Yes, but it's a far cry better than setting up a 'family dynasty' like the Kennedys.
Old Joe Kennedy made his fortune smuggling booze into this country during prohibiion, and through other mafia-related acts of thuggery. When he made the mistake of siding with the Nazis and Fascists during WWII, his image was blackened to such a degree that he couldn't run for office. So he set his sons up for a life in politics.
If Bill Gates' fortune is given away to charity, at least the next generation won't have to deal with another Kennedy-esque 'dynasty.'
Your private school just proves that when they are allowed to exclude "problem students" they can educate the students they pre-select at a lower cost. When your private christian school accepts 50 students at random who they don't have the right to expel if there is trouble teaching them, then your arguement will make a bit more sense.
Poaching all the well-behaved students whose parents care enough to spend $4000 a year on their education is not a good measure of what a voucher program would be like. In particular, a voucher program is gonna take down some of those schools. When every kid gets the money, there will be a lot more problem kids forcing their way into the private schools.
But anyways, private schools are good. Vouchers are more likely to ruin them than help them.
Do we suffer so much with government run education?
Are you saying that you think people who have children out of wedlock are going to somehow become wealthy and able to pay a private school to educate their children?
Or are you saying we should just brick them into a ghetto and let them kill themselves? I suspect this would be your solution, but hope I'm wrong.
The people I can see as being most in favor of this would be people looking forward to a lucrative career as prison guards, tending to the needs of all the ill-educated people who turn to crime to pay for their food.
Oh wait! That's right! Private prisions.
With all the money being made here by all these private companies, I suspect there will be healthy big donations to the Ignorantibritarian party.
Keep buying your Heinlein books. It's a fantasy world, but it's so nice to live there.
The truly 'conservative' thing to do with the surplus money would be to pay down the national debt. Why do we continue to pay a tax to the rich in the form of interest payments on that debt. Of course, that isn't a politically expedient thing to do. We have to choose between two things alone: Spend the money, or give it back.
Bah. If I have a kid I want to educate, I'll pay for it then. But I don't have a kid. Why should I pay to educate yours?
Educating children is not the same thing as sending a dog to obedience school to come back and do amusing tricks. Educating children is a social activity that helps insure there will be educated people around in twenty or thirty years. To ensure that somebody is trained and willing to wipe the drool off your chin when you're sitting in your rocker at the nursing home.
Judging by the quality of your message, it seems you fared poorly in school. The notion you express (in a carefree flowing way), that military spending is necessary but education spending is not, is disturbing. Many of us would argue that both are important areas where our government (translation- us, or those we choose to represent us) has a place.
Some would even argue that the best long-term defense is a well educated citizenry.
If your message is any indication, spelling, grammar, continuity of thought, and just plain clear communications eludes you. Hopefully your offspring will get a better education. For goodness sake, don't try to homeschool them.
Seconding this notion, I can say that the only books I've ever made the mistake of ordering from Amazon.com I ended up returning. They were useless books and I would have recognized it almost immedately if I'd been able to look at them at my local Barney's Noble first.
And now Amazon.com refuses to delete my account unless I play little quiz games with them in email. I have zero desire for them to hold my confidential credit information online, where some criminal can steal it.
Nope. The Internet will not be a valid backup device. It fails dismally at the task, as the primary function of the Internet still appears to be to scatter knowledge as widely as possible. It's not so bad as the disconnected BBSes of the 80's, but it's definitely not being archived anywhere particular. Plus, we have things like DejaNews deciding it's better to become a 'portal.' Not that there's a heck of a lot worth archiving on most of Usenet. It frightens me to think that Usenet posts could be viewed as one of the significant historical records of our time at some point in the future.
Is Slashdot being archived anywhere? Do these "the thread dies by design after 48 hours" discussions get saved anywhere where they are searchable?
Bare-hardware programming is quite different from the kind of thing they teach in most schools. I've had to pick up embedded projects started by people used to coding in an Operating-System environment (where, as you mention, time can be determined by grabbing a function). Their code on barebones hardware usually lacks a robust initialization section at startup to properly initiate timers and I/O. When there are NO startup services, and NO OS to call on for anything, you learn pretty fast that every initial condition (i.e. handling the I/O ports on the processor itself, plus startup condtions for any external periperhals) is very important. That status LED will burn up pretty damn fast if you're using low duty cycle high current pulses to drive it (an important way to get optimal efficiency from an LED in a battery operation) and you forget to turn it off as one of the first operations out of the reset vector.
I have a hard time imaginging handing off memory mapping to some external function. Probably that's why I still live in an Assembly Language world. But I like being in control of what the pins on that sixteen pin processor I embedd code into is gonna do.
I admit it's anachronistic, of course. But remember that a sizeable proportion of the processors being fabbed are still 4 and 8 bit ones. 64 bit processors barely even make it onto the same chart.
It's not your bandwidth if you're making the decision for paying customers. It's your bandwidth if you're running your own little mail server just for yourself.
Fine, if you don't like the people you paid to provide you full access to the Internet preventing other people from sending you email, sue them. If they didn't let you know ahead of time that they were blocking your ability to receive mail, have them charged with fraud.
Nobody can force any system administrator to receive traffic they don't wish to receive -- the essence of the net is that network administrators have agreed to forward packets from certain places to certain other places, and they are under no obligation to carry traffic if they don't want to.
Here's a clue for you: A system administrator is not a god. You're not obligated in any way to serve your customers. But you are obligated to disclose that you're blocking your customer's access to certain materials. To do otherwise and advertise that your service provides 'full access to the Internet' is an act of fraud.
Of course, you may find customers who approve of you doing their spambusting for you. But your 'rights' do not extend to making decisions for other people without their consent.
Sites that use the RBL have chosen to deny their customers access to email. If those customers can't receive email from you, it is because their ISP has chosen not to allow them to.
Guess who pays the bills? (clue- not the SysAdmin) Take another guess who makes more money by limiting traffic to flat-fee paying customers.
Cool. Useful if I ever decide to type in the printout from my "Lions Commentary" (actually would have to locate some really old hardware I don't have to do that of course.)
Back in tech school I programmed a number guessing game into my HP-11C that would end up getting passed around the room during boring lectures. I got a second HP-11C a few years ago at a swapmeet. It's not as powerful as my upgraded HP-48SX but it's a nice package.
I think the goal is to take away all unregulated encryption on the net. Validated, well-regulated e-commerce encryption does not fall into that category.
Actually, get rid of encryption on the net, and you kill the net.
The vaccum that is then created is filled by MSN, Prodigy, CompuServe and AOL (all developed along the old pre-Internet proprietary model.)
End result- business on the new private, much more secure 'net prospers. The businessmen get what the way, consumers get a safe medium to place credit card orders on.
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Yes, but it's a far cry better than setting up a 'family dynasty' like the Kennedys.
Old Joe Kennedy made his fortune smuggling booze into this country during prohibiion, and through other mafia-related acts of thuggery. When he made the mistake of siding with the Nazis and Fascists during WWII, his image was blackened to such a degree that he couldn't run for office. So he set his sons up for a life in politics.
If Bill Gates' fortune is given away to charity, at least the next generation won't have to deal with another Kennedy-esque 'dynasty.'
Your private school just proves that when they are allowed to exclude "problem students" they can educate the students they pre-select at a lower cost. When your private christian school accepts 50 students at random who they don't have the right to expel if there is trouble teaching them, then your arguement will make a bit more sense.
Poaching all the well-behaved students whose parents care enough to spend $4000 a year on their education is not a good measure of what a voucher program would be like. In particular, a voucher program is gonna take down some of those schools. When every kid gets the money, there will be a lot more problem kids forcing their way into the private schools.
But anyways, private schools are good. Vouchers are more likely to ruin them than help them.
Do we suffer so much with government run education?
Are you saying that you think people who have children out of wedlock are going to somehow become wealthy and able to pay a private school to educate their children?
Or are you saying we should just brick them into a ghetto and let them kill themselves? I suspect this would be your solution, but hope I'm wrong.
The people I can see as being most in favor of this would be people looking forward to a lucrative career as prison guards, tending to the needs of all the ill-educated people who turn to crime to pay for their food.
Oh wait! That's right! Private prisions.
With all the money being made here by all these private companies, I suspect there will be healthy big donations to the Ignorantibritarian party.
Keep buying your Heinlein books. It's a fantasy world, but it's so nice to live there.
Are you going to ship them you car by e-mail?
If not, why would you want to use e-mail to accept payment for it? Why would they be stupid enough to use e-mail to pay for it?
The truly 'conservative' thing to do with the surplus money would be to pay down the national debt. Why do we continue to pay a tax to the rich in the form of interest payments on that debt. Of course, that isn't a politically expedient thing to do. We have to choose between two things alone: Spend the money, or give it back.
Bah. If I have a kid I want to educate, I'll pay for it then. But I don't have a kid. Why should I pay to educate yours?
Educating children is not the same thing as sending a dog to obedience school to come back and do amusing tricks. Educating children is a social activity that helps insure there will be educated people around in twenty or thirty years. To ensure that somebody is trained and willing to wipe the drool off your chin when you're sitting in your rocker at the nursing home.
Your thought processes are Sloppy indeed.
You have to do more than wish you were a politician.
You have to run for office.
If it weren't for our military, we'd either be dead or alive.
To try to postulate anything more detailed that that is shortsighted.
Judging by the quality of your message, it seems you fared poorly in school. The notion you express (in a carefree flowing way), that military spending is necessary but education spending is not, is disturbing. Many of us would argue that both are important areas where our government (translation- us, or those we choose to represent us) has a place.
Some would even argue that the best long-term defense is a well educated citizenry.
If your message is any indication, spelling, grammar, continuity of thought, and just plain clear communications eludes you. Hopefully your offspring will get a better education. For goodness sake, don't try to homeschool them.
Seconding this notion, I can say that the only books I've ever made the mistake of ordering from Amazon.com I ended up returning. They were useless books and I would have recognized it almost immedately if I'd been able to look at them at my local Barney's Noble first.
And now Amazon.com refuses to delete my account unless I play little quiz games with them in email. I have zero desire for them to hold my confidential credit information online, where some criminal can steal it.
Wake up, log off there, and go out and stand in the green grass in your bare feet, dude. Unless you're underage you have the right to vote in the USA.
Nope. The Internet will not be a valid backup device. It fails dismally at the task, as the primary function of the Internet still appears to be to scatter knowledge as widely as possible. It's not so bad as the disconnected BBSes of the 80's, but it's definitely not being archived anywhere particular. Plus, we have things like DejaNews deciding it's better to become a 'portal.' Not that there's a heck of a lot worth archiving on most of Usenet. It frightens me to think that Usenet posts could be viewed as one of the significant historical records of our time at some point in the future.
Is Slashdot being archived anywhere? Do these "the thread dies by design after 48 hours" discussions get saved anywhere where they are searchable?
I just checked, and Linux is mentioned one single time on the Encarta '99 CD-ROM.
Microsoft paid me three cents for accepting Encarta '99. It was priced $24.97 and it had a $25 rebate coupon inside the box.
Bare-hardware programming is quite different from the kind of thing they teach in most schools. I've had to pick up embedded projects started by people used to coding in an Operating-System environment (where, as you mention, time can be determined by grabbing a function). Their code on barebones hardware usually lacks a robust initialization section at startup to properly initiate timers and I/O. When there are NO startup services, and NO OS to call on for anything, you learn pretty fast that every initial condition (i.e. handling the I/O ports on the processor itself, plus startup condtions for any external periperhals) is very important. That status LED will burn up pretty damn fast if you're using low duty cycle high current pulses to drive it (an important way to get optimal efficiency from an LED in a battery operation) and you forget to turn it off as one of the first operations out of the reset vector.
I have a hard time imaginging handing off memory mapping to some external function. Probably that's why I still live in an Assembly Language world. But I like being in control of what the pins on that sixteen pin processor I embedd code into is gonna do.
I admit it's anachronistic, of course. But remember that a sizeable proportion of the processors being fabbed are still 4 and 8 bit ones. 64 bit processors barely even make it onto the same chart.
It's not your bandwidth if you're making the decision for paying customers. It's your bandwidth if you're running your own little mail server just for yourself.
Fine, if you don't like the people you paid to provide you full access to the Internet preventing other people from sending you email, sue them. If they didn't let you know ahead of time that they were blocking your ability to receive mail, have them charged with fraud.
Nobody can force any system administrator to receive traffic they don't wish to receive -- the essence of the net is that network administrators have agreed to forward packets from certain places to certain other places, and they are under no obligation to carry traffic if they don't want to.
Here's a clue for you: A system administrator is not a god. You're not obligated in any way to serve your customers. But you are obligated to disclose that you're blocking your customer's access to certain materials. To do otherwise and advertise that your service provides 'full access to the Internet' is an act of fraud.
Of course, you may find customers who approve of you doing their spambusting for you. But your 'rights' do not extend to making decisions for other people without their consent.
Minor detail for clarification:
Sites that use the RBL have chosen to deny their customers access to email. If those customers can't receive email from you, it is because their ISP has chosen not to allow them to.
Guess who pays the bills? (clue- not the SysAdmin) Take another guess who makes more money by limiting traffic to flat-fee paying customers.
Yikes! That is much older than the Lions code.
Cool. Useful if I ever decide to type in the printout from my "Lions Commentary" (actually would have to locate some really old hardware I don't have to do that of course.)
Back in tech school I programmed a number guessing game into my HP-11C that would end up getting passed around the room during boring lectures. I got a second HP-11C a few years ago at a swapmeet. It's not as powerful as my upgraded HP-48SX but it's a nice package.
I liked Jabberwocky better than either Brian or Grail.
Haven't seen The Matrix or the fourth SW movie (or the second or third- saw the first one in 1977)
"Real Hackers"** run PIM software on their trusty HP-48.
** Not really, of course, if you want to think otherwise, of course.
I think the goal is to take away all unregulated encryption on the net. Validated, well-regulated e-commerce encryption does not fall into that category.
Actually, get rid of encryption on the net, and you kill the net.
The vaccum that is then created is filled by MSN, Prodigy, CompuServe and AOL (all developed along the old pre-Internet proprietary model.)
End result- business on the new private, much more secure 'net prospers. The businessmen get what the way, consumers get a safe medium to place credit card orders on.
This isn't that far fetched a scenario.