Politicians: The people are not voting, how do we get better voter turnout?
Force them to vote! That'll work make being a free person with making their own choices whether or not to vote illegal!
One of the reasons that the US has a summer break with 2 to 3 months off was for the kids to be at home during harvest. So that the crops could be gathered and preserved for the rest of the year. So originally the kids worked on the farm or orchards etc during this time, even if they couldn't harvest, they could tend the animals etc. while the harvest was going on. To say that the kids need the summer break to be kids and play is false, as it happened as a side effect as the harvest changed from manual to machine labor.
At this day and age, when more and more parents both work to support the family, I can see how a full school year can help in a variety of ways. First the weekly schedule would not have to change during summer, day care would be more consistent, I don't know about your areas, but here some kids can't get day care during the summer months because they fill up and no additional companies start up since 9 months out of the year they wouldn't have enough business to keep the doors open. Secondly, teacher salaries would be more consistent with all other businesses, I know that some teachers take no salary during the summer months and others average their paychecks to include the summer months. That discrepancy and additional accounting would be streamlined. Third it would better prepare students for the work force, no summers off, continuing learning and productivity all year round.
Of course vacations would have to be planned, so in the school days off there would have to be X number of days figured in to the curriculum for the students to be off for vacation, just like PTO for work etc.. But this would eventually normalize out the vacation spots, as some would take theirs in March, or April or August and September, or maybe other times of the year. Parents would not have to schedule their vacations during the shorter vacation time of summer school vacations.
Unfortunately, option 2 had been tried by a couple of other people in positions like his. They did not get the message out nor were the problems fixed, as they were still around for Snowden to show. http://gawker.com/previous-nsa...
So yes, I believe that Snowden felt this was the only way to get the information out to the public, where he felt the public discussion would help bring change.
It is hard to clean these up, most Spam Blacklists require each individual IP to checked and a form filled out. Then SpamRats require that the IP have a reverse DNS lookup naming convention be met for a mail server, even if it is a standard internet customer, with no email server at the IP. If you have a block of IP's that is a large time sync to request each one individually be de-listed!
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Politicians: The people are not voting, how do we get better voter turnout? Force them to vote! That'll work make being a free person with making their own choices whether or not to vote illegal!
Maybe this type of sweeping change to the way our voting happens should be put to the vote not just a decision made...
One of the reasons that the US has a summer break with 2 to 3 months off was for the kids to be at home during harvest. So that the crops could be gathered and preserved for the rest of the year. So originally the kids worked on the farm or orchards etc during this time, even if they couldn't harvest, they could tend the animals etc. while the harvest was going on. To say that the kids need the summer break to be kids and play is false, as it happened as a side effect as the harvest changed from manual to machine labor. At this day and age, when more and more parents both work to support the family, I can see how a full school year can help in a variety of ways. First the weekly schedule would not have to change during summer, day care would be more consistent, I don't know about your areas, but here some kids can't get day care during the summer months because they fill up and no additional companies start up since 9 months out of the year they wouldn't have enough business to keep the doors open. Secondly, teacher salaries would be more consistent with all other businesses, I know that some teachers take no salary during the summer months and others average their paychecks to include the summer months. That discrepancy and additional accounting would be streamlined. Third it would better prepare students for the work force, no summers off, continuing learning and productivity all year round. Of course vacations would have to be planned, so in the school days off there would have to be X number of days figured in to the curriculum for the students to be off for vacation, just like PTO for work etc.. But this would eventually normalize out the vacation spots, as some would take theirs in March, or April or August and September, or maybe other times of the year. Parents would not have to schedule their vacations during the shorter vacation time of summer school vacations.
Unfortunately, option 2 had been tried by a couple of other people in positions like his. They did not get the message out nor were the problems fixed, as they were still around for Snowden to show. http://gawker.com/previous-nsa... So yes, I believe that Snowden felt this was the only way to get the information out to the public, where he felt the public discussion would help bring change.
It is hard to clean these up, most Spam Blacklists require each individual IP to checked and a form filled out. Then SpamRats require that the IP have a reverse DNS lookup naming convention be met for a mail server, even if it is a standard internet customer, with no email server at the IP. If you have a block of IP's that is a large time sync to request each one individually be de-listed!