... this doesn't come as a surprise to me. Teaching in Ecuador is mostly "frontal assault", the kids are told all the time what to do. Copy that, etc. One student told me - after I quit - I was a go teacher and he liked me, because I didn't tell them all the time "copy that fast"... Basically my impression was that the schools condition the students to be "recipients of orders" ("Befehlsempfänger").Now on the one hand there is quite an authoritarian rule and on the other they just don't care too much mixed up with some totally unnecessary bureaucracy, e.g. every teacher had to sign that he arrived on that day in school and that he left, also entering the time - makes sense. But you would sign twice at once, also if I was late, it wouldn't matter I should write the time I should have been there... furthermore a teacher was running around and taking these signatures, usually interrupting the lessons by doing it...

Also I worked a bit in an Internet cafe, what you consider a power (or even normal user) in Western Europe would be an admin there...

Ecuador and Perú are quite similar. I was in the jungle region, which is probably the least "developed" one.

... for what the fuck they were thinking...

If this is going to be a "console" with a real mouse as (optional) input device, it would be great. The main reason I didn't convert to consoles is simply that I don't want to play strategy games and fps with a freaking game-pad (not that there are many strategy games at all on the consoles).

Cold War 2.0 sounds like a great idea... ohhh wait... "Tried and true methods to win security from cyberattacks include international diplomacy, multilateral agreements that clarify the parameters for peaceful and hostile cyberactions and — of course — a strong offensive capability." And proxy wars (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proxy_war) to keep it "hot" enough... also the name fits better for the "cyber age" (puke).

"All VolksempfÃngers sold on the domestic market were purposely designed only to receive the Deutschlandsender and regional stations of the Reichs-Rundfunk-Gesellschaft, so as to ensure that Nazi propaganda broadcasts could readily be heard while other media, such as the BBC's European Service (now the World Service), could not." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volksempf%C3%A4nger don't take my comment too seriously, I just jumped into my mind...

"This action has been cited as one of the worst examples of censorship in U.S. history." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilhelm_Reich#1956:_Book_burning

> , some of today's major religions emerged at the same time as widespread infectious diseases... Birds of a feather flock together.

well, nearly every human has various bounded regions, for some it is "love" (attraction), gambling vs. skill-based games, free-speech, etc. were they have certain restrictions in applying logic or asking questions. Although in religion it is probably most obvious for "us".

thx for modding me down, humor is a strange thing

... it is LOUD and slow... awesome... not really... NO!

if suffer also implies that the attacker were successful or was it the only one that was successful?

... but next time when I see someone in Team Fortress I probably will think "should I help this person crossing the street" before shooting them ...

yeah, well, but the last one (reason #1) still nails the coffin.

uhmm well: http://www.cracked.com/article_18683_7-scientific-reasons-zombie-outbreak-would-fail-quickly.html

There's plenty of Apple fanbois who can't accept that the iPod was simply the next step in portable music player technology, and that the coveted menu interface was ripped off from Creative.

I had one no-name mp3 player and I have one creative mp3-player, both are post-iPod. Yet, both are crap, you know why? For the first there were some guys, who wrote a program to order the files... WTF? I can deal with that, but it is just annoying. Apple products are high quality and the handling the interfaces are top notch. Using Numbers (= Apple Excel) is just a charm, also keynote (=Apple Power Point). I like it, therefore I pay a bit more. If I want a secure machine I get a PC and install linux. If I want to play computer games than PC with windows. If I want an open phone I do NOT get an iPhone. there is a solution and tradeoff for nearly everything. back to the point, the available mp3-players were mostly crap and probably would still be. The change made is really obvious after it is done...