"Students know that education doesn't prepare them for the workforce."
It shouldn't be focused just on that. I'd say school doesn't prepare students to be citizens. There's very little, if any, attention to skills an adult absolutely needs to function. Learning about politics (and I'm not talking about partisan bickering), how the government works, taxes and how to fill yours, basic 'survival' skills like sewing and cooking, international knowledge (as in history, geopolitics), finance etc etc.
Some will come with the old and tired "that's what the parents are for" and I agree. They can also teach a ton of stuff the school does. And yet we decided as a society that we wanted schools to do it as well. I'm not talking about replacing parental education (even though it would be healthy for quite a few kids in the US and elsewhere) but rather having the school provide further support.
Don't get me wrong, I agree with you but I think we could go further.
Re: Remove your assumption that teh internets works as should now.
"BUT OF COURSE you "libertarians" who believe that the norms against drug use, prostitution, and numerous scams enabled by anonymity, that all societies have found necessary for basically three thousand years, ALL THAT CAN JUST BE THROWN OUT, right?
Oh yes they should. ASAP. The war on drugs is a complete and utter failure that managed only to enrich drug lords and screw poorer places. The 'moral war' on prostitution has empowered pimps and put thousands of sex workers at risk while doing exactly nothing to stop the demand. Because you and your "moral police" friends don't like it it doesn't mean it's wrong and by trying to impose your 'morals' onto everybody else you have been doing much more harm than good. For many, many years now.
Oh. And where are the fines? I want to see the Euros flying!
Ahem.
I do recognize the GDPR has many flaws but it's good that at the very least it is unearthing the widespread bad practices going on. I hope they revisit the law to make it more sensible but it's hard to disagree that a more hard line approach wasn't needed.
And they say companies can police themselves and behave without govt regulations. Right.
They could have acted like adults and both respected the Constitution and taken the sexual assault issue serious and announced initiatives to investigate and try to prevent future incidents. But why be a sensible adult when we can shoot our collective feet?
"They couldn't have made it more clear that they believe themselves above the laws they demand everyone else follow if they'd flat out stated such."
Or they are making it clear that they, the ones who came up with the law, can't guarantee they will always manage to follow it so they will cap the fines. Of course this considerin there was no ill intent when enacting the law.
They are too busy choking on their arguments of how wonderful they are and how repealing NN rules will make milk and honey flow out of your internet connections. Ahem.
So the dogs say the person has been doing drugs. What then? Arrest them? Pat them down to check if there is any drug on them? Blood tests? What if everything returns negative?
In the Aussie Police State it doesn't matter, law is absolute. And the executive is the law it seems.
I asked myself a while back where the hell did he go. Sad to hear about it. He was a source of insightfulness here. And some good laughs.
I keep coming back here everyday because of the content but also because of this awesome community. I always say it and I'm going to repeat: thanks TD for all your effort into bringing awesome content. But I'll also add my thanks to everybody here for participating in this 'peculiar' community, even if we disagree ;)
"Since the FCC’s 2017 Order removed the agency’s authority to adopt net neutrality protections, it doesn’t have authority to prevent the states from doing so, either"
I love how they are using the FCC's own weapon against itself. This is going to be a fight worth watching. If Ashit Pie wants to stop these though rules it will have to reverse course but if it reverses course then it will have the older rules in place and a lot of legal explaining to do. Not that it doesn't already have.
Re: Techdirt continues ignore Israel shot 60 DEAD wounds over 1000.
Yea, crappy journalism isn't it? They have yet to cover the space lizard invasion we are going through. Also, Kim Kardashian had a pimple and no word on TD. Shameful.
Expect it to get worse in the short term and don't expect anything much better in the long term. The bipartisan system and the huge amount of influence corporations have over the US govt aren't going to make things better any time soon.
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Misreading fun
At first I read LAWYERS instead of layers. Which would be pretty accurate as well.
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Please stop trying to screw children futures for their sake people, please.
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Re: Re: Re:
It shouldn't be focused just on that. I'd say school doesn't prepare students to be citizens. There's very little, if any, attention to skills an adult absolutely needs to function. Learning about politics (and I'm not talking about partisan bickering), how the government works, taxes and how to fill yours, basic 'survival' skills like sewing and cooking, international knowledge (as in history, geopolitics), finance etc etc.
Some will come with the old and tired "that's what the parents are for" and I agree. They can also teach a ton of stuff the school does. And yet we decided as a society that we wanted schools to do it as well. I'm not talking about replacing parental education (even though it would be healthy for quite a few kids in the US and elsewhere) but rather having the school provide further support.
Don't get me wrong, I agree with you but I think we could go further.
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Re:
On the post: High School Student's Speech About Campus Sexual Assault Gets Widespread Attention After School Cuts Her Mic
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Ahem.
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Re: Remove your assumption that teh internets works as should now.
Oh yes they should. ASAP. The war on drugs is a complete and utter failure that managed only to enrich drug lords and screw poorer places. The 'moral war' on prostitution has empowered pimps and put thousands of sex workers at risk while doing exactly nothing to stop the demand. Because you and your "moral police" friends don't like it it doesn't mean it's wrong and by trying to impose your 'morals' onto everybody else you have been doing much more harm than good. For many, many years now.
So do us a favor and go fuck yourself.
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Re: Re: PAYING for non-trivial content means losing on tet internets.
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Magic.
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Ahem.
I do recognize the GDPR has many flaws but it's good that at the very least it is unearthing the widespread bad practices going on. I hope they revisit the law to make it more sensible but it's hard to disagree that a more hard line approach wasn't needed.
And they say companies can police themselves and behave without govt regulations. Right.
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On the post: EU Explores Making GDPR Apply To EU Government Bodies... But With Much Lower Fines
Re: Not helping your image here
Or they are making it clear that they, the ones who came up with the law, can't guarantee they will always manage to follow it so they will cap the fines. Of course this considerin there was no ill intent when enacting the law.
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On the post: Australian Cops Say Their Unreliable Drug Dogs Will Decide Who Gets To Attend Music Festivals
In the Aussie Police State it doesn't matter, law is absolute. And the executive is the law it seems.
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I keep coming back here everyday because of the content but also because of this awesome community. I always say it and I'm going to repeat: thanks TD for all your effort into bringing awesome content. But I'll also add my thanks to everybody here for participating in this 'peculiar' community, even if we disagree ;)
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Re: not surprising
Seems adults in the US are in deep need of marijuana to soften up.
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I love how they are using the FCC's own weapon against itself. This is going to be a fight worth watching. If Ashit Pie wants to stop these though rules it will have to reverse course but if it reverses course then it will have the older rules in place and a lot of legal explaining to do. Not that it doesn't already have.
I have just one thing to say: GO CALIFORNIA, GO!
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Re: Techdirt continues ignore Israel shot 60 DEAD wounds over 1000.
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Re: Lawrence’s Law Of Gun-Control Debates
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