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Re: The Front Porch
« Reply #13560 on: August 16, 2011, 05:12:04 PM »
Unfortunately, classes have started for me already, but I'm not in my dorm yet. My morning nausea/vomiting is really becoming a big problem. It's been happening everyday now for 4 days. The doctor thinks that I'm very anxious and that my stomach is overproducing acid, so I'm on Prevacid right now. Unfortunately, not much change yet. :( I'm pretty worried about this, and I really don't want it to be anything serious. I feel okay in the evenings, but mornings are miserable. Anyone else have anything similar to this? I don't think I'm that afraid of school. I am so clueless, though, and quite worried.

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Re: The Front Porch
« Reply #13561 on: August 16, 2011, 05:15:46 PM »
Ugh, why do people always do immature things like that? I would hope the fire alarm isn't pulled while I'm in the bathroom!
Not every time a fire alarm goes off does someone pull it. They are required to have regular fire drills.

Once a semester, twice at the maximum, unless certain colleges choose to have more.  So it's more than likely that a fire alarm that goes off after the first week of school is not a drill, but a prank, a false alarm, or an actual fire.

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Re: The Front Porch
« Reply #13562 on: August 16, 2011, 06:03:36 PM »
We had drills at least twice a semester, and sometimes more, IIRC. Nobody was ever stupid enough to pull the alarm as a prank, because all the halls in the dorms were monitored by cameras. More often than not, it was caused by someone burning popcorn or something dumb like that.
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Re: The Front Porch
« Reply #13563 on: August 16, 2011, 08:04:41 PM »
We had drills at least twice a semester, and sometimes more, IIRC. Nobody was ever stupid enough to pull the alarm as a prank, because all the halls in the dorms were monitored by cameras. More often than not, it was caused by someone burning popcorn or something dumb like that.
Probably the freshmen dorms will have issues with the alarms pulled off as pranks,but don't they punish people for these actions?

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Re: The Front Porch
« Reply #13564 on: August 16, 2011, 11:54:17 PM »
#1, 2, 5, 6, 7, and 10 are the best ones.  :P

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Re: The Front Porch
« Reply #13565 on: August 17, 2011, 02:42:31 AM »
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Re: The Front Porch
« Reply #13566 on: August 17, 2011, 11:29:39 AM »
I was watching MSNBC and breaking news came on that there was a bomb plot by a 17-year-old at Freedom High School in Tampa. Weird thing is, none of the local stations have broke the news yet. I guess they're waiting till 12.  :hmm:
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Re: The Front Porch
« Reply #13567 on: August 17, 2011, 12:06:32 PM »
I was watching MSNBC and breaking news came on that there was a bomb plot by a 17-year-old at Freedom High School in Tampa. Weird thing is, none of the local stations have broke the news yet. I guess they're waiting till 12.  :hmm:
Have any actually broken in yet? I just turned on my TV to 13 to see if they have.. glad I dont go to Freedom though..
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Re: The Front Porch
« Reply #13568 on: August 17, 2011, 05:27:16 PM »
I was watching MSNBC and breaking news came on that there was a bomb plot by a 17-year-old at Freedom High School in Tampa. Weird thing is, none of the local stations have broke the news yet. I guess they're waiting till 12.  :hmm:
Have any actually broken in yet? I just turned on my TV to 13 to see if they have.. glad I dont go to Freedom though..

I know this was this morning, but I'm gonna assume they're talking about it locally there on the news now right. I saw it on the local news here.


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Re: The Front Porch
« Reply #13569 on: August 17, 2011, 07:12:15 PM »
I was watching MSNBC and breaking news came on that there was a bomb plot by a 17-year-old at Freedom High School in Tampa. Weird thing is, none of the local stations have broke the news yet. I guess they're waiting till 12.  :hmm:
Have any actually broken in yet? I just turned on my TV to 13 to see if they have.. glad I dont go to Freedom though..

I know this was this morning, but I'm gonna assume they're talking about it locally there on the news now right. I saw it on the local news here.
Yeah, they did at the top of the noon newscast today, per a video on their website..
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Re: The Front Porch
« Reply #13570 on: August 18, 2011, 02:19:09 AM »
This story about the bomb plot is interesting to me. According to the media "The 17-year-old has been charged with threatening to discharge a destructive device" along with some other drug related stuff which isn't relevant. How loose is the definition of threatening to discharge a destructive device? Is writing in a personal journal about these sick things considered the same as publicly saying it? There is no doubt in my mind  that the kid is messed up and probably better off in jail. It seems like there might be more to this story than the police are reporting at the moment. :wacko:
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Re: The Front Porch
« Reply #13571 on: August 18, 2011, 12:34:36 PM »
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Re: The Front Porch
« Reply #13572 on: August 19, 2011, 09:28:04 PM »
HP killed off webOS and the phones and stuff with it.

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Re: The Front Porch
« Reply #13573 on: August 19, 2011, 09:58:51 PM »
HP killed off webOS and the phones and stuff with it.

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I was kind of disappointed when I heard this. WebOS was a really nice mobile OS. IMO, it was right up there with Android and iOS in terms of polish and functionality, but it was just poorly marketed by both Palm and HP. The lack of third-party developers and apps really killed it, too.
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Re: The Front Porch
« Reply #13574 on: August 19, 2011, 10:05:46 PM »
HP killed off webOS and the phones and stuff with it.

$99 TouchPad tablets tomorrow!

Dude, don't even bother buying an HP touchpad. I took a test-run yesterday at Best Buy and it was horrible in terms of graphics and speed. It works the same way as a friggin HP computer, only worse. I prefer the Motorola XOOM. Best. Tablet. Ever. ^_^
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