The student promptly falls out of the tree - there's nobody around to blame *or* get fallen on! (The win-win scenario)
"Remember the safety of our staff... um, students is paramount!" (the OSHA style scenario)

Now that's what I call getting *very* desperate. Get a life, or at the very least, a wife. *sheesh*

And CmdrTaco, Shame on you, in a word, this is LAME...

Why in the world would you want to create a memory relating sex to someone's smelly business in the bathroom?

I should have the option of turning it down on the days when I want a "bubblegum play" experience where I can play for while and just be entertained. Then on other days, I'd like to be able to turn it up when I want to be "challenged".

Yes, there are times where I don't mind be frustrated a little, (note the emphasis!) but I don't care for situations that go way beyond that. (and I think a lot of other people do as well, judging from the recent wave of 'casual gaming' trends.)

And I absolutely hate it when I'm confronted with a dead end situation, like when I can't complete a game because some game book author made a deal with the programmers to write in special stuff that requires their game book in order to "win the game". (I won't bother mentioning which companies engaged in this behavior because they don't need any more advertising and besides, a lot you probably already know whom I'm referring to...)

So there you have it in a nutshell.

Don't know why this post and all of replies are marked incorrectly as trolls. None of the posts seem to warrant such moderation to me.

"There is nothing new here, move along."

"Few companies can afford 'blue sky' stuff at any cost these days." In other words, No - Leonardo would just be another starving artist... err, um... /Inventor/ that are nearly a dime a dozen now days.

Yep, that's just what we need - More plastic little bins in our take out bags...

After Blogging on LJ, Blurty, greatestjournal (among dozens of others that sprouted up during that time) when I finally got to Myspace I was already pretty much blogged out. Then when the masses latest fad shifted on to Facebook, I pretty much figured enough was enough and starting leaving my "reading" mobile devices in the charger for longer times and found something more interesting to do than keep up with all the twitterings. And personally, I think somebody named it right, because it really does remind me of an annoying bird...

Yep, that's exactly what a lot of people are saying. And what it translates to is more people not doing the right things.

I seen these kind of rationalizations before, and not surprisingly they were from the Nazi flunkies who cared more *about their job* than what they were *doing on the job*.

Sound a little familiar? That's why more corporations are acting like sociopaths recently, because more are following this mentality. And we're just beginning to experience some of the consequences as a society. (Can you say loused up economy with C-levels getting bonuses while others get pink slips to pay for those bonuses?)

I find it interesting how you consider doing *the right thing* as "arrogant". I think it's the other way around - it's the c-level's who being arrogant in thinking that their above the rules. And since when is something like that being a team player?

Schoolhouse Rock is much too "highbrow" for the current generation, I mean, it'd probably cause a few of them to die of brain farts...

"OMG! The prudes have run amok!"

Hey let's be honest, that's what a lot of people are thinking anyway... :)

Their worried their going to have learn D&D in order to understand the new "code words" the gangs will start using to talk about stuff and they won't understand what's being said. Nope, they can't have that!

Oddly you just made a great argument for being pro capital punishment - start executing these criminals then turn around and use that $40K that would have been spent on them to employ American citizens who are currently unemployed.

But, I'm pretty sure that's not what you intended... :)