Bad Decisions

In the United States for the past few decades, personal and parental responsibility has taken a back seat to paranoid policies, such as this one:



http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/23928454/ Little Kids Labelled Sexual Harrassers.



WTF? Somewhere in school policy there has been serious confusion in what we do with our kids in the dystopia in which we live. Yes, we have sex on everywhere, and kids get confused (obviously) and maybe mimic behavior on a minor scale, but the solution is not a zero-tolerance policy for 6th graders involving police reports and permanent school records. Somewhere administrators have lost focus and completely missed the point: These 6 year olds have no idea what any of it means.



The solution? Bring both the offended and the offender into the office, and call the parents and tell them to talk to their kids about sex, if the school district doesnt have the brains or the vertebrae to do it themselves. "Oh theyre too young" No they aren't, especially if theyre mimicking adult sexual behavior. Also, a simple "because [we] said so" will not suffice. Kids are not the innocent little people adults like to think they are. They're smart. If you don't give them a reason, they are likely to continue the behavior, and only try not to get caught. In the words of Graham Greene, "Innocence is a kind of insanity"1.



Talk to your kids. Be the responsible parents yours never were.



1. Greene, Graham. The Quiet American.



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On a lighter note, Creative Labs, if natural selection applies to corporations, should go out of business. Vista drivers for XP- and earlier-generation sound cards have long been defective, and one rogue programmer in the company wrote drivers that worked, and released them independently. Creative Labs asked him to stop releasing the drivers for fear of the source code being leaked, and so he did.

What Creative Labs should have done, but isn't smart enough to do, is release his drivers as property of Creative and settle the matter. As of yet, they have not, and simply decided to leave the defective drivers as they stand. Some view this as a scheme to force the consumers to buy top-of-the-line sound cards, which isn't fair.

Stop buying Creative products until the EOs learn the hard way, and give them what they deserve.