Which in many cases are protected by excellent armor. Headshots tend to be more permanent.

Which is a form of democracy...

Less ergonomic: the middle "button" isn't shaped right and it can be hard to position a finger to be in the correct position.

Less exact: the button mechanism works different than the other buttons, partially because it tend to use a different kind of micro switch (often actually a collapsing dome switch for the middle button) and partially because of the mechanical design required for the scroll wheel.

Less reliable: a middle-click can be translated to scrolling or tilting unless pressed exactly right.

But then you ignore that he shouldn't have asked - as a professional he shouldn't have. In fact most places of education have an explicit policy against any kind of relationship between a teacher and a student.

Here's this in a version even you should understand:

Let's say I have a "do not pee in my kitchen" policy (actually I have).

A friend decides that he should pee in my kitchen. He does so.

I say "that's it - you can't go into my kitchen anymore".

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Substitute pee with sexual harassment according to the MIT standard. Substitute kitchen with courses associated with MIT. Substitute me with MIT.

There is no need to apply the rules of the juridical system for something like this which should be obvious for someone that actually have some social skills. The level of proof for someone to hinder someone else of peeing in the kitchen is less than the level of proof required by a criminal court.

Some women do. But so does men. And people often misinterpret simply being nice as some kind of sexual attraction.

Right... If one can find a position where the screen glare doesn't ruin it all. I personally can't use an Apple as the glare drives me insane unless seated in a pitch black room - not the best way to do some work...

In fact that isn't true at all - PCs often have better colors, contrast and/or brightness. Just don't buy the bargain basement level of stuff, select computers with IPS screens.

Remember: that includes you. Yes me too. The only difference is _how_ a person is a gullible idiot.

Fanatics that think the real world is a sci-fi soap opera. Or at least want it to be.

Women can and do rape other people, men and women according to taste and/or circumstances. Thinking otherwise is ... ignorance.

Eh... No.
The Z196 processor (2010) implements superscalarity (5 wide, 3 decode) and out of order execution at 5.2GHz.
The Z12 processor (2012) have 7 wide execution and runs at 5.5GHz.
They are top of the line products.

Install the 8.1 update and select startup to desktop
Install classic start menu
Disable the idiotic touchpad gestures MS "designed" for Win 8
Optionally install something like ModernMix to be able to run metro apps windowed (I have it installed but never use it)

Voila: A usable Windows installation where one doesn't need to use anything metro/"modern" if one doesn't want to. Somewhat like Windows 7 on steroids.

Good thing you don't design user interfaces.

On the other hand, perhaps it was you who designed the Windows 8 metro UI? It would explain a lot...

He may not but I do - and the main railroads here are welded. AFAIK the solution used is allowing the shrinkage/expansion at certain points and having a rigid mount of the tracks.

No. From each according to ability and willingness to work, to each enough to live. Most civilized countries have "according to need" under welfare and medical care though.