Personal pics

I think its gonna be cool if everybody on this forum posts his/her personal pics  ..

I'm gonna start .. here u are :

sheesh...you guys are all way too handsome.  I'd put a pic up of me but it might crack the glass on your monitors.

Looks is for the youth...brains for the rest of us....

M

LOL, I'm a freshman in one of the top highschools in the country (private school, sooooo expensive and soooo many ahtletes and geniuies) and I'm on the debate team which means that I know quite some about politics and its a HUGE part of debate.

I dont find any problem with Young Moderators. In fact, its a great challenge for them on how to handle such tough task. Its a fact that we cannot please everybody and the welfare of the majority always run supreme..

One thing, it is Alex Li's prerogative in choosing moderators here.

For those who can't agree for a moderator that is less his age, there's only one reminder that I could give: Being a member in this site is NOT a RIGHT but a PRIVILEGE. If you can't take their system/policy, you have the OPTION not to Enter this site.

BTW, I'm an Admin. My fellow Admins are 20 yrs older than me. But they and our fellow members (young and old) didnt find any problem with my judgment. As I've said, we cannot please everybody.

Since these kids havent earn any diploma yet, date a girl or gave birth to a baby, does it mean that they are not allowed to voice out their opinions about anything? Is there a law or rule that when you voice out ur opinion, you must be a diploma holder or at least married or of legal age?

By implication, then it is safe to ask and say: "Are there craters in the Moon"?If yes, Why you said so?Have you been to the Moon lately?

Leoneidy, I like your post because it shows how much hard work goes into becoming a man.  At the same time though, you aren't giving the kids enough credit. 

I'm 36 (as of yesterday in fact); an interesting age because this is when you stop acting like a kid but in fact you still remember what it was like.  I also went to some good schools, in fact my high school was an all-boys private school where a large portion of the kids went on to the IVY league, we had suits and ties for uniforms, (and blazers on Friday Whoo Hoo!).  I know I've been incredibly bright since a very young age, was asked to skip grades and the whole rest of it.  And yet I can tell you with certainty that I was much more able to learn something new back then than now.  Back then I could take in a lecture and it would be instantly stored in the permanent memory banks.  Now, to learn something new I have to work twice as hard.  But that's age.  Friends of mine at similar age have also reported similar things- that it's harder to learn and retain as you get older. 

Typically what the older people have that the kids don't have is like you said experience, but also historically we have more self-control and more ability to sacrifice.  But lately, some of the kids are benefiting from some good parenting and they come of age already possessing some good self-control and self-sacrifice; plus the before-mentioned mental powers that all of them naturally have.  I live in AZ, and trust me there's plenty of worthless 45 year olds; drunken idiots that cannot program the VCR let alone write papers or learn math.  That some of them may have even managed to get themselves pregnant 3 times by 3 different men doesn't qualify them in my mind as having some fantastic experience that makes them better than the kids here; unless living in a trailer park and collecting welfare for your illegitimate kids makes you "smart."  If this is so then I guess Harvard better watch out when the Jerry Springer show comes to town, at least by your reasoning. 

Oh, sorry about getting off the topic but that's o.k. I think forum threads need to go where they want to go and not be harrassed or coralled by those who would prefer a neater cleaner thread.  I imagine the same folks who sceam that this is off-topic spend a lot of time making sure that every pencil is sharp and properly aligned on their desk, and that the corners of every piece of paper are perfectly parallel with each other, etc.  Please seek help. 

Marco

I agree. Kids shouldn't have opinions. I actually don't think people should be allowed to have opinions until they're 50. They should sit silently and let the big kids do the thinking. How many ways does this post contradict itself?

leoniedy, while always vouchable that adults have gained experience overtime, the revolutions from the modern era have created information more readily available to people everywhere, anywhere, and of any age. This has made today's youth not only more informed than any other youth in history, but also more aware than many adults of how comparative governments work, since their minds are more open and receptive to new thoughts. As Oscar Wilde said in Dorian Gray, "I only talk to the youth. The aged's minds are stale with aged ideas"

leoniedy, you say that us kids shouldnt have a real opinion in politics. Well isnt our real opinion in policitics that makes us want to become a president or governor to make the world a better place. If us kids didnt have a real opinion in politics, dont you think that my generation would be very messed becasue no one has a political opinion on anything, no one would know the bad effects and good effects of war and critique it. No one would critique an advantage or disadvantage to an act. That is important. I think that the one problem with kids is that they act like to know more than they do. I'll admit that I dont have a "true" opinion about politics but I do know a little bit to have an opinion but perhaps not one that I will stick with for life. The one who started the democrats problem thread is proof of a childish action that only a kid would do. None of us teen mods would do anything like that. For example, the muslims thread was obvoisly not a great thread to be kept open whereas some adults if they were mods might have cared less about people getting offended and might not have closed it. Let the adults do the moderating? What makes the adults more qualified then us kids and I dont mean us kids in general, I mean the us group of mods, what makes you or any other adult more qualified than us? Unless you can back that up I dont even see the point in what you are trying to say. And if there is anything wrong with a mod's moderating, you can PM that person and complain to them. If no one is complaining that anything is wrong then us mods are doing a good job.