Someone asked me once if I had life to live over again, what would I do? I responded that I wouldn't do it, there would be no way in hell I would go through grammar school and high school again. he didn't understand, being from a more popular crowd. He never had to deal with having to find a new route home from school every day so the local bullies wouldn't catch up with you. Finding someone emptied a bucket of water into your locker. I now find myself in an interseting predicament. My five year old is following in my footsteps in a way that's scary. I can sit there and pick out every abnormality that will brand him once he gets in school. From what I understand from watching the local news, there are now proceedings to hold parents accountable for their children's actions. My predicament is how do I ensure that my child will not be ostracized at school, causing him to go off the deep end, killing himself and others. Should I get him plastic surgery to remove any potential physical attributes that may result in instances of name calling? Should I pump him up with steroids so he can be a jock if he so desires? Should I get another job so I can send him to school with 100 bucks every day as pocket change so he won't be ostracized as being poor? To blame what happened solely on the parents is totally unacceptable and assinine. There are a number of kids every year that take their own lives for precisely the same reason the two youths in Colorado did. The only reason that this got any media attention was that they took their 'tormentors' with them. To put all the blame on the parents would be relieving the school of any responsibility of instilling morals and ethics into our children. As having experienced this sort of brutality first hand, I am also guessing that the youths problems didn't start in high school, it's more likely that it started in grammar school and had been festering for quite some time. My persecution started in third grade and didn't stop until 10 years later when I went to college. Until the school steps in and recognizes the true source of the problem (the ostracizing, and the bullying) I'm afraid we've only seen the start of a very bad trend.
I think that the biggest sin that RedHat can be accused of is marketing, if that's a sin. MS does a great job of marketing to the masses, and RedHat seems like they are following in those footsteps as well. It's the only distro. I see at Best Buy, they've 'partnered' with just about every major player in the game, and they really seem to have their act together in this aspect. Being new to the Linux OS, I've been playing around with the different distros for the last couple of months, picked up Caldera 2.2 at Comdex on Monday, and find myself preferring what RedHat is doing. Although their setup procedure can be difficult, it seems to me to offer a nice balance of retaining user control and making the setup easy. Because of this and their agressive marketing strategy, it comes as no suprise that they seem to be everywhere. I think the backlash is more along the lines of when your favorite underground rock band gets popular and 'sells out' they're not cool anymore. To some extent this is true, but we all have to eat...
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reporter: "Mr. Gandhi, what do you think of Western Civilization?"
Gandhi: "I think it would be a good idea."
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Someone asked me once if I had life to live over again, what would I do? I responded that I wouldn't do it, there would be no way in hell I would go through grammar school and high school again. he didn't understand, being from a more popular crowd. He never had to deal with having to find a new route home from school every day so the local bullies wouldn't catch up with you. Finding someone emptied a bucket of water into your locker. I now find myself in an interseting predicament. My five year old is following in my footsteps in a way that's scary. I can sit there and pick out every abnormality that will brand him once he gets in school. From what I understand from watching the local news, there are now proceedings to hold parents accountable for their children's actions. My predicament is how do I ensure that my child will not be ostracized at school, causing him to go off the deep end, killing himself and others. Should I get him plastic surgery to remove any potential physical attributes that may result in instances of name calling? Should I pump him up with steroids so he can be a jock if he so desires? Should I get another job so I can send him to school with 100 bucks every day as pocket change so he won't be ostracized as being poor? To blame what happened solely on the parents is totally unacceptable and assinine. There are a number of kids every year that take their own lives for precisely the same reason the two youths in Colorado did. The only reason that this got any media attention was that they took their 'tormentors' with them. To put all the blame on the parents would be relieving the school of any responsibility of instilling morals and ethics into our children. As having experienced this sort of brutality first hand, I am also guessing that the youths problems didn't start in high school, it's more likely that it started in grammar school and had been festering for quite some time. My persecution started in third grade and didn't stop until 10 years later when I went to college. Until the school steps in and recognizes the true source of the problem (the ostracizing, and the bullying) I'm afraid we've only seen the start of a very bad trend.
I think that the biggest sin that RedHat can be accused of is marketing, if that's a sin. MS does a great job of marketing to the masses, and RedHat seems like they are following in those footsteps as well. It's the only distro. I see at Best Buy, they've 'partnered' with just about every major player in the game, and they really seem to have their act together in this aspect. Being new to the Linux OS, I've been playing around with the different distros for the last couple of months, picked up Caldera 2.2 at Comdex on Monday, and find myself preferring what RedHat is doing. Although their setup procedure can be difficult, it seems to me to offer a nice balance of retaining user control and making the setup easy. Because of this and their agressive marketing strategy, it comes as no suprise that they seem to be everywhere. I think the backlash is more along the lines of when your favorite underground rock band gets popular and 'sells out' they're not cool anymore. To some extent this is true, but we all have to eat...