We don't need to abandon the project, we should just reposess the thing and keep going. I mean, since we're the Russian's creditors anyway, let's keep going and leave them at home......like the original poster, I'd be willing to house sit while NASA was gone...my kids and I would love to clean *those* windows!
Of course you can do more within a set budget if one or more of those items suddenly becomes free...
Switching from Windows to Linux will by definition save the district money and allow them to spend it on other things. Now, will those other things be found in terms of retraining everyone to understand Linux? I mean Windows is pretty simple and that's what 90%+ of the kids with computers use at home.
Too bad such cost savings don't get returned as a dividend to the taxpayers. Sheesh....
Of all the comments, this is the one that addresses the problem. The state 'coalitions' aligning themselves together are trying to regulate interstate commerce. That's illegal. Even the article mentions that when they get a significant percentage of the state governments trying to subvert the constitution, that they will have to go back to the US Congress and try to get them to do it. So, no matter what these stupid governors/legislatures do, our US Constitution will still protect us.
Someone should ask Gov. Levitt from UT how *his* effort to hold another Constitutional Convention (uh, I mean Council of States) is coming along. Ten years ago, he was trying to rewrite the US Constitution. I'm amazed that he can call himself a Conservative or even a Republican.
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We don't need to abandon the project, we should just reposess the thing and keep going. I mean, since we're the Russian's creditors anyway, let's keep going and leave them at home... ...like the original poster, I'd be willing to house sit while NASA was gone...my kids and I would love to clean *those* windows!
Of course you can do more within a set budget if one or more of those items suddenly becomes free... Switching from Windows to Linux will by definition save the district money and allow them to spend it on other things. Now, will those other things be found in terms of retraining everyone to understand Linux? I mean Windows is pretty simple and that's what 90%+ of the kids with computers use at home. Too bad such cost savings don't get returned as a dividend to the taxpayers. Sheesh....
Of all the comments, this is the one that addresses the problem. The state 'coalitions' aligning themselves together are trying to regulate interstate commerce. That's illegal. Even the article mentions that when they get a significant percentage of the state governments trying to subvert the constitution, that they will have to go back to the US Congress and try to get them to do it. So, no matter what these stupid governors/legislatures do, our US Constitution will still protect us.
Someone should ask Gov. Levitt from UT how *his* effort to hold another Constitutional Convention (uh, I mean Council of States) is coming along. Ten years ago, he was trying to rewrite the US Constitution. I'm amazed that he can call himself a Conservative or even a Republican.