Every dollar given to Hasbro is a dollar that goes towards illegally taking away people's domains. They'll only stop their tactics if you let them know where it counts: in the pocketbook.
When laws and treaties are rewritten like this, the original is discarded and completely overwritten by the new; it's not accomplished by amendment -- it's by rewritten out of whole cloth. The new law may no longer be objectionable, but at the same time, its brief tyrannical status is not preserved for posterity. That job is today delegated to the media, who cannot be asked to maintain an archive of knowledge once its value for click-throughs and ad-supplements is exhausted.
What we need is for laws to be maintained in a CVS tree like most free software. We need to see what the law was before it became what it is today, because otherwise, we cannot hold our elected officials responsible for what they could have done if not for our eternal vigilence.
It would solve many judicial issues of "legislative intent", and it would allow a truly free society not to be blinded by nascent tyrrany. People are much less willing to give up privileges and rights they knew once existed (except for minor things like a 12-year-old age of consent in Victorian England) if they are made truly aware of what they used to have "in the good old days".
If LCDs lag graphics chips, then there's room and incentive for LCD manufacturers to raise the bar and produce better LCDs. It's the same vice-versa: if graphics chips lag LCDs, then there's room and incentive for chip manufacturers to raise the bar and produce better chips.
You've already seen this same interplay on the desktop with cpu speed and software complexity. Welcome to laptop land.
Plus or minus a percentage point. Most power consumed is immediately released as heat, since little is radiated as light and even less is converted into another stored chemical/physical form.
The first amendment holds that the free exercise of speech shall not be abridged. No where does it regulate the free exercise of nonspeech.
Countries like Belgium and Australia already have mandatory voting: don't vote and you get a small criminal sanction. Voting is no less intrinsic to proper civic participation than paying taxes.
If you're worried about how mandatory voting would remove an important means of demonstrating dissatisfaction with the system, then allow for a final option of "none of the above". Every year in Australia, a significant portion of ballots are (legally) mutilated in protest.
In the short term, what's most likely to happen is that Napster will become a sort of AOL for music: sanitized, commercialized
Jon, where have you been lately? Napster has always been heavily commercialized. Could you ever find any obscure bands? Occasionally. Could you always find forty copies of N'Sync's latest POS? Always.
"Sanitized", you say? If that means the new Napster won't have mp3s with all the skips and blips we've come to hate, then by all means! This further corporate involvement in an already corporate enterprise can only improve the quality of the service.
Kill Napster and let Gnutella thrive. Kill Gnutella and let its successor rise. Survival of the fittest, may we here surely witness.
Wireless connectivity is fast outpacing your projected needs. With devices like DVDanwhere, you can (today) broadcast a video signal from your computer to any tv in the house. Store video on the computer and broadcast it to your tvset in the bedroom, or whatever. It becomes a PITA as far as the remote-control issue goes, but x10 will gladly sell you something to help with that too. (Just never, NEVER, give them a valid email address unless you want daily spam.)
Why do you think Intel tried to do that whole Rambus thing
Intel's commitment to Rambus was foremost a financial move, and only secondarily a technical one. Going with Rambus allowed Intel to raise prices on commodity parts and drive up margins (which can only get so much thinner before they bleed) through forced incompatibility. Rambus also gave Intel warrants on Rambus stock, essentially making Intel a part owner and turning the operation into an in-house decision (not to mention Rambus's patent/legal exploits of late).
The fact that the technical side of things has finally caught up with them doesn't make it any less deplorable.
Telemann's Sky Media 2000 card has had official linux support for a while now. Since their intended audience surely coincides well with linux users, it'll be an aberration if they don't provide linux support here.
Wait until someone combines it with something like FSCKTV. Presto: perfect digital recordings of descrambled channels. Soon, even the cable companies won't be getting their cut.
Half of the point of HDTV is the picture quality, which monitors do a much better job of showing than typical tvs do (as you already know if you have a tv card). I'd pay just to get rid of the ugly fuzziness.
Be sure to read more coverage from the Washington Post and the 2nd -Circuit decision under review so that you come to this discussion prepared. If you "are not a lawyer", then you have no authority to speak, and you should sit this one out.
A date has not yet been set for the hearing of this case.
This decision is not about the DMCA. This is about the Copyright Act of 1976, though parallels to recent failed efforts to sneak in clauses about work-for-hire are apparent.
The lower court ruled in favor of authors. Will the Supreme Court uphold that decision?
The decision was reached solely on statutory language and congressional intent, not constitutional language. The Supreme Court has historically given free reign to Congress to play with copyright however it wishes under Article I.
An important precedent not raised in this particular filing is Feist Publications, Inc. v. Rural Telephone Service Company, Inc., which held (unanimously) that corporations couldn't claim copyright on mere facts by copyrighting page numbers or other artifacts/artefacts of typography. A reversal of the lower decision would undermine Feist by allowing corporations to claim their own copyright irrespective of authorship simply by the act of publishing (inserting those typographical artifacts).
Nader LOST, so expect corporate interests to dominate an unfriendly Supreme Court for the foreseeable future. Had he won, he could've used his appointments to turn the Court arround, but the American people have spoken, and they've (we've) chosen the plutocratic enslavement of the populace by CEOs who've sublimated their testosterone-driven sexual energies into the pursuit of capital at all cost to the human (living!) experiences of their subjects. We had our chance, but we blew it, and now we have to live with an ineffectual corporate president and a divided congress.
This decision will come as the tenures of as many as four Supreme Court justices are in question in this next Presidential cycle. Expect Rehnquist to chalk this critical decision up on his legacy with Dickerson v. US (upholding Miranda), City of Boerne v. Flores (reasserting state sovereignty in the US system of federalism), etc. If Bush prevails in Florida, then Rehnquist will all but certainly retire in the next couple years.
1) Secure all servers
2) Liscense ISPs
3) Make spoofed packets illegal
4) Authenticate everything
5) Criminalize all scanning, including pings and probes
Now, would any of these solve openprojects.net's malaise? #1 wouldn't, because it's not their server which is launching the attack; #2 is a structural change which would take too long to implement (even if it's desirable); #3 is promising but would be an administrative nightmare; #4 we should be doing regardless; and #5 is perhaps a necessary evil.
The internet is fundamentally structurally vulnerable to DoS attacks. It's only a matter of pissing someone off and getting picked as a target. With the increasing politicization of everything on the net, the problems will only get worse.
The DOJ and FTC have been breathing down Intel's neck for more than a decade now, but unlike Microsoft, Intel is bright enough not to stick its neck out far enough to get it chopped off. (Here's a hint to all you aspiring Bill Gateses at home: burn all your emails before the feds bang on your door.)
This decision only confirms the wavering they've been having since at least June. They always wanted to see the goods before they committed themselves to shipping a product, and I guessed they aren't impressed. And unlike IBM, Compaq has never even demoed a transmeta prototype, so the decision is even easier for them to make without losing complete face.
Even if its heart can't pump blood at that sustained level, there's no reason why it can't fling its head up briefly, grab a branch, haul it down, and eat it at ground level (provided there are appropriate constrictive muscles for preventing a temporary blood-pressure drop during the process). And you wouldn't need entire new hearts; simple bloodvessels can constrict in time with your single heart and provide much of the same function. (just look at your pulse, for instance.)
And that's not the half of it. Imagine you're a foreign newscaster stationed in the backroads of Afghanastan or Somalia. Do you know how much your life is put in danger every time you try to "link up" and communicate with the agencies back at home? Most often, the telephone infrastructure is nonexistant, and the rest of the time, it's bugged.
Or imagine you're the driver of a van delivering groceries and blankets to the homeless. Do you know how many lives are lost every year owing to exposure, simply because of miscommunication between relief agencies and dispatchers? A continuous link with home would solve that dilemma while providing incidental benefits like letting the homeless check their email or search for jobs on the internet.
Radio will get you somewhere, but cbs are subject to a lot of abuse. Recently in NY, disgruntled ambulance drivers were (illegally) jamming the airwaves by blowing on the receiver each time a dispatch went out to a non-union ambulance. Thankfully, no one was (apparently) killed by the practice, but just the same, it's a scary prospect, and it'd be a lot harder to jam a satellite feed.
The sooner we realize real lives are at stake, the sooner we'll embrace this technology, for the greater good of humanity.
They're appealing to the same voters--you and me--so of course, they're going to use similar rhetoric, even when holding opposite philosophies. Just look at the issues themselves: Gore is anti-gun, but he cloaks his view in the rhetoric of the NRA (protecting hunters and even law-abiding homeowners, etc.). Bush is anti-choice, but he cloaks his view in the rhetoric of liberals (protecting the quality of life, reducing the number of abortions without eliminating abortions, etc.). They're both insincere, but the time for holding strong beliefs was last year during the primaries; now they're fighting for the fuzzy middle.
And it's so sad, because this election really does matter. Whom we elect tomorrow will have an unmeasurable effect on all the things we take for granted; all the political philosophies we fight and die for; all the rights and privileges we take for granted. But you wouldn't know it from rhetoric of the candidates.
The only effective way of guaranteeing childcare for the time being is to freelance. Companies will wise up as the current techie population ages and consolidates, but you're insane if you try to bank on it at the moment.
But almost more important than merely having childcare is selecting the correct childcare. Do you want to put your kids in a corporate kennel where their talents as geeklings are squandered or redirected into boorish pursuits consistent with the popular culture that most geeks reject? Is your daycare going to provide a rigorous regime of lego mindstorms that each little geek needs to grow up into a thinking free self? Free software == good but free minds == eh?
No, thanks. Freelancing frees you up to make these individual choices for your individual children (and we're all individuals deep down inside, right?). Flexible work hours, typically higher pay, fewer social cancellations... like I said, you're insane if you're still on salary. The market's tight now, so now's the time to secure a better financial situation. There'll be plenty of time in the recessions ahead to sit back and resign oneself to a salaried position. And by then, hopefully your kids will be grown up and supporting themselves.
Your life is passing before your very eyes. Soon you'll be old and your children will resent all the time you spent slaving at the corporate machine instead of teaching them to be machine builders of their own. Do you want to wake up and find yourself old, hirsute, hoary, and feeling sorry for yourself? Take control now. You're good enough and smart enough. The rest will follow.
Make no mistake about it - M$ will have all whistler users by the balls!
I'm not planning on running whistler, but if I did, I'd dare them to try to find any to have me by. We are the future; for we are immune to their nefarious ways.
Does this surprise me? Yes and no. Yes, because I often look to Canada as our more enlightened neighbor to the north who's solved so many of the problems that did or have plagued us for so long: universal health care, rampant racial strife, rigorous environmental protections, etc. At the same time, Canada as a nation has long had a strange relationship with its children.
Most countries put children and minors into the same legal category as imbeciles and the insane, but Canada is much more aggressive about it and in the process, their parents are often in practice lumped in as well. Have you ever been to a supermarket in Canada and tried to buy caffeinated Mountain Dew or caffeinated rootbeer? It doesn't exist, because children can't be trusted with caffeine and their parents might be too stupid to realize that non-cola sodas may contain caffeine.
Frankly, it astonished me at first, because Canada is more dedicated than most countries to conducting research into children's psychology: if we understand our children, then we can change the world! That sort of thing. But what's even more surprising is that a recent study ; demonstrated that in spite of how much effort and funding was being poured into Canadian schools and Canadian children's programs (from prenatal and on), immigrant children still on average outperform native-born Canadian children. And that's in spite of the fact that Canada's immigrant children are in greater poverty and penury than their native counterparts; the education they received in foreign countries prior to arriving in Canada has helped them succeed where Canadian children without that opportunity languish.
I'm torn as to how to how to find a solution, of course. On the one hand, parents are proving insufficient, but at the same time, the government is proving incompetent to solve the problem. Clearly something has to be done, but who? The only choice I see is the UN, but they're usually unwilling (or not allowed) to get involved in purely domestic affairs, and you don't get any more domestic than child-rearing. But whatever Canada does, it must act soon. Certain industries (particularly the film industries in British Columbia) have been on the rise and have successfully drawn an international presence formerly reserved to the US. But if Jonny or Sally can't read, then when the children grow up to staff or lead those industries, the nation will find itself in a lot of trouble.
I only wish we in the US had something to offer in aid, but we've failed our children too. I suppose that ultimately, we'll have to rethink the legal status of children and perhaps move them into a more autonomous position and role, where they can think for themselves and make decisions in their own best interests, since obviously we can no longer trust ourselves to act in anyone's best interest but our own. First it was propertied white men who were enfranchised, and then came men of other races, and then finally ;wo men. It's time for children to join in the society of nations and receive their full share of human rights including the right to vote, not just in silly online polls but in elections that matter. They have voices of their own, and it's time we started listening.
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Every dollar given to Hasbro is a dollar that goes towards illegally taking away people's domains. They'll only stop their tactics if you let them know where it counts: in the pocketbook.
No need to reinvent the wheel: mvm will handle their needs including multiple simultaneous connections.
When laws and treaties are rewritten like this, the original is discarded and completely overwritten by the new; it's not accomplished by amendment -- it's by rewritten out of whole cloth. The new law may no longer be objectionable, but at the same time, its brief tyrannical status is not preserved for posterity. That job is today delegated to the media, who cannot be asked to maintain an archive of knowledge once its value for click-throughs and ad-supplements is exhausted.
What we need is for laws to be maintained in a CVS tree like most free software. We need to see what the law was before it became what it is today, because otherwise, we cannot hold our elected officials responsible for what they could have done if not for our eternal vigilence.
It would solve many judicial issues of "legislative intent", and it would allow a truly free society not to be blinded by nascent tyrrany. People are much less willing to give up privileges and rights they knew once existed (except for minor things like a 12-year-old age of consent in Victorian England) if they are made truly aware of what they used to have "in the good old days".
If LCDs lag graphics chips, then there's room and incentive for LCD manufacturers to raise the bar and produce better LCDs. It's the same vice-versa: if graphics chips lag LCDs, then there's room and incentive for chip manufacturers to raise the bar and produce better chips.
You've already seen this same interplay on the desktop with cpu speed and software complexity. Welcome to laptop land.
Plus or minus a percentage point. Most power consumed is immediately released as heat, since little is radiated as light and even less is converted into another stored chemical/physical form.
Their 0.8W figure should be sufficient.
Since tom'shardware is slashdotted, you might choose to while away the hours gazing earnestly at Nvidia's press release. A good sample quote:
"GeForce2 Go allows business users, artists, and gaming enthusiasts to create, present and entertain anywhere, anytime."
Remind you of a certain software giant's claim of "anytime, anywhere, and on any device"?
The first amendment holds that the free exercise of speech shall not be abridged. No where does it regulate the free exercise of nonspeech.
Countries like Belgium and Australia already have mandatory voting: don't vote and you get a small criminal sanction. Voting is no less intrinsic to proper civic participation than paying taxes.
If you're worried about how mandatory voting would remove an important means of demonstrating dissatisfaction with the system, then allow for a final option of "none of the above". Every year in Australia, a significant portion of ballots are (legally) mutilated in protest.
Thank heavens Hasbro still owns monopoly.com. Nothing like a little truth in advertising. ;-)
In the short term, what's most likely to happen is that Napster will become a sort of AOL for music: sanitized, commercialized
Jon, where have you been lately? Napster has always been heavily commercialized. Could you ever find any obscure bands? Occasionally. Could you always find forty copies of N'Sync's latest POS? Always.
"Sanitized", you say? If that means the new Napster won't have mp3s with all the skips and blips we've come to hate, then by all means! This further corporate involvement in an already corporate enterprise can only improve the quality of the service.
Kill Napster and let Gnutella thrive. Kill Gnutella and let its successor rise. Survival of the fittest, may we here surely witness.
Wireless connectivity is fast outpacing your projected needs. With devices like DVDanwhere, you can (today) broadcast a video signal from your computer to any tv in the house. Store video on the computer and broadcast it to your tvset in the bedroom, or whatever. It becomes a PITA as far as the remote-control issue goes, but x10 will gladly sell you something to help with that too. (Just never, NEVER, give them a valid email address unless you want daily spam.)
Why do you think Intel tried to do that whole Rambus thing
Intel's commitment to Rambus was foremost a financial move, and only secondarily a technical one. Going with Rambus allowed Intel to raise prices on commodity parts and drive up margins (which can only get so much thinner before they bleed) through forced incompatibility. Rambus also gave Intel warrants on Rambus stock, essentially making Intel a part owner and turning the operation into an in-house decision (not to mention Rambus's patent/legal exploits of late).
The fact that the technical side of things has finally caught up with them doesn't make it any less deplorable.
Telemann's Sky Media 2000 card has had official linux support for a while now. Since their intended audience surely coincides well with linux users, it'll be an aberration if they don't provide linux support here.
Wait until someone combines it with something like FSCKTV. Presto: perfect digital recordings of descrambled channels. Soon, even the cable companies won't be getting their cut.
Half of the point of HDTV is the picture quality, which monitors do a much better job of showing than typical tvs do (as you already know if you have a tv card). I'd pay just to get rid of the ugly fuzziness.
Be sure to read more coverage from the Washington Post and the 2nd -Circuit decision under review so that you come to this discussion prepared. If you "are not a lawyer", then you have no authority to speak, and you should sit this one out.
A date has not yet been set for the hearing of this case.
This decision is not about the DMCA. This is about the Copyright Act of 1976, though parallels to recent failed efforts to sneak in clauses about work-for-hire are apparent.
The lower court ruled in favor of authors. Will the Supreme Court uphold that decision?
The decision was reached solely on statutory language and congressional intent, not constitutional language. The Supreme Court has historically given free reign to Congress to play with copyright however it wishes under Article I.
An important precedent not raised in this particular filing is Feist Publications, Inc. v. Rural Telephone Service Company, Inc., which held (unanimously) that corporations couldn't claim copyright on mere facts by copyrighting page numbers or other artifacts/artefacts of typography. A reversal of the lower decision would undermine Feist by allowing corporations to claim their own copyright irrespective of authorship simply by the act of publishing (inserting those typographical artifacts).
Nader LOST, so expect corporate interests to dominate an unfriendly Supreme Court for the foreseeable future. Had he won, he could've used his appointments to turn the Court arround, but the American people have spoken, and they've (we've) chosen the plutocratic enslavement of the populace by CEOs who've sublimated their testosterone-driven sexual energies into the pursuit of capital at all cost to the human (living!) experiences of their subjects. We had our chance, but we blew it, and now we have to live with an ineffectual corporate president and a divided congress.
This decision will come as the tenures of as many as four Supreme Court justices are in question in this next Presidential cycle. Expect Rehnquist to chalk this critical decision up on his legacy with Dickerson v. US (upholding Miranda), City of Boerne v. Flores (reasserting state sovereignty in the US system of federalism), etc. If Bush prevails in Florida, then Rehnquist will all but certainly retire in the next couple years.
I've been using jerking motions of the hands and wrists while sitting at the computer for years now!
Did you mean to say that out-loud?
According to Bill Machrone, the way to stop DoS attacks is:
1) Secure all servers
2) Liscense ISPs
3) Make spoofed packets illegal
4) Authenticate everything
5) Criminalize all scanning, including pings and probes
Now, would any of these solve openprojects.net's malaise? #1 wouldn't, because it's not their server which is launching the attack; #2 is a structural change which would take too long to implement (even if it's desirable); #3 is promising but would be an administrative nightmare; #4 we should be doing regardless; and #5 is perhaps a necessary evil.
The internet is fundamentally structurally vulnerable to DoS attacks. It's only a matter of pissing someone off and getting picked as a target. With the increasing politicization of everything on the net, the problems will only get worse.
The DOJ and FTC have been breathing down Intel's neck for more than a decade now, but unlike Microsoft, Intel is bright enough not to stick its neck out far enough to get it chopped off. (Here's a hint to all you aspiring Bill Gateses at home: burn all your emails before the feds bang on your door.)
This decision only confirms the wavering they've been having since at least June. They always wanted to see the goods before they committed themselves to shipping a product, and I guessed they aren't impressed. And unlike IBM, Compaq has never even demoed a transmeta prototype, so the decision is even easier for them to make without losing complete face.
Even if its heart can't pump blood at that sustained level, there's no reason why it can't fling its head up briefly, grab a branch, haul it down, and eat it at ground level (provided there are appropriate constrictive muscles for preventing a temporary blood-pressure drop during the process). And you wouldn't need entire new hearts; simple bloodvessels can constrict in time with your single heart and provide much of the same function. (just look at your pulse, for instance.)
This is very empowing stuff.
And that's not the half of it. Imagine you're a foreign newscaster stationed in the backroads of Afghanastan or Somalia. Do you know how much your life is put in danger every time you try to "link up" and communicate with the agencies back at home? Most often, the telephone infrastructure is nonexistant, and the rest of the time, it's bugged.
Or imagine you're the driver of a van delivering groceries and blankets to the homeless. Do you know how many lives are lost every year owing to exposure, simply because of miscommunication between relief agencies and dispatchers? A continuous link with home would solve that dilemma while providing incidental benefits like letting the homeless check their email or search for jobs on the internet.
Radio will get you somewhere, but cbs are subject to a lot of abuse. Recently in NY, disgruntled ambulance drivers were (illegally) jamming the airwaves by blowing on the receiver each time a dispatch went out to a non-union ambulance. Thankfully, no one was (apparently) killed by the practice, but just the same, it's a scary prospect, and it'd be a lot harder to jam a satellite feed.
The sooner we realize real lives are at stake, the sooner we'll embrace this technology, for the greater good of humanity.
They're appealing to the same voters--you and me--so of course, they're going to use similar rhetoric, even when holding opposite philosophies. Just look at the issues themselves: Gore is anti-gun, but he cloaks his view in the rhetoric of the NRA (protecting hunters and even law-abiding homeowners, etc.). Bush is anti-choice, but he cloaks his view in the rhetoric of liberals (protecting the quality of life, reducing the number of abortions without eliminating abortions, etc.). They're both insincere, but the time for holding strong beliefs was last year during the primaries; now they're fighting for the fuzzy middle.
And it's so sad, because this election really does matter. Whom we elect tomorrow will have an unmeasurable effect on all the things we take for granted; all the political philosophies we fight and die for; all the rights and privileges we take for granted. But you wouldn't know it from rhetoric of the candidates.
The only effective way of guaranteeing childcare for the time being is to freelance. Companies will wise up as the current techie population ages and consolidates, but you're insane if you try to bank on it at the moment.
But almost more important than merely having childcare is selecting the correct childcare. Do you want to put your kids in a corporate kennel where their talents as geeklings are squandered or redirected into boorish pursuits consistent with the popular culture that most geeks reject? Is your daycare going to provide a rigorous regime of lego mindstorms that each little geek needs to grow up into a thinking free self? Free software == good but free minds == eh?
No, thanks. Freelancing frees you up to make these individual choices for your individual children (and we're all individuals deep down inside, right?). Flexible work hours, typically higher pay, fewer social cancellations... like I said, you're insane if you're still on salary. The market's tight now, so now's the time to secure a better financial situation. There'll be plenty of time in the recessions ahead to sit back and resign oneself to a salaried position. And by then, hopefully your kids will be grown up and supporting themselves.
Your life is passing before your very eyes. Soon you'll be old and your children will resent all the time you spent slaving at the corporate machine instead of teaching them to be machine builders of their own. Do you want to wake up and find yourself old, hirsute, hoary, and feeling sorry for yourself? Take control now. You're good enough and smart enough. The rest will follow.
Make no mistake about it - M$ will have all whistler users by the balls!
I'm not planning on running whistler, but if I did, I'd dare them to try to find any to have me by. We are the future; for we are immune to their nefarious ways.
Does this surprise me? Yes and no. Yes, because I often look to Canada as our more enlightened neighbor to the north who's solved so many of the problems that did or have plagued us for so long: universal health care, rampant racial strife, rigorous environmental protections, etc. At the same time, Canada as a nation has long had a strange relationship with its children.
;wo men. It's time for children to join in the society of nations and receive their full share of human rights including the right to vote, not just in silly online polls but in elections that matter. They have voices of their own, and it's time we started listening.
Most countries put children and minors into the same legal category as imbeciles and the insane, but Canada is much more aggressive about it and in the process, their parents are often in practice lumped in as well. Have you ever been to a supermarket in Canada and tried to buy caffeinated Mountain Dew or caffeinated rootbeer? It doesn't exist, because children can't be trusted with caffeine and their parents might be too stupid to realize that non-cola sodas may contain caffeine.
Frankly, it astonished me at first, because Canada is more dedicated than most countries to conducting research into children's psychology: if we understand our children, then we can change the world! That sort of thing. But what's even more surprising is that a recent study ; demonstrated that in spite of how much effort and funding was being poured into Canadian schools and Canadian children's programs (from prenatal and on), immigrant children still on average outperform native-born Canadian children. And that's in spite of the fact that Canada's immigrant children are in greater poverty and penury than their native counterparts; the education they received in foreign countries prior to arriving in Canada has helped them succeed where Canadian children without that opportunity languish.
I'm torn as to how to how to find a solution, of course. On the one hand, parents are proving insufficient, but at the same time, the government is proving incompetent to solve the problem. Clearly something has to be done, but who? The only choice I see is the UN, but they're usually unwilling (or not allowed) to get involved in purely domestic affairs, and you don't get any more domestic than child-rearing. But whatever Canada does, it must act soon. Certain industries (particularly the film industries in British Columbia) have been on the rise and have successfully drawn an international presence formerly reserved to the US. But if Jonny or Sally can't read, then when the children grow up to staff or lead those industries, the nation will find itself in a lot of trouble.
I only wish we in the US had something to offer in aid, but we've failed our children too. I suppose that ultimately, we'll have to rethink the legal status of children and perhaps move them into a more autonomous position and role, where they can think for themselves and make decisions in their own best interests, since obviously we can no longer trust ourselves to act in anyone's best interest but our own. First it was propertied white men who were enfranchised, and then came men of other races, and then finally