Or because he decided that it suited his purposes to cosy up to regimes with infamously poor records on press freedom and journalist protections just because their interests aligned, but y'know. Again, the problem isn't Wikileaks, it's Assange and the fact that he's a hypocrite and a dick.Uzique The Lesser wrote:
i like his implication that every single remotely protest-y or information leak-y blog or news-source is automatically sullied because julian assange enjoyed fame and stroking women a little bit too much. yeah! let's not read any protest or hacktivist websites ever again, because julian assange hooked up with a woman in a hotel in sweden one time.
or i could spend all day having pointless petty arguments about the shitty life choices of some forum member across the ocean. because that's such a capital use of one's timelooks like he logged off. my patient line of inquiry about where taiwan mentioned a 'dirtied' or 'unreliable' news-source was clearly too much for his rigorously scientific mind.
Privatized services always do a better job than the government. The free market regulates itselfStudents at an Attleboro, Massachusetts, middle school went hungry this week, if they had a negative balance on their pre-paid lunch cards.
Five cents of debt was enough for cafeteria employees at the Coehlo Middle School to instruct kids at least one day this week to dump out the food they would have normally eaten, CNN affiliate WJAR in Rhode Island reported.
About 25 children left the lunchroom with empty stomachs, said Whitson's Culinary Group in a statement. The company runs the school's cafeteria.
Parents were appalled. So was the principal. So was Whitson's.
"I told them this is bullying; that's neglect, child abuse," said parent Jo-An Blanchard.
Principal Andrew Boles apologized and blamed the culinary company. "My expectation is that every child, every adult, every parent, every student, every teacher is respected in this building, and that didn't happen yesterday because of Whitson's," he told WJAR.
Whitson's apologized in a statement and said it was not company policy to deny meals to children. It added that the school district had no official policy on what to do in such situations.
"Employees had taken it upon themselves to institute this change; it was not condoned or approved," said Whitson spokeswoman Holly Von Seggern. "We had absolutely no idea."
Workers in the school's cafeteria work on a contract basis, Boles said. He thinks the decision came from Whitson's.
Whitson's supplies 80 schools in New England with lunch meals, Von Seggern said. CNN could find no previous reports on similar incidents involving the company.
Kids with a negative balance usually receive "a cheese sandwich, a fruit and vegetable, and milk." Then the company contacts the parents about payment.
lol, shitty life style choices? i guess i should listen to person with legitimate scientific knowledge about which news sources are the most beneficial.Spark wrote:
Or because he decided that it suited his purposes to cosy up to regimes with infamously poor records on press freedom and journalist protections just because their interests aligned, but y'know. Again, the problem isn't Wikileaks, it's Assange and the fact that he's a hypocrite and a dick.Uzique The Lesser wrote:
i like his implication that every single remotely protest-y or information leak-y blog or news-source is automatically sullied because julian assange enjoyed fame and stroking women a little bit too much. yeah! let's not read any protest or hacktivist websites ever again, because julian assange hooked up with a woman in a hotel in sweden one time.
Anyway, my original point is that RT - which is actually where the Assange link comes in if you want to stretch it - is not especially trustworthy IMO, and that if you want alternative views from a non-Western/non-American standpoint you can do much better quite easily.or i could spend all day having pointless petty arguments about the shitty life choices of some forum member across the ocean. because that's such a capital use of one's timelooks like he logged off. my patient line of inquiry about where taiwan mentioned a 'dirtied' or 'unreliable' news-source was clearly too much for his rigorously scientific mind.
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I know mycomment wasn't thevsmartest but is anyone going to comment?Macbeth wrote:
Privatized services always do a better job than the government. The free market regulates itselfStudents at an Attleboro, Massachusetts, middle school went hungry this week, if they had a negative balance on their pre-paid lunch cards.
Five cents of debt was enough for cafeteria employees at the Coehlo Middle School to instruct kids at least one day this week to dump out the food they would have normally eaten, CNN affiliate WJAR in Rhode Island reported.
About 25 children left the lunchroom with empty stomachs, said Whitson's Culinary Group in a statement. The company runs the school's cafeteria.
Parents were appalled. So was the principal. So was Whitson's.
"I told them this is bullying; that's neglect, child abuse," said parent Jo-An Blanchard.
Principal Andrew Boles apologized and blamed the culinary company. "My expectation is that every child, every adult, every parent, every student, every teacher is respected in this building, and that didn't happen yesterday because of Whitson's," he told WJAR.
Whitson's apologized in a statement and said it was not company policy to deny meals to children. It added that the school district had no official policy on what to do in such situations.
"Employees had taken it upon themselves to institute this change; it was not condoned or approved," said Whitson spokeswoman Holly Von Seggern. "We had absolutely no idea."
Workers in the school's cafeteria work on a contract basis, Boles said. He thinks the decision came from Whitson's.
Whitson's supplies 80 schools in New England with lunch meals, Von Seggern said. CNN could find no previous reports on similar incidents involving the company.
Kids with a negative balance usually receive "a cheese sandwich, a fruit and vegetable, and milk." Then the company contacts the parents about payment.
Lack of perspective and a complex. I thought my HS sucked when I was there but after getting out and learning more about how education worked made me realize I received a great education.KEN-JENNINGS wrote:
between you and jay and sup mind talking about public school in new york I don't understand why anyone would want to raise a family there unless they sent their kid(s) to private school.
Jay wrote:
I would never raise my kids in NYC though, no.
I think I got my eating disorder from middle school It is some seriously nasty shit. Flies in the salad. Orange juice inside plastic bags. God knows what kind of meat. I used to just throw it at people instead of actually eating it, lol13/f/taiwan wrote:
public school food is garbage. i always avoided it during high school. it was only free for people who lived below a certain tax bracket. poor food for poor people. otherwise you had to pay a dollar for rubber meat, nasty milk and soggy fries. i don't think the company should have thrown out the food though. i remember the cafeteria giving away any extras if you were 'lucky' enough to have lunch during the period before the cafeteria would shut down.
Libyan rebels also flew the Qatari flag outside Gaddafis compound! I saw that in a video and was like wtf is going on here? Oh.....13/f/taiwan wrote:
as for your claim about aje being the only or best news coverage for the arab spring. to a certain extent it was the only news coverage but that didn't necessarily mean it was the best. aljazeera journalist quit when they were told to downplay the protests in all of the arab monarchies(jordan, saudi arabia, UAE, bahrain qatar) or shed light on who the main fighting forces on the ground in syria are and who is bank rolling them. something RT and alternative news sources cover extensively.
US historian Dr Tim Stanley summed up the difference between social status in the US and UK for the Daily Telegraph: "To Americans, social status is all about money and power. To Brits it is all about birth and accent."
Today, one of the few things US politicians on the right and the left agree on is social mobility in their country has calcified. It is actually lower than in Britain, as the New York Times noted last year.
Why it took so long to figure this out is beyond me. It's been clear since the 1970s that the class system was becoming more inflexible.
The great upthrust of the immigrant working class into the middle class after World War II, via the GI Bill, was stopped stone cold by the events of the autumn of 1973, when the October war in the Middle East led to the quadrupling of oil prices virtually overnight and the great inflation set in.
Personal testimony: my father was a clinical professor at a Philadelphia medical school. He made a very nice living. Like seeks like, and we lived in a neighbourhood of doctors, lawyers, executives, stockbrokers and successful entrepreneurs. You had to work hard to fall out of that class.
Plenty of my school fellows did just OK in high school, went to second-rank universities, where they majored in having a good time, crammed for the LSAT (law school test) and squeezed into second-rank law schools or business schools.
They emerged on the other side with a credential that allowed them to make a pretty good living without putting themselves out too much. A young man from an inner-city school in Philadelphia who took the same relaxed approach to study and career would never have made it to law school or business school.
It was entirely likely that young man had brushes with the law and possibly ended up in prison, as a look at incarceration rates for 18- to 25-year-old African American males in the 70s and 80s will confirm. And if you were white and working class, listen to the songs of Bruce Springsteen to get a sense of the frustrations.
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yes, but she would have to hand it over to the VP because of the bloodclots. do you really think her VP would have been able to assume her role, even if it would be temporarily?Macbeth wrote:
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I think Hilary Clinton would have been a better president than Obama. She would have been more popular and able to successfully navigate congress. Would also be less arrogant.
lol facepalm. only you could make that little point into a 'engineering rules, effete austen literature sucks'Dilbert_X wrote:
Honda Civic hybrid and Toyota Camry hybrid are otherwise normal cars, CBA to look up which Lexus SUVs are hybrids.
And yes, a fair bit of engineering progress is inspired by sci-fi, not so much by bonnet dramas.
