Isn't the reasoning that if look at the stuff, you eventually start to make it yourself? Kinda strange logic, admittedly- otherwise some fifth of the population would be pornographers.
Of course, it's also easier to go for the consumers.
- The parry thing: It is being done. I remember reading somewhere about some fighting styles making use of turning the lightsaber on and off to let parries pass through. I think Darth Maul used such a style, though I'm not sure if he did it in the movie.
- Well, yeah, that's kinda obvious. If I were play the Star Wars RPG, my character will definitely have that. You can also do force activated switches, electrical shock traps linked to fingerprint recognition and all sorts of funky stuff, though it's probably not canon.
- The pole is unwieldy and can be chopped off, that would leave you defenceless. Also, the other guy could just jump closer to you and then it would get messy. And they do already throw lightsabers, they even spin around and with none of the lame turning off crap. I'm sure it could be done with double-ended saber, too. As for the nunchucks... Guess you haven't heard of 8-bit Theater.
I believe there's at least one instance of a force whip in the comics as well.
What the hell? Are you actually endorsing theft? Stealing is not a valid means of generating income, period. Of course he needs to be locked up so that others are discouraged (along with him), I thought that's how the whole thing works! What's the point of criminalizing theft if you let people get away with it because "they need the money"?
I think you misrepresent his argument. While it certainly is not a bad thing that Wikipedia has many trivia artcles of dubious importance, compare:
Wikipedia now has 136,000 articles on comic book and sci-fi characters, as opposed to last year's 86,000! Wikipedia now has 347,000 articles on natural science and math, as opposed to last year's 297,000!
Now, no offense to the comic book crowd but I simply don't give a rat's ass about how many articles on obscure trivia there are, or by how much they've increased by. If I need to find a complete script of the episode 13 of Russian cartoon "Nu Pogodi", and the name of the guy who played the guitar halfway through, and I can't find it on Wikipedia, I'll just shrug and move on.
On the other hand, when I need to find an algorithm for picking a random direction in 3D space for this program I'm writing, if I don't find it on Wikipedia it's going to be fairly frustrating.
The complaint is that these news of Wikipedia's rapid growth are, for all we know, inflated, exaggerated numbers. Sure, there are lots of new articles, but I for one don't care how many new articles there are, I care about how many useful new articles there are.
That sounds like a great thing to me, as relatively honest (heh) penniless future student but... Do you have any idea what kind of corruption that would create?
Well, to be sure, there is reason to believe a teacher poses less risk in such an event. After all, how many incidents are there involving murderous teachers? And besides, it is more likely that the teacher is more responsible (that's probably not the right word, I mean "responsible" as in is fully aware that if he does kill the kid, he's in for a couple of years he's not really gonna enjoy).
I'm not saying a teacher's some high and holy entity that is infinitely more trustworthy than "some good fer nuthin' idiot kid", but the teacher don't kill their students as often as the other way around.
While I don't really know that many teachers that well, I've gotten the impression that the teachers, unlike the students, more rarely express (and I suppose feel) desire of violence against their students (beyond, that is, troubling as it may be, perhaps a sound smack on the head), and that is to be expected, too, I imagine: students don't really have as much opportunity (boring lessons, exams, homework, grades, punishments) to be asses as teachers do. Barring a situation like the one in the article, I don't see how it would very simple for a kid to really piss off a teacher enough to actually provoke murder, or threat of it.
That and, I think this "double standard" is illusory. Using the example case provided, if a teacher used an aim icon of a gun shooting a student, he'd might well lose his job, certainly would have a lot of explaining to do, and especially with parents like those in the article probably end up looking for a good lawyer, too. Nope, When it comes to murder and violence, teachers most likely are not in an advantageous position. Now when it comes to sex offenses, things'd change a bit, but that's not really the issue here.
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Isn't the reasoning that if look at the stuff, you eventually start to make it yourself? Kinda strange logic, admittedly- otherwise some fifth of the population would be pornographers. Of course, it's also easier to go for the consumers.
Actually, 10 points define a 9th degree polynomial.
Why does this matter so much, anyway? Why not simply let everyone use any unoccuppied tld from .aaa to .zzz?
So they're... Giving up sex so they can watch others have sex?
I'm a nerd, but hey, this is Slashdot, so...
- The parry thing: It is being done. I remember reading somewhere about some fighting styles making use of turning the lightsaber on and off to let parries pass through. I think Darth Maul used such a style, though I'm not sure if he did it in the movie.
- Well, yeah, that's kinda obvious. If I were play the Star Wars RPG, my character will definitely have that. You can also do force activated switches, electrical shock traps linked to fingerprint recognition and all sorts of funky stuff, though it's probably not canon.
- The pole is unwieldy and can be chopped off, that would leave you defenceless. Also, the other guy could just jump closer to you and then it would get messy. And they do already throw lightsabers, they even spin around and with none of the lame turning off crap. I'm sure it could be done with double-ended saber, too. As for the nunchucks... Guess you haven't heard of 8-bit Theater.
I believe there's at least one instance of a force whip in the comics as well.
What the hell? Are you actually endorsing theft? Stealing is not a valid means of generating income, period. Of course he needs to be locked up so that others are discouraged (along with him), I thought that's how the whole thing works! What's the point of criminalizing theft if you let people get away with it because "they need the money"?
I think you misrepresent his argument. While it certainly is not a bad thing that Wikipedia has many trivia artcles of dubious importance, compare:
Wikipedia now has 136,000 articles on comic book and sci-fi characters, as opposed to last year's 86,000!
Wikipedia now has 347,000 articles on natural science and math, as opposed to last year's 297,000!
Now, no offense to the comic book crowd but I simply don't give a rat's ass about how many articles on obscure trivia there are, or by how much they've increased by. If I need to find a complete script of the episode 13 of Russian cartoon "Nu Pogodi", and the name of the guy who played the guitar halfway through, and I can't find it on Wikipedia, I'll just shrug and move on.
On the other hand, when I need to find an algorithm for picking a random direction in 3D space for this program I'm writing, if I don't find it on Wikipedia it's going to be fairly frustrating.
The complaint is that these news of Wikipedia's rapid growth are, for all we know, inflated, exaggerated numbers. Sure, there are lots of new articles, but I for one don't care how many new articles there are, I care about how many useful new articles there are.
If so, then we definitely can't see where we're going.
The crusades, and the whole millenium-long mess Europe got itself in seems like a better example to me.
That sounds like a great thing to me, as relatively honest (heh) penniless future student but... Do you have any idea what kind of corruption that would create?
Well, to be sure, there is reason to believe a teacher poses less risk in such an event. After all, how many incidents are there involving murderous teachers? And besides, it is more likely that the teacher is more responsible (that's probably not the right word, I mean "responsible" as in is fully aware that if he does kill the kid, he's in for a couple of years he's not really gonna enjoy).
I'm not saying a teacher's some high and holy entity that is infinitely more trustworthy than "some good fer nuthin' idiot kid", but the teacher don't kill their students as often as the other way around.
While I don't really know that many teachers that well, I've gotten the impression that the teachers, unlike the students, more rarely express (and I suppose feel) desire of violence against their students (beyond, that is, troubling as it may be, perhaps a sound smack on the head), and that is to be expected, too, I imagine: students don't really have as much opportunity (boring lessons, exams, homework, grades, punishments) to be asses as teachers do. Barring a situation like the one in the article, I don't see how it would very simple for a kid to really piss off a teacher enough to actually provoke murder, or threat of it.
That and, I think this "double standard" is illusory. Using the example case provided, if a teacher used an aim icon of a gun shooting a student, he'd might well lose his job, certainly would have a lot of explaining to do, and especially with parents like those in the article probably end up looking for a good lawyer, too. Nope, When it comes to murder and violence, teachers most likely are not in an advantageous position. Now when it comes to sex offenses, things'd change a bit, but that's not really the issue here.