I have no complaint about it. Personally, I homeschool. School starts whenever I decide to get out of bed that day.
I was simply pointing out that if times are different throughout the year for schools, it's going to make things difficult or impossible for parents with jobs. It's not about "liking" it, it's about parents' inability to be in two places at once.

School shootings are not new; nationwide sensationalizing of school shootings is new. But school shootings are, and always have been, rare; which is why, despite having constant access to all worldwide news, you are aware of every school shooting that has happened in the past 20 years or so. In the past, they would have been a local tragedy; now they are nationwide marketing for "shooter detection systems".

is that if you are so concerned that a school shooting is imminent, that you are fine with $20,000 - $100,000 of your tax dollars going toward something like this... why the HELL are you sending your kid to this school every day?!

Nevermind the ridiculousness of "Without that shot detection system, we wouldn't know what was going on in the school". I'd bet you anything, that even in schools that forbid cellphones, enough students have cellphones that multiple are going to avoid getting shot, call the cops and tell them where the shooter is. Stop the forbidding of cellphones, and there you have a schoolwide "shot detection system" at no additional cost.

I don't want to be still handing out candy at 9pm, personally. And the 5 - 7 thing makes it easy to figure out how much candy-per-person to give; start out slow at 5, but if you still have a buttload by 6:45, you'd better start giving a lot per person. So I do like having a 2 hour scheduled time. But - even though I have two kids and a teen that go without adults, and one small kid that I go with briefly (he quickly gets cold or tired of walking or etc.) - I wouldn't mind if the whole thing was after dark. I remember waiting until it got dark to start when I was a kid, and don't get me started on how people have gotten ridiculous with "child safety" bs nowadays. And heck n my town, people have gotten so crazy with "halloween lights" (like Christmas lights, but orange or purple or pumpkin shaped @@) that it's not really dark after dark anyway.

This year it was snowing (first snow of the season) and hailing here on Halloween. So barely anyone trick-or-treated. (And yeah, people were bitching on the town facebook that it should be rescheduled. Ridiculous.) So my kids (who went out anyway, because I make them costumes that are actually appropriate for the weather) got a buttload of candy AND we had a buttload left over since no one came to take ours away.

Changing the school time year-round would be quite different than just changing it on the dark days.

Most towns/cities have a set time for trick-or-treating nowadays. So kids go within the scheduled time. Here it's 5 - 7, with the sun going down at about 6.

That'll go over well with working parents...

Why are movies called movies when 99.999% of the time nowadays, they are actually talkies?

What? You've got an internet connection fast enough to even watch Netflix and this is the case? Are you sure you haven't got your limits set crazy low in your torrent program?

Right over here, for my 6 person family where the deductible went up to 2k per person.

I'd say that's a problem with HIS self esteem, not the gay person's.

Why? More people sharing your (their) orientation = more options. If you are attracted to someone of the same sex, that person being gay would be a good thing, and them not being gay would be a bad thing. Being a bisexual female geek, I certainly wish that more (hot) women were gay or bi geeks.

She can use Google Voice to call and text.

a gym. If you're unhappy with your shape at a supermarket, you'll probably buy less, but at a gym they can be all "we'll get you into the shape you WANT to be!"

This only works if your average customer is buying enough to make giving them deals worth it. Most small businesses probably don't need enough banners to make it worth it.