the right wing parents will complain that the school is pushing collectivism, the left wing parents will complain the school is pushing fascism, etc.
Fascism is a form of collectivism. There are two primary differences between Communism/Socialism and Fascism. The first is that fascism allows individuals to maintain "ownership" of resources (even though, just like in Communism, the government decides how those resources are allocated). Second, and the major emphasis of most fascists, fascism is nationalistic, whereas Communism is more internationalist.
The reality is that audience is still king. If there is bias in news media, it is to satisfy the expectations of the audience, which wants its own biases confirmed (not the advertisers'). E.g.: the economic success of certain over-'balanced' media outlets was a matter of ratings increasing along with the 'balance'.
The problem is that most "journalists" don't go into journalism to report the news, they go into journalism to "change the world". As a result, they report the news so as to cause their readers to support the changes they think are needed. If reporters were to be trained/understood that if people are accurately informed, they will tend to do things that make the world a better place (although not necessarily the things that the reporter thinks they should do), perhaps they would understand that just reporting the news will make the world a better place.
I care about my newspapers a lot and would really hate it if they went away. I think they definitely bring something else to the table in terms of news and certain papers are consistently of higher standard than ALL web news outlets because of their indepth reporting, (relatively) unbiased opinion and greater, more sensible appreciation of the bigger picture.
Please inform us about the names of these newspapers that have this high standard that you are referring to (or non-U.S.). I assume they are local papers since none of the nationally known newspapers in the U.S. fit this criteria.
The reason that the timing of the lights comes into the discussion is that most states have laws stating the minimum length of the yellow. The studies I have seen indicate that cities have reduced the length of the yellow on traffic lights with red light cameras below the state mandated minimum.
In most states in the U.S., you do have the right to challenge traffic tickets in court and the officer who wrote the ticket must appear or the case is dismissed. Of course, generally if you take the ticket to court, they offer you a reduced ticket. If you refuse the reduced ticket, they will often give you a continuance and schedule a second hearing where the officer will show up. So, if you don't accept their offer of reduced charges, you get to waste at least one more day in court. I'm not sure how they deal with the case of red-light cameras.
In the U.S., we have these things called local governments. In most states they are called townships. You know the funny thing about them, even though one person can make a huge difference by getting involved at this level, very few people even know who their township Supervisors are. Most people would be hard pressed to tell you where the township Supervisors meet.
Yes, it is different. Scientologists have a documented history of intentional deceit and underhanded behavior as part of official church policy to a degree much larger than any other well known religion.
It is very hard for you to make plans on how to attack a military bas from what someone else remembers the place looks like. As for making drawings, I suspect that parking outside of the place and making drawings would result in the same sort of government response. ditto getting caught with drawings of a military installation.
NY State argues that Amazon "affiliates" (I don't remember the exact term that Amazon uses for these business partners) that are located in NY represent Amazon and therefore Amazon has a physical presence in NY and therefore must collect NY sales tax. Amazon is challenging this interpretation in Federal Court.
I've been re-reading Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol, the story of a Republican who wakes up and finds that he's turned into a Democrat overnight.
Humbug to you too, Mr. Bush.
I'm sorry, but Scrooge is a Democrat who wakes up as a conservative.
"At this festive season of the year, Mr. Scrooge," said the gentleman, taking up a pen, "it is more than usually desirable that we should make some slight provision for the Poor and Destitute, who suffer greatly at the present time. Many thousands are in want of common necessaries; hundreds of thousands are in want of common comforts, sir."
"Are there no prisons?" asked Scrooge.
"Plenty of prisons," said the gentleman, laying down the pen again.
"And the Union workhouses?" demanded Scrooge. "Are they still in operation?"
"They are. Still," returned the gentleman, "I wish I could say they were not."
"The Treadmill and the Poor Law are in full vigour, then?" said Scrooge.
"Both very busy, sir."
"Oh! I was afraid, from what you said at first, that something had occurred to stop them in their useful course," said Scrooge. "I'm very glad to hear it."
As a good Democrat he is all for the government programs that provide a basic "safety net" out of taxes, but he doesn't give anything to charity. Check the statistics on charitable giving to see what I mean.
You do know that those foreign car companies pay close to $100,000 a year on average in hourly wages?
While those poor UAW workers are making on average $160,000 a year?
So, yeah, I really feel bad for those no-union workers who have to make do on a measly $100,000 a year. We've got to protect those UAW workers.
I have never raped a woman, but under certain circumstances it is possible that people would take it credibly if a woman accused me of it. I don't have any control over the actions of other men.
By what definition should Al Gore have "rightfully" been President after the 2000 election? If the U.S. Supreme Court had not stepped in, the Florida legislature would have appointed electors to represent Florida that would have voted for George W. Bush. If those electors were not seated, the election would have gone to Congress to be decided. Congress would have chosen George W. Bush.
As for the "popular vote", California alone chose not to count more absentee ballots than the difference in the reported national vote totals between George W. Bush and Al Gore. The reason that California (and many other states) did not count all of the absentee ballots was because for California, the remaining absentee ballots were fewer than the difference in the vote total for California.
The person doing it. The whole point is that while anonymity must be allowed for the effective functioning of a free society, it should not be encouraged because anonymity leads to a break down in civil discourse. "Not encouraging" does not have the same meaning as "discouraging", let alone "forbidding".
All of this could have been stopped if the record companies had been willing to cut a deal with Napster to distribute music online instead of essentially suing it out of existence.
Property tax is one bill; school tax is another. So I could very easily continue paying the property tax to keep the government happy, while refusing to pay the school tax to the local corrupt district that steals my teenager's CDs. (In my view I shouldn't have to support a school district A if I pull my kid out of A, and pay tuition to neighboring district B instead.)
That is a nice thought. If you try it they will eventually put your house up for sheriff's sale to collect the unpaid taxes.
I am pretty sure that by non-cooperators the OP was referring to somewhat different behavior than you are. In FOSS terms, my understanding of what he meant would be the people who modify and distribute the software without releasing the source code.
The mechanism the FOSS crowd has for dealing with this group (essentially ostracism) is not very effective. Fortunately, there exists a mechanism outside of the FOSS community to deal with them (the courts).
It has to do with freedom of speech since this school is a state sponsored school. That means that school policies are government policies. It is a violation of the Constitution for a government agency to have a policy that abridges freedom of speech. If this was a private school the issue would be different.
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the right wing parents will complain that the school is pushing collectivism, the left wing parents will complain the school is pushing fascism, etc.
Fascism is a form of collectivism. There are two primary differences between Communism/Socialism and Fascism. The first is that fascism allows individuals to maintain "ownership" of resources (even though, just like in Communism, the government decides how those resources are allocated). Second, and the major emphasis of most fascists, fascism is nationalistic, whereas Communism is more internationalist.
The reality is that audience is still king. If there is bias in news media, it is to satisfy the expectations of the audience, which wants its own biases confirmed (not the advertisers'). E.g.: the economic success of certain over-'balanced' media outlets was a matter of ratings increasing along with the 'balance'.
The problem is that most "journalists" don't go into journalism to report the news, they go into journalism to "change the world". As a result, they report the news so as to cause their readers to support the changes they think are needed. If reporters were to be trained/understood that if people are accurately informed, they will tend to do things that make the world a better place (although not necessarily the things that the reporter thinks they should do), perhaps they would understand that just reporting the news will make the world a better place.
I care about my newspapers a lot and would really hate it if they went away. I think they definitely bring something else to the table in terms of news and certain papers are consistently of higher standard than ALL web news outlets because of their indepth reporting, (relatively) unbiased opinion and greater, more sensible appreciation of the bigger picture.
Please inform us about the names of these newspapers that have this high standard that you are referring to (or non-U.S.). I assume they are local papers since none of the nationally known newspapers in the U.S. fit this criteria.
The reason that the timing of the lights comes into the discussion is that most states have laws stating the minimum length of the yellow. The studies I have seen indicate that cities have reduced the length of the yellow on traffic lights with red light cameras below the state mandated minimum.
In most states in the U.S., you do have the right to challenge traffic tickets in court and the officer who wrote the ticket must appear or the case is dismissed. Of course, generally if you take the ticket to court, they offer you a reduced ticket. If you refuse the reduced ticket, they will often give you a continuance and schedule a second hearing where the officer will show up. So, if you don't accept their offer of reduced charges, you get to waste at least one more day in court. I'm not sure how they deal with the case of red-light cameras.
In the U.S., we have these things called local governments. In most states they are called townships. You know the funny thing about them, even though one person can make a huge difference by getting involved at this level, very few people even know who their township Supervisors are. Most people would be hard pressed to tell you where the township Supervisors meet.
Yes, it is different. Scientologists have a documented history of intentional deceit and underhanded behavior as part of official church policy to a degree much larger than any other well known religion.
Good luck with them suing carrier pigeons, since they've been extinct for quite some time now. I believe the last one was seen in the 1800's
It is very hard for you to make plans on how to attack a military bas from what someone else remembers the place looks like. As for making drawings, I suspect that parking outside of the place and making drawings would result in the same sort of government response. ditto getting caught with drawings of a military installation.
What do you have against someone earning what the market will bear?
NY State argues that Amazon "affiliates" (I don't remember the exact term that Amazon uses for these business partners) that are located in NY represent Amazon and therefore Amazon has a physical presence in NY and therefore must collect NY sales tax. Amazon is challenging this interpretation in Federal Court.
I've been re-reading Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol, the story of a Republican who wakes up and finds that he's turned into a Democrat overnight.
Humbug to you too, Mr. Bush.
I'm sorry, but Scrooge is a Democrat who wakes up as a conservative.
"At this festive season of the year, Mr. Scrooge," said the gentleman, taking up a pen, "it is more than usually desirable that we should make some slight provision for the Poor and Destitute, who suffer greatly at the present time. Many thousands are in want of common necessaries; hundreds of thousands are in want of common comforts, sir." "Are there no prisons?" asked Scrooge. "Plenty of prisons," said the gentleman, laying down the pen again. "And the Union workhouses?" demanded Scrooge. "Are they still in operation?" "They are. Still," returned the gentleman, "I wish I could say they were not." "The Treadmill and the Poor Law are in full vigour, then?" said Scrooge. "Both very busy, sir." "Oh! I was afraid, from what you said at first, that something had occurred to stop them in their useful course," said Scrooge. "I'm very glad to hear it."
As a good Democrat he is all for the government programs that provide a basic "safety net" out of taxes, but he doesn't give anything to charity. Check the statistics on charitable giving to see what I mean.
You do know that those foreign car companies pay close to $100,000 a year on average in hourly wages?
While those poor UAW workers are making on average $160,000 a year?
So, yeah, I really feel bad for those no-union workers who have to make do on a measly $100,000 a year. We've got to protect those UAW workers.
Yeah, the owners of sports teams would love a legally implemented salary cap....more profit for them.
I have never raped a woman, but under certain circumstances it is possible that people would take it credibly if a woman accused me of it. I don't have any control over the actions of other men.
By what definition should Al Gore have "rightfully" been President after the 2000 election? If the U.S. Supreme Court had not stepped in, the Florida legislature would have appointed electors to represent Florida that would have voted for George W. Bush. If those electors were not seated, the election would have gone to Congress to be decided. Congress would have chosen George W. Bush.
As for the "popular vote", California alone chose not to count more absentee ballots than the difference in the reported national vote totals between George W. Bush and Al Gore. The reason that California (and many other states) did not count all of the absentee ballots was because for California, the remaining absentee ballots were fewer than the difference in the vote total for California.
What is the cost of a cheap monitor versus the price of an expensive key board?
and simultaneously perpendicular to the desktop at a reasonable height to prevent neck and back strain
Why? Before PCs became popular, people wrote with a pen on paper placed parallel to the desk. How hard did centuries of that strain people's necks?
Yes, but they didn't generally read that way.
Yeah, doesn't every body know that Portugal is one of the states of Europe?
The person doing it. The whole point is that while anonymity must be allowed for the effective functioning of a free society, it should not be encouraged because anonymity leads to a break down in civil discourse. "Not encouraging" does not have the same meaning as "discouraging", let alone "forbidding".
All of this could have been stopped if the record companies had been willing to cut a deal with Napster to distribute music online instead of essentially suing it out of existence.
My county assesses the taxes separately.
Property tax is one bill; school tax is another. So I could very easily continue paying the property tax to keep the government happy, while refusing to pay the school tax to the local corrupt district that steals my teenager's CDs. (In my view I shouldn't have to support a school district A if I pull my kid out of A, and pay tuition to neighboring district B instead.)
That is a nice thought. If you try it they will eventually put your house up for sheriff's sale to collect the unpaid taxes.
I am pretty sure that by non-cooperators the OP was referring to somewhat different behavior than you are. In FOSS terms, my understanding of what he meant would be the people who modify and distribute the software without releasing the source code.
The mechanism the FOSS crowd has for dealing with this group (essentially ostracism) is not very effective. Fortunately, there exists a mechanism outside of the FOSS community to deal with them (the courts).
It has to do with freedom of speech since this school is a state sponsored school. That means that school policies are government policies. It is a violation of the Constitution for a government agency to have a policy that abridges freedom of speech. If this was a private school the issue would be different.
Actually ,as you probably know, according to the U.S. government, most of the terrorists who bombed the World Trade Center were from Saudi Arabia.