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Comment Re:What's the point of school when a hired tutor c (Score 1) 149

My Jr. High had an acrylics class, not really sure exactly how that happened. We made keychains and backscratchers and candy dishes, but it was a reasonable introduction at least. We heated our sheets of plastic in a sheet metal oven with a bunch of heat lamps in the top.

The high school wood shop had all the usual stuff you'd expect, like the band saw and so on. We made piggy banks.

The community college I went to, though, had some great vocational programs. They had a well-equipped auto body shop with two booths; a welding shop for arc, gas, and tig; a machine shop with a number of lathes, an EDM, one nice big old bridgeport vertical and a vertical CNC; an auto repair shop with ASE cert prep classes (I took electrics and HVAC and have at times been certified in both) and one or two other things I'm forgetting now.

Comment Re:Fossil fuels suck, and politicians are idiots (Score 1) 46

I have a NG cooktop at home, and even when it's -15C outside I open all the windows downstairs when cooking, and I can *STILL* see the result on my air quality meter spike in the living room, even before I add any food to the pan.

Do you have a range hood? We don't, and it's insane to me. This house is so old it used to have a wood-fired stove in it, which vented into an old school brick chimney with a fireplace on the other side of the wall.

Comment Re:Constitution? (Score 0) 124

The constitution, as a modern legal document, is crap.

Of course, it's not a modern legal document. That's the problem.

I'm not talking about sensibilities here at all, I'm talking about how weakly it is written. Practically everything about it is horribly vague, again, by modern standards. You can argue back and forth for eternity about what various parts of it mean because it doesn't have most of the things we expect from a legal document. Article I, Section 8, Clause 1 is sorely in need of a definitions section. So, obviously, is Amendment II.

This directly affects the point you have raised here. The exact extent of the rights accorded the federal government is up for debate, and therefore, so is the extent of the rights of the people as the two are not meant to overlap.

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