tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3060534295892170518.post3324000063629077731..comments2024-02-06T18:46:04.220+10:00Comments on Real World Libertarian: Its not child abuse when the government does it.Jim Fryarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15780237902858889143noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3060534295892170518.post-37516056922251151252011-08-02T13:56:59.055+10:002011-08-02T13:56:59.055+10:00Bob, with the older ones explanations are not nece...Bob, with the older ones explanations are not necessary. They just know.Jim Fryarhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15780237902858889143noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3060534295892170518.post-75385663715409401342011-08-02T05:20:32.623+10:002011-08-02T05:20:32.623+10:00Jim, you only do this when the checker is an old l...Jim, you only do this when the checker is an old lady. Most of them can still do simple arithmetick.<br />All the chickie had to do was enter the $53.25 into the magic money machine and it would have told her to give you $30 change. That's how it's done today. But arguing with pubick skule grajits is often totally futile. No wonder people just take the change, dump it into a jar and then take the jar to a Changemaster machine (which charges them 8%) and get cash back.<br />Bob.Trent@bobmail.infoBob Trentnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3060534295892170518.post-22136326698875980422011-07-11T02:27:39.189+10:002011-07-11T02:27:39.189+10:00Bawb, I'm the first to admit we have a fair wa...Bawb, I'm the first to admit we have a fair way to go to catch up with the subtle nuances of the US system, but we are catching up with the results in our own way.<br /><br />A few days ago I went through the supermarket checkout ringing up $23.25. I handed the chick a $50 + $3.25 in change. She looked at me, all confused and handed back the change and proceeded to give me the change out of $50.<br /><br />I said, "Wouldn't it be easier to give me $30 in change out of $53.25."<br /><br />Her: But you didn't need to give me that, the $50 covers that."<br /><br />Me: " But this way, I get the change in notes, and you have more change instead of less."<br /><br />I got what I wanted but she thought I was a senile old prick who didn't understand how change was done in the modern era.Jim Fryarhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15780237902858889143noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3060534295892170518.post-27946056960419615422011-07-10T23:47:42.267+10:002011-07-10T23:47:42.267+10:00You guys are so behind the times Down Under. Accor...You guys are so behind the times Down Under. According to Obama's old bomb-throwing buddy "Professor" Bill Ayers, a big wig in the Chicago, IL school systems at one time, the purpose of a public school is NOT to TEACH or EDUCATION. Pah, silly old fashioned notions.<br /><br />No, according to Billy Boom-Boom Ayers, the purpose of public schools is to "reach out to external partners and community organizers" and to "...provoke resistance to American racism and oppression."<br /><br />Which explains why I've met high school "graduates" who could not tell time on a clock with hands, make change, or read a tape measure. But by God they knew all about Global Warming.Bawbhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10194337224433517477noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3060534295892170518.post-2148818894910364472011-07-10T17:20:10.414+10:002011-07-10T17:20:10.414+10:00I was in a one teacher country school during the S...I was in a one teacher country school during the Sputnik thing and it was treated as a technological advance but may have been treated differently elsewhere. Our teacher was pretty independent in his thinking.<br /><br />The main shock was as I found out later, its relevance to ICBM technology.<br /><br />There have been numerous changes over the years, each with its doomsdayers shouting loudly. Everything has a capacity to be misused, but that is a matter of morals and ethics, not science.<br /><br />My greatest concern though in this case is the psych effect on kids being subjected to doomsday scenarios over years through the school system.Jim Fryarhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15780237902858889143noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3060534295892170518.post-60807027223732299452011-07-10T16:23:43.064+10:002011-07-10T16:23:43.064+10:00Er, remember Russian set theory in Aussie primary ...Er, remember Russian set theory in Aussie primary school maths in the 60s after the Sputnik scare? Or how history & geography morphed into social studies when sociology arrived? Or how TV was going to "revolutionize education"? Or how kids can't do legible handwriting now schools use computers. The greenhouse scare could just be another trendy fad in our schools. As Federal Schools Minister Garrett's old rock band Midnight Oil used to sing: "Cold, cold change....waiting to begin, left us all angry and bewildered, laughing at the way we were taken in"Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com