Kylie, who was sacked in 2003 after working for ten years at Brigitte's Massage Parlour After ten years, she was most likely too old to satisfy their clients' discerning tastes in "massage". Seriously, if you're in that line of work, you better already have an alternative career path planned out!
I once locked my keys in my car, with handcuffs sitting in plain sight on the passenger seat. AAA sent out a woman to jimmy the lock; while she was doing it she remarked "So, are you in law enforcement?" Sadly, I could only reply "No... why do you ask?" After that, we were both pretty quiet....
Non-autistic kids are more likely to listen to a command to stop. By that criteria, deaf or hard of hearing kids should be put into separate enclosures as well. The parents aren't objecting to the school keeping their kids safe, they are objecting to them singling out their kids for "special treatment", leading to the other kids ridiculing and ostracizing them, as kids tend to do with anyone presented to them as being "different". The administrators that thought up this scheme should have their own children forced to ride the short bus to school and kept in pens during recess, to see how they feel about their own children being treated that way.
where you know what's supposed to be in the device and want to make sure the device at the other end of a link hasn't been compromised. How do you know that whatever software you are using to verify the memory contents of the remote device hasn't also been compromised?
Right... 'cause "normal" kids never chase a ball into a busy road! The solution is obvious: ALL kids should have a playground with a fence to keep them from running out into traffic. Only providing this safety measure to the autistic kids wrongly discriminates against all the other kids!
Devout Muslims are expected to face Mecca and pray 5 times daily. While I believe the religion allows some flexibility in timing, it is not at all unreasonable to allow them to pray by themselves while at school, as long as it is not disrupting the learning experience of other students. Likewise, it is not unreasonable to allow Christians, Jews, or whatever a chance to pray, as long as no one is forced to participate. Most school prayer lawsuits confront the gray area around the question "At what point does the free exercise of my religion start to become perceived by others that don't believe as I do as coercion towards them to participate?" I profess to be a Buddhist, but I have no problem with listening to others talk about their religion, or even inviting my daughter to attend their church. It's called "tolerance"; our founding fathers had it, but lately it appears to be in short supply.
I'm all in favor of a.xxx TLD, but it does no good unless accompanied by laws that mandate that obscene sites use only that TLD. I look forward to "goatse.cx" moving to the much more obvious "goatse.xxx", and I wonder... is there a waiting list to register the "se.xxx" domain, or is that already reserved for Swedish porn?
If somebody pays you to knowingly and willfully make false and defamatory comments about someone else, that sounds like a pretty open and shut case if libel to to me. Furthermore, I doubt if PJ would have much problem getting pro bono attorneys to litigate this for her, just for the sheer fun of bitchslapping someone who is desperately asking for it. Come on PJ, take the bitch to court -- we'll all turn out in our red dresses to root for you!
By proscribing the establishment of an official national religion, the Constitution implies that no single religion may be favored by the government over other religions. Generally this is interpreted as meaning you are free to practice the religion of your choice, but the government cannot coerce you into practicing any specific religion. Have atheists taken this too far in arguing against prayer or any kind of religious symbols in school? Yes.
Something tells me that unless we do something incredibly stupid in the next 1.5 million years... Never underestimate the capacity of human beings to do incredibly stupid things. But yes, we are currently in a race to see if we can establish sustainable populations off-planet before we or something else manages to wipe out all life here on earth. If we can't manage to win that race long before 1.5 million years from now, we're pretty much doomed as a species anyway.
Or perhaps it is less diagnosed in the Amish because mild autism isn't really much of an impediment to dragging a plow behind a mule all day, and demonstrative communication with other human beings isn't really a hallmark of Amish society? In other words, perhaps many of the people we would label as "autistic", the Amish would simply gently refer to as "a little stranger and quieter than most".
Perhaps widespread vaccination increases autism rates because the diseases vaccination prevents cause fever in children, and fever in children fights autism symptoms. Or perhaps the children more prone to autism were also more prone to dying from childhood infections, and now, due to vaccination programs, more of them are surviving long enough to be diagnosed with autism.
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Mr. Faulkner, why is there a tire track on my hat?
Under the ADA, discrimination against retards is unlawful here too!
Where folk dancers from Lapland ever actually interred at Auschwitz?
I'm pretty sure that "do no evil" slogan isn't legally binding...
Kylie, who was sacked in 2003 after working for ten years at Brigitte's Massage Parlour After ten years, she was most likely too old to satisfy their clients' discerning tastes in "massage". Seriously, if you're in that line of work, you better already have an alternative career path planned out!
I once locked my keys in my car, with handcuffs sitting in plain sight on the passenger seat. AAA sent out a woman to jimmy the lock; while she was doing it she remarked "So, are you in law enforcement?" Sadly, I could only reply "No... why do you ask?" After that, we were both pretty quiet....
I don't know how to say this, but the lap dancers are, um... probably a little skinny for your tastes.
Non-autistic kids are more likely to listen to a command to stop. By that criteria, deaf or hard of hearing kids should be put into separate enclosures as well. The parents aren't objecting to the school keeping their kids safe, they are objecting to them singling out their kids for "special treatment", leading to the other kids ridiculing and ostracizing them, as kids tend to do with anyone presented to them as being "different". The administrators that thought up this scheme should have their own children forced to ride the short bus to school and kept in pens during recess, to see how they feel about their own children being treated that way.
Wait a minute... they do have a patent on the "Steve Jobs reality distortion field", don't they?
1 in 1 billion means only about 7 people in the world would match. The US has a population of 310 million, not 300 billion.
where you know what's supposed to be in the device and want to make sure the device at the other end of a link hasn't been compromised. How do you know that whatever software you are using to verify the memory contents of the remote device hasn't also been compromised?
He's selling fat skunks? Now there's a marketing job I wouldn't want to have!
They even have a name for that at Google... it's called "a typical Tuesday afternoon".
What evidence do we have that "the US" was doing the lying, and not Iranian dissidents or Iranian expatriots themselves?
Right... 'cause "normal" kids never chase a ball into a busy road! The solution is obvious: ALL kids should have a playground with a fence to keep them from running out into traffic. Only providing this safety measure to the autistic kids wrongly discriminates against all the other kids!
The "not getting paid" part. All the rest of it, I'm down with!
I could build you a hearing aid for a lot less, but the extension cord may limit you movement somewhat.
Devout Muslims are expected to face Mecca and pray 5 times daily. While I believe the religion allows some flexibility in timing, it is not at all unreasonable to allow them to pray by themselves while at school, as long as it is not disrupting the learning experience of other students. Likewise, it is not unreasonable to allow Christians, Jews, or whatever a chance to pray, as long as no one is forced to participate. Most school prayer lawsuits confront the gray area around the question "At what point does the free exercise of my religion start to become perceived by others that don't believe as I do as coercion towards them to participate?" I profess to be a Buddhist, but I have no problem with listening to others talk about their religion, or even inviting my daughter to attend their church. It's called "tolerance"; our founding fathers had it, but lately it appears to be in short supply.
I'm all in favor of a .xxx TLD, but it does no good unless accompanied by laws that mandate that obscene sites use only that TLD. I look forward to "goatse.cx" moving to the much more obvious "goatse.xxx", and I wonder... is there a waiting list to register the "se.xxx" domain, or is that already reserved for Swedish porn?
If somebody pays you to knowingly and willfully make false and defamatory comments about someone else, that sounds like a pretty open and shut case if libel to to me. Furthermore, I doubt if PJ would have much problem getting pro bono attorneys to litigate this for her, just for the sheer fun of bitchslapping someone who is desperately asking for it. Come on PJ, take the bitch to court -- we'll all turn out in our red dresses to root for you!
They really need to beware of predatory lending practices when financing these habitats... they could very easily become underwater on their mortgage!
By proscribing the establishment of an official national religion, the Constitution implies that no single religion may be favored by the government over other religions. Generally this is interpreted as meaning you are free to practice the religion of your choice, but the government cannot coerce you into practicing any specific religion. Have atheists taken this too far in arguing against prayer or any kind of religious symbols in school? Yes.
Something tells me that unless we do something incredibly stupid in the next 1.5 million years... Never underestimate the capacity of human beings to do incredibly stupid things. But yes, we are currently in a race to see if we can establish sustainable populations off-planet before we or something else manages to wipe out all life here on earth. If we can't manage to win that race long before 1.5 million years from now, we're pretty much doomed as a species anyway.
Or perhaps it is less diagnosed in the Amish because mild autism isn't really much of an impediment to dragging a plow behind a mule all day, and demonstrative communication with other human beings isn't really a hallmark of Amish society? In other words, perhaps many of the people we would label as "autistic", the Amish would simply gently refer to as "a little stranger and quieter than most".
Perhaps widespread vaccination increases autism rates because the diseases vaccination prevents cause fever in children, and fever in children fights autism symptoms. Or perhaps the children more prone to autism were also more prone to dying from childhood infections, and now, due to vaccination programs, more of them are surviving long enough to be diagnosed with autism.