the numerous beneficial effects of a well-educated population.
I absolutely believe that a well-educated population is desirable. That is why I would like to see the elimination of schools before they finish completely destroy education.
Hate speech is similar in the fact that it's not something that advances any meaningful purpose
You'll do fine when the people who get to decide what is or is not a "meaningful purpose" are on your side but when the shoe is on the other foot it won't seem like such a good thing. Unfortunately at that point it will be too late.
If we left schooling to parents only, many kids would not learn math, science, reading, history, or geography.
This statement is demonstrably false. Prior to modern public schools kids learned all of those things and in fact 19th century children were generally more knowledgeable in these subjects than their 20th and 21st century counterparts. This is well documented in Gatto's book which I linked above.
The downside to a base 10 measurement system is that it only has two factors: 2 and 5.
It seems to be a lot more common to divide physical quantities into thirds than fifths so you are giving up something when you switch from a system that has 3 prime factors to one that only has 2.
The cost/benefit ratio is probably in favor of the metric system in most cases, but don't dismiss the possibility that it might not be in all cases.
The problem is that a small handful of sociopaths can rob individuals, municipalities or even entire nations of billions of dollars at little personal risk. There is absolutely no way to make all the victims whole, there's not enough money in the world to do it.
The only thing that will moderate the behavior of a sociopath is the credible threat of real personal harm.
Remember, they don't see anything wrong with the rich (ie, them) owning guns. The just don't want the commoners having them.
There might be something to that but the first thing I always suspect when some new regulation is proposed is campaign contributions (or job offers) from the factions that stand to financially benefit from the new regulation.
For one thing I wouldn't apply that legal test to punative penalties, only actual demonstrated damage.
Besides that copyright law needs to be fixed anyway.
Even if you make some financial crimes equivalent to homicides for sentencing purposes it doesn't mean that everyone who causes more than $6.9 million in damages will be executed any more than every single person who comits murder or manslaughter gets executed.
You forgot something: It makes a huge pile of money for the company that owns the patent on that process that your elected representative all of a sudden wants to mandate.
Come on now - everyone knows that guns actually contain demons which possess any person unfortunate enough to come into contact with them. Radioactive demons, with large carbon footprints. They also eat sea kittens.
I am fortunate enough to be the child of a professional smart-ass who intentionally gave all his children two middle names so that we would not fit into the computer systems of the era.
When I grew up my parents used my first middle name as a "given nickname" (it's actually in quotation marks on my birth certificate). So most of the time when I give my name for something I use my "given nickname" as my first name. Unless I feel like using my legal first name as my first name in which case I use that. There are probably four or five different versions of my name attached to my SSN in various different databases.
I've also got a sufffix: III. I don't have two ancestors with the exact same name as me, but since the various parts come from two different relatives my parents settled on III.
For some of us letting a potential client deal with google voice is not a very good option.
How would someone calling you ever know if you are using Google Voice or not? A person calls you and either you answer or it goes to voice mail. Or if you've manually blocked a number they get the "this number is no longer in service" message.
I have one phone (mobile) and I use Google Voice for all calls.
If I get a call and don't recognize the number or if caller ID is blocked then I don't answer.
If they leave a voicemail I will decide if it is someone I want to talk to or not. If the answer is yes I add them to the address book and call them back. If the answer is no I mark the number as spam and never get bother by it ever again.
I can't stand to listen to NPR anymore. Ever since the last presidential inauguration they turned into a shameless propaganda outlet. Now they're Fox News's socialist twin.
The price of liberty is eternal vigilance. Or so your founding fathers used to say. Since then, bush has obliterated the constitution however... When shit is WRONG, you are supposed to speak up and challenge the dictatorial assholes in charge of the place. Or have you lot forgotten how your country came about?
Did you miss your lithium dose or something?
My point was that Manning got caught because he couldn't resist the urge to brag about his exploit. I did not ascribe any moral dimension to his actions in my post. You're ranting about something that I never said.
P.S. Exactly how many of Bush's constitution-obliterating policies has Obama rescinded again? I lost count back at ZERO.
Right or wrong he got caught because he couldn't keep his damn mouth shut. You'd think that people who are planning to break the law would notice that this one particular failure brings down more criminals than any other factor.
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Several sources place 18th and 19th century literacy rates above 95%. This is also documented in The Underground History of American Education.
We didn't invade yet. With the way things are heating up over there it's a little too soon to call.
I absolutely believe that a well-educated population is desirable. That is why I would like to see the elimination of schools before they finish completely destroy education.
You'll do fine when the people who get to decide what is or is not a "meaningful purpose" are on your side but when the shoe is on the other foot it won't seem like such a good thing. Unfortunately at that point it will be too late.
This statement is demonstrably false. Prior to modern public schools kids learned all of those things and in fact 19th century children were generally more knowledgeable in these subjects than their 20th and 21st century counterparts. This is well documented in Gatto's book which I linked above.
You're jumping to conclusions when you assert that learning nothing is worse than the status quo.
If, in fact, what's learned in school is a net negative then learning nothing would be an improvement.
What exactly do schools really teach in the first place? Would we be better off without it?
The downside to a base 10 measurement system is that it only has two factors: 2 and 5.
It seems to be a lot more common to divide physical quantities into thirds than fifths so you are giving up something when you switch from a system that has 3 prime factors to one that only has 2.
The cost/benefit ratio is probably in favor of the metric system in most cases, but don't dismiss the possibility that it might not be in all cases.
I want to know if any of the efficiency improvement is due to not getting as cold as refrigeration.
Campaign contributions, manager and the prosecutor went to the same school, etc.
Regardless of if his actions are justified or not he was stupid to open his mouth to a "journalists" or anyone else.
If you don't want to get caught keep your damn mouth shut.
The problem is that a small handful of sociopaths can rob individuals, municipalities or even entire nations of billions of dollars at little personal risk. There is absolutely no way to make all the victims whole, there's not enough money in the world to do it.
The only thing that will moderate the behavior of a sociopath is the credible threat of real personal harm.
There might be something to that but the first thing I always suspect when some new regulation is proposed is campaign contributions (or job offers) from the factions that stand to financially benefit from the new regulation.
For one thing I wouldn't apply that legal test to punative penalties, only actual demonstrated damage.
Besides that copyright law needs to be fixed anyway.
Even if you make some financial crimes equivalent to homicides for sentencing purposes it doesn't mean that everyone who causes more than $6.9 million in damages will be executed any more than every single person who comits murder or manslaughter gets executed.
You forgot something: It makes a huge pile of money for the company that owns the patent on that process that your elected representative all of a sudden wants to mandate.
Come on now - everyone knows that guns actually contain demons which possess any person unfortunate enough to come into contact with them. Radioactive demons, with large carbon footprints. They also eat sea kittens.
I'd add fraud and other white collar crimes for cases where the damages exceed the statistical value of a human life.
No, they were just a couple of smart-asses.
I am fortunate enough to be the child of a professional smart-ass who intentionally gave all his children two middle names so that we would not fit into the computer systems of the era.
When I grew up my parents used my first middle name as a "given nickname" (it's actually in quotation marks on my birth certificate). So most of the time when I give my name for something I use my "given nickname" as my first name. Unless I feel like using my legal first name as my first name in which case I use that. There are probably four or five different versions of my name attached to my SSN in various different databases.
I've also got a sufffix: III. I don't have two ancestors with the exact same name as me, but since the various parts come from two different relatives my parents settled on III.
How would someone calling you ever know if you are using Google Voice or not? A person calls you and either you answer or it goes to voice mail. Or if you've manually blocked a number they get the "this number is no longer in service" message.
I have one phone (mobile) and I use Google Voice for all calls.
If I get a call and don't recognize the number or if caller ID is blocked then I don't answer.
If they leave a voicemail I will decide if it is someone I want to talk to or not. If the answer is yes I add them to the address book and call them back. If the answer is no I mark the number as spam and never get bother by it ever again.
Sugar and starches, combined with insufficient exercises.
I can't stand to listen to NPR anymore. Ever since the last presidential inauguration they turned into a shameless propaganda outlet. Now they're Fox News's socialist twin.
The price of liberty is eternal vigilance. Or so your founding fathers used to say. Since then, bush has obliterated the constitution however... When shit is WRONG, you are supposed to speak up and challenge the dictatorial assholes in charge of the place. Or have you lot forgotten how your country came about?
Did you miss your lithium dose or something?
My point was that Manning got caught because he couldn't resist the urge to brag about his exploit. I did not ascribe any moral dimension to his actions in my post. You're ranting about something that I never said.
P.S. Exactly how many of Bush's constitution-obliterating policies has Obama rescinded again? I lost count back at ZERO.
Right or wrong he got caught because he couldn't keep his damn mouth shut. You'd think that people who are planning to break the law would notice that this one particular failure brings down more criminals than any other factor.