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Robocode Rumble: Tips From the Champs
Jason writes "The Robocode Rumble is over and the winners have been declared. Who are they and what are the secrets of their success? Dana Barrow talks shop with some of the mad scientists behind the winning Javabots and with Mat Nelson, who reveals what he has planned for Robocode 2.0. You can get the free download here."
I have the shits!!
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Jehovah's Witnesses: The happiest people in the world
Unless they are cat owners
In which case, if they want to follow the word of God, they should "pelt him with stones, and he must die".
I'm not making this up! This isn't a satire site I linked to. This is a real JW advising other's to kill their cats, or face burning in hell forever.
Where's the code for Robo-Carmen Electra?
I just heard on the radio that Legendary American Football player Johnny Unitas is dead. The famous Lithuanian-American was a member of the Pro Football HGall of Fame.
Hey, don't lump all us Americans in your racist, war-mongering, ignorance, trailer-trash rant. Its people like you that give us a bad name.
Anonymous Cowards suck.
So much for big iron, snicker.
The difference between Canada and the USA is that in Canada healthcare is a right and gun ownership is a privilege.
The most beautiful girl in the world.
My GAWD she has the most lucious brown hair and brown eyes ever.
Wow.
Germany Worried It Becoming a Land of Dunces
Thu Sep 12,10:47 AM ET
BERLIN (Reuters) - Germany, the land of poets and thinkers, is worried it is becoming a country of dunces.
Its creaking universities, where students commonly study into their late twenties, and old-fashioned schools, where children are only taught for half the day, are failing to provide industry with the skills it needs.
Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder has been trading blame for poor standards with rival Edmund Stoiber, who cites his home state of Bavaria's strong performance on education as a reason to vote out the government in a general election on September 22.
Focusing their minds is an international study by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) published late last year, which ranked German secondary schools 25th out of 32 countries, disproving the country's long-held belief it had one of the best education systems in the world.
The report, the Program for International Student Assessment (PISA) study, showed schools in most European Union ( news - web sites) countries were better than in Germany and that more than 20 percent of teenagers in German schools were nearly illiterate.
Teachers are skeptical that with an election looming, the study will bring about anything other than political posturing.
"Education comes in and out of vogue with politicians. When it's in, they all think they should say something, but they actually change nothing," said Ulrich Kopitzki, headmaster of the Ernst-Reuter-Oberschule secondary school in central Berlin.
ANTI AUTHORITARIAN
Teachers and education experts say Germany's scattered and complex system, where schooling is the responsibility of individual states rather than the federal government, needs fundamental reform, above all to give it a national standard that is monitored and enforced.
One obstacle to necessary reform lies in the country's Nazi past, which has created endemic resistance to any change that gives the state more control over people's lives.
"The consequences of the Nazi era play a much deeper role than people realize in the whole debate," said Ralph Fleischhauer, an Education Ministry spokesman for the state of North Rhine-Westphalia, one of the worst performers in a domestic study of regional standards.
"People have a mistrust of authority and of too much state control. This anti-authoritarian feeling traditionally meant people would rather keep their kids in the family than send them to school for the full day, for example."
The PISA study made for unwelcome reading in a country whose lack of raw materials means it sets great store by having a skilled labor force to help it remain industrially competitive.
"We Germans have no natural resources, our wealth lies in our skill," former German chancellor Helmut Kohl told a recent conservative campaign rally in Berlin.
TOP MARKS FOR STOIBER
Education climbed up the political agenda early on in the election campaign when a second PISA study found huge differences in standards between regions governed by Schroeder's Social Democrats, and those run by the opposition conservatives.
The conservatives leapt on the results, making much of the fact that Bavaria, of which Stoiber is the premier, scored highest in reading, math and science.
Schroeder questioned the competence of regional authorities in dictating education policy, calling for the establishment of a national curriculum, and accusing Stoiber of "state egoism on the backs of pupils."
"Competition is the heart of federalism," Stoiber struck back. "Whoever centralizes educational policy carries federalism to its grave."
Most education experts and teachers agree the political hot air ahead of the election is clouding the issue.
"The debate about which state did better is ridiculous. They have lost the real policy alternatives. They should look abroad at Japan, Finland or Canada. That perspective has been completely lost," said Andreas Schleicher of the OECD.
"What is fundamentally lacking is a shift to a system oriented on results. There is no system of guiding schools by their outcome."
The OECD study suggested Germany's school system needed a number of reforms, including more full-day schooling, a national curriculum, and German language lessons from an earlier age for non native-speakers.
Immediately after the second PISA study, Schroeder's center-left government proposed increasing the number of full-day schools, pledging $3.9 billion to create 10,000 extra schools by 2007 if it wins the election.
But worries about rising unemployment and the worst floods in more than a century stole the political spotlight away from schooling, as newspaper front pages instead filled with pictures of media-savvy politicians wading through muddy water.
According to the Electoral Research Group, which publishes weekly opinion polls ahead of the election, only four percent of the electorate consider education to be one of the two most important issues in the election battle.
"What would have happened if in the 19th century people had said we will not change the production mechanism, we will just work faster? It is the same attitude. Everyone wants to improve but no-one wants to discuss reform," Schleicher said [yahoo.com]
You were looking at guys weren't you, you hippy piece of cocksmoking shit.
vell?
>I'm a big fucking idiot
I agree with this (part of this) post.
you mean like the one you just made?
Fact is Robot Wars are a big ole Beowulf cluster full of HOT GRITS, Natalie Portman, and a Kool-Aid man who will PUNCH YOU IN THE CROTCH.
Word. It's about time we bombed those euro commie hippy bastards back into their caves.
How is this diff from any other slashdot story? Where is a story that generated a ton of insite and genious?
Slashdot is an e-bar for geeks (without the babes). Whattya want?
What's going on slashdot sucks ass no one makes any sense i hope that no one si reading this but you are because you are a fucktard. Please go and do the following for me join a convent dressed up like a woman then when they are all sleeping take pictures of their bums that would be pretty sweet hahahah. Anhyways who has seen the television lately their is so much stuff on that about crack and dirty women and bombs its pretty cool i was eveon on a television show it was caalleed jerry springer i just got me computer over at teh walmarty and it had the linux so i came here is this normal?! I dont understand why can't we blow up california they need to fall into the ocean soon they suck. ahha hear come sa dnot tordauyolaa ldklsfjall
Welcome to the degadation of the human race. Fasten your seatbelt; it's gonna be a long ride.
Anonymous Cowards suck.
Why oh why oh why oh why oh why oh why oh why oh why. I I I I I I I I I I hate slashdot i just want it to die. I hate you all too you flaming piles of poo. Please return to lunch, or your cock I shall punch. Faggots. Open Source is GAY. Linux is FOR HIPPIES. Only fucking morons read slashdot. Thank god none of you will ever breed.
Listen you nigger, he wasn't talking to you, pleaseleavehimaloneok?
[posting anonymously to presserve kharma]
If that isn't a troll, then trolls don't exist.
Were you hoping to get moderated as funny for
second-hand assertions? Wouldn't it be easier
to actually learn how to write OOP and Java than
to spend all your energy arguing against it?
BWA-HA-HA-HA!
Good Job, sir! I salute you!
comedy central just sent out a memo...
robocode rumble is officially cancelled.
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Guard gets paid for letting sufferers of chlamydia rape street dogs in Turkey
11/09/2002 KurdishMedia.com - By Robin Kurd
London (KurdishMedia.com) 11 September 2002: In Izmir, the third biggest city of Turkey, the Animal's Safe House in Ortakoy has been shut down and its premises demolished.
3 months ago the Animal's Safe House in Ortakoy, Izmir, made the headlines in Turkey when 6 dogs in the safe house were raped by several people who had broken into the premises. This time the Safe House has become news material as allegations have been made that several dogs have been raped for the reason that "it cures chlamydia".
The Turkish daily Hurriyet reported today that the guard responsible for the animals in the safe house "hired" the dogs out for people with chlamydia.
2500 signatures have been collected by animal rights activists for the closure of the safe house and has been forwarded to the local council. 90 of the dogs from the safe house have been transferred to the Buyuksehir Council Animal Safe House.
The animal rights activist Sevtap Henrich, who is responsible of the Animal Safe House in Ortakoy, said they had established that the dogs had been raped:
"This is really an incredible incident. Unfortunately we are the victims of ignorance and lack of education. This kind of activity will not cure chlamydia, in fact it can cause a lot more diseases", Henrich added.
After hearing rumours that dogs were being raped in the safe house because it was believed that it would cure clamydia, Chairman of the Animal Lovers and Protectors' Association, Suna+ Esen Akaturk, said that she was against the demolition of the premises of the Animal Safe House:
"I am aware of the fact that this incident is disgusting. But unfortunately these kinds of incidents are the bleeding wounds of our country. Recently in Narlidere, a similar incident took place. We have taken our precautions here. I am searching for other reasons behind the demolition of the safe house. We built and paid for the safe house with money from our own pockets. They demolished our work just in two hours. We were trying to keep the safe house alive despite all the impossibilities", she said.
Why does Slashdot have a big square advert for MS VisualStudio.net of all things between the synopsis and the comments?
Kind of distracting.
Jonathan