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If Jack van Impe can find it in his heart to accept Catholics as Christian brothers, can't you?

what a stinkin' whore!!!

check out cmdrtaco's ex girlfriend here!!

aha! It seems i've found a picture that could possibly be of ms. thurber...try this:

http://home.talkcity.com/FerrariDr/a-babe44/page2. html

It's a long shot, but it mentions the name "kathy" and "maenad". Could be.

The goal of cheating is to better the chance of winning. Cheating also assumes you are giving a correct answer (if you are cheating well). Only they know the correct answers.

I'd say that computers are neutral compared to the damage that forced education does to children. This may be a bit off-topic, but I think it's something that people should learn more about.

Check out stuff by authors such as A.S. Neill, John Taylor Gatto, and Alfie Kohn. In fact, Alfie Kohn has a website devoted to his work, and the school started by A.S. Neill (Summerhill School) also has it's own website.

We all need to realize where the idea of public schools and everything involved with them (forced education, splitting the day into one hour segments, age separation, bells, assigned seating, raising your hand) originated, and it did not originate in the idea of creating a free-thinking society. John Taylor Gatto has an essay that deals with just this subject.

Here's an excerpt:

The structure of American schooling, 20th century style, began in 1806 when Napoleon's amateur soldiers beat the professional soldiers of Prussia at the battle of Jena. When your business is selling soldiers, losing a battle like that is serious. Almost immediately afterwards a German philosopher named Fichte delivered his famous "Address to the German Nation" which became one of the most influential documents in modern history. In effect he told the Prussian people that the party was over, that the nation would have to shape up through a new Utopian institution of forced schooling in which everyone would learn to take orders.

So the world got compulsion schooling at the end of a state bayonet for the first time in human history; modern forced schooling started in Prussia in 1819 with a clear vision of what centralized schools could deliver:

1.Obedient soldiers to the army;

2.Obedient workers to the mines;

3.Well subordinated civil servants to government;

4.Well subordinated clerks to industry

5.Citizens who thought alike about major issues.

Other things to look into are schools such as the "Sudbury Valley" schools, and even Montessori (although I don't find Montessori schools to be nearly radical enough in their teaching methods).

The whole idea of these schools (usually called "free", "democratic", or "modern" schools) is that children do not need to be forced to learn. Teachers should play a supportive role, and should involve themselves only when children initiate learning.

A lot of people say, "But then children won't learn anything," but that's not the case. Children are, by nature, very curious and willing to learn. If you've ever observed students going from 1st to 2nd to 3rd grade you see an incredible transformation from being absorbed by learning, to actively resisting it. This is because they're being forced to learn subjects and in ways that they're not comfortable with.

Before the Spanish Civil War, a lot of the anarchists (which totalled around 3 million out of Spain's 20 million) were strong advocates of modern schools as put forth by Francisco Ferrer (who later was killed by the Catholic Church), because they were opposed to the authoritarian methods that the Church used in their schools (which were the only ones available to poor children).

To summarize, authoritarian learning is not really learning, but instead obedience mixed with memorization. Libertarian learning, on the other hand, is much deeper, because it is based on what a child wants, and not what teachers and by extension, the state, imposes on them.

In other words, computers in the classroom are the least of these children's worries.


Michael Chisari
mchisari@usa.net

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I know of several online businesses that derive (or plan to) their revenue from banner ads. Talkcity an "online community" recently blocked irc clients that could not display their banner ads. Their stock has dropped from 29 to under 4. I believe that the banner ad business model is a failure, and that many more companies share prices will erode.

I often wonder about policies like this, do the people who draft them realise they're excluding everyone who's not using MS of Macs? Or is it just some "majority market" rubbish. The @Home network in Australia is only provifing access to "Windows or Macintosh Users". Anyways, if you want to let these particular people know, email them at egainfeedback@corp.talkcity.com and let them know you exist.

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Here are a few in case you need
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homepad.com


.. and more.