True, but Stubenville is effectively a suburb of Pittsburgh. (I think the rape thing stopped those idiotic "burb of the burgh" commercials they used to run all of the time on local tv.)
Either way, the entire region (w PA, WV, e OH) puts high school sports, especially football, on some sort of altar that the local government and police assholes worship.
Guns are much more reliable when you are looking to kill someone. And "safer"? Most people involved with a mass murder are not looking to escape it alive. They just decided they are going to take someone with them.
I was reading my mother's Stephen King collection when I was a kid. She had probably forgotten that Rage was in The Bachman Books. It was written years before I was born and even then my high-school years were before the Columbine / regular school shooting era.
Even King says he is "glad it is out of print", something I just learned today. Odd, as I did not see the anti-hero as particularly inspiring. If I had been slightly more unstable, perhaps I would have thought so. It is amusing that today a kid that reads that book might be considered a deviant and locked up.
Kids that are bullied always think of this scenario, reading about it might actually help rather than hurt. Now, writers will not touch this topic with a ten foot pole, leaving teenagers with less support. Talking is not going to help; try getting teens to talk about any important matters, let alone suicidal ones. Yeah, I am not surprised that it comes to a breaking point of school shootings.
After all these years people will not admit that these thoughts happen and that kids help. Instead we have "blame the victim of bullying", "toughen up", and "kids will be kids." If Stephen Fucking King is afraid to talk about this subject, it is truly hopeless.
I have seen far worse. Full on applications written in Excel VBA by those SME's, MBA's and Finance (degrees? I am not sure). And those people that somehow thought that: A) they weren't shit and B) they were now programmers and the job was so easy, why do we pay you assholes...
You can figure I did not stick around that job for long.
Seen this many many times before. Cheap companies that have lots of developers and are too cheap to hire experienced admins... or an IT shop that thinks they can have the IT guys program instead of hiring proper developers. "hey, you work with computers, you guys can all do the same stuff, right?" Wrong.
While I have known developers that can sysadmin, and admins that can program... they are the exception not the rule. Quality suffers when you force people into jobs they are not qualified for. Companies know this, and they simply don't care as long as the managers think they are saving money.
You do understand hyperbole, right? I am just sick of your bullshit arguments. You people go around and around in circles and actively deny reason and logic.
Because I am stick of hearing the "how can something come from nothing" argument from creationists. Whether or not something could come from nothing has nothing to do if there is a god or not and proving it can does not prove there is a god. Any rational person can see this, but I would never accuse a creationist of being rational.
foreign bacteria that need to be killed, your immune system will weaken, and the likelihood that it will get bored and attack itself (also known as allergies) increase. This doesn't just include bacteria; societies where people are more likely to be exposed to parasites like worms tend to have a very low or zero incidence of gastrointestinal diseases like irritiable bowel syndrome
Well that could not be any more wrong. Dysentery is one of the leading cause of deaths in countries with little to no sanitation system. Fortunately when someone in a western country contracts one of these diseases, they can go to a hospital, get some fluids and antibiotics
I suspect you are not an anti-vaxer or a naturalist, just misinformed. This is the same completely made up argument that they use. Vaccines do not cause diseases, and eating dirt does not make you healthy.
PhD Microbiology? Try a PhD in Epidemiology or Pathology for actual knowledge on how diseases affect humans. Probably a good thing she is your ex now, as she is also one of those PhD that assumes they are an expert in everything, including things only tangentially related to their field.
Creationism does not necessarily have anything to do with geocentrism except that:
1. Both are wrong, and stupidly so. 2. Religious nutjobs tend to be the ones that believe in them. 3. Neither have any evidence, despite claims otherwise.
Thanks for informing me of this. I used to enjoy his Ben Stein's Money show on occasion some years back, but I have now lost all respect for the man whatsoever.
Oh it goes much deeper. People tended to forget that before his acting career Stein was a speech writer for Nixon and is as right wing religious and political fundamentalist as they come. He has "moderated" atheist/religious debates that clearly showed his bias as he tries to rig the debates.
Ahh yes, the "colors of sound", some of those mysterious qualities and adjectives of sound that only people who are trying to justify spending way too much money seem to ever be able to understand.
Sounds more like they have synesthesia. Which might be a benefit to a professional musician, but I don't see how that makes it different for the rest of us.
Exactly, during a housing boom evictions are a boon to renters. They get the low-rent people booted out and can bring in new affluent tenants. Anyone that believes this is about any other issue has been fooled.
I like your line of thought though. The dashboard gauges on my car are black text on white gauge during the day, and dim red light on dark gauge at night. All of the other lights get dim. The only flaw with this is it is controlled by whether or not the headlights on... in an instance where it is a storm during the day, turning the headlights on dims the dash lights and makes them hard to see.
The rear view lcd could do the same thing. Also it could flatten the contrast to bring out dim objects while keeping very bright ones from blinding you. My car is also fairly low to the ground, so every mega-size suv with their unnecessarily super-bright in city headlights blinds me. (Everything from Jeep is particularly heinous in this regard.)
That is a good point. Blooper reels for shows are often hysterical. (Though I have only seem them for shows/movies that were not comedies.) I suppose if the bloopers were funnier than the correct lines... well... see my original post.:)
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True, but Stubenville is effectively a suburb of Pittsburgh. (I think the rape thing stopped those idiotic "burb of the burgh" commercials they used to run all of the time on local tv.)
Either way, the entire region (w PA, WV, e OH) puts high school sports, especially football, on some sort of altar that the local government and police assholes worship.
Yeah, and supposedly this school has a zero tolerance policy towards bullying.
Simple, they redefine bullying as meaning "anything that embarrasses the administration". Everything else is "kids will be kids".
Does that count when one of the parties is committing a crime?
And the kid that is charged was being terrorized.
Yep, this teaches kids. "Don't trust authorities, take matters into your own hands."
I think we know where that can escalate to.
Guns are much more reliable when you are looking to kill someone. And "safer"? Most people involved with a mass murder are not looking to escape it alive. They just decided they are going to take someone with them.
I was reading my mother's Stephen King collection when I was a kid. She had probably forgotten that Rage was in The Bachman Books. It was written years before I was born and even then my high-school years were before the Columbine / regular school shooting era.
Even King says he is "glad it is out of print", something I just learned today. Odd, as I did not see the anti-hero as particularly inspiring. If I had been slightly more unstable, perhaps I would have thought so. It is amusing that today a kid that reads that book might be considered a deviant and locked up.
Kids that are bullied always think of this scenario, reading about it might actually help rather than hurt. Now, writers will not touch this topic with a ten foot pole, leaving teenagers with less support. Talking is not going to help; try getting teens to talk about any important matters, let alone suicidal ones. Yeah, I am not surprised that it comes to a breaking point of school shootings.
After all these years people will not admit that these thoughts happen and that kids help. Instead we have "blame the victim of bullying", "toughen up", and "kids will be kids." If Stephen Fucking King is afraid to talk about this subject, it is truly hopeless.
I have seen far worse. Full on applications written in Excel VBA by those SME's, MBA's and Finance (degrees? I am not sure). And those people that somehow thought that:
A) they weren't shit and
B) they were now programmers and the job was so easy, why do we pay you assholes...
You can figure I did not stick around that job for long.
Seen this many many times before. Cheap companies that have lots of developers and are too cheap to hire experienced admins... or an IT shop that thinks they can have the IT guys program instead of hiring proper developers. "hey, you work with computers, you guys can all do the same stuff, right?" Wrong.
While I have known developers that can sysadmin, and admins that can program... they are the exception not the rule. Quality suffers when you force people into jobs they are not qualified for. Companies know this, and they simply don't care as long as the managers think they are saving money.
You do understand hyperbole, right? I am just sick of your bullshit arguments. You people go around and around in circles and actively deny reason and logic.
Because I am stick of hearing the "how can something come from nothing" argument from creationists. Whether or not something could come from nothing has nothing to do if there is a god or not and proving it can does not prove there is a god. Any rational person can see this, but I would never accuse a creationist of being rational.
foreign bacteria that need to be killed, your immune system will weaken, and the likelihood that it will get bored and attack itself (also known as allergies) increase. This doesn't just include bacteria; societies where people are more likely to be exposed to parasites like worms tend to have a very low or zero incidence of gastrointestinal diseases like irritiable bowel syndrome
Well that could not be any more wrong. Dysentery is one of the leading cause of deaths in countries with little to no sanitation system. Fortunately when someone in a western country contracts one of these diseases, they can go to a hospital, get some fluids and antibiotics
I suspect you are not an anti-vaxer or a naturalist, just misinformed. This is the same completely made up argument that they use. Vaccines do not cause diseases, and eating dirt does not make you healthy.
PhD Microbiology? Try a PhD in Epidemiology or Pathology for actual knowledge on how diseases affect humans. Probably a good thing she is your ex now, as she is also one of those PhD that assumes they are an expert in everything, including things only tangentially related to their field.
... I will punch you in the face.
Creationism does not necessarily have anything to do with geocentrism except that:
1. Both are wrong, and stupidly so.
2. Religious nutjobs tend to be the ones that believe in them.
3. Neither have any evidence, despite claims otherwise.
Your posts hits all three quite nicely.
Thanks for informing me of this. I used to enjoy his Ben Stein's Money show on occasion some years back, but I have now lost all respect for the man whatsoever.
Oh it goes much deeper. People tended to forget that before his acting career Stein was a speech writer for Nixon and is as right wing religious and political fundamentalist as they come. He has "moderated" atheist/religious debates that clearly showed his bias as he tries to rig the debates.
And better.. (or worse, if you are the target)... all 30MJ is hitting you in a spot about 10cm in diameter.
In Soviet Russia, mach 7 razor disposes of YOU.
Ahh yes, the "colors of sound", some of those mysterious qualities and adjectives of sound that only people who are trying to justify spending way too much money seem to ever be able to understand.
Sounds more like they have synesthesia. Which might be a benefit to a professional musician, but I don't see how that makes it different for the rest of us.
Yeah, they didn't even plug it in with gold plated monster cables.
Exactly, during a housing boom evictions are a boon to renters. They get the low-rent people booted out and can bring in new affluent tenants. Anyone that believes this is about any other issue has been fooled.
... then skipped the rest of the bullshit.
I like your line of thought though. The dashboard gauges on my car are black text on white gauge during the day, and dim red light on dark gauge at night. All of the other lights get dim. The only flaw with this is it is controlled by whether or not the headlights on... in an instance where it is a storm during the day, turning the headlights on dims the dash lights and makes them hard to see.
The rear view lcd could do the same thing. Also it could flatten the contrast to bring out dim objects while keeping very bright ones from blinding you. My car is also fairly low to the ground, so every mega-size suv with their unnecessarily super-bright in city headlights blinds me. (Everything from Jeep is particularly heinous in this regard.)
And yet, people stated that "it would be soooo expensive" to add proper tracking to planes.
That is a good point. Blooper reels for shows are often hysterical. (Though I have only seem them for shows/movies that were not comedies.) I suppose if the bloopers were funnier than the correct lines... well... see my original post. :)
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