The parent just needs to claim THEIR privacy was invaded and the school has a new problem.
No more so than if a kid is using a car paid for by mommy or daddy and the police have probable cause to search it. i.e. it's pulled over for speeding and when the window is opened a cloud of quesionable smoke is released.
"Because there are cultural differences between races of people."
I disagree. There are cultural differences between people. One race may be predominant in a given culture, but don't confuse race and culture.
My wife and I are white. Some years back she became friendly with a coworker who is black. We were living in a blue collar suburb of Boston and her coworker lived in a very upscale town not far away. Her coworker's daughter (age 7 at the time) thought that my wife (blond hair, green eyes) was black because she seemed so much "cooler" than her mother.
I think we fear what we perceive as other cultures more than other races. If I see a group of black men in suits and ties walking toward me I am not wary as I am if I see a group of white teen age boys with tatoos, backwards Yankee caps and baggy jeans.
I must disagree. Control panels on a monitor in your cell..er cubicle are a great way to avoid talking to nontechie managers.
Just make sure there is an icon or a line or something that will, on occasion, turn red and flash. That way, when the obnoxious boss is looking over your shoulder you can say "Uh oh" or something a little cruder and go running off without even saying excuse me.
I had heard and agreed with the opinion that the idea from the SCO execs is that IBM would buy SCO just to shut them up. 1. Sue IBM 2. Get bought out 3. Retire rich
Don't blame the Internet. Blame employers who discourage workers from leaving on time thereby making getting involved in one's neighborhood impossible. You can't even form a carpool. Blame parents who control and schedule every waking moment in their children's lives so kids don't know how to relate to others unless they are given directions. I can picture it now, the play date morphing into children's networking groups organized by parents.
I guess blame the lack of leisure time so we can't just hang with our friends or meet new ones.
With all the stockholders of companies screaming about executive pay, why has no one suggested outsourcing jobs of the CEO, CFO and yes, the CIO to a place with smart educated people who don't think it's moral to accept 8 figure bonuses even though the stock price dropped? That would be Oz.
I have said this before. Companies used to like "stable" married men. They could count on them to take a lot of crap. Now, they prefer unattached men or women because they can expect them to be available to get out of bed and jump on a plane with no notice.
I have read several articles lately about local cops surfing web sites and catching pedophiles and other criminals. While I commend getting any criminal off the street I wonder if local police cruising the Internet is the best use of their time or tax payer money, since much of what they do is hit or miss anyway.
And as we all know, most parents don't have the knowledge or, in some cases, the backbone to set limits on the use of these sites bu their children.I would suggest that sites like Facebook and myspace create a corp of volunteers to cruise their sites and look for potential problems (criminal activity, risky behavior, etc). They could then report this to the web masters and then they could contact the appropriate law enforcement or social services agency. (I am aware of an employee of such a service trying to solicit a teenager for immoral activity, that's why intervention of real cops and feds should happen)
I know these sites are supposed to be safe places where teens and preteens can relate to each other safely, but so are playgrounds and teen centers. Evil elements find their way in.
It's probably Apple's fix for software that isn't available for the Mac but some people still need for business purposes. Also it will allow some of us who would rather use a Mac, but are forced by some clients, to use Windows software, to have the best machine and a mediocre OS.
Hmm, what happens when the XP part gets a virus? I said "when" not if.
You want to get rid of pork barrel spending. Give the president line-item veto authority. That way when a pork project gets cut the local pol can say "The president did it"
Reagan asked for the line-item veto. Congress gave it to, I believe, Clinton. However the special interest groups that would benefit from pork barrel spending sued and the Supreme Court declared it unconstiutional.
There aren't a lot of Congressmen on either side of the aisle willing to fight for it.
You have a point, but if the gravity is a wave you might be able to generate an opposing wave to neutralize it. As you can with sound and maybe someday with light.
I'm not going to flame, but when you write about the less intelligent people having more children -- You may be confusing intelligence with education.
I do agree that we are affecting intelligence (or is it effecting - what the hell maybe I'll be an MBA and say "impacting".)
We keep rescuing the stupid. For instance, how many people ignore weather warnings, go out in their sail boats and then expect to be rescued by the Coast Guard. Or the people who go hiking in the mountains without the proper equipment (a bottle of Poland Springs water and a cell phone is not proper equipment) and then get lost and their family members expect the world to drop everything and find them.
I could go on, but the intelligent people will get my point.
The Wall Street Journal had an article that mentioned why people will pay more for a ring tone than for the whole song. I believe they called it perceived value. You use the ring tone to tell the world something about yourself. The whole song is just for you. Of course, I think paying $3.00 for part of a Black Eyed Peas song that has been used in a million commercials says a whole lot about someone.
Personally, I'll use the default ring on my phone and save the money. I guess that says I'm a cheap SOB
What's worse than recruiters are the companies that list something as a job but it is actually "business opportunity" for you to buy into. In other words, these megascumbags are preying on the people who are may be in desperate straits.
Google, in the interest of profit, has bent to China's demands. Maybe they aren't the only ones "complying with local laws", however they have the highest profile these days. I think what is drawing the most attention is the fact that their motto, which touts corporate responsibility, is taking a back seat to profits. If you are going to paint yourself as the good guys then you should put that responsibilty ahead of profits. Otherwise just change your motto to -- "Out for a buck like everyone else."
And say they are looking to congress for moral guidance? What kind of a cheap cop out is that?
I think ABC is just concerned about anything that takes people away from their broadcasts.
If newspapers were invented today network news would complain about the reading addiction and how people are using newspapers to avoid interacting with each other at breakfast, on subways and coffee shops.
In true network news fashion there would be a logo for the problem too!
When I first started donating blood in the 1970's (no they did not use leeches)I was in high school. The Red Cross showed us a brief film of why one should donate. They talked about the "insurance" aspect of it, that if we or immediate family needed blood we would not be charged. Some time in the 80's they dropped that feature. I never did find out if it was because it was too expensive an insurance or because they did not want donations from family members who may, technically, be disqualified by some of the newly discovered diseases but feel compelled to donate from family pressure.
Also the snacks have gotten worse. It used to be homebaked cookies etc and name brand beverages. Now it's generic stuff.
During WWII there were teenagers flying fighter planes and officers in their 20s commanding warships. In peace time parents are reluctant to let a teenager take the Volvo and what company would routinely entrust someone in their early 20's with an asset as valuable as a destroyer or attack submarine?
Remove the safety net and people mature quickly, taking on incredible responsibility. Knowing Daddy's lawyer and credit cards can bail you out of trouble retards maturity.
Before we "elite" continue to snicker at the ignorance of our fellow Americans and British cousins - has anyone surveyed the rest of the Europe, the Middle East and some of the more developed Asian countries?
I'll bet you'll find some surprises as to what the educated people believe.
I don't think that anybody objects to the idea of Google making money. That's good capitalism.
The problem is the hypocricy of the corporate slogan and their actions. This is not like Toyota or Ford selling the government trucks which could be used to transport prisoners as well as farm goods without a design change.
Google deliberately is selling a product designed to supress information. That is oppression and Google is collaborating. The argument that they still have access to a lot of other information is also hollow. If you don't know what is out there then you really aren't getting an accurate picture of the world.
I guess "Don't be evil" is an order to the rest of us who aren't as smart as the geniuses at Google who can understand the difference between good oppression and evil oppression.
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In the same way that a refund from the IRS is a present. It's your money to begin with.
The parent just needs to claim THEIR privacy was invaded and the school has a new problem.
No more so than if a kid is using a car paid for by mommy or daddy and the police have probable cause to search it. i.e. it's pulled over for speeding and when the window is opened a cloud of quesionable smoke is released.
"Because there are cultural differences between races of people."
I disagree. There are cultural differences between people. One race may be predominant in a given culture, but don't confuse race and culture.
My wife and I are white. Some years back she became friendly with a coworker who is black. We were living in a blue collar suburb of Boston and her coworker lived in a very upscale town not far away. Her coworker's daughter (age 7 at the time) thought that my wife (blond hair, green eyes) was black because she seemed so much "cooler" than her mother.
I think we fear what we perceive as other cultures more than other races. If I see a group of black men in suits and ties walking toward me I am not wary as I am if I see a group of white teen age boys with tatoos, backwards Yankee caps and baggy jeans.
I must disagree. Control panels on a monitor in your cell ..er cubicle are a great way to avoid talking to nontechie managers.
Just make sure there is an icon or a line or something that will, on occasion, turn red and flash. That way, when the obnoxious boss is looking over your shoulder you can say "Uh oh" or something a little cruder and go running off without even saying excuse me.
I had heard and agreed with the opinion that the idea from the SCO execs is that IBM would buy SCO just to shut them up.
1. Sue IBM
2. Get bought out
3. Retire rich
Don't blame the Internet.
Blame employers who discourage workers from leaving on time thereby making getting involved in one's neighborhood impossible. You can't even form a carpool.
Blame parents who control and schedule every waking moment in their children's lives so kids don't know how to relate to others unless they are given directions. I can picture it now, the play date morphing into children's networking groups organized by parents.
I guess blame the lack of leisure time so we can't just hang with our friends or meet new ones.
I was thinking more of Max Headroom.
With all the stockholders of companies screaming about executive pay, why has no one suggested outsourcing jobs of the CEO, CFO and yes, the CIO to a place with smart educated people who don't think it's moral to accept 8 figure bonuses even though the stock price dropped? That would be Oz.
I have said this before.
Companies used to like "stable" married men. They could count on them to take a lot of crap. Now, they prefer unattached men or women because they can expect them to be available to get out of bed and jump on a plane with no notice.
Laser discs?
I have read several articles lately about local cops surfing web sites and catching pedophiles and other criminals. While I commend getting any criminal off the street I wonder if local police cruising the Internet is the best use of their time or tax payer money, since much of what they do is hit or miss anyway.
And as we all know, most parents don't have the knowledge or, in some cases, the backbone to set limits on the use of these sites bu their children.I would suggest that sites like Facebook and myspace create a corp of volunteers to cruise their sites and look for potential problems (criminal activity, risky behavior, etc). They could then report this to the web masters and then they could contact the appropriate law enforcement or social services agency. (I am aware of an employee of such a service trying to solicit a teenager for immoral activity, that's why intervention of real cops and feds should happen)
I know these sites are supposed to be safe places where teens and preteens can relate to each other safely, but so are playgrounds and teen centers. Evil elements find their way in.
It's probably Apple's fix for software that isn't available for the Mac but some people still need for business purposes.
Also it will allow some of us who would rather use a Mac, but are forced by some clients, to use Windows software, to have the best machine and a mediocre OS.
Hmm, what happens when the XP part gets a virus? I said "when" not if.
You want to get rid of pork barrel spending. Give the president line-item veto authority. That way when a pork project gets cut the local pol can say "The president did it"
Reagan asked for the line-item veto. Congress gave it to, I believe, Clinton. However the special interest groups that would benefit from pork barrel spending sued and the Supreme Court declared it unconstiutional.
There aren't a lot of Congressmen on either side of the aisle willing to fight for it.
You have a point, but if the gravity is a wave you might be able to generate an opposing wave to neutralize it. As you can with sound and maybe someday with light.
I'm not going to flame, but when you write about the less intelligent people having more children -- You may be confusing intelligence with education.
I do agree that we are affecting intelligence (or is it effecting - what the hell maybe I'll be an MBA and say "impacting".)
We keep rescuing the stupid. For instance, how many people ignore weather warnings, go out in their sail boats and then expect to be rescued by the Coast Guard. Or the people who go hiking in the mountains without the proper equipment (a bottle of Poland Springs water and a cell phone is not proper equipment) and then get lost and their family members expect the world to drop everything and find them.
I could go on, but the intelligent people will get my point.
ooh- time for another reality TV show.
The Wall Street Journal had an article that mentioned why people will pay more for a ring tone than for the whole song. I believe they called it perceived value. You use the ring tone to tell the world something about yourself. The whole song is just for you. Of course, I think paying $3.00 for part of a Black Eyed Peas song that has been used in a million commercials says a whole lot about someone.
Personally, I'll use the default ring on my phone and save the money. I guess that says I'm a cheap SOB
What's worse than recruiters are the companies that list something as a job but it is actually "business opportunity" for you to buy into. In other words, these megascumbags are preying on the people who are may be in desperate straits.
Google, in the interest of profit, has bent to China's demands. Maybe they aren't the only ones "complying with local laws", however they have the highest profile these days.
I think what is drawing the most attention is the fact that their motto, which touts corporate responsibility, is taking a back seat to profits. If you are going to paint yourself as the good guys then you should put that responsibilty ahead of profits. Otherwise just change your motto to -- "Out for a buck like everyone else."
And say they are looking to congress for moral guidance? What kind of a cheap cop out is that?
I think ABC is just concerned about anything that takes people away from their broadcasts.
If newspapers were invented today network news would complain about the reading addiction and how people are using newspapers to avoid interacting with each other at breakfast, on subways and coffee shops.
In true network news fashion there would be a logo for the problem too!
When I first started donating blood in the 1970's (no they did not use leeches)I was in high school. The Red Cross showed us a brief film of why one should donate. They talked about the "insurance" aspect of it, that if we or immediate family needed blood we would not be charged. Some time in the 80's they dropped that feature. I never did find out if it was because it was too expensive an insurance or because they did not want donations from family members who may, technically, be disqualified by some of the newly discovered diseases but feel compelled to donate from family pressure.
Also the snacks have gotten worse. It used to be homebaked cookies etc and name brand beverages. Now it's generic stuff.
During WWII there were teenagers flying fighter planes and officers in their 20s commanding warships. In peace time parents are reluctant to let a teenager take the Volvo and what company would routinely entrust someone in their early 20's with an asset as valuable as a destroyer or attack submarine?
Remove the safety net and people mature quickly, taking on incredible responsibility. Knowing Daddy's lawyer and credit cards can bail you out of trouble retards maturity.
...and they laughed at my tin foil lined backpack!
Will it be self-censoring for some of our favorite totalitarian regimes?
Before we "elite" continue to snicker at the ignorance of our fellow Americans and British cousins - has anyone surveyed the rest of the Europe, the Middle East and some of the more developed Asian countries?
I'll bet you'll find some surprises as to what the educated people believe.
I'd do the survey myself, but I'm really busy...
I don't think that anybody objects to the idea of Google making money. That's good capitalism.
The problem is the hypocricy of the corporate slogan and their actions. This is not like Toyota or Ford selling the government trucks which could be used to transport prisoners as well as farm goods without a design change.
Google deliberately is selling a product designed to supress information. That is oppression and Google is collaborating. The argument that they still have access to a lot of other information is also hollow. If you don't know what is out there then you really aren't getting an accurate picture of the world.
I guess "Don't be evil" is an order to the rest of us who aren't as smart as the geniuses at Google who can understand the difference between good oppression and evil oppression.