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Comment Re:Distance learning - good and bad (Score 1) 190

meh the higher ranked schools have so many students in a classroom it's not like you can challenge the teacher.

Ideally Khan will turn into a pay-for solution if you want. You can watch the vids for free, but you can get access to a "TA" for a fee. Using special interface or software that Khan designs, watch video and place bookmarks + comments at parts you have questions on or want to challenge, then get customized responses by the TA.

I wonder if that would influence the videos in the wrong direction...make them intentionally confusing or wrong so that you want to challenge them...hm...

Comment belonging to culture (Score 1) 93

The more I think about it, the fact that chess is public domain makes in infinitely better than any game like Yu-Gi-Oh! that belongs to someone.

And it's not just because Chess is free and you have to pay, at some level, to play Yu-Gi-Oh!. It's because chess belongs to everyone, to humanity

that's why copyright was set to expire after 15 years (or 10 or 20...it was much shorter than the 75-95 years we have now [thanks Disney]), under the founding fathers' original plans. This meant
1. you must keep creating content in order to keep making money
2. your old content enters "culture" quickly and does not remained locked away forever like Walt Disney's greatest creations or Star Wars to be sold again and again for $$$profit$$$ to every generation.

Comment Re:Wait, wtf, NASA again?!? (Score 1) 911

Yes, the Cop was a poor driver, but to be fair the Lexus he had used a push button start that you had to hold the button in for a few seconds before the engine would turn off. Studies have shown that when people are panicking they stab at the button quickly multiple times to try to turn the car off. That would have had not affected that Lexus. A better UI would have had the car notice someone pushing the button multiple times and shut the car off.

If you can't think fast enough under pressure to solve this "puzzle" (one which you should have been prepared for before even being given your drivers permit), then you shouldn't be driving.

Comment Re:Wait, wtf, NASA again?!? (Score 1) 911

turn the car off. Just turn the ignition and pull the keys.

Definitely do not turn it all the way off and "pull the keys". If you do this, you may engage the steering wheel lock feature, and the driver could try to swerve and find the wheel locked in the turned position. If you do chose to turn off the car, just turn it one click to kill the engine. But as has been mentioned above, simply applying the brakes firmly should always be effective, and failing that, neutral is a good option. Neither of these have the steering wheel lock danger.

if you can't think fast enough to solve the problem you just created for yourself in turning the key to the "off" position from the "on" position, then you shouldn't be driving and never should have been given a license.

Comment and keeps them afraid of tax reform (Score 1) 394

and it keeps them afraid of tax reform.

Everybody is afraid they're going to lose special interest pork-barrel xyz so we end up with a >30,000 page tax code, which the politicians love because nobody can make sense of whatever extra special constituent tax refund pork they want to cram in to next year's code.

Meanwhile big companies get bigger, and the middle class with its smaller companies (that can't afford lobbyists) eat the brunt of the tax burden, away they go and the business goes to the big companies.

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