My dad used to navigate that lake. I never figured out how he did it. He only went out there twice a year or so...
It is sad that we live in a criminal state.
GasBandit
Staff member
FTFY
Depends on when and where. A zero tolerance policy is needed and absolutely OK in some ceircumstances and locations. You don't want lax security in some places.
Of course, a school is probably not that place -_-
Many American Schools are quite dangerous.
First, middle schools?
Second, that's not the point. Very tight and zero-tolerance security has its place in nuclear silos (to exagerate), in banks, in places where (industrial, political,...) secrets are guarded, where someone lives who is a high-risk target. Even in a dangerous school, there's such a thing as allowing people to live. As long as the passage was supervised, the woman ID-checked and registered, earched or whatever else should have happened, afterward, I don't see the point of giving the boy punishment. There's a HUGE difference between "strict" security, and "zero tolerance" security. A lot of people think one is just a stricter version of the other, but, no.
Yes! I can't name the # of times I've seen 12 year old kids wearing 'Crips or Bloods get ups at school. They can use a knife or gun as well as a 15 year old.
The correct reaction to 12-year-olds using excessive/deadly violence isn't putting them in a jail before they've done anything; overreaction and Big Brothering them will help as much for this as it will for 12 year olds getting pregnant. That is, not at all; quite to the contrary.
Not that these problems don't exist - but repression (especially ONLY repression) will not solve these issues.
GasBandit
Staff member
Not a quarter goes by that I don't read about some kid who is drummed out on a zero tolerance beat for something stupid and innocent because a school administrator can't brain good. It's part of the "if we can't make decisions, we can't be sued for them" turtle mentality.
I am not moving to Kansas.
I am not moving to Kansas.
I am not moving to Kansas.
I am not moving to Kansas.
I am not moving to Kansas.
I am not moving to Kansas.
I am not moving to Kansas.
I am not moving to Kansas.
I am not moving to Kansas.
Not pictured: Indiana Jones keeping his eyes tightly closed.Whoa
Shoot, forgot to mention, artist is Camille Seaman.
She's got more pictures of it there under The Big Cloud: The Lovely Monster. You can see it forming (or dissipating, I'm not sure)
She's got more pictures of it there under The Big Cloud: The Lovely Monster. You can see it forming (or dissipating, I'm not sure)
Holy shit, I'm moving to Kansas.Whoa
Auntie Em! Auntie Em!Whoa
World Pastry Championships; the winning team's sugar entry (all sugar, no structural supports!)
Some more entries, spoilered for hugeness.
Also, some more pictures here.
Some more entries, spoilered for hugeness.
Also, some more pictures here.
I take it that bull will never have a Lamborghini named for him.
Looks like the ship from The 5th Element to me?Whoa
Sorry to be that guy, but that's not the case (fair warning: the linked article is basically a long advertisement for the blogger's book). The picture is ostensibly of Alvaro Munera, who is a bullfighter-turned-activist; however, his last match was in 1984 when he was 18 years old, where he got badly injured and became permanently paralyzed. He didn't become an activist until coming to the United States and getting a face-full of anti-bullfighting sentiment.
Apparently sitting down along the ring is a not-unheard-of bit of showmanship on the part of the matador.
.... I know that character.
I should elaborate.
That's a Dean Yeagle drawing. He was a Disney animator, as well as a playboy artist. Actually he might still be doing one or both of those things, I'm not really sure. He draws gorgeous women, and very little else. Mostly he draws that same girl, "Mandy"
Also, why can't I upload directly to halforums anymore? Do I have a certain amount of space and I've filled it up already? It's annoying having to log in to my old photobucket account every time.
That particular image lacked the bad joke originally, but it's not as though his work tends to scream of female dignity.
This is actually one of the most offensive things I've ever seen on these boards...
The reason there probably hasn't been more board outcry is because it was posted by WasabiPoptart instead of Jay , otherwise there would've been a bit more outrage.
Honestly, at first I thought it was a test for exactly that...to see how much reaction it would get if posted by a 0+ instead of a 0->.
--Patrick