[ale] (OT) Minnesota bans Coursera: State takes bold stand against free education.

[Jim Kinney]

Georgia can't spell "Coursera" yet so they are trying to figure out how to
cash in on Alabama and Tennessee water access.

On Fri, Oct 19, 2012 at 12:25 PM, Derek Atkins <derek at ihtfp.com> wrote:

> States are greedy.
>
> Apparently their issue is that Coursera isn't "registered" and isn't
> paying the state fees associated with said registration.  It almost sounds
> like something Georgia would do!
>
> -derek
>
> On Fri, October 19, 2012 12:18 pm, Jim Kinney wrote:
> > the world is screwy.
> >
> > On Fri, Oct 19, 2012 at 10:20 AM, Michael Trausch <mike at trausch.us>
> wrote:
> >
> >> I am currently taking a class on this site as is Erica. Mine is a logic
> >> course from Stanford; hers is programming and I think also from
> >> Stanford.
> >>
> >> What is the problem with our world? Now we can make free services
> >> illegal
> >> too? What the hell happened to criminal activities having to cause harm
> >> to
> >> person or property?
> >>
> >>
> >>
> http://mobile.slate.com/blogs/future_tense/2012/10/18/minnesota_bans_coursera_state_takes_bold_stand_against_free_education.html
> >>
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James P. Kinney III
*
*Every time you stop a school, you will have to build a jail. What you gain
at one end you lose at the other. It's like feeding a dog on his own tail.
It won't fatten the dog.
- Speech 11/23/1900 Mark Twain
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http://electjimkinney.org
http://heretothereideas.blogspot.com/
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