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Re: Nice try, kid ...

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(for i 1 500 (prn "I will not throw paper airplanes in class.")) Although, I assume the kid forgot the \n in his printf.

"prn"? Ick. Looks like 'porn'! Why not print, or put, or puts or out or just "p"?

?"For the win."

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Should have wrote it in Python to save a few lines :) for x in range(500): print 'I will not throw paper airplanes in class.' Or perhaps Arc!

or ruby (0..500).each {|i| print "I will not throw paper airplanes in class\n"}

500.times {print "I will not throw paper airplanes in class \n"}

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or ruby (0..500).each {|i| print "I will not throw paper airplanes in class\n"}

500.times {print "I will not throw paper airplanes in class \n"}

500.times {puts "I will not throw paper airplanes in class"}

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Matrix printers?

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I'm pretty sure the people in the Matrix will be confused when every printer in the world starts printing out "I will not throw paper airplanes in class." ... Of course, then the agents will reset the system and everyone will just experience deja vu.

Re: Nice try, kid ...

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I actually did something similar when I was in middle school. The teacher wanted everyone in the class to write something like that 500 times and turn it in the next day. I went home and ran the following program on my Apple IIe: 10 FOR X = 1 TO 500 20 ?"I will behave myself in class" 30 NEXT X PR# 2 RUN With the printer plugged into slot 2 on the machine, this sent the output of the program to the printer. Needless…

In retrospect I wonder why we did what the teachers told us. Mostly.

We were trained to obey with the eventual consequences of insubordination being suspension or expulsion.

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In retrospect I wonder why we did what the teachers told us. Mostly.

We were trained to obey with the eventual consequences of insubordination being suspension or expulsion.

I have a friend who was suspended from high-school for (indirectly) refusing to do a word puzzle. His stated reason is that he doesn't like word puzzles. When he was asked to leave the room for failing to follow instructions, he refused. The punishments escalated and he refused each one on the basis that it was overblown punishment for refusing to do a word puzzle. Eventually he reluctantly agreed to a week's suspension because the only worse punishment available was expulsion.

He still carps on about being suspended for a week for refusing to do a word puzzle.

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We were trained to obey with the eventual consequences of insubordination being suspension or expulsion.

I have a friend who was suspended from high-school for (indirectly) refusing to do a word puzzle. His stated reason is that he doesn't like word puzzles. When he was asked to leave the room for failing to follow instructions, he refused. The punishments escalated and he refused each one on the basis that it was overblown punishment for refusing to do a word puzzle. Eventually he reluctantly agreed to a week's suspens…

What is so bad about suspension? He would have more time to do something that is fun when he is not in school.

Re: Nice try, kid ...

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

I have a friend who was suspended from high-school for (indirectly) refusing to do a word puzzle. His stated reason is that he doesn't like word puzzles. When he was asked to leave the room for failing to follow instructions, he refused. The punishments escalated and he refused each one on the basis that it was overblown punishment for refusing to do a word puzzle. Eventually he reluctantly agreed to a week's suspens…

What is so bad about suspension? He would have more time to do something that is fun when he is not in school.

College applications ask if you were ever suspended from school.
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