For more than 10 years ... ever since I started University.

What about people like me who think the concept of copyright is flawed, and that copyleft should be a law instead. In that viewpoint, it is the USA who is breaking the 'law'.

Also any law in which the majority of the population is willfully breaking is not only useless, but also undemocratic and unjust. It weakens the authority of the legal system as a whole when you have these type of laws in effect.

The only reason why we all have work is to get paid to pay the bills... bribing or not that's how society works.

Chinese citizens may have less human rights but they have more digital rights. And leave piracy for real pirates! GRRRRRRRRRRR

Did Toyota forget to convert imperial to metric unit like those Mars Pathfinder?

Yea US gets it ... that's where it is at, 14 trillion dollars in debt, quantitative easing (aka printing money) to the rescue!

At the end of the day, if the law defined and applied stopped making sense to the majority of the population, then it must eventually be changed to reflect the will of the people. Because ultimately, laws are MADE by people, and as such, they should follow the majority.

None of this pedantic really matters in the BIG picture ...

I once passed a 3rd year thermodynamics course (physic) in a top University by attending at most 4 classes (1st day, mid-term, final and I don't remember if I showed up for any other day), actually I think I aced that course. Not exactly a chemistry class, but as any arrogant physics grads would tell you, physics > chemistry.

But anyway all class presentation/note should be available online, in either pdf or ppt format. Failing to do that is just laziness in the Professors' part. And remember to some people (like myself), going to class is just a waste of my time since it doesn't fit my learning style at all. (Non-linear, multi-reference learning style is how I learn, and google/internet is the best for that).

Then again, I suppose there are profs. out there who think testing students on gotchas that they only talk about in class is somehow beneficial to students. To that, I say I'm glad I'm done school! (at least for now)

I get my daily news of internet meme at 4chan.

The CS department in University of Waterloo has a train set in their real-time computing lab, not sure if it is still there now since it has been a good 5 years since I was last there.

As most of slashdoters have not seen the G-spot either.

How did you get put in charge of such a project when it is obvious that you have no clue on carrying out the tasks?

If this was a million dollar heist or a premeditated murder case, I'd have agreed with you but considering that the case was some robbery in a public housing and the accused was a teenager, it seem extremely likely that he'd actually gone through all that trouble to setup all of that just to update his facebook (and the arguably remote chance that it was admitted as evidence).

Maybe OP is asking the wrong question, how about asking your instructor to print/scan the note for all the students? After all, students are the 'consumers' in class, especially given the relatively high cost of University education this should have been a given (assuming that it is in a country that wasn't free).

What about the brain drain in Canada due to the USA?

Or look at it from another perspective, you can argue that the US was a brain drain on China and India (and the largest resource drain on the rest of the world)!