Some people say dialup users don't know what broadband is like. Well, a lot of us have broadband at work or school. And I think that's one reason we don't need broadband at home.
More and more people spend their day staring at a computer monitor. A lot of workers use the internet to pass the time! After sitting at a computer all day, who needs to look at cnn.com when you get home? If anything you want to check email from time to time. Hence you only need broadband.
Personally, I do heavy duty downloading at work and school and transfer it to my home computer later.
GATT:
Article XX: General Exceptions
Subject to the requirement that such measures are not applied in a manner which would
constitute a means of arbitrary or unjustifiable discrimination between countries where the same
conditions prevail, or a disguised restriction on international trade, nothing in this Agreement shall be construed to prevent the adoption or enforcement by any contracting party of measures:
(a) necessary to protect public morals;
The WTO probably decided the US is discriminating since it allows gambling in a lot of similar situations. Anyways, with lotteries, Nevada, and Indian Casinos its probably hard to argue gambling is against America's public morals.
Know any med or law students? These kids are just like everyone else. And when I say "everyone else" I mean utterly and completely fallable. I know people that will become doctors who you would never want treating you or your family. And everyone knows that lawyers can be jerks.
The solution isn't to stop people from suing AFTER screwups happen. It's about controlling who becomes doctors and lawyers. Both professions reward academics over anything else (obviously medicine more than law). I strongly believe -contrary to popular belief- that a lot of people are smart enough to do both jobs. Instead of seeing who is the smartest of the smart-enough group, we should weed out the people who lack ethical, social, or other skills that are also very pertinent to these two professions.
Also, so many young people become doctors or lawyers because it's "respectable" to do so and because the professions bring a lot of money in. Maybe decreasing wages in these professions will bring out people who are genuinely interested in helping people (there are still some but they are the minority in my experience).
If we are more selective with our students (and I do not mean grades), we will get less doctors who make (big inexcusable) mistakes and less lawyers who are willing to sell their soul at the prospect of a million-dollar settlement.
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Some people say dialup users don't know what broadband is like. Well, a lot of us have broadband at work or school. And I think that's one reason we don't need broadband at home. More and more people spend their day staring at a computer monitor. A lot of workers use the internet to pass the time! After sitting at a computer all day, who needs to look at cnn.com when you get home? If anything you want to check email from time to time. Hence you only need broadband. Personally, I do heavy duty downloading at work and school and transfer it to my home computer later.
Article XX: General Exceptions
Subject to the requirement that such measures are not applied in a manner which would constitute a means of arbitrary or unjustifiable discrimination between countries where the same conditions prevail, or a disguised restriction on international trade, nothing in this Agreement shall be construed to prevent the adoption or enforcement by any contracting party of measures:
(a) necessary to protect public morals;
The WTO probably decided the US is discriminating since it allows gambling in a lot of similar situations. Anyways, with lotteries, Nevada, and Indian Casinos its probably hard to argue gambling is against America's public morals.
Know any med or law students? These kids are just like everyone else. And when I say "everyone else" I mean utterly and completely fallable. I know people that will become doctors who you would never want treating you or your family. And everyone knows that lawyers can be jerks.
The solution isn't to stop people from suing AFTER screwups happen. It's about controlling who becomes doctors and lawyers. Both professions reward academics over anything else (obviously medicine more than law). I strongly believe -contrary to popular belief- that a lot of people are smart enough to do both jobs. Instead of seeing who is the smartest of the smart-enough group, we should weed out the people who lack ethical, social, or other skills that are also very pertinent to these two professions.
Also, so many young people become doctors or lawyers because it's "respectable" to do so and because the professions bring a lot of money in. Maybe decreasing wages in these professions will bring out people who are genuinely interested in helping people (there are still some but they are the minority in my experience).
If we are more selective with our students (and I do not mean grades), we will get less doctors who make (big inexcusable) mistakes and less lawyers who are willing to sell their soul at the prospect of a million-dollar settlement.