This is about teaching kids to think. Republicans don't like that because it's hard to be a bible-believing Republican and think at the same time.
Here's what this is about. My mom was a damn good 5th grade teacher. She taught them how to read, write and use science to understand the world. She taught them about geology too, including how the continents move. Once at the beginning of the year a parent asked her not to teach plate tectonics because they, "didn't believe in that." This is exactly what the fuck they are talking about here. God forbid we actually teach kids something that goes against what their illiterate, snake-handling preacher's "fixed beliefs." Maybe we would do better if instead of telling kids what not to think about, parents go to bookstore and buy their pre-kindergartners some books that don't all begin with "Holy" and end with "Bible."
And by the way, you say we "know how to teach Reading, Writing and Math." Really? Please go sign up to teach at your local high school, because we don't "know" the best way to teach those things. That's because every student learns differently. We know some good techniques, but we are still learning about how the brain learns. American Education isn't perfect, but it's flaws have little to do with your political pet peeves.
Ha! That's the same argument that the toothless fundamentalist tried to use on my this weekend at a protest against a local preacher who wants to lock gays up in death camps. He said that he can eat pork and wear polycotton t-shirts because he isn't a 1st century Jew, but that all the anti-homo stuff is clearly God's Word.
I care. Because people who don't even believe the Earth is as old as the Cambrian explosion (or Mesopotamia for that matter) control my state legislature and try to influence what gets taught to my daughter in schools.
Profit has always been a motive. Unfortunately, the big aerospace contractors made a profit whether or not they actually did what they were contracted to do. Now companies like SpaceX will profit for actually getting things done, which, as you say, should move things along in the right direction.
I think that scene in Iron Man was using a bit of satire to make exactly the point you are trying to get across. It was so over the top as to be an obvious fantasy.
Exactly. Wal Mart did this when it first opened pharmacies in its stores. They cut their prices to the point that the individual Wal Mart pharmacy was losing money on every prescription. They could afford the loss because they were huge and the other products made up for the loss. A year or two later, when they had driven the local home-town pharmacies out of business, they jacked the prices back up.
Good riddance. I could never understand how people fell for the scam of text messages to begin with. Especially when many people got e-mail on their phones and continued to use texts at a couple of cents per pop.
Normally I would take this opportunity to correct your use of schizophrenic. Most people use schizophrenic to describe a state of having multiple personalties (this is actually dissociative identity disorder). Schizophrenia is the one marked by irrational actions, poor social interaction and the hearing of voices.
After a moment though, I realized that schizophrenic describes Pakistan pretty well!
As someone who has taught writing, organization of ideas is the problem, not spelling, grammar and mechanics. That problem, in turn, comes from students who don't read enough. No automated grader is going to solve that problem.
Wow. I had to go back and re-read my own post to make sure we were talking about the same comment. Despite your seeming ability to detect sneering and haughtiness though text, I actually agree with some of you assertions. I don't have a problem with people who find comfort in religion or even people who thank their gods for good things, be they mundane or extraordinary. I also dont believe that all Christians are the same. The problem I have, and the thing that makes me worry about the future or our country is when people take events that can clearly be explained by science and human action and instead claim that only direct, miraculous intervention by he Christian God could have caused the result. ÂThere's a clear difference between, "Praise Jesus! ÂCousin Fred-Bob is going to live," and, "Jesus reached down and restarted Fred-Bob's heart." I'm seeing a lot more of the latter. My post was designed to offer up my Facebook experiences as anecdotal evidence that yes, highly religious people do seem to be more skeptical of science nowadays.Â
I'm not sure why you took this as a personal attack, although I could go on at length about the martyr complex evident in many Christian fundamentalists. And finally, you could have avoided the verbosity in your last paragraph and just told me that I was going to hell. It wouldn't be the first time.Â
To which they will probably attach an amendment requiring all Americans to recite the pledge of allegiance in front of the plastic baby Jesus in the manger scene while denying that dinosaurs ever existed. Oh, and you can't get gay married while you are doing it either.
I'm starting to think that Republicans are actively trying to drive us moderate Republicans away.
I'm not trying to be snarky or sarcastic here, but you are only just now starting to think that? The nutty fringe of your party is taking over my friend. And unlike some liberals, people like you don't scare me. I can work with you. I can compromise to get things done with you. If you guys don't confront the nuts soon, we're all in trouble because either the nuts will take over everything in a Christian Taliban kind of way, or the Republican party with crash and burn. And honestly, I think we need you guys to keep the loopys on our fringe from getting too stupid.
Good luck with the whole science pledge thing. I don't know how many times lately on Facebook I see someone thanking the Lord (I assume he has a Facebook page) for miracle that saved cousin Fred-Bob. Of course on further questioning, Fred-Bob had a heart attack and someone used a cell phone to call the ambulance, which arrived quickly because the highly trained paramedics had a laptop GPS and maps on it. They used a portable defibrillator and drugs to keep him alive until they got the the hospital where a high trained surgeon used a heart catheter to fix the problem. Of course, praying to Jesus was what really did the trick, No need to thank the scientists who invented all that stuff or the doctor who used science to do the healing.
And this is why, after a two-day Galaxies attempt, I abandoned MMOs. Especially since most of them don't include any actual roleplaying. It's sad, because even though the learning curve is tough in a real multiplayer flight sim (I was partial to Air Warrior and Aces High) It's more rewarding when you actually do achieve something.
I will always remember the time in Air Warrior when I was flying an unarmed and unescorted C-47 and got chased by a BF-109. I dove into a valley and started flying as close as I could to the featureless green polygonal hills. I took a few hits, but managed to shave it close enough that he underestimated and crashed into a mountain. Epic win for the Gooneybird.
Except that the GAO investigated and decided that there wasn't enough evidence to prove any of the "missing W' allegations. I did like the "office of strategery" sign though.
Greenpeace needs to do an update. Apple is building a 100-acre, 20 megawatt solar facility across the road from the Maiden data center. I drove by it the other day and grading is well underway.
Also, fuck Greenpeace. Are they basically saying that no company should ever locate near my home ever again? I'm as liberal as the next guy, but they're not going to get any traction with their argument if they are bent on impoverishing vast tracts of the country based on how shitty their electrical utility is.
I'm in it now! I'm not saying they aren't used that way. In fact, that episode you mention actually features them blowing hydrogen OUT too. I'm just suggesting multiple uses, of which one might be scooping up the excess particles grabbed by the warp field. We could go over to Trekbbs and ask Rich Sternbach about it. He wrote the tech manual and actually posts there sometimes.;-)
I disagree. The key is that equal numbers of representatives from both parties are part of the process and essentially watch each other for cheating. I've run a polling place for several years now as chief judge, and I've seen no way that I could have cheated, even though I transported the paper ballots to the board of elections by myself in my own car. There were too many failsafes. It actually made me feel very good about our democracy. You can't say the same for some code, no matter how secure it is. Security can always be broken.
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This is about teaching kids to think. Republicans don't like that because it's hard to be a bible-believing Republican and think at the same time.
Here's what this is about. My mom was a damn good 5th grade teacher. She taught them how to read, write and use science to understand the world. She taught them about geology too, including how the continents move. Once at the beginning of the year a parent asked her not to teach plate tectonics because they, "didn't believe in that." This is exactly what the fuck they are talking about here. God forbid we actually teach kids something that goes against what their illiterate, snake-handling preacher's "fixed beliefs." Maybe we would do better if instead of telling kids what not to think about, parents go to bookstore and buy their pre-kindergartners some books that don't all begin with "Holy" and end with "Bible."
And by the way, you say we "know how to teach Reading, Writing and Math." Really? Please go sign up to teach at your local high school, because we don't "know" the best way to teach those things. That's because every student learns differently. We know some good techniques, but we are still learning about how the brain learns. American Education isn't perfect, but it's flaws have little to do with your political pet peeves.
Those people aren't the norm by any means.
Ha! That's the same argument that the toothless fundamentalist tried to use on my this weekend at a protest against a local preacher who wants to lock gays up in death camps. He said that he can eat pork and wear polycotton t-shirts because he isn't a 1st century Jew, but that all the anti-homo stuff is clearly God's Word.
I care. Because people who don't even believe the Earth is as old as the Cambrian explosion (or Mesopotamia for that matter) control my state legislature and try to influence what gets taught to my daughter in schools.
Profit has always been a motive. Unfortunately, the big aerospace contractors made a profit whether or not they actually did what they were contracted to do. Now companies like SpaceX will profit for actually getting things done, which, as you say, should move things along in the right direction.
I think that scene in Iron Man was using a bit of satire to make exactly the point you are trying to get across. It was so over the top as to be an obvious fantasy.
Are you one of those freaks who always knows where their remote is? I'll bet you are, aren't you?
Exactly. Wal Mart did this when it first opened pharmacies in its stores. They cut their prices to the point that the individual Wal Mart pharmacy was losing money on every prescription. They could afford the loss because they were huge and the other products made up for the loss. A year or two later, when they had driven the local home-town pharmacies out of business, they jacked the prices back up.
Good riddance. I could never understand how people fell for the scam of text messages to begin with. Especially when many people got e-mail on their phones and continued to use texts at a couple of cents per pop.
Normally I would take this opportunity to correct your use of schizophrenic. Most people use schizophrenic to describe a state of having multiple personalties (this is actually dissociative identity disorder). Schizophrenia is the one marked by irrational actions, poor social interaction and the hearing of voices.
After a moment though, I realized that schizophrenic describes Pakistan pretty well!
As someone who has taught writing, organization of ideas is the problem, not spelling, grammar and mechanics. That problem, in turn, comes from students who don't read enough. No automated grader is going to solve that problem.
Wow. I had to go back and re-read my own post to make sure we were talking about the same comment. Despite your seeming ability to detect sneering and haughtiness though text, I actually agree with some of you assertions. I don't have a problem with people who find comfort in religion or even people who thank their gods for good things, be they mundane or extraordinary. I also dont believe that all Christians are the same. The problem I have, and the thing that makes me worry about the future or our country is when people take events that can clearly be explained by science and human action and instead claim that only direct, miraculous intervention by he Christian God could have caused the result. ÂThere's a clear difference between, "Praise Jesus! ÂCousin Fred-Bob is going to live," and, "Jesus reached down and restarted Fred-Bob's heart." I'm seeing a lot more of the latter. My post was designed to offer up my Facebook experiences as anecdotal evidence that yes, highly religious people do seem to be more skeptical of science nowadays.Â
I'm not sure why you took this as a personal attack, although I could go on at length about the martyr complex evident in many Christian fundamentalists. And finally, you could have avoided the verbosity in your last paragraph and just told me that I was going to hell. It wouldn't be the first time.Â
Something tells me you didn't read my post all the way through...
More agreeing with you, I guess. I could have worded that better. Sorry.
Then, respectfully, you guys better start making some freaking noise in your party.
To which they will probably attach an amendment requiring all Americans to recite the pledge of allegiance in front of the plastic baby Jesus in the manger scene while denying that dinosaurs ever existed. Oh, and you can't get gay married while you are doing it either.
I'm starting to think that Republicans are actively trying to drive us moderate Republicans away.
I'm not trying to be snarky or sarcastic here, but you are only just now starting to think that? The nutty fringe of your party is taking over my friend. And unlike some liberals, people like you don't scare me. I can work with you. I can compromise to get things done with you. If you guys don't confront the nuts soon, we're all in trouble because either the nuts will take over everything in a Christian Taliban kind of way, or the Republican party with crash and burn. And honestly, I think we need you guys to keep the loopys on our fringe from getting too stupid.
Yeah, because heroic Republicans never attach unrelated crap amendments to a bill and then attack Democrats for voting against it.
Good luck with the whole science pledge thing. I don't know how many times lately on Facebook I see someone thanking the Lord (I assume he has a Facebook page) for miracle that saved cousin Fred-Bob. Of course on further questioning, Fred-Bob had a heart attack and someone used a cell phone to call the ambulance, which arrived quickly because the highly trained paramedics had a laptop GPS and maps on it. They used a portable defibrillator and drugs to keep him alive until they got the the hospital where a high trained surgeon used a heart catheter to fix the problem. Of course, praying to Jesus was what really did the trick, No need to thank the scientists who invented all that stuff or the doctor who used science to do the healing.
And this is why, after a two-day Galaxies attempt, I abandoned MMOs. Especially since most of them don't include any actual roleplaying. It's sad, because even though the learning curve is tough in a real multiplayer flight sim (I was partial to Air Warrior and Aces High) It's more rewarding when you actually do achieve something.
I will always remember the time in Air Warrior when I was flying an unarmed and unescorted C-47 and got chased by a BF-109. I dove into a valley and started flying as close as I could to the featureless green polygonal hills. I took a few hits, but managed to shave it close enough that he underestimated and crashed into a mountain. Epic win for the Gooneybird.
Except Apple seems to be the only one being targeted. Why? Are conditions magically better in other factories in China? I doubt it.
"may be a hoax?"
There's no "may be." Dude made stuff up. He admits it. He did it because it makes great theatre!
You miss the fact that he INHERITED that system. That's how politics works.
Oh, you mean like when Dubbya showed up, and all the W keys were missing from the keyboards...
http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,619013,00.html
Except that the GAO investigated and decided that there wasn't enough evidence to prove any of the "missing W' allegations. I did like the "office of strategery" sign though.
Greenpeace needs to do an update. Apple is building a 100-acre, 20 megawatt solar facility across the road from the Maiden data center. I drove by it the other day and grading is well underway.
Also, fuck Greenpeace. Are they basically saying that no company should ever locate near my home ever again? I'm as liberal as the next guy, but they're not going to get any traction with their argument if they are bent on impoverishing vast tracts of the country based on how shitty their electrical utility is.
I'm in it now! I'm not saying they aren't used that way. In fact, that episode you mention actually features them blowing hydrogen OUT too. I'm just suggesting multiple uses, of which one might be scooping up the excess particles grabbed by the warp field. We could go over to Trekbbs and ask Rich Sternbach about it. He wrote the tech manual and actually posts there sometimes. ;-)
I disagree. The key is that equal numbers of representatives from both parties are part of the process and essentially watch each other for cheating. I've run a polling place for several years now as chief judge, and I've seen no way that I could have cheated, even though I transported the paper ballots to the board of elections by myself in my own car. There were too many failsafes. It actually made me feel very good about our democracy. You can't say the same for some code, no matter how secure it is. Security can always be broken.