Flashing headlights to warn of speed trap protected by the First Amendment: judge

salchichasyqueso · 2012-05-24T12:26:22.139321+00:00

I eagerly await someone telling the police this one. :)

salchichasyqueso · 2012-05-24T12:13:32.286269+00:00

You might say that you accidentally flipped the headlight switch on and off.

Except in America you don't do this just once. You flip the lights on and off many times, very rapidly. If you do it only once, then people think you actually did it accidentally and will ignore you.

LeskoIam · 1 day

I saw this picture at work the other day on the secretary's desk. It had some verse quoted underneath. I just snickered and kept on walking.

thebrightsideoflife · 2 days

Ben Nelson will be gone in November. He's not running again. Sorry I can't vote out any of the others.

MadameSwanky · 8 days

In our state, the exams are given throughout the year. There are no mid-term and end of year exams. For example, the English writing exam is in January. There are two more English exams, this year they were at the end of February and beginning of March.

The exams often test all subjects a little bit at a time. So you don't get one big Science test. You get 3-4 smaller ones and, at the same time, smaller ones on other subjects. It's an asinine way to do testing, but the state decided this is how they want it.

If a teacher gives a mid-term and end of year exam, it's only for their class. It's not one that's given by the state.

MadameSwanky · 8 days

You can't inform a parent that doesn't care. You can't inform parents who give out bogus phone numbers. You can't inform parents who have had their phones turned off because they didn't pay the bills.

It's not the teachers who don't want to fail them, at least in my district. Time and again, administration comes around and gently prods the teacher to find something to make it so the student passes. Less students passing means less money. The administration is not going to allow that. In another district, it is quite common for a teacher to fail a student, but that student's grade is magically changed by someone else.

I think you thought me saying students go home with no books meant they don't have them. We do. We have plenty. The students refuse to take the books home to do homework.

MadameSwanky · 8 days

In our state, the state exams are given between January and March, depending on the subject. Students are required to take the test over topics that aren't covered in the state curriculum until April or May. It's impossible to teach a year's worth of knowledge for a test in January between September and December.

The tests also change every year so, while the teachers have an idea what might be on the test, they never know the specifics. Blame those in the capital for setting it up that way, but don't blame the teachers.

MadameSwanky · 8 days

If teachers started assigning homework rather than busy work, that would improve things quite a bit.

Yeah, because students will do that homework. I can't even count the number of kids I see every day leave with no books. They refuse to do any homework, but I suppose that's the teachers' fault too.

ethicalking · 9 days

As someone who works in a junior high with kids who take Adderall and other meds, they'll blame it on the meds and nothing will happen. I see it happen all the time.

Everyone will either say, "It was the meds" or "Look the kid hit poor old Zimmerman who was on meds and had slow reaction times," forgetting the fact that he had a gun and shouldn't have been there in the first place.

Marz_The_Damaja · 14 days

I got almost identical letters from my senators in Nebraska. I swear they all have one form letter and just change a few letters or words here and there.

rajma45 · 15 days

Yes, really. I lived in NC for a year and knew several people that still thought blacks were lesser than them. My husband is a teacher and one of his colleagues went on and on about how his family used to have this huge tobacco plantation and the yankees took it from them. He was pissed about it all the time and felt that it should be okay to have slaves, be they Black, Asian, or anyone else that wasn't white.

We only stayed a year, but that was enough for me. It was a pretty state, but it didn't pay enough and the racism was a bit much to take for me.

Tarret · 16 days

Exactly. My husband and I were just tired of the city and wanted something much more relaxed. Plus, I can just crash at my mother's place anytime I want to return for a short while.

Tarret · 16 days

Because federal loans have a limit as to what you can borrow. If it doesn't cover it, a lot of folks turn to private loans to cover the rest of their tuition.

Tarret · 16 days

He may not be doing anything wrong. I was born and raised in New York. My husband and I made roughly $65k combined. The area we lived in the dive that we lived in wouldn't take you unless you made at least $42k. It's the biggest shithole I ever lived in. My husband took a $15,000 a year pay cut (I still make roughly the same) and moved to Nebraska. In NY, we lived paycheck to paycheck just covering basic bills. In Nebraska, we have enough saved now that buying a home is a real possibility in the next year.

It's incredibly expensive in NY. Yes, some folks blow their money, but not everyone. FYI, we lived 90 minutes north of NYC. The closer you are to NYC, the more expensive it is.

Tarret · 16 days

Not true. You can get a hardship deferment if you can't afford payments for up to 3 years even if you are working. You can also get on the gradual repayment plan where you pay X amount for three years, then it raises a bit, then you pay that bit for three years, etc.

This is for federal loans. If you take a private loan, you're screwed and have to pay.

bullocky · 18 days

I did explain it, but in a much simpler and shorter manner. I just explained that they stole it and turned it into symbol of hate. They'll learn all the details about it in 3 years in the school's Comparative Religion class when they can understand the swastika's historical significance.

bullocky · 18 days

I work as a teacher's aide (paraeducator/whatever you want to call it) at a junior high. At the start of the year, there were two 12 year old boys who were drawing swastikas after they checked out some WWII books that were filled with photos. They were doing nothing more than drawing a symbol they thought was cool.

I caught the one boy and explained why it probably wasn't appropriate to be drawing it in school and how the school might take it the wrong way. He hadn't realized there was anything wrong with a swastika and agreed to draw other stuff.

The very next day, my point was proven. The other boy was drawing swastikas in his notebook in Math class. The teacher freaked out and he got sent to the office.

He got a detention for not paying attention in class, but, fortunately, the principal talked with him and realized he hadn't a clue why the swastika was bad, it just looked like something cool and easy to draw.

Since then, I've gotten to see them draw lots of things, including ways to kill zombies and big trucks overloaded with weapons to kill zombies during the zombie apocalypse. Both boys, however, are now careful to not show the pictures to me in Math class because they don't want to get into any more trouble.

Pumbaplex · 27 days

I have been to the Netherlands 6 times since 1994. I wish I could go more often, but life gets in the way. I have several good friends who live there and there are still places I'd like to see.

I've never had any weed any of the times I've been there. I was having too much fun doing other stuff to even bother.

Horward · 1 month

IIRC, it was shortly after the numerous and prolonged DDOS attacks in late 2002 and early 2003. Then, there was some kind of falling out with the DalNET admins and the guy who ran the biggest server. He pulled his server, which caused even more chaos.

Then, I remember a few of the chans I was op on got notices that they were not going to allow any fservs with large files anymore and people started fleeing to other networks.

I don't know if it was ever proven that it really was the feds that forced the admins to shut down, but that was the major speculation at the time. Some also thought it was the RIAA behind it all since they ended up suing Dalnet later. I don't know whatever happened with that though.

Horward · 1 month

Well, Dalnet is still there but it is a shell of its former self. Before the feds got involved, Dalnet was pretty much the "go to" place to "find" just about anything.

beastcakesmcgee · 1 month

It hasn't been three days yet.

mindflex · 1 month

Wait until you learn that there is more than one style of cursive writing. I learned D'Nealian, but the district I work for teaches a different style (can't remember the name).

Drumlin · 1 month

This doesn't always work out in practice though. I went to college with twins. Their dad went to Canada to avoid the draft for Vietnam. They were born in Canada. Flash forward 19 years and they try to get passports to go on a trip. They can't. They were told they weren't US citizens and it didn't matter that both their parents were US citizens because their parents never declared them or notified the US of their birth.

I lost touch with them about 5 years later, but, at that point, they had lawyers and were still fighting it all. At that point in time, they were looking into either filing immigration papers or moving to Canada.

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