By Mike Dano[Moderator snip]
> *Why a school has a smokestack, I don't know*.
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the school was built in1930, when heating was by coal-fired furnace.
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- Moderator's Note
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- The Google Maps link shown above has a picture of the "smokestack
- in quetion, and it's a great place to start a meaningful debate
- over the part that language plays in reporting.
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- Oxford defines a "Smokestack" as ...
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- "a chimney or funnel for discharging smoke from a locomotive, ship,
- factory, etc. and helping to induce a draft."
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- ... but the TV station which reported on the opposition to the 5G
- antennas chose "Smokestack" instead of "Chimney," most likely to
- cater to their customers - the cellular carriers who buy all that
- advertising while they try to eliminate their pesky unionized
- workforces and change all our phone connections and Internet connec-
- tions over to radio systems that will never require them to pay the
- technicians anything approaching a living wage, and in the bargain,
- break the ricebowls of the oh-so-irritating cable TV companies that
- don't have to pay for apiaries of overpaid apparatchiks.
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- After all, "Smokestacks" are high above the ground, far away from
- all those young minds and their all-too-uppity parents whom don't
- want their children turned into advertising automatons programmed
- to pester their elders for that oh-so-shiny-thing that they saw on
- their plasitc fantastic lover while they were learning how to be
- obedient, complient, predictable consumers - instead of taking time
- to play.
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- Bill Horne
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