The last time I checked, the curriculum is set by the state. Teachers are essentially state contractors hired to teach said curriculum. School boards only really deal with money, HR, and emergency situations so the state doesn't have to be bothered micro-managing each district. So what part of the local government has any say in public education?

None. The state is in charge of education, lock, stock and barrel. We'll, at least here in Texas it does.

I could think of more than a few really rough areas you would want to sensor yourself, in the name of self-preservation. So yes, censorship can save lives.

I'm pretty sure hate and incitement speech are not covered under the First Amendment here in the US. Even at that, you are guaranteed a Right to speak, but not a platform to speak. Of course, there's nothing but tech-stupidity stopping them from creating their own decentralized, toxic, and uncensored platform. I wish them luck, but hope they still fail hard.

Until Apple decides to EOL your perfectly good device and stop supporting/updating it. It's still Apple's OS, and they aren't as innocent as you may think. It's even worse because they lock everything down, including the hardware.

If I had mod points, I'd mod you up. The reason people don't want to hire people to do the work is because Technology is overall cheaper.

While it makes good business sense to do so, if those now unemployed workers can't find a job because other people aren't hiring people, then eventually there will be few people left to buy goods and services. Peak capitalism looks horrible.

They can get Linux to run as a layer or app under Windows, but can't figure out how to get it to run from a different drive. Some of us have a smaller SSD as C drive and would like to at least play with this without having to jump through hoops. Yes, I know about symlinks in Windows, but it's kind of a crappy fix, if it works at all.

Perhaps so, but most states who have such laws also have pretty hefty unemployment tax hikes should the company be found to have fired said employee for a bullsh*t reason.

I don't think Alexander knew about this article. And the traffic could have come from Digg as well, if someone posted the same article there. He was just curious.

IIR the 140bytes is bandwidth already used by the carriers, but the messages do require store-and-forward servers. By now the servers have to have been paid for, so the carriers are making almost pure profit, except for maybe a little upkeep on the hardware. Sales strategies aside, I see no reason why texting is still so expensive or even charged for at all. The technology is mature and in maintenance mode. Carriers seem to be milking as much profit as possible before they have to compete with the data versions. Of course, if they have their way they won't have to really compete. By capping data plans to point it's not worth it, they can still keep some control. What happened to the days when "unlimited" meant unlimited and not "unlimited but only as far as we so"?