If you strike me down, I shall become more powerful than you could possibly imagine.

Also, knocking me down to -1 won't bring you the love of your father or the respect of your superiors which you crave.

That teacher ASKED for "markers and glue" because she and her students NEED "markers and glue".

The problem is NOT that they "missed the Google gravy train and will have to settle".
They are, like all others, asking for what they DON'T HAVE, do NEED, but CAN'T AFFORD.

IF the inequality of monetary value of donations really IS a problem (after all, they are all asking for what they think they need), it lies in the underlying inequality of 1) economic conditions in those schools and/or 2) inexperience of teachers in "the begfunding game".
Because you can't blame donors for voluntarily donating $5 or $50000 of their own money, nor can you blame the charity for making it hard to ask.
And since both the "$56,742 trip to Europe" kids AND the "$258.93 markers and glue" kids are FROM THE SAME SCHOOL...

All we are left with is looking for the problem with the teachers who didn't ASK FOR MORE, instead of choosing realistic goals and funding for things they really need.
"There's your problem. You were not greedy and unrealistic enough with your demands."

I'm having a feeling that the REAL problem here lies is in the outsiders perception of unjustified entitlement.

If we're talking about porn stars.

Yes, it is quite popular to watch that. Or so I hear.

Does it have a watermark?

Photos are taken from a wrong angle due to someone holding the phone wrong.

After all... It's the word of Steve. A known benefactor of humanity, through past and future incarnations as an Earth Sprite.

...that they are holding it wrong?

You're still wasting time on this? Good.

That sounds like something a gazelle might say.

He's not the real owner of that ID.
Notice the sudden change in the pattern of posting?
Which was sporadic with months between posts, and then suddenly he gets into a daily argument over a well known internet meme?

The real owner of that ID has long been digested by dogs or fish.
That's why you should not live alone, away from the civilization.
Someone will notice that, will come to your door, kill you, and take your slashdot ID.

Zelazny usually is. :)

I'm not talking about humans.
Particularly stock humans. As a stock human I could go for days just looking at the second hand on a watch making rounds.

I'm talking about aliens who have achieved immortality through... say... genetics, BUT inadvertently ticked off the check box for "curiosity" in the process.
Or better yet, like you say, ticked on the check box for boredom.

Not being bored because immortality is boring, but bored cause now they can't NOT BE bored.

The Borg would probably be bored out of their minds.
Plugged into all knowledge of all assimilated civilizations, processing at the maximum speed available, with new information trickling in slowly...
No wonder only one in the collective is NOT a mindless drone, and she is pissed off and bitchy all the time.

OR... They are NEVER BORED.
Think EVERYTHING being THE MOST EXCITING THING EVAR!
Somewhere out there, there's a planet covered in immortals, covered in millennial layers of dust of the ruins of their civilization - and they are "OMG!!! SOOOOOO EXCIIIITEEEEED!!!" about it all.
Like The Great Slow Kings, only very pleased about everything.

Not everyone lives under a rock either.

And if you are arguing that you've never heard of that Futurama reference before...
You are either lying, have been in a coma for the last couple of decades (it's a show from the '90s, bro), are 3 years old, have been in a prison (solitary) for the last couple of decades or in some other way removed from the society in general and geek/nerd crowd in particular.

I'm leaning towards being a convicted murderer who just got out of prison and killed the real cribera, stealing his laptop and now posting on slashdot under his name.
It would also explain the trolling. You do that cause you're a sociopath.

Except it's not.
A real agnostic would give same credence to existence of Superman or fairies as he/she would to existence of god.
Because, "Hey... maybe... I don't know."

It's not scientific or rational to assume "Just because I repeatedly checked the box and found it empty, doesn't mean a cupcake won't suddenly appear inside when I die and take me to cupcake land".
It's either crazy, or intellectually and morally dishonest.

Absence of evidence is not just "NOT evidence of absence".
It's primarily ABSENCE OF EVIDENCE.
Again and again.
Repeatedly.
Constantly.
It adds up.
Or down.
To "NO".

And based on such "gathered" evidence, scientific and rational thinking is NOT to assume "maybe I don't see it, therefore it might be there".
Scientific and rational is to throw away the premise of anything being there.
One wouldn't keep drawing one's own blood and testing it for HIV just because all the tests so far showed NO EVIDENCE of presence of HIV in one's blood.
And that's looking for something that we actually know exists.

There's a reason Pascal's WAGER is not used as valid reasoning for any other "Yes or No" choice.

No, no, no... Grinch clearly has a heart and not "a big empty spot where heart used to be".

Or he HAD a heart.

Because SCIFI.
You know... The main topic.
You know, those completely imaginary stories, which people imagine around premises like "Maybe A with maybe B equals maybe C... Hmmm... How would that go?"

The second comment is me telling you to go and IMAGINE a plausible story of your own, around that concept or some other.
And I told it as a JOKE, which includes a reference to a comical SCIFI show.

Funny thing is, I added the Futurama reference to MAKE SURE no one mistook my reply for something other than jovial.
Clearly, that went well.

Easy. Someone else with mod points understood what I said and got the reference.