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Kmar wrote:

Afghanistan: Drone missile 'killed two US soldiers'
This is the first case of FF by a drone I think I have heard of. It is sort of ironic considering the major point behind pilot-less vehicles is to minimize military losses.

The marines, who were watching a video feed from the armed Predator drone overhead, saw infrared images moving towards them on the feed and may have concluded that those were insurgents instead of fellow marines, NBC reported.

Looks like the controllers on the ground were using their ROVER feed and mis-ID'd the IR dots.

The real question is "Why are you reading cafemom.com?"

Thank God (< ) that is an opinion piece.

NeXuS wrote:

http://www.wimp.com/alternativevoting/

I wish so much that this could happen.

Why? All it does is help the big parties maintain their hold. Instead of you voting for Ralph Nader and the vote staying with Nader (perhaps as protest), your protest vote gets ignored and your vote ends up in the hands of whoever is the Dem.

What you end up with is a two party system like present except the only protest vote is not voting at all. It effectively destroys all other campaigns besides the big two.

unnamednewbie13 wrote:

unnamednewbie13 wrote:

Does a 10-Year-Old CEO Violate Child Labor Laws?

Jay wrote:

The real question is "Why are you reading cafemom.com?"

First thing that popped up on google search after I heard about it on the radio, and the writing style was pissy enough for me to dump all over. I'm confident enough not to have to find reference to something on BBC to sound more sophisticated.

But I kind of agree with your line of thinking in regards to the article. It was clearly written by a kids should be kids idealist. What if the parents were broke and her idea spawned a business that provided for the rest of the family? Does that necessarily make the situation wrong? I don't think so.

Why is it we allow children to take and take and take without ever expecting anything in return? When did that change? Used to be that you had kids because they were supposed to care for you when you became too old to work. Now they take and take and bitch when they have to pay for your retirement home. Now, I'm not saying that we should be shipping our kids off to work in factories to provide for the family. I just don't see why the author of that blog seemed so personally offended by the setup that family has. Like it would be abject cruelty on the part of the parents if they ever dared touch a dime of their kids money.

Maybe I have a different perspective because I grew up poor but my mom used to raid my savings account full of birthday money and the savings bonds given to me by my grandparents. When I found out about it later in life I was understandably upset but my mom wasn't taking that money to buy a new pair of shoes for herself or a manicure. If she took it it was to put food on the table and to keep the electricity on. What's a few hundred dollars when she spent hundreds of thousands of dollars caring for me over the years?

Anyway, I dismissed the article because I thought the blog was making much ado about nothing and it wasn't really worthy of comment. But you as a poster here at DST deserve more than me dismissing your source with a sarcastic comment so there ya go

unnamednewbie13 wrote:

I don't think it's a small issue at all. Kids are being overprotected to the point of never being taught the value of work or profit. Being given a few bucks for a job well done or a video game for a series of jobs well done has an enormous impact on the positive development of a work ethic in kids. If they can work at home for money, why shouldn't they be able to sell...eraser heads for money?

Kids understand profit implicitly when presented with it. Want a kid to brush their teeth? Don't spoil them with toys, but promise one they want for six months of clean gums. They're not going to understand or care about the condition of their teeth in twenty years, but they will understand a pump squirt gun with a water tank backpack.

My family was a thread from absolute homelessness in my early childhood. Since they couldn't afford daycare, I ended up helping my dad on several job sites with layout. So I suppose the article tweaked a nerve unpleasantly.

I hear ya. I've been working since I was 13. My mom stopped buying clothes for me when I turned 14 (among other things. i never had an allowance or anything of the sort) and I've had to buy my own ever since. My fiancee wonders why I go clothes shopping only once every few years

Last edited by Jay (2011-04-13 20:59:15)

Dilbert_X wrote:

I still buy most of my leisure clothes from charity shops.
New prices are ridiculous for chinese rags.

I'm pretty sure their made in thailand or somewhere in south america

FEOS wrote:

We'll see if our future overlords allow bf2s.com through the interwebz...

online tax cheating
online tax evasion

American spies abroad

Free Tibet

Republic of China

Formosa

hmm, i'll post more later

mekstizzle pro terrorist

Evidence that that death penalty is a deterrent.

Well, apparently, the site's not filtered in Beijing. But it looks like Facebook is...

八九民运

If that actually worked that's pretty hardcore hahahaha

Last edited by Jay (2011-04-16 07:18:49)

hmmm...

offered a aviation job on the marshall islands (kwajalein atoll)...good money, killer tropical island, good money, 12 month contract.  i dunno.  damn thing is in the middle of nowhere though.