Ed Rosenthal's operation was in Oakland when it was raided, he was acting as an agent of the city as the guy in charge of making sure medical marijuana was available. The feds raided him, and the trial was here.
use it to educate their children elsewhere and enough parents actually take advantage of this, this would create a demand for better private schooling and would make public schools improve themselves to try to keep their money.
A nice idea, but where are all these schools going to come from? Private schools only take the best students. Students who are 'just average' won't get a place at the table. Think about what you're proposing: a permanent uneducated underclass of people who didn't go to school because all the public schools have been closed and the private schools are full up. It's not as though people will say "Well, Private school X is full, so we'll just go build another one." In poor areas, the money will not be there, and so what's to become of all those people? The world needs ditch-diggers, too?
I know a lot of people involved in public education, and while there's some waste going on, they all want to improve the quality of their schools, so that kind of defeats your "no incentive" argument.
De-funding public schools is simply not an option.
WRT to the whole "It's their money" argument, you know, we live in a society. It's your obligation as the benficiary of this society to fulfill your end of the bargain.
The thing about vouchers is this: private schools can't absorb everyone who wants to go to them. Indeed, in California, all private schools in the California federation of independent schools have stated that they will not accept vouchers. Parochial schools can't take everyone, either.
The solution to the education problems in this country is not gutting public education. Vouchers are a clever ploy espoused by people who are ideologically opposed to public education. It's not a very well thought out plan.
The single most important thing we could do for education in this country would be to find money to pay teachers more, so that the good ones will stay in the profession. When I got out of college, I had 5 friends who became teachers. Today, only one is still a teacher. Why? The pay sucks, parents abuse them, the hours are long and it's a thankless job.
If the pay for teachers was better, it would become a viable career choice for people who bring passion and expertise to their jobs, not a place for incompetant, unimaginative people who can't be fired.
You said it. My mother couldn't give a shit. She just wants to click on the stuff she uses and use them. She really could do without all the other cruft that's in Windows XP home. I could set up a great little system for her. Consistently, all she ever uses are Mozilla (I got her to switch when I told her it kills pop-ups), a FileMaker client, and Office Software (you could give her OpenOffice, and tell her it was Word, and she'd be fine). She just likes pretty colored equipment, like the iMac series.
If these guys were to have their boxes in tangerine, key lime and whatever J. Crew colors you can think of, they'd have your Mom's money in a minute.
Wasn't there, at one point, a bunch of people who wanted to put together a distro for such users?
Think about it. You can send out thousands of emails for practically nothing. If only 1 or 2 people are stupid enough to follow the links and buy something, the spam pays for itself.
Spam is another form of mass-marketing, which does work. Most mass-marketing, however, is at least minimally targeted. I'm not defending spam, but in interviews with spammers, they claim that it works.
It's not just RU-486 (a red herring, you can't get that unless you're under supervision when you take it at the doctor's-- you can't just get a prescription for it.)
You can't get a prescription filled for simple birth control pills at a Wal-Mart. What happens when Wal-Mart is the only Pharmacy around for 100 miles? Their stand on this is beyond simple market forces. Can the world's largest retailer really be that beholden to a small vocal minority that wishes to tell other people what to do, or is it policy that's supported from the top down in that organization? It can't just be that birth control pills are controversial. Wal-Mart sells guns in a lot of markets, and that is considered wrong by some (not me, but by some). Wal-Mart made a corporate, not marketing, decision not to supply birth control pills in *any* markets, including ones that wouldn't object to it.
Oh, it believes in much more than that. This latest budget is over 2,000 pages, and only four of them are devoted to tax cuts.
The majority of it is devoted to starving government programs that they don't agree with out of existence. They can't publicly say "we're going to gut program x", because they know that most programs they hate enjoy widespread public support. Programs like Head Start, which affects lots of people in very positive ways, and virtually anything that Clinton got started. Not because they don't work, but because Clinton supported them.
There's a lot of hype about tax cuts, but the idea that this budget will foster growth or create jobs is is just nuts. That's not what it's designed for and they know it. If you believe it, you're a sucker. See you at the unemployment office. Stay away from the Bush Administration Kool-Aid.
California is the place where the Democrats would like GWB off the 2004 ballot on a technicality.
Well, then the Republicans shouldn't have timed the convention to coincide with September 11 memorials, after the deadline in California to have your candidate sorted out. Waaaah. They can either have their candidate on the ballot, or exploit 9/11 for political gain. I see they have made their choice.
Just because there's no explicit mention of a right to privacy, a right to personal privacy is nonetheless guaranteed to us through the bill of rights. The framers felt it was so forehead-slappingly obvious that we all have a right to personal privacy, that the constitution recognizes the only time the government is permitted to violate that privacy is established in the 4th Amendment.
The constitution doesn't *give* us anything. The theory is that humans are *born* with these rights. The constitution limits the government's powers, not our rights.
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She also believes that Harry Truman was taking orders from Moscow. I think she's lost her mind.
I think he sucked, but obviously, I'm not the one making these choices.
Reagan gets a carrier, but Jimmy Carter gets a Seawolf submarine, which is way cooler.
Did you know that they removed the word 'gullible' from the dictionary?
Yeah, but how can you put food on your family? Perhaps I am misunderestimating the President's command of the English language?
OPD doesn't care, but the DEA certainly does.
Poor, poor President Nixon, he gets such a bad rap.
Hey! Put that Ann Coulter book down and pay attention: you have been hoodwinked, bamboozled!
Yeah, but remember what happened last time they tried that?
A nice idea, but where are all these schools going to come from? Private schools only take the best students. Students who are 'just average' won't get a place at the table. Think about what you're proposing: a permanent uneducated underclass of people who didn't go to school because all the public schools have been closed and the private schools are full up. It's not as though people will say "Well, Private school X is full, so we'll just go build another one." In poor areas, the money will not be there, and so what's to become of all those people? The world needs ditch-diggers, too?
I know a lot of people involved in public education, and while there's some waste going on, they all want to improve the quality of their schools, so that kind of defeats your "no incentive" argument.
De-funding public schools is simply not an option.
WRT to the whole "It's their money" argument, you know, we live in a society. It's your obligation as the benficiary of this society to fulfill your end of the bargain.
The solution to the education problems in this country is not gutting public education. Vouchers are a clever ploy espoused by people who are ideologically opposed to public education. It's not a very well thought out plan.
The single most important thing we could do for education in this country would be to find money to pay teachers more, so that the good ones will stay in the profession. When I got out of college, I had 5 friends who became teachers. Today, only one is still a teacher. Why? The pay sucks, parents abuse them, the hours are long and it's a thankless job.
If the pay for teachers was better, it would become a viable career choice for people who bring passion and expertise to their jobs, not a place for incompetant, unimaginative people who can't be fired.
SUsE runs YAST right after an install. It wants to update your packages.
They're going to be like SAP.
If these guys were to have their boxes in tangerine, key lime and whatever J. Crew colors you can think of, they'd have your Mom's money in a minute.
Wasn't there, at one point, a bunch of people who wanted to put together a distro for such users?
Irate Mother: Johnny!! Are you running Apache as root?!?
Johnny: (looking down, grinding toe into the ground) Yes, Mom...
Wish I had the points...
Spam is another form of mass-marketing, which does work. Most mass-marketing, however, is at least minimally targeted. I'm not defending spam, but in interviews with spammers, they claim that it works.
Yeah, well, I don't work for free, so I raise no eyebrows on that score.
I've had salaried positions, as well, and I certainly prefer them, mainly because I can have a much more flexible schedule.
On the last contract job I had, I was contractually limited to working no more than 40 hours a week.
Uhhh... That's *brown* acid...
You can't get a prescription filled for simple birth control pills at a Wal-Mart. What happens when Wal-Mart is the only Pharmacy around for 100 miles? Their stand on this is beyond simple market forces. Can the world's largest retailer really be that beholden to a small vocal minority that wishes to tell other people what to do, or is it policy that's supported from the top down in that organization? It can't just be that birth control pills are controversial. Wal-Mart sells guns in a lot of markets, and that is considered wrong by some (not me, but by some). Wal-Mart made a corporate, not marketing, decision not to supply birth control pills in *any* markets, including ones that wouldn't object to it.
The majority of it is devoted to starving government programs that they don't agree with out of existence. They can't publicly say "we're going to gut program x", because they know that most programs they hate enjoy widespread public support. Programs like Head Start, which affects lots of people in very positive ways, and virtually anything that Clinton got started. Not because they don't work, but because Clinton supported them.
There's a lot of hype about tax cuts, but the idea that this budget will foster growth or create jobs is is just nuts. That's not what it's designed for and they know it. If you believe it, you're a sucker. See you at the unemployment office. Stay away from the Bush Administration Kool-Aid.
Well, then the Republicans shouldn't have timed the convention to coincide with September 11 memorials, after the deadline in California to have your candidate sorted out. Waaaah. They can either have their candidate on the ballot, or exploit 9/11 for political gain. I see they have made their choice.
It's not like that anymore. Now the lobbyists write the legislation, in exchange for buying pizza for congressional staffers.
The constitution doesn't *give* us anything. The theory is that humans are *born* with these rights. The constitution limits the government's powers, not our rights.
But the real title of his next film is: "Fahrenheit 911: The Temperature at which Truth burns"...