08-20-2004, 10:00 AM
The diploma is only worth as much as you put into earning it, and the standard required to get a thumbs up from the grantor. The standard is what I hope kandarthe was getting at, and it certainly is where my efforts in local school board activity are aimed when I re engage that target upon arriving home.
On one of the other bits, k's comment about government issued contraceptive medicine assumes that the recipients have both the will and the wit to use them correctly. Had they the will and self discipline in the first place, the meds not needed, and lacking the will or wit, the meds would hardly have the desired influence and represent yet another pissing of money down a . . . hole. :o
I had some experience with Antabuse pills in the early 1980's, in a program that the Navy ran in hopes of helping alcoholics reform while being able to come to work, and to be quite frank with you, it did not work. The self discipline to reform was generally lacking, and the sailors, clever lads they, found numerous ways around the program.
No thanks, don't want to see something like that on a national scale, better use for money would be in improving roads and rail lines. B)
Occhi
On one of the other bits, k's comment about government issued contraceptive medicine assumes that the recipients have both the will and the wit to use them correctly. Had they the will and self discipline in the first place, the meds not needed, and lacking the will or wit, the meds would hardly have the desired influence and represent yet another pissing of money down a . . . hole. :o
I had some experience with Antabuse pills in the early 1980's, in a program that the Navy ran in hopes of helping alcoholics reform while being able to come to work, and to be quite frank with you, it did not work. The self discipline to reform was generally lacking, and the sailors, clever lads they, found numerous ways around the program.
No thanks, don't want to see something like that on a national scale, better use for money would be in improving roads and rail lines. B)
Occhi
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In War, the outcome is never final. --Carl von Clausewitz--
Igitur qui desiderat pacem, praeparet bellum
John 11:35 - consider why.
In Memory of Pete
In War, the outcome is never final. --Carl von Clausewitz--
Igitur qui desiderat pacem, praeparet bellum
John 11:35 - consider why.
In Memory of Pete