*copiez and pastez rant* Hope you don't mind...but I thought it was good. In public school I was the only "smart kid" because my parents were the only ones that taught me anything outside of school and they encouraged me to learn more. This is one of the reasons why I'm studying all this stuff about computers now...not because someone is forcing me to but because (thanks mostly to my parents) I have a drive to always be learning more. I hate the way the public school system operates, now that I look back on it. Also, there are a lot of things about it that remind me of Communism......this scares me. On another subject...I think something should be done to get our Gvt. to realize that security by obscurity isn't working and won't work....so they should start taking some better precautions. I *know* with all those (opinionated ) people out there you can come up with some ideas .