Well if you get the credit for C and above and no credit if you got an F, why not just make a simple pass/fail? Either you understood the material or you didn't.

But then again, I was in a school district where they moved me on to Spanish 7-8 even though I straight-F'd Spanish 5-6. A relative of mine basically straight-F'd all his classes in 7th grade and they STILL pushed him on to 8th grade for the sake of their numbers. That's when he was pulled out and homeschooled, because the school clearly didn't give a shit about actually teaching him at that point.

At this point, the A-F system seems more politically justified than logically justified. This seems like the school super doesn't like kids being pushed forward and basically left to rot, so he's working inside the system by removing the 'you failed but showed up enough to justify giving you the credit' so kids that need help actually get it.

But that would make too much sense!

I hate it when people make scales to grade something on, and then never use the damn entirety of the scale. See also game sites that have a 1-10 rating for a game but never really use anything below 7.

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also squatters should grab:

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www.bora.xxx

www.shuttleco.xxx

also the ISP Cox Cable should make sure to register www.co.xxx

It's legal language. They aren't saying they were permitted before or permitted afterwards. They're saying that Twitter is basically on probation for the next 20 years, and now if they do it again the FTC can fine them since they've now warned them.

It'd be like say (ignore all other laws for a moment), a store advertising 20$ iPhones and they're 400$ when you get in the store. They would be told that they can't mislead customers for another 20 years, or else face heavy fines.

Bzzt. Google came clean about it themselves. The press never found anything. If Google had just silently deleted the data instead of being a "good citizen" and saying they had done it, we wouldn't even know about this right now.

Google clearly learned it's lesson from this. Don't be the good citizen, just shut up and delete the data without saying anything because stupid idiots will always be stupid idiots.

British Red Dwarf shows all the time on local PBS stations. Well, the last time I had access to PBS (still haven't gotten around to buying a new TV).

In fact, there's a large amount of British sitcoms and comedy shows on our PBS channel.

I remember watching "Are You Being Served?" as a kid here in Nebraska a lot and liking it. Came on every weekday.

People seem to think doing anything for longer than $VAGUE_TIME per day is 'crazy' or stupid. You'll never get an 'appropriate' time out of them, though.

2 hours is nothing. As stated before, the average TV time for Americans is 4 hours a day. Or to put it this way:

Let's say the guy works 9am to 5pm.

He gets up at 7pm, to catch the morning news and get ready for work. He plays the game @ 8AM for 15 minutes, leaves at 8:15 for work. Total time in game: 15 minutes.

He gets home from work @ 5:30. He plays the game for a half hour to wind down. Total game time: 45 minutes.

He heads out to do ACTIVITY for an hour. Heck, let's give him two hours. He gets home at 8pm. He rests up by playing the game for another 30 minutes. Total time in game: 1 hour, 15 minutes.

It's 8:30. He heads out for dinner with the wife for an hour.

Get home at 9:30. Wife wants to watch a TV show on the TV, so he gets on the computer while talking with her during the show. Show's a half hour. Total game time: 1 hour, 45 minutes.

10 o'clock news comes on, kids want to use the computer for homework.

at 10:30, everyone is going to bed. He plays the game for 15 minutes to wind down. Total game time: 2 hours.

So not only is he still getting the full 8 hours of sleep here, but he's still only spending 8% of his entire day with the game! 33% at work. 33% sleeping, and 50% of is still "free" time.

Even if he cuts back to an hour of gaming, that only gets him up to 54% 'free time' for the entire day.

I was on Halo 2 aswell until a couple of days ago. Actually got recorded in the last ranked game of Halo 2.

It's kind of neat how fast the community got friendly with each other. I actually saw teabagging completely stop once it dropped down to about 30-40 people left.