Comment What would they sell? (Score 1) 535
The Scotch Boutique comes to mind.
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"What?!! This is nothing!! This happens all the time! Stop worrying!!"
(Paraphrase of Dustin Hoffman character whenever something goes wrong in "Wag the Dog".)
It will be years before we know what is in this abomination of a bill. 5, 10, 15 years from now you'll be reading about the unmitigated stupidity of it.
But I look at it the same way the politicians do - hopefully, I'll be dead by the time the bill comes due.
I thought the science of global warming was settled. Why are we still studying and discussing it? I guess someone thought there was just a bit more room for additional info.
Can we now declare this the cutoff point for new knowledge?
"Boy, talk about cherry picking a slanted conclusion..."
Really. Please. We can stop that practice now that George "Fuckin'" Bush is almost gone.
Yeah a lot of people really have no concept of the context in which they are doing something on a computer. I was helping a female co-worker in another department recently and I asked her something like "Were you trying to do that through Outlook or Internet Explorer?". She slowly turns to me with a blank, wide-eyed expression, raises her hands and says "All I know is, I come to work, I log in and I do my job."
And that's ALL she knows.
That does not resemble, nor is it likely to be confused with a Christmas Tree.
"Teachers sacrifice" "Teachers give of themselves" "Teachers cultivate minds" "Teachers are heroes" Just some of the myths about teachers that the media bombard us with.
Call it a profession or vocation if you want. Teaching is an occupation. A way to pull down a paycheck. A job. And many do their job very badly. Just as there are bad programmers, bad mechanics, bad doctors and bad ditch-diggers. Where did we get the impression that teachers are somehow immune to ignorance, bias or incompetence? In fact, you could make argument that incompetence in other professions is *_because_* of bad teachers.
"The chain which can be yanked is not the eternal chain." -- G. Fitch