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My friend got banned from the library today
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Re: My friend got banned from the library today

Fire Elf Wrote:School libraries never have anything good anyways. Except maybe internet access, but it's usually contaminated with censorwares, keyloggers, and all that other stuff.
Mine has actually pretty good books. It's quite small (one tiny room), but the books are mostly good.

What kinda pisses me off is that there's only one encyclopedia, Britannica. I don't know what idiot decided to buy an English-language encyclopedia for a Czech school... While the more advanced older students can use it with few problems, one third of the first years don't know a word of English.

Another advantage is that most of the textbooks are there. So if I forget my textbook, I borrow it from the library, and then don't get yelled at in class.

There's no internet access though, we have a computer lab for that. The computer lab is available all day to students who don't have class (though it's sometimes crowded, I can't always get on a computer when I want). There's no censoring software (they just block your account if they catch you doing something they don't like), and there's AVG which should guard against most spyware (though I still don't use school computers to log in to any important accounts, I just don't trust them that much).

Don't take life so seriously, it isn't permanent.
03-17-2008 02:21 AM
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