[quote]Zap Branigan wrote:
Headhunter wrote:
Go-Rilla wrote:
ElbowStrike wrote:
LIFTICVSMAXIMVS wrote:
We also need to rewrite child labor laws to allow teens the opportunity to work.
You don’t ALLOW your teens to work!?!?
Twelve used to be old enough to fight “Zee Germans”.
ElbowStrike
Plenty of teens work and make good grades too. I employ several teenagers in part time positions and they do a great job. I ask about grades prior to employment and make sure they know that if the grades drop…the job may be gone too. I give bonuses for straight “A” report cards.
Some are in H.S. and a few in College…great kids.
Most of them are making their own car payments and in most cases help pay for tuition when necessary.
Now, having said all that, if you ask most of them who the Secretary of Defense is, or for that matter who the Vice President of the United States is, hold on to your hat. Forget asking about Presidential candidates.
Try asking them who Cincinnatus was…really good for the quizzical look. 
He played for the Bengals.[/quote]
Aha,so he was an Indian!
[quote]Zap Branigan wrote:
Headhunter wrote:
Go-Rilla wrote:
ElbowStrike wrote:
LIFTICVSMAXIMVS wrote:
We also need to rewrite child labor laws to allow teens the opportunity to work.
You don’t ALLOW your teens to work!?!?
Twelve used to be old enough to fight “Zee Germans”.
ElbowStrike
Plenty of teens work and make good grades too. I employ several teenagers in part time positions and they do a great job. I ask about grades prior to employment and make sure they know that if the grades drop…the job may be gone too. I give bonuses for straight “A” report cards.
Some are in H.S. and a few in College…great kids.
Most of them are making their own car payments and in most cases help pay for tuition when necessary.
Now, having said all that, if you ask most of them who the Secretary of Defense is, or for that matter who the Vice President of the United States is, hold on to your hat. Forget asking about Presidential candidates.
Try asking them who Cincinnatus was…really good for the quizzical look.
He played for the Bengals.[/quote]
Yes…but that was after Cream broke up and Thurgood Marshall (invented Marshall amps) got the gig playin drums with Sabbath. The Bengals only did a remake of Buddy Miles’ “Down by the river” and never really made a come back after the plane went down with G.Gordon Liddy on board. Shame too… he had just released the “Watergate…Live at the Filmore East” recording.
[quote]jj-dude wrote:
So what I’m saying is that only for a small percentage of the population will shake off their slothful ways and really learn. The rest will watch Loveboat reruns sipping Margaritas.
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This is and always will be the case. The large majority of individuals will never be able to understand the inner-workings of computer, for example, nor will they care to understand it so long as there are others that can – even if that means a call to India to get it fixed.
The point I was trying to make was not that all individuals care to make self-improvement just that there will be people who do and it will benefit everyone – viz. technology.
The mere fact that we can have a conversation about this is proof enough that intellectualism is not dead. Just don’t expect that you’ll be able to engage the majority of the population with an inquiry into the state of intellectualism outside of a forum such as this – such is life.
Socrates was also concerned enough that he felt the need to search the streets of Athens for an enlightened man – but he got a kick out of mocking fools by playing the fool.
[quote]Go-Rilla wrote:
He played for the Bengals.
Yes…but that was after Cream broke up and Thurgood Marshall (invented Marshall amps) got the gig playin drums with Sabbath. The Bengals only did a remake of Buddy Miles’ “Down by the river” and never really made a come back after the plane went down with G.Gordon Liddy on board. Shame too… he had just released the “Watergate…Live at the Filmore East” recording.
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Never say there is nothing to new to learn on this site.
Marshall was a regular renaissance-man.
[quote]LIFTICVSMAXIMVS wrote:
Go-Rilla wrote:
He played for the Bengals.
Yes…but that was after Cream broke up and Thurgood Marshall (invented Marshall amps) got the gig playin drums with Sabbath. The Bengals only did a remake of Buddy Miles’ “Down by the river” and never really made a come back after the plane went down with G.Gordon Liddy on board. Shame too… he had just released the “Watergate…Live at the Filmore East” recording.
Never say there is nothing to new to learn on this site.
Marshall was a regular renaissance-man.
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Dude could play.