Can't forget the tenth. If it's not spelled out in the Constitution, the Federal government doesn't have it. Since there is no Amendment saying the government can poke its nose into your business, you still have your privacy with which you were born.
I have friends who own a chain of private schools. Their experience runs completely counter to everything you're saying. They build in strip malls, near densely populated areas; they look specifically for locations that have a built-up presence of homes in a certain value range, plus demographics trends showing a certain number of families over time. When they open their doors, it's within a year of starting planning, not decades.
Face it, entrepreneurs chasing a buck will always outperform government bureaucrats.
While it is profoundly stupid to talk on the phone while navigating through a school zone crowded with students just released from school and their parents picking them up
I don't know if it's stupid, but it is somewhat sporting. After all, if you aren't paying attention, you might miss a few of them.
Ask any economist. Reliable demographic data and forecast trends take years to develop -- how do you differentiate between a momentary spike, and an actual long-term trend? Hedging a bet on anything sooner is exactly that -- a gamble. Precious few people can accurately develop or read long-term forecast trends -- there are very few Warren Buffets in the world.
And yet developers somehow figure out where to build new housing developments, new strip malls, new gas stations, new hospitals, and so forth and so on. Is it perfect? No, of course not. But to say it's impossible is imbecilic.
Your post, while tragic, has nothing to do with what was being discussed. My comment was about the GP's quote from Escalante complaining that no one had paid him for the right to use his name on their schools. My comment was just the naming itself should be sufficient honor. It had nothing whatsoever to do with Escalante's medical and financial problems.
Just because you don't know how to read demographic data and forecast trends, doesn't mean other people can't. If what you're complaining about had any semblance to reality then we'd never see any new private schools built. And yet there's a new one being constructed not two miles from where I'm sitting. Explain that one, smart guy.
It's ultimately about controlling the ideas that youth are exposed to.
Yep, that's what it all boils down to. The thing the leftists don't realize is, idiot parents who speak in tongues or kneel on a rug five times a day or won't eat a cheeseburger because it's not kosher are going to influence their kids' thinking, regardless of what school they attend. If they're real whackjobs who believe the world is 6000 years old, no amount of instruction in the true nature of the universe by teachers is going to get past that. At least not for the vast majority of students. So if they send the kids to a school that reinforces this stuff, are the kids really any worse off than they would've been anyway?
As schools are not objects which can house an infinite number of students, some students will be forced to attend those schools caught in that downward spiral - schools that are not only sub-par, but lacking funding and interaction with a diverse body of students, since all the brightest have made it into the "nice" schools.
Spoken like someone who truly does not understand the law of supply and demand. If there are students (or more accurately, parents) demanding good schools, and money is available, then entrepreneurs will fill the gap. There won't be any failing schools, because crappy teachers will get fired.
Here's an example: know what happens when the local Montessori school gets too full and can't accept more students? The same thing that happens when the lines get too long at the corner gas station: a competitor opens up another after realizing the market opportunity that exists.
Getting the fundamentalist nutjobs out of the public schools and into their own little inbred communities where they can't do any harm to the rest of society would just be a bonus, as far as I'm concerned.
Well said. As a parent with kids in elementary and middle school in North Texas, I'd be thrilled to be able to send my kids to a private school with a completely areligious curriculum. As it is, I have to make sure my kids understand that there's no Invisible Sky Wizard and that their teachers are completely wrong (and quite possibly insane) if they suggest there is. Then of course I have to call and complain to the principal and school board offices (again), even though that does absolutely nothing.
*sigh* At least the kids are getting an early lesson on why you can't just blindly trust what authority has to say but you have to make them prove their assertions along with everyone else.
Wow, you hit all the teachers unions talking points in that one.
1) Vouchers are absolutely about school choice. It's about giving parents the choice of which school to go to.
2) Vouchers have nothing to do with forcing taxpayers to do anything. They're about giving parents the power to say "My kid is not being well served by this school, so I'm going to send him to this other one."
3) A properly-run voucher system would pay the same amount that public schools get for each student, which would be more than enough for the kids to go to a privately run school of their parents' choice.
Besides which, who cares if a religious school gets money from something like this as long as they meet the accreditation that all other schools must? Do you honestly think the world would collapse if religious schools received a penny of voucher money?
Usually the honor of having your name affixed to something that'll last longer than you will is payment enough. Surprising that someone who chose teaching as a profession (not one known for its remunerative value) would place a dollar amount on such an honor.
You're assuming that humans don't possess something the aliens need. In the Legacy of the Aldenata books, it's industrial capacity (and food resources, including humans). In Independence Day, it's natural resources. In the World at War series (with the lizards landing during WW2), it was economic features like consumers and producers (they didn't just want to add a world to their empire, they wanted new subjects to add to their empire's economic base). In the V reboot, it seems to be worshippers of their queen. In War of the Worlds, it's water (at least, that's what's implied in the opening chapter). In every case, the invaders could scour the earth clean of humanity, but doing so would defeat the purpose of coming here.
The argument is that capitalism would increase the general wealth of the nation. As wealth increased, living standards would increase. As living standards increased, a middle class would form. And that it would be that middle class that would lead the push for democracy and freedom.
Of course, this ignores the fact that stable democracies have, historically, been formed by pushes from an aristocratic regime focused on ensuring property rights and liberty for as many people as possible. Athens, Rome, Iceland, the UK, the US. All had this trait in common, at least in the beginning.
Understanding the particles is only the first step. Next would be to bend them to one's will. So while theoretical scientists might be out of a job, it'll be a boom time for mad scientists (no pun intended).
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Can't forget the tenth. If it's not spelled out in the Constitution, the Federal government doesn't have it. Since there is no Amendment saying the government can poke its nose into your business, you still have your privacy with which you were born.
You can't pull people's arms out of their sockets for losing and NOT be a sociopath.
But I do know that going to the chiropractor leads to feeling great.
So does getting a blowjob. That doesn't mean prostitutes are medical professionals.
(Sorry for stepping on your territory, that was a pretty bad analogy.)
I chill my system using a picture of my ex-wife glaring into the camera. Nothing beats that.
Private schools aren't built through levies.
I have friends who own a chain of private schools. Their experience runs completely counter to everything you're saying. They build in strip malls, near densely populated areas; they look specifically for locations that have a built-up presence of homes in a certain value range, plus demographics trends showing a certain number of families over time. When they open their doors, it's within a year of starting planning, not decades.
Face it, entrepreneurs chasing a buck will always outperform government bureaucrats.
While it is profoundly stupid to talk on the phone while navigating through a school zone crowded with students just released from school and their parents picking them up
I don't know if it's stupid, but it is somewhat sporting. After all, if you aren't paying attention, you might miss a few of them.
Ask any economist. Reliable demographic data and forecast trends take years to develop -- how do you differentiate between a momentary spike, and an actual long-term trend? Hedging a bet on anything sooner is exactly that -- a gamble. Precious few people can accurately develop or read long-term forecast trends -- there are very few Warren Buffets in the world.
And yet developers somehow figure out where to build new housing developments, new strip malls, new gas stations, new hospitals, and so forth and so on. Is it perfect? No, of course not. But to say it's impossible is imbecilic.
Your post, while tragic, has nothing to do with what was being discussed. My comment was about the GP's quote from Escalante complaining that no one had paid him for the right to use his name on their schools. My comment was just the naming itself should be sufficient honor. It had nothing whatsoever to do with Escalante's medical and financial problems.
Just because you don't know how to read demographic data and forecast trends, doesn't mean other people can't. If what you're complaining about had any semblance to reality then we'd never see any new private schools built. And yet there's a new one being constructed not two miles from where I'm sitting. Explain that one, smart guy.
It's ultimately about controlling the ideas that youth are exposed to.
Yep, that's what it all boils down to. The thing the leftists don't realize is, idiot parents who speak in tongues or kneel on a rug five times a day or won't eat a cheeseburger because it's not kosher are going to influence their kids' thinking, regardless of what school they attend. If they're real whackjobs who believe the world is 6000 years old, no amount of instruction in the true nature of the universe by teachers is going to get past that. At least not for the vast majority of students. So if they send the kids to a school that reinforces this stuff, are the kids really any worse off than they would've been anyway?
As schools are not objects which can house an infinite number of students, some students will be forced to attend those schools caught in that downward spiral - schools that are not only sub-par, but lacking funding and interaction with a diverse body of students, since all the brightest have made it into the "nice" schools.
Spoken like someone who truly does not understand the law of supply and demand. If there are students (or more accurately, parents) demanding good schools, and money is available, then entrepreneurs will fill the gap. There won't be any failing schools, because crappy teachers will get fired.
Here's an example: know what happens when the local Montessori school gets too full and can't accept more students? The same thing that happens when the lines get too long at the corner gas station: a competitor opens up another after realizing the market opportunity that exists.
Getting the fundamentalist nutjobs out of the public schools and into their own little inbred communities where they can't do any harm to the rest of society would just be a bonus, as far as I'm concerned.
Well said. As a parent with kids in elementary and middle school in North Texas, I'd be thrilled to be able to send my kids to a private school with a completely areligious curriculum. As it is, I have to make sure my kids understand that there's no Invisible Sky Wizard and that their teachers are completely wrong (and quite possibly insane) if they suggest there is. Then of course I have to call and complain to the principal and school board offices (again), even though that does absolutely nothing.
*sigh* At least the kids are getting an early lesson on why you can't just blindly trust what authority has to say but you have to make them prove their assertions along with everyone else.
Wow, you hit all the teachers unions talking points in that one.
1) Vouchers are absolutely about school choice. It's about giving parents the choice of which school to go to.
2) Vouchers have nothing to do with forcing taxpayers to do anything. They're about giving parents the power to say "My kid is not being well served by this school, so I'm going to send him to this other one."
3) A properly-run voucher system would pay the same amount that public schools get for each student, which would be more than enough for the kids to go to a privately run school of their parents' choice.
Besides which, who cares if a religious school gets money from something like this as long as they meet the accreditation that all other schools must? Do you honestly think the world would collapse if religious schools received a penny of voucher money?
Usually the honor of having your name affixed to something that'll last longer than you will is payment enough. Surprising that someone who chose teaching as a profession (not one known for its remunerative value) would place a dollar amount on such an honor.
put half of your opening sentence in your subject line. God, I hate people who do that.
You're assuming that humans don't possess something the aliens need. In the Legacy of the Aldenata books, it's industrial capacity (and food resources, including humans). In Independence Day, it's natural resources. In the World at War series (with the lizards landing during WW2), it was economic features like consumers and producers (they didn't just want to add a world to their empire, they wanted new subjects to add to their empire's economic base). In the V reboot, it seems to be worshippers of their queen. In War of the Worlds, it's water (at least, that's what's implied in the opening chapter). In every case, the invaders could scour the earth clean of humanity, but doing so would defeat the purpose of coming here.
Yeah, cause PayPal doesn't have a history of stealing people's money.
The argument is that capitalism would increase the general wealth of the nation. As wealth increased, living standards would increase. As living standards increased, a middle class would form. And that it would be that middle class that would lead the push for democracy and freedom.
Of course, this ignores the fact that stable democracies have, historically, been formed by pushes from an aristocratic regime focused on ensuring property rights and liberty for as many people as possible. Athens, Rome, Iceland, the UK, the US. All had this trait in common, at least in the beginning.
Dude, you just blew...my...mind.
Guess you missed the part in the summary where it said subjects judged actions based on whether or not they caused harm.
You might want to get an MRI. Sounds like you have a lesion on your right temporo-parietal junction.
Understanding the particles is only the first step. Next would be to bend them to one's will. So while theoretical scientists might be out of a job, it'll be a boom time for mad scientists (no pun intended).
When it's against the will of one of the participants, you bet it is.
Reprimand, hell. Why weren't the kids involved suspended from school and thrown in juve for a weekend?
he bought his way into space with his ridiculous riches and he expects to be looked up to?
Well, if he's in space, then aren't we all looking up to him?