From owner-freebsd-chat Mon Aug 11 02:56:26 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id CAA24811 for chat-outgoing; Mon, 11 Aug 1997 02:56:26 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ethanol.gnu.ai.mit.edu (devnull@ethanol.gnu.ai.mit.edu [128.52.46.64]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id CAA24805; Mon, 11 Aug 1997 02:56:21 -0700 (PDT) Received: by ethanol.gnu.ai.mit.edu (8.8.5/8.6.12GNU) id FAA12145; Mon, 11 Aug 1997 05:55:56 -0400 Date: Mon, 11 Aug 1997 05:55:56 -0400 Message-Id: <199708110955.FAA12145@ethanol.gnu.ai.mit.edu> From: "Joel N. Weber II" To: chuckr@glue.umd.edu CC: andrsn@andrsn.stanford.edu, jmb@FreeBSD.ORG, hoek@hwcn.org, softweyr@xmission.com, chat@FreeBSD.ORG In-reply-to: (message from Chuck Robey on Sun, 10 Aug 1997 15:55:08 -0400 (EDT)) Subject: Re: FTC regulating use of registrations x-url: http://www.red-bean.com/~nemo x-attribution: nemo x-foobar: Among economists, the real world is often a special case. --Horngren Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Annelise, tho only thing that scares me about the school voucher thing is the terrible fact of prejudice. You're in academia somewhat, aren't you? I don't know if you have the visibility to the politics that editors and publishers of school texts have to wade thru. It makes it hard to produce books that actually teach something, because local school boards are very often more interested in pursuing local prejudices. At the state level, this is absolutely endemic. I consider this really hamful. I like to think of myself as being egalitarian. While no one is free of prejudice, I try, and school vouchers (it seems to me) allow this kind of abuse without any limitation. OTOH, I think that it also would open the possiblity that if you're a concerned parent, you might have an easier time finding a book that you like. Personally, I find it ridiculous that most of what I've studied in history seems to be about which group went to war with which other group. Very little seems to involve individual people, unless those people are in some way famous. OTOH, I find some computer history quite fasinating. I'd love to be able to spend a few hours using and learning about ITS, for example.