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4 finals coming up (History, Math, Computers and Physics) and I should do well in all.

Finally got around to Asimov's "Foundation" series, and enjoying it!

Happy Birthday!

An Englishman, a Frenchman and a Russian are discussing how they are going to kill their mothers-in-law.
Englishman: "I am going to buy her a mansion on the Canarian Islands. Then, I will go to the balcony and use a saw on posts which hold it almost to the end. When she steps out on the balcony, it will collapse and she would fall to death."
Frenchman: "I will buy her a brand new Ferrari. Then, I will cut off the brakes, and when she tries to do a U-turn on 100 km/h she will lost control and die."
Russian: "Well, listen to this. I will buy 100 pills against headaches. Then, I will put them all in a pot containing boiling water, until they dissolve. When they all dissolve, I will turn off the gas and wait until one big pill forms. Then, I put the pill on the table just in front of the entrance and hide in the bathroom. When she enters her home, she will come forward to the table, look at the pill, and say 'Wow, what a large pill'. At that moment, I run out of the bathroom and chop her head off with an axe."

I love that one!  

I am afraid to find out who that client was....

  I would not say that the only way to teach a child is physical. There are many many other ways to do so.
 But putting that aside, a beating is not going to earn an adult respect. It is only going to teach the child fear, no respect. On the contrary, a child who is exposed to romantic ideas of human rights from a young age will only disrespect the one who punishes him in such a "cheap" and wrong way.

I am sure each one of us is thrilled to know that. Really, thank you for contributing that to our humble debate.

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  I don't think the situation is really as you portrait it.
 The enthusiasm these kids have shown for school after the corporal punishment was false. They wanted to avoid the beating, and thus didn't slack off, but deep inside, they still didn't care about school. This way, some children's hatred for school could only have gotten stronger, and not the other way around.
 And yet, taking your point as fully valid. In the new Western world everyone can have his own interests. If a kid decides that school is not for him, it is his choice. Now, mind you, I am not saying it is good, but all I am saying is that it is wrong to make a child do something he doesn't want by using brute force.

  When a child grows, he is like raw material in the hands of the educator. And more importantly, he lacks a sense of judgement.

 A child who gets beaten by a parent for doing a bad thing, cannot understand how it is good for him in the long run. He lacks the ability. All he sees at the moment, all he feels, all he thinks about is the beating, not at all how it will make him a better person in the future. It is very hard to find a child who will agree that a punishment to him is just. This sense of unfairness doubles when the punishment is physical.
 In other words, what takes effect and stays in the child's minds are the emotions at the moment of the punishment. These emotions usually circle around fear, shame (not for the crime, but for suffering the punishment), pain and hate. Human instincts cannot stand being beaten without any ability of countering it. Any such beating, even the wickest one leaves a physocoligical strain which will stay. The child will forever remember the emotions stated above.
 One more thing I would like to refer to is the hate I stated above. When a child gets beaten, he feels hate for the one who beats him. But that is not particulary serious, as it usually passes after a few days (unless he is beaten constantly). The real problem is that the child thinks the beating parent hates him. A child in today's Western society quickly learns how beating a child is wrong. When a partent hurts him, he thinks that he isn't loved by this partent anymore. And one of the most important things in the crafting of a child's personality, is to make him feel loved. Otherwise, this is one of the worst moral blows which stays forever.  

Over to Fuzzy....

Great idea!

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#agsfun is key protected now!

Edit: I missed all the fun! That's the last time I go to bed!

Well I ran Splinter Cell on the game's maximal details and it worked quite fine, except a few places (no more than 5) where it had the best lightining affects ever!

function on_event (int event, int data) {
 if (event==GUI_MDOWN){
   RefreshMouse();
   if (IsButtonDown(RIGHT)==1) TButton=2; else
   if (IsButtonDown(LEFT)==1) TButton=1;
 }

 if ((event==GUI_MUP) && (data==6)) {  //Called when the user release the mouse button
   if (((GetGUIAt(mouse.x,mouse.y)!=-1)) && (TButton==1)) {
     GUIOff(6);  
     GUIOn(2);
  }}
 
}

We have them. They are called custom functions.

It will be very helpful if you could supply a short description of GUI 2 and 6.

Indeed, he is right. But I just have a problem with the wording you used - "celebration"?

There needs to be another ) there.

You forgot a } somewhere.

int TButton;

function on_event (int event, int data) {
if (event==GUI_MDOWN){
   RefreshMouse();
   if (IsButtonDown(RIGHT)==1) TButton=2; else
   if (IsButtonDown(LEFT)==1) TButton=1;
  }

 if (event==GUI_MUP) {  //Called when the user release the mouse button
   if ((GetGUIAt(mouse.x,mouse.y)!=-1) && (TButton==1)
     GUIOff(GetGUIAt(mouse.x,mouse.y));
     
 }