First what is the government definition of small business. It's not ten thousand and sweat equity building to ten times that. Once upon a time I approached the Small Business Adminisitration but since I wasn't an 'immigrant' it was 'who you?' Small business started - back then = at $250,000 by this time it's got to be a million. To get the loan you had to prove you were turned down by a bank and the banks would never turn yuo down just put the application on hold for further study. To hell with them/ We were the first in the state to sell laser printers for under a thousand. One of the banks was a customer for computer systems. Didn't matter. Same bank followed all the federal guidelines and went out of business on mandatory toxic loans in 2008. To understand small business the first principle is avoid government as much as possible. If their regulations demand some expenditure at ten employees stop a nine. If you need more work product lease a computer system. It's cheaper and more efficient hiring warm bodies. Same lesson applied here each and every day.

I made it a success and in the end profitable by selling the business's and taking a profit that way. and then putting it into something else to avoid payng taxes/ fines for being successful.

And then I went sailing. The book you mentioned was the bible the rest I lesrned by reading books or working for and observing others. Which made the profit even more profitable.

Jan the most rational EPA has acted is when Carol Browning I remember bounced out in her rah rahs and did the California air head imitation. That is a level of rationale and explains why life long conservatinests never see things the way the DPA and the regulators 'see it. But then at our level we don't have billions and trillions of public funds to waste and usually have somewhat better than an out of work cheerleader in charge. I am nothing if not sarcastic but truth hurts so deal with it.'

Of course not. But somebody has to hire the F students.

A. Yes I got rather good at that where it counts.
B. The genetic child is not a criminal until he's allowed or encouraged to be a criminal. In the USA both conditions are in forces so genetic knowledge is mooted. The responsibile party then becomes those who have replaced the family and the parent.

C. Depends on who designs and administers the test and how much they are paid off to tweak the results. Under the present administration legacy building comes first. Results come last and has done so for near seven years.

That is an example of the value level of students. They are by definition learning. Until then they must be checked constantly. Student demands on campus fall into the unlabeled vial model as jbrenner pointed out. They also fall into the Heinlein model of no juvenile delinquent and students are legal juveniles until age 21.

Some get exceptions called legal emancipation. A commissioned officer in the military for example at age 19 may be considered emancipated and awarded the paper but even they may not violate local drinking and smoking laws based solely on a commission. Students are legal children and for every anti-social law breaker there is invariably a responsible adult delinquent in his or her duty. Parent or President Emeritus. those who if they do not take adult steps and make adult decisions such as not emptying out a school in the face of a bomb threat after stating they did not know if it was or wasn't.

Those adults are legally and morally delinquent in their duty and for a start not to be trusted. Accident of birth date aside I suspect Wesleyan University and a high school in Houston and some student counselor in Roseburg, Oregon fall in that category. Obviously age is a convenient means of awarding citizenship status but an inconvenient failure as a means of making that decision.

If those students or that student is brought before a judge and states I was only falling orders as promulgated and awarded by the government itself that individual would a. not be defended by the guilty parties neither would the legislatures, executives and judicial follies be called forth as accessories before during or after the fact. The student would not realize by saying those words he or she had admitted to guilt and pleaded for leniency in sentencing,

So would the teacher or professor who did not check all the labels if they used that for an excuse. Adult educators do. Those who are legal adults de jure but not adults de facto do not. Nor do they check the supplies of damping rods in the Ukraine.

Real life is not equipped with a pause, stop, restart nor a replay button. Knowing the difference is an adult trait called responsibility.

Something sadly lacking but as just demonstrated not entirely in educational and judicial circles.

Had the student in JBrenners class been warned, seen a list of rules posted and flipped them off intentionally fine them an expel them until they learn to accept the level of maturity required to be a student in a chemistry class..

I cannot think of an accident that would remove the tape and remove the label just as i cannot think of a weapon being accidentally loaded. Accident therefore is an excuse a Nuremberg defense. It calls for the strictest of measures until certainty is reestablished. My imagination comes up with a vial on a table with an open wind a sudden gust of wind the vial hits the floor and..hmmmm breaks. The the tape is dissolved the wording lost.

Noticing a potential accident waiting to happen the same. the student should have noticed and reported it no matters who was at fault but the responsible adult MUST do so. That's why good drill sergeants, gunnys, and the like seem to be everywhere all the time and miss nothing.

That's why the best of politicians routinely miss everything. There is no requirement to be an adult de facto other than accident of birth to be a Senator of Representative. There are no requirements to be a judge at the highest level other than nomination and confirmation yet they are confirmed by the most incompetent level available..

Thank you for pointing that out. Heinlein was right. We treat our dogs better than our children.

Back in the old days before my former home state was californicated no one went hungry and the law turned a blind eye or helped deliver the provender.

Now it's in the day I guess everyone hits the reset button and play pretends and may I recommend my Grandfathers remedy used prior to 1900 in Idaho. Gallon of tar and a two sacks of feathers. That was for the new federal game wardens and park rangers confiscating his dogs winter food. They sold it to the butcher store (new guy in the west) and he waited until after sunday after church dinner. Then let the story out the feds had taken his horse meat. THAT is a true western story from the old days. I don't know if tar and feathers were really used but they did run the two rascals out of the County. (Ashton,Idaho.

That would be hard even for the proposed mini series. But it does draw more interest and drives key points home so each step serves it's purpose.

A Dark Side version would be Too Big Too Fail where the true architects of the 2008 crash were cast as the hero and heroins and the dude trying to 'save the day' was kissing Pelosillynnis ass. When a question comes up you can pull out the objectivists in flight card. Or if someone is bitching about prices ask why they voted for it. In an airport when the TSA bitching starts ask the same question. WHY did you vote for it not once but three times and getting ready to do it a fourth time. Chances are they are 'Democrat - ID's. Republican the water boys and lapdogs or those that dropped out in one form or another. Have a line ready for each of them.

If they are a Biden supporter just start laughing.

The difficult task would be finding people who could not only read but read at that level and defeat the idea of seeing the movie means you don't need to read the book.

And enact Davis-Bacon II so they could get three times the local prevailing wage for the hard work they did in engineering the crash of 2008

Has Boehner done a Specter yet?

Until all the thinkers, innovators and doers are Morlocks. Only way to get rid of it is let it, encourage it to kill itself preferably by suicide and then rename Washington DC Jonestown..