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Totenkopf

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Posted in: Sexist Education System
  Totenkopf
07-04-2007, 4:12 AM
#46
And the thing about if you think your task at work is stupid: you're paid to do it, so what's it matter if it's stupid or not? If it's really stupid, though, then maybe consider another job. Excellent observation, and I mean that seriously. I've se...  [Read More]
Posted in: Sexist Education System
  Totenkopf
07-03-2007, 3:27 PM
#37
Here's a newsflash: You think you'll be able to sit around doing nothing on a job? Think again. Yeah, you've got to at least get a union job/tenure/primo executive position before you can get paid for nothin'. :xp: :lol:...  [Read More]
Posted in: Sexist Education System
  Totenkopf
07-03-2007, 1:07 PM
#33
Yeah, even in the accelerated classes. I took AP US History in hs and we never got much past the Depression era, and that class was divided up over two years. What we glibly call "contemporary" (post WW2) history was relegated to about a we...  [Read More]
Posted in: Sexist Education System
  Totenkopf
07-03-2007, 4:48 AM
#29
Actually, True, there are a lot of things wrong with education in this country (from the NEA being more concerned with $$ and politics than education to social promotion rather than skill based advancement). That said, there are many good schools in...  [Read More]
Posted in: Sexist Education System
  Totenkopf
07-02-2007, 10:57 PM
#22
Where do you live by the way? I might be out of touch with the system, but to my knowledge there are no all boy or full girl schools in the USA and few in England. I would have been thrilled to go to an all girls school personally. I went to catholi...  [Read More]
Posted in: Sexist Education System
  Totenkopf
07-02-2007, 8:40 PM
#18
For every dollar women make 80 cents. That was what I was getting at. I have friends at the women center at school and I get swamped every time I go by that place with info so yeah I know about Rosie the Riveter and Dolores Huerta. Heard of Rosie, b...  [Read More]
Posted in: Sexist Education System
  Totenkopf
07-02-2007, 6:48 PM
#13
The sad thing is that both sides are right. Yeah we see the difference now that girls are doing better in the school system but they are still prejudiced against. Women make 8 cents on the dollar, big improvement from the 6 but still we are not being...  [Read More]
Posted in: Sexist Education System
  Totenkopf
07-02-2007, 12:05 AM
#2
Perhaps this is a good reason to keep the sexes seperated during the school day. Fewer distractions and more flexibility for the teacher in crafting teaching strategies that play to each gender's strengths and weaknesses, rather than taking a one siz...  [Read More]
Posted in: Marijuana: Should it be legalized?
  Totenkopf
07-04-2007, 4:34 AM
#60
I'm a capitalist, and I don't think that there should be any kind of heavy taxes on any product. These taxes just create more criminal activity, and that means the government has to spend more money to have the police clean up to mess. Yes, I concur...  [Read More]
Posted in: Marijuana: Should it be legalized?
  Totenkopf
07-04-2007, 12:05 AM
#57
Why do so many people think it should be taxed so highly? Is there no love for the free market here? No love for capitalism? And why would the U.S. not be ready for legalization? We're just as ready as ever. Our prisons are overcrowded with non-viole...  [Read More]
Posted in: Marijuana: Should it be legalized?
  Totenkopf
07-02-2007, 12:00 AM
#13
(In WA, at least - and yes, it's silly, no one person would ever need 200 plants) Unless of course they're doing a little "discreet" dealing on the side. ;) Basically, I think there are good reasons to ban pot, but also think that most c...  [Read More]
Posted in: Smoking Banned in England
  Totenkopf
07-05-2007, 11:54 PM
#77
I think it would be better to say they have some measure of influence over us, which diminishes as we get older (ie teens), where the school of hard knocks ends up having a greater degree of control than our parents. The best any parent can really do...  [Read More]
Posted in: Smoking Banned in England
  Totenkopf
07-05-2007, 6:06 PM
#74
TK, I'd say there are probably two factors that definitely affect this. One is the utter impressionability of teens (peer pressure, glamorization of smoking,etc....) and the insane mentality that they are somehow indestructible. Face it, we're pretty...  [Read More]
Posted in: Smoking Banned in England
  Totenkopf
07-04-2007, 4:47 AM
#63
Omes? There is no ban on smoking in homes. They ban it in restaurants so those who work there have better health. Granted, I do think that there should be an applicatable exemption license for some places. http://www.heartland.org/Article.cfm?artId=...  [Read More]
Posted in: Smoking Banned in England
  Totenkopf
07-02-2007, 6:55 PM
#59
Originally Posted by Totenkopf A pub w/o smoking? Isn't that like a rock concert w/o weed? Now that's a stereotype, if I've ever seen one. I've been to the Red Hot Chili Peppers concert last week and enjoyed it with no weed whatsoever, just like t...  [Read More]
Posted in: Smoking Banned in England
  Totenkopf
07-02-2007, 4:31 AM
#40
"The right to swing my fist ends where the other man's nose begins." -Oliver Wendell Holmes If someone wants to blacken their own lungs with smoking they have the right to decide to do so. That right ends, however, when they take away anot...  [Read More]
Posted in: Smoking Banned in England
  Totenkopf
07-02-2007, 12:45 AM
#35
In reality, a government does very, very little to actually show right from wrong. Often, they show the wrong way (just look at Jim Crow laws and such), not the right way. Usually, a government just picks up the current state of society and makes law...  [Read More]
Posted in: Smoking Banned in England
  Totenkopf
07-01-2007, 6:52 PM
#23
A pub w/o smoking? Isn't that like a rock concert w/o weed? :p (legality issues aside)...  [Read More]
Posted in: Good news if this is true we may not have to do anything about Iran
  Totenkopf
07-01-2007, 11:42 PM
#16
Actually, I heard that, but am too cynical to believe that ALL activities were circumscribed. Of course, the way this administration has fumbled Iraq at this point, it might just be true....  [Read More]
Posted in: Good news if this is true we may not have to do anything about Iran
  Totenkopf
07-01-2007, 6:41 PM
#14
Even the newsmakers don't see everything that's going on. Black ops budgets are often buried in other projects. We'll probably never really know till such a thing is declassified and released via the FIA....  [Read More]
Posted in: Pornography (see first post before you post)
  Totenkopf
07-02-2007, 12:34 AM
#29
Given that men and women do a lot of the same kind of "degrading" jobs, I'm not sure that's relevant. As Jae pointed out, she cleaned toilets too. Females also do a lot of the nursing type jobs that put them into contact with a lot of disgu...  [Read More]
Posted in: Do actors/athletes/musicians/celebrities deserve what they are payed?
  Totenkopf
07-02-2007, 8:49 PM
#34
Well, let them and the sports fans subsidize the stadiums and other perks. I see no reason why these super rich guys NEED to be subsidized when there are bigger priorities for tax revenues. Fact is, if no one gave them sweetheart deals, they'd still...  [Read More]
Posted in: Do you think the world will end in 2012?
  Totenkopf
07-05-2007, 5:58 PM
#49
Naturally, it's going to depend on the size of the body hitting the planet. If a moon sized body hit the planet, it would be as devasting for all life here as if the sun went supernova. Curtains for all. If it's more like the one believed to have tak...  [Read More]
Posted in: Do you think the world will end in 2012?
  Totenkopf
07-05-2007, 3:52 PM
#46
I think that would depend a lot upon where it hit. The reason I say that is that I think that the elites (globally, even) probably have provisions set aside in deep underground areas in the event of a cataclysmic global catastrophe. Most people will...  [Read More]
Posted in: Mira Versus Bastila
  Totenkopf
07-02-2007, 6:33 PM
#85
That kind of backchanneling discretion is greatly appreciated. :p...  [Read More]
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