Being a homeschool parent, I was initially annoyed at this message, but then saw you are not far off the mark (except for the 'usually have such severe personality defects' bit).
We keep our 3 kids at home because we believe it's our responsibility to teach them, rather than 'out-source' their education, and we didn't approve of what they were being taught in the secular streams. Of course, social interaction is important, so they get together with other homeschoolers and so on a couple of times a week.
Having said that, we did have occasion to meet with another self styled 'homeschooling' group a year or so ago at an excursion/day-trip. Absolute ferrals! The parents believed in teaching nothing, including manners, how to dress, whether to wash, etc.
So, yes, there are those who consider their options and choose carefully, and those who either don't care or 'have severe personality defects'.
As for social interaction vs. computers, you're absolutely right.
So ask yourself, which is more important to you, seeing mob bosses, terrorists, and child pornographers get caught before they can hurt anybody, or protecting yourself from having some FBI bureaucrat reading over your shopping list?
The most valuable commodity I know of is information. - Michael Douglas as Gordon Gekko, Wall Street
How ironic! First you indicate that personal information is no more valuable than a shopping list, then your.sig shouts about the value of information.
Freedom has got to be more important than the illusion of safety.
Don't you mean Hari Seldon (c.11988G.E. - 12069G.E.[3 F.E.]) ??? And on a related note, I wonder if R.Daneel Olivaw runs Linux? I mean, would Windows handle a 20,000 year uptime?
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We keep our 3 kids at home because we believe it's our responsibility to teach them, rather than 'out-source' their education, and we didn't approve of what they were being taught in the secular streams. Of course, social interaction is important, so they get together with other homeschoolers and so on a couple of times a week.
Having said that, we did have occasion to meet with another self styled 'homeschooling' group a year or so ago at an excursion/day-trip. Absolute ferrals! The parents believed in teaching nothing, including manners, how to dress, whether to wash, etc.
So, yes, there are those who consider their options and choose carefully, and those who either don't care or 'have severe personality defects'.
As for social interaction vs. computers, you're absolutely right.
So ask yourself, which is more important to you, seeing mob bosses, terrorists, and child pornographers get caught before they can hurt anybody, or protecting yourself from having some FBI bureaucrat reading over your shopping list? The most valuable commodity I know of is information. - Michael Douglas as Gordon Gekko, Wall Street How ironic! First you indicate that personal information is no more valuable than a shopping list, then your .sig shouts about the value of information.
Freedom has got to be more important than the illusion of safety.
Why not make that available for the rest of us newbies? Or is there someone out there who can point us to a 'correctly built' RPM? cheers!
What about the precedent this sets if this goes against AOL?
;-)
I mean, it seems to me that AOL has got a similar market share with IM as MS has with Windows.
Just a thought.
Don't you mean Hari Seldon (c.11988G.E. - 12069G.E.[3 F.E.]) ??? And on a related note, I wonder if R.Daneel Olivaw runs Linux? I mean, would Windows handle a 20,000 year uptime?