The Right taking a misinformed stance on something? I'm shocked. SHOCKED.
The Right likes to live in a fantasy world that never existed. On the other hand, the Left likes to dream about a world that never should exist.
The Right and Left both ignore truth whenever it serves their agendas. The Right has been firmly in the pocket of Big Corp for decades. Big Corp (i.e. telcos, cablecos, and Hollywood) are anti-neutrality, therefore the Right is anti-neutrality. Truth doesn't matter and "educating" the Right isn't going to make a shit of difference.
While what you say has merit and makes sense, this is America. We don't have time for sensible solutions. If we can't throw money at it and make the problem go away, then there's obviously no solution and the whole thing is a waste of money and time. We're all about throwing the baby out with the bathwater in this country.
The popular solution to "improving" our schools has been to lower standards and to cave in to idiot parents' demands. A failing grade used to be below 65%, now it's down around 55-60%, and even then the schools now need to get parents' approval before failing a kid. This is completely harmful to those outliers you mention. Not just to the lower end, who end up stumbling through the system only to be spit out with no knowledge and few skills, but also the upper end, who get the short end of the stick educationally. They're the ones with the greatest potential, but since the whole system has been dumbed-down, they suffer the most. When they finally get to post-secondary education, they are completely unprepared and do poorly.
I agree, treat the sickness. Trouble is the sickness is American culture.
Keeping the kids who actually want to learn something lumped together with the kids who make doing so impossible isn't helping anyone. What would you suggest rather than separating them?
Now you're thinking. Then we divide everyone up as Alphas, Betas, Gammas, etc and don't let them cross breed and only hold certain jobs. The ones on the bottom we sterilize so they can't reproduce and we give them the shitty dangerous jobs, because they're disposable, right? And we can keep them full of drugs to keep them complacent and docile and force them to watch reality tv and infomercials to addle their already feeble minds. Don't want an Epsilon uprising, I tell you what.
No question. Problem is these corporations have become MORE evil. They don't want to control your speech, they want to control your access to the greatest tool of free speech the world has ever known. Which is more insidious?
Great. Another Almighty Market worshiper. You're very naive if you think the market is going to fix anything. Free market theory collapsed in this country after corporations were allowed to exist. I said what I said because at least the FCC has accountability. Comcast? Not so much. Ma Bell? Yeah right. How is the market going to punish these monopolies? They've fortified themselves, buying up or driving out any competition to ensure they're the only game in whatever town. They are more powerful that the government, but they still have to do what it says, so they bankroll thousands of lawyers and lobbyists to get whatever they want anyway. At the mercy of the market indeed. They own the market.
They were too busy cowering in fear of the almighty FILIBUSTER to actually do anything. So terrifying a weapon, the Republicans didn't even have to use it, just say it. Buncha useless bastards.
We need to coin a new term that fits. How about "wreaking," a portmanteau of "web" and "freaking," giving it technological evolutionary significance, and it has the benefit of also being a real word with similar connotations.
Not chicken. Complacent. Comfortable. Cut the power or water for a couple weeks and see how chicken they are then. As long as they keep the idiot masses content they can get away with pretty much anything.
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The Right taking a misinformed stance on something? I'm shocked. SHOCKED.
The Right likes to live in a fantasy world that never existed. On the other hand, the Left likes to dream about a world that never should exist.
The Right and Left both ignore truth whenever it serves their agendas. The Right has been firmly in the pocket of Big Corp for decades. Big Corp (i.e. telcos, cablecos, and Hollywood) are anti-neutrality, therefore the Right is anti-neutrality. Truth doesn't matter and "educating" the Right isn't going to make a shit of difference.
That's just it, it's not *your* money, it's credit.
While what you say has merit and makes sense, this is America. We don't have time for sensible solutions. If we can't throw money at it and make the problem go away, then there's obviously no solution and the whole thing is a waste of money and time. We're all about throwing the baby out with the bathwater in this country.
The popular solution to "improving" our schools has been to lower standards and to cave in to idiot parents' demands. A failing grade used to be below 65%, now it's down around 55-60%, and even then the schools now need to get parents' approval before failing a kid. This is completely harmful to those outliers you mention. Not just to the lower end, who end up stumbling through the system only to be spit out with no knowledge and few skills, but also the upper end, who get the short end of the stick educationally. They're the ones with the greatest potential, but since the whole system has been dumbed-down, they suffer the most. When they finally get to post-secondary education, they are completely unprepared and do poorly.
I agree, treat the sickness. Trouble is the sickness is American culture.
Keeping the kids who actually want to learn something lumped together with the kids who make doing so impossible isn't helping anyone. What would you suggest rather than separating them?
Whatever Nostrafuckwad. There's some gentlemen in white looking for you.
... but that would be admitting that some snowflakes are less special than others.
God-forbid. Might as well ask the same people to gnaw their own legs off than to consider a rational option.
Parent: My little Billy is just as smart as all the other kids.
Billy: DUUUUUHHHHH!
Educator: Yep, he sure is.
Now you're thinking. Then we divide everyone up as Alphas, Betas, Gammas, etc and don't let them cross breed and only hold certain jobs. The ones on the bottom we sterilize so they can't reproduce and we give them the shitty dangerous jobs, because they're disposable, right? And we can keep them full of drugs to keep them complacent and docile and force them to watch reality tv and infomercials to addle their already feeble minds. Don't want an Epsilon uprising, I tell you what.
/sarcastic response to stupid non sequitur rant
dude, what the hell are you talking about?
Need two different schools; one for kids who give a shit, one for kids who don't.
No question. Problem is these corporations have become MORE evil. They don't want to control your speech, they want to control your access to the greatest tool of free speech the world has ever known. Which is more insidious?
Great. Another Almighty Market worshiper. You're very naive if you think the market is going to fix anything. Free market theory collapsed in this country after corporations were allowed to exist. I said what I said because at least the FCC has accountability. Comcast? Not so much. Ma Bell? Yeah right. How is the market going to punish these monopolies? They've fortified themselves, buying up or driving out any competition to ensure they're the only game in whatever town. They are more powerful that the government, but they still have to do what it says, so they bankroll thousands of lawyers and lobbyists to get whatever they want anyway. At the mercy of the market indeed. They own the market.
Ham radio? Try semaphore.
Yes. It is actually that bad.
They were too busy cowering in fear of the almighty FILIBUSTER to actually do anything. So terrifying a weapon, the Republicans didn't even have to use it, just say it. Buncha useless bastards.
Damn yous The Weather Channel!!! Keep offa my Netflix!
Nonsense. With Democrats you're just screwed. With Republicans, you're super-deluxe holy fuck screwed.
I'd take the whims of the FCC over those of AT&T and Comcast any day.
Actually, no, it applies to civil proceedings as well.
Might be a plausible defense against IV under RICO statutes. How crap like this could not be considered extortion is beyond me.
Corporate leeches like this are why American capitalism is in the toilet.
Descriptive, perhaps, but it's far too cumbersome. Can't even make a good acronym out of it. PTMIUP. Never gonna catch on.
We need to coin a new term that fits. How about "wreaking," a portmanteau of "web" and "freaking," giving it technological evolutionary significance, and it has the benefit of also being a real word with similar connotations.
Directly unconstitutional.
Not chicken. Complacent. Comfortable. Cut the power or water for a couple weeks and see how chicken they are then. As long as they keep the idiot masses content they can get away with pretty much anything.
because nobody remembers the term "phreaking"