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There's a lot of lip-service being paid to 'zero tolerance'... I haven't seen any actions.

"Zero tolerance" policies only serve to extend bullying. Practically speaking, there is intrinsically a huge amount of leeway granted to teachers and administrators to who is subjected to 'zero tolerance' policies under which circumstances. A black kid is suspended for waving to the camera in a photo. A girl is strip searched and suspended for allegedly sharing over-the-counter medication. A girl takes a razor from another student threatening self-harm and throws it directly in the trash and she gets suspended (and recommended for expulsion) for having a weapon when she reports the incident to the teachers. I guaran-fucking-tee you that if that girl had been rich and white and popular the school would have never tried to punish her. People are punished because they are disliked, punished because they are weak, and then ultimately punished for being punished.

I could list these stories all day long. Zero tolerance is just an excuse for administrators to come up with ridiculous bullshit charges against vulnerable students and then claim that their "hands are tied" to deflect public backlash. The reason the teachers and principle lost their shit during recording incident is because it exposed their complicity with bullying.

I hope this kid learned his lesson. Next time, don't go the teachers, don't go to your parents, go to YouTube. Make that shit go viral. And when they inevitably try to punish you just lie. You don't know who recorded the incident, you don't know where the video came from, you don't know who uploaded it, it probably the kids who have been relentlessly bullying you uploaded it so they could mock you online but you don't know. Stick to your guns no matter what.

I'm sorry kid. I wish I could recommend a course of action that didn't require you to lie. I wish I knew a morally pristine way to protect yourself, but the fact is that there isn't one. That's just the nature of the world you live in.

What happens today when a person winds up under a car because of a human driver error?

But, Daniel Phillips, probably that time you raped a child was the worst.

http://www.wavy.com/dpp/news/local_news/Norfolk-police-find-rape-suspect-in-Iraq

Atlanta? Try Norfolk, Virginia! That place gets shut down in a dusting!

"Those adaptations do not seem to have much if any influence on the mental abilities of people however."

This is, once all the claptrap is cleared away, the major sticking point.

In virtually all forms of intelligence testing, significant differences between various ethnic groups are detected, that are steady over time. (This is the reason we get a steady flow of these kinds of stories.

Also, we are starting to find stuff like geographically determined differences in brain development genes. Hence, I wouldn't be so sure about your assertion.

Of course, lots of other people have sort of sensed this would be the case, and hence many have felt comfortable with propping up the assertion that evolution made an exception for humans starting 50 000 years ago or so, without much supporting evidence. Now that bulwark is slowly starting to give way...

The Five Finger Discount.

I know a lot of places tend to lock up easily boostable/valuable parts, but as long as you don't make the same mistakes http://www.wavy.com/Global/story.asp?S=3479439&nav =23iib4rQ that guy did, you should be fine ^_-

The same day the Senate was holding a meeting on this in the Dirkson Building (and C-Span was headlining it), Drudge coincidentally was running a story about a 13-year-old boy seemingly reenacting some of those videogames in real life.

We don't need human kind to kill us all off. Mother Nature will do fine on its own given enough time. The fish fiction is just a small sample of natures own reality. Stateside we are trying our hardest to control an ever spreading population of Snake head fish. I love this quote in which we just close our eyes and pray it all goes away ...

"Experts fear the snakehead, with its voracious appetite, could destroy the river's ecosystem if left to breed unchecked. One fear is that the river's smallmouth bass population could be decimated.
"They're a top predator, the top of the food chain," Kauffman said. "We hope they disappear. We don't want to have to manage them." " Article Here

I wonder if you can make bread from fish?