And you want to sacrifice children to politics and sloganeering. Nevermind education and learning. Children are just little hostages -- leverage to secure political power (and money ?) for you.
I'm saying every parent should choose. If you choose to send your kids to school A, you don't get to complain that school A has birthday parties. If you choose school B, you don't get to complain that they read the Watchtower.
In a free society, associations are voluntary. Voluntary associations are the bedrock of a peaceful society.
Separate is not equal. But if you choose separate for your children, that's your choice and no one else's.
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Additionally, instead of the government paying $20k per student to warehouse 35 kids together against their will, the parents can each pay $8k to hire a teacher for 10 children who are actually brought together voluntarily. Which of these classes will have more motivated students? Which will have a more motivated teacher? Which will have more satisfied parents?
Anyway, it is better to have a school system that challenges cultural beliefs....
People say this, but they don't actually mean it. Do you want evolution challenged? Do you want global warming orthodoxy challenged? Do you want the idea of government schools challenged? The idea of free speech? Do you want neutrality on torture and terrorism? Should kids be challenged on their ideas about whether violence against each other is OK? Maybe try pro-violence in October and anti-violence in Nov? Pro-slavery in Dec, pro-racism in January, anti-racism in Feb, feminism in March, passover in April, burqas in May?
No. You don't really want cultural beliefs challenged in schools for children. Not if you actually care about children.
Yeah, that's why small government is better than big government. There's less injustice.
Since there's no perfect government, your "anarchist" argument is silly. No one is proposing (or could ever possibly propose) a perfect government. It's impossible to optimize to perfection, and the "where's the perfect dividing line?" questions are completely beside the point.
But smaller is better than what we have now. See this Slashdot story as evidence. A class of 10 students with no Jehovah's Witnesses can celebrate birthdays. A class of 10 students with all Jehovah's Witnesses can read from the Watchtower every day. No one is unjustly taxed to support alien or offensive beliefs, nor is anyone unjustly restricted. Clearly, that would be better for everyone involved. Do you want to argue otherwise?
Government schools are not appropriate unless the culture is homogeneous. In in a heterogeneous mix of cultures, government schools inevitably tax a person to pay for compulsory lessons that are counter to his culture's beliefs. This is unjust.
Right, and? You seem angry. Perhaps you should calm down.
You can feel the rage radiating from the screen. Or you can just imagine it and tell yourself stories about someone being angry, or happy, or whatever.
As purely a value proposition, stuff made by Sony is generally less useful to consumers than stuff not made by Sony, due to the generally terrible business practices and manner in which Sony treat their customers.
No. The headphones sound the same. Even if I firmly believe in Sony's cartoon villainy, the headphone sound is still the same. I paid the same price for them regardless of their low groupthink-approval. They're just headphones not "business practices", and not an evil talisman of power.
I'm not sure which part of the previous paragraph you want to disagree with? Nor am I clear on which part of the previous paragraph is religious, sentimental or emotional.
The part where you imagine a product performs differently because Slashdot tells you to be mad at Sony.
No one genuinely believes pirates become customers. It's just something pirates say, like "if it was available for half as much, I would buy it". But almost all games are available for half as much after 9-12 months and game piracy continues.
Piracy did NOT destroy the PSP software market. PSP did great in sales. It made Sony money.
Yeah, pirates bought a PSP. They didn't buy games. They downloaded them. So game publishers stopped making games.
The first games lost were the small, risky, independent projects. The God of War developers can afford losing some revenue to pirates. Small independent game makers can't. Then game development for the PSP ended entirely (with an exception now and then).
Funny - I have a Sony clock radio and when I put my iPod in there, it plays music. It also wakes me up in the morning at the time I set on the alarm.
It secretly hates you. It's just biding it's time. It's probably playing subliminal messages to you while you sleep, to hypnotize you into buying a new one in 5 or 6 years because the old one seemed to work correctly for that entire time. It's unbelievably insidious.
Because, to most people, buying an item from someone isn't like getting married to them. It's a game, not a relationship. It's a set of headphones, not a religion.
I've never understood why people like you anthropomorphize a company of hundreds of thousands of people as if they were one person -- and not even a real person, but some style of outlandish cartoon villain. I suspect it's because believing fantasy stories is somehow more real or seems more personally fulfilling than anything the real world has to offer you.
Piracy destroyed the PSP software market. Sony should do everything possible to avoid that with the Vita and every other Sony platform.
It's not like Sony haters on Slashdot or any other pro-piracy site would ever say anything good about Sony. There's no sense in trying to appeal to people who actively seek to harm you. Hostile enemies should be treated like hostile enemies.
Nor can any other niche platform. Stop coming out with stupid new platforms that exist only to serve incumbent technology players. Phones and software are for people to use, not so Microsoft or Intel don't get left out.
Design something to help your customers rather than yourself. This means you Nokia, Microsoft, and Intel.
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"You know, a D turns into a B so easily. You just got greedy."
The law in question is Title 17, Section 602. It was passed in 1976. So the relevant answer to your question is: not in 1976 anyway.
I'm also guessing "they" won't stop 30 years ago, or 20 years ago either. You think maybe they'll stop 10 years ago? Maybe we should wait and see...
And you want to sacrifice children to politics and sloganeering. Nevermind education and learning. Children are just little hostages -- leverage to secure political power (and money ?) for you.
I'm saying every parent should choose. If you choose to send your kids to school A, you don't get to complain that school A has birthday parties. If you choose school B, you don't get to complain that they read the Watchtower.
In a free society, associations are voluntary. Voluntary associations are the bedrock of a peaceful society.
Separate is not equal. But if you choose separate for your children, that's your choice and no one else's.
--
Additionally, instead of the government paying $20k per student to warehouse 35 kids together against their will, the parents can each pay $8k to hire a teacher for 10 children who are actually brought together voluntarily. Which of these classes will have more motivated students? Which will have a more motivated teacher? Which will have more satisfied parents?
Let's compromise and get rid of half the programs you like and half the programs conservatives like.
Anyway, it is better to have a school system that challenges cultural beliefs....
People say this, but they don't actually mean it. Do you want evolution challenged? Do you want global warming orthodoxy challenged? Do you want the idea of government schools challenged? The idea of free speech? Do you want neutrality on torture and terrorism? Should kids be challenged on their ideas about whether violence against each other is OK? Maybe try pro-violence in October and anti-violence in Nov? Pro-slavery in Dec, pro-racism in January, anti-racism in Feb, feminism in March, passover in April, burqas in May?
No. You don't really want cultural beliefs challenged in schools for children. Not if you actually care about children.
Yeah, that's why small government is better than big government. There's less injustice.
Since there's no perfect government, your "anarchist" argument is silly. No one is proposing (or could ever possibly propose) a perfect government. It's impossible to optimize to perfection, and the "where's the perfect dividing line?" questions are completely beside the point.
But smaller is better than what we have now. See this Slashdot story as evidence. A class of 10 students with no Jehovah's Witnesses can celebrate birthdays. A class of 10 students with all Jehovah's Witnesses can read from the Watchtower every day. No one is unjustly taxed to support alien or offensive beliefs, nor is anyone unjustly restricted. Clearly, that would be better for everyone involved. Do you want to argue otherwise?
Government schools are not appropriate unless the culture is homogeneous. In in a heterogeneous mix of cultures, government schools inevitably tax a person to pay for compulsory lessons that are counter to his culture's beliefs. This is unjust.
Right, and? You seem angry. Perhaps you should calm down.
You can feel the rage radiating from the screen. Or you can just imagine it and tell yourself stories about someone being angry, or happy, or whatever.
As purely a value proposition, stuff made by Sony is generally less useful to consumers than stuff not made by Sony, due to the generally terrible business practices and manner in which Sony treat their customers.
No. The headphones sound the same. Even if I firmly believe in Sony's cartoon villainy, the headphone sound is still the same. I paid the same price for them regardless of their low groupthink-approval. They're just headphones not "business practices", and not an evil talisman of power.
I'm not sure which part of the previous paragraph you want to disagree with? Nor am I clear on which part of the previous paragraph is religious, sentimental or emotional.
The part where you imagine a product performs differently because Slashdot tells you to be mad at Sony.
No one genuinely believes pirates become customers. It's just something pirates say, like "if it was available for half as much, I would buy it". But almost all games are available for half as much after 9-12 months and game piracy continues.
Piracy did NOT destroy the PSP software market. PSP did great in sales. It made Sony money.
Yeah, pirates bought a PSP. They didn't buy games. They downloaded them. So game publishers stopped making games.
The first games lost were the small, risky, independent projects. The God of War developers can afford losing some revenue to pirates. Small independent game makers can't. Then game development for the PSP ended entirely (with an exception now and then).
Funny - I have a Sony clock radio and when I put my iPod in there, it plays music. It also wakes me up in the morning at the time I set on the alarm.
It secretly hates you. It's just biding it's time. It's probably playing subliminal messages to you while you sleep, to hypnotize you into buying a new one in 5 or 6 years because the old one seemed to work correctly for that entire time. It's unbelievably insidious.
Because, to most people, buying an item from someone isn't like getting married to them. It's a game, not a relationship. It's a set of headphones, not a religion.
I've never understood why people like you anthropomorphize a company of hundreds of thousands of people as if they were one person -- and not even a real person, but some style of outlandish cartoon villain. I suspect it's because believing fantasy stories is somehow more real or seems more personally fulfilling than anything the real world has to offer you.
Pirates are not customers
Piracy destroyed the PSP software market. Sony should do everything possible to avoid that with the Vita and every other Sony platform.
It's not like Sony haters on Slashdot or any other pro-piracy site would ever say anything good about Sony. There's no sense in trying to appeal to people who actively seek to harm you. Hostile enemies should be treated like hostile enemies.
Software and phone users don't care how good a kernel is.
No.
Nor can any other niche platform. Stop coming out with stupid new platforms that exist only to serve incumbent technology players. Phones and software are for people to use, not so Microsoft or Intel don't get left out.
Design something to help your customers rather than yourself. This means you Nokia, Microsoft, and Intel.
If you bought one then and avoided RROD, then never use it.
Because the correct name is Xbox 420
So support small government and the repeal of the vast majority of all laws.
There's no need to make life easier for genuine criminals. There's a clear difference between genuine criminals and the innocent.
So your objections are 100% based on fantasy then?
Because felons and criminals forfeit some rights upon conviction. "Everyone" does not.
There's nothing wrong with collecting data on convicted felons and convicted criminals.
There are thousands of laws that do worse things to completely innocent people.
Here's your opportunity. Learn it yourself and be more valuable to your company.
Or don't, and whine, and be the next guy laid off.
Or option C, said head has little scruples.
A criminal hacker with no scruples? Say it ain't so!