Indians (people from India) have a very strong idea of capitalism and private business ownership. They are largely a merchant culture believing that they have to generate wealth by owning a business and increasing volume.
Why do you think so many Indians that live in America own 7-11 gas stations? It is ingrained in their culture and their mindset to succed on their own. In fact it is personally shameful for them to work for someone else.
The business owning middle-class truly is the core of any capitalistic and democratic society.
From my understanding of US copyright law, ther is an exemption in rights of architectural structures from photographers and painters. IOW it is legal to reproduce the view of a building.
I am an expert witness and unfortunately it could be a hung jury...Or better yet it might be a split jury in which I would like to cross-examine. But I have to be careful because there could be a discharge. A search warrant should be issued.
Lenin used this in a way. Basically if you repeat a lie often enough then it becomes a truth.
"Everyone is watching this show tonight on TV. Everyone is watching this show tonight on TV. Everyone is watching this show tonight on TV. Everyone is watching this show tonight on TV." and pretty soon, what do ya know? Everyone is INDEED watching that show tonight on TV.
If you tell a lie often enough, it becomes a truth. THAT is Leninism. It has been used by BOTH US political parties as well as marketing types and political interestes forever.
So the idea that the general population ALWAYS knows what is best is VERY dangerous to society. One of the things the Constitution attempts to stifile is mob rule. That is the Republic of our Democratic-Republic.
Well first off I appreciate your ability to be somewhat open minded about this. That is more than I can say for a lot of other/.'ers.
First off it isn't the government's function to protect the classes from each other.
Secondly except in a few very rare cases (national defense, law enforcement, etc) the free market can ALWAYS do a better job of performing socities functions than the government can. It is proven fact that students who are home schooled or private schooled perform much better than those students who are educated in government schools.
Libertarians advocate the seperation of school and state. Why should the government be in the business of education? When a government has control of anything, it will typically use it to push its own ideas and agendas. Same for schools. When conservs are in power they will try to push their ideas through the school system. When liberals are in power they will push their agendas.
If the government didn't have a platform for indoctrination then there would be a lot less governmental doctrination going on. If the gov was taken out of education and all of the taxes spent on education were repealed or put back in the economy, we would see a surge in wealth in this country. That money could be then spent by parents to educate their children in whatever idealogical school they wanted. Christians could send their kids to Christian schools. Muslims could send their kids to Muslim schools. Jews could send their kdis to jewish schools. Athiests could send their kids to secular schools.
The government high school where I graduated from spent over $12,000 per student per year in their budget. The much higher rated Prepratory school down the road only cost $9,000 per student per year. If the government had not spent that money on me and repealed those taxes which funded the schools then I could've gotten a better education because my parents would've been able to afford it.
It is indeed proven that non-governmental students on average out perform governmentally educated students. Education is not a right, it is not in the Constitution, it is not guarenteed. Not in the US anyway.
But outside of education, in a free-market society anyone can start a business and begin to earn more and move out of their current class and upward.
It's pretty hard to start-up a small business with half of your yearly income taken from you. Not to mention retirement savings and building wealth.
The attitude that the government needs to "do something" or "solve problems" is sorely misguided at best, subversive to liberty at worst, and marginally socialist.
The government really has a few basic functions here in the US per the Constitution and the DoI: Defend foreign aggressors Provide justice Secure inalienable rights Ensure Domestic tranquility and general welfare Make sure the states play nice together
Outside of those very simple and basic premises the government should keep itself limited.
When the government took a hand's off approach in the late 19th century we as a society and country saw its greatest prosperity and boom to that point. In fact the lassie-fair attitude of government actually created a revolution; the industrial revolution.
Microsoft might be a monopoly in the sense that they have over 85% of the market place, but they DO NOT have a stranglehold on the industry. They play dirty and have some very questionable predatory business practices, but they don't build hardware, and they are not the only software vendor in town. In fact you can even write your own software if you want to take the time to do so. The barriers to entry in that market are very low.
Now the prescription drug and oil industries are interesting. Why? Because they do have a stranglehold on the marketplace because the government gave it to them! It takes over 1 billion dollars and 10+ years to release a drug in this country not to mention getting the "approval" of the FDA. That is an impossible b
I think you are confused about Libertarian party.... Or better yet libertarian ideals in general.
A libertarian society has nothing to do with the amount of wealth you have. It is all about individual liberties, personal responsibility, free markets, and limited government. NONE of which have anything to do with feudalism.
Besides in a libertarian society if you are not born into wealth you have the opportunity to move up into wealth in your lifetime because the government doesn't restrict class mobility like it is trying to now.
Yes I am aware of that... I am not however in the business of education. As I said if you dig deep enough (which I honestly don't have the time to do) then I guarentee you will find a study on that topic that will point to a higher academic achievement rate of home schooled vs government schooled.
But as you said, where would you find one without an agenda? I don't know. Most think tanks have "an agenda". If it comes out of a college or university it will probably be biased toword government schools, same for the federal government. And if it comes from an independent organization it is probably a home-school group or something of that nature which will probably try to push its own program.
There was a lecture years ago (back in the 80's) about how fusion/replication would not only change the economy but our entire society at large.
Not only would electricity be free, but so would our food sources. No one would have to grow food en mass because it could be replicated. Food would be free too.
It was a fascinating concept and worth checking out:
I hate to tell you but modern science tells us that oil is probably not a limited resource. In fact not only is it a natural byproduct of a process inside the mantle but it isn't running out anytime soon either. Don't believe me? Search for the "biogenic theory of petroleum" There is also a scientest here in the US that can take turkey carcasses and run them through a process which will produce crude oil and distilled water.
As for natural gas? Well I don't know if it's running out or not, but we can always drill deeper and find different pools. Our geological technology gets better by the year.
Besides, the government has nothing to do with this really.
At the moment I do not have any info on that but I am sure if you search deep enough you can find some; I guarentee you it is out there. Besides, at the bottom is a quote from the Dept of Edu which supports findings of home schooled kids being better educated.
Here are some things that I CAN provide however, excerpts on this topic:
Politicians tell us that the government schools are in terrible shape -- overcrowded classrooms, rundown facilities, and students terrorized by bullies. Then the politicians tell us the solution is to do more of what they've been doing that brought about the overcrowded classrooms, rundown facilities, and students terrorized by bullies.
Suggested reading. John M. Hood, "Miracle on 109th Street," Reason, May 1989
Carolyn Lochhead, "A Lesson from Private Practitioners," Insight, December 24, 1990,
Stanley K. Schultz, The Culture Factory: Boston Public Schools, 1789-1860 (New York: Oxford University Press, 1973),
David T. Kearns and Dennis P. Doyle, Winning the Brain Race: A Bold Plan to Make Our schools Competitive (San Francisco: Institute for Contemporary Studies, 1988),
"Public schools are government-established, politician- and bureaucrat-controlled, fully politicized, taxpayer-supported, authoritarian socialist institutions. In fact, the public-school system is one of the purest examples of socialism existing in America...
"If freedom is to survive in America, it will be necessary to eliminate the psychologically crippling and mentally debilitating authoritarian socialist public-school system that inevitably inflicts upon all of its students a long and thorough indoctrination in authoritarianism and convinces them that government force is a valid and necessary means to achieve virtually any desired ends.
"This must be replaced with a system involving freedom and democracy; that is, a system of individual choice known as free enterprise in which students would actually be genuine customers, patronizing genuine education businesses."
-- Thomas L. Johnson, professor emeritus of biological sciences at the University of Mary Washington. From an op-ed in the September 26, 2004, issue of The Free Lance-Star.
Amazingly, more than *one out of three* adult Americans who were educated in government schools answered "Yes" to that question on a recent survey.
However, only 4% of adults who had been homeschooled answered "Yes."
That's just one of the findings of a newly-published survey of over 7,000 adults, conducted by the National Home Education Research Institute.
Homeschooled children have already shown impressive academic achievements when compared to their government-schooled counterparts.
However, critics of homeschooling have sometimes charged that homeschooling could produce children who were not properly "socialized" and were so alienated from mainstream society that they would not, or could not, take part in community and political affairs.
This new survey -- the largest of its kind ever conducted -- blows that theory out of the water. It found that adults who were homeschooled are far more active in political, community and charitable matters than the general population.
Among the findings:
* 14% of homeschooled adults ages 18-24 have worked for a candidate, party, or cause -- compared to 1% of their age group in the general population.
* 76% of homeschooled adults (ages 18-24) have voted in the last five years, compared to 29% of government-schooled adults of the same age.
* 95% of homeschooled adults (ages 25-39) voted in the last five years, compared to 40% of that age group in the general population.
* 71% take part in community service (e.g., coaching a sports team, volunteering at a school, or working with a church or neighborhood association)
1) It's not theft unless you are shoplifting the CD from the store
2) Most acts do not actually own their own releases. The labels more than likely own all or most of the rights to the recorded masters.
3) Since the act doesn't own their CDs they would have to actually PAY the record company to give them away. Yes, for every promo CD that is made, the band is charged for it and that money is recouped from the income stream by the label before the band gets paid.
4) Yes - direct income for the artists is in touring and live shows. 90% of artists don't make a dime off of album sales.
5) The labels do more than distribution and fronting money for producing the album. They spend hundreds of thousands, sometimes millions, of dollars on promotional and marketing activities (which all comes out of the act's check before they get paid). They also have invaluable contacts in the entertainmetn industry and serve as gate keeps to help (sometimes) keep the crap out (although that seems to be less and less of the case).
6) Yes I am an audio engineer and have a degree in the recording industry.
1) It's not theft unless you are shoplifting the CD from the store
2) Most acts do not actually own their own releases. The labels more than likely own all or most of the rights to the recorded masters.
3) Since the act doesn't own their CDs they would have to actually PAY the record company to give them away. Yes, for every promo CD that is made, the band is charged for it and that money is recouped from the income stream by the label before the band gets paid.
4) Yes - direct income for the artists is in touring and live shows. 90% of artists don't make a dime off of album sales.
5) The labels do more than distribution and fronting money for producing the album. They spend hundreds of thousands, sometimes millions, of dollars on promotional and marketing activities (which all comes out of the act's check before they get paid). They also have invaluable contacts in the entertainmetn industry and serve as gate keeps to help (sometimes) keep the crap out (although that seems to be less and less of the case).
6) Yes I am an audio engineer and have a degree in the recording industry.
In my last paragraph I said: Anyway, the best thing for this company is to restrict and then shrink the size and power of government at all levels. I don't mean anarchy; that is absurd. But I do mean that we should progressively move to the original concept of government, small, limited, and mostly non-intervening.
What I meant was: Anyway, the best thing for this COUNTRY is to restrict and then shrink the size and power of government at all levels. I don't mean anarchy; that is absurd. But I do mean that we should progressively move to the original concept of US government as set forth by the Constitution and Declreation of Independence, small, limited, and mostly non-intervening.
I think the thing you are forgetting is thata mom and pop or even a small chain of mom and pop stores, resturaunts, etc find it hard to compete with larger corps because of the government.
Excessive regulation stifiles competition. When there are OVER 5000 different regulations and laws that affect a small retail owner (think workers comp, employees, building codes, IRS regs, local taxes, attorneys fees, etc) they have to spend an inordinate amount of time and money simply doing their best to comply with all of those laws. Now adays most small businesses MUST have an attorney and a tax accountant on retainer for normal standard operation of their business. That is expensive.
Well a large corp like Wal-Mart, or Dardin Resturaunts, or McDonalds, or whoever can afford to have tax accountants and attornyes IN-HOUSE! Those in-house legal-eagles are less expensive to the company working full-time in HQ for all of the operations than it is to the small biz keeping them on retainer. In otherwords the proportion of % spent on attorneys and tax accountants is substantially lower in a big business than in a small business on the balence sheet.
The fact is that big business likes big government. That might seem counter-intuitive but it is simple. If government is big and can decree excessive regulation to hold back the small business and individuals, then big business has an unfair advantage. Big business has influence in legislatures and local conucils everywhere and between them and the Bar Association, have made it almost impossible to do anything in business without having an attorney and tax accountant on staff or on high retainer.
On a similar and unrelated note this big government idea has extended into daily personal life as well. For example in many counties in the US you cannot do anything to your house or your property (short of painting the house) without a permit. This includes fencing, putting in a pond, pouring a patio, screen porch, replacing your garage door etc etc.
Anyway, the best thing for this company is to restrict and then shrink the size and power of government at all levels. I don't mean anarchy; that is absurd. But I do mean that we should progressively move to the original concept of government, small, limited, and mostly non-intervening.
There is a real simple solution. Abolish government schools and get the government out of the education business.
When a government has control of anything, it will typically use it to push its own ideas and agendas. Same for schools. When conservs are in power they will try to push their ideas through the school system. When liberals are in power they will push their agendas.
If the government didn't have a platform for indoctrination then there would be a lot less governmental doctrination going on. If the gov was taken out of education and all of the taxes spent on education were repealed or put back in the economy, we would see a surge in wealth in this country. That money could be then spent by parents to educate their children in whatever idealogical school they wanted. Christians could send their kids to Christian schools. Muslims could send their kids to Muslim schools. Jews could send their kdis to jewish schools. Athiests could send their kids to secular schools.
The government high school where I graduated from spent over $12,000 per student per year in their budget. The much higher rated Prepratory school down the road only cost $9,000 per student per year. If the government had not spent that money on me and repealed those taxes which funded the schools then I could've gotten a better education because my parents would've been able to afford it.
It is indeed proven that non-governmental students on average out perform governmentally educated students. Education is not a right, it is not in the Constitution, it is not guarenteed. Not in the US anyway.
From a libertarian/fiscal conservative and a somewhat soclal conservative I argue that vouchers are a bad idea although probably not for why you think they are.
Imagine you are a private Christian school. Or it can be an Islamic school, Jewish school, or whatever. Well, you start to see kids wanting to enter your school on the government's dime. Of course you typically want more income but government money NEVER comes without stipulations.
This is how Congress and legislative bodies work. They give money in order to advance their agendas. So if you are a private school you might be able to accept 50 students on government vouchers, but you might be forced to change or modify your cirriculum in order to recieve that money. Or it could be regulations that must be followed in order to cash in on those vouchers.
So the voucher idea as far as Im concerned is full of good intentions, but the road to Hell is paved with good intentions. It is a way for the government to get more into the business of private educate by way of regulations and stipulations.
I was camping this summer in Florida and woke up to find a cockroach digging around in my bellybutton. I got him out but unfortunately I crushed and killed him in the process. The next 30 minutes was spent with a flashlight trying to pick out roach parts out of my navel.
It was so nasty I almost gagged. I have a strong stomach (I go camping often) and not much gets to me but the thought of that was very disturbing.
There is a concept in copyright law called the idea/expression dichotomy.
Basically it says that ideas cannot be copyrighted, but the expression of those ideas can be. So like you said, the plot can not be copyrighted but the way it is written, the way it is told, the expression of it can be.
A map cannot be copyrighted, but the layout and symbols of it can. A phone directory cannot be copyrighted, but the layout, typesetting of it can. With a phone book it lists entries in alphabetical order which is in the opinion of common law (here in the US anyway) not enough to warrant the minimum threashold of "minimal degree of creativity" to allow for a copyright.
Copyright is all about creativity and the expression of the facts, not the facts themselves.
And yes I've had a few copyright law courses in college...
My short term memory is shit! I find it very very hard to recall thoughts from just a few minutes or seconds ago.
I have a very high IQ but didn't always use to haev memory problems. It sort of started in the high school era.
At the age of 7 I was given a Commodore 64/128 as well and have grown up with computers all my life. I was on Prodigy and then the BBSs back in the day (early 90's), and one of the first people I know of my age to get on the Net. I am 23 now.
I hated high school mostly because my natural sleeping pattern is from about 2-am until noon and of course high school demands performance at those hours. I found it hardest to recall information while sleep deprived or while off of my normal sleep pattern.
I have had roughly 14 surgeries all under general anesthetic, half before the age of 5 and the other half after the age of 14 for something unrelated to my brain. I have to keep wondering if being under the knife that many times has effected my memory? Or is it the fact that I work in the broadcast and live audio industry, always fast moving and have to think on my feet a lot? Or is it the fact Ive grown up with a computer? Or is it beacuse I am not trying? Or is it because of genetics? Both my grandmother and her twin sister have moderate to severe amnesia in their 70's.
It reminded me of the members of the Zeta sorority - they are loud and wet when they come and will give ya a good blow any time of year.
But really, the real problem is these hurricanes in the Brumuda Triangle. When compared to Zeta girls we at least know how many seman the Triangle has swollowed.
Yes - as Saddam was showing the inspectors in the front door, he was moving weapons out the back door.
The protesters don't matter because they are common idiots.
I don't want to post the same thing twice in one topic, so I will refer my response to something I just posted that will answer your rantings about as good as they answered the rantings of another pseudo-intellect here: http://politics.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=17257 1&cid=14372795
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Indians (people from India) have a very strong idea of capitalism and private business ownership. They are largely a merchant culture believing that they have to generate wealth by owning a business and increasing volume.
Why do you think so many Indians that live in America own 7-11 gas stations? It is ingrained in their culture and their mindset to succed on their own. In fact it is personally shameful for them to work for someone else.
The business owning middle-class truly is the core of any capitalistic and democratic society.
From my understanding of US copyright law, ther is an exemption in rights of architectural structures from photographers and painters. IOW it is legal to reproduce the view of a building.
I am an expert witness and unfortunately it could be a hung jury...Or better yet it might be a split jury in which I would like to cross-examine. But I have to be careful because there could be a discharge. A search warrant should be issued.
Lenin used this in a way. Basically if you repeat a lie often enough then it becomes a truth.
"Everyone is watching this show tonight on TV. Everyone is watching this show tonight on TV. Everyone is watching this show tonight on TV. Everyone is watching this show tonight on TV." and pretty soon, what do ya know? Everyone is INDEED watching that show tonight on TV.
If you tell a lie often enough, it becomes a truth. THAT is Leninism. It has been used by BOTH US political parties as well as marketing types and political interestes forever.
So the idea that the general population ALWAYS knows what is best is VERY dangerous to society. One of the things the Constitution attempts to stifile is mob rule. That is the Republic of our Democratic-Republic.
If you are looking for a "box on your character" try below the waste; you might find a 'box' there ;-)
Did anyone else misread this as....has anyone tried entering a World Of Warcraft female character? :-)
Well first off I appreciate your ability to be somewhat open minded about this. That is more than I can say for a lot of other /.'ers.
First off it isn't the government's function to protect the classes from each other.
Secondly except in a few very rare cases (national defense, law enforcement, etc) the free market can ALWAYS do a better job of performing socities functions than the government can. It is proven fact that students who are home schooled or private schooled perform much better than those students who are educated in government schools.
Libertarians advocate the seperation of school and state. Why should the government be in the business of education? When a government has control of anything, it will typically use it to push its own ideas and agendas. Same for schools. When conservs are in power they will try to push their ideas through the school system. When liberals are in power they will push their agendas.
If the government didn't have a platform for indoctrination then there would be a lot less governmental doctrination going on. If the gov was taken out of education and all of the taxes spent on education were repealed or put back in the economy, we would see a surge in wealth in this country. That money could be then spent by parents to educate their children in whatever idealogical school they wanted. Christians could send their kids to Christian schools. Muslims could send their kids to Muslim schools. Jews could send their kdis to jewish schools. Athiests could send their kids to secular schools.
The government high school where I graduated from spent over $12,000 per student per year in their budget. The much higher rated Prepratory school down the road only cost $9,000 per student per year. If the government had not spent that money on me and repealed those taxes which funded the schools then I could've gotten a better education because my parents would've been able to afford it.
It is indeed proven that non-governmental students on average out perform governmentally educated students. Education is not a right, it is not in the Constitution, it is not guarenteed. Not in the US anyway.
But outside of education, in a free-market society anyone can start a business and begin to earn more and move out of their current class and upward.
It's pretty hard to start-up a small business with half of your yearly income taken from you. Not to mention retirement savings and building wealth.
The attitude that the government needs to "do something" or "solve problems" is sorely misguided at best, subversive to liberty at worst, and marginally socialist.
The government really has a few basic functions here in the US per the Constitution and the DoI:
Defend foreign aggressors
Provide justice
Secure inalienable rights
Ensure Domestic tranquility and general welfare
Make sure the states play nice together
Outside of those very simple and basic premises the government should keep itself limited.
When the government took a hand's off approach in the late 19th century we as a society and country saw its greatest prosperity and boom to that point. In fact the lassie-fair attitude of government actually created a revolution; the industrial revolution.
Microsoft might be a monopoly in the sense that they have over 85% of the market place, but they DO NOT have a stranglehold on the industry. They play dirty and have some very questionable predatory business practices, but they don't build hardware, and they are not the only software vendor in town. In fact you can even write your own software if you want to take the time to do so. The barriers to entry in that market are very low.
Now the prescription drug and oil industries are interesting. Why? Because they do have a stranglehold on the marketplace because the government gave it to them! It takes over 1 billion dollars and 10+ years to release a drug in this country not to mention getting the "approval" of the FDA. That is an impossible b
I think you are confused about Libertarian party.... Or better yet libertarian ideals in general.
A libertarian society has nothing to do with the amount of wealth you have. It is all about individual liberties, personal responsibility, free markets, and limited government. NONE of which have anything to do with feudalism.
Besides in a libertarian society if you are not born into wealth you have the opportunity to move up into wealth in your lifetime because the government doesn't restrict class mobility like it is trying to now.
Yes I am aware of that... I am not however in the business of education. As I said if you dig deep enough (which I honestly don't have the time to do) then I guarentee you will find a study on that topic that will point to a higher academic achievement rate of home schooled vs government schooled.
But as you said, where would you find one without an agenda? I don't know. Most think tanks have "an agenda". If it comes out of a college or university it will probably be biased toword government schools, same for the federal government. And if it comes from an independent organization it is probably a home-school group or something of that nature which will probably try to push its own program.
If you find one let me know...
There was a lecture years ago (back in the 80's) about how fusion/replication would not only change the economy but our entire society at large.
Not only would electricity be free, but so would our food sources. No one would have to grow food en mass because it could be replicated. Food would be free too.
It was a fascinating concept and worth checking out:
It was called the Fusion Torch and Ripe Tomatoes by Paul Hewitt
http://www.conceptualphysics.com/index.html
I hate to tell you but modern science tells us that oil is probably not a limited resource. In fact not only is it a natural byproduct of a process inside the mantle but it isn't running out anytime soon either. Don't believe me? Search for the "biogenic theory of petroleum" There is also a scientest here in the US that can take turkey carcasses and run them through a process which will produce crude oil and distilled water.
As for natural gas? Well I don't know if it's running out or not, but we can always drill deeper and find different pools. Our geological technology gets better by the year.
Besides, the government has nothing to do with this really.
"My company has dedicated 26 Gigs of bandwidth, that during peak are all maxed out"
Just after my peak, I'M all tapped out!
At the moment I do not have any info on that but I am sure if you search deep enough you can find some; I guarentee you it is out there. Besides, at the bottom is a quote from the Dept of Edu which supports findings of home schooled kids being better educated.
Here are some things that I CAN provide however, excerpts on this topic:
Politicians tell us that the government schools are in terrible shape -- overcrowded classrooms, rundown facilities, and students terrorized by bullies. Then the politicians tell us the solution is to do more of what they've been doing that brought about the overcrowded classrooms, rundown facilities, and students terrorized by bullies.
Check out this site for the Seperation of School and Sate:
http://www.honestedu.org/index.php
Suggested reading.
John M. Hood, "Miracle on 109th Street," Reason, May 1989
Carolyn Lochhead, "A Lesson from Private Practitioners," Insight, December 24, 1990,
Stanley K. Schultz, The Culture Factory: Boston Public Schools, 1789-1860 (New York: Oxford University Press, 1973),
David T. Kearns and Dennis P. Doyle, Winning the Brain Race: A Bold Plan to Make Our schools Competitive (San Francisco: Institute for Contemporary Studies, 1988),
"Public schools are government-established, politician- and bureaucrat-controlled, fully politicized, taxpayer-supported, authoritarian socialist institutions. In fact, the public-school system is one of the purest examples of socialism existing in America...
"If freedom is to survive in America, it will be necessary to eliminate the psychologically crippling and mentally debilitating authoritarian socialist public-school system that inevitably inflicts upon all of its students a long and thorough indoctrination in authoritarianism and convinces them that government force is a valid and necessary means to achieve virtually any desired ends.
"This must be replaced with a system involving freedom and democracy; that is, a system of individual choice known as free enterprise in which students would actually be genuine customers, patronizing genuine education businesses."
-- Thomas L. Johnson, professor emeritus of biological sciences at the University of Mary Washington. From an op-ed in the September 26, 2004, issue of The Free Lance-Star.
Amazingly, more than *one out of three* adult Americans who were educated in
government schools answered "Yes" to that question on a recent survey.
However, only 4% of adults who had been homeschooled answered "Yes."
That's just one of the findings of a newly-published survey of
over 7,000 adults, conducted by the National Home Education Research
Institute.
Homeschooled children have already shown impressive academic achievements
when compared to their government-schooled counterparts.
However, critics of homeschooling have sometimes charged that homeschooling
could produce children who were not properly "socialized" and were so
alienated from mainstream society that they would not, or could not, take
part in community and political affairs.
This new survey -- the largest of its kind ever conducted -- blows that
theory out of the water. It found that adults who were homeschooled are far
more active in political, community and charitable matters than the general
population.
Among the findings:
* 14% of homeschooled adults ages 18-24 have worked for a candidate, party,
or cause -- compared to 1% of their age group in the general population.
* 76% of homeschooled adults (ages 18-24) have voted in the last five years,
compared to 29% of government-schooled adults of the same age.
* 95% of homeschooled adults (ages 25-39) voted in the last five years,
compared to 40% of that age group in the general population.
* 71% take part in community service (e.g., coaching a sports team,
volunteering at a school, or working with a church or neighborhood
association)
1) It's not theft unless you are shoplifting the CD from the store
2) Most acts do not actually own their own releases. The labels more than likely own all or most of the rights to the recorded masters.
3) Since the act doesn't own their CDs they would have to actually PAY the record company to give them away. Yes, for every promo CD that is made, the band is charged for it and that money is recouped from the income stream by the label before the band gets paid.
4) Yes - direct income for the artists is in touring and live shows. 90% of artists don't make a dime off of album sales.
5) The labels do more than distribution and fronting money for producing the album. They spend hundreds of thousands, sometimes millions, of dollars on promotional and marketing activities (which all comes out of the act's check before they get paid). They also have invaluable contacts in the entertainmetn industry and serve as gate keeps to help (sometimes) keep the crap out (although that seems to be less and less of the case).
6) Yes I am an audio engineer and have a degree in the recording industry.
1) It's not theft unless you are shoplifting the CD from the store 2) Most acts do not actually own their own releases. The labels more than likely own all or most of the rights to the recorded masters. 3) Since the act doesn't own their CDs they would have to actually PAY the record company to give them away. Yes, for every promo CD that is made, the band is charged for it and that money is recouped from the income stream by the label before the band gets paid. 4) Yes - direct income for the artists is in touring and live shows. 90% of artists don't make a dime off of album sales. 5) The labels do more than distribution and fronting money for producing the album. They spend hundreds of thousands, sometimes millions, of dollars on promotional and marketing activities (which all comes out of the act's check before they get paid). They also have invaluable contacts in the entertainmetn industry and serve as gate keeps to help (sometimes) keep the crap out (although that seems to be less and less of the case). 6) Yes I am an audio engineer and have a degree in the recording industry.
In my last paragraph I said:
Anyway, the best thing for this company is to restrict and then shrink the size and power of government at all levels. I don't mean anarchy; that is absurd. But I do mean that we should progressively move to the original concept of government, small, limited, and mostly non-intervening.
What I meant was:
Anyway, the best thing for this COUNTRY is to restrict and then shrink the size and power of government at all levels. I don't mean anarchy; that is absurd. But I do mean that we should progressively move to the original concept of US government as set forth by the Constitution and Declreation of Independence, small, limited, and mostly non-intervening.
I think the thing you are forgetting is thata mom and pop or even a small chain of mom and pop stores, resturaunts, etc find it hard to compete with larger corps because of the government.
Excessive regulation stifiles competition. When there are OVER 5000 different regulations and laws that affect a small retail owner (think workers comp, employees, building codes, IRS regs, local taxes, attorneys fees, etc) they have to spend an inordinate amount of time and money simply doing their best to comply with all of those laws. Now adays most small businesses MUST have an attorney and a tax accountant on retainer for normal standard operation of their business. That is expensive.
Well a large corp like Wal-Mart, or Dardin Resturaunts, or McDonalds, or whoever can afford to have tax accountants and attornyes IN-HOUSE! Those in-house legal-eagles are less expensive to the company working full-time in HQ for all of the operations than it is to the small biz keeping them on retainer. In otherwords the proportion of % spent on attorneys and tax accountants is substantially lower in a big business than in a small business on the balence sheet.
The fact is that big business likes big government. That might seem counter-intuitive but it is simple. If government is big and can decree excessive regulation to hold back the small business and individuals, then big business has an unfair advantage. Big business has influence in legislatures and local conucils everywhere and between them and the Bar Association, have made it almost impossible to do anything in business without having an attorney and tax accountant on staff or on high retainer.
On a similar and unrelated note this big government idea has extended into daily personal life as well. For example in many counties in the US you cannot do anything to your house or your property (short of painting the house) without a permit. This includes fencing, putting in a pond, pouring a patio, screen porch, replacing your garage door etc etc.
Anyway, the best thing for this company is to restrict and then shrink the size and power of government at all levels. I don't mean anarchy; that is absurd. But I do mean that we should progressively move to the original concept of government, small, limited, and mostly non-intervening.
I am glad to see someone else around here has some good and solid logical insight to American politics. Kudos...
There is a real simple solution. Abolish government schools and get the government out of the education business.
When a government has control of anything, it will typically use it to push its own ideas and agendas. Same for schools. When conservs are in power they will try to push their ideas through the school system. When liberals are in power they will push their agendas.
If the government didn't have a platform for indoctrination then there would be a lot less governmental doctrination going on. If the gov was taken out of education and all of the taxes spent on education were repealed or put back in the economy, we would see a surge in wealth in this country. That money could be then spent by parents to educate their children in whatever idealogical school they wanted. Christians could send their kids to Christian schools. Muslims could send their kids to Muslim schools. Jews could send their kdis to jewish schools. Athiests could send their kids to secular schools.
The government high school where I graduated from spent over $12,000 per student per year in their budget. The much higher rated Prepratory school down the road only cost $9,000 per student per year. If the government had not spent that money on me and repealed those taxes which funded the schools then I could've gotten a better education because my parents would've been able to afford it.
It is indeed proven that non-governmental students on average out perform governmentally educated students. Education is not a right, it is not in the Constitution, it is not guarenteed. Not in the US anyway.
From a libertarian/fiscal conservative and a somewhat soclal conservative I argue that vouchers are a bad idea although probably not for why you think they are.
Imagine you are a private Christian school. Or it can be an Islamic school, Jewish school, or whatever. Well, you start to see kids wanting to enter your school on the government's dime. Of course you typically want more income but government money NEVER comes without stipulations.
This is how Congress and legislative bodies work. They give money in order to advance their agendas. So if you are a private school you might be able to accept 50 students on government vouchers, but you might be forced to change or modify your cirriculum in order to recieve that money. Or it could be regulations that must be followed in order to cash in on those vouchers.
So the voucher idea as far as Im concerned is full of good intentions, but the road to Hell is paved with good intentions. It is a way for the government to get more into the business of private educate by way of regulations and stipulations.
HA!
I was camping this summer in Florida and woke up to find a cockroach digging around in my bellybutton. I got him out but unfortunately I crushed and killed him in the process. The next 30 minutes was spent with a flashlight trying to pick out roach parts out of my navel.
It was so nasty I almost gagged. I have a strong stomach (I go camping often) and not much gets to me but the thought of that was very disturbing.
There is a concept in copyright law called the idea/expression dichotomy.
Basically it says that ideas cannot be copyrighted, but the expression of those ideas can be. So like you said, the plot can not be copyrighted but the way it is written, the way it is told, the expression of it can be.
A map cannot be copyrighted, but the layout and symbols of it can. A phone directory cannot be copyrighted, but the layout, typesetting of it can. With a phone book it lists entries in alphabetical order which is in the opinion of common law (here in the US anyway) not enough to warrant the minimum threashold of "minimal degree of creativity" to allow for a copyright.
Copyright is all about creativity and the expression of the facts, not the facts themselves.
And yes I've had a few copyright law courses in college...
My short term memory is shit! I find it very very hard to recall thoughts from just a few minutes or seconds ago.
I have a very high IQ but didn't always use to haev memory problems. It sort of started in the high school era.
At the age of 7 I was given a Commodore 64/128 as well and have grown up with computers all my life. I was on Prodigy and then the BBSs back in the day (early 90's), and one of the first people I know of my age to get on the Net. I am 23 now.
I hated high school mostly because my natural sleeping pattern is from about 2-am until noon and of course high school demands performance at those hours. I found it hardest to recall information while sleep deprived or while off of my normal sleep pattern.
I have had roughly 14 surgeries all under general anesthetic, half before the age of 5 and the other half after the age of 14 for something unrelated to my brain. I have to keep wondering if being under the knife that many times has effected my memory? Or is it the fact that I work in the broadcast and live audio industry, always fast moving and have to think on my feet a lot? Or is it the fact Ive grown up with a computer? Or is it beacuse I am not trying? Or is it because of genetics? Both my grandmother and her twin sister have moderate to severe amnesia in their 70's.
I am open to thoughts on this.
It reminded me of the members of the Zeta sorority - they are loud and wet when they come and will give ya a good blow any time of year.
But really, the real problem is these hurricanes in the Brumuda Triangle. When compared to Zeta girls we at least know how many seman the Triangle has swollowed.
Yes - as Saddam was showing the inspectors in the front door, he was moving weapons out the back door.
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The protesters don't matter because they are common idiots.
I don't want to post the same thing twice in one topic, so I will refer my response to something I just posted that will answer your rantings about as good as they answered the rantings of another pseudo-intellect here:
http://politics.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1725