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"You are never too old, too wacky, too wild
to pick up a book and read to a child" - Dr. Seuss

Standard Disclaimer:

This ruling addresses the faults, as seen by the Judge Rolf Treu, of how these specific tenure laws are written and implemented. If other tenure laws allow firing of tenured teachers for proven just cause and tenure selection was given for those teachers with long proven positive track records, over 5 to 10 years, then the decision could have easily gone the other way. To imply that all existing Public School teacher tenure is at an end is an extrapolation nearly to the point of nonsense because tenure laws can be changed to address the faults found by Judge Treu in the existing laws.

Lessons Learned:

1. Never actively sabotage your employer's equipment in the event that you are let go.
2. Never talk to the police or court without a lawyer. Even an incompetent lawyer is better than representing solely yourself.

Since almost all hardware can run compiled Fortran code why not keep it if you have lots of legacy stuff that rarely gets reprogrammed. I am a CS grad but my consultant experience shown me that "upgrading" is not always the best thing for my clients. I would say if an upgrade was required that the perfect language to go to is C, not C++, and migrate it faithfully, not using the latest hot CS trend because in such programs reliability is job one. If you can't rely on the migrated program then the migration is a complete failure, as you witnessed.

That may be true in the NYC area but Central and Southern Florida is nothing more than big flat sandbar. We would lose most of Southern Florida if the sea level rose 12 feet. Miami would likely be abandoned. The same for New Orleans which most of the city is already below sea-level due to the gradual rise of the sea-level over centuries.

At this point much of the US could polderize their land like the Dutch have but other countries don't have those resources. Most of Bangladesh's population would be gone, through increased deaths by starvation and migration into India, if a 12 ft increase in sea level happens, no matter how slow the pace. Most island nations would be gone or significantly reduced in land area in that scenario. Even China would have problems with the swelling of the Yellow River flooding farms and villages. People can move but if you flood farms you lose food. It would be more of an economic disaster than a survival problem since such flooding will create tens of millions of refugees being a charge on the remaining economic system.

You the phrases "appeal to authority", I do not think it means what you think it means. I think "appeal to authority" is usually an appeal to your superiors, such as political or business leaders, who have no special knowledge in this field, as opposed to referring to proven experts that are outside of vested interests, like the CDC, whose one job is to prevent outbreaks of preventable diseases with the best tools they can get. I do not believe anyone's ignorance, including mine, equals someone else's knowledge.

I agree, that is horse hockey. She shows that her knowledge of basic Chemistry is that of a 4th grader. Sodium Chloride, when broken down chemically creates poisonous Chlorine gas. Pure Mercury is very poisonous, far more poisonous than most Mercuric compounds, which most, if not all, vaccines have removed.

Truer words were never spoken. If you are fluent in another language, whether is be a spoken or sign language, and you decide not to teach it to your children because you want them to be "the same as everyone else" then you do a disservice to your children. If you are a member of a sub-culture you need to pass that along and enrich your children's view of the world and give them skills that others may not have.

There is this drive to make everyone a clone. Everyone must think alike, talk alike, be alike. But it is your differences that make you ultimately valuable to society.

I disagree. Technology cannot stamp out Deaf Culture, but it will radically change it. If you grew up in America with American Sign Language as your primary language and have a cochlear implant then you are still part of the Deaf Community, albeit a new and rapidly growing part of the Deaf community. Every part of the Deaf Community will have to include this new bread of "deaf" people.

To say American Deaf Culture will die is like saying the German speaking American culture should be dead since English and Spanish are the predominate languages of the US. Both cultures are will still be alive as one of many sub-cultures in America.

The projected risk of astronaut survival might have been 50/50 at the initial assessment of the Mercury program but because NACA (later NASA) didn't have a crystal ball and could predict the engineering changes and a little luck that made Mercury program astronaut's survival rate 100%.

How can you have colonization if the colonists build a mostly self-sufficient village in a new location and then everyone returns "home" instead of making the new location their home? Therefore it is a logical conclusion that NASA is against colonization and therefore we will have to look at other entities to pursue interplanetary colonization.

The Emerson Good Samaritan Act is an affirmative defense against Gross Negligence in the court meaning that anyone can sue Costco for taking the peanut butter and Costco must then prove to the court they fall under this protection. Costco is then presumed guilty until proven innocent. The act is not written that way but that is how it turns out to protect Costco, but not after paying substantial legal fees they will have trouble recouping.

Better to have the peanut butter buried than deal with the likelihood of wacky lawsuits, even lawsuits Costco can easily win.

I am not surprised that Costco is making missteps after James Sinegal departure, much like Sam's Club/Wal-Mart has been hampered by management mistakes after Sam Walton died.

Both men were visionaries and did things that the average MBA CxO thinks are mistakes but actually helped their respective companies in the long term. In the Walton run stores (Wal-Mart/Sam's Club) it was the "mistake" Sam Walton made, according to the Walton kids, was not stocking his stores with everything "Made in China" humanly possible (Sam Walton wanted cheap Made in America products when possible) and his refusal to jump with both feet into the political contribution arena, funding every single low tax, ultra conservative politician possible. Both decisions turned out to be major long-term mistakes by the Walton kids which cannot be undone. In the first case it contributed to higher unemployment numbers and stymied the recovery and the second caused the Federal and State governments to cut assistance programs to the poor, both of which hurt Wal-Mart's per store sales.