Anonymity says: You -don't- get a gold star! *rimshot*

Ask Slashdot: Who has the biggest antiquated tech-wang?

'Enough' And 'Licensee' I believe 'Slashdoters' should be 'Slashdotters'... unless you mean to say Canadians who are extremely loving towards slashes. And 'Petition' Finally: Punctuate please.

“When a government starts trying to cancel dissent or avoid dissent is frankly when it’s rapidly losing its moral authority to govern.” (Stephen Harper, Canadian Press, April 18, 2005) Down with Harper. He's gone way too far.

Being a teacher is the easy life. Just about every other job in the universe is a worse job with worse pay. Your day ends at 4pm, you get 3-4 months off a year and your paid more than well enough to make a living, especially for the average teacher's time spent. They should just fire all of them every 5 years and only give the ones that haven't gone insane yet their jobs back after some very stringent tests. My mother got chewed out by the union once because she wanted the faculty of teachers she worked with to do the standardized grade 10 literacy test so they could better prepare the students to take them. The test was given, filled out, and graded; not for any sort of evaluation purposes, just for self education. When the union found out that any sort of test with a score, regardless of the purpose behind taking it, was given to the teachers she nearly got fired. The reason, in all likelihood that teachers' unions are so incensed about being evaluated is because 15% of their members aren't likely able to answer questions about material they're teaching, which is usually still a far cry from what the students actually have to learn. The education systems in the USA and all of North America, for that matter, are nothing more than a glorified babysitting service. Don't put your babysitters under any sort of scrutiny though, or they'll go on strike.

Freedom in its truest sense doesn't bend to 'good taste' and 'sensitivity'. Freedom is saying 'Good' doesn't exist as far as taste goes. Taste is taste and we all have a different appetite. Freedom means being willing to accept what people are doing behind their closed doors in exchange for being allowed to do what you want behind closed doors. If you don't want to play as a Taliban insurgent, don't play as a Taliban insurgent. If you don't think that it's appropriate that it's an option, don't buy the game. You are free to buy/use and say whatever you want unless it's explicitly illegal. Don't like it? Start your own America.

When I was about 4, and realized people were just bald gorillas, I also realized that birds were dinosaurs, and that one of them must have laid an egg full of chicken, which in turn laid more eggs full of chicken. The egg came first, K?