Comment Generating electricity (Score 1) 334
It's all a plot to generate electricity by attaching a turbine to Phillip K. Dick's grave.
You're right. The whole thing is security theatre at its finest. That's been true for years. Does anybody really think that an old ladies sewing needles are a threat to the airplane?
Of course they are, they could knit an Afghan... thanks, I'll be here all night.
Are you f'n serious? Keep bullied kids back a year and further bully them ("The System" bullies them by keeping them back a year), encouraging more bullying (the bullies are now armed with, "dumb dumb just got kept back a year") and docking them one year of pay (they now lose out on one year's income potential before retirement)?
Fix the problem: punish the bullies and the teachers and parents that turn a blind eye to them.
Makes perfect sense to me. As a kid I was a year ahead, academically I could hack it, but socially and physically I couldn't, so I got bullied. I didn't realize until many years later that the age difference was significant! I now think that if I had been kept back with my age peers I would have been much better adjusted, but at the time I felt there were failings in me that were causing me to be bullied... a few years of that and even my grades suffered.
As long as we're going to reinvent the wheel again, we might as well try making it round this time. - Mike Dennison
