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  1. ONLY IN OHIO!!!! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on Felony For Refreshing a Web Page?

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    It's a no-brainer how a teen can be charged with a crime just for telling his friends to "refresh the page"...

    I think it's time for me to move...

  2. For the Greater Good? by josh3736 · · Score: 2, Informative · on School Internet Program Audit Shows Fraud and Waste
    (This will most likely be lost in the sea of comments, but here I go anyways...)

    The problems is, you're taxing people in other areas to pay for your school's facilities. Schools are, and should be, local entities. If the local taxpayers don't want to spend the money to maintain the infrastructure, then why should you and I, who don't even benefit?

    Because you've done something for the greater good? And that's the problem, no one wants to do good unless they see a way that they will somehow benefit from it.

    And on the note of local funding -- no one wants to fund their local schools anyways, especially in the areas this program is targeted to. You go into a poorer area and say "Hey, we are going to raise taxes to pay for schools!" ...duck because there's gonna be a shitstorm.

    You say, "If the local taxpayers don't want to spend the money to maintain the infrastructure, then why should you and I, who don't even benefit?"

    The local taxpayers say, "If the taxpayers who actually have kids in the schools don't want to spend the money to maintain the infrastructure, then why should you and I, who don't even benefit?"

    And then the people with kids in school say, "I just can't afford it, and besides, isn't everyone supposed to help pay for the schools?"

    On a side note, here in Ohio, it was recently ruled unconstitutional to support schools exclusively through property taxes. Problem is, that's the only place districts really have to get money. The state funding system is entirely fucked up. Not only has the state bugeted money to districts, then taken half of the money away halfway through the year, but the entire funding system has been ruled unconstitutional no less than FOUR times! (The CNN page says 3, but that is from 2002.)

    I wish that if I was doing something unconstitutional, even after being ruled against four times, I could keep doing it without consequence!

    Fuckwit politicians.