From the mid 70s to the mid 80s, America was in the thralls of a love affair with a little two way radios that would let you talk with people a few miles away, while remaining mostly anonymous. You created a "handle", and learned to speak the language. The fad got so popular, movies were created around it. Eventually, the fad died out when people finally got tired of talking to other people without ever saying anything.
In North Carolina, each school is now assigned a policeman. It is not a "security guard" with a plastic badge. They are duly sworn officers of the state. They also happen to be the rubber stamps of whatever the school administrator says.
Thank you for your condolences. The thing is, I want to actually trust policemen and those appointed as authorities. Reality is a harsh mistress, though.
The reason it doesn't work for a diverse nation is because the people given charge of directing the ridiculously large sums of money have no emotional ties to the people paying the taxes. Note the "insider trading" scandal where Congressmen have their pages running to buy/sell stocks in the companies that they are passing legislation on. Move all that monetary control back to the states, and there is more accountability.
The want lower taxes, and they were willing to cut spending to get them. That was very much a threat to the status quo which derives fortunes from directing the spending.
To support your point, watch any of the Fox News political shows, or even just their commercials. They give air time to the "top three candidates", always leaving out Ron Paul, even though he is arguably in second place with delegate counts. Only one candidate is willing to say that he will actually cut government spending and stands for what the original TEA Party was protesting for.
You silly boy. You do not understand how the system works. The Democrats raise taxes on the rich, then they hand that money to their supporters on Wall Street or Solyndra or GM. You will definitely not be any better off.
Who are the grownups in this situation? The ones handing money to Solyndra? Or the ones sending guns down to the Mexican drug lords? Wait! I know! Maybe it is the ones saying they don't need Congressional approval to start a war with another country?
And it had nothing to do with the policy makers being to weak to take any serious steps to actually curtail the spending spree? "policymaking and political institutions have weakened at a time of ongoing fiscal and economic challenges" is obtuse enough to spin any way you please, but there were multiple efforts to control the spending. The President even shelved the advice from the panel he appointed. People that choose to confront and pay their bills do not get their credit downgraded. It is the broke people who take out credit cards after they have already talked to the bankruptcy lawyer that get downgraded.
So you're saying that you're happy that we have a President who will launch multiple undeclared wars. Makes sense, considering the rest of your drivel.
But if what we have really belongs to "society", aren't we already slaves. If I can't own anything without your consent, then, fuck it all, I'm going to sit back and live off the government dole.
And you are a disgusting troll that wants to steal the work of someone else. Not giving you a job is not being a bully, you wimpering leach. If he has the ability to pay someone to perform a function, then it is his perogative to pay whomsoever he damn well pleases. He most certainly has the right to do with his property as he chooses. You are an awful person, and you will always be insignificant.
You have rights. You have the right to start your own damn company if you don't like the one you're working for. You have the right to refuse the work for jerks. You have the right to not work and all.
You don't have other rights. You don't have the right to determine what I will pay to get some work done. You don't have the right to have me work for you. You do not have the right to make self defeating choices and then have me bail you out when things go badly for you. You do not have the right to make me pay for your upkeep when you decide to not work at all. You do not have the right to make me your slave.
Inform the child of their rights? WTH!? The assistant principal at my son's middle school had him write and sign a confession. Then called him back from the classroom and have him add to it because she didn't think it was incriminating enough. I repeat. She dictated the confession letter to him!
That is the behavior you can expect from administrators.
Kind of like "America is exceptional", even though we're waging unilateral wars all over the friggin' Earth while shamelessly burying children in debt so that anyone on welfare can have a cell-phone?
State or county, it doesn't matter. The school is run by a principal, and that person often believes they are king and ruler over all they behold. It is their school and they get to decide what goes on. The parent is a bother to them. I've had to deal with enough bastards to know. Unless you have deep pockets for lawyers, or the backing of the ACLU, they can basically jack around with your child's education however the damn well please, and they believe that give them total license over the child's life.
I told my dad some 4 years later (just before I would leave primary school) and then he was furious and told me if I had told him the story on the day he'd have had that teacher fired. That message changed my life... for the first time I understood that shit happens, but you don't have to be a victim - you can make bad people pay, you can hold people to account for their actions - even if they are authority figures.
If you lived in the US, it would be a good thing that you didn't tell your dad until it was to late. He would have tried to have the teacher fired. She would keep her job, and you would have suffered the retaliation. It's not that he would have been fighting the teacher. He would be fighting the bureaucracy and the teacher's union.
If they want to search anything your son has, they will completely ignore your note. Afterwards, they will completely ignore your protests. They may give you the feel good measure of letting you talk in front of a review board if they think it might shut you up, but you may as well talk to your wall at home. The ONLY way you will get ANY satisfaction is to have deep pockets, and the willingness to give it to lawyers.
Trust someone who has been there. These people are practiced at screwing over parents. They have the purse of the state and the sentiments of the people (poor underpaid and overworked teachers) to back them.
I hope to everything holy that you never have an issue, but if you do, you will see how badly the cards are stacked against you.
They will first suspend your child. My boy was suspended for "intimidation" for drawing a "racist" cartoon that he saw on a BET comedy show (Dave Chapell). The four black guys that he was trying to get away from in the lunch room apparently were not "intimidating" anyone.
You will get a chance to go before a board, comprised of the people that suspended your child, set for a month after the suspension. You are not allowed to challenge the merits of the case...only that the schoolboards procedures were followed. If you choose to challenge the verdict of the board, your child will be banned from school until the results of the hearing, schedule 6 weeks later, and faces the prospect of expulsion if the review board, composed of school administrators, decides against you. They offer an alternative school, which is mostly the discipline problems from throughout the school district and well known as a physically dangerous place to be.
That's some damn tough decisions you'll be making. You won't sleep well for months, and you'll be bitter for many years afterwards. Unless you have tens of thousands for lawyers, no one will care. Lawyers will take your single digit thousands, but when push comes to shove, they will shrug their shoulders and say something along the lines of, "Oh well, that's how it is."
Ok, I'm blowing a hell of a lot of moderation to respond, but this statement cannot stand unchallenged.
You are flat out wrong.
I spent months fighting it. At least in North Carolina, they can interrogate your child, force him to write a confession, call him back to update the confession to be more incriminating, and not even have to show up at court. You have no power to challenge the school cop or the assistant principal that forced the confession.
I paid the $1200 to have the lawyer tell me that there was nothing to be done about it. My son did the nine months of probation and 40 hours of community service. They have your kids, and they'll do whatever they damn well please. Unless you can afford a team of lawyers, there is all of jack and shit that you can do about it.
New languages from within academia are generally rejected because they try to eliminate hacky coding and force good practice from the ground up.
From my own experience, academic languages tend to be rejected because they turn out to be useless beyond creating the type of toy programs that one tends to create in academia. That is, the languages tend to be designed around the academics own myopia and lack of need for mechanisms that don't lend themselves to simple solutions.
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From the mid 70s to the mid 80s, America was in the thralls of a love affair with a little two way radios that would let you talk with people a few miles away, while remaining mostly anonymous. You created a "handle", and learned to speak the language. The fad got so popular, movies were created around it. Eventually, the fad died out when people finally got tired of talking to other people without ever saying anything.
Sound familiar?
In North Carolina, each school is now assigned a policeman. It is not a "security guard" with a plastic badge. They are duly sworn officers of the state. They also happen to be the rubber stamps of whatever the school administrator says.
Thank you for your condolences. The thing is, I want to actually trust policemen and those appointed as authorities. Reality is a harsh mistress, though.
I think this requires a bit more explanation.
The reason it doesn't work for a diverse nation is because the people given charge of directing the ridiculously large sums of money have no emotional ties to the people paying the taxes. Note the "insider trading" scandal where Congressmen have their pages running to buy/sell stocks in the companies that they are passing legislation on. Move all that monetary control back to the states, and there is more accountability.
The want lower taxes, and they were willing to cut spending to get them. That was very much a threat to the status quo which derives fortunes from directing the spending.
To support your point, watch any of the Fox News political shows, or even just their commercials. They give air time to the "top three candidates", always leaving out Ron Paul, even though he is arguably in second place with delegate counts. Only one candidate is willing to say that he will actually cut government spending and stands for what the original TEA Party was protesting for.
Blaming Obama is like blaming the guy for not putting out the fire fast enough when Bush turned over the keys to a house already in flames.
And yet, we continue to ignore the wanton boys playing with matches in the backrooms.
You silly boy. You do not understand how the system works. The Democrats raise taxes on the rich, then they hand that money to their supporters on Wall Street or Solyndra or GM. You will definitely not be any better off.
Who are the grownups in this situation? The ones handing money to Solyndra? Or the ones sending guns down to the Mexican drug lords? Wait! I know! Maybe it is the ones saying they don't need Congressional approval to start a war with another country?
And it had nothing to do with the policy makers being to weak to take any serious steps to actually curtail the spending spree? "policymaking and political institutions have weakened at a time of ongoing fiscal and economic challenges" is obtuse enough to spin any way you please, but there were multiple efforts to control the spending. The President even shelved the advice from the panel he appointed. People that choose to confront and pay their bills do not get their credit downgraded. It is the broke people who take out credit cards after they have already talked to the bankruptcy lawyer that get downgraded.
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So you're saying that you're happy that we have a President who will launch multiple undeclared wars. Makes sense, considering the rest of your drivel.
But if what we have really belongs to "society", aren't we already slaves. If I can't own anything without your consent, then, fuck it all, I'm going to sit back and live off the government dole.
And you are a disgusting troll that wants to steal the work of someone else. Not giving you a job is not being a bully, you wimpering leach. If he has the ability to pay someone to perform a function, then it is his perogative to pay whomsoever he damn well pleases. He most certainly has the right to do with his property as he chooses. You are an awful person, and you will always be insignificant.
You have rights. You have the right to start your own damn company if you don't like the one you're working for. You have the right to refuse the work for jerks. You have the right to not work and all.
You don't have other rights. You don't have the right to determine what I will pay to get some work done. You don't have the right to have me work for you. You do not have the right to make self defeating choices and then have me bail you out when things go badly for you. You do not have the right to make me pay for your upkeep when you decide to not work at all. You do not have the right to make me your slave.
Posting to undo moderation. This mental beggary is definitely not informative.
Inform the child of their rights? WTH!? The assistant principal at my son's middle school had him write and sign a confession. Then called him back from the classroom and have him add to it because she didn't think it was incriminating enough. I repeat. She dictated the confession letter to him!
That is the behavior you can expect from administrators.
Kind of like "America is exceptional", even though we're waging unilateral wars all over the friggin' Earth while shamelessly burying children in debt so that anyone on welfare can have a cell-phone?
State or county, it doesn't matter. The school is run by a principal, and that person often believes they are king and ruler over all they behold. It is their school and they get to decide what goes on. The parent is a bother to them. I've had to deal with enough bastards to know. Unless you have deep pockets for lawyers, or the backing of the ACLU, they can basically jack around with your child's education however the damn well please, and they believe that give them total license over the child's life.
and yet, we have exactly ONE Presidential candidate that would stand up for all those positions, and he is trailing in all the polls.
What is wrong with this picture?
You do realize that the courts have decided that the police in the US are not required to know anything about the law. Right?
Makes me cry blood every time I think about it.
I told my dad some 4 years later (just before I would leave primary school) and then he was furious and told me if I had told him the story on the day he'd have had that teacher fired. That message changed my life... for the first time I understood that shit happens, but you don't have to be a victim - you can make bad people pay, you can hold people to account for their actions - even if they are authority figures.
If you lived in the US, it would be a good thing that you didn't tell your dad until it was to late. He would have tried to have the teacher fired. She would keep her job, and you would have suffered the retaliation. It's not that he would have been fighting the teacher. He would be fighting the bureaucracy and the teacher's union.
If they want to search anything your son has, they will completely ignore your note. Afterwards, they will completely ignore your protests. They may give you the feel good measure of letting you talk in front of a review board if they think it might shut you up, but you may as well talk to your wall at home. The ONLY way you will get ANY satisfaction is to have deep pockets, and the willingness to give it to lawyers.
Trust someone who has been there. These people are practiced at screwing over parents. They have the purse of the state and the sentiments of the people (poor underpaid and overworked teachers) to back them.
I hope to everything holy that you never have an issue, but if you do, you will see how badly the cards are stacked against you.
They will first suspend your child. My boy was suspended for "intimidation" for drawing a "racist" cartoon that he saw on a BET comedy show (Dave Chapell). The four black guys that he was trying to get away from in the lunch room apparently were not "intimidating" anyone.
You will get a chance to go before a board, comprised of the people that suspended your child, set for a month after the suspension. You are not allowed to challenge the merits of the case...only that the schoolboards procedures were followed. If you choose to challenge the verdict of the board, your child will be banned from school until the results of the hearing, schedule 6 weeks later, and faces the prospect of expulsion if the review board, composed of school administrators, decides against you. They offer an alternative school, which is mostly the discipline problems from throughout the school district and well known as a physically dangerous place to be.
That's some damn tough decisions you'll be making. You won't sleep well for months, and you'll be bitter for many years afterwards. Unless you have tens of thousands for lawyers, no one will care. Lawyers will take your single digit thousands, but when push comes to shove, they will shrug their shoulders and say something along the lines of, "Oh well, that's how it is."
Ok, I'm blowing a hell of a lot of moderation to respond, but this statement cannot stand unchallenged.
You are flat out wrong.
I spent months fighting it. At least in North Carolina, they can interrogate your child, force him to write a confession, call him back to update the confession to be more incriminating, and not even have to show up at court. You have no power to challenge the school cop or the assistant principal that forced the confession.
I paid the $1200 to have the lawyer tell me that there was nothing to be done about it. My son did the nine months of probation and 40 hours of community service. They have your kids, and they'll do whatever they damn well please. Unless you can afford a team of lawyers, there is all of jack and shit that you can do about it.
New languages from within academia are generally rejected because they try to eliminate hacky coding and force good practice from the ground up.
From my own experience, academic languages tend to be rejected because they turn out to be useless beyond creating the type of toy programs that one tends to create in academia. That is, the languages tend to be designed around the academics own myopia and lack of need for mechanisms that don't lend themselves to simple solutions.
Or, maybe, they just have the same handlers. You know, the Presidency isn't meant to wield power. It is meant to distract from it.