Assuming I don't care about the law, this would still be cool as it'd be a place where I can easily find good copies of songs (well, good after I take the ads out), no more searching on P2P networks, no more paying iTunes or similar beasts! It'd be just as illegal, but I don't care.
It'll still be inhabitable, but barely, and it'll suck to inhabit it.
(The truly wise are not those who make no typos, the truly wise are those who are ably to lie through their teeth to justify their typos in subsequent posts.)
I have in fact heard of The Wall and rather like it. That doesn't mean song lyrics are useful evidence in an argument.
I never said school can't be enjoyable; I simply said that that wasn't the point of schools. For an academically interested student (which, let's be honest, isn't everyone), learning can in fact be quite enjoyable. The problem occurs when the learning is sacrificed for the "funness" of lessons, and teachers dumb down their plans to appeal to everyone. Making students stop learning, and turning school into, to use your own words, a "damn state-sponsored day care center". You and I both agree that this is wrong.
However, this argument doesn't really even matter, as we are talking about P.E., which although an integral part of schools isn't really about "learning", per se.
The point of schools is not to be enjoyable. With "sticking with a kid for life" you have a good point, but I don't see how it applies to DDR: I doubt very many people, relatively speaking, are going to go out and buy a DDR machine because they played DDR at school. Much more are going to run because they ran at school or play football because they played football at school, etc.
The problem with American schools isn't that they don't have enough money, it's (in part) that the money they have is used incorrectly. This is a great example of such waste. What, exactly, is wrong with running laps or playing sports in P.E.?
I feel your pain. If you say "U.Sian" you sound stupid, and if you say "American" people bitch at you. Neither is actually technically correct. We live in a stupid world...
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Assuming I don't care about the law, this would still be cool as it'd be a place where I can easily find good copies of songs (well, good after I take the ads out), no more searching on P2P networks, no more paying iTunes or similar beasts! It'd be just as illegal, but I don't care.
Only certain music, and not what the majority of people want; what is your point?
Well, copyright infringement isn't theft, but neither is what the RIAA does (even less so, in fact!). So, what are you talking about?
PS: IANAPhilosopher, but as best as I can tell, morality doesn't exist.
If I wrote a program to cut off the first ten seconds (or whatever) of these songs, removing the ads, would that be legal or not?
But, for someone like that, is Vista really any worse than XP?
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Glad somebody got the joke.
What a retard, you put French in your Slashdot post and thought you could get away with it.
It'll still be inhabitable, but barely, and it'll suck to inhabit it.
(The truly wise are not those who make no typos, the truly wise are those who are ably to lie through their teeth to justify their typos in subsequent posts.)
Explain to me how DDR is not exercise.
I agree with your thesis that this is a waste of money (see my posts above), but you're using a silly argument to support it.
Try France. Good quality schools, 2 hours of education per week, sports either totally disconnected from schools are a minimal part of them.
Oh, by "our society" did you mean America?
OK, I give in, P.E. does have a learning component. But you didn't answer the rest of my argument.
I have in fact heard of The Wall and rather like it. That doesn't mean song lyrics are useful evidence in an argument.
I never said school can't be enjoyable; I simply said that that wasn't the point of schools. For an academically interested student (which, let's be honest, isn't everyone), learning can in fact be quite enjoyable. The problem occurs when the learning is sacrificed for the "funness" of lessons, and teachers dumb down their plans to appeal to everyone. Making students stop learning, and turning school into, to use your own words, a "damn state-sponsored day care center". You and I both agree that this is wrong.
However, this argument doesn't really even matter, as we are talking about P.E., which although an integral part of schools isn't really about "learning", per se.
See my response to the other poster, who put forth an argument very similar to yours.
You can read about the OJ Simpson verdict in the paper the next morning.
Who needs to know everything the second it happens?
The point of schools is not to be enjoyable. With "sticking with a kid for life" you have a good point, but I don't see how it applies to DDR: I doubt very many people, relatively speaking, are going to go out and buy a DDR machine because they played DDR at school. Much more are going to run because they ran at school or play football because they played football at school, etc.
When the Earth is an inhabitable wasteland, I'm sure you'll still be relishing the time you saved by putting light bulbs on your grocery list.
The problem with American schools isn't that they don't have enough money, it's (in part) that the money they have is used incorrectly. This is a great example of such waste. What, exactly, is wrong with running laps or playing sports in P.E.?
The Pentium 4 in my computer is "no different", fundamentally, than the first silicon CPU ever made.
Gotta love incremental improvements!
Anybody got a screenshot?
Strike that, reverse it: I should have used Preview.
You have to run before you can walk. "Talkies" used to be seen as a gimmick too.
No, he supported her before applying because he thought he had a chance. He supports her after applying because he got in.
I feel your pain. If you say "U.Sian" you sound stupid, and if you say "American" people bitch at you. Neither is actually technically correct. We live in a stupid world...
So, basically, she let you into MIT, so you support her? Why am I not surprised...