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Comment on Doctor Who video Clips II by michael

michael — Sat, 19 Jul 2008 19:24:27 +0000

how do you share doctor who videos off the internet

Comment on PhD Students: Living below poverty line by AV

AV — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 06:01:52 +0000

Comment on PhD Students: Living below poverty line by Tom

Tom — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 12:43:35 +0000

Whinge whinge whinge! I left school at 15 and got a job. I had to, because my father was killed and we needed the money. I did a batchelor degree in my 30s and am doing a masters now in my 40s, all while employed full time in tough jobs. Wanna know who annoys me? The snotty little grad student who thinks she is doing it so tough. If I can work full time and study part and raise kids, what is so hard about working part time and studying part time? Study suffers because work? rubbish, the thing that suffers is your social time. The turkey who wrote this wouldn’t know the meaning of hard work or hard times.
The Henderson poverty line measures relative poverty, i.e in comparison to the rest of society. Living conditions are rising (desoite what you hear from the opposition). A student on a $20k scholarship might earn less in porportion to the average wage than was the case in the past, however still has greater buying power as living standards have risen. Someone studying a Phd should know that!

Comment on Religion in Schools: A complete shamozzle by The Fool's Muse

The Fool's Muse — Sun, 13 Jul 2008 07:36:17 +0000

Precisely what I believe. Evolution is NOT taught as fact in schools, but there is so much pressure in the States to show creationism as fact instead!

Public schools are, well, public. You can’t give respect to all religious beliefs without offending other beliefs, causing problems between students, or without a huge amount of time and resources wasted.

So why have religion in school at all? As an after-school or lunch-time activity, sure. But it should never dominate teaching. I just wish the religious folk out there could trust themselves to read Harry Potter without comdemning themselves to hell.

Comment on Optimus Prime vs. Jesus Christ by Kaga

Kaga — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 00:33:20 +0000

Optimus, I will follow you to the end. And for jon i’d like to say that i found all the facts given fair, optimus is more real to me than jesus. Far more respectable.
And to Lew Moxon’s Ghost i’d like to say: Lighten up for Primes sake, you take this way to serious!

Live long and prosper.

Comment on Optimus Prime vs. Jesus Christ by Jon

Jon — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 16:29:01 +0000

Okay, I get it. It’s supposed to be comedy. But if you’re going to pit Jesus against a made up figure then you’d have to use the words “apparently”, “supposedly”, and “not verified” for both. It seems that you’re aguing mostly for the disbelief in Jesus and a little for the belief in a real optimus.

Comment on Crazy World Youth Day Laws by The Faceles Bard

The Faceles Bard — Sun, 06 Jul 2008 13:52:19 +0000

Its not a problem at all if the pope is here to embrace our way of thinking. In fact he could learn a lot from the protestant way of thinking. Think of Australia the teacher and he the student.
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