Where is balance? -- Re: Academic priorities
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From: Charles Shannon Hendrix on 22 May 2005 17:48 ["Followup-To:" header set to alt.folklore.computers.] On 2005-05-05, Andrew Swallow <am.swallow(a)btopenworld.com> wrote: > Screwdrivers are a different matter. The woodwork room should be > equipped with screwdrivers and the children made to return them at the > end of the lesson. So there is no honest reason for children to be > carrying one during the day. Bad reasons include using sharpened > screwdrivers as weapons and sabotaging school desks. There is also not reason *NOT* to carry them. There are very good reasons for not allowing others to make all your decisions for you. There are a lot of things which we don't really need, but have anyway, and a good number of them outside of knives and screwdrivers can be made into weapons. When I was in 7th grade, one girl stabbed another with a hair pin. You want to outlaw them too? Some are more than long enough to reach the heart. -- shannon "AT" widomaker.com -- ["I want this Perl software checked for viruses. Use Norton Antivirus." -- Charlie Kirkpatrick] ----== Posted via Newsfeeds.Com - Unlimited-Uncensored-Secure Usenet News==---- http://www.newsfeeds.com The #1 Newsgroup Service in the World! 120,000+ Newsgroups ----= East and West-Coast Server Farms - Total Privacy via Encryption =----
From: Charles Shannon Hendrix on 22 May 2005 17:38
["Followup-To:" header set to alt.folklore.computers.] On 2005-05-06, Joe Pfeiffer <pfeiffer(a)cs.nmsu.edu> wrote: > What airline do you fly that has large glass bottles? I can cut a man's throat with a tiny bit of glass, and maybe something to protect my own hand. Paper can be folded until there is only a small edge which can readily cut enough to cause fear. A bottle can be wedged in a tight area and broken fairly easily. Etch it a little with a pen or something else hard and you can even get a fairly useful break position. In fact, the way some of the small bottles are made, they readily break near the mouth, making easily concealable and very sharp daggers with a built-in handle (the main body of the bottle). This is without getting into non-detectable weapons that a wealthy attacker can afford and bring aboard. -- shannon "AT" widomaker.com -- ["I want this Perl software checked for viruses. Use Norton Antivirus." -- Charlie Kirkpatrick] ----== Posted via Newsfeeds.Com - Unlimited-Uncensored-Secure Usenet News==---- http://www.newsfeeds.com The #1 Newsgroup Service in the World! 120,000+ Newsgroups ----= East and West-Coast Server Farms - Total Privacy via Encryption =---- |