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GarfieldJL

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Posted in: UN Conflict of Interests...
  GarfieldJL
07-11-2007, 6:17 PM
#1
Amazingly their computer systems in the particular part of the UN Development Program. The United Nations Development Program, already mired in controversy for its dealings with North Korea, now faces another scandal involving the people who spend i...  [Read More]
Posted in: Actually, what will push YOU to leave America?
  GarfieldJL
07-12-2007, 11:11 AM
#8
I would have to say something similar to Jae's answer. I think that if the Christian Coalition or the Religious Right ever got the upper hand and made Christianity the state religion, I'd be packing my bags. Uh most of the Religious Right want noth...  [Read More]
Posted in: The Ethics of Time Travel
  GarfieldJL
07-12-2007, 11:16 AM
#15
Nah, just go back seven years and prevent Bush from being elected. The implications of this is Gore wouldn't have done anything when were attacked on 9/11 cept maybe lob a few missiles into Afghanistan and give up like Clinton did. Fact is Bush m...  [Read More]
Posted in: [WIP] Sith Archaeologists
  GarfieldJL
07-12-2007, 11:33 AM
#14
Not sure he can make an identical version for TSL due to the module differences. This is a good idea though, hope it's compatible with other module mods cause it looks good so far....  [Read More]
Posted in: [WIP] The Coruscant Mod
  GarfieldJL
07-09-2007, 12:00 AM
#35
I could try that, but then every hanger will have the Ebon Hawk. Uhm you could use Manaan's hangers for different ships. The Sith have infiltrated the Lower City. They aren't working in a very large numbers, but some sith are trying to undermine...  [Read More]
Posted in: Sexist Education System
  GarfieldJL
07-08-2007, 12:23 PM
#63
Okay mimartin, Darth InSidious is talking about something more than laziness. @Avery: My writing is still illegible, and at school, for me to write an essay legibly would take a very long time, and it was painful. What this meant was that teachers...  [Read More]
Posted in: Sexist Education System
  GarfieldJL
07-05-2007, 3:25 PM
#61
mimartin, as another person with a "disability" (I put the word in inverted commas quite intentionally - there is nothing wrong with us. We are different, and the system and society can't handle that we think differently, that we can see wh...  [Read More]
Posted in: Sexist Education System
  GarfieldJL
07-04-2007, 9:19 PM
#58
http://www.focusonthefamily.com/docstudy/newsletters/A000000370.cfm Here is another link, mimartin I'm going to have to say in this teachers and schools have are mostly to blame. Generally parents do not know laws as well as lawyers and those whom r...  [Read More]
Posted in: Sexist Education System
  GarfieldJL
07-04-2007, 7:58 PM
#56
mimartin the problem is that as things are boys will continue to be shortchanged and girls will get more opportunites because according to the femanist movement masculinity is bad. See all the articles I've dragged up, there is a huge problem in the...  [Read More]
Posted in: Sexist Education System
  GarfieldJL
07-04-2007, 7:35 PM
#54
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/style/books/reviews/waragainstboys0703.htm http://www.dest.gov.au/sectors/school_education/policy_initiatives_reviews/key_issues/boys_education/boys_education_research_and_websites.htm Explain to me what the Aus...  [Read More]
Posted in: Sexist Education System
  GarfieldJL
07-04-2007, 6:57 PM
#52
This is not just a public school problem according to the above article. It seems that private schools are having the exact same problem. So since GarfieldJL backed a little off his stance of saying that this was deliberate, I will also back off mine...  [Read More]
Posted in: Sexist Education System
  GarfieldJL
07-04-2007, 12:24 PM
#48
You are getting "paid" by going to school though. You go there to learn, you learn, and then if you graduate you get a diploma and have the opportunity to move onto a good college. Your payment is your bigger paycheck later in life instead...  [Read More]
Posted in: Sexist Education System
  GarfieldJL
07-03-2007, 9:25 PM
#40
So you're saying boys are lazier than girls? Cause that's what it looks like you're saying. As a guy I take offense to that especially since due to my disabilities I've had to work 3 times harder than the average student to show my potential. Seri...  [Read More]
Posted in: Sexist Education System
  GarfieldJL
07-03-2007, 5:18 PM
#38
Okay here's the situation: Boys develop fine motor skills later than girls, that affects one's ability to write. So in many cases when writing is now being introduced, boys are not physically ready for it. I know first hand about problems with fine...  [Read More]
Posted in: Sexist Education System
  GarfieldJL
07-02-2007, 7:08 PM
#14
Which is exactly what we did to little girls till 1972, I just want to know your plan to make it equitable to both genders. I will acknowledge the education system was discriminatory towards girls until the late 1960s. However that doesn't excuse...  [Read More]
Posted in: Sexist Education System
  GarfieldJL
07-02-2007, 5:47 PM
#10
Oh please, this isn't about adapting this is about throwing kids into situations that they aren't ready for. An analogy would be tossing someone off a boat without a life preserver. Also you want to make something of the fact I had three recesses w...  [Read More]
Posted in: Sexist Education System
  GarfieldJL
07-02-2007, 1:20 PM
#7
Whenever I see threads like these I feel like the oddball out. In my high school experience and in lower grades the guys were pretty good and top of the class. The exception was in elementary school with a kid who did have trouble learning but I was...  [Read More]
Posted in: Marijuana: Should it be legalized?
  GarfieldJL
07-02-2007, 1:26 PM
#37
How about from sites that aren't out to legalize drugs like Marijuana, Cocaine, etc. Marijuana does affect the nervous system, alcohol has a cultural significance all the way back to the ancient Greeks and earlier. Furthermore, it has been proven t...  [Read More]
Posted in: Marijuana: Should it be legalized?
  GarfieldJL
07-02-2007, 10:53 AM
#34
Considering I'm on a bunch of prescription medications some of which are controlled substances that in all likelyhood I could get killed taking illegal drugs due to an interaction, no I haven't used Marijuana, nor do I want to. I think smoking is dis...  [Read More]
Posted in: Marijuana: Should it be legalized?
  GarfieldJL
07-02-2007, 10:31 AM
#32
Of course I'm not saying YOU are racist. However, the original people who demanded pot be criminalized WERE. You just need to watch the History Channel or read a book on the history of drugs, or even read a Wikipedia article to realize that these whi...  [Read More]
Posted in: Smoking Banned in England
  GarfieldJL
07-08-2007, 11:59 AM
#83
Then how do you propose they eat while wearing the mask, seriously I have to agree with the smoking ban because second hand smoke is more dangerous than actually being the one smoking. Alcohol at least doesn't give people in the same room as you an i...  [Read More]
Posted in: Smoking Banned in England
  GarfieldJL
07-02-2007, 10:34 AM
#48
I think smoking bans is a total waste of time, If people want to smoke, let them smoke. It's their own life. However when it puts other people's health in jeopardy because of the very fact they are smoking it is no longer just about them....  [Read More]
Posted in: Caffiene-The Legal Recreational Drug?
  GarfieldJL
07-02-2007, 1:09 PM
#26
Caffeine is naturally found in coffee and tea though your withdrawl symptoms no offense mean weren't nearly what you'd get from cocaine....  [Read More]
Posted in: These are the Kinds of People the US is fighting around the world
  GarfieldJL
07-08-2007, 1:09 PM
#55
They made the psycho mouse char into a martyr is what they did....  [Read More]
Posted in:  Planet ORD Mandell Released (New Areas)
  GarfieldJL
07-08-2007, 3:04 PM
#177
I like the mod but why did the lost one's robe have too look like Revan's robe, tbh I would have preferred a robe like the Qel Droma robes, because K1 has a tendency of making the long robes move and look like a dress and makes Revan look ridiculous....  [Read More]
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