[Ken Leung]

OK people. Let's just settle this with a classic Drinks on me on Friday night. I will buy each of you in this thread a drink when I see you at competition.

Oh wait, I forgot poor college students cannot afford drinks for 200 people. ^^; I guess I just won't show up to any this year then.

All jokes aside, I want to thank all of you for your thoughts in the posts (especially the last one by phrozen solyd, even I have to bow down to the length of that post).

I have been chating with another moderator about this, and we are both concerned that this will turn into another flaming war like many other threads in the past. Originally I keep this open hopping people can have an intelligent, open discussion about this touchy issue. So far 90% of the posts are doing that, which is good. But we DO NOT want to see any more negative attitudes show up in this thread.

We've allowed a chance for both side to state their points. We ask that you maintain this level of quality in your future message if you want to discuss the issue further. Accusations and claims without evidences are not welcomed to this forum. Any point you are going to make please back it up with justification.

A big part of this discussion exist in the form of a debate. But that doesn't mean you should try to break each other's defense and tear their argument apart. Sometimes you just have to agree to disagree.

Let us keep our cool, and enjoy this program as much as possible. I have faith that all of you will make it all right again.

Also, it would be nice if off topic chats are kept in the form of PMs or e-mails. It's nice to talk about microwave and toasters, but I think we can do without them. Thanks :-).