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15 years ago @ KOMO - Seattle, WA - Port Orchard minister ... · 0 replies · +6 points

Do a google search on "truth about Ghandi"

Gandhi found it easy to embrace poverty. It was chastity that eluded him. So he worked out a series of complex rules which meant he could say he was chaste while still engaging in the most explicit sexual conversation, letters and behaviour.

15 years ago @ KOMO - Seattle, WA - Southbound I-5 shut do... · 0 replies · +4 points

It's called "Target Fixation"
Wherever you look, that is where you will go.
That's why race drivers are taught to look through the corner, not at the outside of the corner,
even when you are pretty sure you're gonna hit the guard rail.

15 years ago @ KOMO - Seattle, WA - Southbound I-5 shut do... · 6 replies · +2 points

Dementia is no excuse for killing people.
If a person is not a safe driver, they should not have a license!
If you get hit by a drunk, elderly, or stupid person, you are still dead.

15 years ago @ KOMO - Seattle, WA - Southbound I-5 shut do... · 2 replies · +5 points

I'm amazed how many negatives I got.

Shutting down the highway for 4 or 5 hours and disrupting people's lives
is not going to bring the dead person back to life!

The cost of thousands of drivers being late for work is significant,
and worth a helicopter flight.

There are always ways to improve efficiency - I identified one area
and gave a viable solution. I guess too many people operate on emotion
and have no concept of logic - no wonder the state is such a mess.

15 years ago @ KOMO - Seattle, WA - Southbound I-5 shut do... · 4 replies · -13 points

It's utterly absurd to shut down a major freeway for four hours
to take pictures and measurements.

All that the investigators need is a graduated carpet....
Call it the Kanzler Karpet if you wanna give me credit.

Get a white carpet 50 feet long by 2 feet wide,
mark lines every foot with longer lines every 5 feet,
like a giant tape measure.

When there is a major accident, roll out the carpet,
fly a helicopter over and take aerial photos, then
the pictures can be later printed in 1/12th scale so
that measurements can easily be taken.

Some items, like skid marks, may need to be highlighted
with chalk to ensure that they will be visible in the pictures,
but even with that, the road could be cleared and traffic moving
again in 45 minutes!

15 years ago @ KOMO - Seattle, WA - Schram: It\'s time for... · 0 replies · +1 points

With the Southpark 14th street drawbridge closed, that road is no longer
an arterial, which makes the traffic signal camera at Cloverdale and 14th
an illegal camera.

RCW 46.63.170
(1)
(b) Use of automated traffic safety cameras is restricted to two-arterial intersections, railroad crossings, and school speed zones only.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arterial_road

16 years ago @ Laughing Squid - If Calvin Took Ritalin... · 0 replies · +1 points

Look how creative the Beatles were when they were on drugs!

16 years ago @ Laughing Squid - If Calvin Took Ritalin... · 0 replies · -1 points

Yes. There's a balance to find.
As a person who might have benefited from medication or psychological therapies that are now available for kids, I can say that a kid that needs medication and doesn't get it can be just as much of a tragedy.
"Happy, creative kids who fail school and get frustrated don't stay happy and creative for long. "
Exactly. Alcoholism and drug addiction and social failure are not at all uncommon for those who never adapt and learn how to fit into society.
Calvin is more like a kid with Asperger than ADHD, but that's highly debatable.

17 years ago @ KOMO - Seattle, WA - Teacher sends boy, 5, ... · 1 reply · -3 points

Teachers should be spending their time teaching, not conducting child psychology.
The teacher doesn't need to be sent to classes about psychology - she should be able to send the kid to the principal, and then he can judge whether a psychologist needs to be brought into the situation.
This is why kids come out of public skool with such poor educations - the teachers are so busy dealing with behavior problems they can't tech the basics anymore.

17 years ago @ KOMO - Seattle, WA - Teacher sends boy, 5, ... · 0 replies · +1 points

Now I know that I have Asperger's Syndrome (So does one of my kids, which is how I recognized it in myself).
But likewaise, I think every time a kid misbehaves, we are now prone to diagnose him with a learning or behavioral disorder, rather than the possibility that he or she just isn't really trying to behave (or behaving at their potential ability).
I've seen kids with learning disorders allowed to behave like wild animals, and it's sad because it eventually ruins their lives because they never realize their (sometimes limitted) potential.
I was lucky - I was different, but also scholastically gifted & my teachers recognized my potential.

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