Sadly, it's becoming all too true in factory farming.

Meat is murder.

He's a tool of the free market. Hypocrisy comes standard.

Heh.

Anyway, thanx for posting.

OK, i misunderstood what expat meant. I thought it had to do with revoking citizenship. There i go not looking up words again.

Who knows, maybe i'll take a peek at reddit again someday.

expat? I don't remember that.

reddit is a cesspool, so i rarely bother with it, even when it shows up from a search.

I (like to) think i would pay for a service where someone filtered slashdot & reddit comments to what is actually informational, interesting, and truly funny. IOW, what comment moderation was intended for.

What does the name matter? It's arbitrary. Focus on the theory.

It's like looking only at Jesus's finger, when he's pointing at the moon.

Why not subsidize it with Fed-created money, used to fund fiscal policy at zero cost? The Fed has proven it can fund the market; let it now fund fiscal policies.

The key is preserving the choice to go barefoot. Tools give us more choice.

If you want to break through that glass ceiling the summary mentions, you can take up the fundamental skills on your own, at your own pace. MOOCs are a good place to start.

I think the goal should be Star Trek holodeck computers that you can program in natural language, with general statements. Maybe you choose a program in which you debug vacuum tubes by cleaning out the bugs in them, or whatever you want. Punchcards? Assembler? Your choice!

"Progress isn't made by early risers. It's made by lazy men trying to find easier ways to do something."

- Robert A. Heinlein

With the same logic, shouldn't thieves be morally justified, because victims provide the products they want?

Compensated emancipation should have been enforced. The government should have bought the slaves (whether the slaveowner agreed or not) and freed them. It would have cost about the same as the civil war, and there would have been a lot less violence.

As someone else pointed out, cheating is a victimless crime. Why even make it a crime? Just be open about it. Design assessments that do not rely on grades. One thing MOOCs track is participation in forums. If you are consistently helping others with questions, isn't that a good indication of your skills? Why even need to enforce censorship on exams, if you can pick out good students by how they interact with the material directly, and how they are able to explain it to other students?

Comparing cheating to murder is hyperbolically paranoid hysteria. Get a grip!

Knowledge transmission is fundamentally not capitalist or economic in nature. Teachers often gain new knowledge in the act of giving knowledge away. Conservation laws don't apply to knowledge or education.

Public schools should not credential, but simply teach. Good students can be recognized by how much they help others, by how little help they need, by how fast they solve problems. You don't need grades to assess knowledge. Eliminate grades, and the incentive to cheat is gone.

See Alfie Kohn, The Case Against Grades, for more.

Kaye. Sammy Kaye. He swung at least, which makes him a better musician than most today!

The larger issue is: can we teach without worrying about cheating?

Socrates didn't give exams or grade his students. Why do teachers teach with a closed fist, holding some knowledge back? (See Maha-parinibbana Sutta, Part 2 The Journey to Vesali, Paragraph 32.)

There are better ways to transmit knowledge, without enforcing censorship. Testing is really a kind of "security through obscurity".

Instead, I propose let students help each other openly, if they choose to do so. The good students will help others more, so if you still want to find them you can.

Declaring that the free and open sharing of knowledge is cheating says more about the control issues of the teachers than it does about the students.