Learn to swim. The best outcome would be gills.

Who are you and what are you doing on /. ? That crappy "logic" has no place on the interwebs in "discussion". Go back to whatever bright and sunny hell you came from...Fcks'n alien or something... /sarcasm

Charley Kirk was a a venal violent hate spewing bigot. As a rule, I don't approve of violence as a method to solve political discourse, but he got exactly what he was calling for others to receive. Treat others how you would be treated, or suffer what you would do unto others.
Conservatives are just using their political leanings to cover their unquenchable greed and desire to control everything.
Liberals feel like the universe owes them something and they are going to ensure we all collect.
Somewhere in the middle obscured by corporate media and struggling to afford groceries is reality.

And they're welcome, as a business to swallow those aquisition expenditures, or fund their own Canadian content, or not do business here.

The list of developed countries that don't have domestic cultural protection policies is low. The US doesn't have one because of its size (or I'll throw you a bone - HOW AWESOME THEY ARE) - it simply doesn't need one.

Kind of hilarious in light of how pro-protectionist things have swung there. If the US audience started consuming predominantly anime TV, movies, books, etc overnight (purely just because of how good they are, right?) you'd bet your ass US would do the exact same thing.

What you don't get is that French is useful for many people - it just wasn't useful for you - and you project that because to you, personal experience is reality. Calling Mandarin, Spanish, Hindi, and Arabic more useful languages for living, identifying with other citizens, and employment in Canada is fucking bananas - and I'm married to a Taiwanese woman and speak some Mandarin!! Nothing you've said has changed my mind. Your points are noted, but still remarkably dumb.

so why aren't they given force adoption

I feel like we need a "take Murdoch5 to a real job" day or something. I'd literally pay to sit you down some time and explain how the real world works.

It's more a case of the fox being in charge of the chicken coop; or bank robbers gaining control of the bank.

The job of the press in a democracy is to hold officials up to scrutiny.

Am in the UK. Am being paid for exporting solar-generated electricity from my house.

The Arizona education system was crap prior to the charter school issue. The state republican's seem to think that 48th as a state is a good number all around. All expenditures in Arizona go through the legislature regardless of what the statue said. So the school funds get shorted by those @%$@#^%@...

Cops are not allowed Unions. They have associations but they are not mandatory, and they are not allowed to strike. Reality shows blue flu happens but in small amounts.

Arizona's problem is a shitty education system. If you want a decent education you must go outside the public school system. It is sad that the state chooses NOT to fund education, and they get away with it. Arizona is not a really good example, they don't fund the prison system or pay for prison Doctors either.
As for corp's getting involved...it is about time. Industry needs to help direct the needed education topics, and put up some $$$$, they are the primary benefactors.

Quoting: "Trump has the intellect of a toddler."

Toddlers like it if you help them understand.

I came here to promote the idea it would be Online via Grand Canyon University, but you beat me to essentially the same point.

I worked for Digital for a time. They supported 911 all over the west coast at the time. An outage like that should NOT have happened. Triple redundancy hot swap environments on 3 way clusters means there should have been a stable certified environment available at all times. I'd bet either the vendor or the client cheaped out on hardware config. Unless there is a major backbone failure clients should be able to get through.

The logic is economic autarky -- the belief that we're always better off having complete political sovereignty over every part of our supply chains than having to depend on imports for anything.

This is likely also behind Trump's trade war with Canada. His demands with Canada aren't about discirimatory tariffs -- those were negotiated away with NAFTA then re-negotiated in his first term. His demands are now infringe on Canadian sovereignty, to give US control of Canada's external trade policy, and even on its internal markets (e.g., the use of French in Canadian internal commerce). Symbolically, that's why he wants to rename Lake Ontario to "Lake America". HIs establishment of US control over the Venezuelan oil industry is his greatest foreign policy achievement -- although it's not clear he understands the legal limits on what he can do with their money.

There's a foreign and military policy angle to this too: Taiwan is absolutely critical to the US economy, so we are absolutely committed to defend them if China invades. Semiconductor autarky would mean it's not our problem.

The problem with autarky is that even if it's a good idea (which economists don't believe), you can't conjure it into existence overnight. It will take many years, possibly decades for the US to replace the Taiwan's semiconductor industry. In effect, the administration is proposing to inflict the very damage on the US economy that a Chinese invasion of Taiwan would inflict.

And, once the US has voluntarily self-inflicted that damage, China would be free to invade Taiwan.