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Comment Re:More religious whackjobs (Score 1) 286

More religious whackjobs blocking progress. If they own the land, or represent the majority in a democracy, so be it; otherwise a does of "separation of church and state" would be welcome here. No one should get a free pass on being a religious whackjob simply because they aren't a Christian whackjob.

Ah, but the only church that anybody wants to separate the state from is the Christian one.

Comment Re:Ounce of prevention (Score 1) 203

Maybe if they'd spent the 11 years using these resources to rein in police racism and brutality, there wouldn't be a need for protests.

Bad cops and systemic police racism are what's terrorizing the populace in cities like Baltimore - that's your terrorist threat right there. But law enforcement are also the ones running these centers. It's the old problem of who's watching the watchers.

The city is run by Democrats and African Americans, and has been for a very long time. The police are run by the city.

They are messed up alright. but it isn't "racism".

Comment Hmm, OK (Score 1) 352

I know virtual is cheaper, but since a little social revolution in the 1970s, how exactly is everything going to be virtual? You'll still need buildings and someone to supervise the kids.

Ah, OK, finally read the fine article. That is what he's saying.

So let me see if I understand the current beliefs of the trendoids. Homeschooling is evil, but $15/hr techs can supervise 50+ kids they have no personal stake in, and facilitate all learning from YouTube. Got it.

Comment Re:Public Shaming the Red Chinese ? (Score 1) 52

Their people are locked behind their firewall and don't get to see any criticism the government doesn't want them to see.

I wouldn't be so sure about that. It's effectively no different in China than it is in the west. Yes there are people who are locked behind technology, just like there are Americans who only ever watch Fox News. Maybe it's representative of where in China I was staying, or the class of people who I worked with, but all of them had some form of service to get around the great firewall. Even if they don't at home or on their phone (I realised this when people constantly showed me stuff on Google Maps which is blocked) then if these people work for an international corporation they nearly always have some form of corporate VPN too.

The people are well and truly clued in on what their government is doing.

Riiight ... China doesn't have noteworthy censorship, because Fox News.

And you actually think that it is the Fox News viewers who are sealed in the ideological bubble, instead of yourself. Amazing.

Comment Re:Well done! (Score 1) 540

It's not really just about annoying the neighbours. If you stick all the poor people in the same neighbourhood, then all the poor kids will go to schools with poor kids, and all the rich kids will go to school with rich kids. Since schools are funded by property taxes, the poor kid schools always end up having less money. If you mix poor and rich kids in the same areas, and they attend the same schools, and benefit from the same property taxes, then things end up much more even. Instead of one school having everything, and another having nothing, you'd have all the schools with similar amounts of resources.

Some states (like Michigan) have addressed this by changing things up, and funding schools on a statewide basis rather than from property taxes.

Comment Re:Lets be frank (Score 3, Interesting) 216

They're a company that wants to stay in business. TV's about as locked in as can be and even they're draining audiences in one form or another. The internet is an amazing levelling field, and even if terrestrial TV packed up and quit tomorrow, there'd be no firm reason NetFlix alone would dominate the internet markets. They're playing the same game by locking up good content behuind their platform so that if/when the sh hits the fan, they'll have something to keep loyal customers paying well for their services.

Er, so?

Yes, on a broad scale to get quality TV, it will still be made by people who make money off of it. It should be a relief that someone can still do that, not a bad thing.

Comment Re:What a wonderful unit! (Score 1) 332

At first I thought that the 'Acre-Foot' sounded like a joke unit, but obviously it is the amount of water that one hundred and twelve horses need to drink if they are each to plough eight hundred furlongs of furrow in a fortnight!! Honestly, you Americans just crack me up with your wacky units. So much more fun than being stuck with boring old litres!

Oh sure, privilege the number ten just because humans have ten fingers.

I thought you were supposed to be more progressive than us backwater colonies? :) Tsk, tsk; so human-centric ...

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