Thank the Flying Spaghetti Monster.... I thought it was just me.

I kept waiting for the "record skip" noise and for this to turn into a comedy.

Cell phone zombies? Seriously?

BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHA

Wow is this stupid. What did she collect cell phones too?... Surely someone will leak the audio.

I consider a cell phone a hand held computer. I started computing on an Apple2, so the power of a cell phone certainly meets the definition in my eyes.
Also, my PC has a decent camera built in. One could just as easily scan it into their PC, no? If not, why not?
I've never have a cell phone (FREAK!...What?! Who said that?!), so I don't really know how those QR codes work.

I just assumed that phones are nearly as vulnerable as computers, and I know that just opening a web page CAN infect your system, even with anti-virus software and without clicking/intentionally installing anything. Some viruses auto-download once you're on the site with no notice, or a fake notice pretending to be a 'I've read the terms of service' or 'I agree' boxes and downloading to hidden files in the background in ways only IT specialists would notice.
I know that I've seen many reports claiming that many 'fremium' games include Trojan horse programs that track your phone usage, location, and in some cases steal your information. I'm just guessing that the same thing is possible without the game attached. It wouldn't be difficult on a PC to use a link/web page to auto-infect visitors, I'm just guessing the same goes for 'hand held computers'.

I think "literally zero risk" is a bit much. Possibly extremely unlikely, but certainly not really zero risk.

Your video, Charging a cell phone on the railroad?, has made it into the Top 15 New Videos listing. Congratulations on your achievement. For your contribution you have been awarded 1 Power Point.

If you really want to add some fuel to your, shall we say, "dislike" of HRC, have a look at this. It's an excerpt of Thomas Frank's new book "Listen, Liberal!". Afterwards, you might have to reassure yourself that HRC is, in fact, not a creation of John Cleese's or Terry Jones'.

Edit: I should probably have provided an appetizer.

"For poor and working-class American women, the floor was pulled up and hauled off to the landfill some twenty years ago. There is no State Department somewhere to pay for their cell phones or to pick up their day-care expenses. And one of the people who helped to work this deed was the very woman I watched present herself as the champion of the world’s downtrodden femininity."

Where can one rent this child abuse machine? It's amazing! Finally, parents can be sure their children get the beatings we all know they need without having to get off their cell phone to do it themselves. MERICA!

But yes..., that's the point!
Helping our common man should be so ingrained in us that the mere act of picking someone up and helping someone shouldn't be an exception. It should be the normal.
And since it should be the "Norm," we should never have to emblazon such praise on a task that should be so basic.

We have become a culture where we bestow praise on people that are doing what should be considered nothing at all. In this we are lowering the standard of what greatness is.

Helping this man, shouldn't be an act of heroism, it should be an obligation. But no, we pick up our cell phones and celebrate a task that is so basic, that we have made the sublime, exquisite!

Nice medley, but I always lose my suspension of disbelief when a WW2 era performance includes an inter-racial couple. It just stands out as something you wouldn't see back then, just like if someone just pulled out their cell phone and started texting. Just because it's a part of our history we aren't proud of is no reason to white wash over it, in fact I feel it's all the more reason to remember how we were back then, so we don't go backwards, and to help keep in mind that, as repressed as we are as a society, we've come a long way, baby.

*ban

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H8eiellABzo

Yeah seriously, see:
"Did it go too far- yep but the student caused this to happen."

I completely agree with that. When you get to the heart of the matter, I generally find most people agree at some basic level even though they might have completely different views of the same situation or world overall.

I just wanted to know how you felt that was justified, and you clarified, and I agree with you that that it way too far but the girl pretty much instigated the reaction (considering this was all over a cell-phone and then refusal to leave?).

The unjustifiable part I found with it was the overreaction and the level of force. There are better ways to do this, but obstinate teenagers push buttons, and I don't respect authority-for-authority's sake myself, so there's my bias.

My question is what does our society expect to happen here?

This kind of situation has become routine in the system, at least here in Canada. The teacher asks a student to do something, like put away their cell phone. The student refuses, or more often than not tells the teacher off. The teacher then asks the student to go down to the principals office. The student refuses, or more often than not tells the teacher off again. The teacher is absolutely and completely forbidden to use any manner of physical force to require the student to listen. Since the teacher can't get the student to go to the principle, their only recourse is to bring the principle to the student. The joke is, the principle has absolutely no more authority to force the student to comply than did the teacher.

What do people expect as the 'right' course of action here in our society today? If students decide they just don't wanna do anything they are told, is that just the end of it? Is there absolutely never any circumstance under which we finally reach the point were using actual physical force to remove them from the school can be deemed acceptable?

Sorry, but I truly am fearful of a world were we teach students that they are free to ignore any and all authority. More over, so long as they refrain from violence, they can defy authority with impunity knowing it is immoral for any authority to use force to get them to comply.

I'm not sure if this can qualify as a live performance as < 50% of the audience was recording it with cell phones.