Re:School isn't just to get a job
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Maybe if you're a Poly. Sci. major, but business (IS) and engineering (CSE) programs exist to pump capable people into society. If you want to expand your mind, it would be a hell of a lot cheaper to read books. College is for gaining marketable skills and partying.
Really? Then you should ask yourself why the U.S. is not a direct democracy (i.e., why do we elect representative instead of voting for issues directly?). There have been many times when the tryanny of the majority would have been much more severe than our government has ever been. The fact is that our founding fathers recognized that what we think is right too often is not what is right, and that the elected officials are supposed to be wiser.
You can also see this reasoning in the use of the electoral college and in the difficulty of passing or repealing a constitutional ammendment.
You ought to keep in mind that it's the combination of the buy-buy culture of the western free market and defense spending that is responsible for the bulk of the internet and high technolgy today. Even the public research universities get a substantial amount of research and equipment dollars from companies. You may have moral issues with today's materialistic culture, but you benifit from it a lot, including the ability to have a forum such as this.
This situation would be greatly improved if we had more elaborate, and strict, top level domains. There is really nothing to gain by having personal domains in the same hierarchy as commercial ones. Though it's too late to change.com, there should another TLD, perhaps.corp, that is limited to trademarked names of companies. There could even be different TLDs for big and small companies as well, so the small, local companies would not get bullied around. The.pers TLD should definately be used, in which companies would have no priveledges at all. Furthermore, countries should not be permitted to sell there domains to individuals or entities that have absolutely no connection with that country (.to comes to mind).
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Maybe if you're a Poly. Sci. major, but business (IS) and engineering (CSE) programs exist to pump capable people into society. If you want to expand your mind, it would be a hell of a lot cheaper to read books. College is for gaining marketable skills and partying.
Really? Then you should ask yourself why the U.S. is not a direct democracy (i.e., why do we elect representative instead of voting for issues directly?). There have been many times when the tryanny of the majority would have been much more severe than our government has ever been. The fact is that our founding fathers recognized that what we think is right too often is not what is right, and that the elected officials are supposed to be wiser.
You can also see this reasoning in the use of the electoral college and in the difficulty of passing or repealing a constitutional ammendment.
You ought to keep in mind that it's the combination of the buy-buy culture of the western free market and defense spending that is responsible for the bulk of the internet and high technolgy today. Even the public research universities get a substantial amount of research and equipment dollars from companies. You may have moral issues with today's materialistic culture, but you benifit from it a lot, including the ability to have a forum such as this.
This situation would be greatly improved if we had more elaborate, and strict, top level domains. There is really nothing to gain by having personal domains in the same hierarchy as commercial ones. Though it's too late to change .com, there should another TLD, perhaps .corp, that is limited to trademarked names of companies. There could even be different TLDs for big and small companies as well, so the small, local companies would not get bullied around. The .pers TLD should definately be used, in which companies would have no priveledges at all. Furthermore, countries should not be permitted to sell there domains to individuals or entities that have absolutely no connection with that country (.to comes to mind).