She can not, but the state can. People forget that child support is for the benefit of the child, who had no mechanism or capability to consent to the agreement.
The answer is simple, there is more than one person making up 'western civilization'. The conflicting arguments are coming from different people and groups, the same groups who are having the same basic debate within western culture.
The problem there is that one can not sign away parental responsibility by contract. The state does not allow it since the it is the child's interest that the court puts priority on, thus even if the parents reach an agreement between each other the state steps in and forces support for the benefit of the child who could not consent to the agreement.
Well, by mass and volume, her contribution is significantly larger and represents a greater amount of biological investment, so if we are going that route she would have clear ownership.
Nor is there now. Makerspaces are functionally equivalent to other types of community or private access workshop. Their branding is different, and probably how they choose who to let in and who not to, but it has been done before.
An uncomfortable fact armchair economics have real trouble with is that communism and capitalism are only different when operating as toy systems with no extra variables or systems involved. Once you add those in, they end up indistinguishable from each other, differ only in a few nouns but politically identical.
Some day I want to find the author or pundit who started this whole 'the government is responsible for monopolies, they can not exist without the state' meme and punch them. Then force them to take actual classes in history and economics.
medallions tend to be artifacts of extremely congested areas where historically taxi volume was a real public problem. I doubt they would issue them at a state level.
I do kinda question what demographic they have in mind when they set up those 'public makerspaces' which have been popping up. In their descriptions (and pictures) they do seem pretty classist, tools for upper middle class people to 'show they are makers!', but not for lower class workers to make stuff.
People are using a new word because they (or the people who first popularized it) are trying to frame workshops in terms of the Ryandian ideals, turning them into symbols of being superior humans. It represents a philosophical shift (or attempted one) away from simple hobbies or desire to create and into a political statement or identity.
Which brings me to the original topic... OP... if you want good advice, go talk to some local shop teachers and maybe the nearest school of engineering (since they often have fabrication facilities). Stay clear of anyone calling it a 'makerspace' since their primary concern is not going to be education.
People who do hiring tend to be a little removed from the economic impact of their hiring decisions, the final tally is rather abstract and not nearly as powerful of an influence as personal career or emotions.
I think at this point, requiring a diploma is just a quick way for HR to filter out lower class people without being accused of being classist. It says little about your education, but it does point to not being one of dirty poor people who can not afford college.
I kinda wonder if he was teaching a low-status remedial type class, which can be a shock if you are used to teaching upper level ones. If nothing else it is a massive status hit since those classes are often assigned to adjuncts and other slave labor, which I could see resulting in a bit of festering.
But that would explain why something he felt should be known was not, his expectations might have been out of line with what the class was.
I actually wonder if, in his previous job (where he got lots of awards from the school), he had the kind of pull that he could have pulled off a stunt and made it stick. Some of his complaints sound like he wanted the university to take his side more than they were then building a nefarious narrative around why they disagreed with his assessment. It couldn't be that the students were cleared because they were not breaking codes, the university must be protecting them!
Looks like he had a rather long teaching career, including with undergrads, but got pretty poor reviews from students.
From bits about his bio, sounds like he was a darling (for research) at other universities but took this new job due to his wife switching positions, so he was new there.
It is quite possible that this is someone who should not have been teaching but was protected by his position, then threw a fit when he was not given preferential treatment and power by administration. In other words, it kinda sounds like he might be the 'special snowflake' crashing into reality.
Only the top executives at the biggest companies are 'untouchable'. Most are pretty vulnerable, middle management is always a good target for getting blame for things for instance. And of course being an executive at a small company does not confer any special protection, you need some power backing you up for that.
I suspect the reason so many people believe that the government does not 'function well' is that they do not understand what is function is. It is kinda like complaining how lousy a car is at sailing down a river. Of course it sucks at it, that isn't what it was designed for, and that job is already done well by boats.
It is the 'they just got greedy' that I am disagreeing with.
They are under NO legal obligation to permit modding, much less support it. They decided to experiment with something that would encourage both modding and development/maintenance of modding support. They scaled it wrong and got hit with outrage, but the actual experiment could have produced an interesting new marketplace for sanctioned commercial production of 3rd party mods.
There is a reason mod developers tend to either take donations or work through adfly like setups, staying non-commercial keeps them in a grey area. If this had been handled differntly people would be describing it as 'forward thinking' rather than 'greedy'. Greedy is just a way of saying you believe the other party is undeserving, it says nothing about the actual actions.
New development is paid for by revenue of previous projects. These are not hobbyists sitting in their basement with day jobs and aspirations of future income, they are professionals who need to be paid for their work as they do it.
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Good point, I was thinking of specific classes of cases and neglected adoption and other formal mechanisms.
Actually, it is not her decision regarding support in the first place, she does not have standing to absolve him of that responsibility.
She can not, but the state can. People forget that child support is for the benefit of the child, who had no mechanism or capability to consent to the agreement.
The answer is simple, there is more than one person making up 'western civilization'. The conflicting arguments are coming from different people and groups, the same groups who are having the same basic debate within western culture.
The problem there is that one can not sign away parental responsibility by contract. The state does not allow it since the it is the child's interest that the court puts priority on, thus even if the parents reach an agreement between each other the state steps in and forces support for the benefit of the child who could not consent to the agreement.
Well, by mass and volume, her contribution is significantly larger and represents a greater amount of biological investment, so if we are going that route she would have clear ownership.
Yeah, but when you are being pretentious, it is not about the reality of the field, but the image.
Nor is there now. Makerspaces are functionally equivalent to other types of community or private access workshop. Their branding is different, and probably how they choose who to let in and who not to, but it has been done before.
An uncomfortable fact armchair economics have real trouble with is that communism and capitalism are only different when operating as toy systems with no extra variables or systems involved. Once you add those in, they end up indistinguishable from each other, differ only in a few nouns but politically identical.
Some day I want to find the author or pundit who started this whole 'the government is responsible for monopolies, they can not exist without the state' meme and punch them. Then force them to take actual classes in history and economics.
medallions tend to be artifacts of extremely congested areas where historically taxi volume was a real public problem. I doubt they would issue them at a state level.
I do kinda question what demographic they have in mind when they set up those 'public makerspaces' which have been popping up. In their descriptions (and pictures) they do seem pretty classist, tools for upper middle class people to 'show they are makers!', but not for lower class workers to make stuff.
People are using a new word because they (or the people who first popularized it) are trying to frame workshops in terms of the Ryandian ideals, turning them into symbols of being superior humans. It represents a philosophical shift (or attempted one) away from simple hobbies or desire to create and into a political statement or identity.
Which brings me to the original topic... OP... if you want good advice, go talk to some local shop teachers and maybe the nearest school of engineering (since they often have fabrication facilities). Stay clear of anyone calling it a 'makerspace' since their primary concern is not going to be education.
I admit I was thinking in terms of legal liability for actions taken while being the CEO, so you make a good point there.
People who do hiring tend to be a little removed from the economic impact of their hiring decisions, the final tally is rather abstract and not nearly as powerful of an influence as personal career or emotions.
I think at this point, requiring a diploma is just a quick way for HR to filter out lower class people without being accused of being classist. It says little about your education, but it does point to not being one of dirty poor people who can not afford college.
I kinda wonder if he was teaching a low-status remedial type class, which can be a shock if you are used to teaching upper level ones. If nothing else it is a massive status hit since those classes are often assigned to adjuncts and other slave labor, which I could see resulting in a bit of festering.
But that would explain why something he felt should be known was not, his expectations might have been out of line with what the class was.
I actually wonder if, in his previous job (where he got lots of awards from the school), he had the kind of pull that he could have pulled off a stunt and made it stick. Some of his complaints sound like he wanted the university to take his side more than they were then building a nefarious narrative around why they disagreed with his assessment. It couldn't be that the students were cleared because they were not breaking codes, the university must be protecting them!
That is the most likely situation. A special snowflake teaching special snowflakes and only one could set the narrative.
Looks like he had a rather long teaching career, including with undergrads, but got pretty poor reviews from students.
From bits about his bio, sounds like he was a darling (for research) at other universities but took this new job due to his wife switching positions, so he was new there.
It is quite possible that this is someone who should not have been teaching but was protected by his position, then threw a fit when he was not given preferential treatment and power by administration. In other words, it kinda sounds like he might be the 'special snowflake' crashing into reality.
Only the top executives at the biggest companies are 'untouchable'. Most are pretty vulnerable, middle management is always a good target for getting blame for things for instance. And of course being an executive at a small company does not confer any special protection, you need some power backing you up for that.
Which brings up the question of was the classroom really rampant with disrespect and cheating in the first place?
I suspect the reason so many people believe that the government does not 'function well' is that they do not understand what is function is. It is kinda like complaining how lousy a car is at sailing down a river. Of course it sucks at it, that isn't what it was designed for, and that job is already done well by boats.
It is the 'they just got greedy' that I am disagreeing with.
They are under NO legal obligation to permit modding, much less support it. They decided to experiment with something that would encourage both modding and development/maintenance of modding support. They scaled it wrong and got hit with outrage, but the actual experiment could have produced an interesting new marketplace for sanctioned commercial production of 3rd party mods.
There is a reason mod developers tend to either take donations or work through adfly like setups, staying non-commercial keeps them in a grey area. If this had been handled differntly people would be describing it as 'forward thinking' rather than 'greedy'. Greedy is just a way of saying you believe the other party is undeserving, it says nothing about the actual actions.
New development is paid for by revenue of previous projects. These are not hobbyists sitting in their basement with day jobs and aspirations of future income, they are professionals who need to be paid for their work as they do it.