Sorry, I think it was the "smart highway" they were working on in San Diego. The big scene was about 20 or 30 Buick LeSabres driving along on this viaduct that is the I-15 express lane when it's not being used, with about 6" of space between each car front-rear.
Part of the problem with train wrecks is that, yes, 100 people or more may get killed or injured. Unlike a highway crash, however, the effects of the crash seem to linger on for weeks. The UP/BN line along the Columbia River in Washington, north of Portland, had a derailment last summer. The wrecked train cars were still sitting on the side for weeks, and traffic was gomered up going SB for awhile, too, until they could pump out some of the derailled tank cars, nessessitating lane closures there on I-5. It took them a week or two to open the line back up slow traffic.
Worst-case scenario for a mortality-inducing car crash is that the road is closed as long as it takes the State Patrol to get enough 8x10 color glossy photos with a paragraph description on the back of each one taken. After a day or two, it's usually hard to tell something bad happened, unless you remember the news on TV as you see the spray-painted markings on the road marking the paths of the cars involved.
Besides, even in the US, trains don't crash all that often. Most train accidents involve idiots, asshats, or just unlucky people who try to occupy the same space as a 70-mph 150-car freight train at a RR crossing.
...has ANY insurance-promoted idea ever really resulted in lower insurance premiums? I mean, really?
Ooooooh, save $10/6 months because you have ABS!
Car makers don't have to currently compensate for wrongful death unless a defect in manufacturing, attributable to the car maker, is involved. So it's not really a concern to them now, is it?
Besides, if it mattered so much to the insurance companies, do you not think that perhaps insurance companies might make a bigger deal out of vehicles with significant safety ratings, to the tune of advertising sickly low rates for drivers of said cars, compared to other cars, or do they perhaps have an aversion to a scenario with too many Volvo and Buick drivers as well?
oddly enough, trip time studies show that the right lane is often the fastest lane, in spite of all the problems with exiting and merging traffic into those lanes. Or, at least it was that way in Seattle when I was working at TRAC doing traffic counts.
Most times those videos would leave out a lot of context.
Besides, they show and talk about the morning rush hour accidents all morning long on the radio anyways. Doesn't seem to help one bit.
Hopefully noone gets in a fender-bender, and trying to make light of the situation, pulls out a big sign for the news helicopters. "Free Quebec!" or something silly like that. Yeah, that would go over real good.
One day, we'll be able to do something else than driving our cars through traffic jams, saving us about two hours per working day.
You meant to say, "we'll be able to do something besides stare at cars for two hours per day". The time in the car isn't going to go away.
With these new cars (will there be a Monica Lewinsky model?) it'll now be legal for the operator to put on makeup, read the paper, beat the kids in the backseat, etc.
But will there be an awkward period where there is still a bad mix of "automated" cars and idiot-operated cars?
Too bad solutions like Metra in Chicago aren't more scalable. Metra good for going into downtown Chicago from the 'burbs, but only slightly less convenient (read, impossible, instead of nearly impossible) than going from Gurnee to Schaumburg, IL, for example.
It's always fun catching the last train out of downtown and missing your stop, though...
What might a full-cost analysis of driving vs tax-payer-subsidised mass transit look like? Do the long-term costs of poorer air quality, increased gas useage, the military support to keep the gas flowing into the US, keeping the auto industry and used car salesmen viable business ventures, etc. outweigh the cost of a few more people getting Railroad Worker pensions? The $$$ for building track vs building 6-lane highway, as well as the annual support, has got to be far more than the upkeep of rails and rail equipment, too. Obvious places would be along I-95 from Fredericksburg to Washington DC, etc.
Here in Oregon, I would much rather drive my car to Wilsonville or Tualatin, and take the Max into the downtown area, if it could cut about 30-45 minutes out of being in the car in the worst part of Portland traffic, coming from the south, that is.
If other objects should never ask for information about other objects (whether it be from the other objects or some other property fairy), then why does OO so depend on RTTI (a particular kind of object property fairy) and other methods of type discovery to work?
WP5.1 for Windows completely sucked, compared to Word 1.1.
None of the WP lovers used WP51Win.
Of course, you have to remember that Windows was fighting with the Mac, which was ALL WYSIWYG. No one ever (has) complained about the various Mac wordprocessors not having a "reveal codes" function!... as well as wanting to compete to some extent with PageMaker.
Word failed miserably at being able to compete with PageMaker toe-to-toe, but PageMaker sucks as a wordprocessor. it kept companies from buying PM licenses except for those who really needed it and could use it for what PM was good for. Letters and correspondance are not good uses for PM, but tri-fold brocures, magazine layout, etc. are.
Understanding the structure of a Word document and how formatting is applied to the data in it actually makes sense and makes reveal codes pretty much superfluous.
Word formatting was much more like doing CSS or *gasp* XML. An equivalentish Word XML doc structure is something like this:
text blockthe rest of the story...
text......and that deleting things in a Word document, and the observed effects, were a reflection of this structure, such as backspacing over a paragraph marker causing the style for the preceding paragraph to be applied to the former trailing paragraph, etc., which is completely different to what WP would do. Understanding the structure made most of Word's seemingly abherrant behavior logical.
Word documents have always been structured this way, it's just that every version since 1.1 has gotten away from presenting that structure, and trying to educate the user about it, even though it's still there.
WP is more like HTML, a bunch of characters with some markup thrown on top of it. No inherent structure to the document.
So really, all that WP was sort of good at was keeping track of open markup blocks, but I dealt with more than a few WP docs that had all sorts of nested layers of character formatting that eventually would blow up the output to the printer (along the lines of...) that needed to be cleaned up, or orphaned tags (i.e., opened tags that lost their closing tag along the way).
At the time, new users in my computer labs were shown first to Word (Mac or Windows). WP on the Windows 3.1 boxes was only for the WP fans. Getting new computer users up-to-speed with Word was far simpler than for WP.
Yes, some of the functionality used by Legal and other contract writers still sucks to this date, and totally rocked in WP. But most academic papers do not have line numbering on each page, for example...
Actually, they're not. it all goes through GDI at some point or another. So you have one method that is called "draw to screen device", and another that says, "draw to printer device", but underneath it uses the same rasterizing engine to generate a display appropriate for whatever device metrics it's been told to make a bitmap for.
...also, a 9/11-style hijacking probably could have been prevented a LONG time ago had US airlines not fought against increased security measures for 20+ years. Air piracy (i.e., gunman on plane taking over the cockpit) was how it was done in the 70's, when air piracy was probably at its zenith. Nope. Let's not learn from El Al, and lock the cockpit. The airlines even fought against the "sky police" as much as they could.
But it's probably still possible to put in a sleeper agent or few in a transportation company that moves semi-trucks of gasoline, propane or other highly inflammible chemical. Imagine the horror if a LOX truck rear-ended a large semi-trailer (or railroad car...) full of propane, ammonia, etc.?
We cannot wait until after the fact to defend ourselves...but the prudent thing would be to do a proper risk analysis on it. What is the risk of what this system is supposed to prevent from happening happening? What is the cost? What would be cost if the bad thing happened?
If it costs more to prevent something than the damage caused if allowed to happen, then it's not worth the expenditure, so then the discussion should become one of mitigating the damage from the Bad Event or finding other ways to keep it from happening without bankrupting the company...er, country, in the process.
Businesses go through this excercise all the time. But I suppose it's probably pretty difficult for the country to buy risk insurance, but if it can print its own money, then does it really have to?
But some people like maintaining full $100 deductible, comprehensive insurance on a their cars even after they've paid off the loan. "I can't afford a $1000 deductible! What if I get in a wreck?" Well, duh, you put aside some of the $$$ you save every month from the much lower insurance rates so that you have the cash on hand (or credit card room) to pay for it. If the accident is not chargable to another party, your rate will go up anyways for 3 years anyways...
I'll grant you that the 767 tanker lease program that Boeing nearly had could be argued as such, but you'll notice that it wasn't awarded to them (largely after people like McCain called foul), and it's now gone off to be a competitive bid....and what would the irony be if Airbus puts in the lowest bid, with Boeing as a subcontractor to install the refueling boom used by the USAF?
Don't forget that the US (and most of the armed world) was still under the Washington Treaty at that time, which strictly limited the tonnage, number and gun size of capital naval ships (aircraft carriers weren't really in existance in 1920...). While the US was laying new BB keels, it was also declassifying older ships at the same rate. The BBs sunk at Pearl Harbor would have been decommissioned when those 5 BBs were brought into service. In fact, one of the BBs sunk at Pearl Harbor was also named USS South Dakota, a sister ship of the USS Arizona.
Also, France totally threw its $$$ into the Maginot Line, instead of matching what Germany was obviously doing, especially after the Germans were invited to fine-tune their techniques in Spain.
I think a nursery school is in bigger danger of having a frozen ball of turd fall through the roof (or some crackpot with a bulletproof vest and a couple of MAC-10's get inside) currently than it is for some boogyman cruise missile to land on it.
So, do you have locks on the doors of your house? Are you glad that your town has police officers?
there will always be people who want what you have, don't like you, or just want you to strip naked and crawl around on your hands and knees for the sick pleasure of it.
Militaries exist to help prevent that from happening to the nation as an entity, as well as to let the particular nation do it to those it doesn't like, internal and external to its borders...
Not supporting Israel would have caused at least two problems in the US:
a) pissed off the Jewish community
b) woken people up in the US and Europe that the area is also the "home" area of Christianity, and that letting people "own" the area with no thought of sharing it with others is probably a bad thing, from a cultural perspective.
As bad as the propaganda and bullshit storm that the US press is in the US, it pales in comparison to the operations of the disinformation ministers in Islamic countries that sow unrest and discontent with others outside their border to keep their ire from focusing on problems within THEIR countries...
That most of the Islamic countries are big on rhetoric but lacking in any actions these days should be telling as well. There was a time, of course, when they felt more comfortable with acting just as unilaterally as the US has been doing recently.
So, boo-hoo to the Islamic countries as well. If they really wanted to start something, they would just shut off the oil wells. But no...
Where were the world's muslim voices decrying violence against Muslims wrt Saddam Hussain, or the Iran-Iraq war, or the oppressive behaviors of most Islamic countries towards their fellow muslims?
Where were they with praise when the US was protecting islamic Albanians in Serbia from ethnic cleansing?
Where were they when it was pretty obvious that the Taliban government/movement was absurd and a perversion, even by Islamic standards?
Umm... what radar screen did Terry Nichols and Timothy McVeigh show up on before they blew up the Federal Building in OKC?
So "The New American" has some articles alleging a bunch of shit.
Up until OKC, it was trivial to get a truckload full of Ammonium Nitrate, or to steal a few thousand pounds from some farmer in various places, or steal it from a mine. Dynamite gets stolen from mines, and is not always successfully recovered all the time in the US.
Now, all it takes is a dishonest fertilizer salesman to get it for you or a phantom farm operation that "misplaces a few bags" of it. So they have all this documentation and requirements for it. Pshah.
The actual sentence should read "a sufficently motivated and capable person who wishes to damage a sufficently unprotected entity will try until stopped or success is achieved".
It's always been this way, and no matter what laws or super secret cops or subpoenas are put into play, will always be this way.
Car door locks exist not to deter theives, but to keep honest people honest.
If teachers are to be held "accountable", then so should parents and students. Failing students should be failed, not given bogus grades so their feelings aren't hurt.
But a big news conference of an Angry, ANGRY! parent/s about how their children weren't taught right at the school, who had an "emotionally abusive" teacher who was out to get their child, etc., plays very well on the 6 o'clock news, and that the school was going to keep their child from being able to go to Harvard or Yale.
Maybe if schools adopted the HP method of evaluation, i.e., 10% or 2 students (which ever is greater) in a given class will get failing grades, the top 10% or 2 students (which ever is greater) will get an A, and the rest will get C's...
Yes, I had a couple of college courses graded this way...
Take the parent with a grain of salt. If there is a litigation-happy state, it is California.
at least in the US, such a "windfall" would of course need to be cut as fast as possible. Local school boards would suddenly be pressed to pay off any outstanding bonds they have, and probably pay back the communities over the years (read: big property tax rebates).
School teachers would still be "right-sized", classroom sizes would still hover between 30 and 35 students per teacher, and no new buildings would really be built, except in outer suburbs.
I'm reminded of living in Lake County, Illinois no less than two years ago. On one hand, the Round Lake Beach school board is bankrupt, and taken over by the state. Just 25 miles away, in one of the higher per-capita income areas in the country, the Lake Forest Park school district is whining about having to raise fees and cut programs on TV. Yes, the LFP High School is the one where the graduating girls tend to go boob-flashing, or have in the past.
My last property tax bill on our $190,000 house in Haineville was $5700. My boss had a friend who bought a $1,000,000+ house in LFP, and their property tax bill was "high" at $10,000. Figure that one out...
Well, the US can't use it for human aid anymore, because the EU and other WTO countries are convinced that US relief aid is actually subsidies for US industries because the US gives it away, instead of charging the recipients something for it.
The threat exists, it's just that the likely probability of it is very small (unless the US is really ramping up to be prepared for China to start flexing its muscles...).
"Hoo-Rah" is the military equivalent of "yeee-haw!", two different sounds, often used to help indicate increased levels of false motivation, artificial morale, etc. It's more like, "We're all fired up, yee-awww!"
You can be "hooah", but not "hoo-rah". But if the General asks you how the food is, you loudly say, "Hoo-Rah!" with the biggest shit-eatin' grin you can muster, because that's what you've been eating in the field for however long it's been.
Funny watching military training shows on TV, all that false morale stuff just isn't there in the real training (i.e., not ROTC advanced camp or basic training or Ollie North doing a news feed for Fox News)...
Speaking of which, how is Col. Hackworth these days? Maybe he's just a little to not-on-the-bus (i.e., critical) for the news networks to have on the air?
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Sorry, I think it was the "smart highway" they were working on in San Diego. The big scene was about 20 or 30 Buick LeSabres driving along on this viaduct that is the I-15 express lane when it's not being used, with about 6" of space between each car front-rear.
Part of the problem with train wrecks is that, yes, 100 people or more may get killed or injured. Unlike a highway crash, however, the effects of the crash seem to linger on for weeks. The UP/BN line along the Columbia River in Washington, north of Portland, had a derailment last summer. The wrecked train cars were still sitting on the side for weeks, and traffic was gomered up going SB for awhile, too, until they could pump out some of the derailled tank cars, nessessitating lane closures there on I-5. It took them a week or two to open the line back up slow traffic.
Worst-case scenario for a mortality-inducing car crash is that the road is closed as long as it takes the State Patrol to get enough 8x10 color glossy photos with a paragraph description on the back of each one taken. After a day or two, it's usually hard to tell something bad happened, unless you remember the news on TV as you see the spray-painted markings on the road marking the paths of the cars involved.
Besides, even in the US, trains don't crash all that often. Most train accidents involve idiots, asshats, or just unlucky people who try to occupy the same space as a 70-mph 150-car freight train at a RR crossing.
...has ANY insurance-promoted idea ever really resulted in lower insurance premiums? I mean, really?
Ooooooh, save $10/6 months because you have ABS!
Car makers don't have to currently compensate for wrongful death unless a defect in manufacturing, attributable to the car maker, is involved. So it's not really a concern to them now, is it?
Besides, if it mattered so much to the insurance companies, do you not think that perhaps insurance companies might make a bigger deal out of vehicles with significant safety ratings, to the tune of advertising sickly low rates for drivers of said cars, compared to other cars, or do they perhaps have an aversion to a scenario with too many Volvo and Buick drivers as well?
oddly enough, trip time studies show that the right lane is often the fastest lane, in spite of all the problems with exiting and merging traffic into those lanes. Or, at least it was that way in Seattle when I was working at TRAC doing traffic counts.
Most times those videos would leave out a lot of context.
Besides, they show and talk about the morning rush hour accidents all morning long on the radio anyways. Doesn't seem to help one bit.
Hopefully noone gets in a fender-bender, and trying to make light of the situation, pulls out a big sign for the news helicopters. "Free Quebec!" or something silly like that. Yeah, that would go over real good.
One day, we'll be able to do something else than driving our cars through traffic jams, saving us about two hours per working day.
You meant to say, "we'll be able to do something besides stare at cars for two hours per day". The time in the car isn't going to go away.
With these new cars (will there be a Monica Lewinsky model?) it'll now be legal for the operator to put on makeup, read the paper, beat the kids in the backseat, etc.
But will there be an awkward period where there is still a bad mix of "automated" cars and idiot-operated cars?
Too bad solutions like Metra in Chicago aren't more scalable. Metra good for going into downtown Chicago from the 'burbs, but only slightly less convenient (read, impossible, instead of nearly impossible) than going from Gurnee to Schaumburg, IL, for example.
It's always fun catching the last train out of downtown and missing your stop, though...
What might a full-cost analysis of driving vs tax-payer-subsidised mass transit look like? Do the long-term costs of poorer air quality, increased gas useage, the military support to keep the gas flowing into the US, keeping the auto industry and used car salesmen viable business ventures, etc. outweigh the cost of a few more people getting Railroad Worker pensions? The $$$ for building track vs building 6-lane highway, as well as the annual support, has got to be far more than the upkeep of rails and rail equipment, too. Obvious places would be along I-95 from Fredericksburg to Washington DC, etc.
Here in Oregon, I would much rather drive my car to Wilsonville or Tualatin, and take the Max into the downtown area, if it could cut about 30-45 minutes out of being in the car in the worst part of Portland traffic, coming from the south, that is.
If other objects should never ask for information about other objects (whether it be from the other objects or some other property fairy), then why does OO so depend on RTTI (a particular kind of object property fairy) and other methods of type discovery to work?
Hmm...
WP5.1 for Windows completely sucked, compared to Word 1.1.
...and that deleting things in a Word document, and the observed effects, were a reflection of this structure, such as backspacing over a paragraph marker causing the style for the preceding paragraph to be applied to the former trailing paragraph, etc., which is completely different to what WP would do. Understanding the structure made most of Word's seemingly abherrant behavior logical.
...) that needed to be cleaned up, or orphaned tags (i.e., opened tags that lost their closing tag along the way).
None of the WP lovers used WP51Win.
Of course, you have to remember that Windows was fighting with the Mac, which was ALL WYSIWYG. No one ever (has) complained about the various Mac wordprocessors not having a "reveal codes" function!... as well as wanting to compete to some extent with PageMaker.
Word failed miserably at being able to compete with PageMaker toe-to-toe, but PageMaker sucks as a wordprocessor. it kept companies from buying PM licenses except for those who really needed it and could use it for what PM was good for. Letters and correspondance are not good uses for PM, but tri-fold brocures, magazine layout, etc. are.
Understanding the structure of a Word document and how formatting is applied to the data in it actually makes sense and makes reveal codes pretty much superfluous.
Word formatting was much more like doing CSS or *gasp* XML. An equivalentish Word XML doc structure is something like this:
text blockthe rest of the story...
text...
Word documents have always been structured this way, it's just that every version since 1.1 has gotten away from presenting that structure, and trying to educate the user about it, even though it's still there.
WP is more like HTML, a bunch of characters with some markup thrown on top of it. No inherent structure to the document.
So really, all that WP was sort of good at was keeping track of open markup blocks, but I dealt with more than a few WP docs that had all sorts of nested layers of character formatting that eventually would blow up the output to the printer (along the lines of
At the time, new users in my computer labs were shown first to Word (Mac or Windows). WP on the Windows 3.1 boxes was only for the WP fans.
Getting new computer users up-to-speed with Word was far simpler than for WP.
Yes, some of the functionality used by Legal and other contract writers still sucks to this date, and totally rocked in WP. But most academic papers do not have line numbering on each page, for example...
Actually, they're not. it all goes through GDI at some point or another. So you have one method that is called "draw to screen device", and another that says, "draw to printer device", but underneath it uses the same rasterizing engine to generate a display appropriate for whatever device metrics it's been told to make a bitmap for.
...also, a 9/11-style hijacking probably could have been prevented a LONG time ago had US airlines not fought against increased security measures for 20+ years. Air piracy (i.e., gunman on plane taking over the cockpit) was how it was done in the 70's, when air piracy was probably at its zenith. Nope. Let's not learn from El Al, and lock the cockpit. The airlines even fought against the "sky police" as much as they could.
But it's probably still possible to put in a sleeper agent or few in a transportation company that moves semi-trucks of gasoline, propane or other highly inflammible chemical. Imagine the horror if a LOX truck rear-ended a large semi-trailer (or railroad car...) full of propane, ammonia, etc.?
We cannot wait until after the fact to defend ourselves ...but the prudent thing would be to do a proper risk analysis on it. What is the risk of what this system is supposed to prevent from happening happening? What is the cost? What would be cost if the bad thing happened?
If it costs more to prevent something than the damage caused if allowed to happen, then it's not worth the expenditure, so then the discussion should become one of mitigating the damage from the Bad Event or finding other ways to keep it from happening without bankrupting the company...er, country, in the process.
Businesses go through this excercise all the time. But I suppose it's probably pretty difficult for the country to buy risk insurance, but if it can print its own money, then does it really have to?
But some people like maintaining full $100 deductible, comprehensive insurance on a their cars even after they've paid off the loan. "I can't afford a $1000 deductible! What if I get in a wreck?" Well, duh, you put aside some of the $$$ you save every month from the much lower insurance rates so that you have the cash on hand (or credit card room) to pay for it. If the accident is not chargable to another party, your rate will go up anyways for 3 years anyways...
Oh, you can do better for a spelling flame than that. Look back in Slashdot history for the "proper" spelling of Qaddafi...
...and putting Wolfowitz and Rice back into their padded cells?
I'll grant you that the 767 tanker lease program that Boeing nearly had could be argued as such, but you'll notice that it wasn't awarded to them (largely after people like McCain called foul), and it's now gone off to be a competitive bid. ...and what would the irony be if Airbus puts in the lowest bid, with Boeing as a subcontractor to install the refueling boom used by the USAF?
Don't forget that the US (and most of the armed world) was still under the Washington Treaty at that time, which strictly limited the tonnage, number and gun size of capital naval ships (aircraft carriers weren't really in existance in 1920...). While the US was laying new BB keels, it was also declassifying older ships at the same rate. The BBs sunk at Pearl Harbor would have been decommissioned when those 5 BBs were brought into service. In fact, one of the BBs sunk at Pearl Harbor was also named USS South Dakota, a sister ship of the USS Arizona.
Also, France totally threw its $$$ into the Maginot Line, instead of matching what Germany was obviously doing, especially after the Germans were invited to fine-tune their techniques in Spain.
I think a nursery school is in bigger danger of having a frozen ball of turd fall through the roof (or some crackpot with a bulletproof vest and a couple of MAC-10's get inside) currently than it is for some boogyman cruise missile to land on it.
So, do you have locks on the doors of your house? Are you glad that your town has police officers?
there will always be people who want what you have, don't like you, or just want you to strip naked and crawl around on your hands and knees for the sick pleasure of it.
Militaries exist to help prevent that from happening to the nation as an entity, as well as to let the particular nation do it to those it doesn't like, internal and external to its borders...
Not supporting Israel would have caused at least two problems in the US:
a) pissed off the Jewish community
b) woken people up in the US and Europe that the area is also the "home" area of Christianity, and that letting people "own" the area with no thought of sharing it with others is probably a bad thing, from a cultural perspective.
As bad as the propaganda and bullshit storm that the US press is in the US, it pales in comparison to the operations of the disinformation ministers in Islamic countries that sow unrest and discontent with others outside their border to keep their ire from focusing on problems within THEIR countries...
That most of the Islamic countries are big on rhetoric but lacking in any actions these days should be telling as well. There was a time, of course, when they felt more comfortable with acting just as unilaterally as the US has been doing recently.
So, boo-hoo to the Islamic countries as well. If they really wanted to start something, they would just shut off the oil wells. But no...
Where were the world's muslim voices decrying violence against Muslims wrt Saddam Hussain, or the Iran-Iraq war, or the oppressive behaviors of most Islamic countries towards their fellow muslims?
Where were they with praise when the US was protecting islamic Albanians in Serbia from ethnic cleansing?
Where were they when it was pretty obvious that the Taliban government/movement was absurd and a perversion, even by Islamic standards?
Umm... what radar screen did Terry Nichols and Timothy McVeigh show up on before they blew up the Federal Building in OKC?
So "The New American" has some articles alleging a bunch of shit.
Up until OKC, it was trivial to get a truckload full of Ammonium Nitrate, or to steal a few thousand pounds from some farmer in various places, or steal it from a mine. Dynamite gets stolen from mines, and is not always successfully recovered all the time in the US.
Now, all it takes is a dishonest fertilizer salesman to get it for you or a phantom farm operation that "misplaces a few bags" of it. So they have all this documentation and requirements for it. Pshah.
The actual sentence should read "a sufficently motivated and capable person who wishes to damage a sufficently unprotected entity will try until stopped or success is achieved".
It's always been this way, and no matter what laws or super secret cops or subpoenas are put into play, will always be this way.
Car door locks exist not to deter theives, but to keep honest people honest.
If teachers are to be held "accountable", then so should parents and students. Failing students should be failed, not given bogus grades so their feelings aren't hurt.
But a big news conference of an Angry, ANGRY! parent/s about how their children weren't taught right at the school, who had an "emotionally abusive" teacher who was out to get their child, etc., plays very well on the 6 o'clock news, and that the school was going to keep their child from being able to go to Harvard or Yale.
Maybe if schools adopted the HP method of evaluation, i.e., 10% or 2 students (which ever is greater) in a given class will get failing grades, the top 10% or 2 students (which ever is greater) will get an A, and the rest will get C's...
Yes, I had a couple of college courses graded this way...
Take the parent with a grain of salt. If there is a litigation-happy state, it is California.
The Bible says that fathers are allowed to sell their daughters into slavery as well.
So what is your point? Just about everything done by the US Government could be construed to be "for the common defense".
John Ashcroft sounds about ready to advocate for the disestablishment of the Supreme Court.
You think that is bad? Wait until you get to college and it happens...
at least in the US, such a "windfall" would of course need to be cut as fast as possible. Local school boards would suddenly be pressed to pay off any outstanding bonds they have, and probably pay back the communities over the years (read: big property tax rebates).
School teachers would still be "right-sized", classroom sizes would still hover between 30 and 35 students per teacher, and no new buildings would really be built, except in outer suburbs.
I'm reminded of living in Lake County, Illinois no less than two years ago. On one hand, the Round Lake Beach school board is bankrupt, and taken over by the state. Just 25 miles away, in one of the higher per-capita income areas in the country, the Lake Forest Park school district is whining about having to raise fees and cut programs on TV. Yes, the LFP High School is the one where the graduating girls tend to go boob-flashing, or have in the past.
My last property tax bill on our $190,000 house in Haineville was $5700. My boss had a friend who bought a $1,000,000+ house in LFP, and their property tax bill was "high" at $10,000. Figure that one out...
Well, the US can't use it for human aid anymore, because the EU and other WTO countries are convinced that US relief aid is actually subsidies for US industries because the US gives it away, instead of charging the recipients something for it.
The threat exists, it's just that the likely probability of it is very small (unless the US is really ramping up to be prepared for China to start flexing its muscles...).
Both are used.
"Hooah" is more a singular, guttoral sound.
"Hoo-Rah" is the military equivalent of "yeee-haw!", two different sounds, often used to help indicate increased levels of false motivation, artificial morale, etc. It's more like, "We're all fired up, yee-awww!"
You can be "hooah", but not "hoo-rah". But if the General asks you how the food is, you loudly say, "Hoo-Rah!" with the biggest shit-eatin' grin you can muster, because that's what you've been eating in the field for however long it's been.
Funny watching military training shows on TV, all that false morale stuff just isn't there in the real training (i.e., not ROTC advanced camp or basic training or Ollie North doing a news feed for Fox News)...
Speaking of which, how is Col. Hackworth these days? Maybe he's just a little to not-on-the-bus (i.e., critical) for the news networks to have on the air?