I might be wrong about the universities, but I'm pretty sure about high schools. Most high schools don't allow students to graduate until age 18, with the exception of a few truly superb students. Oftentimes they actually set up their requirements and class prerequisites in order to maintain this situation.
I took the Computer Science AB exam just last year. Had about 6 years of experience programming in Object Pascal, C, C++ and Lisp. I figured "why not get the weed-out Intro to Comp Sci course off my schedule?" So I taught myself AP Java in about 2 months from review books, walked into a local high school offerring the exam in early May, took the test, and got a 5.
I never took an actual AP Comp Sci course, being homeschooled, and I personally feel that taking a course would only have hurt my already-solid understanding of the topic.
Unfortunately, when someone actually listens to the high-school principal telling you "school is your job", you get people like David Banh. Then everyone else has to work as hard to catch up with the workaholics, and then we all suffer.
Somebody sit Banh down and at least teach him the meaning of the word Shabbat. He desperately needs one (though not the religious parts, just the not working).
Religious discrimination? No. Israel allows Moslems and Christians full civil rights, as do other even slightly secularized countries in the Middle East. The issue is ethnic discrimination. A completely unobservant American who happens to have a Jewish mother can become an Israeli citizen, while a Palestinian Moslem or Christian cannot. Why? Because M'dinat Yisrael cares about Am Yisrael (the People of Israel), not Y'hudut (Judaism).
In case you haven't noticed, Sonic the Hedgehog has practically become another first-party franchise for Nintendo systems. If you want to play Sonic Adventure 1 or 2, you really have no choices beyond Dreamcast and Gamecube, and the Gamecube versions come with extras like a multiplayer mode (SA2B).
Sonic Heroes, a disappointment of a Sonic game since it relied on strategic use of Speed/Power/Fly rather than really cool chains of homing attacks, was the first to come out for all 3 current consoles (GCN, PS2 and X-Sox). Sonic Riders makes a "Sonic-styled" attempt at the "franchise character racing" genre, and succeeds marvelously. I expect it to put hoverboards on the map as racing vehicles, and has brilliantly tuned difficulty. It also came out for all 3 consoles.
However, even those two games work best in their GameCube incarnations. They were designed that way, then ported to the other systems. Sonic is now a Nintendo hardware, Sega software character.
For playability, he likes the N64 the best. Damn right. My grandmother bought me an N64 9 years ago, back when it first came out. It still works, and I still use it sometimes. With the exception of replacing our two controllers, I tell a similar story for my Gamecube: bought it when it came out, still use it.
Then there are the Anonymous Cowards without the courage to burn their own karma describing Slashdot's moderation problems. Did you know some people actually find troll jokes funny?
But me? I, for one, welcome our new sensibly moderating, Anonymous Coward overlords.
Reddit is also an incredibly biased site. If you have the political opinions of the average-to-libertarian European, Reddit will agree with you. Anything else and you get flamed.
An elite group of people, who have been metamodded as "Fair" an overwhelming percentage of the time, should moderate stories. Normal Slashdotters should not.
Seeing as homies come from many different ethnic backgrounds, one could not be racist to them unless they constituted a separate race. Your post assumes this, and we can safely assume it true. However, homies have only been observed breeding with hos. Hence, they have reproductively separated from humanity, and constitute a separate species.
Being evolved has something to do with intelligence when your entire standard of living relies on technology such as clean water and mechanical farming. Most social butterflies I've known really had few to no other intelligences besides the social one, so I continue to fear for our societal state as reproductive pressure produces citizens less and less able to run the power plants, farm, keep water pumps going, or operate the computers that probably do many of these jobs by now.
I *live* in one of those stupid suburban towns. Worse yet, Delmar (my town, duh) orbits the city of Albany, which itself has no reason for existence beyond its function as state capital. The kids seem to have nothing to do besides drink, fuck, and exclude other kids from the aforementioned activities. I really miss my old suburb, which at least had sidewalks everywhere and a movie theater.
Kids who live only one block from school drive!? In my day (7 years ago was my 4th grade year), anything in the same town meant walking. Note that the town had a radius of about one mile, but still...
But then, the point really isn't to make a coherent standard; it's to make anyone prosecutable so that you can pick and choose your victims. Exactly, mod this man insightful. Hell, by the given definition, any pictures of me are child pornography, since I happen to be 17 years old. Oops, guess I can send anyone other than my family with such pictures to jail!
Again, I beg to differ. There is indeed an objective moral difference between IRC and child porn, even when both break rules. Child porn hurts and exploits children, while IRC prints text on a screen.
Let's count the victims, shall we? Child Pornography: X children, where X = however many were told they'd never see Mommy and Daddy again if they didn't do as they were told. Or whatever evil shit child pornographers do to get the kids how they want. IRC: Nobody.
Lo and behold, an objective difference clearly emerges between IRC and child pornography. I don't see why you're so innured to arbitrary rules when you could apply objective morality for yourself.
Really? Tor has settings that let you decide how much logging to do, and also allow concealment of any sensitive information. The software probably just has logging to help in debugging itself and the Tor network.
I just have to ask: Why are you comparing the propogation of child porn to using IRC at school? One is exploitative and wrong, the other completely harmless while breaking a rule.
What a load of crap, age prejudice is still prejudice and age discrimination is still discrimination. The company should be smacked down accordingly.
Then why would a young person (below 18 or 21 or whatever it is in the UK) not deserve the ability to sign up with an ISP? I assure you that should a young person try, some sort of government or ISP policy would thwart their attempts to sign up for Internet service only on the basis of being young.
You are right in precisely one thing: A women can never be a man. I shall always have to check with a woman before telling dirty jokes. Falsely hitting on a man ("one of the guys") will come across to a woman as real advances (unless everyone knows she's a lesbian).
Though I must say, there is a certain happiness in not needing to hold back my speech around a woman. That, however, does not stop you from being a feminazi (women should be treated with extra respect? Bullshit!), and a paranoid one at that.
A bit of alcohol and/or skimpy clothes will get you what you want;-).
Someone mod the GP up, seriously. If you think it's bad getting catcalls and whistles all the time, try being the guy who has to *make* the catcalls - solely because women expect it and it's the only recognized way of creating a relationship - while still trying to behave "respectfully" to women. It's one of the most fucking difficult things I've ever attempted.
You want us (those are collective nouns, by the way)? Come and get us! We'll go to you and meet in the middle, how about that?
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I might be wrong about the universities, but I'm pretty sure about high schools. Most high schools don't allow students to graduate until age 18, with the exception of a few truly superb students. Oftentimes they actually set up their requirements and class prerequisites in order to maintain this situation.
I took the Computer Science AB exam just last year. Had about 6 years of experience programming in Object Pascal, C, C++ and Lisp. I figured "why not get the weed-out Intro to Comp Sci course off my schedule?" So I taught myself AP Java in about 2 months from review books, walked into a local high school offerring the exam in early May, took the test, and got a 5.
I never took an actual AP Comp Sci course, being homeschooled, and I personally feel that taking a course would only have hurt my already-solid understanding of the topic.
Congratulations on achieving enlightenment. Welcome to the club. We've been waiting.
You'll find this guy's picture.
Unfortunately, when someone actually listens to the high-school principal telling you "school is your job", you get people like David Banh. Then everyone else has to work as hard to catch up with the workaholics, and then we all suffer.
Somebody sit Banh down and at least teach him the meaning of the word Shabbat. He desperately needs one (though not the religious parts, just the not working).
Age restrictions. Most high schools won't let you graduate before turning 18, and most colleges won't let you matriculate before you turn 18.
Religious discrimination? No. Israel allows Moslems and Christians full civil rights, as do other even slightly secularized countries in the Middle East. The issue is ethnic discrimination. A completely unobservant American who happens to have a Jewish mother can become an Israeli citizen, while a Palestinian Moslem or Christian cannot. Why? Because M'dinat Yisrael cares about Am Yisrael (the People of Israel), not Y'hudut (Judaism).
In case you haven't noticed, Sonic the Hedgehog has practically become another first-party franchise for Nintendo systems. If you want to play Sonic Adventure 1 or 2, you really have no choices beyond Dreamcast and Gamecube, and the Gamecube versions come with extras like a multiplayer mode (SA2B).
Sonic Heroes, a disappointment of a Sonic game since it relied on strategic use of Speed/Power/Fly rather than really cool chains of homing attacks, was the first to come out for all 3 current consoles (GCN, PS2 and X-Sox). Sonic Riders makes a "Sonic-styled" attempt at the "franchise character racing" genre, and succeeds marvelously. I expect it to put hoverboards on the map as racing vehicles, and has brilliantly tuned difficulty. It also came out for all 3 consoles.
However, even those two games work best in their GameCube incarnations. They were designed that way, then ported to the other systems. Sonic is now a Nintendo hardware, Sega software character.
For playability, he likes the N64 the best.
Damn right. My grandmother bought me an N64 9 years ago, back when it first came out. It still works, and I still use it sometimes. With the exception of replacing our two controllers, I tell a similar story for my Gamecube: bought it when it came out, still use it.
Nintendo systems live a long, long time.
Then there are the Anonymous Cowards without the courage to burn their own karma describing Slashdot's moderation problems. Did you know some people actually find troll jokes funny?
But me? I, for one, welcome our new sensibly moderating, Anonymous Coward overlords.
Reddit is also an incredibly biased site. If you have the political opinions of the average-to-libertarian European, Reddit will agree with you. Anything else and you get flamed.
An elite group of people, who have been metamodded as "Fair" an overwhelming percentage of the time, should moderate stories. Normal Slashdotters should not.
Seeing as homies come from many different ethnic backgrounds, one could not be racist to them unless they constituted a separate race. Your post assumes this, and we can safely assume it true. However, homies have only been observed breeding with hos. Hence, they have reproductively separated from humanity, and constitute a separate species.
Just noting, but most of them don't *choose* not to date women; the women choose not to date them.
This really should be modded "Funny", but I don't have points.
Being evolved has something to do with intelligence when your entire standard of living relies on technology such as clean water and mechanical farming. Most social butterflies I've known really had few to no other intelligences besides the social one, so I continue to fear for our societal state as reproductive pressure produces citizens less and less able to run the power plants, farm, keep water pumps going, or operate the computers that probably do many of these jobs by now.
In which case we are *still* devolving, because we've created a culture in which intelligence inversely correlates to reproduction.
I *live* in one of those stupid suburban towns. Worse yet, Delmar (my town, duh) orbits the city of Albany, which itself has no reason for existence beyond its function as state capital. The kids seem to have nothing to do besides drink, fuck, and exclude other kids from the aforementioned activities. I really miss my old suburb, which at least had sidewalks everywhere and a movie theater.
Kids who live only one block from school drive!? In my day (7 years ago was my 4th grade year), anything in the same town meant walking. Note that the town had a radius of about one mile, but still...
But then, the point really isn't to make a coherent standard; it's to make anyone prosecutable so that you can pick and choose your victims.
Exactly, mod this man insightful. Hell, by the given definition, any pictures of me are child pornography, since I happen to be 17 years old. Oops, guess I can send anyone other than my family with such pictures to jail!
Again, I beg to differ. There is indeed an objective moral difference between IRC and child porn, even when both break rules. Child porn hurts and exploits children, while IRC prints text on a screen.
Let's count the victims, shall we?
Child Pornography: X children, where X = however many were told they'd never see Mommy and Daddy again if they didn't do as they were told. Or whatever evil shit child pornographers do to get the kids how they want.
IRC: Nobody.
Lo and behold, an objective difference clearly emerges between IRC and child pornography. I don't see why you're so innured to arbitrary rules when you could apply objective morality for yourself.
Really? Tor has settings that let you decide how much logging to do, and also allow concealment of any sensitive information. The software probably just has logging to help in debugging itself and the Tor network.
I just have to ask: Why are you comparing the propogation of child porn to using IRC at school? One is exploitative and wrong, the other completely harmless while breaking a rule.
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True, true. I'll betcha the GP's really just a plant by the Wraith. They're behind it all!
What a load of crap, age prejudice is still prejudice and age discrimination is still discrimination. The company should be smacked down accordingly.
Then why would a young person (below 18 or 21 or whatever it is in the UK) not deserve the ability to sign up with an ISP? I assure you that should a young person try, some sort of government or ISP policy would thwart their attempts to sign up for Internet service only on the basis of being young.
You are right in precisely one thing: A women can never be a man. I shall always have to check with a woman before telling dirty jokes. Falsely hitting on a man ("one of the guys") will come across to a woman as real advances (unless everyone knows she's a lesbian).
Though I must say, there is a certain happiness in not needing to hold back my speech around a woman. That, however, does not stop you from being a feminazi (women should be treated with extra respect? Bullshit!), and a paranoid one at that.
A bit of alcohol and/or skimpy clothes will get you what you want ;-).
Someone mod the GP up, seriously. If you think it's bad getting catcalls and whistles all the time, try being the guy who has to *make* the catcalls - solely because women expect it and it's the only recognized way of creating a relationship - while still trying to behave "respectfully" to women. It's one of the most fucking difficult things I've ever attempted.
You want us (those are collective nouns, by the way)? Come and get us! We'll go to you and meet in the middle, how about that?