You make me laugh. I was on the Internet when the BBS was the most happening thing going on. Clearly you do not understand that the rules of polite society do not go out the window just because you are posting something on the Internet, at least not in the eyes of the law and not in the eyes of the vast majority of society. Threats of bodily harm are the same whether made on the Internet, in the newspaper, in a hand written letter, or to your face.

Last I heard, we didn't threats of bodily harm as "insults".

First of all, I was not proposing a categorical imperitive. Obviously everyone matures at different rates. I've met 15 year olds who were more mature than some 40 year olds. In general though, high school aged people in the United States lack the maturity neccessary for serious study of philosophy.

As to the age of the bulk of Aristotle's and Plato's students, interesting. Do you have a source for this? Aristotle did not study with Plato until he was 18, and the Platonic Academy was a highly selective group for discussing philosophical problems. It does not appear to me that it was a place for the young. Either way, different cultures result in different levels of maturity at different ages. My statement is only appropriate to the United States as I do not understand any other culture well enough to claim I know how mature people tend to be at different ages.

What d20 took away was the shear impossibility of some characters being able to hit other characters, short of 1 in 100 if the DM allows. A 1 in 20 chance of a level 1 player hitting and damaging a dragon just isn't right. It should be next to impossible and certain death.

There are all kinds of examples of decreasing values being more desirable. It shouldn't be that difficult a concept.

That's the joke.

This is short sighted. Personally I don't see how the proportion of white's would be concerning, but it has been demonstrated before (no, I don't have specific citations for you) that having a team composed of people with very diverse backgrounds is good for innovation.

I wasn't aware that liturature and history were equivalent to underwater wasket weaving. College is not a trade school. If you want a trade, go to a trade school. College is continued higher education that usually is not directly tailored to a career. Not even most engineers come out ready to go.

To be fair, this lack of training for college professors often shows. And I also think you too easily dismiss the time spent by many graduate students being teaching assistants.

Are you sure about this? Last I checked it seemed like half of the low end service jobs these days are filled by college educated people/.

I don't disagree, but 3 months is a bit much. One month in the summer and one in the winter with maybe a one or two week vacation mid semester would be more appropriate. It's hard to get back into the swing of things after 3 months. The idea of a 3 month straight vacation was always so that kids could help with the farm, not so that they could be kids.

Did you seriously just compare prozac to alcohol, marijuana, and cocaine????

I'm pretty sure it was the gay marriage that did this.

Wait what? It's corrupt to expose illegal activities commited by US officials and being hidden by the US government?

In larger research institutions employing several researchers, it is common for the head of the institute to be put as the last author on all papers, whether they had much of anything to do with the research or not. This is how you get "top researchers" claiming authorship to hundreds of papers. Honestly at that point they aren't doing much research anymore.