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This is the same high school that apparently could afford to have the prom at Fenway Park...

If it's the latter, then _any_ substitution of the word still implies the word and carries the negative connotation along with it.

On that note, the word "meep" got banned in schools in Danvers, Massachusetts. Apparently enough kids were using it in situations where it could be a naughty word, so the principle banned it.

From the article I linked:

WBZ tried to contact principal Murray to find out more about why he banned the word, but we did not hear back from him. ... WBZ also reached out to the school commitee[sic], the town administrator, and the superintendent of schools for comments, but all have refused.

I guess no one wants to admit how retarded that is.

Paint that eats asphalt? Please, paint did not let the asphalt breathe and soak in water, which caused in issues in the winter. Should they have known that? Yes, but apparently it's a new technology. If they didn't use it, you would've been complaining that Taxachusetts is still using decades-old paint technology, instead of this newfangled thermoplastic paint that's working so great in Texas.

http://wbztv.com/curious/white.paint.lines.2.1021788.html

So yeah, now they will have to repave Rt 24 earlier than scheduled (and it was already scheduled for repaving).

Somehow, I figured lonely slashdotters would be more interested in this article: Using Stem Cells for Breast Enhancement

... which frankly, strikes me as dangerous. If they're replicating stem cells from people who are already at high risk of breast cancer, doesn't that increase it even more (more generations == shorter telomeres)?

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1) http://wbztv.com/politics/jonkeller/john.kerry.vice.2.796143.html

Hey, look! A guy with a blog spouted unfounded rumor! It must be true, I read it on the internet. Did you even bother to read the random blog entry?

2) http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/01/17/politics/main2369157.shtml

Please show me where in this article that says that Obama wishes to execute babies? THAT is why you are a troll. All the stuff you are spewing are incendiary lies at worst and unfounded rumor at best.

1) http://wbztv.com/politics/jonkeller/john.kerry.vice.2.796143.html

2) http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/01/17/politics/main2369157.shtml

So, as you can see, the John Kerry rumor has legs, and Obama was the only senator in the Illinois Senate to speak out on the Senate floor against the Born Alive Infants Protection Act. The first time it was put to a vote, he voted "present." Way to have balls and stand up for your beliefs, Barack.

To the parent poster, I regret to inform you that you have failed miserably in your endeavor to appear intelligent.

Since traffic counters and blinkenlights are terrorist tools in Boston, I'm surprised this guy got as far down the street as he did before Homeland Security detained him for our safety.

Source on the profit margin bit please?

A 40% profit margin is reported here.

I'm still surprised that I haven't heard more outrage about the fundamental mormon raid in Texas now that the supposed abused teen is probably a 30 something living in CO. Further the accused guy is on parole in Arizona and wasn't picked up, or even questioned before the raid. Even scarier, the police questioned the kids without lawyers or guardians present. The state will provide them lawyers in two weeks

The parents are being forced to submit DNA to start the process of getting their kids back.

It seems like the police went in with shoddy evidence for a blanket warrant, which they got. Sure the people in the compound may very well have been breaking laws, but wouldn't that be all the more reason for the authorities to wait until stronger evidence was found? It's the over the top actions that worry me, not waiting to make a case before getting gung ho.

To someone who is mired in electronics on a daily basis, a circuit board doesn't "look like a bomb" but it actually looks like homework, or a radio, or a motherboard, or something else. For this student and other students like her, when they look at a circuit board, "bomb" is the furthest thing from their mind.

A better analogy would be a butcher who goes to the airport directly from work with blood still on his clothing and thinks nothing of it because being covered in animal blood all day is completely normal for him.

So really, let's consider some common sense here: not all perspectives are equal. What is obvious to you is not obvious to the next person, because the origin of their perspective is drastically different. In the most blatant logical example: If you have three people standing in different places looking at the same large cylindrical object, one looking directly perpendicular to the longitudinal axis, one looking directly along the longitudinal axis, and one between those two positions; they will each respectively see a rectangle, a circle, and a cylinder. What is completely obvious to one is inaccessible to the others, making the "commonality" of "common sense" rather questionable.

What is unfortunate about this story is the reminder that the majority (also known as "the dumb") are seeing bombs and terrorists everywhere that there are none.

Yes. The idiots that put up the devices in the first place had to know that they would be inciting public panic. They knew darn well that after 9/11 the government cannot afford to get caught with its pants down, so they have to take every threat seriously. That includes panicked individuals calling in on tip lines reporting blinky signs in places that are not authorized. Personally I think those responsible for the advertising campaign should be fined 10x the amount the city spent, and the ones that installed the devices should have to spend a few weeks in a P.M.I.t.A. prison.

Not something you'd want to try in Boston.

They acted completely appropriately for the first one. What they did next is what infuriated everyone.

They found the first one at 9 (story). At noon they announced to the public that it was a false alarm. Consequently, we can infer that they likely knew it was a false alarm no later than 11. Then they find another at 1pm. Might you expect the bomb squad to notice a trend and act accordingly - maybe tone down the paranoia? They had 2 hours to think about it! THAT's the thinking that I expect public officials, the ones in the know, to do. Call the chief of police and say, "hey, let everyone know that these things are harmless."

Instead, they scream their heads off comparing Turner Broadcasting's Lite-Brite stunt to actual terrorist bombings that actually kill people, and that they got SCARED (by Lite-Brites), and that they spent $750,000 (blowing up Lite-Brites) and ohmygod who's gonna pay for it?

Land of the brave, indeed.

This, while unidentified trucks are allowed into "secure" areas of Logan Airport. People who can't assess threats can't protect against them.