Send them to the playroom. That's the problem with education: No carrot, only stick.

Jesus: Mark 3:1
(a "man of god"): 1 Kings 13:4

Jesus also did an ear re-attachment, caused lame to walk & blind to see.

In the US, population growth rate is lower than the rest of the world. If the US did not have immigration, our growth rate would be negative. Liberia & Western Sahara are among the highest growth rates.
This could mean that population growth and medical care/human well-being are inversely correlated. If this is true we don't need to worry so much about overpopulation.

He's right, you forgot to mention that is has TWICE as much EPROM memory, positively cavernous at 512 12-bit words.

(heh those chips bring back memories, way back in 97 I used to use the a lot of those Microchip parts 16c, 18c, 17c etc families)

Is it possible to knock out p21 and then re-introduce it? How about knocking it out only in a certain region of the body?
Only a small percentage of the population need to regrow a limb, and only for a certain time frame. It might be worth the risk of developing a cancer to regrow an arm or pair of legs.

The modern MMOs like Anarchy Online have most of the things I've wanted from dungeon crawlers. Here's what I want in a dungeon crawler: Class, equipment and skill asymmetry & synergism, complex crafting, interesting trade-able loot with enough space to store everything I loot (WoW is all nodrop nowadays from what I hear), and enough variety in the fighting to require use of different skill sets.
I refuse to pay blizzard any more money after D2 because they deleted my set of 10 D2 accounts.... 3 times.

ps. Intrusive "we own your machine" DRM games need not apply.

just turning it off?

They arrested Capone for tax evasion. Woulda taken them longer to find something to stick him with if he'd filled in that "illegal income" line on his tax return.

Maybe Americans should be using Iranmail instead of Google. At least then we'd know the US gestapo wasn't reading it?

In the really old days, the parents would teach their children the tools for survival. Typically the father would teach his sons his own trade, the mother would teach the daughters how to be good mothers.
Given this model, how would an artistic or tradeskill oriented education stack up on a standardized test?
Lets see
She can can create $50,000 sculptures in a month, but she fails at geography and her english is poor?
He can create a couch from scratch, frame, stuffing, upholstery in 2 weeks, but is doing poorly on trigonometry?
She is bringing in $20k a month on her acting/singing career at the age of 12, but ...

Our education system is geared towards creating a lot of very similar minded people with boringly similar skill sets. No wonder we no longer have "mechanical geniuses", Renaissance men.

I'd say standardized tests would be all right, but there are a TON of things you can't test for that are very usable real world skills. Homeschooling is a way to break out of this clone world we live in filled with fashion barbies and "All-American" quarterbacks.

My brother has Aspergers. What I see as his biggest hindrance to being more successful is that everyone is trying to make him adjust to being normal. As a society instead of ostracizing those we don't understand, we should encourage them to contribute in their own special way.

http://www.godtellsus.com/aboutraisingchildren.html

I can guarantee you that NO-one would see the clown in that case.

Also note that if you keep the laser aimed on one direction (and off when you can't) that you perturb the earths orbit or rotation, bringing us closer to the sun and eventually cooking all the inhabitants of earth.

Parsers are an unnecessary added layer of complexity.
What should happen is that the application returns a machine readable responses which is is then output by either a command line display algorithm or a GUI display algorithm.

I question whether the old unix concept of input and output streams has kept up with our user interface standards. I'm not saying they're a bad idea, I just think they could use a little expansion today especially how to set them up. I also think if we should have a packet oriented interface standard layered on top of the stream interface. Unix actually does this, but not for binary streams, only text streams delimited by carriage returns (see AWK).
Alas, Unix will continue to be unix long after we mere mortals are all dust.

Add some noise or crank up the gain right before the commercial airs.
That silent staredown would suddenly have a hash of white noise/crickets a tenth of a second before the commercial.

If they wanted to increase revenue for an FPS the answer is simple:
Costuming gear.

Doesn't affect gameplay and guarantees a significant revenue stream.
Cmon, who wouldn't pay a coupla bucks to look like their favorite movie star.