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Comment Re:Yah (Score 1) 340

Well i spent 60.00 before i realized it was always online, Accutuly, the only real reason why i bought the game was to find out the rest of the story; i wasnt awed like i was in diablo 2, but it was cool...azmodan was cool...diablo...not so much. I dont know what i would of done had i figured out that it was always online. Maybe i would of bought it, i bought GW2 and all its expansions; i am a pirate at heart though, so buying any game is a big deal.

However,

I did get my 60.00 back cause somone wanted to buy something from me for real money shenanigans, so i guess i sorta pirated it? not realy, but it was still free hooray!

Comment Re:not about destroying (Score 5, Insightful) 352

That wouldnt be a good movie.

Its either.
A. Sir! we got a astroid that is going to hit earth with in 20 years.
          Good find private, now send up the ION maker and point at it for the next 15 years, that should move it away to safely pass by

OR
B. Sir we got a asteroid that will hit us in the next few months
          Good find private, we will nuke the bastard, but first we must make some realy cool ships, get a few heroes and they can go drill the hole in the asteroid and really get it good.

A is good if it realy happens, B is good for the movie theater...

Comment narrow minded people (Score 1) 285

"you’re basically saying an astronaut’s life is worth twenty-eight billion dollars"

Such a simplistic way of looking at it.

What is the price that is needed to pay for human exploration? what has it always been? Blood of course; a astronauts death is tragic, but the reward for that is much bigger than any one person and astronauts are very much aware of this.I dont think that anyone one of them think, 'they spent 28 billion dollars to save me' So so shallow.

They are heros because they do something that is highly dangerous and they will really never directly benefit from it other then status and even that is hardly anything anymore, instead this country worships athletes, movie stars and singers, the more drugged out and retarded, the more news time and celebrity status, its sickening. While i am sure astronauts make good money, its not CEO money....but it should be. Romney should pay 15% taxes directly to them simply for the privilege of being in the same country, that spineless fake.

Comment Re:education is the problem (Score 0) 241

But again, your focused on showing the students they need to prove to the world they can succeed through grades instead of focusing on education.

Basically, if you take all the BS everyone looks at, remove it, then focus on just teaching...alot of these problems will remove themselves.

I dont belive there should be grades, grades are not a indication on learning...its a indication on how indoctrinated you are to play the educational game.(hence the cheating)

Lots of people go through college and come out not knowing a fucking thing, its not that they are stupid, its not that they cheated, its that the human mind is not built to remember obscure facts, infact, memory is highly unreliable.

Knowledge comes through experience, training and curiosity, these are things that should be focused on throughout the educational life of a person; not grades and tests.

Comment education is the problem (Score 1, Insightful) 241

Cheating is a byproduct of a failed education system. Instead of driving students to learn, we drive them to show the world they can succeed; Students cheat because they don't want to take time to learn a subject, and why is that?

The solution is not to come up with ways to stop the students from cheating, the solution is to come up with ways to make education interactive and enjoyable therefore minimizing the desire to cheat on a test (test in themselves is a band-aid solution to this very problem)

Again we have large institutions forcing a solution that is against the very nature of the people they are overseeing.

Comment Re:So what defines a "life" anyway? (Score 1) 1004

I am with you on the sports...I am working on getting my son into science and looking up to people who do something for the world; Parents who encourage there kids to worship sports figures are not doing there kids any favors as well as the world.

but alas, parents only have so much control...so my son still may end up being one of those people who think that the latest super star is somehow important to the world, all i can do is point out how ridiculous looking up to figures like that really is.

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