Probably too many of these going around right now, but it might be helpful:
http://strawpoll.me/763037

From the perspective of someone who has been made an arrogant asshole by the education system, yes. Very much so.

I cannot agree with this more. More in science classes then anything else, in my school at least, there is virtually no teaching of concepts. The students who get better grades are merely the ones who are better at memorization, with the occasional person with an aptitude for whatever the subject is and learns outside of school as a result of that. The utter lack of scaling (at least where I live) before high school makes anyone who is above-average have to learn at the speed of the slowest person in the class. Anyone below-average is coddled to death, so that when they go to where scaling starts (freshman year of HS) they get into a class above their ability and quickly drop down into a lower difficulty course.

This too. There needs to be a much heavier emphasis on people learning something that they are interested in, this renaissance-era idea that we should all be well-rounded in terms of education merely makes it more difficult for industry to progress. The simple ability to not take classes that are peripheral to what you want to be doing would be enough to make school more enjoyable and productive for students and teachers alike.

Personally, this is the most annoying thing that has happened to me in school so far. Right now, I have a teacher who takes the majority of his lessons directly from the textbook, assigns all work from the textbook, answers questions about said with "Look in your textbook", and is retiring next year.
One last thing which, surprisingly, has not been said yet: Technology. The high school I'm at is in a rich neighborhood, in a relatively rich state, in a first world country. There is no reason for the computer lab (singular) to be composed of 20 towers from 2001 with 15" CRTs. The middle school I went to used its tech budget to buy iPads. $30K worth of iPads. I'm honestly surprised as to how incompetent the tech department can be at my school (and I assume others).

I thought the first book was decent, certainly not as good as the hype suggests. The other books were pretty bad, but not Matrix-sequel bad. My main problem with the movie was the camerawork, it made it impossible to tell what was happening at any scene with movement, unless you had already read the book.

It's one thing to say that we should stay with ESEA regardless of unresponsive admins, inconsistency, etc., but backdooring peoples' computers is a no-no.

foobar2000 is great

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This could be interesting

I have a 560TI, I'm just using the 306.97 drivers on the site, I haven't had any problems like what you're talking about it. I remember something similar would happen for a few days after over-overclocking my CPU, you might want to try manually clearing CMOS(i.e, removing the battery for a good 2 minutes) to make sure. That's what fixed a similar problem for me, at least.

When I was 6, my parents got me a $60 3/4 scale electric guitar, didn't even touch it until the start of this summer. It's been really easy for me to learn to play songs I like through tablature without having to actually learn to play the instrument, so it's great if that's why you're learning to play.

I just only play MGE in 2v2 servers, but with one person. Gives it a more casual feel, no points whatsoever. Of course, if you can play with friends instead of randoms, that's always better.

control the flank, control the universe

I'm on the north shore, we got flurries early in the morning, all of it melted on contact though. Gonna have to deal with leaves this weekend and hope that it doesn't snow anymore.

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7.75", no accel.

Roamer/demo

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the ministry of truth is at work here

6s sniper mains