going to guarantee that your investment will appriciate in value. If you have a contract that stipulates a certain interest rate, then you can enforce that contract in a court of law. Otherwise, your investment is largely speculative in nature.
Why is my 1.4G pentium 4 not even 10 time faster than my 33MHz 386 was in '92?
Probibly because you don't have DOS 3.3 and the application from 1992 installed. Who knows you might be able to get by with the old Word Perfect and Visicalc "office suite" I'm sure that the framerate on Microsoft Flight Simulator V2 would be impressive!
I must retract the use of the word "only". I should have used the work "primary" in it's stead.
I also know of many that survived the public school system and became "upstanding, civic-minded citizens." I'm not certain that I would attribute the success to the school system or in spite of it. Most of the "successes" that come to mind have outside influences such as Boy/Girl Scouts, Boy/Girl Clubs, Church groups, and other such orginazations focused on improving the members. I also know of many (possibly much more) that came out of the public school system totally unprepared to live as a functioning adult. The school system has failed in teaching. These individuals have failed in learning. I cannot make a generalization as to the end results of the process, but I can say that I can imagine a bleak future if the process continues unchecked.
If the will is to homeschool, then it is likely that both parents do not work outside of the home. If that means that the family lives in a smaller domicile, drives older automobiles, foregoes the luxuries of eating out and more costly forms of entertainment, then that may be the way that enables the will.
From my experience, the process of providing an education also gives an education. Why would one need to have a college degree in all the topics that you list to instruct a student in any of the topics. Once a student has an understanding of her native language grammar and vocabulary, she can learn about other topics at will with the exception of math based science. Hard science needs to have the basic language of math understood through calculus before Physics is learned. Once Neutonian physics has been learned, all other sciences build on that.
If you say that the typical American cannot teach these topics, you are saying that the typical American cannot learn these topics either. If you can learn, you can master. If you can master, you can teach. It all comes down to will. If you have the will to teach, you will find the way.
If a teacher obtains and provides texts that cover topics, does it matter if there are "holes" in the teacher's mastery on topic of the text? If the student has questions regarding the material, is the prent/teacher no less capible of performing the research necessary to complete the mastery of the topic at hand than a certified teacher? Once again, it comes down to will.
What do you think that the requirements are to "pass" 3rd grade? Addition, Subtraction, single digit multiplication. Forget division. Identifying a noun, and a verb. Forget the rest of grammar. That would "pass" 3rd grade. Are you so sure that the majority of American citizens could not teach their children that much?
I could argue that I'm not qualified to instruct my children in all of the subjects they'll need to learn in order to excel in this world; or at least not to the depth which society will require.
Do you think that public school teachers teach everything from memory? If given the will to teach you children, you would likely obtain the materials that you would need to teach them everything that modern society requires and expects.
However, since religion really hasn't advanced much in the last few centuries, I'm reasonably capable of indoctrinating my children on that subject with only the help of my local parish.
Let's make the timeframe a little more practical. Has Math, Science, Literature, Art (paint, sculpture, music, dance and song) and Language(s) (both grammar and vocabulary) changed appreciably in your lifetime? (OK, Art changes, but that is to be expected) If not, then you are reasonably capable of indoctrinating your children on these subjects with only the help of your local library/bookstore/educational co-op
Slashdot Mirror
Try it for 3 months!
Don't deposit anything to a bank. Stop your direct deposit. Get a paycheck and cash it. (or work in a business that works with cash) Don't write checks. Don't use Debit. Don't use credit.
Go to the utility company and pay cash for your bills (that you can), and purchase and send a money order for any bills that you do not have the ability to pay in person.
Pay cash for every transaction.
I am willing to bet that you will ***NOT*** incur any debt during that time. In fact you will become less in debt, because you are making payments on bills from your credit past.
And you know, there's nothing as anonymous as a stack of $20 bills....
At first, I thought that they were toying with Mobile Mounted HERF Weapons.
I've wondered when I was going to read of a criminal disabling the police pursuit with one of these mounted in the trunk of the getaway car.
Nasty things. Nasty but effective.
NOTE: HERF weapons that destroy elecronics should not be confused with HREF weapons that destroy serves (SLASHDOT.ORG).
There is a great reasturant here in Phoenix (Family run southern style food) that has a sign outside with both big and small printing. I'll use CAPS and lowercase to illustrate the sign:
r s_ white_s_golden_rule_cafe_phoenix-i
6 -2 0.html
/ ar ticles/0914bestsoulfood14.html
ALL THE FOOD
we think
YOU CAN EAT!
Keep in mind that from the street, you can't see the little print, but as you walk to the door, it is fairly clear.
Now, the portions are large, the food delcious, the menu never changes (heck, there are no menus per se, the price list is painted on all the walls) but it is not a buffet style all you can eat place. I love to go there and am now craving it something fierce.
Here are some reviews:
http://travel.yahoo.com/p-travelguide-1238952-m
http://www.phoenixnewtimes.com/bop/1997/section
http://www.azcentral.com/ent/best2003/diningout
(Yeah I got offtopic, but if you've eaten there and loved it, you would understand!)
1. "That 100 GB hard drive is really 100GB."
2. "Duke Nukem Forever will be released 'Soon' "
3. "I just poured hot grits down my pants"
4. This item left blank on purpose.
5. "The 'New Economy' is for real and here to stay"
All the mirrors that I've seen work at the same "speed of light". Do you have some freaky mirror that shows you what you looked like a half second ago? If so, that's cool.
Compared to the HREF weapon that is the slashdotmain page???
What good is a web server it cannot withstand a blast from this awesome HREF weapon that is launched from basements, living rooms and bedrooms around the world?
I'm sorry, it had to be done.
Are you saying that you haven't modded your toilet tank yet???
Sheesh! I mean really, you aren't even beginning to be cool unless your can has neon lights (that are sound reactive no less), a window, and an extra 3 gal holding capacity. Heck, I'm suprised that you don't have it hooked up to your computer's water cooling system. (it's not like you need *cold* wather to flush) Heck, it dosen't matter that the computer is across the hall and down 2 doors, you just use the raceways that used to house your cat5 to hold the water tubing to and from your system. (You do need to take extra care to ensure that you do not allow air into your tubing when you flush. No need to a thermal induced core dump when you dispose of your bio dump)
Of course, this is humor, but I would not be suprised if someone thinks that these are great ideas and goes ahead and tries this crap.
Regardless of the United States Supreme Court's ruling, the words "under God" will be in the Pledge.
It really comes down to 2 options:
1. The SC rules that it is NOT UNCONSTITUTIONAL
IRC, this has already happened not once, but twice. Life goes on until the next time it is challenged. *yawn*
2. The SC rules that the words "under God" ARE UNCONSTITUTIONAL
If this happens, then things get fun. I would not be suprised to see a Constitutional Amendment proposed that specifically states that the United States of America has a Pledge of Allegiance and specifically states what that pledge is. This pledge will include the words "under God" This proposal will be approved in the House and Senate with speed to match the " Oops, We Forgot to Give Authority to Implement the Do Not Call List Bill" (Not the real name) that was passed within days of the courts ruling that the previous bill passed wasn't done right. Within weeks, enough states will have ratified he new proposed Constitutional Amendment, making any claims that the pledge is unconstitional moot, since something specified in the constitution cannot be unconstitutional. (Did I just say that?) You see, that is how checks and balances work, congress passes a law, president vetoes it, congress overrides the veto, the courts rule it unconstutional, the congress amendmends the constitution, the states ratify the change. Like I said, it gets fun then.
Now, a real Conspericy Nut (IANACN, Figure it out) would go on to state that the whole process has been initated to get the American Voting Sheep used to congress messing with the Constitution, by floating out some softball issue like the Pledge, then propose something else, then something else, then what the heck, repeal one or two existing amendments, then add another one or two... Rinse, and repeat... If it goes in reeeeaaaalllly slowly, it dosen't hurt as much, I've been told.
Again IANACN, but I do love to play Devil's Advocate.
Then again, I could be wrong. It's be known to happen regularly.
Late-Working NASA Scientists Discover Moons Over My Hammy!
It appears that the onion no longer has it in it's archives. Bummer.
You see, the opti 895 was a chipset for a i486 processor based motherboard. The 486 processor's ZIF socket (The mdern kind with a lever, before that you had to press the procesor into a socket and hope that you aren't breaking the traces on the motherboard) had an extra row of pins to accomidate the Pentium OverDrive Processor. This processor actually put a P5 core in a motherboard designd for a i486 processor. The nifty thing was ha it worked at all.
Getting to the bug: The outer row of pins on the socket for the 486 were only power and ground for the extra power consumption for the PODP. The specs were clear which ones were Vcc and which were Vss. Well, the opti 895 had 2 of the pins backwards. This was never found in testing. Many many boards were sold from various Tiwanese manufacturers. The boards ran fin until you purchased and installed a PODP into yhe board and powered up. The chipset would short, get HOTHOTHOT, start glowing, and burst into flame within minutes.
This was bought to out (I was working for Intel as OverDrive Processor support at the time) about a week after product launch. Can you imagine how that call went?
Caller: Uhhh... I installed tha part into my computer and it burst into flames...
Tech: Yes, the speed improvement is quite impressive.
C: No, you dont understand. My computer actually caught on fire.
T: (silence)
C: Hello?
T: Am I to understand that you have a fire in your computer?
C: Yeah, the smoke is getting pretty bad.
T: You mean to tell me that it is STILL ON FIRE?
C: Well yeah, the manual says to call you with the system in the current condition.
The motherboard was sent in (we replaced the system with a new name brand machine) and the chip was redisned so that one of the pins was removed. (Pin A4, IIRC)
I have NO idea how many motherboards we ended up replacing , but I know it was a bunch, even though it wasn't Intel's fault that opti couldn't read a pinout diagram.
I always thought that the tolerances for heatup/cooldown for the pits onthe CDRW needed to be pretty specific.
If the pits on a cdrw don't heat up and cool off fast enough for a 52x speed then bad things will happen. So ya make a fre coasters and then have to throttle down to 32x or whatever.
I realise that I may be very wrong about this. Heck, I'm still using a 4x4x16 yahama scsi model.
Oh, you mean that actors must have clarity and eloquence. I would like to remind you of the patriotic speech given by John J. Rambo at the end of
"Rambo: First Blood Part II" delivered by the silver tongued actor Sylvester Stallone.
Forget holding it in your teeth. One of the best signs of a true tech-geek is use of something like this:
http://www.orderoutdoors.com/niteize/hband.htm
Not only is highly functional, but it repels chicks better than a pocket protector. (Don't let the picture of the female wearing this item throw you off, she was PAID to have her picture taken with it. I'm not convinced that it isn't a retouch job)
Actually, if you view condoms/diaphragms as an "anti-copy protection" the DMCA may make tampering with them (such as intentional improper use or intentional sabotage) illegal. :)
I can just see some sleazeball Hollywood exec suing his mistress for not aborting a pregnancy under the DMCA. "That is an illegal copy of my genetic code. I claim full copyright on my genetic sequence!"
You can buy whatever TV you want. You can purchase a vintage 1970 Zenith 15" floor console and set it up. You can purchase a 1985 "cable-ready" setup and use it. You can purchase a 2000 flat screen plasma display. Heck, if you want to buy an Etch-A-Sketch and mount it on the wall (Ohh, it's so thin!) and call it TV and there's *NOTHING* that anyone can or would do to you.
What the government *CAN* do however, is tell the broadcasters that service your area to turn off the signal that your "legacy" systems require to tune "off the air" programming.
Does this mean that your old TV is now landfill fodder? Maybe. You see, this only applies to "off the air" programming. Your local cable company will still be able to offer "legacy" cable service if they want. Of course, you will have to do some tricks to get that old Zenith working on cable, and don't get me started on the hacking needed to get that Etch-A-Sketch to be "Cable-Ready"...
Or as in this case, Why are stories that are based on the gods of one religion allowed, while a story that does not mention a single name of another religion is banned?
Are you certain that nobody takes it literally? I'd be willing to wager that somewhere in this wide world of ours, that somebody somewhere believes that the gods depicted in the stories are real and worship them in some way. Heck, there may be someone that believes the stories are fact for all I know. However, even if nobody is currently worshiping these gods, it is a fact that in the past, these gods were worshiped. Temples were created in their names. They were the basis for a Religion.
I just picked greek mythology out of the air, I could have chosen Roman or Egyptian just as easily.
When Moses asked at the burning bush "Now they may say to me, 'What is His name?' What shall I say to them?" he asked because while he was a Jew, he was raised with the Egyptian belief system of many gods, and he thought that he was talking to one of those gods.
Why is it that the "ancient writings" of one "ancient religion" are accepted, when the "ancient writings" of another are not?
Do they use Greek Mythology as part of school work or assignments? If so, I smell a double standard that may need exploration.
Does the term "prisoner of war" require that an actual war be taking place? Has congress actually declared "war" in the last few years?
In the same vein, you should think about the rights that are being trampled on because we are "at war"...
According to the US Constitution, the leglislative branch of the Federal Government has to declare war, not the President, not his staff, not the military, not the media.
--Joe
What you do not have is the right to demand that your choice of investment is going to guarantee that your investment will appriciate in value. If you have a contract that stipulates a certain interest rate, then you can enforce that contract in a court of law. Otherwise, your investment is largely speculative in nature.
Probibly because you don't have DOS 3.3 and the application from 1992 installed. Who knows you might be able to get by with the old Word Perfect and Visicalc "office suite" I'm sure that the framerate on Microsoft Flight Simulator V2 would be impressive!
I also know of many that survived the public school system and became "upstanding, civic-minded citizens." I'm not certain that I would attribute the success to the school system or in spite of it. Most of the "successes" that come to mind have outside influences such as Boy/Girl Scouts, Boy/Girl Clubs, Church groups, and other such orginazations focused on improving the members. I also know of many (possibly much more) that came out of the public school system totally unprepared to live as a functioning adult. The school system has failed in teaching. These individuals have failed in learning. I cannot make a generalization as to the end results of the process, but I can say that I can imagine a bleak future if the process continues unchecked.
If you say that the typical American cannot teach these topics, you are saying that the typical American cannot learn these topics either. If you can learn, you can master. If you can master, you can teach. It all comes down to will. If you have the will to teach, you will find the way.
If a teacher obtains and provides texts that cover topics, does it matter if there are "holes" in the teacher's mastery on topic of the text? If the student has questions regarding the material, is the prent/teacher no less capible of performing the research necessary to complete the mastery of the topic at hand than a certified teacher? Once again, it comes down to will.
What do you think that the requirements are to "pass" 3rd grade? Addition, Subtraction, single digit multiplication. Forget division. Identifying a noun, and a verb. Forget the rest of grammar. That would "pass" 3rd grade. Are you so sure that the majority of American citizens could not teach their children that much?
If the parent can learn, the parent can teach.
Do you think that public school teachers teach everything from memory? If given the will to teach you children, you would likely obtain the materials that you would need to teach them everything that modern society requires and expects.
Let's make the timeframe a little more practical. Has Math, Science, Literature, Art (paint, sculpture, music, dance and song) and Language(s) (both grammar and vocabulary) changed appreciably in your lifetime? (OK, Art changes, but that is to be expected) If not, then you are reasonably capable of indoctrinating your children on these subjects with only the help of your local library/bookstore/educational co-op