All the parents involved bear responsibility for this travesty. The parents of the dead girl needed to be there to support her, while the parents of the bullies needed to pay enough fucking attention to see how cruel their daughters are. Cruelty is not easily hidden if you pay attention to how people act to each other. I see it far too often even on a college campus, though still far less than in high school.

Exactly. I used the stock launcher until someone showed me the awesome stuff you can do with a custom one, then I did some hunting and found one that I liked. I've not changed launchers since then. This isn't tinkering; this is taking the time to understand one's options and then picking one.

How often are the things done by frameworks performance critical? Last I developed a site in django, the most time consuming operations were database queries (which are easily done outside of the Model system if one so desires), but writing the sql manually would take much more time for very little benefit. Likewise, rolling your own templating system is virtually worthless when dealing with your average site: the db queries simply dwarf the render time and a half decent caching system will further reduce the impact of writing your own. In my experience most programmers cannot easily write code that is both maintainable and faster than a library version. They (and I) can do one easily, but not both. Writing the absolute fastest code is worthless for 99% of software, as most software is not limited by the hardware. That time is better spent on robust testing and feature development.

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Asphalt?

A man can dream, can't he?

You missed this bit:

Astrologically.

What, what were we talking about?

As an American college student, I use MS Office for the classes that require output in that format and LaTeX+Emacs for everything else. I find the interface of Libre/OpenOffice highly distracting and will not use them.

One thing that I have noticed: more and more professors are starting to say "submit a word document or a PDF". This is no surprise in my department (CS/Math; which actually will not accept word documents because holy shit the equation formatting sucks), but it is a bit more surprising coming from the mouth of a Sociology or Media Communications professor.

Advertising in its purest form: outright lies

If there is one thing you could go back and change in any of Blizzard's games, what would it be?

I'd love to ask a question, if only I knew one to ask!

I'm curious what laws are in place that would result in the 'Residents' getting pissed about getting arrested. Drug laws? Or are you trying to insinuate that some not-insignificant segment of the given population is involved in muggings?

Does it scale? Who cares if it scales? The real question is does it run linux?

This guy has it. It saddens me to see people still finger-pointing at the 'lefties' or the 'right-wingers' or the 'tea-baggers' or the republicans or democrats or any political group you want to name: the rich rule them all because all desire power and from money comes power.

The fact of the matter is that the USA is if not outright run then strongly manipulated by those with the money to buy power.