Painful moment

[the_idle_threat]

Quite frankly, I don't see much of a difference between the two.

Yes, I can see it now. The gal on the left is definitely hotter than the little red X on the right.

[LaFours]

Home school kids frighten me, Mostly because they come from those freaky over the top Christian families that attend the non-denominational churches. They have very little concept of reality or real world, and a bit naive. Outside of their sheltered lives they would be eaten alive by American society.

I know the type. They're not all that bad, but they tend to be very fragile and apparently have a higher probability (non-denominational home-schooled kids coming from "over-the-top" Christian families) of turning out whacko too.

[MadtownPacker]

Yes, I can see it now. The gal on the left is definitely hotter than the little red X on the right.

Its there, the site must have hotlinking blocked. Just right click and VIEW IMAGE.

[Tyrone Bigguns]

Yes, I can see it now. The gal on the left is definitely hotter than the little red X on the right.

Its there, the site must have hotlinking blocked. Just right click and VIEW IMAGE.

That isn't an option in my browser. Do you beaners have some sorta new browser you ain't sharing wit da gabachos?

[MadtownPacker]

You using Firefox?

[Tyrone Bigguns]

You using Firefox?

No, IE..and i'm very internet savvy. I don't even have the option you suggest.

[BallHawk]

You using Firefox?

No, IE..and i'm very internet savvy. I don't even have the option you suggest.

I just tried do it and you can't do it on IE. You have to use Firefox.

[HarveyWallbangers]

As a web programmer, I just want to reiterate (iterate actually, but that's a different argument) that IE blows.

[Partial]

As a web programmer, I just want to reiterate (iterate actually, but that's a different argument) that IE blows.

2nded. Have you played around with the Safari beta for Windows at all? It crashes too much for my liking and it doesn't have the session manager of the newer versions of FF, but it sure is pretty.

[Harlan Huckleby]

As a web programmer, I just want to reiterate (iterate actually, but that's a different argument) that IE blows.

I'm not so current on this stuff. But for a long time, IE was the salavation of web programmers. IE6 was so much more stable than the alternatives, there was no comparison. And the dirty little secret was that, ya, Microsoft pushed a lot of custom stuff, but they also were WAY out front in implementing vendor-neutral, industry standards.

Harvey, I find it very hard to believe that IE has tumbled so far.
Perhaps you are just referring to security issues.

[Partial]

As a web programmer, I just want to reiterate (iterate actually, but that's a different argument) that IE blows.

I'm not so current on this stuff. But for a long time, IE was the salavation of web programmers. IE6 was so much more stable than the alternatives, there was no comparison. And the dirty little secret was that, ya, Microsoft pushed a lot of custom stuff, but they also were WAY out front in implementing vendor-neutral, industry standards.

Harvey, I find it very hard to believe that IE has tumbled so far.
Perhaps you are just referring to security issues.

IE6 wasn't even close in following standards than Netscape.

[Freak Out]

First off....Dubya makes the same type of blunders South Carolina girl did every fucking day so lay off...she will be replaced before he will.
...and she is smoking hot.

I use firefox for all browser related activities except for a certain webmail app that I have to use for a contract I have..I've used Safari but only on a mac. Speaking of macs Partial....how the fuck do I change the default program for pdfs from preview to acrobat reader? When I try change the "open with" menu all it shows is preview.

Thanks Mr. Mac

[Partial]

I use firefox for all browser related activities except for a certain webmail app that I have to use for a contract I have..I've used Safari but only on a mac. Speaking of macs Partial....how the fuck do I change the default program for pdfs from preview to acrobat reader? When I try change the "open with" menu all it shows is preview.

Thanks Mr. Mac

I am not sure, I don't use Adobe Acrobat Reader. I would imagine it would be in the preferences in Adobe Acrobat that sets it to be the default application launched when that file type is selected.

[swede]

Point One: That girl is very pretty. I am with Harlan. It's pretty funny except when you think of her hurt feelings for having gotten national attention for becoming muddled and panicked in front of a large audience.

Point Two: Kiwon, you took a cheap shot at public schools. We educate the kids you send us, and a whole lot of people treat a free public education as if it's actually free. It isn't. It requires effort. If you home-school your children then you must surely do so out of love and concern. However, public school teachers must regularly clean up the mess when a certain proportion of home-schooing parents abandon the effort because they grew bored with the task or found themselves unprepared. I am quite familiar with home-schooling families that have done a marvelous job, and I know many others that botched the effort. American parents nonetheless deserve the right to try if they wish.

Point Three: True political conservatives like me know that George Bush has been a disaster for conservatism except for his continuing pressure on the Islamofascists and his appointments to the Supreme Court. I voted for him twice and I still can't stand it when he opens his mouth. In a cowardly manner he ignored the border issue and signed the No Child Left Behind Act which created a monster that threatens to swallow up public education and spit out a meaningless garble of fragmented charter schools and centralized moron factories.

True conservatives would know better than to create government policies and government agencies to solve problems from which they are both distant and unfamiliar. NCLB was a power and money grab that continues to pull power away from states and communities. The Constitution is a finite document that cedes all rights not expressly granted to the federal government back to the states. Education--other than those instances which fall under the civil rights issues of access--is not an area to which the feferal government has ANY CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHT.

As that rare breed of teacher AND conservative, I find NCLB to be an unmitigated disaster. The administration of Soviet agriculture under Brezhnev was more efficient and successful than the administration of NCLB has been. All government agencies, including schools are potential money junkies when you come right down to it. The federal government simply has to give you enough money to create dependency. Then they create laws, such as the NCLB, that threatens to take the money away if you don't follow their rules--no matter how asinine or arbitrary. It really ought to be called the Lake Woebegone Act, because by legislative fiat they wave the magic money bag and say that every child will now be PROFICIENT or ADVANCED on the test scores we collect from you or you will LOSE ALL FEDERAL AID. In other words, every child in the United States must now be above average.

States were not allowed to set the bar low either. In Wisconsin, the 3rd Grade reading tests assess students on passages that typically measure at a 4th grade level or higher. So ALL of our 3RD GRADERS have to be PROFICIENT or ADVANCED while being tested on material that is from one to two grade levels beyond their normed age group. Did it ever occur to lawmakers that there happens to be a bell curve when it comes to the distribution of student intelligence? As a teacher I have the skill and ability to teach a six-year old with a typical set of cognitive abilities to read quite proficiently in just a few months. And if the families are supportive it happens even more quickly. I can work the same magic with a child that has a lower set of cognitive abilities, even when their parents don't give a rip, but it may take my colleagues and me anywhere from a few months to a few years longer. I teach within a community where poverty, drug use and crime are quite high. Now what would you expect the distribution of intelligence to reflect in a neighborhood such as this? Compare me and my students to other first-graders around the state and we don't look so good. But come into my classroom and see where my kids begin and see the progress they make in one academic year and I think you would be as proud of my students as I am.

Who would you rather trust with educational issues in your community? The federal government or your state and local educational agencies? Too late. NCLB took that choice away when you weren't looking.