Word: filtering
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...opportunity for both parties to cross-examine witnesses, a subcommittee does not. While a court of law allows independent attorney representation, a subcommittee does not. And finally, while a court of law brings facts in direct contact to those passing judgment, a subcommittee, at best, acts as an unpredictable filter and, at worst, a cracked lens...
With four relatively unknown young comedians and actors as hosts, The X Show will attempt, as the pilot brags, "to filter out all the c___ and just give you the WD-40 that you need." That WD-40 seems to consist of words of wisdom from exotic dancers and a segment called "Gettin' It," which, for example, might instruct men on how to fake being sensitive. Also featured is the regular modeling of men's underclothing by women...
...studying for exams forces you to review (or, for us lazy folks, to read for the first time) the coursework and to see what exactly you have learned. And then you relize that the whole point of exams is not to make you sum up the entire course, or filter it down into the three major things worth knowing. (That's only the point of exams in Core classes.) The point is to make you study--to force you to admire, if only from afar, that vast expanse of time and thought...
Many Internet service providers offer filtering services. But because of the need to appeal to the largest audience, they may go much further in their proscriptions than some parents would want. Amy Bruckman, a computer-science professor at Georgia Tech, points out that "a lot of these filtering companies are not making clear what their values are, their method for deciding what is acceptable and what is not." That's why it's so important to buy a filter that can be tuned to your family's values...
...course, if your kids are teenagers, they're eventually going to find ways to get online when you're not around. Or they'll have learned how to disable every filter but the one they cannot break on their own: the human bond between parent and child. "I'm C.J.'s mother, so I'm responsible for what he does," says Kelley Jones, a Detroit single mom who generally allows her 13-year-old son to browse just about any website he wishes on the computer in the living room, as long as he discusses what he finds. Says Jones...