It doesn't matter that the 'muslim ban' never went into affect. People were stranded at airports across the world, people have stopped travelling to or from the U.S. because they don't know if/when it will be enacted and if/when they will be allowed home or if they will be detained. I am from Canada, and almost all high schools in my province have stopped taking trips (for band, sports tournaments, etc.) to the United States because it is not unusual to have an immigrant in a class and no school can afford to make all the arrangements for travel just to be turned away at the border. We don't KNOW we will get turned away, but with Trump's announcements and attempts at travel restrictions that's not a risk we can take.

While the stock market in the US is doing pretty well, the fact that a single message from Trump can tank a business' stock AND THAT IT HAS HAPPENED, would be really worrying to me if I were in an industry dealing with the U.S.

It shouldn't matter about enforcement of the climate accord, it is about the principal of the matter. The U.S. could have stayed on the accord even if it wasn't being enforced, or better yet, they could have opted out by making their own which had enforcement built in if that is the issue. Instead, Trump has pulled out while pledging to use more of one of the most polluting sources of energy there is, coal. It's not about backing out as much as it is about Trump sending a loud and clear message to the world that the U.S. will pollute as much as they want, wherever they want, and damn the future generations that need to deal with their mess.

I just assumed Microsoft deleted their database on known ransomware so they could claim that no KNOWN ransomware works.

I used to agree, then I saw how many people he screwed with his 'Muslim ban', the industries he has thrown for a loop with his tweets, the pulling out of climate accords basically unilaterally, and I'm now amazed at how much power you put in the hands of one man.

Ha. Hahahaha. Hahaha. Ha. If you think teaching the very young is about reading, or math, or really any of the "educational" subjects you are sorely misled. Early education is primarily about social learning. Teaching little humans how to treat other little humans so they don't become TERRIBLE humans later in life. This is a discussion about UBI, where do you think humans learn their drive to NOT JUST SURVIVE on UBI? It's from parents, role models, friends, etc. Guess what? Your preciously little snow flake son/daughter spends 6 to 7 hours a day with their teacher interacting, and MAYBE 4 or 5 at home with a parent. The teachers job is to ensure the values of hard work, perseverance, and respect are taught and retained, and those values are primarily taught at an early age.

Once they have those skills, teachers are supposed to move into the 'useful to society' skills of "show up on time", "do what the boss says", "learn to jump through hoops", because this is what gets 95% of people jobs, and allows them to survive in the real world.

Username checks out.

In before the Austrian government sees this and demands Slashdot remove it across the world.

{Raises my glass}

One word. Sales.

I work in education. You can certainly try to automate my job away, but until so many jobs have been automated that people no longer need to work I will be employed. I guess once people don't need skills other than "keep the robots serving us" education may become less popular, but even then some people like to learn for the sake of learning. Am I too optimistic in hoping that some people will continue to learn from other humans?

Ah! A fellow Winnipegger I see! Or more accurately, I don't see. The snow blindness has set in.

I agree. It begs the question, "Where was the original post?"

My kingdom for a mod point!

And there are waaaaaay to many buffalo for us to worry about hunting them. They just keep reproducing!

I agree 100% AC. My question to the American "patriots" is what happens when the ideal America you are patriotic about, is not the America you live in? When do you recognize that the name itself does not warrant patriotism, but rather the ideals for which it actively works?

Notice I didn't say the ideals it claims to stand for, because saying you are for freedom and democracy is very different from actually allowing people to be free and have a functioning system of democracy. It seems to me (as a non-American) that America has been slipping further and further away from what the patriots claim America represents.

You don't live in the post-war 50's with an American dream available to all. You live in a country where the dictators all follow their name with a trademark symbol, and aren't breaking laws because they get to buy them from your "democratically elected" government. I use quotations because it seems odd to have a system where you are stuck with 1 of 2 possiblities, both of whom seem to be picked by the parties themselves more than voting, based on super-PAC funding and donations from the corporations.

So again I ask: What are you patriotic towards, the America of today, or the ideal of America?