oooo... choose your own adventure... I like that... Could be the next big thing... a community suspense book... each person gets to write a paragraph... Could make a million bucks from this... DIBS!

you always have a choice. You can stick with XP and not get any updates, hang onto 7 forever, or learn the new way things work and probably will continue to work.

You can accept management's changes, create a disruptive workplace by rebelling, or look elsewhere for work.

May not be good choices from your view, but there are always choices. Pay mortgage or get foreclosed on...

Anyone really surprised?

Give any big change 3 months and it will get accepted if you don't give in as the change forcer.

I've seen it at work too many times to count. Manglement makes a decision that upsets everyone and lots of people talk about how they are going to start looking elsewhere for employment and the sky will fall and this is terrible, but after the 3 month gripe period, everyone accepts the changes and life moves on.

It's how things work.

I do assume they are insane, because what sane person does this?

Seriously? Mentally insane people go to a k-4th grade school and start killing people, and you post how it's related to a political party's stance on something?!?

Republican or Democrat no one wants to see this happen.

You say tighten gun control, did they get the guns legally in the first place? Should we be locking up anyone who might have a breakdown, or might be outright crazy?

It's a tragedy, and as the father of 2 that aren't even old enough for school yet I can't imagine what the families are going through, but pointing fingers doesn't help here.

Both side have been dumb for decades. Both sides need to compromise. When one side rams things through, the other side waits till they can and does the same.

Both side do it, both sides are the source of the problem, if either side doesn't compromise, things get worse. (or if the compromise things into a steaming pile of ****, then things get worse anyway...)

tell me about it.... we've been in political attack mode for about 3 years now in WI...

2 years ago we elected a new Governor, who the left hated, so they started talking recalls the day after he was sworn in before he even did anything. Had to wait till he was in office 1 year, then they got the recall started, went through that season, he won his recall easily, then as soon as that was over we were in the presidential stuff already...

I can't wait until they call who the new president is in about 2-3 months so we can be done for a while...

Went in at right about 7am, normally I've been around #60-70 in my district, this time the line was out the door of the small church and I was #100. Was very sad I wasn't asked to prove who I was other than I knew a name and and address off the top of my head.

Person in front of me was talking about his past experience being a poll watcher for Walker's recall vote... They see buses of people pull up and get off, they start asking people names and addresses to verify, a second bus pulls up, someone from the first group goes out and talks to them, the second bus loads up again and goes somewhere else to vote where there aren't poll watchers... I'm not sure how other states do it, but in WI, you can't just pick a random polling place. you go to the district you live in... This is why we need Voter ID so badly...

You know nothing John Snow.

I keep a battery charged in a dock for my Samsung Charge, so if I get home from work and have to go out, I'll swap my battery and go out with a fresh one.

I forgot to bring the backup to a wedding over the weekend, and wished I had, because my battery died, so I was SOL.

I can totally see this. We got one little one at 11 months, who was taken from home at 9 months, and we were her 4th foster home in that 2 month period.

She came to us an angry sad 11 month old that was taken care of primarily by a 10 year old brother, just very unhappy little one... after a year with us she turned into a smart bubbly laughing girl because we gave her constant attention along with our child, who is a year older than her.

She craved attention more than anything. once she started walking, she would do naughty things intentionally just to get a timeout, so she could have a hug at the end. Took a long time to get her to understand that she just has to ask for a hug and she can have all she wants...

Parental attention is an absolute must. it can make a world of difference.

Throwing the recall petitions online made tons of people really nervous, even when they weren't searchable... I wanted them to be so I could be sure my name wasn't used, as there were cases where people circulating them forged names of people they thought would sign it. (not enough to miss the target, but they did exist and I think charges were filed for forging state documents)

When that one group came out and started publishing who gave how much to either party came out in just print form it scared lots of people that thought they could give money to their party and still be friendly with their neighbor who gave money to the other side, but things just got real crazy around here...

Both sides had lots of people who were taking constant potshots at each other, politics really became something to stay away from if you didn't want to get into a vicious fight that could drag out for weeks or months. I honestly can never remember a time there was so much hate going around, people went off the deep end and protested a special Olympics ceremony because the Gov was there. They boo'd state fair, again nothing political there, just opening it up, they boo'd a 13 year old girl, protested charity events because a sponsor that gave free food to it supports the gov. Both sides seemed ready to blow up at any small thing like finding out that you supported or didn't support their side of things. it was just ridiculous.

Wisconsin is still a wide open door for voting... you can register day of with an invalid address and cast your ballot with minimal tracking. We are very slowly moving to needing a photo ID, but that could still take another year in the courts to come through.

So in WI, you can show up at a poll, give them someone else's mail and use that name, sign that name and vote for that person. There's no real way to tell if that is or is not happening unless that person shows up and votes as well, then they get an investigation for double voting with the only thing to go off is handwriting someone else's name, but otherwise there is no real safety against that. I believe it does happen, but not on the wide scale that some people claim.

Voter ID is meant to stop that particular thing, but there is very little talk about making you register before the election.

I'd sooner not have government be able to say what organizations a company can give money to...

Personally if I disagree with how a company does business, I don't go there. Simple and effective from my side. I don't stage an attempt to do everything I can to make them go out of business, ignoring the fact that hurts far more innocent people than the intended target, and triggers people to go out of their way to buy stuff there to offset the protest? (Wisconsin saw a lot of that during the collective bargaining debates, local grocery stores that sold X product or that didn't put up a pro union sign were boycotted, making others feel obligated to drive 2-3 hours to buy stuff from those stores in a counter protest)

major theaters can do much more than the smaller chain I use to work for. We were large enough to be able to get some of the blockbusters for also showing some of the bad movies, but not big enough to make deals for all of the bigger ones like Marcus can.

If you don't show a movie at a huge chain with hundreds of locations you lose money. If you don't show a movie at a chain with maybe 20 theaters across 6 locations, you won't notice much.

I also fully expect my numbers for stuff like a bag of soda to be low, that was 15+ years ago...