Anya ,'Potential'
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
>wow, I had no idea that marking the text was a taught skill. We were so not allowed to mark up the (school-owned, and they were pretty much all school or library owned) books in my day.
Me three.
Another value of libraries is that they give people who cannot otherwise afford it access to the internet! Adults and kids.
That's so sad, Allyson. Our libraries seem to constantly be in peril of losing funding and being closed, but so far the voters have stepped up and at least okayed bond measures to keep them going.
Another value of libraries is that they give people who cannot otherwise afford it access to the internet! Adults and kids.
The two or three branch libraries I go to on an irregular basis are always packed full of people waiting for computer access.
People are hypocrites. Hypocrites who complain about not having enough firetrucks, enough teachers, or patches for their potholes, but won't pass a tax override anyway.
Yeah, I love my get-out-of-debt radio guru, but he goes on the occasional conservative rant. This time it was national health care and how we shouldn't trust the government to do anything efficiently. His one exception? The military! Yeah, if the war in Iraq has taught us anything, it's how efficient our government is.
Another value of libraries is that they give people who cannot otherwise afford it access to the internet!
Well if those people cannot afford the internet access, then clearly they're not real Americans. They're probably welfare leeches too. And I imagine most of them are brown, or foreigners, or brown foreigners, anyway. The rest are gay.
t /suddenly bitter
His one exception? The military!
So efficient they hired private companies like Blackwater.
Yeah, the last time I wanted to use a computer at the branch library I go to, it was the middle of a weekday, and it was going to be a two hour wait for a 15-minute slot -- and a longer wait for a longer slot.
And awesomely, the NYPL is open 6 days a week now (again). Which is sweet.
how we shouldn't trust the government to do anything efficiently.
Then why is it that Medicare spends about 1/3rd per patient what the average private insurance company does?
Free wifi at the library rocks.
Eta: and my current local library has the wonderful quiet reading area in front of a working fireplace. I'm gonna come back and visit in on grey days even after I move, I think.