This is simply a case of over reaction by the liberal public, which has been been increased by over coverage by the media. I am forced to answer "YES" to nearly all of these questions. I own a gun, work at a gun club, have a rather large bullet for a key chain, and have let all of the teachers in my school know this. None of them have considered me psycodic and I have never seen any one to determan if I was going to kill half the faculty. I think people simply need to grow up and deal with their problems insead of blaming them on the geeks and nerds. It would be nice if someone grew a spine and delt with the cause rather than its effect. At the risk of sounding like a chovinist and As far as enjoying violance in:
Film: Saving Prv. Ryan is one of the bloodiest, if not the bloodiest, film ever made, yet won several prestigious award in clusing several acadimy awards. According to the FBI the Motion Picture Acadimy is filled with psycos.
Video Games: The most violent games are often the most popular. Theirfor anyone with an N64 with Golden-Eye, Turok, Quake, et. must be homicidal.
Society: Crime as a whole is going down, so is their a point to labeling me as psycodic? Besides, there is no way of weeding out every would-be mass-murderer, even if you ignored all of my civil rights.
"A person can be smart, but people are dumb, panicky animals" -- Yeas it is a movie quote but it is true!
It sounds to me like they are trying to deal with the effect rather than the cause. A good portion of the times it is the "jocks teasing the nerds" to use a stereotypical cliché. Too often people see the fringe as being different and possibly violent as a result. It is analogous to saying that because "you are interested in shooting sports you are psychotic" or "Because you are black and live in the city, you are poor and probably a criminal". These kind of brash generalizations based on a few over publicized incidents are hurtful and destructive. When a large percentage of the class teases, torments, or shuns someone for being different and this kind of behavior continues on a similar scale for several years it does have the effect of making people angry and depressed. Teachers and administrators need to pay more attention to such actions and be more willing deal with it. When I was in schoolteachers were scared of angry phone calls from parents for punishing someone or simply brushed it aside as normal behavior to constantly tease the fringe. A computer can only tell you who might act out not why. This whole idea is a politically correct Band-Aid designed to give schools and parents a false sense of security. I can all but guarantee that this system will be abused and misused and will most likely be the cause of a plethora of highly amusing civil suits. One of the things that bother me the post is the way it was presented in the article. The constant use of the line: "...we don't ant to label kids....", "...this isn't designed to label kids...". The whole idea is to "label" potentially "dangerous" kids. I would like someone to explain to me how this is not going to label kids. Mosaic is simply a p.c., Orwellian fix for a declining problem. As for being on the fringe: 1. Why is it all the "computer nerds" I know all have $30.00+/hr. summer jobs and most others work at McDonalds or the local super market? 2. I am a wolf you they are the sheep, each group herded by a different shepherd. 3. I have two reasons why I am considered to be a "dangerous" individual: I am on the "fringe" and I shoot... Good then I won't be bothered by those with a holier-than-thou, I'm more popular, politically correct attitude.
I read the article and this is a kind of "Big Brother". You are cataloging people - that is the first step to an Orwellian negative-utopia. Also worth mentioning is the fact that the purpose of this is to label kids despite the repeated statement: "We don't want to label kids". That is a politically correct load of bull.
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This is simply a case of over reaction by the liberal public, which has been been increased by over coverage by the media. I am forced to answer "YES" to nearly all of these questions. I own a gun, work at a gun club, have a rather large bullet for a key chain, and have let all of the teachers in my school know this. None of them have considered me psycodic and I have never seen any one to determan if I was going to kill half the faculty.
I think people simply need to grow up and deal with their problems insead of blaming them on the geeks and nerds. It would be nice if someone grew a spine and delt with the cause rather than its effect.
At the risk of sounding like a chovinist and As far as enjoying violance in:
Film: Saving Prv. Ryan is one of the bloodiest, if not the bloodiest, film ever made, yet won several prestigious award in clusing several acadimy awards. According to the FBI the Motion Picture Acadimy is filled with psycos.
Video Games: The most violent games are often the most popular. Theirfor anyone with an N64 with Golden-Eye, Turok, Quake, et. must be homicidal.
Society: Crime as a whole is going down, so is their a point to labeling me as psycodic? Besides, there is no way of weeding out every would-be mass-murderer, even if you ignored all of my civil rights.
"A person can be smart, but people are dumb, panicky animals" -- Yeas it is a movie quote but it is true!
It sounds to me like they are trying to deal with the effect rather than the cause. A good portion of the times it is the "jocks teasing the nerds" to use a stereotypical cliché. Too often people see the fringe as being different and possibly violent as a result. It is analogous to saying that because "you are interested in shooting sports you are psychotic" or "Because you are black and live in the city, you are poor and probably a criminal". These kind of brash generalizations based on a few over publicized incidents are hurtful and destructive. When a large percentage of the class teases, torments, or shuns someone for being different and this kind of behavior continues on a similar scale for several years it does have the effect of making people angry and depressed. Teachers and administrators need to pay more attention to such actions and be more willing deal with it. When I was in schoolteachers were scared of angry phone calls from parents for punishing someone or simply brushed it aside as normal behavior to constantly tease the fringe. A computer can only tell you who might act out not why. This whole idea is a politically correct Band-Aid designed to give schools and parents a false sense of security. I can all but guarantee that this system will be abused and misused and will most likely be the cause of a plethora of highly amusing civil suits. One of the things that bother me the post is the way it was presented in the article. The constant use of the line: "...we don't ant to label kids....", "...this isn't designed to label kids...". The whole idea is to "label" potentially "dangerous" kids. I would like someone to explain to me how this is not going to label kids. Mosaic is simply a p.c., Orwellian fix for a declining problem. As for being on the fringe: 1. Why is it all the "computer nerds" I know all have $30.00+/hr. summer jobs and most others work at McDonalds or the local super market? 2. I am a wolf you they are the sheep, each group herded by a different shepherd. 3. I have two reasons why I am considered to be a "dangerous" individual: I am on the "fringe" and I shoot... Good then I won't be bothered by those with a holier-than-thou, I'm more popular, politically correct attitude.
I read the article and this is a kind of "Big Brother". You are cataloging people - that is the first step to an Orwellian negative-utopia. Also worth mentioning is the fact that the purpose of this is to label kids despite the repeated statement: "We don't want to label kids". That is a politically correct load of bull.