Come now, you know your arguments are invalid:

First and foremost, even if the players are minors they are there with parental / guardian permission. Secondly, the guardians should be the ones responsible, not the government or someone else. Thus my point still stands.

I am willing to wager that 99.99% of Americans who play football know it's a dangerous sport, and further know WHY it is dangerous. Even further along that line they know that safety equipment can help mitigate some of the danger but not all; hence why there are trained medical professionals on site when playing.
It really is no different than any other safety equipment - the general public knows that seatbelts can help save lives, yet wearing a seatbelt is not a 100% guarantee of surviving a crash.
The dangers of football are publicly known, even non-fans can and do talk about the extensive injury lists from the professional leagues, so a person who cares enough about the sport will be more than intimately familiar with the inherent dangers.

Nope, and not all the strawmen in the world will change the fact that everyone involved knew the risks.

Your argument is invalid, and falls short on several levels.

One: Unfair deals are unfair. - tautology, you cannot have a fair unfair deal. The logic of your whole argument is flawed from the beginning.
Two: A student..... with pain. - This is not even an argument, it is an appeal to emotion I.E. a "think of the children" argument that is used when there is little support for a logical argument.

See, thats exactly how logic works.

1: A person is responsible for themselves if they are not required to do something,and especially so if they know it is a dangerous activity, but they do it anyways.
2: Said person gets injured while doing that something.
3: Therefore, said person is responsible for their own injury.

The logic is 100% sound, you may disagree with principle one, but that does not make the logic unsound.

Point A:) Perhaps you should go back to Philosophy 101, and maybe ethics, yourself before you go attacking someone else, which in and of itself is another sign of not having a solid argument, before you go around telling people how logic works.

Point B:) There is no such thing as "fairness", it is a man made construct that can never be realised since there will never be a consensus as to what is truly "fair". Every single attempt to come up with a scheme that is "fair" will have to affect some portion of the population it is being applied to negatively and will be viewed as unfair, thusly negating the whole principle.

Actually your *ahem* "argument" is the one that is wrong. No one is required to play football. Sure, it MAY make it easier to get into school later on, but that is a personal choice. The person who chooses to play football in order to get into a school could just as easily made the CHOICE to study harder and get in on a merit scholarship instead.

As for children, _I_ hope I never have any, whiny little entitled fucks that they are today.

Well how about having the person act responsibly? No one forced any of the kids to play football, if they don't feel that safety needs are being met, then they shouldn't fucking play until they are. THAT is how you incentivize the school to act reasonably, either provide adequate safety or not have bragging rights / a team.

Son of a bitch, these kind of lawsuits are why our society is in the shitter today. It isn't anyones job but our own to take care of ourselves; it isn't the saw manufacturers fault that you cut your leg off because you propped the piece you were cutting on your leg - they shouldn't have to explicitly tell you not to do that, and you should not be able to sue over it.

Specious reasoning on your part.

Under your reasoning, I can take a blockbuster movie, remove one scene ( or even a frame ) that isn't absolutely required for the over-all plot, and turn around and sell / rent it as my own. Sorry, but that isn't how copyright generally works; you need specific licenses to do that or it is infringement.

Not only that, but it would be interesting to see if the publisher will sue ( the one time I would LOVE to see a copyright lawsuit ) for copyright infringement; the school seems to be buying, modifying, and redistributing the book with modified information. Doubly so if the students have to buy the book from the school, since the school most likely will make some profit from the deal then...

And if you read TFS they are only talking about life similar to ours; there is nothing saying that in other regions life hasn't evolved to be able to handle those kinds of environments.

This is exactly why it is impossible to predict the finding of "life" in non-earth environments, there are just too many variables that we don't even know to look for. I.E. life based on something other than carbon, life than can flourish in extremes we could never dream of surviving... be it temperature, pressure, or even radiation bombardment. And that is only a tiny fraction of differences, any one of which could be overlooked, and the probability is there would be multiples of these differences all at once.

Maybe if you only want clicky clicky ways of changing things. Otherwise there is still a full terminal and BASH installed, and you can update many many system settings through the CLI. I am using a terminal right now as a matter of fact.

Then there is the questionable applescript / automator scripts you can make. I say questionable because I don't know if they can change any deep system things, but automator at least can do some pretty neat tricks... I don't know if Linux has something comparable, other than shell scripts which I can still run in OS/X.

Bullshit. Maybe, MAYBE they are not stressing the C2D / C2Q chips if they only browse the net / read and reply to emails. Otherwise stuff like watching 1080P, and to a lesser extent 720P H.264 10bit videos ( or even 8bit, without GPU acceleration ), which more and more videos are in now, pushes a C2D into the 80-90% utilization range. Then they can't do any background tasks on the CPU when watching movies.

Even if it does do everything you need, the thermal profile is horrid... I moved away from my Prescott that did everything I needed to a C2D simply because I didn't want the thermal profile of the throat of an active volcano on my motherboard anymore, or the fans that sounded like jet engines that cooled it. The benefits of less heat output and less power input by far outweighed the performance gains ( those had been only a bonus ).
No one can know if we are going to hit a thermal wall anytime soon, the next breakthrough could be happening right as we discuss. Add that to the fact that Intel is reaching ARM power profiles with similar, or higher, clocks, and that x86 / x86_64 vastly outperforms ARM on a per clock-cycle basis and Intel has nothing to fear.

And congratulations on being an AMD only shop, heaven forbid your customers have any kind of choice in the matter. AMD hasn't made anything more than an "adequate" chip since the K6. Can you name one x86 based laptop / net-top / tablet that uses AMD chips and boasts long battery life made in the last few years? I've seen quite a few Intel based ones that boast 6-7+ hours VS. the AMDs that are usually rated at ~5+.
You may think I'm "trolling" asking that, but I am actually quite serious, if there is some AMD chip out there that is really power efficient I would like to know, it's just that the only really efficient stuff I have seen recently was all Intel.

Ummm, close, but no. It was sequestered over hundreds of million years to billions of years but the bulk of the carbon from the carbon cycle is tied up in a few places, neither of which has anything to do with mass extinctions. The huge bulk of CO2 ( currently ~400PPM atmosphere, ~60*atmosphere dissolved in the oceans, and ~10,000*oceans+atmosphere is tied up in rocks ) is tied up in the carbonates, I.E. limestones and dolostones. Coals come from swamps, and oil comes from mostly shallow-ish marine bacteria that had periodic blooms and die-offs that settled into the sediments on the seafloor and got buried.

Don't forget that this also has feedbacks. The global oceans hold ~60x atmospheric levels of CO2, and warm water will hold less dissolved gasses, leading to outgassing of CO2 and leading to more ocean warming. You will also get more water vapor ( another greenhouse gas ) in the atmosphere, but that will - eventually - be countered somewhat by the albedo effect of the large scale clouds that will form.

Nope, I require science, something you don't seem to have a firm grasp of as of yet. Try taking a few classes, looking at and actually understanding the massive amounts of data available, and after that coming back in a year or three when you actually have a chance at understanding the difference between long and short term trends.

But, if you actually have data proving climate change wrong, for the love of $DIETY publish it in a peer reviewed journal, you will become famous... I won't hold my breath though.

Don't forget, if you only want a .5 megabyte terminal application you also have to install ~5+GB of xcode....

I'd love to run macports (and have in the past), but that huge chunk of space the xcode install takes up kills the SSD space I have.

I felt the same way... at least for 4.1/4.2/and early 4.3. Then I installed trinity after using KDE4.x for a while and my eyes wanted to bleed from the old jagged rendering and ugly aged looking icons. Felt great, just like an old friend, but it was fugly as hell.

Thankfully KDE4.x started to improve along the way and is just as comfortable now as 3.x was back in the day. You should check it out once again... just use the "desktop with icons" activity from the activity switcher if your distro doesn't have that as the default.

Are you talking about the open application window list? If so, just go to the taskbar settings and set it to "do not sort", in Debian at least it is set to sort "alphabetically" by default.

Other than that particular way, and it behaves as soon as you apply the settings, I haven't noticed any movement on the taskbar.