Yea well... all my friends and I have routers and domains too. Yee haw... Age has nothing to do with power or achievments. The "exception" teen agers are prooving this time and time again. Go read the Ender's Game series and focus on Peter and Valentine.
The point is that for years the school system has been administering schools with the same "zero-tolerance" blanket policies. These policies are not just or right. The policies punish students for hacking with suspension, the same as a bully would be punished for beating up another student.
Instead, consequences need to be administered based on circumstance. When a student hacks into their school's computers for the sake of a challenge or mischievous exploration, they should not be punished with suspension. Instead, they should have their energy channeled into something productive. They should be told "Good job, we can see you thought a lot about this, worked on it, and completed your goal. However, you have to understand that it was destructive. So, tell us how you did it! And then help us write software that will be better then what we have."
Potential in students should not be destroyed with suspension.
It has now gotten to the point were the school system in not only responsible for destroying potential, it is responsible for destroying life.
Hackers will make great engineers and teachers.
Kids who run meth labs will make great chemists. Kids who deal cocaine will make great managers.
30,575 dead.
Shinjan one of them. Tied a rope from his head.
Genius. Computers. Genius Programming. Creative outlets, nothing but another challenge.
These are the words that you constantly shun.
Because you are a school, a euphemism for prison.
The boy was gifted, the boy challenged himself, and completed his goal.
You punished him, rapped him, and then sent him home.
His life had meaning, a future, and pride.
From his family, friends, and the world death is now were he hides.
And you revert the blame?
You say its not your fault?
You wash your hands of the blood, while the public protests and shouts?
Zero-tolerance for hacking?
What about zero-tolerance for ignorance?
What about zero-tolerance for the death of the innocent?
HE IS DEAD.
IT IS YOUR FAULT.
But you cant even comprehend what I speak about.
You should have praised him, congratulated him, and patted him on the back.
And yet shinjan has died. Just for knowing how to hack.
Children must push their limits.
Smart people want to challenge themselves.
Schools: ENCOURAGE THE PASSION OF COMPUTERS.
Wow... you seem pretty pissed off at the snow plows. Your probably right... it would be better if we left the roads covered in snow and ice. Let the cars worry about it when they get run over. The truth is- there are dangers that exist in the world, be it snow plows or trains. Its not the job of everyone else to make the world safe for children, its the job of the childs parent to teach them the dangers of the world.
Hello Mr. Adams, I would like to start out by sincerely thanking you for writing the Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy series. (Radio, Books, Movie) My life and sense of humor would be completely different (and worsened in my humble opinion) without this masterpiece you have created.
So On with the question!
What would you consider justification for life? What experiences are needed in order to actually live? Or is it rather based upon thought and beliefs hat a person holds?
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You can pick your banjo, and you can pick your nose. But you cant pick your nose with your banjo
:)
Just a little banjo humor... (I work at a music store)
I couldent agree more.
Wrong.
Yea well... all my friends and I have routers and domains too. Yee haw... Age has nothing to do with power or achievments. The "exception" teen agers are prooving this time and time again. Go read the Ender's Game series and focus on Peter and Valentine.
Nah... you dont need BOSE headphones. Any headphones will work if you get them loud enough.
I really hope you are joking :)
I made my towel last year in school
It?s a white towel with the words "Don?t Panic" at the top and then 42 under that.
I also have some quotes from the hitchhikers guide.
I just printed it out on iron on transfer paper and then used the schools shirt press.
Worked out wonderfully.
The point is that for years the school system has been administering schools with the same "zero-tolerance" blanket policies. These policies are not just or right. The policies punish students for hacking with suspension, the same as a bully would be punished for beating up another student.
Instead, consequences need to be administered based on circumstance. When a student hacks into their school's computers for the sake of a challenge or mischievous exploration, they should not be punished with suspension. Instead, they should have their energy channeled into something productive. They should be told "Good job, we can see you thought a lot about this, worked on it, and completed your goal. However, you have to understand that it was destructive. So, tell us how you did it! And then help us write software that will be better then what we have."
Potential in students should not be destroyed with suspension.
It has now gotten to the point were the school system in not only responsible for destroying potential, it is responsible for destroying life.
Hackers will make great engineers and teachers.
Kids who run meth labs will make great chemists. Kids who deal cocaine will make great managers.
30,575 dead.
Shinjan one of them. Tied a rope from his head.
Genius. Computers. Genius Programming. Creative outlets, nothing but another challenge.
These are the words that you constantly shun.
Because you are a school, a euphemism for prison.
The boy was gifted, the boy challenged himself, and completed his goal.
You punished him, rapped him, and then sent him home.
His life had meaning, a future, and pride.
From his family, friends, and the world death is now were he hides.
And you revert the blame?
You say its not your fault?
You wash your hands of the blood, while the public protests and shouts?
Zero-tolerance for hacking?
What about zero-tolerance for ignorance?
What about zero-tolerance for the death of the innocent?
HE IS DEAD.
IT IS YOUR FAULT.
But you cant even comprehend what I speak about.
You should have praised him, congratulated him, and patted him on the back.
And yet shinjan has died. Just for knowing how to hack.
Children must push their limits.
Smart people want to challenge themselves.
Schools: ENCOURAGE THE PASSION OF COMPUTERS.
Wow... you seem pretty pissed off at the snow plows.
Your probably right... it would be better if we left the roads covered in snow and ice. Let the cars worry about it when they get run over.
The truth is- there are dangers that exist in the world, be it snow plows or trains. Its not the job of everyone else to make the world safe for children, its the job of the childs parent to teach them the dangers of the world.
All they need now is to get a guy named Uncle Enzo to run the place...
Check out his letter to Bill Gates (If this has been linked to on /. before I am not surprised- but I have not seen it yet...) Letter to Bill
So On with the question!
What would you consider justification for life? What experiences are needed in order to actually live? Or is it rather based upon thought and beliefs hat a person holds?