What's Bugging You Today? Volume 3, Part 1

This story. WTF? I'm losing what little respect I have for cops more and more these days.

At least the higher ups are having the FBI investigate immediately, far too ofter this shit is covered up by internal investigations that show no wrongdoing.

I'm not ready to throw the book at the cop just yet, but I fear the wheelchair guy is another victim of the "shoot first ask questions later" mentality of a lot of LEOs. I'll be interested in the FBI's findings.

I think this is far larger of a case of poor police training rather than whether or not the cop was out to shoot a mentally and physically disabled and kill him. My uncle called up to some public service about committing suicide about 12-15 years or so ago and the police showed up. He grabbed a pair of scissors or something as they entered the apartment and this old man cop (I think he was the chief or something and about to retire) shot him twice, one of the bullets hit his spine and paralyzed him.

Fuck cops.

Justified shooting or not, if you're an able-bodied adult male and some wheelchair-bound nutcase missing two limbs can corner you and scare you so bad that you feel your only possible avenue of escape is to shoot him in the face, you are officially Earth's biggest pussy.

Shit like that is why I'm against more gun control or outright bans.

Until they keep fuckheads like that from having guns, or start controlling their guns, I see no point in it.

It is madness that we give cops a free pass on that shit most of the time, but I have to justify why I shot someone in my house if they are robbing me. Fucking cops blowing cripples away and normal people go to jail for defending their lives.

What a load of shit.

The guy was already disarmed. Get it?

Pretty sure I bombed a test today. I'm partially mad at myself for missing some stuff that I should've known and partially mad at how out-of-the-way the teachers went to purposefully make most of the exam about nitpicking shit that doesn't really apply to the topics we're covering, was specifically not listed and covered in any of their presentations or notes, but was technically mentioned once in the reading somewhere as an aside.

I hated when my professors did that. The best was my corporate finance professor. He allowed us to create a 1-sided, hand written cheat sheet for the 2 exams we had. The thing was, you had to guess right and write really, really small so you could fit all the concepts/formulas that may be on the exam. When the exam rolled around, only half the cheat sheet would be useful due to the obscure questions he put in it. Dude was tough. I was happy with the C+ I got in his class. Some people didn't graduate on time because he was so tough. After the second exam he asked, "How many of you are expecting to graduate in May?" A bunch of hands go up. "Some of you will not be graduating on time, so I will meet those people individually".

Been there.

And yes, they are assholes. Some teachers don't think you're learning unless someone is failing. Or they think that people learn the most when they have an almost undo-able task in front of them. That the higher they set the bar, the harder you will try, and the harder you try the more you will learn. So they think they better set it unrealistically high so everyone will reach their maximum learning potential.

And it doesn't help that a lot of people who go through grad school have unnatural or beyond average academic abilities and 'you're just lazy' if you aren't doing things just like they would have AND also reach their level of excellence. too.

I can not count the number of stupid old men I've had that thought like that. Ride your ass all semester, failing everyone the whole time, only to curb it all at the end. "maybe I should structure this to help them learn?" "nope, nope, I'll just scare the fuck out of them and fix it at the end. Whatever. I have research to do and grad students to work the piss out of =D "

EDIT:

An aside. I've talked to a few teachers about this, and the reason they do this is because it is the cheapest way that they can get students to learn. It is the cheapest and the easiest on them. They could structure everything perfectly but that would take time. Their time and the time of their grad students. Which costs money. They could also do research on the best methods for teaching you each bit of the material and go out into the work force to find what elements are used the most by employers and employees. Again, this costs money and time.

The easiest and cheapest thing to do is just set the bar high and hope you learn everything to try to cover all your bases. You do most of the work and the college looks good by keeping morons from having a degree.

Its stupid but that is the reality of it. Students blame the teachers for not structuring the class right or not stressing the importance of something more. And the teachers blame the department for not giving them more funding to finance making a better class.