Thought experiment. If you charged every dollar at the highest tax rate, then took the excess money and divided it amongst all workers, would low income workers be better or worse off? How about dividing it amongst all adults? Or all citizens?
Oh, for heaven sake grow up folks. Living in a country (New Zealand) that has had day light savings for as long as I can remember, I can tell you that the worst that has happened is that I've forget to reset my alarm and slept in.
It is a little hard getting up an hour early in summer but you can sleep in an hour come winter. I do have to change my watch, clocks, VCR etc. We Kiwis use this change-over to also change our smoke-alarm batteries.
Both my Mac and Windows machines set themselves.
Yes, it is harder on farmers (we are a rural nation), but the livestock survives the change just fine - no cows explode from not being milked for an hour.
The extra hour of daylight in is much appreciated in summer - more time for sports and other outdoors activities (oh sorry I forgot where I was posting;-)
Bravo! Pretty much the post I would have made but you there first:-)
One more point to consider: What is the purpose of schooling?
The pat answer a politician might give is to provide an education for future citizens so that they might best fulfil their potential in society.
Sounds a pretty important role right? So why is it so poorly funded?
Because the real purpose of schools is to keep the kids out of their parent's hair so they (the parents) can work and contribute to the economy.
I have friends who are teachers, they try to the best for the kids they teach with the resources they have, but they admit their real occupation is baby-sitting.
Ideology aside, what is the main benefit that home school kids have over their state schooled peers? Customised tuition through low student to teacher ratio. With any ratio higher than 13 to 15 students and you cannot teach to individual needs, you can only teach to the norm. And if you fall outside that norm? Better hope your parents can afford an alternative education system for you.
When you buy an electronic device you buy a licence to use it within zone. The device will check for a zoning signal on the local cell network and will only operate when that signal is present. In most countries it is a criminal offence to interfere with the zoning operation of a device with penalties of up to $500,000 and up to 10 years imprisonment.
What will it take to change the world?
The day George W boots up his Windows machine and sees the face of Osma Bin Lardin smilling back at him. When the US government wakes up and realises that its whole economy (and hence that of the world) rests on the security of Windows.
Yeah, yeah, malodramatic BS, but just what WOULD happen if there was a conserted cyborterorist attack on M$ products?
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Thought experiment. If you charged every dollar at the highest tax rate, then took the excess money and divided it amongst all workers, would low income workers be better or worse off? How about dividing it amongst all adults? Or all citizens?
Oh, for heaven sake grow up folks. Living in a country (New Zealand) that has had day light savings for as long as I can remember, I can tell you that the worst that has happened is that I've forget to reset my alarm and slept in.
;-)
It is a little hard getting up an hour early in summer but you can sleep in an hour come winter. I do have to change my watch, clocks, VCR etc. We Kiwis use this change-over to also change our smoke-alarm batteries.
Both my Mac and Windows machines set themselves.
Yes, it is harder on farmers (we are a rural nation), but the livestock survives the change just fine - no cows explode from not being milked for an hour.
The extra hour of daylight in is much appreciated in summer - more time for sports and other outdoors activities (oh sorry I forgot where I was posting
>step outside and go for a walk, see a local band, read a book, play with your dog, have sex with your wife.
First 4 down, now I'm gonna play with my wife...hey, wait a minute.
Bravo! Pretty much the post I would have made but you there first :-)
One more point to consider: What is the purpose of schooling?
The pat answer a politician might give is to provide an education for future citizens so that they might best fulfil their potential in society.
Sounds a pretty important role right? So why is it so poorly funded?
Because the real purpose of schools is to keep the kids out of their parent's hair so they (the parents) can work and contribute to the economy.
I have friends who are teachers, they try to the best for the kids they teach with the resources they have, but they admit their real occupation is baby-sitting.
Ideology aside, what is the main benefit that home school kids have over their state schooled peers? Customised tuition through low student to teacher ratio. With any ratio higher than 13 to 15 students and you cannot teach to individual needs, you can only teach to the norm. And if you fall outside that norm? Better hope your parents can afford an alternative education system for you.
Yeah, but the English have long memories. Remember Guy Fawkes . We still burn him in effigy every year - even out here in the colonies
"George W Bush" in Washington, DC
We have a big enough ozone hole as it is.
Um, the Brad Pit we haven't tried that yet.
When you buy an electronic device you buy a licence to use it within zone. The device will check for a zoning signal on the local cell network and will only operate when that signal is present. In most countries it is a criminal offence to interfere with the zoning operation of a device with penalties of up to $500,000 and up to 10 years imprisonment.
What will it take to change the world? The day George W boots up his Windows machine and sees the face of Osma Bin Lardin smilling back at him. When the US government wakes up and realises that its whole economy (and hence that of the world) rests on the security of Windows. Yeah, yeah, malodramatic BS, but just what WOULD happen if there was a conserted cyborterorist attack on M$ products?