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Regardless of what one of the kids sent home says about why the administration told them to take it off, the only reasonable reason why any administrator would have asked them to take the clothes off was if they feared violence. And there are better ways they could have dealt with that.

So was the Tarkovsky original (and it was an hour longer!) Its still worth the slog through, IMO.

How do you "inconvenience" the unreasonable group unless you wait for them to act on their unreasonable position? Answer this question understanding that allowing the students to act (ie fighting) when there could have been a way to prevent the situation escalating is pretty much asking for the school board to fire you (or at least reassign you to a lower position). There were a lot better ways to deal with this situation than the administration did but allowing the groups to fight so you could suspend the fighters isn't really one of them, IMO.

Even though I didn't think it was as good as others did, I'm surprised that District 9 is missing from the proposed list. I, Robot was actually pretty good if you can get past the fact it isn't actually based on the Asimov story. I've always been fond of Signs While not as good at the Tarkovsky version, Solaris isn't a bad sci-fi film. Frequency is a good underrated sci-fi film. I thought The Final Cut was actually a pretty good film (even if it goes pearshaped in the end). Uneven The Signal was worth a viewing (the middle segment having some really great moments). Those are a few strong sci-fi films I can think of from 2000-2009.

If the Mexican students started a fight, the Mexican students should have been punished. People need to learn that you need to rise above such petty nonsense. If the school has reason to believe that a fight is going to start over object "A" and the school doesn't attempt to diffuse the tension over object "A" and a fight starts, then the school, arguably, has not done its part to provide a safe place for its students. Agreed it is petty nonsense, but dealing with kids and parents makes you realize that the modern kid and parent seem to THRIVE on petty nonsense.

I liked it as well but most people seemed to hate it. I liked Pandorum and Serenity as well. Didn't really like the Will Smith I Am Legend though

Yeah I think its sci-fi even if its dealing in a generic theme of Vampirism (albeit the film adaption called The Omega Man drops the vampirism angle in its infected).

Its as much sci-fi as the novel Day of the Triffids which 28 Days Later... resembles greatly...

Curiously enough that could be one the reasons why neanderthals lost to sapiens. It was really painful and potentially lethal for neanderthal women to give birth. They polled a lot of Neanderthal's in the maternity ward, did they? (Isn't normal homo sapian birth considered really painful and potentially lethal (if complications arise)?)

Forbidden Planet is awesome. I'd take Children of Men over AI, Wall-E, K-Pax or 28 Days Later.

1. I think this can only ever be decided by the situation and context. That's why most rules in schools about disruption don't spell out what can and can't be disruptive in totality so as to allow consideration of what is happening at that time. I think that logically we all agree that everyone should have been more than happy to express their pride in Mexican heritage and their pride as US citizens (or either one seperately) and that Flag shouldn't be seen as disruptive. But the reality of the situation is that (a) teens aren't always logical (nor are adults) (b) teens are often looking to provoke confrontations with adults and peers and © we don't know the context of incidents that may have preceeded this (ie there may have been other conflicts between students in the two groups that administrators was trying to prevent returning). There were many subtler ways to have dealt with the issue, and had they been used it'd have been a non issue. 2. Really shouldn't be; I think anyone angry enough about the flag being disrespected by the administrators who didn't allow the students to wear it should be upset over the fact the flag wasn't given its proper respect by being worn as a bandana and a t-shirt in the first place.

So you say they were making a statement. Even if they were, was it not fully within the bounds of the law, and apart from the bandannas within the rules of the school? If it was, there is no justification whatsoever for this kind of treatment. Arguably any non-disruptive clothing can be asked to be removed in a school setting if its deemed to be disruptive. This can be truely offensive shirts, shirts with bands that the school feel is disruptive or even a shirt with Sponge Bob Squarepants if there is a situation created deemed disruptive. Arguably a flag on a T-Shirt doesn't actually fit the rules for proper display of the US flag anyhow (although there's no specific law against it besides the Flag Code suggesting that its inappropriate to use the flag in such a way).

Ah, yeah. I remember now. Thanks. I kinda agree with Gromnir on this, myself. While there should be theoretically no problem with wearing the American flag, I think the realities of the situation have to be recognized and there were better and subtler approaches to defusing the potential problems in the situation - particularly given that there are plenty of teen boys and girls who are just one excuse away from a fight anyhow.

Isn't that what Killian was saying a few months ago...?

But will IE finally implement HTML standards right...?

*searches* Nope.

I never saw the appeal for Dogmeat. I suppose he was less inclined to shoot me in the back with a minigun like a certain FO2 companion I could name... But then I don't think there was any of the companions I really wanted to take along (although there's a certain perverse appeal trying to see if you can keep your S.O. in FO2 alive).

"It's all right. It's quite all right, really. She's having a rest. We'll be going on soon. There's no hurry, you see. We have all the time in the world."

I guess now we can combine "Strawberry Fields Forever" and "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds" for science says it is okay!

The land of paranoid people who believe that people who ask for their location on the internet are stalkers who want to find them and have their way with them without at least buying them dinner first.

No. But I'm not sure your point. Are you saying it's just as likely for you to pull off the long range shot as the sniper? The article comments that the wind was pretty much a non-factor as it was a calm day. I dunno, I'm pretty impressed that he could hit 3 targets at that range No I'm saying that skill and luck combine. Wals seemed to be indicating that skill was the only factor in determining success rate. And what Grom seems to be saying is that while its more likely for the skilled guy to hit the shot than the unskilled guy, there's luck, chance, unpredictable elements that can't be accounted for in such success.

I think his argument is that any top class shooter - including those who've already made such amazing shots - would only be able to make those shots as a product of skill, environmental conditions at the time of the shot and blind luck. To use Grom's metaphor, a PGA tour champion will make a hole in one with greater odds than a casual weekend golfer, but give them both enough time and the right conditions both will be able to hit a hole in one - eventually. Give them the wrong conditions and neither will ever. This doesn't negate the skill level to be a champion PGAer, but it recognizes that some feats are as much luck (and situation) as they are ability. You mention the national lottery, so is a person who wins the national lottery better at winning lotteries than the people who didn't? Or was there luck at play?

But Howard WAS a Master of Quack-Fu.

There isn't, as I recall, any guarantee of Free Speech in private places, only against the government (as opposed to private parties) preventing you exercising Free Speech. As Obsidian owns these forums and requires us to register to have posting privileges, the argument can be made that this message board is a private place and just like you can't go to a nearby Mall and practice your Free Speech rights or into an individual's home and practice your Free Speech rights, you can't come here and expect the same. Ergo we all post at the discretion of the admin and mods, no Free Speech necessary.

That's a fair point about the Maker; and it is a big unprovable area in the Chantry's beliefs. But - from the perspective of the Chantry's beliefs - we never see anything about the Maker to cast doubt on their version of things. Yes we can construct possible explanations of the Chantry's story but in terms of what Dragon Age gives us, the Chantry story is mostly (if not entirely) borne out. I guess I'd have liked more doubt (and more options to express my doubt).