...besides imagine the enourmous "sin" tax that could placed on drug sales while still maintaining a price level lower than the current unaturally high black market one. Add that to the money saved by no longer trying to enforce these laws and build new prisons to house new convicts at 30k/year... billions upon billions in governmental taxes and savings. National health care/education anyone?
how will the company make money off of it? Some form of advertisement?
"The company does not earn any money right now, but is betting that consumers will eventually pay for premium services, like voice mail. This winter, Skype plans to introduce a feature that will enable users to call people on regular telephones - for a fee it says will be "substantially lower'' than current phone service. That means that Skype wouldn't just allow computer-savvy users to call one another; it would allow them to call anybody with regular phone service."
Stands to reason that someone has to switch these calls back onto the PTSN unless everyone you call also has broadband. Caller ID, voicemail?
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What's interesting is that this does not apply to high school or middle school. In high school, if a teacher has any reason to believe that you might have pot in your bag, or whatever, they can search you and your bag even if you oppose it. (New Jersey vs T.L.O.)
Only becuase we are not minors are we able to have any expectation to privacy. Very bizarre if you ask me.
Actually this has little to do with the age of students and more to do with a desire to keep places of education free of crime. In most cases the police/administration must have probable cause to perform a search, but on school property the standard is lowered to reasonable suspiscion. You will see the same logic applied to college campus' as well.
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Yeah, screw that whole "scientific analysis" stuff. The answer to who won the election is probably in the bible somewhere too.
I see you haven't recieved your copy of the latest Newspeak Dictionary. Using correct grammar (as of the 10th edition.)
Section 1.0 -- Government good, citizen ungood.
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In times of universal deceit, telling the truth will be a revolutionary act.
...besides imagine the enourmous "sin" tax that could placed on drug sales while still maintaining a price level lower than the current unaturally high black market one. Add that to the money saved by no longer trying to enforce these laws and build new prisons to house new convicts at 30k/year... billions upon billions in governmental taxes and savings. National health care/education anyone?
I intended to mod this up as insightful, but somehow I seemed to have modded it troll... and I can't undue it or mod it again... oh wait.. I see all I need to do it finish posting this and my evil modding is undone.. cool
Actually this has little to do with the age of students and more to do with a desire to keep places of education free of crime. In most cases the police/administration must have probable cause to perform a search, but on school property the standard is lowered to reasonable suspiscion. You will see the same logic applied to college campus' as well.