Yes, but they could raise prices by a few cents and nobody would care. That they aren't suggests to me that it isn't just about the money, it's about kicking VIA in the balls for increasing the license fee.

Come to think of it, HVEC is a good codec, but it's hardly the latest. Shouldn't the fees go down as the product ages and becomes less valuable? If they want to raise prices, justify that by improving the product. Have they done so, or is this VIA being the company that doesn't care about its customers, and Dell and HP are the ones fighting back on their customer's behalf? VIA still wants $0.20 for AVC, the codec HVEC replaced in 2013. 2013. And they want MORE money for it, not less.

If they get the power in place but don't finish the datacenter or it gets closed, then the public benefits from the new surplus. That's what I'm thinking.

Isn't it supposed to be racist to assume that all illegal aliens are Mexican? https://ourworldindata.org/gra...

Also, you listed three countries that have experienced massive influxes of immigrants over recent years.

I'm not assuming "other nations are the savages", I'm assuming that vaccination rates in the 3rd world are likely to be lower than those in developed nations. So, I was a bit surprised to see that Russia is experiencing a measles epidemic but not so surprised about Africa or SE Asia.

The problem is that I'm forced to speculate because the health agencies are not collecting information necessary to set effective policies. If they don't even ask if a person is an immigrant, then there is a massive hole in the data. We absolutely need to know if it came from outside the nation, and if so, how it got in. Is there a hole in the health screening, or is there a hole in the border that lets people avoid it? That's necessary information. Where is it? If I'm wrong and it is out there, please, please show me where. I don't like having to speculate.

Are they? I wonder if the rates and propensities have changed over the decades. I can't say for sure, but I suspect I encountered at least two pedos when I was growing up - they'd shake my hand and stroke my palm with a finger in the process. Felt weird at the time, knife-sharpeningly suspicious looking back.

My parents were noncommittal when I told them, but I wouldn't encounter those guys anymore.

But of course, the overwhelming majority of adults would go to great lengths to keep a stranger's child safe. I just wonder if the percentages have changed over time.

It could be repeated randomly during play. Every now and again, access the camera and verify the player.

Now, that could have gotten my grandson banned when he was showing me the Rainbow Friends game he likes, but that's easier to deal with than molestation.

Geez... At least your kid is safe, those 8 kids are now safe, and the pervs are receiving justice. Hopefully, without lubrication.

It would be very bad economically if the AI boom popped. But there would be a lot of extra electricity on the market and improvements to the grid.

I think you're largely demanding things that already exist.

Interesting line of argumentation. "School made me a bad person." I don't know if that's being fair to yourself, but it is interesting.

You've swapped the side-benefit for the purpose. Schools are for education. Socialization is a side-benefit achievable in other ways. Education can only be achieved at home or at school.

Part of the problem in the US is the very idea you presented - that school is for something other than education. It is not. It must not be, because then there is only one remaining avenue for providing education. The home. Those mistaken beliefs about the purpose of a school are the reason homeschooling is on the rise.

But no right to be special, so existence and safety you can keep. Nobody else just gets the other two, why should you? If you want them, find a way to make yourself understood that others will welcome.

Throwing money at schools has not fixed the problem. If anything, schools have gotten worse.

Don't mistake the recognition that the system is broken and needs to be fixed for a desire to "dismantle education". I want a strong and effective public education system. We do not have one. What we have is garbage. We should try other approaches while also undoing changes that have made things worse. "Social promotion", for example, is a failure. We need to return to holding kids back when they fail a grade. We need to return to phonics and discard the "whole word" approach. We need to return to rote memorization of basic math, which works, and discard the notion of trying to teach children about "deeper relationships" that their brains aren't ready for.

I'm a Republican. I absolutely do not want a "permanent labor class". I want a public education system that produces educated citizens, and in too many places, we don't have one.

I would put it to you that it is the other party that wants a "permanent labor class". Which has been a stated reason to allow illegal immigration. Illegal immigration also places even more burdens on an already failing public education system.

We already pay more for public education than anyone in the world, and we get crap results for it. Funding isn't the issue, it's how the funds are spent, and how the students are educated. Schools are too physically large, that's a problem. Schools are being used to achieve social outcomes unrelated to education, being expected to provide meals year-round, after-school distractions to keep kids busy, social workers, etc., which diverts funds from instruction. Students are promoted to higher grades despite failing the grade they are in. Students are graduated when they aren't able to do 8th grade work. Proven pedagogy is dismissed in favor of untested theories as if every public school was a research lab and the students little more than rats (though actual experiments have controls).

And when people propose investing in the schools that do work, they are demonized for trying to take money away from schools that don't work.

Well, gosh, when I searched his name, the results were about a serial killer. That's a much better reason to avoid someone.

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