Look at the commercial espionage realm and that is the bulk of this. In that realm, what we need to think about is the governments are inherently not dynamic or decentralized and therefore, they are not the right answer. The right answer to the problem is lets get the standard items norms of behavior and empower the private sector who has decentralized the dynamics to deal with this, much like the analogy where i grew up in texas, you have a local police force and the nypd and you dont always need a Big Government solution. And frankly, in this case, going back to the bank analogy, having a private solution, responding as long as they meet the certification in the standards, government doesnt have to solve all of our problems and we can in fact solve it ourselves, that highend dedicated attack is the realm of statesponsored government and you heard general alexander say and he got in trouble for that we dont even have our act together or the cybercommand that has just now announced tha
College or forprofit school or Something Like that to get a particular skill. To find an alternative way to achieve standards. For example, after one semester of satisfactory academic proprogress in a Community College they become reeligible even if not under rigorous high school standards. So if they had the low s. A. T. , act they have to go the first semester not qualifying for a pell grant. But if they demonstrated then academic capability they would be . Exactly. Okay. Giving students a second chance. Okay. That was my other question. Excellent. I am interested in intrigued might be a better word, the pell women well idea. Could that be too costly for the government to administrate this thing . The cost is a good question. The way the pell well would work youre telling a student up front how much in dollars as opposed to percentages they do now qualify for. Percentage based on fulltime enrollment dont translate women for students. Dollars make sense. Over a long run im not sure it
The American Enterprise institute beginning at 1 30 p. M. Eastern here on cspan2. Cspan, created by americas Cable Companies this 1979, brought to you as a Public Service by your television provider. Host and best selling author tom standage has a new book out, and its called writing on the wall. Tom standage, what do cicero and twitter have in common . Guest well, the idea of the book is that social media is a very old idea. We think that its recent and only people alive today have ever done it. But really what im arguing is theres a very long and rich tradition of social media that goes back to the era of cicero, so thats the First Century b. C. , and the point is that you dont need a Digital Network to do social media. If you have one, it goes faster, but you could actually do it in the old days. Cicero did it with papyrus rolls and ore members other members of the roman elites were linked to him and all spoke to each other, and its very much a social environment. But there are many
Operated before us. You write it is between letter writing and conversation was blurred by the custom of dictating outgoing letters to describes and having incoming letters read aloud to them. Indeed, you would have a describe and a messenger bringing them to friends and they were capable of reading and writing. They got more done back then. The reason week we can do social media is because it is fast and cheap to deliver image. And for the romans they had slavery and they were able to have a social eco system where they passed mej messages to each other. What were the wax tablets you talked about . They had devices that looked like like ipads. You might use a wax tablet and you would scratch the message or a describe scribe would do it and the recipient would bring it back to you. Cicero refers to this as roman texting. It was a note pad as well and people used them to learn to write. They are the same size as the ipad. And dollar there was a lot of examples of people depicted holding
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