Eh... Maybe... Dunno yet. =3
I'm surprised no one has commented about the movie yet... =3 I haven't seen it myself, but I live probably in the most relaxed state you can find. There's usually no one waiting in line at Black Friday for three days, no one waiting in line for movies for long periods of time, even huge ones like Lord of the Rings... My local theater had like a hundred people waiting for the movies midnight release this Friday, for the whole day. I didn't get to see it, I might not.
They call it the "hero complex" that if you have a gun, you can save people by just shooting attackers. It was mentioned A TON after the Colorado movie theater shooting. A lot of people pointed out the flaws in it. (Trust me, there's a lot more than good.) And you can imagine the huge crapstorm that came from it. I am glad they never had that in my dorms, or campus. I would probably quit if they did, I respect guns, but I wouldn't want people around with guns who don't know how to use them: Or worse, do and think you are doing something wrong. I also grew up in a state where hunters have literally shot people dead in their backyards for wearing white gloves, or their relatives for not wearing an orange vest when hunting with them.
It's been up to 14 people dead... Scarily enough, there's a lot of people who are pushing to have guns in everyone's hands in case these things happen they can gun them down... The New York Police Commissioner thinks it's the most insane idea he's ever heard.
http://www.cnn.com/2015/12/02/us/san-bernardino-shooting/index.html The scariest thing in the world is standing in the living room hoping to see your family member leaving with a crowd of people and not on a gurney. My aunt lives in that County, my uncle works in the building behind the shooting. He dropped off info today in that building. Neither of us knew if they were in the line of fire or not at that point. When mom and I heard about it, we sent a frantic call to my aunt with no answer for 20 minutes. It was probably the longest in my life, I don't even remember what I did. Hearing they were okay is the best feeling in the world. My thoughts and prayers to the friends and family of the victims.
Thanks... I kinda damaged my computer... Then the Geek Squad did the same. XD...
I honestly, and I'm telling the truth here, don't know the exact reason the attack happened. But I do know they're taking in a lot of refugees from the countries affected by ISIS. That might be one of the reasons why they were attacked. There's a TON of talk of not allowing refugees in from mainly Syria now due to it, which will not help with the situation. One political presidential candidate is trying to lock out everyone EXCEPT Christians from entering the country. Which breaks so many constitutional laws that everyone who made the US would roll in their graves finding out. My thoughts and prayers go to the victims and their families.
I REALLY shortened it up. I blame the lack of sleep for the mistakes. XD... Sorry about the post before, here's my goodbye... I'm going to miss you, Misty... You were a fantastic admin, one when I retired would someday take my place, and you did. You were fantastic for the work that you did, and you should be proud. I'm sure as hell am... I couldn't have done it without the work of all the staff to make this forum as it is, and it's always sad... *hears about five hundred people protesting that statement* Alright... It's USUALLY very sad to lose a staff member... Especially someone like you. Good luck in the future and take care.
I-I'm not crying... T_T I know a lot of people won't believe me: But this is the first forum that I had a huge success in and has lasted for as long as it had. A lot of this is because of Deathspank and his willingness to work with me. Granted, he could be stubborn about a lot of things... And sometimes I felt like strangling the life out of him for being so stubborn. But I honestly couldn't have done it without his willingness to hear me out and at least try to meet me halfway. It's extremely rare to find an owner like that, and even more so to have him become a close friend but still have a professional relationship with. I will always remember him and our late night chats... That and him randomly leaving the conversations and turning up days later... XD... Fun times... He always brought a sense of humor to the conversation when I was all seriousness. I miss working with him, and I wish him the best of luck.
Firefox seems to have a bit of an issue with W10, too... It's MUCH slower to process my typing words to the point where I get spelling errors because it can't process what I'm typing fast enough. Also the Flash player is REALLY screwed up with it.
There are some bugs that need to be ironed out for me, too... The mouse is VERY sensitive for me, too much in my opinion. The Ctrl key seems to have a mind of it's own once in a while, too... But overall I really like it... Especially since I can make easy adjustments to fit to my liking. Which was the biggest pain in the ass when it came to Windows 8 and for 10 days I was pulling my hair out trying to make it work. This is MUCH smoother in my opinion.
I dated someone with schizophrenia, one who was diagnosed as a teenager. One of the reasons I can see the flags easily myself easily. Thank you for the warning, and even now we're honestly scared of him and what he can do. He actually acts like the nicest kindest guy to a lot of people. Our neighbors and friends actually resent us for turning our backs on him. Others believe that we can cure him. I will probably put this on a restraining order. The car ownership is complicated with my aunt, but I can probably convince my mom, she will still have registration under her name. As for the Church: My mom tried years ago to get the money back. It was a Evangelical/Born Again Christian Church when she told them about my cancer and his mental problems. They laughed in her face, told her tough **** and **** off. And kept the money. One younger priest tried to help her and even told her what my fathers abuse is. (Financial/psychological btw...) And they sacked him a few days later. My dad just loves the control, the abuse, the terror... I swear he gets off it. You know how he found out? It was under my mom's NAME and the insurance card was MAILED TO HIS PO BOX!!! The insurance guy who LIKES my father MAILED IT DELIBERATELY TO HIM!!!
I know I mentioned him often... And how I utterly despise religions due to his actions, here's why: My dad suffers from schizophrenia. Undiagnosed and untreated, he joined a cult early in life, he became a huge follower and even during the time he wasn't going he spent all his time talking about God and the bible. My mom got him out of the cult and they married a short time later. He then immediately got her pregnant and sold her brand new car for a beat up car that barely worked. She had my brother on her knee when he was making the deal. For several years he was a fanatic of religion and church. He also screamed at and abused my mom for several years and threatened to take away me and my bro if she ever left which back then would've given him visitation rights. He also stole her second brand new car and sold it while she was on vacation without her knowing. When she finally got him out of church, he put us in thousands of dollars in credit card debt and went to the church without us knowing. There he put in 15K worth of our life savings to the Church. He put us through bankruptcy and then later in debt due to my skin cancer. We finally kicked him out when he set fire to the house one night because he put a hot air gun next to rubber pipes and left it. My mom has been struggling for years, so have I. And now she's been going to my grandmother's taking care of her for five years. We finally got a break a few weeks ago when my aunt got us a brand new car to help relieve some of the stress and help my mom go up there. I don't have a car of my own and sometimes my cat has had random medical issues pop up. This year it scared the **** out of me when he couldn't use his hind legs. I was blind with panic with the vet saying that he should come in right away with no neighbors around and my mom gone for the weekend two hours away to get there. Thankfully it turned out to be nothing and I didn't have to go, but I don't ever want to feel that again. I also can't call him for help, either. She said I could have her old car even though it barely works in case of an emergency. Then my dad found out about the new car and raised hell. He's even calling around asking how much he could get for it and having them call the house. He even took the VIN off the car and the mileage. I'm scared and upset... I honestly don't know what to do, we can't afford a divorce... And I need this car... Especially during the long periods in winter when I'm alone and have no way to drive home. Does anyone know what I can do to stop him...? And to keep him from taking this car also? My mom threatened legal action if he took the new one which made him pause, but the old one it seems we're stuck.
I had a situation like this before... When I reached college. It got so bad I nearly killed myself a few weeks before graduation from university because I couldn't stand the thought of going back to that house. (I'm the youngest, btw... My brother moved out and refuses to speak to my mom. Though h speaks to my dad who's disturbingly more abusive.) Mental illness sadly runs in both sides of my family, my mom is also the most stable one on both sides. It wasn't until I hit college that she spiraled rapidly into mental illness. (My dad decided to give our life savings to the church then ran up the credit card bills to bankruptcy. He still pays at least half his paycheck to the church. He also set fire to our house right before she kicked him out.) She used to be a lot worse than she is now... The most vivid memories I have of the abuse is her throwing a phone book at me and leaving a huge welt on my leg that took weeks to heal, and her throwing a doorknob at my door while calling me a: "ungrateful little *****". I have walked out of the house and threatened to do so before many times to try and cool down because I no longer get upset, I get pissed and fight back after many years of crying which she screamed at me for doing so. It's hard, brutally hard... To say the least. She has good days and bad days now, and when it hits the worse days I really do sometimes want to kill myself. Sometimes I leave and head to the library, or go somewhere else to get away from it, it really helps to escape sometimes. Especially when you have nothing else. The cops are your best option I'm guessing at your age, at the least they can give your mom help... Is your dad an option, also? I heard you mention him in the first post. I really hope it works out for you, take care of yourself and good luck with your sister.
I saw a debate yesterday about the pros/cons of tenure. Tenure is basically after a period of time (a few years mostly) A teacher usually unionized, will have the position to not be fired no matter how badly they teach until they leave for their own reasons. Usually this extends to immoral and illegal things that they do because the school doesn't want to deal with the problems associating with said firing. Granted, I have had some excellent teachers who are part of tenure. Some of my best teachers were tenure, one especially after the train wreck of third grade for me. (More on that later.) Didn't take flak from anyone and abolished bullying in the school in a few years. Starting with my class, she actually threatened expulsion if the bullying got too out of hand after several chances and higher penalties each time. A lot of other teachers encouraged in depth thinking and thinking for yourself while talking about their own beliefs and opinions. Which a lot of parents, even back then, would raise hell about. The biggest problem with tenure is that it allows the bad teachers, especially ones who take it as permission to assault and bully students amongst other things, a free pass. My first memory of school clearly was third grade. The teacher made it her personal goal in life to not only make my life a living hell in the classroom, but to encourage my classmates to do everything in their power to bully me outside it. One of the first few memories was her screaming insults non-stop at me, and my best friend joining a club dedicated to hating me which the teacher at least knew about. This happened for several months before a furious teacher found out and complained to the school and district. They didn't do anything until the teacher decided to tell my mom. My mom came in and threatened to make her life hell if the teacher decided to even look at me ever again. My mom said she almost hit her considering how I was being treated. The teacher left me alone after that, the bullying continued until I was in fifth grade when one of the bullies went too far when she stuck a stick in my spokes and sent me flying over the handlebars. The neighbors nearby heard me screaming and called my parents. My mom threatened to call the police and press charges if she ever saw the girl or her friends close to me again. They left me alone after that. The teacher was never fired or warned for her behavior against me. I have a lot of other examples: Teachers turning their backs to bullies going after others, threatening students, screaming obscenities at them in their face even when they're trying to leave the classroom to get away from them, threats, assault (one student said a teacher dumped a whole deskload of books on their head for forgetting a paper), abuse, humiliation (my brother who had a learning disability in math was publicly humiliated by his teacher outside of class in front of his friends because he didn't understand what she was doing I later saw her in a public screaming match with a kid with a disability because the kid couldn't figure out the math. I used her once and dropped her right afterwards because of her condescending attitude towards students.) and several other things. I think Tenure really needs to be fixed, it works from some teachers, but the abuse of it is rampant. A lot of unions and even school boards don't support the program. So... Thoughts? Do you think Tenure is a good program for teachers?
Thank you for your concern... I feel very healthy for the moment.
Sorry to hear that... :( That really sucks.
I'm doing great, thanks... How was your fourth?
Nope... :P How're you?
That's not a good sign for the east coast, though... Which is affected by the storm. The last time this sort of thing happened, my state lost power in a massive ice storm for a month since it stalled and knocked out their power that long. A lot of kids missed school and all of Northern Maine basically shut down for a month because of how many people lost their power. It was debate on what to do with the schools since the kids literally missed a whole months worth of school. It took 60,000 workers from five different states three months to give 325,000 people back their power. Google Ice Storm of 1998 Maine for more info. http://bangorinfo.com/Focus/focus_ice_storm.html Here's a small article about it.
