Not just that... I think a lot of basic skills are left out too. I love my good ole computers, but what good is using a computer if you lose out on important skills, like math and grammar and what not?
Sure the kids have really good C grammar, but when it comes time to write a research paper, printf("blah\n"); isn't going to cut it.
My school makes us wear id 'tags' around our necks, or clipped onto our shirts. They claim it will allow them to spot individuals who don't belong there. Ok, I'll give them that. But if some idiot is going to shoot up a school, telling them to stop or get out isn't going to do much.
On Wednesday of this week they had a staff meeting and they were talking about setting up road blocks and what not around the school so that the police can stop you and search your car for no reason. No probable cause. Now it seems to me that that kind of thing is illegal.
Furthermore, if they search you with probable cause, like say for...a knife, if they find something that they aren't looking for, like say...marijuana, then they can haul you in for it. I believe that, too, is illegal.
And, if that's not enough, they want to give the police authorization to come into the school whenever they would like and give citations for anything they might not like. Maybe a controversial T-shirt. With that citation comes a $50 dollar fine. If you don't pay it, obviously, you go to court.
So the point of my big rant here... is that the government is slowly taking away our rights, privacy, etc. in the name of a safer nation. So that we might be protected. Protected from what? Being searched for no reason is not protection. And if people don't keep speaking up, we may wake up someday soon to find ourselves in a 1984-type state. We are most definitely heading that way now.
BTW: That's pretty neat. My school ID is also code 39.
Hm, ok well whether it is a good idea or not (I vote not), they [the government] can tax thingys like that... and I agree that the government has got to get money some how... But what about the talks about taxing e-mail because the postal service isn't making as much money as they'd like to?... well you really can't tax outgoing e-mail can you? Sure your ISP can say "hey according to our logs you send 25 messages", but if that's the case, use a free e-mail service based in England. One of the biggest problems with the whole taxation issue is that the people making the laws about this kind of thing are 60 and 70 and 80 year old men who can barely use a VCR (not to say that it's impossible for a 79 year old man to use a computer...but you get the idea)... I guess my point is that most of the politicians don't understand the technology they are trying to tax, and my other one being that no matter what you tax, there is always going to be a way to get by it - such is the flexibility of the internet. [id.]
Ok so great, we can go places really really fast. They neglected one small detail - how do you get back? That sort of thing isn't very useful for a lot of the things NASA would like to do, like bringing back samples from different planets and moons.
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Sure the kids have really good C grammar, but when it comes time to write a research paper, printf("blah\n"); isn't going to cut it.
Maybe that was a bad example... who knows.
On Wednesday of this week they had a staff meeting and they were talking about setting up road blocks and what not around the school so that the police can stop you and search your car for no reason. No probable cause. Now it seems to me that that kind of thing is illegal.
Furthermore, if they search you with probable cause, like say for...a knife, if they find something that they aren't looking for, like say...marijuana, then they can haul you in for it. I believe that, too, is illegal.
And, if that's not enough, they want to give the police authorization to come into the school whenever they would like and give citations for anything they might not like. Maybe a controversial T-shirt. With that citation comes a $50 dollar fine. If you don't pay it, obviously, you go to court.
So the point of my big rant here... is that the government is slowly taking away our rights, privacy, etc. in the name of a safer nation. So that we might be protected. Protected from what? Being searched for no reason is not protection. And if people don't keep speaking up, we may wake up someday soon to find ourselves in a 1984-type state. We are most definitely heading that way now.
BTW: That's pretty neat. My school ID is also code 39.
Hm, ok well whether it is a good idea or not (I vote not), they [the government] can tax thingys like that... and I agree that the government has got to get money some how... But what about the talks about taxing e-mail because the postal service isn't making as much money as they'd like to?... well you really can't tax outgoing e-mail can you? Sure your ISP can say "hey according to our logs you send 25 messages", but if that's the case, use a free e-mail service based in England. One of the biggest problems with the whole taxation issue is that the people making the laws about this kind of thing are 60 and 70 and 80 year old men who can barely use a VCR (not to say that it's impossible for a 79 year old man to use a computer...but you get the idea)... I guess my point is that most of the politicians don't understand the technology they are trying to tax, and my other one being that no matter what you tax, there is always going to be a way to get by it - such is the flexibility of the internet. [id.]
> I wonder if that applies to pre-raid > examinations of a premisis. Only if they're having sex before the raid.
Ok so great, we can go places really really fast. They neglected one small detail - how do you get back? That sort of thing isn't very useful for a lot of the things NASA would like to do, like bringing back samples from different planets and moons.