Well, I have lived several years in Asia and I must admit that I find now easier and more convenient to use chopsticks than fork for many dishes. However, for a steak you will always need fork and knife. The do give you fork and knife when you go to western style restaurants.

The main point, I guess, is that Asians tend to serve food which can be easily grabbed with chopsticks. Even dishes like pork cutlets are cut from the kitchen so you don't need to use anything but chopsticks.

I also believe that chopsticks often allow better control over the food you are grabbing, as you do not depend on carving it. So it is not true that forks are superior tools. Of course, you need to gain a certain expertise first (not 5 minutes)
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Right, a gun is a tool. A tool made for killing people (yeah, these ones are not for hunting deers). Using it for shooting at cars that you know are empty doesn't change the fact that a gun is made for killing.

So, you are expecting a 7 year old to be responsible. You are also expecting a 7 year old to understand the thin line between shooting guns for "fun" and shooting them for what they are supposed to be for.

As for the culture comment, I wonder where do you get those stats from. Last time I checked, back in Europe the crime rate is well below the one in US. And there are no gun shops where I can buy guns to "protect myself"

As my friend just told me when I shared the link of this post with him: "That is how they train their kids to shoot their friends at school. Anyway, they need people to fight in Iraq. They'd better enlist in the army"

If you who read this don't see some truth in what my friend said, then the so called "American culture" already claimed your rational mind.

The coffee stains are just lovely. Are those cigarette burns?

I wonder if people that talk about RFID have ever tried to actually read RFID tags with normal (commercial)readers. I can say by experience that current passive RFID tags' read success depends a lot on the environment. If you have, say, your RFID enabled passport on your pocket, unless somebody uses a pretty potent antenna in the right orientation or puts the antenna very close to your pocket, that tag won't probably be read successfully (and writing is even harder). I say this because it seems that people think that if you carry your passport (or other RFID-enable stuff) around anybody can pretty much read its information with not much effort, and that's simply not the case. However, I do agree that for this particular type of application other technologies (such as contact memory) are more suitable to avoid security problems.