It gives me a strange feeling of happiness to see that you've gotten the first post on this new incarnation of slashcode. It's like that confirmation I needed that this is, indeed, the same old slashdot that I, and I think all of us, have come to know and love.
You're right about teachers not being responsible for their students' knowledge of basic ethical principles, but I think there's certainly room in schools for classes which would provide perspectives on ethics that go beyond what can be learned in the home. Things like ethical trends in history, alternate ethical systems and ethical philosophy/philosophers which have been influential could certainly make material for a class, and furthermore for an environment where students could be encouraged to work out the implications of the ethical values they learn at home and become more familiar with what they think of them.
This doesn't respond directly to your post, since I don't think this is exactly what you were thinking of, but these are thoughts I formulated while reading your post, so they go here anyway.
Slashdot Mirror
Lord of the Rings isn't mainstream or overhyped?
Yeah, and there's a note at the top of the column reading 'Advertisement' too.
There were comments about Toyota etc. Subject-verb agreement, my man!
that I, in fact, have got
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It gives me a strange feeling of happiness to see that you've gotten the first post on this new incarnation of slashcode. It's like that confirmation I needed that this is, indeed, the same old slashdot that I, and I think all of us, have come to know and love.
Actually it is. This is a little known fact.
Just go to the Google cache of the slashdotted alternative search engines.
Kidding.
That's why Carmack is rich: He can imagine beowulf clusters of things that, before him, no one would ever have thought clusterable.
I'm hoping it'll be more along the lines of "Quake IV: A New Hope."
This is inspired, keep up the good work.
You're right about teachers not being responsible for their students' knowledge of basic ethical principles, but I think there's certainly room in schools for classes which would provide perspectives on ethics that go beyond what can be learned in the home. Things like ethical trends in history, alternate ethical systems and ethical philosophy/philosophers which have been influential could certainly make material for a class, and furthermore for an environment where students could be encouraged to work out the implications of the ethical values they learn at home and become more familiar with what they think of them.
This doesn't respond directly to your post, since I don't think this is exactly what you were thinking of, but these are thoughts I formulated while reading your post, so they go here anyway.
I'm no moderator, but take heed, for the above is very funny.
I'm going to insult the next person who mods me up too, and hopefully we'll start a cool new Slashdot trend.
Maybe a couple days ago? I'm sure we'll all survive somehow.
That is, honestly, the worst first post I've ever seen.
They should advertise it with animated, anthropomorphized expansion cards being implored to "get on the bus!"