Slavery was legal in northern states during the colonial period, and northern states profited from the slave trade. Northern states also profited from processing cheap cotton and other products produced in the South with slave labor.
And a number of CURRENT states (possibly including JBMcB's state) were not even admitted into the US until after the Civil War and the elimination of slavery in all of the older states. A few weren't even territories of the US until after the Civil War.
The US. You know, that big blob covering a good portion of North America. I have family that live in an area known as lighting alley. They have a built in generator for long-term outages but the power flickers at least once a week during the "season." I live in the northeast and in the last 10 years been subject to power outages due to thunderstorm (on rare occasions), brownouts (some summers worse than others), idiots with cars thinking they can drive through power poles, substation fires, and a pre-Halloween ice storm a couple of years ago. That last one saw me without power for over a week and, no, I don't live in this sticks.
When I shut down a computer, for whatever reason, I want the ability to do a fast shutdown ASAP and that does not mean configuring updates.
A dog or fox in a chicken coup with birds jumping all over the place will kill them because they feel they are defending themselves in an enclosed area.
I've seen the end result of dogs getting onto a little farmette in Rhode Island. The dogs never got into the the coop, they just decapitated the chickens that were dumb enough to stick their heads through the wire. The dogs also did a number on the ducks and geese on the property. Defending themselves, hardly.
This actually sounds sane. According to the article, Amazon has two ways to borrow kindle books and authors are paid when it is loaned out (library and unlimited). It seems that the authors have been getting a share of what I'll call the loan pot money per book although I'm not sure how it compares to the regular selling price. The new system would reward authors that produced "page turners" and penalize those that didn't. Considering the number of times I've been given up on a book before finishing it, this isn't necessarily a bad thing, at least for fiction. The downside is that we as a society may read fewer of the new "great" books and more Stephanie Meyer clones. Then again, were we really reading the "great" books in the first place?
As far as the "federal money": it stops being federal money when the student borrows it with the promise/contract specifying repayment.
The government determines which schools are eligible for federally backed student loans. A school that isn't on the approved list better have some damn good fundraisers and really cheap tuition. Those loans still look like federal money to me.
HOWEVER, it's a private school, they can accept who ever they want to. If the government was flipping the bill for post secondary education...
One problem with that is Harvard, Yale, Princeton, and just about every other educational institution is receiving federal money so the government is footing at least part of the bill. It may not be direct but they are getting it: government backed student loans, PELL grants, research grants and let's not forget to mention tax breaks (like NO property tax) for non-profit educational institutions in many jurisdictions.
You want government money and perks (tax exemptions)? You play by the government's rules or bribe, err lobby, your way out of them.
If you home-school, do you still have to pay school taxes?
I have no children. I never had children. I will never have children. I still pay school taxes. It's one of those things that society has agreed upon in my neck of the woods.
If the little darlings want more they'll simply make it themselves. How many of them have cell phones with cameras? How many have already filmed stupid and/or illegal stuff (fights, vandalism, etc.) and posted it YouTube and Facebook? So instead of stopping porn now we will have more kiddie porn. Sigh.
The genie does not fit back in the bottle.
DRM issues aside, not every book is a classic or a truly loved friend. Most, if not the vast majority, are not really worth saving over a long period of time. And as to the storing the books in the attic for some lucky soul to discover what will they be most likely to find is 1) crumbling books made of acidic paper; 2) books with wormholes; 3) a squirrel's nest; 4) a boxes of books so musty and mildew covered that the finder has trouble breathing.
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Slavery was never legal in my state.
Slavery was legal in northern states during the colonial period, and northern states profited from the slave trade. Northern states also profited from processing cheap cotton and other products produced in the South with slave labor.
And a number of CURRENT states (possibly including JBMcB's state) were not even admitted into the US until after the Civil War and the elimination of slavery in all of the older states. A few weren't even territories of the US until after the Civil War.
The US. You know, that big blob covering a good portion of North America. I have family that live in an area known as lighting alley. They have a built in generator for long-term outages but the power flickers at least once a week during the "season." I live in the northeast and in the last 10 years been subject to power outages due to thunderstorm (on rare occasions), brownouts (some summers worse than others), idiots with cars thinking they can drive through power poles, substation fires, and a pre-Halloween ice storm a couple of years ago. That last one saw me without power for over a week and, no, I don't live in this sticks. When I shut down a computer, for whatever reason, I want the ability to do a fast shutdown ASAP and that does not mean configuring updates.
A dog or fox in a chicken coup with birds jumping all over the place will kill them because they feel they are defending themselves in an enclosed area.
I've seen the end result of dogs getting onto a little farmette in Rhode Island. The dogs never got into the the coop, they just decapitated the chickens that were dumb enough to stick their heads through the wire. The dogs also did a number on the ducks and geese on the property. Defending themselves, hardly.
This actually sounds sane. According to the article, Amazon has two ways to borrow kindle books and authors are paid when it is loaned out (library and unlimited). It seems that the authors have been getting a share of what I'll call the loan pot money per book although I'm not sure how it compares to the regular selling price. The new system would reward authors that produced "page turners" and penalize those that didn't. Considering the number of times I've been given up on a book before finishing it, this isn't necessarily a bad thing, at least for fiction. The downside is that we as a society may read fewer of the new "great" books and more Stephanie Meyer clones. Then again, were we really reading the "great" books in the first place?
As far as the "federal money": it stops being federal money when the student borrows it with the promise/contract specifying repayment.
The government determines which schools are eligible for federally backed student loans. A school that isn't on the approved list better have some damn good fundraisers and really cheap tuition. Those loans still look like federal money to me.
HOWEVER, it's a private school, they can accept who ever they want to. If the government was flipping the bill for post secondary education...
One problem with that is Harvard, Yale, Princeton, and just about every other educational institution is receiving federal money so the government is footing at least part of the bill. It may not be direct but they are getting it: government backed student loans, PELL grants, research grants and let's not forget to mention tax breaks (like NO property tax) for non-profit educational institutions in many jurisdictions. You want government money and perks (tax exemptions)? You play by the government's rules or bribe, err lobby, your way out of them.
If you home-school, do you still have to pay school taxes?
I have no children. I never had children. I will never have children. I still pay school taxes. It's one of those things that society has agreed upon in my neck of the woods.
But it was filmed in the mid-20th century. My mother was a legal secretary at the time. What passed for okay then would be lawsuits all around today.
If the little darlings want more they'll simply make it themselves. How many of them have cell phones with cameras? How many have already filmed stupid and/or illegal stuff (fights, vandalism, etc.) and posted it YouTube and Facebook? So instead of stopping porn now we will have more kiddie porn. Sigh. The genie does not fit back in the bottle.
It depends on where you live and occasionally on roof conditions.
DRM issues aside, not every book is a classic or a truly loved friend. Most, if not the vast majority, are not really worth saving over a long period of time. And as to the storing the books in the attic for some lucky soul to discover what will they be most likely to find is 1) crumbling books made of acidic paper; 2) books with wormholes; 3) a squirrel's nest; 4) a boxes of books so musty and mildew covered that the finder has trouble breathing.