Nicothodes

The problem is is that lowering the pricing on all his games is a risk, since his family's income is reliant on sales of Spiderweb games. If he lowered the prices, he'd have to worry about getting enough extra sales just to keep his income steady, which, if he lowered it to the around $10 mark you mentioned, would mean he'd have to more than double his customers. Very risky.

I dunno, Tyran, I remember a lot of poor opinions towards Homeland. You may have wanted to mess with fans.

I'd hate a biblical approach, personally. Other than my aversion to previously non-religious games going religious, I'd rather have a story where the ending is obvious because I've heard it a billion times before.

So, I'm in a composition class, and we're having our end-of-term concert on Sunday. I suck at naming instrumental pieces, and I've been absolutely stuck on one of my pieces that is going to be performed, and if I don't get a name extremely soon, it is going on the programme as "Dance Piece," which is pretty pathetic. So I've uploaded an audio file(Sibelius instruments, sorry) of it here , and I'd welcome any suggestions.

Congratulations SoT!

There is another happening now, if anyone's interested.

Or that. Thanks, Tyran.

If you give a sn, I can invite you.

Hello all. I am bored in the way computer games cannot fix, so I am hanging out in the AIM "spidweb" chat room and posting here to invite people to join me. Please? I still have eyebrows.

Originally Posted By: Dintiradan Anyway, I'm with Slarty. Let's continue talking about Nicothodes's class public school funding the purpose of education variations on contractions whether or not passive voice is useful how applicable various degrees are the middle class the lottery. I vote we make it a goal to meaningfully discuss twenty more things by Saturday.

Synergy, you actually pretty much just described what my class is about.

Also, I think a good deal of the time customers expect the employees to know everything, while every job I've gotten(library, bagel shop, and tech support) has just started me and told me how procedures(and, in the case of tech support, how to fix things) as the issues came up. Not every employer fully trains its employees before putting them on the job.

Exactly. And now I have the song You Did It from My Fair Lady stuck in my head, because of the story about how Eliza was accused of being Hungarian...

I actually feel like I learned more about English grammar from taking Spanish, because my teachers explained the Spanish grammar by talking about how we used grammar in English, followed by the differences in Spanish.

Originally Posted By: Alex Did your classmates really claim that all women want to have children? Why didn't you just provide a single counterexample? As for segregated schools, do you have anything to offer to the majority? Do they benefit from your state-imposed egalitarianism? If so, try to explain it to your classmates. If not, why should they indulge in self-sacrifice and self-flagellation? Because of collective guilt for perceived historical injustices? Or just to be considered 'intelligent' by left-wing radicals, perhaps? As for the all women wanting children example, yes, that was the majority of the class's conclusion. I did not speak up in that class because I am a bit shy in groups of people, and my counterexample was me, which felt really personal. I did speak up in the segregated schools discussion, as did two other people who shared my viewpoints. I think "collective guilt over historical injustices" doesn't really apply in this situation, as it is a very current issue. Yes, there is a history of oppression that has put many groups at a disadvantage economically and socially, but just because the problem has been around for a long time does not mean that the only reason to fix it is white guilt. As it is, because of property taxes funding public education, the best education is going to the best-off financially, who are disproportionately white. While getting people to go to schools in other districts is impractical, to say the least, even making sure all schools actually did get the same amount of resources would help equalise opportunities for students of all classes, as well as provide fewer reasons for parents of any class to be reluctant to send their kids to their district school as opposed to a private school(of course, this doesn't account for racism on the part of the parents, and, while I'd hope that some of the resources would be used to ensure that the schools were safe places to be, this is hardly guaranteed). Beyond trying to figure out how to solve the issues of how to make sure the schools aren't segregated, unsegregated schools would get more support than segregated schools with of a group with negative stereotypes. Hopefully, both the improved and equalised education and the contact hypothesis would bring future generations closer to being more tolerant and have opportunities be as close to equal as is realistically possible.

Well, it also depends on the high school in question. Due to illness putting me way behind in my music classes, I had to switch to a school that had such low standards that I was told by teachers to keep class discussions simple. In addition to a lack of challenge, I was harassed by my fellow students for my political views, which the administration ignored even after my parents complained. The only other school available to me was the neighbourhood school, which was known for being even more out of control than the one I was in. Sure, with a good high school, you can stick it out for the four years, though getting bored and lazy is also likely(I know I did), but I think it's important that it's not the only choice. What most of the students at my school seem to forget is that they are not smarter than average. My school accepts students mainly based off of the interview and admissions essays. The academics and workload here is very challenging, but the admissions department looks more for a student's willingness to put the effort in than whether he or she is a genius or not.

My college was started on the idea that some students are ready for greater challenges earlier, and making them wait until they're done with high school to start college is a waste of their time. Some students here did go all the way through high school, but they are very much in the minority.

I have been, and there have been a couple of other people saying sane things as well, and the teacher has been asking discussion questions about these historical events and whatnot, but somehow it's not sinking in.

Originally Posted By: Randomizer A computer program would interpret the equation as Nicothodes said except 9+3 = 12. I fail. Clearly, I am not awake on weekends. Also Nikki, unless you want me to share embarrassing stories, no, we won't.

Order of operations states that you solve what's in the parentheses first, then multiply and divide from left to right. So first you would add the 9 and 3, then divide 48 by 2, and multiply the result by 11 to get 264. EDIT: This is how I would figure it out. I don't think using parentheses to indicate multiplication overrides using the sign, but it has been a long time since I've taken a maths class.

The desegregation process in schools is a tricky one. It's necessary, but there are many obstacles such as property taxes being used to fund schools, transportation, and resentment from people based off of inconvenience. Even city-wide magnet schools are dependent on the students having access to the resources to do well in their previous schools, and/or training in a certain field(for the magnet schools that admit based off of skill in the arts). If my classmates had said "fixing this will be hard, and I'm not sure exactly how to do it," I would have no problem with them. But they said that it doesn't matter, and regressed to pre-Brown vs. Board of Education ideas that education could be both separate and equal.

Actually, the fact that people *here* are stating opinions like this is what shocks me. My school is known(when people have heard of it, that is) for being extremely liberal. My best guess is that people everywhere pretty much suck and that my tendency to hermit has protected me from this fact. EDIT: Though if you've gone all the way through high school, I'd recommend applying to other schools anyways. While the academics here are very strong, the average age of entering students is 16, and it gets very irritating to be surrounded by 16-year-olds who are convinced that they are geniuses.

This semester I'm taking an entry level sociology course. The teacher is fairly good, the readings depress me, all in all normal for this sort of class. However, my classmates terrify me. The first class this semester the majority of my class argued that while the portrayal of gender roles is exaggerated in the media, it's not a big deal because all women really do want babies, and the media will train them how to take care of said babies. Somehow I suspect that some of these people will eventually receive visits from Child Protective Services. Anyways, discussions got less blatantly awful until Thursday's class. We were discussing articles about how the school system has re-segregated along race and class lines, and except for two other people and me, everyone said that as long as the schools were getting equal resources, it didn't matter. I feel as if our classroom is in a time vortex.

Originally Posted By: Goldenking Originally Posted By: Master1 Not to gross anyone out, but that's totally true, duct tape removes warts. My family is a living testament to that. We covered my brother in duct tape and he disappeared! I do believe that is a testament to duct tape's ability to cure cancer, actually. Of course, it could be duct tape enabling cancer to become more powerful.

Originally Posted By: inni Originally Posted By: Dikiyoba Luckily, that's just a myth. Dikiyoba. Being forced off a cliff would be just as bad as throwing yourself off one. :| But now they've done it, so the novelty's worn off.