I suppose you had to walk uphill to school in the snow every day barefoot, too. It made you stronger and healthier, kids these days don't know how good they have it. I would expect /. at least to have less technophobia than this, realize that spell check is a tool that is going to be useful in our daily lives, and rote memorization of just about anything is becoming more and more ridiculous.

Honestly, math students have been using calculators on exams for years now, and that's turned out well.

Forcing students to memorize the proper spelling of words is often ineffective, and teaching students to use the goddamn spellcheck would prevent far more errors.

So is this one

but in /. posting xkcd links automatically overcomes the filter.

I have some shocking things to tell you about what your wife and her friends did in college...

God, that thing looks like it's going to be used to power ARCHIMEDES II

Then our profile of an "average" person is someone who has never seen the inside of a gym. I only work around twice a week these days, and can still crank out 100+ push-ups (in sets of ~40, not all at once) if I have to.

Much like GP, my BMI is just edging into the "overweight" category at 6'2" and 200 lbs.

Dude, fix your font.

Did some checking, both are acceptable, it all depends on what the intended pronounciation is.

I.E. if you want people to read that and say "anonymouses" then write your version.

On most of the sources I've read, the warrant specifically includes a rape charge.

How that's justified and why different sources say different things for what should be one easily readable document is beyond me.

Well played, Sir Troll.

The Post-9/11 G.I. bill (which went into effect around 2008, same time I was leaving the military) - no longer requires soldiers to have money deducted from their pay.

You get tuition completely paid for, a living allowance equivalent to an E-5 with dependents, and yearly allowance for books. Money's still pretty tight, but I'm successfully going to school entirely on the GI bill.

Is an unfertilized egg cell accorded the rights of a person? A Sperm Cell? A clump of combined cells immediately after conception that could never survive on its own? An Embryo that could survive on its own outside the mother, even if it's nowhere close to being born?

All the insightful things I might have said in response to your own post have already been said by other posters, and I'm genuinely curious about it.

Asshole.

why did you choose the name "Sumdumass?"

It seems very self-deprecating.

Pre 9-11 security measures were a hassle too, but they were nowhere near what we go through now, and you've successfully made the case that they're worthwhile.

The additional measures put in place since then aren't much more effective (if at all?) and put us non-terrorist-hijackers through far too much. Especially since, as people have pointed out elsewhere in this thread, no-one wanting to cause mass damage or hysteria would bother blowing up a plane when you can just waltz into a crowded subway or sports game with a bomb.

Hell, you could probably wear a maintenance uniform and set up an explosive device in the middle of times square, and people wouldn't bat an eye.