February 2011
194 posts
You, know what Peebz... you've got a valid point there.
notesonascandal replied to your photo:I’m 42 yrs old and I got a gold mufuggn star at… A lollipop would make things feel a little better. ;-)
Westboro Baptist Church forged Anonymous threat for publicity, vengeance →
siliconrepublic.com
Anonymous claimed the Westboro Baptist Church sent the letter in its name in an attempt to gain publicity.
“You thought you could play with Anonymous. You observed our rising notoriety and thought you would exploit our paradigm for your own gain,” said the group in a press release.
“When Anonymous says we support free speech, we mean it. We count Beatrice Hall among our Anonymous forebears: ‘I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.’ “
The hacktivist group said that, along with looking for more attention, the Westboro Baptist Church wanted to lure DDoS attackers into a “honeypot.”
“They’ve got their ports wide open to harvest IPs to sue. Don’t DDoS, and boycott Operation Westboro,” warned Anonymous.
I thought that the letter seemed ideologically incongruous with Anonymous. Suppression of speech will never be an effective means of fighting ignorance and hate.
All I can do is laugh.
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Teachers make too much money! →
facebook.com
Food for thought.
Are you sick of high paid teachers? Teachers’ hefty salaries are driving up taxes, and they only work 9 or 10 months a year! It’s time we put things in perspective and pay them for what they do - baby sit! We can get that for less than minimum wage.
That’s right. Let’s give them $3.00 an hour and only the hours they worked; not any of that silly planning time, or any time they spend before or after school. That would be $19.50 a day (7:45 to 3:00 PM with 45 min. off for lunch and plan — that equals 6 1/2 hours).
Each parent should pay $19.50 a day for these teachers to baby-sit their children.
Now how many do they teach in day…maybe 30? So that’s $19.50 x 30 = $585.00 a day. However, remember they only work 180 days a year!!! I am not going to pay them for any vacations.
LET’S SEE…. That’s $585 X 180= $105,300 peryear. (Hold on! My calculator needs new batteries).
What about those special education teachers and the ones with Master’s degrees? Well, we could pay them minimum wage ($7.75), and just to be fair, round it off to $8.00 an hour. That would be $8 X 6 1/2 hours X 30 children X 180 days = $280,800 per year.
Wait a minute — there’s something wrong here! There sure is!
The average teacher’s salary (nation wide) is $50,000. $50,000/180 days = $277.77/per day/30 students=$9.25/6.5 hours = $1.42 per hour per student–a very inexpensive baby-sitter and they even EDUCATE your kids!)
WHAT A DEAL!!!!
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