Columbine had nothing to do with bad parenting. Columbine was caused because these kids were the social outcasts and constantly teased an harassed and insulted and degraded every day in school. Add to this the fact that we love to tell kids that there is no life beyond high school and that you are going to be this way for the rest of your life and you will be hated and made fun of the rest of your life.
Anyone in this situation will eventualy snap. I should know, I nearly was one of these kids who snapped. I was lucky to realise that I was borderline, and that if I continued to go to middle school I would have hurt myself or others. I got myself comitted.
My parents did a wonderfull job raising me, but I know damn well, that if I had wanted to shoot up the school, I could have gotten all the weapons I needed, and they would have never known a damn thing.
Perhaps Harris and Clebold familys were bad parents, but I doubt that was the only cause of this. Bad parrenting might have caused them to do it (they didn't listen when they asked for help), but the idea was in their heads long before bad parenting had something to do with it.
If you want to stop school shootings and the like, Find the pricks who harass and tease others and "educate" them on how it's wrong. Don't just tell the harassed kids that it will get better some day.
I love violent video games. They kept me from hurting someone when I was in middle school. Once school was over I could go home, load up quake 2 enable cheats and blow things to bits with the rail gun. It made me feel much better.
I'm all for it! That way all laptops will have 18 inch LCD's desktop processors, a full sized keyboard. hot swapable desktop hard drives with striped RAID, weigh 20 pounds and have a battery life of 15 minutes!
Wait. Some people might not want that. Instead of just going to CompUSA and looking at their crappy selection there, perhaps you should use the magic of the intarweb and take a look at fujitsu's laptops. My lifebook P5000D is VERY different from a sager desktop replacement.
My lifebook weighs 4 pounds when loaded up with 2 batteries, Much less then the crap dell and compaq offer. Those 2 batteries can power my laptop for 7 hours. Again, much better then the crap desktop replacements. So what if it only has a 900 mhz processor? It still runs Morrowind in a manner that would be playable (not that I would do it). I don't need massive amounts of power in a laptop. Windows 2k runs perfectly fast on it, and so does all the programs I use on it (mozilla, netstumbler, analogX packetmon). If I need horrendous amounts of power for video editing or something I will remote admin into my desktop and work from there, or if I'm feeling really daring I might even sit down in front of my desktop to do work!
Standards would kill off all of the cool laptops that exist because the people that make these standards are the same execs that want a 12 pound monster of a desktop replacement.
Gee. A pound of insulation will knock a hole in a wing when it's shot into it at 500+ MPH. In an effort to give a reason for what happened they had to go this far to do it. Theres no way that a peice of insulation falling off a tank could reach that speed. Remember your high school physics. The insulation probably would have reached terminal velocity long before reaching that speed. This is a cop out, any intelligent person should be able to see that.
Well. If you did research on LCD displays you would find out that those things tell you the resolution that it will display. I believe that 1600x1200 is UXGA btw.
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Columbine had nothing to do with bad parenting. Columbine was caused because these kids were the social outcasts and constantly teased an harassed and insulted and degraded every day in school. Add to this the fact that we love to tell kids that there is no life beyond high school and that you are going to be this way for the rest of your life and you will be hated and made fun of the rest of your life.
Anyone in this situation will eventualy snap. I should know, I nearly was one of these kids who snapped. I was lucky to realise that I was borderline, and that if I continued to go to middle school I would have hurt myself or others. I got myself comitted.
My parents did a wonderfull job raising me, but I know damn well, that if I had wanted to shoot up the school, I could have gotten all the weapons I needed, and they would have never known a damn thing.
Perhaps Harris and Clebold familys were bad parents, but I doubt that was the only cause of this. Bad parrenting might have caused them to do it (they didn't listen when they asked for help), but the idea was in their heads long before bad parenting had something to do with it.
If you want to stop school shootings and the like, Find the pricks who harass and tease others and "educate" them on how it's wrong. Don't just tell the harassed kids that it will get better some day.
I love violent video games. They kept me from hurting someone when I was in middle school. Once school was over I could go home, load up quake 2 enable cheats and blow things to bits with the rail gun. It made me feel much better.
I'm all for it! That way all laptops will have 18 inch LCD's desktop processors, a full sized keyboard. hot swapable desktop hard drives with striped RAID, weigh 20 pounds and have a battery life of 15 minutes!
Wait. Some people might not want that. Instead of just going to CompUSA and looking at their crappy selection there, perhaps you should use the magic of the intarweb and take a look at fujitsu's laptops. My lifebook P5000D is VERY different from a sager desktop replacement.
My lifebook weighs 4 pounds when loaded up with 2 batteries, Much less then the crap dell and compaq offer. Those 2 batteries can power my laptop for 7 hours. Again, much better then the crap desktop replacements. So what if it only has a 900 mhz processor? It still runs Morrowind in a manner that would be playable (not that I would do it). I don't need massive amounts of power in a laptop. Windows 2k runs perfectly fast on it, and so does all the programs I use on it (mozilla, netstumbler, analogX packetmon). If I need horrendous amounts of power for video editing or something I will remote admin into my desktop and work from there, or if I'm feeling really daring I might even sit down in front of my desktop to do work!
Standards would kill off all of the cool laptops that exist because the people that make these standards are the same execs that want a 12 pound monster of a desktop replacement.
Gee. A pound of insulation will knock a hole in a wing when it's shot into it at 500+ MPH. In an effort to give a reason for what happened they had to go this far to do it. Theres no way that a peice of insulation falling off a tank could reach that speed. Remember your high school physics. The insulation probably would have reached terminal velocity long before reaching that speed. This is a cop out, any intelligent person should be able to see that.
Well. If you did research on LCD displays you would find out that those things tell you the resolution that it will display. I believe that 1600x1200 is UXGA btw.