Well, I am a tech, and much of my work comes through a job broker. My job offers come in by SMS message. Messages ding me at all hours of the day and night.
As for outbound messages, it is a great private medium. I am free to say something about someone/something without those close to me knowing what I am saying. It doesn't interfere with the other person if they are somewhere that they cannot answer, and you have a record of the conversation. This can be more effective for the old, "On your way home pick up, milk, bread and eggs." calls.
This old story is rubbish. Allowing starter jobs to only go to adult illegal aliens who will stay in the starter jobs removes the bottom rungs of the job ladder from the next generation. Stop being so short sighted.
I hope that your post was an attempt at sarcasm. You think that MOST teenage females would not feel violated by being stripped and searched by an adult?!?!
It's pretty bloody hard to OD on ibuprofen! My doc used to have me take 15 of the 200 mg ibuprofen if I was away from my Rx drugs! The biggest risk with that level is developing ulcers. Now, acetaminophen, "just a Tylenol" is far more dangerous....
as for most OD's, I'd just see if their story made them worthy of a Darwin award...
...I certainly think the administrator should be able to confiscate any pills students are observed with; I'm not afraid of ibuprofen, and if the student refuses, the resolution should be to contact the parents or police, not to strip search them, but they do actually need to have some ability to actually run their building, which means expecting certain behavior from students and the ability to get rid of students who comply (that sounds all fascist, but that isn't the way I mean it, I just mean that disruptive students shouldn't get to piss all over the other kids; odd story, that actually happened at my junior high. I'm glad I wasn't involved.).
Have you considered that the student may have NEEDED the ibuprofen? Teenage females are more prone than the general population to be afflicted with migraines. (Oh, the joys of being a female!) If she is prone to migraine, she would have legitimate cause to carry ibuprofen. Doctors who deal in headache treatment will tell patients that if they do not have access to Rx drugs, and they feel a migraine coming on, to take something, be it ibuprofen, naproxin sodium, aspirin, caffeine or acetaminophen to keep the migraine from getting too far out of control.
Where I went to school, if someone said that they had a headache, a dozen girls were reaching in their bags and offering up cures. Taking care of people is, to an extent, a natural feminine trait! Now, they want to string up the girls who are actually out to help people. Yup, zero tolerance for being a helpful human being, and helping someone stop their suffering. Oy!
What a beautiful solution! Get rid of some of the overpaid union school employees by convicting them as sex offenders, and keep them out of other schools!
In Ohio, they can't be a sex offender when they START the job, and they can't abuse kids in their own school, 'lest they get fired, but they can stay employed as school employees if they abuse kids from different schools. (Or on another front that is not sex offense, educator can bake babies in cars, wihtout fear of prosecution, or losing their jobs! Killing a baby in favor of bringing in a few dozen doughnuts... Have to keep your priorities in line... Hmm, some days a good doughnut does sound better than a kid...)
That's when you call the cops and have it done by professionals who know how to do it properly. Even if my kid was carrying drugs in his or her underwear, I would not want a school administrator doing the search. You think you've got that much evidence, then you pick up the goddamned phone and phone the goddamned cops. If you're a school employee, your job is not to do strip searches, and I hope the kid's lawyers bankrupt the goddamned school. They overstepped their bounds so badly that it's difficult to imagine how they're judgement could have been any worse.
Law, medicine, whatever! Some schools want to do it all. Some states have now banned the once common practice of schools REQUIRING that a student go on a "behavior modification drug", like Ritalin, as a condition of attendance. These requirements were made by teachers and administrators with no contact with anyone with a medical degree... Oy!
They are losing customers due to the kids scaring off my demographic, the middle aged women.
Now, they may be chasing of a good number of the women themselves? Sounds kind of like taking aim at their own toes to me.
I suspect that this strategy might backfire on them. I'm a female in my 40's, and have had my hearing tested extensively, and my hearing in that range is quite good. From my ear specialist's views, and what is expressed on the vestibular forums, high frequency hearing loss is most likely in males. As females do more shopping, unless this just being used at the Bass Pro shop, they will find their overall business dropping. Plus, if you think about how many people shop with children in tow, this will have the consequence of getting babies and small children all riled up, as the younger you are, the sensitive the high frequency hearing.
I don't use Yahoo as a search, but for hosting a mailing list, on someone else's server, FOR FREE, that is easily found by many people, it is a good thing! As a list-mom who has used Yahoo for a long time, I hope that MS keeps their nasty paws off of Yahoo! I've played with other free mailing list providers, (My husband has even offered to run my groups off of our servers, but I don't want 2000+ people sucking up my bandwidth!) but, to date, I've not found another mailing list/group solution that works as well, including some pay for service versions that some friends have subscribed to. They all bounce back to Yahoo. It's the best public group solution that I don't have to pay for.
After posting an ICQ number as contact information on genealogy forums years ago, I keep logged into my ICQ with GAIM. Of course, I also have my AIM and Yahoo ID's loaded into GAIM. Oft times these chat ID's last longer than email addresses, and postings to genealogy forums can get replies YEARS after the original posting. Actually, I had allowed my ICQ to lie dormant for a few years before that, until I had been emailing back and forth with someone from a genealogy forum who only used ICQ, so I resurected that ID. There are reasons to hang on to such things. Not all of the people with whom I communicate are early adopters.
As long as people continue to use their vote on the "lesser of evils" to avoid the "wasted vote" scenario, they really are wasting their vote. A vote for the lesser of evils is still a vote for evil.
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Move the 9, move the 9, undo so that you can move the 9. You will fail if you don't move the 9!
As for outbound messages, it is a great private medium. I am free to say something about someone/something without those close to me knowing what I am saying. It doesn't interfere with the other person if they are somewhere that they cannot answer, and you have a record of the conversation. This can be more effective for the old, "On your way home pick up, milk, bread and eggs." calls.
The Communists got in on the last election, and we can see the results of that.
This old story is rubbish. Allowing starter jobs to only go to adult illegal aliens who will stay in the starter jobs removes the bottom rungs of the job ladder from the next generation. Stop being so short sighted.
Do you want to play a game?
They CANNOT be serious!
Oh wow! I always hope for rain on election day to keep the lazy voters home, but I hadn't thought of using TV...
I hope that your post was an attempt at sarcasm. You think that MOST teenage females would not feel violated by being stripped and searched by an adult?!?!
Administrators acting like the old man in Nabakov's Lolita....
Slashdotters can't be old enough to be parents?
Even if you still live with your mom doesn't mean that other Slashdotters didn't grow up!
..and by the time that you're 40....
as for most OD's, I'd just see if their story made them worthy of a Darwin award...
Or, at least a government employee!
...I certainly think the administrator should be able to confiscate any pills students are observed with; I'm not afraid of ibuprofen, and if the student refuses, the resolution should be to contact the parents or police, not to strip search them, but they do actually need to have some ability to actually run their building, which means expecting certain behavior from students and the ability to get rid of students who comply (that sounds all fascist, but that isn't the way I mean it, I just mean that disruptive students shouldn't get to piss all over the other kids; odd story, that actually happened at my junior high. I'm glad I wasn't involved.).
Have you considered that the student may have NEEDED the ibuprofen? Teenage females are more prone than the general population to be afflicted with migraines. (Oh, the joys of being a female!) If she is prone to migraine, she would have legitimate cause to carry ibuprofen. Doctors who deal in headache treatment will tell patients that if they do not have access to Rx drugs, and they feel a migraine coming on, to take something, be it ibuprofen, naproxin sodium, aspirin, caffeine or acetaminophen to keep the migraine from getting too far out of control.
Where I went to school, if someone said that they had a headache, a dozen girls were reaching in their bags and offering up cures. Taking care of people is, to an extent, a natural feminine trait! Now, they want to string up the girls who are actually out to help people. Yup, zero tolerance for being a helpful human being, and helping someone stop their suffering. Oy!
In Ohio, they can't be a sex offender when they START the job, and they can't abuse kids in their own school, 'lest they get fired, but they can stay employed as school employees if they abuse kids from different schools. (Or on another front that is not sex offense, educator can bake babies in cars, wihtout fear of prosecution, or losing their jobs! Killing a baby in favor of bringing in a few dozen doughnuts... Have to keep your priorities in line... Hmm, some days a good doughnut does sound better than a kid...)
That's when you call the cops and have it done by professionals who know how to do it properly. Even if my kid was carrying drugs in his or her underwear, I would not want a school administrator doing the search. You think you've got that much evidence, then you pick up the goddamned phone and phone the goddamned cops. If you're a school employee, your job is not to do strip searches, and I hope the kid's lawyers bankrupt the goddamned school. They overstepped their bounds so badly that it's difficult to imagine how they're judgement could have been any worse.
Law, medicine, whatever! Some schools want to do it all. Some states have now banned the once common practice of schools REQUIRING that a student go on a "behavior modification drug", like Ritalin, as a condition of attendance. These requirements were made by teachers and administrators with no contact with anyone with a medical degree... Oy!
They are losing customers due to the kids scaring off my demographic, the middle aged women. Now, they may be chasing of a good number of the women themselves? Sounds kind of like taking aim at their own toes to me.
I suspect that this strategy might backfire on them. I'm a female in my 40's, and have had my hearing tested extensively, and my hearing in that range is quite good. From my ear specialist's views, and what is expressed on the vestibular forums, high frequency hearing loss is most likely in males. As females do more shopping, unless this just being used at the Bass Pro shop, they will find their overall business dropping. Plus, if you think about how many people shop with children in tow, this will have the consequence of getting babies and small children all riled up, as the younger you are, the sensitive the high frequency hearing.
I don't use Yahoo as a search, but for hosting a mailing list, on someone else's server, FOR FREE, that is easily found by many people, it is a good thing! As a list-mom who has used Yahoo for a long time, I hope that MS keeps their nasty paws off of Yahoo! I've played with other free mailing list providers, (My husband has even offered to run my groups off of our servers, but I don't want 2000+ people sucking up my bandwidth!) but, to date, I've not found another mailing list/group solution that works as well, including some pay for service versions that some friends have subscribed to. They all bounce back to Yahoo. It's the best public group solution that I don't have to pay for.
Question does this mean that McRib is back?
After posting an ICQ number as contact information on genealogy forums years ago, I keep logged into my ICQ with GAIM. Of course, I also have my AIM and Yahoo ID's loaded into GAIM. Oft times these chat ID's last longer than email addresses, and postings to genealogy forums can get replies YEARS after the original posting. Actually, I had allowed my ICQ to lie dormant for a few years before that, until I had been emailing back and forth with someone from a genealogy forum who only used ICQ, so I resurected that ID. There are reasons to hang on to such things. Not all of the people with whom I communicate are early adopters.
Ok, ok, I'll check my dryer. How many are you missing?
Define comfortable.
(Does this mean that company is coming? Should I prepare them a snack? Should I charge them snackbar prices?)
What? No 8-track?
As long as people continue to use their vote on the "lesser of evils" to avoid the "wasted vote" scenario, they really are wasting their vote. A vote for the lesser of evils is still a vote for evil.