As a twin I find this ridiculous, sad, ignorant and just plain stupid. Obviously, having the same DNA as my brother in no way makes me the same person. This is no different. Why the hell don't people understand that? More science education and less time wasted on religion!

The old buggers in the Senate probably just figured out how to work a DVD player and now are too afraid of the change to digital TV.

Obama really is amazing. I'm sure he has a lot of help, so at the very least he hired really good helpers! I guess it helps having a horribly incompetent president precede him, but he is just kicking ass right out of the gates!

Stay away from laptops and tablets! The students will only get distracted. Pencil and paper work much better for most subjects. Also, probably an even bigger issue is the teachers are going to have to focus a lot of their time on working out bugs and learning IT stuff, when they should be focusing on TEACHING. Until Apple makes an idiot proof Epod, stay away from this please. My first year of college, half of the students played Diablo 2 every class. These students didn't make it to their second year.

I think there is a future for this type of class, but not yet. The benefits would be automatic marking of multiple choice tests and math tests where you don't have to show your work. But there's just too many problems right now. Broken laptops, students looking at porn during classes, and instant messaging. Who's going to have the time to deal with all these distractions?

Now even more like the latest version of Microsoft Word! How innovative! OO.org is great, and I've used it off and on for years, but I'd like to see them be a little more innovative. Copy the good stuff from Word but leave out the crap and add some differentiating features maybe?

O'Reilly, O RLY?

Why is ronpaul a tag? Is he an exoplanet? I never knew that!

This isn`t exactly new technology.

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Remember how everyone in the cartoon got really cool powers like fire and wind? Except the one who got HEART! Poor bastard.

which has beaches... right?

...Completely throws away free will, and the idea that god is anything but an evil asshole. That's why sane and decent people are very nervous around any human sick and diseased enough to worship such pure unadulterated evil.

I'm just as nervous about the whole idea of regarding faith as a good thing. Ignorance about the bible can explain why people worship shitty Gods, but the belief that ignorance is a good thing is the bigger problem, IMHO.

Hey, plenty of 17 year olds don't believe death is forever.

They're called "religious".

It's not polite to make fun of people's ridiculous beliefs...

From: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S._passport#Biometric_passport

According to privacy advocates, the BAC and the shielded cover are ineffective when a passport is open, and that a passport may have to be opened for inspection in a public place such as a hotel, a bank, or an Internet cafe. An open passport is subject to illicit reading of chip data, such as by a government agent who is tracking a passport holder's movements or by a criminal who is intending identity theft.

If this is true, then wont this just hurt the honest people and do nothing to stop "criminals"?