Worth it just to see the sort of BS Mr. Gates tries to pull out of his ass. Just seems unnatural to seem him anything other than the most boring geeky pastel sweaters. And as Morpheus?? Please beeyotch, you're like that little kid in the first Matrix who programs the woman in the red dress because he can't get any himself....
Kicked out of NHS? Wow that's pretty harsh.... Schools are much more anal about this sort of thing these days. When I was in HS I got a slap on the wrist for using fake credit cards to make AOL accounts for all my friends.
Anyway you're probably better off from no longer being in the NHS. From what I remember most of the NHS people were booksmart people who couldn't think for themselves -- at least not enough to make it in grad/med/dental/law school. My two best friends from high school and I didn't make it onto NHS and all 3 of us are some of the most successful (law school for me, architect school for one, and Ph.D program in Geophysics for the other.)
Well I was the child who was given internet access at 13 and I think I came out fine. I got my first computer at 10 and my first internet account in 1993 when I had to learn how to do a SLIP script (pre-ppp). My parents gave me complete trust which is something I appreciated very much.
I found pornography very quickly (Usenet) and learned how to use uudecode by the time I was 14.;) I read the dirtiest, most corrupting crap ever on alt.sex.stories (that place is truly sick, i won't go there now as an adult).. I pirated software - even was a member of PoW for a very short time (RIP!) and couriered it to BBS's.
I met my first gf online at age 15 ('95) and my parents were actually good enough to let me fly out 1200 miles to meet her 4 times. Yes they made sure she was real (and spoke w/ her parents first of course). She even came out and stayed w/ us once.
I went to college, was successful and now i'm in Law School studying to be an IP lawyer.
So depending on your view, either my parents' trust turned me into an evil lawyer, or a highly educated person out to do good in the world. Your choice.....
Who cares? There's also a significant amount of hardcore agnostics and atheists. It's just a word, and only the most extreme christian cults/sects would even worry about using the word "Daemon".
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LOL didn't even realize that -- second and third movie are all about "Choice". Yet what is M$ presenting us with? No choice! Lovely...
Worth it just to see the sort of BS Mr. Gates tries to pull out of his ass. Just seems unnatural to seem him anything other than the most boring geeky pastel sweaters. And as Morpheus?? Please beeyotch, you're like that little kid in the first Matrix who programs the woman in the red dress because he can't get any himself....
Kicked out of NHS? Wow that's pretty harsh.... Schools are much more anal about this sort of thing these days. When I was in HS I got a slap on the wrist for using fake credit cards to make AOL accounts for all my friends. Anyway you're probably better off from no longer being in the NHS. From what I remember most of the NHS people were booksmart people who couldn't think for themselves -- at least not enough to make it in grad/med/dental/law school. My two best friends from high school and I didn't make it onto NHS and all 3 of us are some of the most successful (law school for me, architect school for one, and Ph.D program in Geophysics for the other.)
Well I was the child who was given internet access at 13 and I think I came out fine. I got my first computer at 10 and my first internet account in 1993 when I had to learn how to do a SLIP script (pre-ppp). My parents gave me complete trust which is something I appreciated very much.
;) I read the dirtiest, most corrupting crap ever on alt.sex.stories (that place is truly sick, i won't go there now as an adult).. I pirated software - even was a member of PoW for a very short time (RIP!) and couriered it to BBS's.
I found pornography very quickly (Usenet) and learned how to use uudecode by the time I was 14.
I met my first gf online at age 15 ('95) and my parents were actually good enough to let me fly out 1200 miles to meet her 4 times. Yes they made sure she was real (and spoke w/ her parents first of course). She even came out and stayed w/ us once.
I went to college, was successful and now i'm in Law School studying to be an IP lawyer.
So depending on your view, either my parents' trust turned me into an evil lawyer, or a highly educated person out to do good in the world. Your choice.....
Who cares? There's also a significant amount of hardcore agnostics and atheists. It's just a word, and only the most extreme christian cults/sects would even worry about using the word "Daemon".