Oh, dear God, you missed the class on the OSI model, TCP/IP, class v classless addressing, and Ethernet. If you get a chance, take the class on aliases...

I like how you ignored the complete incompetence of the schools. My kids are going to have their phones at school because the school doesn't know how to use phones, technology, or even assure its staff are educated. When you tell children that THC is the activate chemical in cannabis that gets you "high", you need help, and not an advanced deep dive into cannabinoids, the dumbest high school stoner, knows that's wrong. When kids are hitting their heads hard enough to get concussions, and you can't call the parents to alert them, you need help. FFS, for the last 5-years, at the start of every year, I get an email that has every parent and child email in the CC line. Think about that, teachers / schools / boards can't even send an email properly, email.... This is the level of incompetence we have dealt with, so don't be telling my kids they can't have a phone in the class.

Our schools can't call the parents, they lack the knowledge of how to do that. I know that sounds like I'm drunk, or joking, but I'm not. For 8-years, every year the girls bring home forms where we fill our contact information, and contact order (the order you call each contact). In all but one, literally one case, has the school / high school, ever, called the right number and the right person in the list.

We have called both schools, plenty of times. We have called the board plenty of times. I've had the principals read back the information, confirming it. After all of that, in one, literally one case, has either school got it right. Why does the order matter? Well, I work from home, I'm ~500m from the primary school, and 6 km from the high school, available all day. My wife works in a job she can't randomly up and leave, or answer the phone, it could be life or death, I'm not joking, and there are real sanitation / hygiene issues with her answering the phone. My in-laws can't drive, anymore, so they are only used as a last resort to play phone tag. This is not a tricky system, 4 people, 3 numbers, in the order, Dad, Mom, Grandparents. They can not get it right!

Moreover, the schools don't report things correctly. My younger daughter had back surgery in April, in June a kid threw a ball at her back. Do you think the school went into alert mode? No, they didn't even bother to email us, let alone call us, and no incident report was filled out. We only found out, once my younger daughter got home, and explained it to us. One off, meh, but it's been trips, falls, head bangs (concussion level), and nothing ever gets relaid properly. They will call my wife, except she can't answer the phone, and won't, and they know that, but they never call me.

Ignoring that shit show, should we bring up the fact you can look up information? My older daughter gets in trouble for using her phone, to look up information, why? There was recently a cannabis talk at the high school, it was offensive to the concept of truth. They didn't just make a few easy mistakes, they incorrectly defined everything, and I mean everything. I honestly think they got the material from the CBC, that's how delusional it was, and my daughter knew that, and used her phone to show the teachers, but got in trouble... why? As an example, they kept using the term THC, when they meant THCd9, they're not the same thing. I understand Health Canada makes that's error, but as an educator you have to better, they're wholly different chemicals. That's one example of many, but why not let the kids check and verify? Are you so scared you might be wrong, you have to silence information?

Outside of school, my girls still need a way to communicate with everyone, why would we limit that? You can't call us for help, because you might be on a social media? ... Okay, but social media exists regardless if you use it, so instead of hand waving and instilling pointless fear, lets understand reality still exists.

True or false: Trump isn't finished yet.
True or false: Trump alone is not enough.

My daughters have phones because people need to be able to contact them, and more importantly, they need to be able to contact us. What's the proposed solution? Buy "dumb phones"? Have you tried to buy a reasonably working, and reliable dumb phone? My Telecom provider has zero dumb phones, literally zero, I just took a look at the available phones. Since getting a "dumb phone" isn't an option, and leaving my children with no way to contact us, is also not an option, maybe the solution is to not shove your head into your own ass and complain the air stinks.

Kids are using their phones under 4am? Okay.... so disable the phone data, and turn off your wireless networks. If that's the problem, just turn off the internet, and once the phone no longer works, problem solved. Turning off the internet, and mobile data, still leaves calling available, so it doesn't mitigate the use of the phone.

The other stupid complaint, about mental health, just harden yourself. I'm sorry the world isn't a rainbow singing, cloud smiling, wonderful peaceful existence, but it wasn't that way in the 90s, or early 2000s when I was growing up. Kids get bullied... yep, so? Kids are mean, again... yep, so? Social media provides a new form of stress... okay, again, so? I'm sorry that you need to learn how to exist, but wipe your own ass and learn.

The real issue, and it's not being discussed, education needs to evolve, and not evolve in the way where we worship every mental illness that pops up in the form of pronoun overload, in the way that education is handled and delivered. The old model doesn't work, it didn't work in the 90s, so why would it work now? Educators have to evolve and be able to integrate with the youth, not force the youth to submit to outdated, broken methods.

Your halfway there. Rand Paul hangs his moral hat on the debt ceiling, which will go up. Unless, in reconciliation, budget items are struck off. And that's the process that's referred to by those who say 'we'll fix it in reconciliation'.

It's been so long since regular order produced a budget that we forget how it worked. Ultimately the budget is sent, by Congress, to the President for their approval, and is then law.

You're looking to blame? Blame Congress first. After decades of CRs and pretending to 'pass a budget', they fear the voters, and for good reason. They also fear leadership, and losing their positions of power and influence. So preparing the end of the Department of Education, an agency with no positive effect on education (check the results), existing only to redistribute federal money, is sheltered why?

I've watched this my entire adult life. And I'll wait just a few months more to see more and different results. You think I'm following Trump like a lost puppy? To do not understand the movement yet. Next year we move to the next step - changing Congress. Maybe. It's not over yet.

"Rational actor" has been disproven for a very long time.

My favorite easy experiment (you can run it with a grade school class) is this one:

Two participants. One participant is given one dollar. The other participant is given nothing.

Now, the participant with one dollar must offer some amount of that dollar to the other participant. The other participant can say 'yes,' take that amount, and they both walk away, or 'no,' and both participants get nothing.

The 'rational actor' would accept an offer of 'I'll give you a penny.' After all, walking away with one penny leaves you materially better than walking away with zero pennies.

The average participant, however, will only accept, at minimum, something like 37 cents. Anything less than that is seen as 'insulting' or 'greedy' and worthy of punishment.

Stop listening to the media. They is no unlimited funding, Paul objects to debt ceiling hikes, the opposite of unlimited. Expanding the border patrol etc at the expense of the FBI in particular I favor. Soon enough the illegal migration reversal will allow for reducing even that. Handouts? Gawd, you're so in the 90s. Maybe even eliminate the SALT provisions, let the states suffer the impacts of their financial decisions.

But cut the federal government. By half, a good start.

'Not eligible' isn't the same as 'Taken away from'. The first, proper. The second, a gross misstatement.

Oh hell, no half measures. Cut the federal government by half. Or more.

Yeah, I heard that a while ago...

Millions that should never had 'free' healthcare are going to be met, considered, and most likely sent back from where they illegally came. Some of them will actually be excused or forgiven of that offense, and given a proper path to real citizenship, and the opportunity to find employment that also provides real benefits.

And gamblers deserve only the assurance that the game is as described. Fraud is bad enough, and the ideas that poker is a game of chance, that sports betting is innocuous, and lotteries are harmless, deserve to be further explained. But protect gamblers from those awful taxes? Ha. How about protect our children from being groomed into a life of sexual slavery...?

What gets me is that if the data were actually used in a meaningful way, it could be revolutionary for people. If companies actually correlated things like sleep patterns along with habits, places visited, speech patterns, and socialization during the day, it really could change peoples lives and make for a deeper understanding to help people with their health, habits, social welfare, any number of things.
You could have an AI assistant that provides people for coaching needed to lose weight or to exercise or to stop smoking, etc.

The problem is these companies are too bureaucratic and too penny-pinching and beige to actually do any good or try something interesting and different.

I agree with you, giving a company all this information is terrible. Their stupid, expensive ventures are going to flop as long as they keep doing stupid things with the data, though.

Like a junkie they will keep hovering up electricity and data until they implode.

Wouldnâ(TM)t it be smarter to let them stay home and buy into all these outstanding artificial values that Amazon has for prime day?

First of all, it is not tearing either company apart.
Second, Microsoft is looking for business. Use. Case. Asking the hard questions and coming to the conclusion that Open AI is full of crap for most stuff.

Open AI otoh desperately needs to get under a corporate umbrella.

Microsoft will dictate the terms, OpenAI needs to save face, and MS knows the longer these âoenegotiations âoe go on, the cheaper Open AI will be. The emperor never had any clothes and MS got to have a peep show to see the truth.