Your suggestions are good... for those who already have the strength to use them.
Not everyone can. The "Hellmouth" series was re-published not long ago. Go read it and see if you have any suggestions for people who are too small, too slow, or have already been beaten down too far to bring themselves up your way.
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The article doesn't even mention closed-captioning. From the article:
"There is about a half a MHz of unused bandwidth in the letterbox, and about a half a MHz in the vestigial sidebands, and we make use of them both to encode the high-definition information," said Nickel.
To analog-TV viewers, the extra information will appear to be encoded within the black bands at the top and bottom of the screen -- the so-called letterbox. Viewers will be able to tell when there is information in the letterbox because it will be gray instead of black.
It looks like the digital signals are being encoded in regions which are otherwise unused (taking advantage of improved signal-processing technology) and the captions are safe. --
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If you are bullied you are offered a chance to fight or flee.
Fight, and have your possessions trashed and your body battered, perhaps broken. Fight in a school you're required to attend, so that you can get to the classes to which you are entitled. Endure threats or even assault and battery so some coward can feel big.
Employers are required by law to stop behavior like this in their workplace. Failure to do so exposes them to huge liability, and nobody is even required to work at a particular job (or at all)! There is no excuse for schools failing to give the same protection to people who attend schools paid for by tax dollars. There is no excuse for bullies having the run of the school.
Cowardess inspired by a cowardly act is still cowardly.
It takes a lot more guts to get your own back when you know you're going to pay a price for it than it takes to pick on someone you think cannot fight back. You sound like you are defending the bullies. You didn't spend your secondary-school days slamming smaller kids against lockers, did you?
To all the geeks out there getting picked on: Quit being such pussy's. Start fighting. If you let yourself get pushed around you will be pushed around.
Crap on that. To all the geeks out there getting pushed around: report the behavior to the administration. Look it up in your state's criminal code and cite the paragraph that the bullies are violating. Tell the administration that they can either stop the bullies with sanctions or you are going to go to the police the next time this occurs, and right after that you are going to go to your lawyer and file suit against the school for failing to control unlawful behavior on their premises which was known to them. Then do it.
then called a coward by lame presidents when they finally snap.
That is cowardice. Shooting unarmed people can never be anything but cowardly.
Isn't it cowardly to bully and harass (as many at the school were described to have done) someone who is small and frail (as the alleged shooter is decribed to be)? It's a lot worse, because the bullies think that nothing will happen to them. Someone who picks up a gun has no expectation of walking away scot-free, like the bullies do.
Until the schools get tough with bullies and sanction them (up to and including expulsion) for "creating a hostile educational environment", we can expect the victims to reach the ends of their ropes and do something about it. As it is we are only seeing the tip of an iceberg with the shooters, because most of the victims respond by transferring schools, dropping out or committing suicide. The losses in destroyed educations and lost lives from bullying and harassment are many times as large as the losses from school shooters, and it's high time that something was done to address it. --
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Not everyone can. The "Hellmouth" series was re-published not long ago. Go read it and see if you have any suggestions for people who are too small, too slow, or have already been beaten down too far to bring themselves up your way.
I'd say more, but I think I've said too much already.
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Employers are required by law to stop behavior like this in their workplace. Failure to do so exposes them to huge liability, and nobody is even required to work at a particular job (or at all)! There is no excuse for schools failing to give the same protection to people who attend schools paid for by tax dollars. There is no excuse for bullies having the run of the school.
It takes a lot more guts to get your own back when you know you're going to pay a price for it than it takes to pick on someone you think cannot fight back. You sound like you are defending the bullies. You didn't spend your secondary-school days slamming smaller kids against lockers, did you? Crap on that. To all the geeks out there getting pushed around: report the behavior to the administration. Look it up in your state's criminal code and cite the paragraph that the bullies are violating. Tell the administration that they can either stop the bullies with sanctions or you are going to go to the police the next time this occurs, and right after that you are going to go to your lawyer and file suit against the school for failing to control unlawful behavior on their premises which was known to them. Then do it.We've been dominated by sadists, or ignored by the apathetic.... Isn't it true? It doesn't have to be; it only persists because all of us let it.
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Until the schools get tough with bullies and sanction them (up to and including expulsion) for "creating a hostile educational environment", we can expect the victims to reach the ends of their ropes and do something about it. As it is we are only seeing the tip of an iceberg with the shooters, because most of the victims respond by transferring schools, dropping out or committing suicide. The losses in destroyed educations and lost lives from bullying and harassment are many times as large as the losses from school shooters, and it's high time that something was done to address it.
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