A basic education would only take a few years. Half of school is actually learning to respond to authority, how to socialize in an expected manner, its about following rules and becoming a cog in the machine. More about memorizing dates and definitions rather than understanding ideas and concepts. More about being taught what to think and less about how to think. Pep rallies and School Spirit. Public education is a tool of socialization mainly run by progressives. For a progressive, school isn't a center for learning, it is seen as the common and binding enterprise we all go through, a shared venture of warm fuzzy feels. The glorious collective experience.
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UncleBuck
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londonfog
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do you even bother to read WTF you put up. Here this is a insert of what you just pasted to us.
All but one of the amendments so far have been on a single bill to build the Keystone XL pipeline extension. And the upper chamber has passed just one bill so far this year, reauthorizing the Terrorism Risk Insurance Program.
in other words the have passed only one bill. Every amendment except one has been on the same damn thing. In short they have not done shit
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Rob Roy
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The future called but you didn't answer, because your head was stuck in some ladies underwear....
When Willy Jack Fergweiler of Bluefield, West Virginia founded the Intergalactic Galactic Pooontang and Klingon University, which came to be called simply Poon U., no one paid attention. Willy Jack was eighteen years old, and had just graduated from Bluefield Senior High. Bluefield had not hitherto been a hotbed of technological revolution. This was about to change.
By a rare confluence of recessive genes, Willy Bill had a measured IQ of 193. He loved computers, and wanted to go to Stanford in computer science. But Stanford charged tuition way beyond Willy Jack’s resources, even when he worked weekends chopping cord wood. When the Admissions Committee saw “193” next to “West Virginia,” they took it for a misprint and trashed the application.
Willy Jack began thinking. Since you could do everything on line (except that), and since it made him mad that schools discriminated against the impoverished, even when they worked weekends cutting cord word, he decided he would put them out of business. It just seemed like the right thing to do.
Twenty years earlier, the idea would have been ridiculous. A kid with an IQ of 193, however, could avail himself of the distributed cognitive stratification made possible by the internet. The web made everywhere the same place. Which meant accessible to anyone with a server. He had one.
Among his many email contacts from Santa Clara to New York was Heinrick “Smoked” Salamon, a professor emeritus who had taught Medieval French Literature at Harvard. Salamon, something of a maverick, was known around the Ivy League as just “Fish.” Willy Jack Skyped him and broached his idea: Put a university on a server in Bluefield and shut down the brick-and-mortar schools. Such as Harvard.
They pow-wowed. College cost way too much, agreed Salamon, which created a market for a cheaper approach. (Being a geek, Willy Jack spoke of the “slope of the swindle gradient.”) Fish further noted that the quality of education on most campuses was abysmal. This included Harvard, which had gone multiculti, touchy-feely, and addicted to Victimms’ Studies. Fish was, in a word, pissed.
Fish in particular knew the scam. Students, having been told that a college education was essential to their futures, went into lifelong debt-slavery to pay outrageous expenses at allegedly reputable universities, where they found classes of 250 being taught over a PA system in an auditorium by third-rate graduate assistants and adjunct professors. They also had to listen to endless droning about rape cultures and the oppression of left-handed lesbian Guatemalans. It was a rip.
This accentuated the swindle gradient. The universities, the conspirators agreed, were ripe to fall from the tree.
Fish had reservations, though. He thought “Intergalactic Poontang and Klingon University” didn’t sound solemn enough. Neither did listing Darth Vader as founder, which Willy Jack wanted to do.
Willy Jack, who after all was male and eighteen, replied, “Yeah, but don’t we need name recognition? Who can remember things like Northern Iowa State? But… Poontang U.?”
Fish had to concede the point. Poon U. it was.
The conspirators set to work. Willy Jack, a techy wizard, would provide the software, and Salamon, the content.
Fish called other retired profs, most of whom were sick of what had been done to their beloved universities. Weary of having to give high grades to diversity that could barely read in courses the renegades regarded as idiotic, they were ready to revolt. They flocked, electronically, to Poon U.
Fish bought a camcorder and wireless microphone and they began recording the lectures they had given at MIT, Yale, Harvard, and so on. Meanwhile Willy Jack had written a program that turned a large-screen tv into a virtual classroom. It was easy coding. The prof could see all the students, and they could see him. He could click on a student who had a question, and the questioner would appear on everyone’s screen. It was just like a real class.
Fish then called the president of a struggling liberal-arts school in Pasadena, Coastal Community College.
He said, “Here’s the deal. You offer our courses on line for credit. The kids watch the lectures and then the discussion part our profs do from home on WillyJacknet. We call it Ivy on the Cheap. It’ll attract students. When we have enough courses, you can offer a degree at a quarter of the cost. The universities will scream like gutted banshees, but what can they do? You’re accredited. You can’t lose.”
“But what about our professors now, if the kids study with you?”
“Pension them off. I hear Starbucks is hiring. You can’t make omelets without breaking eggs,” said Fish practically. “Once we get this thing rolling, you won’t need a physical university, just the server. Sell the campus and pocket the take. Pay off the profs. What’s not to like?”
The idea took off. The universities duly screamed, which did no good. Then Willy Jack, by now something of a student of higher education, said, “This is fun. Let’s eliminate law schools too.”
“Won’t work,“ said Fish. “You can’t take the bar exam if you didn’t finish law school.”
“Gotta be a way,” said Willy Jack, who knew not of law schools.
There was a way, though it took Fish a couple of weeks to come up with it. They would have their own bar exam, twice as difficult as the real one. Employers would learn of this and take Poon grads seriously. They would hire them as law clerks, pay them as lawyers, and have a bar-licensed hack who would sign off on the work as his own.
“Geez,” said Willy Jack, who having the 193 IQ favored the smart, whom he saw as an oppressed class, as they were forced to go to stupid schools. “Why make them go to classes at all? Smart dudes can, you know, like just do the lectures and read the books. Professors aren’t really good for anything, except to make you do your homework.”
Willy Jack was becoming insightful.
The final shovel of dirt on the coffin were the Intergalactic Record Exams. The absolute hell-borne wake-up-screaming nightmare of the universities was that employers might start hiring by what students knew instead of where they had spent four years drinking beer. Willy Jack began coding like an obsessive-compulsive with Asperger’s, which in fact he was, this being the key to software development. He later estimated that he had consumed 580 packs of Cheetos and thirteen cases of Jolt Cola during the effort, which lasted three weeks. The Renegade Professors fed him questions. The result was a multi-disciplinary, intensive, unholy bear of a test. If an eleven-year-old passed it, as several proceeded to do, they clearly had a university education.
After Microsoft agreed to accept scores instead of degrees, the dam broke. The rest is history. Fourteen years later, thousands of professors were on food stamps, along with diversity counselors, featherbedding administrators, and football staffs. Traditional universities had been replaced by a roomful of servers in a former garden-implements factory in Bluefield, now the home of WillyJacknet. Harvard itself, with its huge endowment, had sold the buildings and reconstituted itself as the Greater Boston Hedge Fund.
Willy Jack and Fish Salomon smiled like Cheshire cats.
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Rob Roy
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Lew Rockwells blog called this morning and said here's an interesting excerpt from an article....
Per Staddon, “The American system of traffic control, with its many signs and stops, and with its specific rules tailored to every bend in the road, has had the unintended consequence of causing more accidents than it prevents. Paradoxically, almost every new sign put up in the U.S. probably makes drivers a little safer on the stretch of road it guards. But collectively, the forests of signs along American roadways, and the multitude of rules to look out for, are quite deadly.”
This is more than just an anecdotal observation. A few years ago, all regulatory traffic signs were removed from the city center of Drachten, a Dutch city with a population of about 50,000. Demarcations between roads and sidewalks were also stripped. Despite the free-for-all design, the steady stream of vehicular traffic flowed smoothly, and pedestrians walked the streets safely. “Right of way” became an instinctual process between motorists. Their collective sense of responsibility and consideration created a safe environment.
Der Speigel noted in 2006 that the number of accidents in Drachten “declined dramatically” after the open traffic design was implemented. Other European cities similarly minimized their traffic control systems with positive results.
The goal of U.S. traffic management should be to rely more on the inherent responsibleness of drivers, and less on micromanaging every movement and behavior by its motorists.
- See more at: http://alerts.motorists.org/nma-email-newsletter-issue-32/#sthash.KBZSVwdt.dpuf
Rob Roy
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Rob Roy
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Thank you for almost answering. You, once again, prove you don't know anything about a free market crayon face.
In any other type of purchasing choice, say for groceries, the parents are free to remain where they are and avail themselves of a variety of choices aren't they? They are also free to grow their own food (unless their local government says no) or trade their weed for food or a pack of slavering gerbils for food or their shiny ax or their box of used cat litter etc.
In a free market the choice of who you will buy from is yours as long as the seller and buyer can make a consensual agreement. Also the choice of WHETHER to buy must be present to the buyer or the free market is absent.
Also, there is no monopoly on who will be a service provider, held in place by some kind of force. Now go spank yourself.
Rob Roy
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Please describe the various aspects of a free market and what differentiates it from a regulated market.
Rob Roy
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When people own something, they have the right to determine the use of that something. That is the distinguishing characteristic of ownership. When people don't own something they don't have the right to determine the use of that something, their race is irrelevant. All people possess these rights.
A person remaining on their own property or using their own body, but not the property or body of another is in a neutral state of being.
A person trying to force an interaction is not in a neutral state of being, they are an aggressor.
I detest racism, but respect the right of any person to control their own property and their own body, you do not.
You are essentially a prohibitionist. You can't "give" or grant somebody else a right to anothers property or body that you don't own. If you can please describe how that works Mr. Prohibitionist hand in your pants while you type in crayon guy.
Also, despite your constant replies, I'm gonna have to say you never answer my questions, that means I'm winning.
londonfog
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sorry I never read long winded cut and paste hack jobs. Don't take it personal. I do the same with Dr. Kynes
Rob Roy
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Speaking of Dr. Kynes, have you got him locked in the mop closet or something? Haven't seen him for awhile.
To make a long story short the future of "education" will heavily involve the internet, brick and mortar will fade away.
londonfog
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I'm not going to argue the future. I do support our public schools and I feel anyone who is a product of one should do the same.
I actually put Dr. Kynes on mute. Him and Sheskunk.
Rob Roy
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I support your freedom to make choices for you. You do not support the freedom of others to make their choices for themselves though.
As far as the future goes, the brick and mortar model will go away, it is only held in place now by force. Unchained, the free market will provide a better and cheaper alternative. Why don't you want poor kids to have a less expensive alternative?
londonfog
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did you know some poor children do not have a lap top or pc. Kinda hard to get online without. Sorry you feel that you are not free, but please pay your property taxes on time. The babies need you to do your share to insure they get that education.
nitro harley
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I read it. Did you compare that to what the dems did in 2014? It looked to me like they out did there selves compared to what Harry Reid did for the whole year in 2014. And they are just getting started. Look at the graph and you will find that itty bitty blue line next to the red one that is just slightly longer all in the first three weeks. You wanted to know I guess, so check it out.
londonfog
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guy if you read it you would never had put it up. They have passed only ONE bill and the amendment votes are only for the same pipe line BS. The idiots did try to once again for the 56th time try to repel the ACA...FAIL. 50 plus days of do nothing.
Maybe you should have one of those smart fish post for ya.
Pinworm
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nitro harley
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London.
You asked what the pubs have done so far this year and it surpassed what the dens did in 2014. So if you don't want to know don't ask I guess.
londonfog
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you are clueless. It would be best that you not post or at least just talk about fishing. The Repukes ran on how much they would get done if they had both the House and the Senate. They should have been pushing shit thru left and right..NOT.
nitro harley
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London.
Three weeks work and they have surpassed what the dems did in all of 2014. I guess that is not the answer you were looking for. Its not my fault that they seem to be productive. Give them some time and you will see all the goodies that are coming.