Is that the girl who is getting punished is NOT the girl who brought the candy. The State policy says that they won't limit what parents send their own kids. But the kid that's being punished was given the candy by another student. In short, the kid that brought the candy should be the one getting punished for passing it out to other students. After all, her parents can make the call for giving their kid candy, but their kid shouldn't be passing it out to others. What's to then prevent a kid from slipping a candy to another kid with the intent of getting another kid in trouble? My two cents is that they busted the wrong kid.

-Goran

Roundup has been in use for as long as I can remember, 40+ years. It's great due to it's ability to kill a plant completely and then breakdown in the soil to inert ingredients. But I have to wonder if part of the problem with the weeds becoming resistant is due to the bacteria used to make the roundup ready crops. Seems that it's more possible for a bacteria to be passed from one plant to another, and since the first resistant strain was found in 2000, there has been ten years for the bacteria to spread to other weeds.

Perhaps it's time to not create crops that are safe to spray with herbicides and just find a better way to weed the farm by machine. Perhaps after harvest and just before planting a farmer could spray the fields with roundup and kill any weeds. Then after a couple of weeks, plant the seed and while waiting for the crops to grow, a new line of machine could be built that would make it possible to weed out any non-crop plants. In the long run it would be cheaper for the farmer since a machine would be cheaper to reuse than the high cost of roundup ready seeds, and the cost of spraying once the crop is growing.

It's a great product and I've used it myself for home use for over 35 years.

Just wish I could get my wife on board with its use. She feels I have a heavy hand with it.

-Goran

It was a standard web house. Fortune 500 companies looking for someone to build and host the run-of-the-mill company website. I did basic html, php, mysql, etc. work. He was a she, and she thought that everyone was out to get/steal from her.

- Goran

Too late.

One of my former employers does this. They also run EVERY phone call past a human. The operator then reports to the owner on the length and subject of your in-coming and out-going calls. In short, if it isn't work related you had better get ready to clean out your desk.

I got a 90-day probation warning due to my wife calling and asking me "to call home when I left work" because she wanted me to stop at the store. Total time spent on the call, less than one minute. Had I gotten another warning in that 90-day period, I would have been fired.

The same applied to internet and email traffic. Problem was, I was in the IT department and had to justify anything I did. Even in client emails, if the client said "Have a great weekend" in an email on Friday, I had to explain why a client was telling me to have a good weekend. The owner figured you might have something going with her clients on the side and that would then be grounds for dismissal.

Glad that company is now virtually dead. Down from the over 100 employees to just 12.

-Goran

Actually he's probably the ass hat that ruined it for the rest of us.
All that constant fingering without so much as a "how-do-you-do" pissed off the girl so much that we're all fighting an uphill battle to get women to like us. Bastard... I'm betting he's also the guy that ruined the "surprise in the popcorn box" stunt while watching a movie with your lady friend.

Please. I use to work for a mid-sized company that dealt with Fortune 500 companies. Companies that required us to use specific programs for FTP and accessing their systems. Despite several warnings, several long talks, we still had one account manager in our company that refused to follow the guidelines set out by our clients and used IE for all of his FTP traffic. We were dealing with companies paying us millions and we couldn't get one jackass to follow the rules. Even under the pressure of the IT department and the possible loss of a client couldn't get him to change his ways. Rather then fire the idiot, they moved him to a different client. Just goes to show that even when you beat someone over the head with rules, guidelines, and facts, they're still going to do what they want to do.

- Goran

I work with a merchandising company that hires people all over the U.S. to go into department stores and stock shelves for specific manufacturers. Once the employee finishes restocking a site, they log into an online system to file an online report. Of the over 400 people employed by my client, the people we routinely have problems with are the AOL users. Either due to stupidity of the employee, or because the AOL browser keeps changing and filters or blocks them from some aspect of the report. Not to mention the problems sending email messages to AOL users, I'd love to force these folks to get a real ISP.

On top of it all, trying to work with the tech support team at AOL makes it even worse.
How the hell do you provide support to a system, if your stock answer is "I'm not sure how this works." Either the email systems at AOL don't generate error messages or their staff is clueless, but trying to find out why a text only email was "blocked due to content" seems to confound them.

I for one would like to see AOL die once and for all.

-Goran