Yesterday Gary_theGreat noted that today is the 50th anniversary of manned space flight. That was enough to keep me talking for 18 minutes today.
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This seems like a perfect Panera panel discussion for Balticon as I’ve had similar thoughts on a distributed network in the Appalachian mountains for some time. Looking forward to this and many other fine confabs when we all get to Hunt Valley in May.
Protecting our kids is completely out of control and it is the parents fault. My mother would take a belt to the school and hold me if that is what it took, while the principal paddled me if she was told I did something wrong. While that may have been a little overboard it was none the less true. I never stood in the way of the school correcting my kids and never found and occasion to be concerned about it. Somewhere between then and my kids having kids it all changed. Now my kids go screaming to the school saying how dare you raise your voice to my kid, regardless what they did and you must be wrong because my kid would never do that. One of them even tried to sue the school because there kid took a big knife to school. They said it was not there kid even though the knife belonged to the father. The school had to be wrong somehow not them. The only thing that saved the school was a smart judge. Hard not to know who owned the knife with there name engraved on it. It would have been funny if it was not so sad. As I see it today the school are in a no win situation. I am not saying there are not bad teachers that need removing, but I would be surprised if that was more than 1 or 2 percent nationwide.
The New Zealand government is investing on behalf the rural areas in fiber so that we will have in the end 93% wired rural areas in the next 8 years. We are doing this for about $1.5 billion, but we are a small country. The main push for this is that the government does not know what our people can do with it but they believe if they have the capability to the people they will come up with cool and interesting things. Its not a perfect solution but it goes some of the way to helping others access the power if being connected.
Darren