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"Is that going to confuse people or what?"

No it isn't. Because the GTK file dialog looks almost exactly the same as MacOS X's file dialog. Everybody praises MacOS X for its usability, including the file dialog, and the GTK dialog looks almost exactly the same, therebefore the GTK dialog is good. If you say the GTK dialog is bad, then you must also admit that the MacOS X dialog is bad.

To address just one part of your post, it's not violence. No-one gets hurt. Remember Magritte's "Ceci n'est pas une pipe"? It's not real, it is a depiction of violence.
Games have long used ideas from films, but films have done darker stuff than any game to date.
The explanation for the violence has to come from elsewhere, I'm afraid.
Do yourself a favour and watch a Tom & Jerry cartoon some time. Then repeat after me, "Cartoon violence is not real."
What worries me are the people who cannot seem to distinguish between fantasy and reality. Senator Lieberman appears to fall into that camp.

> only problem is that some *#%$_)* friends of my girlfriend think it's a trashcan!

Write "Ceci n'est pas une trashcan!" on it. (substitute "poubelle" for "trashcan" if people in your area are somewhat fluent in French)

8-P

Ceci n'est pas une pipe.

FYI: I'm the original poster.

I always dated my notes. As a good physics student at a school where Lab Physics was paramount, we had it drummed into us from almost the moment we entered class that all our notebooks would be dated. This became second habit in Advanced Labs, where our notebooks were held to industry standards.

At the time I made these notes, it wasn't unusual for me to date everything I wrote.

-jh

I would also add these, from my Physics student days at UW-RF:

• Bernoulli's Principle demo - get a fan blower, hooked up to a hose. Use the fast-moving air to suspend a ping-pong ball in mid-air, even at an angle.
• liquid Nitrogen cannon - get a 12" lead pipe, seal off one end. Carefully place a small container of liquid Nitrogen into the pipe, place a cork stopper firmly in the other end. Now give the thing a single, serious shake to spill the Nitrogen all over the inside the pipe, and the sudden boiling of the Nitrogen pops off the cork.
• 2L bottle detonator - get some dry ice, and put a few slices into an empty 2L pop bottle. Tightly cap. Weight the bottle, and drop it into a large container of water so it is entirely submerged (such as a large outdoors Rubbermaid trash can.) It's amazing how long it takes the pressure to build up to cause the bottle to rupture, and it's even more amazing the splash that you get.

I would also add these, from my Physics student days at UW-RF:

• Bernoulli's Principle demo - get a fan blower, hooked up to a hose. Use the fast-moving air to suspend a ping-pong ball in mid-air, even at an angle.
• liquid Nitrogen cannon - get a 12" lead pipe, seal off one end. Carefully place a small container of liquid Nitrogen into the pipe, place a cork stopper firmly in the other end. Now give the thing a single, serious shake to spill the Nitrogen all over the inside the pipe, and the sudden boiling of the Nitrogen pops off the cork.
• 2L bottle detonator - get some dry ice, and put a few slices into an empty 2L pop bottle. Tightly cap. Weight the bottle, and drop it into a large container of water so it is entirely submerged (such as a large outdoors Rubbermaid trash can.) It's amazing how long it takes the pressure to build up to cause the bottle to rupture, and it's even more amazing the splash that you get.

I was gonna say that since we planted a US Flag on the Moon, then basically we claimed it. (At least that's the way it works in cartoons.) But as I recall, we actually brought the flag back with us.

The US has limited outer space jurisdiction, according to the Outer Space Treaty of 1967. The treaty limited State sovereignty over outer space. Outer space was declared to be the common heritage of mankind. It prevented certain military operations in outer space and upon celestial bodies, specifically, the placing in orbit of any nuclear weapons or other weapons of mass destruction, and the installation of such weapons on celestial bodies. Outer space was otherwise to be reserved for peaceful uses. Various other international conventions, such as the Moon Registration, and Liability Treaties, expand upon provisions found in the Outer Space Treaty.

The Moon Treaty of 1979 essentially stated that the exploration and use of the moon shall be the province of all mankind and shall be carried out for the benefit and in the interests of all countries.

But seriously, I got fed up with chemistry in high school (and that was over ten years ago) just because of those lame "experiments" in which you change a colour of the liquid or - even worse - something intangible like it's pH. Wohoo!

What the chemistry classes need are explosions and fireworks like thermite charges. This is what I would have liked to see back them.