Private fire departments are actually common. An entire county near me contracted out fire and emergency services for decades.

if the ball was over the plate it should be a strike, or otherwise give the man his free pass.

Least surprising result ever.

And it’s a bad idea either way. Free trade lets products be made whereever it’s most efficient to make them. Tariffs are terrible for our economy.

Giving kids and their parents choices is always better.

Charter schools don’t hurt public school finances. A public school that loses a kid to charter no longer has to bus/feed/and educate that kid. They don’t even lose all of the revenues associated with the kid, they still get facilities funding regardless of whether the kid stays or goes.

Charter schools provide everyone a choice. I could not afford to pay for private school, charter was their only other option.

I really think all schools should be charter. There is far too much bureaucracy and counterproductive rules in public schools (tenure anyone?). Charter schools have to be responsive to parents and that’s the key to effective education. Ask any teacher and they will tell you that successful students are much more…

Do your public parks provide tenure to employees so bad ones can never be fired? Do they fail to offer a good experience to park goers and are impossible to fix despite the highest per capital spending in our countries history? In some cases are they so bad that they damage young people’s future outlook and…

Choice is not an anecdote, it’s a necessity to avoid having kids buried in one size fits all public schools that refuse to meet their needs.

Charter schools don’t hurt public schools, they get the same amount of operating funds per pupil, but zero in facilities costs. When my kids left public, those schools lost the funds that paid to teach them but also no longer had the costs of teaching them..

My daughters charter school is awesome.

The Sahara Sea isn’t going to flood itself!

The experience of WWI didn’t stop WW2. So I doubt the experience of WW2 stopped WW3.

Standardization is the enemy of innovation. I think it’s still far too early for electric motor trains to be standardized. I will bet you that more efficient hardware will require custom connections/voltages/outputs for at least a decade. They aren’t just black boxes, how they connect is also opportunities to increase…

The 5K iMac was and is pretty awesome. When released you could buy one with a fast processor, 16 gigs RAM, and a terabyte of storage for the same price as Dell sold a single 5K monitor for.

You are technically right. The all-in one only has been successful for Apple and Apple has always been a niche by unit share. But the market share numbers leave out something important. Apple sells Macs for far higher average sales prices than PCs. All of the PC vendors average around $400-$600 in ASP for their entire…

So there was one there a couple days earlier, and now they know it’s still there along with another?

May a hundred innocent go to jail, lest a guilty man go free.