Does it still come with that other fancy screen-saver? You know, ah... what's it called? Oh yea, the BSOD screen-saver? That was a really fancy one.

People from 2059 still use Slashdot?

I suppose those creationists are right: evolution is a myth.

I have noted a high incidence of comments claiming that teaching is something people to do make money, or that teachers are foolish, or something along such lines. I doubt this reply will hold any significance in the sea of comments, but I feel it must be said.

I don't think anybody who lacks the experience of teaching can ever speak on what that experience is like. Teaching means waking up at 5 or 6 am, working the whole day until 5 with children who for the most part have no desire to be in school and trying to convince them that they actually want to learn, meetings with teachers, parents, students, bosses, grading assignments, preparing lesson plans, and editing lesson plans because they aren't good enough for the bureaucratic system. You're lucky to fall asleep by 11 so you can feel some iota of rest and rejuvenation for the next day.

Many teachers are not actually teachers. They indeed are looking for a paycheck, and in difficult times, that means turning to what has become a money-oriented institution. Many schools have weak criteria for their teachers because there is a lack of good teachers (Why might that be? Because teaching may very well be one of the most difficult professions that exists, next to medical professions).

But that does not imply that all teachers, or even a majority, are ignorant, money-hungry, leeches.

Check your assumptions at the door. K thank you.

.Sean

Meander maybe. But aimlessly? I have an aim, I just don't yet know what it is.

With any due respect, I am driven to point out the abuse of the term "literally" in the above post. Unless the left hemisphere and right hemisphere are launching action potentials at each other across the corpus callosum and exacting violence upon each other, nothing is "literally" becoming a civil war inside of anyone's head.

Furthermore, all habits involve rewiring of neural circuitry. Some drug habits induce a physiological dependence, which is not to imply that psychological dependence is not physiological, but rather than psychological dependence does not involve the body going into a sort of shock. Take a person off of heroin cold turkey, and there is the possibility of death.

Regardless of the type of addiction, every addiction is a function of the lack of volition. It can be theorized that this is the result of a weakened cingulate gyrus which has been posited as a potential "seat of volition" within the brain.

Regardless of the neuro-correlates, we are responsible for our decisions. And if we fail at being responsible, we are responsible for making ourselves responsible for our decisions.

Furthermore, it is important to take context into consideration when identifying a pathology. Social structures exist that may in themselves be responsible for pathological behaviors, and in some cases, pathological behaviors may not be pathological but entirely adaptive. This does not change the diagnosis of a disorder (which is based entirely on symptomatology and has nothing to do with etiology), but it does bear significance.

That is all

/uselessopinion .Sean