Yes, appealing to the school board is another thing entirely.

Ideally, that student should try to resolve this disagreement privately and through the back channels first. If you ask to be put on the school board agenda right away, you may back the Principal into a corner and if you win like that, you may even make him lose face.

It's better you ask a school board parent (or a normal parent) to appeal to the Principal privately first. Use the least amount of force necessary to reverse the decision, and no more. The Principal may still lose face privately, but at least, his loss of face will have been kept to a minimum.

Don't call his bluff.

A principal has all kinds of power over your life as a student. Litigation takes time. And a principal can easily destroy your chances of getting into college or tarnish your record (before litigation can straighten everything out)

Get a school board parent on your side, preferably someone with a law degree, or married to someone with a law degree. Or barring that, find a regular parent at your school with a law degree. The principal won't refuse to talk to a parent, especially someone who appears neutral and who appears to know what he's talking about.

If the principal still doesn't want to listen to reason, I suppose the student could file an injunction to prevent retaliatory actions against him by the Principal, but that should really be his last resort. These types of misunderstandings usually work themselves out by getting enough parents on your side, without ever needing to go to court.

Or they could just be sci-fi wannabe writers themselves.

Not everyone can write a good sci-fi conspiracy theory, but many people still try anyway.

In Oregon, four-wheel drive is your friend.

Yes, weight plays a factor, but chains play a huge role too.

If nothing else, they should increase the gas tax during the winter time when roads get damaged the most, but then again people might start storing gas tanks in their bathtubs or in their garages, so I don't know.

Those volunteers are probably convicted child molesters or convicted drunk drivers.

It's amazing how quickly you can get someone to volunteer, if you're willing to forego some prison time.

It's too bad I wasn't included in this survey. Because I do report all my security breaches.

Nothing beats a 6pt dark Papyrus font at the end of a boring 400 slides powerpoint presentation. I also email that powerpoint presentation to everyone using the "To:" field. In my experience, the more people I include in an email, the less likely anyone is going to read what I have to say. I may get a few hate emails as a result, but that's good. I print those out, and I keep them just in case I need corroborating evidence that my presentation was actually received by some of my coworkers.

Yes, it's propaganda, but it doesn't mean there isn't a grain of truth somewhere in there.

As a young French person who had the option to work in either France, or the United States, I can tell you that it's damn difficult for young people to find jobs in France (precisely because it's so expensive to hire workers, or even fire them). I can't tell you how humiliating it can be to look for a job in France for a young person. It's like they're doing you a favor (the risk is so high to them, so they might as well make you grovel for the opportunity).

So then, since there are so many jobless because of the high minimum wages (and other government programs), the government invents government internship programs to get around the minimum wage. So you end up getting paid less than the minimum wage, you still end up working for a private company, but this way the pay check comes from the government and the money you receive is called a stipend which is technically not a wage since you're in an internship (never mind that 40 years olds and 50 years olds can still be stuck in rotating internships all their lives of course).

What's a casual? In the US, we use that word for sex, as in "casual sex".

Do you have casual sex workers? Are those like Uber sex workers? Where they work a regular job full time at some company, but do sex work during their lunch break? or do sex work during smoke breaks to round out their income?

Are you sure? I thought this was a pretty lame attempt at getting traffic to hit dice.com (from a writer who's non-technical).

It's not like C# developers on Windows don't know which IDE to use already.

Limitation means the Air Force. "without limitation" means "without the Air Force".

Certainly, the Navy knows these things.

No, I don't think Apple can sue.

The iTunes app store terms and conditions only says:

No development, no design, no manufacture, no production.

But no where does it say "launching". Launching should be fine.

Let's go to the actual claim he made which was recorded by the tech media, long before he was arrested for his tweet.

He claims he was able to hack the simulator of a plane to access the thrust (not a real plane mind you, the simulator of a plane). Is the simulator as good and as realistic as he claims it to be? or not?

Since you seem to be an expert yourself on this subject, please tell us. Are the electronics of the simulator he used a good replica of the electronics found on an actual plane? Or did the guy just play Microsoft SimFlight and found a way to hack Windows XP?
 

I think you misunderstood what I said, and that we're in agreement on some level.

Assuming you're not working for BMW or Gucci, I believe that having no graphics at all can be much better than purchasing a bunch of royalty-free perfect-looking insincere photographs from some stock photography web site.

The same goes for special animations and perfect-looking videos. Barring a few exceptions, I don't believe those effects are necessary to make a web site useful and valuable to users.

And throwing out all those stock photographs and those unnecessary effects may actually improve the usability of a web site, not just for disabled people, but may be even for everyone (and at very little cost, since it's the effects that usually cost money, and it's the more basic web sites that usually cost less money).

Are those images you're tossing out stock photography images? Because believe me, those may look super cool and super useful to web site designers, but stock photos are not only bland and cliche, they actually look super insincere to the user who is inundated by them on every company web site.

Except for the newly-introduced Firefox DRM from Adobe that is.

Don't you love the new double-speak.