Doesn't this just open up a market for using a contractor to administrate these exams? The questions and answers would become trade secret rather than public record.

Sounds like an excellent opportunity for photobombing. Hell, they can't even ask you to stop being less rude in public than they're being. Hadn't really thought of this before this article, so thanks, now I have a plan!

That's why the first article we saw a few weeks ago was "South Korean hospitals and air traffic control plagued by Bluetooth interference from selfie-sticks!"

Oh, wait, we didn't see that, and never will. You can file this one in the same folder with taxi medallions and Uber - regulation to protect a taxed industry from an untaxed competitor under the guise of "public benefit."

Because you can't get one of those extend-y grabby arm toys at Target or Walmart for $10? Some of those can take decades of abuse and still work. Hell, you could probably build the thing yourself using those parts, but I'd rather pay someone else to do it.

Far more likely that it's been patented, not in production from the holder of said patent, and no one wants to pay the licensing.

I've always hated the use of either "donation" or "investment". It's a pre-order for a product that may be delivered in any amount of time, which may be longer than the buyer's lifetime.

That analogy just seems off to me. Maybe "ordering a luxury four wheel drive vehicle that has deployable rails, and upon delivery it doesn't have the rails." You can still drive it straight, but it's no longer built it. (Yes, I'm implying that anyone that wanted a single player version without MMO was asking for a game on rails.)

Great, another step when setting up a new install of Firefox. If only Chrome would bring back side tabs...

Pick any random university and go ask its foreign students how hard it is to get a green card. We don't just have skilled workers wanting in, they're already here and were trained here, and we send them back. It's really not worth the concession for access to their schools for our students (the government where the students are from want them to come home and "impart their knowledge to their countrymen"), the end result is that their best students come here and stay, and our best students stay here too.

"It's unlikely that a high school student would come away with any other conclusion than the police are a fearful group to be avoided at all costs"

Wouldn't the most effective way to prevent that conclusion be to not be "a fearful group to be avoid at all costs"? Not every police department is that way. I'd go so far to say that most aren't. Even if you can make a somewhat logical claim that yours needs to be, you're already doing something wrong to get to that point.

Ask any student or teacher that knew me in junior high or high school and they'd have thought I'd be some mathematician or engineer or programmer making millions while receiving a pile of awards. They'd tell me I was smart, my grades would tell me the same, and any testing they did for placement into advanced programs would tell me the same. I didn't lose interest because I didn't think I could do it - I could then and still could. I lost interest because I also had potential as a pro athlete or musician, and actually wanted to do those, but no one gave the same encouragement there. (Also, the latter had more screaming female fans and tend to date more models and actresses.)

Surely I couldn't be the only one - yeah, I'm good at science, but I don't *want* to do science. It's hard to get behind a study that claims someone loses self-confidence for being praised for something they know they're good at.

Agreed with Icebalm. It's not an opinion, it's a flat out lie at this point. If you bother to reply to someone, and don't edit or post a correction, your disclaimer doesn't mean dick, and you really don't have room to claim that anyone "respect" anything about you. As much as I like someone putting together a list like you did, claiming to "have played them all" should not count uninstalling it after 30 minutes.

Planetside 2 is "pay to have sooner." Anything you can buy other than visual fluff is available for free through play, and you can't even buy the upgrades to the weapons in the shop - you have to earn those just like you can earn any of the weapons.

You aren't very good at making a point, but we'll be more entertained if you keep trying anyway.

"Climate change" doesn't need humans, or their egos thinking that it does.

Don't feel sad, 'cause two of out three ain't bad. (And I'm conceding the "faster pace" to even get you to two...)

Let's keep going with that football analogy, shall we? The game isn't always in overtime. When you score, you get back on the field and try to score again. If this analogy is going to be NFL football, people will pay you to go out there and keep scoring, and they'll stop paying if the players are visibly not trying.

In the football analogy, the entertainment industry is trying to say "that touchdown we scored in 1982 should still count today!" Markets change. Consumer demands change. Technology changes. Put on the latest and greatest helmet, get back on the field, and keep scoring.

Rather, he agrees with you and you fail at reading comprehension.