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Onwards and upwards... (Score:5, Interesting)
by Space cowboy (13680) *  <simon AT hostip DOT info>
on Sunday April 25, @01:31PM (#8965790)
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Yet
Darrell Luzzo, senior vice president of Junior Achievement, defends the
industry's antipiracy program by saying it's not meant to cover all
aspects of copyright law. Rather, the idea is to encourage student
debate. ''We are learning ways to enhance classroom discussions."
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don't know, back in the dim and distant past when I were a lad, it was
considered harmful to use brainwashing and coercion in education. I
guess that's the price you pay for progress though. I hear they're
moving onto aversion therapy next - "just put this down your pants lad,
no it doesn't matter where, trust us, we know what we're doing..."
ZZZAAAPPP
Doesn't this also count as political education - I mean the
MPAA/RIAA are making a big deal about buying senators and so on to
fight their "cause". You'd have thought they couldn't have their cake
and eat it!
Oh
well, it's a damn sight better than the UK at the moment anyway, with
the mad blind fascist Josef Blunkett attempting to ID all and sundry :-( Think yourselves lucky as they ZZZAAAPPP you...
Simon
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Re:Onwards and upwards... (Score:4, Insightful)
by nelazul (669259)
on Sunday April 25, @01:39PM (#8965844)
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I
don't know, back in the dim and distant past when I were a lad, it was
considered harmful to use brainwashing and coercion in education.
I Pledge Allegiance to the flag of the United States of America
and to the Republic for which it stands, one Nation under God,
indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.
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Re:Onwards and upwards... (Score:5, Insightful)
by Anonymous Coward
on Sunday April 25, @01:58PM (#8965974)
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I
Pledge Allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to
the Republic for which it stands, one Nation under God, indivisible,
with liberty and justice for all.
What's weird is that I actually use to believe those words, but now
that I'm an adult it's like Santa and the Easter Bunny. What happened?
Where did I lose faith and why? Are those corporate liars proud of the
fact that they made me doubt those words? ...with liberty and justice for all.
Say it again... slowly... with feeling.
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Re:Onwards and upwards... (Score:5, Informative)
by bnenning (58349)
on Sunday April 25, @02:45PM (#8966353)
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No, the pledge is unconstitutional now.
No,
you can pledge all you like. But government agents (i.e. teachers)
can't lead children in a statement that asserts the existence of God.
There are gray areas of the establishment clause, but this one isn't
even close.
"That's the kind of woolly-headed liberal thinking that leads to being eaten." - Principal Snyder
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Re:Onwards and upwards... (Score:4, Insightful)
by asdfghjklqwertyuiop (649296)
on Sunday April 25, @06:12PM (#8967838)
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To Christians, it's illogical to say that the pledge is unconstitutional for saying a fact (that God exists).
That God exists isn't a fact to anyone - not even Christians. It is a belief
to them. That's the whole point of any religion. If it were a fact and
not a belief then it would be a science and not a religion, and you
woulndn't need faith to believe it.
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Re:Onwards and upwards... (Score:5, Insightful)
by Zork the Almighty (599344)
on Sunday April 25, @03:44PM (#8966756)
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We have the Democrats to thank for that one.
No, you have the Republicans to thank, since they are the ones who allowed the "under God" reference to be added in 1954. Congress passed it [vineyard.net], but
Eisenhower [whitehouse.gov] should have vetoed it. Since try, thank you for trolling.
The ultimate business model is to strip peoples' rights away and sell them back at the highest possible price.
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Re:Onwards and upwards... (Score:5, Informative)
by STrinity (723872)
on Sunday April 25, @04:01PM (#8966860)
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No, the pledge is unconstitutional now.
No
it's not. The 9th Circuit ruled the "under God" bit unconstitutional,
but even that's been stayed until the Supreme Court makes its decision.
The only thing unconstitutional is forcing people to say it.
Score:-1, Conservative
Please don't tarnish conservatives by associating with us.
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Re:Onwards and upwards... (Score:5, Insightful)
by bnenning (58349)
on Sunday April 25, @02:48PM (#8966366)
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It isn't political because the program is simply teaching people what the law is.
No.
From the article: "Students learn to repeat the program's motto: 'If
you don't pay for it, you've stolen it.'" That's just wrong for too
many reasons to count.
"That's the kind of woolly-headed liberal thinking that leads to being eaten." - Principal Snyder
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In the words of Pink Floyd (Score:5, Interesting)
by Kulaid982 (704089)
on Sunday April 25, @01:32PM (#8965793)
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"We don't need no education, we don't need no thought control"
They keep giving me mod points, and I keep blowing them on AC's and trolls... Sweet.
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The smell of misinformation in the morning (Score:5, Insightful)
by toasted_calamari (670180)
on Sunday April 25, @01:37PM (#8965828)
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"Students learn to repeat the program's motto: ''If you don't pay for it, you've stolen it."
That is so incredibly wrong I don't even know where to start.
Have I stolen the contents of the Harddrive on my linux box?
Have I stolen the concerts I downloaded from etree?
Have I stolen the toys I picked up at the last trade show I went to?
And the worst part is that young kids are really prone to being manipulated and indocternated.
cat /dev/random > karma
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Re:The smell of misinformation in the morning (Score:5, Informative)
by dasunt (249686)
on Sunday April 25, @02:00PM (#8965991)
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"Students learn to repeat the program's motto: ''If you don't pay for it, you've stolen it."
That is so incredibly wrong I don't even know where to start.
Don't forget: "...students are asked to write an essay 'to get the word
out that downloading copyrighted entertainment is illegal and
unethical,'"
Its so easy to find
an example [machinaesupremacy.com] of copyrighted music free for download that isn't illegal.
If they had this program when I went to school, I'd probably have been suspended for subversion.
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Re:The smell of misinformation in the morning (Score:5, Insightful)
by jelle (14827)
on Sunday April 25, @02:11PM (#8966073)
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- Is everybody stealing FM radio and over-the-air TV broadcasts?
- What if somebody gives you something?
- Are we stealing slashdot bandwidth and diskspace by posting here?
- Did anybody steal the sunshine on their faces, or the air they breathe?
- And, are the kids paying for this MPAA-sponsored class?
--- If hindsight is 20/20, then why aren't we walking backwards?
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Re:The smell of misinformation in the morning (Score:4, Insightful)
by spellraiser (764337)
on Sunday April 25, @02:23PM (#8966152)
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This is the kind of stuff that makes me want to just rant and rant. I will, however, try to restrain myself.
The most important question here, in my view, is this: Why the hell
are corporations and 'business groups' teaching classes to kids anyway?
Well, obviously because they see an advantage in it. So let me rephrase
that: Why the hell are they allowed to do this? This is basically nothing more than advertising delivered directly at the kids, and hey, get this: They can't ignore it, because it's happening in their school, which they are legally required to attend!
There is something fundamentally wrong when publically funded,
mandatory education is subsidized by private corporations in order to
spread their own agendas. And 'best' of all, it's usually the poorest
schools that end up simply needing to do something like this, just to
afford basic necessities.
Allright, so this has probably been a rant. But it needed to be said. Just one more thing: Just how is this class learning?
How can anything so biased, so value-laden, be classified as learning?
I for one, am obviously a little to unimaginative to see that ...
JE: The Thin Line Between Funny And Offtopic [slashdot.org]
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Using children? (Score:4, Insightful)
by dhasenan (758719)
on Sunday April 25, @01:38PM (#8965831)
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Is it just me who is sickened by the use of middle school students? You
can't claim it's part of a broad legal education such as most citizens
should have; they're not teaching them about anything but media piracy.
And why would any school allow a special interest like that to
"educate" middle school children?
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Just like DARE! (Score:5, Insightful)
by mrpuffypants (444598) *
on Sunday April 25, @01:38PM (#8965833)
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When I went through school DARE was just getting started. Everybody was
jumping behind it as a way to target kids right in the classroom
early-on and say "Don't do drugs." However, DARE has been an awesome
failure. Some of the buggest potheads that I know sat right next to me
in those classes, parroting the lines that "Officer Jim" told us.
I
believe that this program will have similar results; Little Suzie says
"I'll never download, that's bad" at school then goes home and gets the
whole new Britney Spears album because, ya know, it's free!
Also, this part is particularly interesting:
The
''fair use" doctrine allows the public to use copyrighted material for
educational purposes. One can use another's work to parody, review, or
critique that material. You can even legally swap material, as long as
it's not for commercial gain, said Seltzer. ''People tape movies on
their VCRs and swap it with friends without getting arrested for
piracy," she said.
so, by that logic, all P2P is legal. I'm
not getting any commercial by sharing files out, nor are the people
that I download from. What's the diff in having 3 friends that swap movies off HBO or 3 Billion friends swapping some AC/DC albums?
If you make a reference to Guybrush Threepwood in your comment I always mod it up. Go Monkey Island!
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Re:Just like DARE! (Score:5, Funny)
by Anonymous Coward
on Sunday April 25, @02:00PM (#8965987)
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at my school.. the cop from DARE passed around 3 joints to show
everyone... and he said "if i dont get all three of these back this
schools getting locked down and everyones getting searched till i find
it.." and like 30 minutes later when everyone got to see 'em and they
got passed back the cop had 4
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Re:Just like DARE! (Score:4, Insightful)
by DarkSarin (651985)
on Sunday April 25, @02:45PM (#8966354)
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If only I had mod points...
I
sat through DARE. As someone who has NEVER used illegal drugs, (though
plenty of my friends did), I thought it was a waste of time. My friends
did too, though for a different reason.
The truth is simple: if
you aren't into drugs, chances are you think "who cares, I don't do em
anyways" and if you are you think, "that moron doesn't know jack!"
Personally, I think it's fallacious to think that these programs have that much influence when presented to large groups.
If
you want to change someones attitude about something, small (2-4)
groups work best. It is also best to have a peer do the talking, not
some cop.
The same applies to the MPAA. If they want to change
kids attitudes, they have to get kids who care, and are considered cool
by the target group.
This is hard, because those mostly likely
to get movies are not likely to think anyone who is against it is cool
without some serious groundwork.
"We don't know what we are doing, but we are doing it very carefully,..." Wherry, R.J. Personnel Psychology (1995)
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DARE is a crock... (Score:4, Insightful)
by Cid Highwind (9258)
on Sunday April 25, @02:31PM (#8966239)
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"The success is measured in how many kids did learn from it."
A
*LOT* of kids learned from DARE. They just didn't learn the lesson
their teachers and the police expected. The course may be diffrent now,
but back when I was an elementary and middle-school student (10-15
years ago), the emphasis was on shocking the kids into obedience, not
giving them real information. The first lesson we learned was that
drugs will mess you up, destroy your life, and eventually kill you.
Then we had friends who smoked a little weed and didn't get addicted,
messed up, or killed. Then we learned the real lesson of DARE: Our
teachers, our school principals, the police, Nancy Reagan, and that
girl on TV with the frying pan lied to us all through our childhood.
0 1 - just my two bits
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*ahem* Yeah, whatever. (Score:5, Insightful)
by Faust7 (314817)
on Sunday April 25, @01:39PM (#8965847)
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Kids are some of the sneakiest people alive. (This is not open for debate. We were all kids once.)
Even
little ones are all over music/movie piracy. They already know the
thrill of getting something for free rather than asking your parents to
buy it.
That thrill and the associated material benefit far
outweighs anything the RIAA/MPAA or teachers can do to endorse a strict
policy of legal distribution.
Music to everyone's ears. [drgw.net]
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Re:*ahem* Yeah, whatever. (Score:4, Interesting)
by dasunt (249686)
on Sunday April 25, @02:05PM (#8966038)
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Kids are some of the sneakiest people alive. (This is not open for debate. We were all kids once.)
This is open for debate. Just because you were a sneaky kid doesn't mean that I was.
When I was a teen, there were always those adults who were hell-raisers
when they were my age. They'd look at me with a 'knowing' eye and tell
me that I couldn't fool them, they were a kid once.
I didn't like it then, and now, that I'm an adult, I still don't like it.
I didn't drink, smoke, or do drugs as a teen. I didn't lie to my parents or steal. I had good grades, and obeyed the law.
Stereotypes are bad, no matter who they are applied to.
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Re:*ahem* Yeah, whatever. (Score:4, Insightful)
by An Onerous Coward (222037)
on Sunday April 25, @05:41PM (#8967586)
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As someone who lived basically the same life, I have one word for you: BOOOOOOOOO-RIIIIIIIIIIIING!
I
spent my whole childhood thinking that rules were there for a reason.
Rules were there to protect us, to keep us safe from terrible dangers,
and to keep us working towards becoming the best people we could
possibly be. To me, rule-breakers were slime. They were worse than
slime. They were violating the Great Social Contract that kept everyone
from setting fire to old ladies and blowing up kittens.
After
high school, I joined the Army. Learning a whole new and intricate set
of rules was an interesting experience. I followed the rules dutifully,
but ninety percent of the rules governing soldiers in Basic Training
are there solely for the purpose of teaching the soldiers to obey
without questioning. The need for that obedience is understandable in
some situations. The military is just one of those places where
sometimes lives depend on swift, coordinated action.
But in the
end, I realized that sometimes the rules were wrong, arbitrary,
self-serving, or simply lacking in coherence. Sometimes the process by
which the rules are made exhibits the same flaws. Enforcement was
either non-existent or arbitrary, and breaking them was more than
merely harmless; sometimes it was the only way to get things done.
About the same time, I was becoming aware of the effects of being raised in an extremely rule-oriented religion.
Unquestioning
obedience is fine for four year olds. But as soon as possible, kids
need to be given explanations for the rules, to the best of their
ability to understand. If they don't learn the difference between good
rules* and bad rules**, then we're all doomed. The whole democracy
thing doesn't work if everyone just does what they're told.
I
worry almost as much for the kids who follow the rules compulsively,
and are afraid to do anything without explicit permission, as I do for
the ones who go around vandalizing and stealing out of boredom. I like
the kids who creatively push the limits, game the system, and question
those who wield power over them. Especially if they show some level of
judgment about the actions that will do real damage, as opposed to the
ones that merely make things more interesting.
* Don't set fire to old ladies. Never give your passwords out.
** You must request permission to go to the bathroom, and be back in precisely three minutes.
Willow: Have you googled her yet?
Xander: Willow, she's only seventeen.
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Hmmm.... (Score:5, Funny)
by c0dedude (587568)
on Sunday April 25, @01:41PM (#8965861)
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Coming Soon: The Junior Anti-Piracy League?
Orwell is teh r0x0rz.
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Collision of worldviews (Score:5, Insightful)
by JoshuaDFranklin (147726) * <joshuadfranklin@NOSPAM.yahoo@com>
on Sunday April 25, @01:42PM (#8965863)
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What we have here is a collision of the educational realm, where
"content" needs to be "distributed" to students with maximum learning,
and the entertainment realm, where content needs to be distributed to
consumers with maximum profit.
What they need is a presentation on how to create content that can
be legally shared (history of GNU, Creative Commons, and so on).
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What's missing... (section 107) (Score:5, Insightful)
by pdcryan (748847)
on Sunday April 25, @01:47PM (#8965891)
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Yet
Darrell Luzzo, senior vice president of Junior Achievement, defends the
industry's antipiracy program by saying it's not meant to cover all
aspects of copyright law.
Of course it doesn't cover all aspects of copyright law. They seem to have forgotten about section 107 (fair use).
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It'll be as effective as the war on drugs (Score:4, Insightful)
by zymurgy_cat (627260)
on Sunday April 25, @01:50PM (#8965920)
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I propose that this will be as effective as the war on drugs. Sure,
some kids will write their essays, get some free stuff, and the
salespeople, uh, I mean, volunteer educators, will feel as if they did
a good job.
But consider the following:
1. Low income children do not have the access to computers and network
connections that more well-to-do children have. I doubt, therefore,
that they're reaching their target audience.
2. What's more effective at influencing behavior, some JA instructor or
your cool friends giving you a copy of the latest hit song/album that
they ripped off the net?
3. One sided propaganda campaigns may make people feel good, but they
gloss over serious issues (ie, copyright, fair use, etc) and end up
breeding a ridiculous environment in which people claim to want such
rules and laws yet break them anyway.
All of this sounds a lot like the war on drugs. We have our "just say
no" campaigns in schools, celebrities tell us to stay off the drugs,
and we make all these claims about how bad drugs are for you while
ignoring or outright suppressing the truth about their effects as we
trample civil liberties. And just how effective is that?
Looks like I picked the wrong week to stop posting to /.
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Effective teaching (Score:5, Interesting)
by Anonymous Coward
on Sunday April 25, @02:00PM (#8965993)
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I think that one of the problems with this sort of thing (referencing
mainly from drugs are bad things) is that just just block it out. Its
like advertising- im not saying adverts never effect me, but the
average person sees what, several hundred adverts a day? 99% of them
they just ignore.
I
remember one time in high school (several years ago) we had a policeman
come in to talk to us about drugs. He actually talked to us sensibly,
rather than enforcing a "drugs are evil and if you use them youll go to
hell" idea.
I cant rememeber most of it, but I do remember 2 things he said: (which is pretty impressive)
a) if you want to do drugs, fine. Do NOT do heroin and cocaine. They will fuck you up.
b)
Dont inhale sprays. Some girl sprayed aerosol directly into the back of
her throat, and the cold caused her throat to contract and she
suffocated.
So there you go. Teaching kids the IMPORTANT things, rather than blanket bombing everything you dont like.
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Daria-ism (Score:5, Insightful)
by Alsee (515537)
on Sunday April 25, @02:10PM (#8966068)
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School Principal: Well, it's been four weeks and I'd say we've done a
stellar job of making Ultra Cola available to our students.
Marketdriod: Well, you might say so, and I'm sure I'd agree with you but unfortunately that won't hold up in court.
School Principal: Huh?
Marketdriod: The idea wasn't making the product available to the students. It was making the students available to the product.
The Ultra Cola people say your sales aren't what they should be. You do
want to make your quotas, don't you? Or the school won't get that nice
big check.
The schools aren't making a lesson available to the kids.
The schools are making the kids available to the lesson.
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What "great examples" to get into school... (Score:5, Interesting)
by toriver (11308)
on Sunday April 25, @02:18PM (#8966113)
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MPAA, is that the organization which represents the movie studios that
are constantly copying the plots etc. of each other? The "let's make a
James Bond movie with Vin Diesel and call it XxX" guys?
Bah.
What
next, will they have NAMBLA come and tell the kids their interpretation
of age-of-consent laws? How about letting the KKK educate the kids
about how laws regarding blacks should be?
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Role-playing (Score:4, Funny)
by sabNetwork (416076)
on Sunday April 25, @02:18PM (#8966118)
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The
students played roles such as ''The Film Producer," ''The Starving
Artist," and were asked questions such as ''Has anyone ever copied your
homework? How did this make you feel?"
Do they have one kid dress up in a suit, steal everyone's money, and drive away in a Porsche? Because we need a Jack Valenti.
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As the man said... (Score:5, Insightful)
by Rumagent (86695)
on Sunday April 25, @02:20PM (#8966132)
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I belive it was Noam Chomsky that said: "Education is a system of imposed ignorance"
I used to disagree...
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Nothing new (Score:5, Insightful)
by poptones (653660)
on Sunday April 25, @02:30PM (#8966225)
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As a schoolchild of the sixties I can assure you "brainwashing" is nothing new at all.
Anyway, I don't see anything new here at all. Yeah, there's way too
much corporate influence in the classroom - so let's talk about all
those schools that have replaced milk machines and cafeteria lines with
soda and sandwich vending machines and made the Nike swoosh part of
their campus decor.
When I was in the sixth grade I was grounded from recesses for weeks
because I started a petition for longer recesses. an innocent bit of
play snowballed within a day and soon there were dozens of handwritten
copies of my petition circulating in classrooms. When they found out it
was me who started it, rather than take the opportunity to demonstrate
real world governenace, I instead got a lecture and made to write
something stupid like "I will not create disturbances in class." Which,
ironically, means I really did get a lesson in the real world -
unfortunately, not the real world as we had been told in the classroom
(petitioning the government, speaking out, etc). Obviously this real lesson had a lasting effect on me, as I still can't remember what it was I was supposed to write but the message sent still rings clear 30 years later: don't try to buck the man or you'll get stepped upon.
This program is certain to spawn a new generation of adults with
similar memories. Indoctrination of this sort is doomed to fail as soon
as the child begins to realize she can think for herself.
Now, getting back to those school lunches and corporate sports programs...
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Parody (Score:4, Funny)
by bezuwork's friend (589226)
on Sunday April 25, @03:32PM (#8966650)
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No time to read through all the comments - it's finals time.
coke parody [bbspot.com] - this is a parody of the MPAA actions in schools. Rather funny, once you read it all.
H.R. 3920 - A bill to eradicate the US Constitution
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this reminds me of "Don't copy that floppy" rap (Score:4, Informative)
by enrico_suave (179651)
on Sunday April 25, @03:41PM (#8966723)
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I have this horrifically produced avi on CD where the SPA (? the
software equivalent to RIAA/MPAA) made a moral parable hip hop rap
"don't copy that floppy" so kids in school wouldn't copy oregon trail
(or the like) and play it at home...
very amusing ..
almost as amusing as those clips mpaa sponsored theatrical trailers
where the set designers try to say how piracy hurts them the little
guy...
*Shrug* I should divx that and put it up somewhere...
(they actualy give you permission to redistribute THAT PSA turd
ironically enough...)
e.
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Re:Outrageous (Score:4, Interesting)
by GoofyBoy (44399)
on Sunday April 25, @01:49PM (#8965905)
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Actually this would only effect really dumb sheep-like teens.
The smarter ones;
1. Will see the $ advantages of downloading stuff.
2.
Will question what teachers feed them ("Is it stealing?" or "Is this
worse than speeding like everyone does?" or "Don't we have something
better to do?")
3. Will just do it for the cash and prizes but not really believe in it.
4. Will just see through corporate crap and start to make fun of it.
5.
Will look at the arguments against stealing from the pockets of artists
and ask themselves "Does this person look like he/she is hurting?"
The surprise isn't how often we make bad choices; the surprise is how seldom they defeat us.
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Re:Outrageous (Score:5, Informative)
by dbarclay10 (70443)
on Sunday April 25, @01:49PM (#8965906)
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What
the hell? They're going to just start exploiting schools in order to
dump their brainwashing propaganda on young people? Does anyone else
think this is completely ridiculous?
Sure, they would be talking about something which is
illegal, but that doesn't make this right. The children and parents
should have time to discuss things like this and make their own
decisions, without being misguided by the people who want to make money.
Actually, they're brainwashing kids into thinking that things which aren't illegal actually are (fair use). Read the article.
Barclay family motto:
Aut agere aut mori.
(Either action or death.)
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Re:Outrageous (Score:4, Insightful)
by TheLoneDanger (611268)
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Actually, they're brainwashing kids into thinking that things which aren't illegal actually are (fair use).
Yup, and this is why it is so frightening. If all you know about rights
is what some corporation tells you, if you don't know what your rights
actually are, then do they even exist? Not for you they don't.
Your
kids are being fed to corporate interests, who are trying to prevent
them from really understanding what rights they have. This here is an
actual threat to liberty. When does the bombing campaign start?
"But I trust in the people's capacity for reflection, rage and rebellion." -Oscar Olivera
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Re:Outrageous (Score:5, Interesting)
by danila (69889)
on Sunday April 25, @02:23PM (#8966151)
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This is no longer outrageous. You can try it too if you have the money.
The society no longer thinks this is ridiculous, they think it's
alright, because the corporation is doing it (technically MPAA is not a
corporation, but you get my point). Want to promote genetic engineering
and stem cell therapy - fund some biology lessons. Want to oppose
genetic engineering and stem cell therapy - fund some biology lessons.
All you need is money. And political power (just in case), which can be
bought rather cheaply.
What
the USA needs is a bunch of revolutionaries (soon to be branded
terrorists), who would compensate their lack of money with personal
energy and motivation. Kind of another King. EFF is not adequate to the
threat, they are too soft. Someone should start a militant wing of EFF,
with bombs, assassinations, self-immolations and stuff. This isn't some
radical idea - everyone is doing it (IRA, Al Quaeda, etc.) - a front
(party, organisation) for legitimate action and a group of fighters.
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Re:Honestly... (Score:5, Insightful)
by jimicus (737525)
on Sunday April 25, @03:10PM (#8966493)
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Technically you're quite correct. But what annoys me (and, I suspect, many Slashdotters) is the following:
1. Mass-produced CDs have a unit cost of a couple of pence/cents.
2. Many musicians never get signed to a major label, and thus never get any of their music in stores or on the radio.
3. The musicians who are signed to a major label are sidelined by whatever the label thinks will sell - eg. Britney Spears.
4.
The label charges the artist for the privilege of advertising &
distribution. So much so that in order to make $1,000,000 the artist
may have to pay various suits $900,000.
5. The Internet eliminates
parts 2-4 - if you want to ensure everything's fair, a bunch of artists
could easily set up some sort of a "co-operative" to market their songs
over the web, charging a nominal fee for the song and giving most of it
for the artist, only keeping a relatively small amount back for
bandwidth and system maintenance. The only reason this hasn't happened
more is the dot-com boom has taught us that such things are very
difficult to market successfully.
6. The RIAA is well aware of point 5. If it actually takes off, their entire business model evaporates.
7.
The RIAA is therefore doing everything in their power to prevent this
from happening. Brainwashing people that "MP3s are Evil!" is vital to
this.
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