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Comment Re:Sorry, but we education spending has increased (Score 1) 496

Quite a few are going to hide behind their union (and the union is going to help those who are innocent - which apparently is most of them). All of it comes down to the same thing, the school systems cater to the teachers and administrators. They are not accountable to students or parents. Those are somewhere on the list below the copiers I think.

Georgia doesn't have an teachers' union. It has several professional organizations, but none of them have bargaining power. The teacher contracts are almost completely the product of the government and administration. And some of them are pretty farked up. As I'm in the metro, I've been following the APS stuff since the AJC broke it a few years ago. The commentary I've seen in the AJC about the resignations is that the teachers are going to take the district to court for protection, likely to discourage APS from spending the money on court cases.

/lives in Gwinnett County (Parkview school district)
//wife is a former teacher
///dear god, slashdot comment system is awful

Comment Re:Scary indeed! (Score 1) 140

(Haven't scanned the whole comment tree, so this may be redundant) There are museums within the facility, and even the weirdest aquarium you'll ever find, so it's definitely a blend of both. There's collections of door locks and hinges, columns and arches, blown glass, and more eclectic stuff that I can't remember at the moment.

Comment Re:C & C glitches (Score 1) 282

C&C 1 was filled of all kinds of neat glitches.

I remember that when selling filled tiberium silo, you'd get money for the tiberium inside in addition to the building, so you'd essentially get double the money for all of the tiberium you collected. And you could use sandbags to connect your buildings and the computer wouldn't attack them, so I'd run a line of sandbags to their base and build advanced guard towers right in the middle of it.

The Internet

China Defines Internet Addiction 201

narramissic writes "Three years after the first clinic dedicated to Internet addiction opened in Beijing, Chinese doctors have now officially defined it as an ailment. Those afflicted with this ailment spend six or more hours a day online and exhibit at least one of the following symptoms: difficulty sleeping or concentrating, yearning to be online, irritation, and mental or physical distress. Do you meet the criteria? You're in good company: About 10 percent of China's 253 million Internet users exhibit some form of addiction to the medium, and 70 percent of those people are young men, an official Xinhua News Agency report said."

Comment Re:KIM-1 (Score 1) 1485

I hope you had enough LEGO bricks to make a "brick and mortar" Wumpus maze!

I can imagine the happiness you felt, but I'm left wondering how you used this combo of KIM-1 and LEGO motors. What did you build?

Comment VBA for Outlook (Score 1) 156

One way is to use VBA. I don't have much experience with it. All I've ever done is make a quick thing that would page me when the 15-minute notification for meetings came up. If you go to Tools -> Macros -> Visual Basic Editor, the help file in that is very useful, specifically the information on the NewMail event. It won't explain exactly how to do it (and I don't know enougrh to explain how here), but it should go a long way to helping out.

Comment Re:ebay is full of scammers, $5 at a time (Score 2, Informative) 401

Did you file a complaint with eBay? I've had two bad experiences (less than $15 in each case) with sellers in the past and, after trying to work it out with them personally, I ended up filing complaints with eBay in both cases and soon thereafter (within 2-3 weeks) I either recieved the item or was refunded my money by the seller. eBay was very prompt in replying to my e-mails, but you really need to have your ducks in a row (copies of all prior e-mails, scans of physical correspondence, receipts, credit card bills, etc.) to make the dispute resolution go smoothly.

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