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"Vive le Canada. This country is not for sale."


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I am a Canadian, free to speak without fear, free to worship in my own way, free to stand for what I think right, free to oppose what I believe wrong, or free to choose those who shall govern my country. This heritage of freedom I pledge to uphold for myself and all mankind.
-John Diefenbaker (From the Canadian Bill of Rights, July 1, 1960.)
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Updates:

June 5th 2006

- Please take a look at our new Opinion Polls, concerning Harper's decision on the Kyoto Accord.

- Opinion Polls don't really mean much if only three people vote. Please try to participate in the wiki, or else I'm afraid there won't be much point in running polls.

What do you think so far of the Conservative Minority Government.
Number of voters: 3
a) I haven't noticed any change.
Number of votes: 1 (33%)

b) Seeing Harper as our Prime Minister saddens me.
Number of votes: 2 (67%)

c) It isn't that bad, but I wouldn't give them a majority next time.
Number of votes: 0 (0%)

d) I love it! They are doing a great job!


April 24th 2006

<img:stuff/dotbullet.gif> Canucks Banner Contest is dead, so I think I may take it down, if you think it's a good idea, submit something, if you don't, let me know in the comments and I'll take it down, thanks.

<img:stuff/dotbullet.gif> Also New Opinion Polls, go check it out!


March 4th 2006

<img:stuff/dotbullet.gif> Canucks Banner Contest

Please enter something, even if you don't think it's all that great, every contribution is appreciated.

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2006-02-13 [Byne]: I haven't been home, so I had no idea baout anything. It was only when I got home and my dad told me that I heard of the gold medal. Yay.

2006-02-14 [Blaithin]: Jeremy Wotherspoon only got 9th in the 500m and we lost a downhill skier in training today...Better get some momentum soon heh

2006-02-14 [Blaithin]: On the plus side...the men's hockey team left tonight, they'll arrive in the morning :D

2006-02-14 [Charybdis]: And Gretzky is with them, as he deserves to be... I wish the media would just leave him alone -_- // A silver in cross-country ski! ^^

2006-02-16 [Byne]: Ribbit. :3 We're doing well. -Dances.-

2006-02-19 [Panda-monium]: How did Finland beat us >.<

2006-02-19 [Byne]: In hockey?

2006-02-19 [Panda-monium]: Men's hockey, yeah

2006-02-19 [Blaithin]: Finland didn't Switzerland did. We play Finland today.

2006-02-20 [Byne]: o.O okay.

2006-02-20 [Blaithin]: ...now Finland beat us. 2 - 0.

2006-02-20 [Byne]: Hot damn!

2006-02-20 [Panda-monium]: haha, I'm ahead of you, I saw the game live

2006-02-20 [Blaithin]: I stopped watching it live, twas to painful. I just kept updating the blogs on CBC's website heh

2006-02-20 [Panda-monium]: hehe

2006-02-20 [Charybdis]: ... but a gold in women's hockey! ^^

2006-02-20 [Panda-monium]: YES! 4-1 right?

2006-02-20 [Charybdis]: Yep, against Sweden :D Now if the men can only get themselves organized and work as a team...

2006-02-21 [Panda-monium]: yeah

2006-02-21 [Byne]: -Yawns and streches.- We're still tied with America and Russia for 3rd, right?

2006-02-21 [Charybdis]: Mm, nope, we're in fourth because they both have 15 medals now, while we have 14.

2006-02-22 [Byne]: Roar. -Nod.-

2006-02-22 [~Brigid~]: Now we both have 18!

2006-02-22 [Blaithin]: Men are outta the tourny. We lost to Russia 2 - 0. Now to watch curling heh

2006-02-23 [Charybdis]: Today was an awesome day besides that, though... two gold and two silver! :D I dunno, frankly I think it's good to remind them that Canada is not invincible when it comes to hockey. They played sloppily this time around - but then I guess it can't have helped to only get out of the NHL days before they competed at the Olympics, and being jetlagged into the bargain X_x

2006-02-23 [Blaithin]: They definetely didn't play the greatest. I don't think they were as cocky as people make them out to be though. Afterall, before Salt Lake, Canada hadn't won an Olympic gold for 50 years. Obviously we aren't invincible lol

2006-02-23 [Charybdis]: Haha, no, but you know the hype associated with hockey. I didn't mean to imply that they were cocky - the ones that were interviewed seemed like genuinely decent guys - but they didn't have the time to develop into a cohesive team, and they needed that at this level of competition.

2006-02-23 [Charybdis]: By the way, are we planning to get a banner that works at some point? ^^;

2006-02-23 [Panda-monium]: Heh, yeah sorry, I've been aweful busy of late, you'll have ter forgive me.

2006-02-23 [Charybdis]: Ah, I know what it's like ^^

2006-02-23 [Panda-monium]: aye

2006-02-24 [Byne]: I have been meaning to make some banners, but right now I have so much work that I'm beginning to get stress-induced headaches and even migranes. @_@ Life is taking a bite otta me right now. A big bloody bite. x.x And hot damn! We're only one metal behind USA. GO CANADA!!!! [At least the women won for hockey. :3]

2006-02-24 [Panda-monium]: yeah

2006-02-24 [Byne]: We can so toally beat them! X3

2006-02-24 [Charybdis]: Eee! A gold in men's curling! 10-4 against Finland! // I just noticed, but it's le Canada, not la, up top ^^;

2006-02-24 [Panda-monium]: I changed it, though it is a quote, so someone else said it wrong :P

2006-03-03 [Panda-monium]: Tolerance

2006-03-05 [Panda-monium]: Would someone be willing to make a banner for the top? I have been trying but I can't seem to make anything good

2006-03-05 [Charybdis]: Why not hold a banner contest? :)

2006-03-05 [Panda-monium]: I've tried to hold banner contests on other wikis and no one enters them, but I suppose I cuold try.

2006-03-05 [Charybdis]: If you post it on art contests, surely it will attract at least a few entrants? Besides which, it could serve as a kind of advertisement to Canadian ETers who don't know about this wiki yet, even if they don't enter the contest ^^

2006-03-12 [Panda-monium]: Possibly, I wouldn't know if it would apply though

2006-03-15 [Byne]: LA LA LA. OMG.... I am in BC. -Dances.- So pretty here. <3

2006-03-15 [Panda-monium]: Hehe, never been, but I hope to explore more of my country as I get older.

2006-03-15 [Byne]: I'm originally from here. We're on the island... Nyar. :3 We've seen teh remains of some bird's meal, a dead mouse, a ton of cabs, birds, seals.sea otters, raccoon, deer, skunk.... Ahaha..It is amazing. <3

2006-03-15 [Panda-monium]: hehe

2006-03-15 [Byne]: OH NO. GOD NO. NOT THAT SOOOONG. AHHHH -Runs about flailing her arms.-

2006-03-15 [Panda-monium]: *raises eyebrow* You should get that checked

2006-03-15 [Byne]: -Pauses her flailing.- Get wha?

2006-03-15 [Panda-monium]: *shakes head* Never mind

2006-03-16 [Byne]: -Shrugs and then streches and resumes her flailing.-

2006-03-16 [Panda-monium]: *stays at a safe distance and watches*

2006-03-16 [Byne]: -Pauses to strech again then begins to run in circles.-

2006-03-16 [Panda-monium]: *runs in circles with*

2006-03-20 [Byne]: -Streches and then continues to run.- I be getting dizzy!

2006-03-20 [Panda-monium]: Ack, *pokes banner contest*

2006-03-20 [Byne]: I'd love to enter a banner. One problemo. My laptop is DEAD. -Nods.-

2006-03-21 [Panda-monium]: Ack

2006-03-21 [Byne]: It was fixed! Only problem now is I'm working on a massive history paper... e.e;;

2006-03-21 [Panda-monium]: No problem.

2006-03-21 [Byne]: I do have an ubber crudy one up in my house, though.

2006-03-22 [Panda-monium]: I saw :P

2006-03-22 [Byne]: So you agree with me, eh?

2006-03-22 [Panda-monium]: I like it.

2006-03-22 [Byne]: I should make a new one!

2006-03-22 [Panda-monium]: hehe

2006-03-22 [Byne]: Hmm....-Shuffles off to do so.-

2006-03-22 [Panda-monium]: Awesome, have fun.

2006-03-22 [Byne]: I'll try.

2006-03-26 [Panda-monium]: hehe, gooden

2006-03-28 [Byne]: :3

2006-03-28 [Panda-monium]: Sorry, me and my made up words again.

2006-03-28 [Byne]: At least you make up words. I make up sounds. :3

2006-03-29 [Panda-monium]: I do that too >.<

2006-03-30 [Byne]: Sweet! -High fives.- I'm dsylexic? I mix my words and vowels and such up.

2006-03-30 [Panda-monium]: I'm not, I am just insane >.<

2006-04-01 [Byne]: I'm that too!

2006-04-01 [Panda-monium]: hehe

2006-04-02 [Byne]: :3

2006-04-02 [Panda-monium]: Sound of music is a weird movie

2006-04-02 [Charybdis]: :O! I loved that movie when I was little, even though I only figured out the ending when I was ten x)

2006-04-07 [Byne]: I..Sorta remember watching that movie.. I always loved Lion King and The Land Before time. X3

2006-04-07 [Charybdis]: Omg! The Land Before Time! I'd completely forgotten about that movie xD My brother and I must have watched it a million times... that and Mary Poppins. We knew the songs by heart by the time we were about four :P Kids' movies are awesome! ^^

2006-04-07 [~Brigid~]: The Great Mouse Detective, Sleeping Beauty, and The Rescuers Down Under are awesome!

2006-04-09 [Byne]: The rescuers Down Under rocked! The fox and the hound was awesome as well.

2006-04-09 [Charybdis]: When I was really little, we watched Bambi so many times that our first video broke, and we had to get another one :P

2006-04-09 [Byne]: XD Niiiiiccceeee

2006-04-24 [Panda-monium]: I liked the second Bambi, even if it was a little kiddish. What do you guys think? A little better now with the dividers and such?

2006-04-26 [Byne]: Yes yes. Muh nicer. >:3

2006-04-26 [Panda-monium]: Alright, well the banner at the top is only a temporary one until the banner contest gets going...if it gets going

2006-04-27 [Byne]: I...either need to get my are into serious gear...Or I ain't gonna beable to get no banners up. ;x

2006-04-27 [Panda-monium]: serious gear :P

2006-04-27 [Charybdis]: *whistles* >>;

2006-04-27 [Byne]: I can try....

2006-05-26 [~Brigid~]: So...this has kinda died down. Anyone up to anything interesting lately? I was in Europe for 3 weeks. I wish I was back there. It just keeps raining and raining here. Oi. It was so lovely in Europe!

2006-05-26 [Charybdis]: Whereabouts in Europe? :)

2006-05-26 [~Brigid~]: I was in Italy for 2 weeks and Austria for 1. I also visited Germany (the airport).

2006-05-29 [Byne]: I'm cramming for exams... Yay! IGH NO! ASHAHA -Goes insane.-

2006-05-29 [~Brigid~]: I *hate* exams with a passion!

2006-05-29 [Charybdis]: *intones in a deep, philosophical voice* This too shall pass...     though that's hardly consolation at the moment, I know :P How many do you have left until you're done?

2006-05-31 [Byne]: I have two exmas firday, one monday and one thursday.

2006-05-31 [Asrun]: hahhaa.. I've been done school for over a month. :3 Too bad it's university. >.>;

2006-05-31 [Charybdis]: Two weeks past for me ^^ Good luck with your exams!

2006-05-31 [Blaithin]: The first part of my exam is in two weeks, the second part a week after that.

2006-05-31 [Panda-monium]: I went to Anime North, which was really awesome. And I have exams coming up soon as well. >.<

2006-06-01 [Byne]: I had a soccer tournament so I couldn't go.

2006-06-01 [Panda-monium]: Awe *hugs* Sorry to hear that

2006-06-01 [Kéioko Matsukaze]: Yea, I had something with cadets so I couldn't go either. I'm going next year though, and I'm cosplaying! Woot!

2006-06-02 [Panda-monium]: My girlfriend cosplayed. Everyone kept taking her picture, it was really cute. Though I think she started to get a big head by the end of it. It's good though, it's nice to see her having confidence. Anyways, anime north was awesome, I had a good time, and it was my first one. I definitely plan on going back next year.

2006-06-02 [Kéioko Matsukaze]: What did she cosplay as?

2006-06-03 [Panda-monium]: um...person with pink hair from gravitation

2006-06-04 [Kéioko Matsukaze]: Whaaa!! Shuichi Shondou!! She didn't go with a blonde did she?

2006-06-05 [Panda-monium]: No, I wouldn't dress up. So no Yuki. <---I think that's the name

2006-06-05 [Dil*]: Oi, I hear Harper wants to do a re-vote on gay marriage. If they disallow gay marriage I'm going out to fucking protest.

2006-06-05 [Panda-monium]: Yeah, AND he is revoking the Kyoto Accord.

2006-06-05 [Kéioko Matsukaze]: yup, its Yuki. Hehe. And yes Dil, I'll join you in protest. Yunno all those people who make issues such as those are practically homophobes eh?

2006-06-05 [Dil*]: I knew it was a bad idea voting those damned conservatives in.

2006-06-05 [Panda-monium]: Well, you can't blame people for being homophobic, society makes them that way. I myself am homophobic. You can only blame people or remaining ignorant and not keeping an open mind. I try really hard not to be ignorant, even though I was brainwashed as a child.

2006-06-05 [Dil*]: ..you prefer same sex though...o.o (I'm such a freaking leftist, I get so pissed with shit like this..)

2006-06-05 [Kéioko Matsukaze]: Awww

2006-06-05 [Panda-monium]: Yeah, I know. I'm a homophobic lesbian. >.< And Christian to top it off. You won't find a more controversial person. It makes decision making, on my views and opinions quite difficult.

2006-06-06 [Kéioko Matsukaze]: Wow. That sucks.

2006-06-06 [Panda-monium]: Nah, it's alright. It helps me be a more open minded individual, since I see and understand a lot of different view points. Kind of more in the centre, than far left or right, though I'd say I'm more left.

2006-06-06 [Dil*]: That's cracked! wow, you're more controversial than me almost. <3 I support the voluntary human extinction movement and I'm in a human rights group. I hate the human race as a whole, but I dislike the idea of torture, so therefore I'm in a human rights group.

2006-06-06 [Byne]: I.....Think the Harper is damned STUPID to revoke the Kyoto Pro. And he's technically taking away like.. a human right if he says we can no longer have same-sex marriges. You can't just go and take something like that away after its just been given to them. ><

2006-06-06 [Panda-monium]: heh, yeah, did I mention I'm a pro-choice pro-lifer?

2006-06-06 [Dil*]: I'm vehemently pro-choice. rawr.

2006-06-06 [Panda-monium]: Well I personally am pro-life. I believe it's wrong, but I also believe it's wrong to push my beliefs onto others, so 'm pro-choice.

2006-06-06 [Dil*]: I don't entirely disagree with you, morally, it is incorrect to have an abortion, but it's even more wrong to stop people from having one.

2006-06-06 [Panda-monium]: Yes. And I feel it's more important that a scared teenage girl has a place to go, rather than trying to do it in her bathroom with a clothes hangar

2006-06-06 [Panda-monium]: Sorry Tainted, I didn't see your post before. I agree, if he tries to run a vote against gay marriage, he'll be shot down by other parties, and probably remove any chance he has of being re-elected. Especially after the revoking of the Kyoto Accord.

2006-06-06 [Byne]: -Nods.- I'm also pro-life...But yur sexuality isn't a choice. You're born the way you are, and you can't change that. I think its unfair to discriminate against people who are just as human as we are. I'm Catholic as well, and it upsets me to hear my preist ranting on about how gay marriage should be banned. God made each and everyone of us, yes?

2006-06-06 [Panda-monium]: Yeah, I don't think I chose to be gay, considering I was gay before I knew what a lesbian was. You can not tell me at ten years of age, I decided I was going to be attracted to women. It's ridiculous.

2006-06-06 [sophomoric]: I don't think anyone chooses to do anything, and with such a hard determinist philosophy in mind, I don't think that any actions should be granted such a stigma unless they somehow negatively impact society, or even just another person. Whether it was purely a genetic cause or if environment played a role in your development as an individual with a preference for the same sex, in either case it was a cause that can't be argued to be within your control. Even if you don't agree with hard determinism, it's difficult to disagree with empirical evidence in support of this particular view of same sex attractions.

2006-06-06 [Panda-monium]: I'd say I agree, but that sounds slightly unintelligent.

2006-06-06 [sophomoric]: My statement sounds slightly unintelligent?

2006-06-06 [Panda-monium]: No no, me saying I agree does.

2006-06-06 [Byne]: I feel unintelligent after reading that statement. Gosh. >< Talk abouts wordsy. :P  ANYWHO....I got mad at a friend who thought that it was a choice and that someone's sexuality could be changed if they chose to....Yeah....Then again...She also felt sorry for Hitler...oO;

2006-06-06 [Dil*]: I don't really believe in free will, but I believe in the illusion of it, and the uses of such a mental construct.

2006-06-06 [Byne]: -Yawns then winces and rubs her jaw.- I...Feel really young and naive(sp?) despite the fact that I've seen a hell'of a lot more of the world than many adults, and have seen things that they only see on ads on the Tv, like child hunger and starvaaattiiiooonnn...I really am just..Young..and inexperianced and...Ignorant in many ways I geuss. -Ponders.-

2006-06-06 [Panda-monium]: I believe in freewill, but as shakespeare said "There's a divinity that shapes our ends, rough hew them how we will" I could be paraphrasing there, but I think I have it right.

2006-06-06 [sophomoric]: I certainly see no harm if one believes in free will, and that certainly provides an amount of hope. I personally just cannot believe in it anymore, but that's mostly due to certain experiences.

2006-06-06 [Panda-monium]: I believe what happens in the end is not for us to decide, but how we get there is.

2006-06-06 [sophomoric]: I'm stereotypical in being an atheist hard determinist.

2006-06-06 [Panda-monium]: I can understand that. I have to believe in something, it's just who I am. I have to believe there is something greater watching over all of us, and that there is some purpose to all this, or else...what's the point? I don't need the comfort of Heaven to help me through this life. But I need the comfort that it's worth something, that there's a point. That there is going to be someone to look after those I love when I am gone. It probably sounds really naive and shows my big bleeding heart. But that's the way it is for me. Even if it's silly.

2006-06-06 [sophomoric]: Given human nature, I think that very logical, and even common. Due to my lack of a belief in something greater, I ideally wish for a world that can replace such. A world that takes care of itself and its own. Not just humans, but nature as well. If we used nature in a renewable fashion and didn't allow money to be the final deciding factor in who got to have how much of what, I think we'd be closer to a better place.

2006-06-06 [Panda-monium]: You won't have me argueing with that. There is so much in the world, we turn a blind eye to, simply because it is too inconvient to fix. Rwanda for instance, is a good example of that. They refused to call it genocide so that they didn't have to help. They're practically doing the same thing in Darfur now. It's actually really sad that we never learn from our mistakes.

2006-06-06 [sophomoric]: It's not so much sad that we never learn from our mistakes as it is that we refuse to.

2006-06-06 [Panda-monium]: I don't know about that, I think we try to learn from our mistakes, but it doesn't seem to work.

2006-06-06 [sophomoric]: Well, I can't think of a single individual who would want to ignore stuff like people starving and genocide, but I believe that as a collective whole we're subject to a sort of grandiose bystander effect which basically makes us believe that something should be done, but that the something consists of entities beyond ourselves. It's the concept that one individual alone can't make a difference (opinion).

2006-06-06 [Panda-monium]: I believe they can. Like Ghandi, sorry, he's my hero. Anyways, I understand what your saying I think. Kind of like the "Not my problem" syndrome.

2006-06-06 [sophomoric]: I'm actually saying that a single person can make a difference; most people don't accept it. Everyone, including Ghandi, has their flaws, though.

2006-06-06 [Panda-monium]: Oh, obviously. He wouldn't be my hero if he was perfect.

2006-06-06 [Charybdis]: People like Ghandi don't come along every day, though, and we can't depend on one to appear whenever a crisis arises. Individuals can make differences, but we'd get a lot more done if we acted as a whole more often.

2006-06-06 [Panda-monium]: But sometimes it takes an individual to stir the masses. It's the pack mentality. If everyone is doing nothing, I should do nothing to. Change can only happen when individuals, differ from the pack.

2006-06-06 [Dil*]: I'm in a human rights group, and every single meeting I get more and more disallusioned. Partially because no one shows up, and partially because my friends say they will and never do. Or they show up once and never come back. It just seems nobody cares and it's depressing.

2006-06-06 [Panda-monium]: Understandably

2006-06-07 [Panda-monium]: Just a reminder we have a new Opinion polls

2006-06-07 [Byne]: I live in a little bubble that very little goes wrong in. I get really annoyed, as does my mum at the attitude of the people living here. The girls at my school annoy me to no end all the time, with their whining and complaining on not having the latest iPod and such things. And I got even more annoyed in our Civics class, because over half of them know nothing of what is going on in the world around them. Absolutly nothing, and they don't care either. ><

2006-06-07 [Panda-monium]: I know, it drives me insane. The absolute abundance of indifference.

2006-06-07 [Heathglen]: I'm sure that everyone *wants* to help. Myself included. But the part I have the difficults with it is in the ways open for me to help. My school had a human rights group and no, I never went. Why? Was I because I didn't care about human rights? No. It's because they where there just to collect money. I hate just giving money. Besides the fact that I never have any to give, It not something I find statisfying. I want to be the one standing in the back of a big truck handing out supplies. I want to physicaly build something. But I can't. I can affort to get off work and fly to some war torn country. How can I look after someone else if I can't look after myself?

2006-06-07 [Heathglen]: I think that's the major mentality of people. Wheather they relize it or not. Everyone has to look out for themselfs first be for they can help another.  Wheather it's moral or not, I don't know. It's just the way it is right now.

2006-06-07 [sophomoric]: I personally think that it's that responsibility to make problems good again is spread out across the entire population, someone expects that someone else is going to solve the problem. It's not that they are indifferent at all.

2006-06-07 [Dil*]: what? What kind of human rights group would just expect one to go to give money? I have never heard of one like that, what we do, is buy stuff, make cookies and sell them for profit, then donate the money to amnesty international.

2006-06-07 [Panda-monium]: Our school has that. I can't be part of it, because I'm a member of SPEAK and they meet on the same day, but they make the best cookies in the world, and I always buy around ten of them. >.<

2006-06-07 [Heathglen]: Sorry, I didn't explain. What they did is raise money. Mostly they went around collecting peoples spare change at lunch. If you ask me, they would do better to be down at the homeless shelter serving meals or helping with Habitat for Humanity. But what do I know? I've never been part of a group like that. (Not that I haven't done service projects.They usually have to do with the eviroment)

2006-06-08 [Dil*]: There's a big difference between homeless people downtown and child soldiers in Africa.

2006-06-09 [Heathglen]: Yes I know. I'm just saying that I personaliy would rather do something phsyical rather then just give money.

2006-06-09 [Byne]: My old school when I lived in Chile was big, private and had a lot fo money. What they did is they adopted a orphanage, basically..Paid for the food and schooling and everything for the kids in that orphanage. I think more big influencial schools her ein Canada should do things like that if they can.

2006-06-10 [Dil*]: Raising money is physical. One doesn't keep the money.

2006-06-10 [Byne]: I know that. But...I still think what my old school did there was great. ^^;

2006-06-10 [Dil*]: eh? It sure was, nobody is disputing that :P

2006-06-10 [Byne]: -Dances around a bit.- I'm thinking on going on a service project to the Dominican Republic.

2006-06-10 [Charybdis]: Lucky! o_o

2006-06-10 [Byne]: I dunno if I am ro not though.

2006-06-11 [Heathglen]: sorry? Say that again.

2006-06-11 [Panda-monium]: she said, I don't know if I am or not though

2006-06-12 [Byne]: Sorry for the typos. oO;

2006-06-12 [Panda-monium]: Not a big deal. :P

2006-06-12 [Byne]: My laptop, goes bye bye today. v.v

2006-06-12 [Heathglen]: Why? Does it belong to your school or something?

2006-06-12 [Charybdis]: If it's the same laptop initiative as I was in, then yes, you have to give them back for the summer. When you return in the fall, you'll get it back (though I don't know if it's the same machine, since I was in the pilot group and only had it in my last year.) What do you think of them? Do you find them useful?

2006-06-12 [Byne]: We normally get 'em through the summer, but we get new ones next year. We rent them frmo the school, but we can buy them at the end of the year if we want to. I do find them useful, because my notes are so much neater and organized, and its just awesome. >:3

2006-06-12 [Charybdis]: Okay, it's not the same as mine then. We weren't charged anything - well, except for a kind of insurance fee - but it wasn't a renting thing at all. And we couldn't buy them, since they were going to be borrowed by other students the year after. They are useful for note-taking, but I found the annoyance outweighed the usefulness in many cases >< Maybe it was just that people were careless, but a laptop that's been carried around by students for a couple of years of steady use is pretty beat-up looking when it comes out the other end. Not to mention theft, technical problems, and the fact that the students knew how to use them better than the teachers did, which caused a few problems.. gah :/

2006-06-13 [Byne]: Not so at my school. We get fined bigtime for an screw ups with the computer. There are pretty strict rules about the laptops, and there are programs and firewalls that the school uses to ban things like hotmail and MSN and the likes.

2006-06-13 [Charybdis]: Really? I wish the admin here were as strict. I was talking to someone who works at my old school last night, and apparently the whole thing has turned into a fiasco. -_- Makes me ashamed of my old high school... the principal has turned out to be a wacko, all the new teachers are idiots, and the old ones, the good experienced ones who know what they're doing, are growing disillusioned and tired. -_- Some of the things that are happening... I was appalled.

2006-06-13 [Heathglen]: My school use to have those programs ona firewalls on all the PC's. It sucked because you would be randomly searching something, like polar bears or whatever, and it would suddenly come up with 'this site is forbidden'. Now what could possably be forbidden about polarbears? I don't know, but it would drive everyone crazy! Oh, and just try and find anything out on anatomy!

2006-06-13 [Charybdis]: I can imagine! xD

2006-06-14 [Byne]: Our firewalls just block certain websites. We also have a program that tracks every single thing you do on your computer, so if you do anything wrong the techies and have like...screenshots to prove that you were guilty. If you are caught breaking the rules concerning the laptops, then you get a call home, a warning...Or if you are caught a second time, a call home, and internet suspended from your laptop. However, if your offense is sever, or its your 3rd or 4th offense, they'll take it away.

2006-06-14 [Heathglen]: You can bet that I would take that as a challenge. whahaha...

2006-06-15 [Byne]: I had my internet taken away for two weeks for being on AIM during school hours...Not fun. ><

2006-06-15 [Heathglen]: did they at least let you print off all your notes and stuff before hand?

2006-06-16 [Byne]: Nope. I still had my laptop, just no internet. So my notes were unaffected.

2006-06-16 [Heathglen]: Well that's not so bad then.

2006-06-16 [Byne]: Naw...But fighting with my brother over the internet cable was. e.o

2006-06-20 [Blaithin]: If anyone is interested take a look at History of Canada. It's not finished yet but I need students to get it accepted at the Elftown Academy which is my goal.

2006-06-21 [Byne]: Cooooooool.

2006-06-21 [Panda-monium]: That's what I thought.

2006-06-22 [Byne]: I am so gonna add to that. >:3

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