Well no shit. You go to school to learn, which is Hard Work, not to goof off or be entertained. If students just want to read good books, they can read themselves without taking the class.
School's main purpose is learning, not boredom. Learning without boredom is the optimum, the goal we should be working toward.
Has that ever really happened? Ever?
It's called hyperbole. It's a literary device.
The point the GP is making, and one that I agree with, is that if you make something boring in school, people will treat it as such in life. Teach a boring biology class, you are robbing two dozen students of curiosity for the wonders of living organisms. Teach a boring math class, you create people who think they can make money off the casinos. Teach a boring English class, your students will never willingly pick up a book again.
The Iraq War and the bailouts are actually cover for the trillions of dollars being spent trying to get to Pluto, where those three years we have left will be equivalent to six centuries.
Countless nations don't have nukes and don't invaded at all.
Because either they don't have any resources that a military power might care about (ie. most poor countries) or they're buddy buddy with a nuclear state (ie. most wealthy countries).
Yup. Perhaps it would be more fair if the Iranians were allowed to develop nuclear weapons. I for one am not interested in fairness on the battlefield, however. It is in the interest of every first world nation to put a rapid stop to Iranian nuclear enrichment efforts.
It's in the interest of every nation to deny every other nation the right to weapons. That doesn't make it right.
That's not the point. The bible was also read in Latin, after which the priest would helpfully interpret the Latin to the peasants in whatever way he wanted.
How does the treatment of protesters in Afghanistan affect you? How does the copyright situation in Sweden affect you? Unlike you, and fortunately for the world (including you) many people care about injustice beyond the harm it may cause to themselves specifically.
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So when they have sex they have to pay you royalties?
Zero. Damages scale proportionally to the ratio of capital available to the plaintiff compared to the defendant.
And then they implemented .docx and .pptx. And then the free software world adapted. And then they will implement something else. And so on.
A legal group in Australia says that Internet Service Providers allowed 100000 illegal downloads.
What's so hard to understand?
You said "It assumes that the hired population is similar to the general population, and also gets the math wrong!"
The "also" implies that the assumption and the math error are two different errors, not the same one.
"Banks Say Their Employees Committed 72% of Fraud" was the original.
How is the math wrong? 1 percent = 1 in every 100. And yes, criminals are a subset of people.
Well no shit. You go to school to learn, which is Hard Work, not to goof off or be entertained. If students just want to read good books, they can read themselves without taking the class.
School's main purpose is learning, not boredom. Learning without boredom is the optimum, the goal we should be working toward.
Has that ever really happened? Ever?
It's called hyperbole. It's a literary device.
The point the GP is making, and one that I agree with, is that if you make something boring in school, people will treat it as such in life. Teach a boring biology class, you are robbing two dozen students of curiosity for the wonders of living organisms. Teach a boring math class, you create people who think they can make money off the casinos. Teach a boring English class, your students will never willingly pick up a book again.
1 per second in a year is 31556926, not 525960.
I think you made a typo there - the evil percentage is 92%.
Do you vote? If so, why? There are millions of other votes, yours won't be missed.
The Iraq War and the bailouts are actually cover for the trillions of dollars being spent trying to get to Pluto, where those three years we have left will be equivalent to six centuries.
It IS outsourcing.
Countless nations don't have nukes and don't invaded at all.
Because either they don't have any resources that a military power might care about (ie. most poor countries) or they're buddy buddy with a nuclear state (ie. most wealthy countries).
Yup. Perhaps it would be more fair if the Iranians were allowed to develop nuclear weapons. I for one am not interested in fairness on the battlefield, however. It is in the interest of every first world nation to put a rapid stop to Iranian nuclear enrichment efforts.
It's in the interest of every nation to deny every other nation the right to weapons. That doesn't make it right.
So if you do something bad, but do it a lot, it becomes normal and acceptable?
Their ebook reader seems to be a lot more free than Amazon's.
We need programmers. We don't need lawyers.
That's not the point. The bible was also read in Latin, after which the priest would helpfully interpret the Latin to the peasants in whatever way he wanted.
69-bit web browser?
For non-software works, breaking DRM is trivial. You just need to record the screen and sound output and put it together.
CHANGE THE LAW. Keeping the bible in Latin worked only for the priests and keeping the law in legal speak is working only for the lawyers.
And most people actually have no idea what the cloud is, including half the people who use the term.
How does the treatment of protesters in Afghanistan affect you? How does the copyright situation in Sweden affect you? Unlike you, and fortunately for the world (including you) many people care about injustice beyond the harm it may cause to themselves specifically.