Your statements are logical but they are wrong. Here are a few numbers to show why:

"The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) estimated 52,447 deliberate and 23,237 accidental non-fatal gunshot injuries in the United States during 2000. The majority of gun-related deaths in the United States are suicides, with firearms used in 16,907 suicides in the United States during 2004." ("Safe-Storage Gun Laws: Accidental Deaths, Suicides, and Crime". Journal of Law and Economics)

In other words, most gun incidents are premeditated acts by criminals. Subtract the suicides and premeditated acts still outnumber accidents.

You're also wrong about gun storage laws:

"Researchers have shown that safe-storage laws do not appear to affect gun suicide rates or juvenile accidental gun death." ("Measures of Gun Ownership Levels of Macro-Level Crime and Violence Research". Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency)

If justice is about rehabilitation, then why do judges give sentences based on crime severity rather than psychiatrist recommendations of rehabilitation time?

"You pay me for my expertise and I recommend these rules. If something goes wrong with a PCs that was exempted from the rules, then I want you to remember this conversation." Then move on to something else more important.

I've learned so much and gained access to brilliant people that I never would have met elsewhere. Don't tell smart, young people to intentionally ignore the incredible opportunities that are available in such places. The better advice has nothing to do with mega-corps and is more about behavior: Avoid blind ladder-climbing strictly based on pay, otherwise you end up stuck in a high paying job that you hate, but cannot leave because your true calling in life cannot pay the bills that you've accumulated so far.

Two similar pictures:
1) Fat man dresses in lingerie and stands on White House front lawn in protest of imported garments.
2) Fat man dresses in lingerie doing the cha-cha (or the time-warp perhaps) at a friend's party.

Is it news? Though the camera's lens takes the same picture I hope you would admit that reason yields two different answers. There's lots of factual things that could be reported but aren't news. Maybe the *first* such performance of Rocky was news, but now it's just facts.

And we get back to my point that context is king. My opera question illustrates the point exactly: context establishes and informs social norms (which you seem to support, while in the same breath calling me stupid...unique). You can't take someone's actions in one context and transpose it to a wholly different one without expecting an (at least) occasional reaction.

I'm not saying the OP has *no* point. I'm saying that these ex-cast members do as well. Given this a reasonable reaction is to form some sort of compromise. The OP *is* wrong in that he has flatly refused to consider such.

Whether he deserves it or not, he isn't really the one that deserves the criticism for giving it to him (I suppose he could have tried not accepting it, but I doubt that would have gone over any better than accepting it).

The Windows 1.0 video was intentionally a joke video made for the annual company meeting shown to employees.

I assume with enough intelligent people, mundane or menial tasks would be automated and made obsolete. Jobs are around to fill needs for others. If those needs are filled without the need for people, you have another leap like we did with the previous agricultural revolution (which allowed people to specialize in specific fields instead of having to farm the majority of their lives).

Why were they still using it in 1973?

As long as an ISP values their customer's privacy and rights to step on other people more than they value the integrity of the Internet, we are going to have problems.

Right now, it is not illegal, wrong, immoral or forbidden to have a computer owned by a botnet. This means that if my computer at home is infected nothing will stop it from doing whatever its little botnet commander wants it to do. And my ISP will not do anything to prevent or deter this computer from stepping on the rights of others in any way possible.

Similarly, if your computer is intruded upon and you find an IP address that has been used to vandalize your computer, good luck. The ISP owning that ISP address will certainly not release any information about their customer without your suing the ISP or involving law enforcement. Law enforcement isn't interested until you have lots and lots of financial damages.

All in all, this absolutely assures that "script kiddies" will get away with anything until they do something really big. Similarly, fraudsters and credit card thieves will get away with it until they do something really, really big. So what if you track them down to an IP address? It doesn't help. Nobody cares because it is just the "Internet" and law enforcement is still caught up with the idea that the only people that lose anything are nerds and geeks or people that have been foolish trying to get rich quick - so they deserve whatever they lost.

Public education is about leveling the class divide, not exploring the height of intelligence among the top 5%. Notice that I said "public" education. If you don't make some level of sacrifice at the high end to accommodate people who need more development work, then you will eventually create a whole class of people so ignorant and poor that they will simply overwhelm and slaughter the others and tear down whatever you built. Any society that doesn't work pretty darned hard to care for its weak is doomed long term. Greed is already a force that creates a class divide over time on its own, so there's no good reason to reinforce that effect via your educational infrastructure which is supposed to exist to counter that effect.

I think Douglas Adams would find the adjustment of P311 amusing.

That's fine with me, I just gave my 3-year old my 24-volt Dewalt drill with a full set of Torque, and "robby" bits.

Most Educators also include the term, "Re-Schooling", which is set in a traditional style class room filled with students who are there for the first time, except for one student.

If nothing else, you need to realize that these people don't despise themselves as much as you do. They will not be flushed down your toilet without a fight (and I don't blame them). Bipartite societies are not stable, and social instability causes problems for everybody.