They haven't done that since I was in Middle School in the late 90's. We had to input an account number and pay into it every week. We switched to it because bigger kids were beating up smaller kids for their lunch ticket and just going through both lunch lines.
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Too easy. Kids need choices. Pretty sure you can get less than a full lunch now for less.
Don't you know? This is AMERICA. We can't trust parents to pack lunches anymore. I can't find the link for this... but apparently there was some talk about outlawing home lunch in some school system because parents were just sending REALLY unhealthy stuff.
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What I read was the parent's can't be trusted to not pack things like peanut butter sandwiches that some other kid might be allergic to.
Can we just admit that ambassador positions are kind of like the Top Tier perk for political Kickstarters already? We never send anyone who seems to know shit about the country in question and it basically just ends up as a reward for political donations anyway.
Normally I'd agree--but I think you'd also agree that China is a particularly important position and you have more to lose with a terrible ambassador to China than with one to a less politically significant nation. We've sent decent ambassadors to China in the past, most recently John Huntsman who not only had spent time in China, but could also speak Chinese.[DOUBLEPOST=1391224953,1391224600][/DOUBLEPOST]On the other hand, Huntsman isn't too worried himself.
I love how he got in...
He waved an old credential and walked fast, like he was important.
He waved an old credential and walked fast, like he was important.
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Judge poised to hand NSA the keys to the internet.
Democrats introduce Net Neutrality Bill, ensuring that net neutrality will never occur because Republicans will fight it tooth and nail BECAUSE OBAMA.
I'd much rather see the internet providers classified as common carriers. Especially since AT&T is now pushing to abandon their switched telephone network and go to all IP based telephone service.
That would seem the obvious move, but it would cause EVERYONE in the industry to go hostile and the Republicans would join them because they already believe the FCC is stifling job growth. What I want to understand is how the FCC defining what a net provider is classified is is any worse than those same net providers deciding who gets to access what. One just causes the local cable monopolies to rethink their business model. The other puts them in the position to determine who and what succeeds.
...and especially with that patent they just filed which allows them to charge you different rates based on the type (not merely the amount) of traffic that you transact.
--Patrick
Combine that with the fact that "AT&T has said that in 25 percent of its customer locations, "it's currently not economically feasible to build a competitive IP wireline network," so it would use 4G LTE instead "to offer voice and high-speed IP Internet services.""
So these people will be forced into highly restrictive wireless plans for voice and data instead of land lines.
Verizon is doing the same thing after Hurricane Sandy's devastation in NY/NJ. POTS is dead, and it's taking the infrastructure that would allow for competition with it.
--Patrick
Apparently George Zimmerman is going to box DMX. Huh.
My cousin (founder of his own Tea Party group, the Children of Liberty), is currently running for Ohio State Representative. I don't agree with a lot of his stuff, but he's family and I hope he does well.
AshburnerX said:
I don't know if I'd admit to both of those things.AshburnerX said:
Good luck!
Wait, NYC can't handle a little snow?
GasBandit
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The mayor told people to stay off the roads, then kept schools open, then closed them early, apparently. His justification was, travel safety be damned, maybe some of the kids wouldn't get to eat at all that day if they couldn't get to school for their subsidized meal.
GasBandit
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America, land of the free, so long as you don't run afoul of anything having to do with media distribution.
Woman arrested for not returning J-Lo DVD for 9 years to a video rental place that went out of business.
Woman arrested for not returning J-Lo DVD for 9 years to a video rental place that went out of business.