Just a small note, but my landscaper has a Masters in Agriculture from Texas A&M. I hired him exactly because of those credentials. Otherwise, some dude with a mullet and a beat up pick up truck shows up and charges me $100 for 5 minutes of mowing.
Watching American Idol and the likes and being good at work are not mutually exclusive.
Also, only in America is working over 40 hours a badge of honor. The Germans seem to be doing pretty well with their 30 hour work weeks and their 2 months paid vacation every year. We Americans often confuse competence with numbers of hours worked.
I don't know about the "poverty" bit. Engineers at my work make $100k starting and all they do is draw up silly little software services diagrams and write requirements. They don't even code, or build anything other than Word and PowerPoint documents. Nice gig, if you ask me.
Because 80-100k a year is good pay unless you live in places like NYC, San Francisco etc., and there is such a glut of lawyers, that many of them make less than I do as a Training manager. My wife switched from Law to Computer Science for exactly this reason. 100k to do something I actually like, or 250k selling my soul? Hmmm....
That's a bit of hyperbole. In Austin, TX, with a healthy tech community, a dev right out of college makes around $60k a year, depending on the industry. A teacher right out of college makes around $30k, and only gets to $60k after a decade or so.
Our public education system does a terrible job at showing how math is relevant. I know I'm in the turned off crowd. Even having taken math all the way through AP Calculus in high school, I never had a teacher that could show me the relevance of trig or calculus. 9th grade geometry was about the most relevant thing I had as a teenager.
Being angry and sad are perfectly healthy and normal responses. Holding back these perfectly normal feelings only cause psychological problems, like projection and calling people weak minded for having human emotions.
Yes, because BS degrees in music (no pun intended) are so prevalent.
Tell me how you'd get a music degree with a BS attached to it. Extra math classes?
My wife is working towards a BA in Computer Science...go figure, she can graduate a semester earlier and not have to take a few useless classes by doing so.
You are kind of making my point for me. The significance of Reagan foreign policy comes from the relative LACK of combat operations. The mere bravado and "show of force" was enough to get his way, without decade long wars in two countries simultaneously. Reagan got more results for less money and far less death and destruction, yet you want to make it sound like his actions were reckless to the brink of nuclear war.
Me? Get an education? You mean like a BA in Music Education? Riiiight. Something tells me you don't really know me, since that's precisely the undergrad degree I have.
Now if you'd like to just throw blanket statements out there about music = math plus formula, I would say that's good enough for a wiki entry. It also shows you aren't a musician if you believe that overly simplistic generalization.
I guess that explains why people who make ridiculous claims declare there are "several studies" to prove their claims, yet the don't cite any of the studies (because they don't exist).
You have the gall to infer that the insignificant skirmishes and stuff you identified in the 80s as being more significant than all the stupid shit this country has done since 1990? Interesting perspective.
Wake me up when I can use my TWC subscription to watch tv on my mobile device AWAY from my house. That would be cool.
I don't have to be at my house to use my Netflix subscription. I dont' have to be at my house to watch something I rent/buy from the iTunes store. I don't have to be at my house to listen to rhapsody or the radio. Come on TWC...you have a chance to be really cool. If you do, I'll stop bad-mouthing your gawd-awful scientific atlantic DVRs.
The US seems to fail to understand this in foreign policy, too. Contrast how the IRA has been neutered and ETA more recently tackled.
EXCELLENT point! When you spend more money on military than every other country AND you have a well-paid professional military, politicians think sending them to police the globe works by their sheer brute force.
People want to downlplay Reagan, but when you think of all the bravado with the complete lack of military action that got results, his foreign policy was genius compared to Bush/Clinton/Bush/Obama.
Bullies are the insecure ones who like to deal pyschologically by projecting or some other sort of coping mechanism. I'm not sure a punch in the nose will fix all of them, but much like A Christmas Story, it might work against a few?
Other bullies are just dicks that grow up to be adult dicks. Probably because their parents are dicks.
Not everything that makes this government run is enumerated in the Constitution. To be honest, I've never heard anyone advocate the Supreme Court being stripped of their job of ruling on constitutionality. Well maybe that's not true. I'm pretty sure the hot air on right wing talk radio is always complaining about "legislating from the bench" which is code for "I disagree with constitutional lawyers, even though I'm not remotely qualified enough myself to argue constitutional law".
Hahahahha!! That's the funniest thing I've read this month!
I'm a curriculum manager, and I always have to just smile politely and bite my tongue when talking to dumbass homeschool proponents who don't know the first damn thing about education.
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Just a small note, but my landscaper has a Masters in Agriculture from Texas A&M. I hired him exactly because of those credentials. Otherwise, some dude with a mullet and a beat up pick up truck shows up and charges me $100 for 5 minutes of mowing.
Watching American Idol and the likes and being good at work are not mutually exclusive.
Also, only in America is working over 40 hours a badge of honor. The Germans seem to be doing pretty well with their 30 hour work weeks and their 2 months paid vacation every year. We Americans often confuse competence with numbers of hours worked.
I don't know about the "poverty" bit. Engineers at my work make $100k starting and all they do is draw up silly little software services diagrams and write requirements. They don't even code, or build anything other than Word and PowerPoint documents. Nice gig, if you ask me.
Because 80-100k a year is good pay unless you live in places like NYC, San Francisco etc., and there is such a glut of lawyers, that many of them make less than I do as a Training manager. My wife switched from Law to Computer Science for exactly this reason. 100k to do something I actually like, or 250k selling my soul? Hmmm....
That's a bit of hyperbole. In Austin, TX, with a healthy tech community, a dev right out of college makes around $60k a year, depending on the industry. A teacher right out of college makes around $30k, and only gets to $60k after a decade or so.
Our public education system does a terrible job at showing how math is relevant. I know I'm in the turned off crowd. Even having taken math all the way through AP Calculus in high school, I never had a teacher that could show me the relevance of trig or calculus. 9th grade geometry was about the most relevant thing I had as a teenager.
Being angry and sad are perfectly healthy and normal responses. Holding back these perfectly normal feelings only cause psychological problems, like projection and calling people weak minded for having human emotions.
Yes, because BS degrees in music (no pun intended) are so prevalent.
Tell me how you'd get a music degree with a BS attached to it. Extra math classes?
My wife is working towards a BA in Computer Science...go figure, she can graduate a semester earlier and not have to take a few useless classes by doing so.
So you are a robot then? Because humans are affected by words and emotions. That's what makes us not robots.
You are kind of making my point for me. The significance of Reagan foreign policy comes from the relative LACK of combat operations. The mere bravado and "show of force" was enough to get his way, without decade long wars in two countries simultaneously. Reagan got more results for less money and far less death and destruction, yet you want to make it sound like his actions were reckless to the brink of nuclear war.
Me? Get an education? You mean like a BA in Music Education? Riiiight. Something tells me you don't really know me, since that's precisely the undergrad degree I have.
Now if you'd like to just throw blanket statements out there about music = math plus formula, I would say that's good enough for a wiki entry. It also shows you aren't a musician if you believe that overly simplistic generalization.
I guess that explains why people who make ridiculous claims declare there are "several studies" to prove their claims, yet the don't cite any of the studies (because they don't exist).
You have the gall to infer that the insignificant skirmishes and stuff you identified in the 80s as being more significant than all the stupid shit this country has done since 1990? Interesting perspective.
Well my hi hat doesn't vary by song in real life, which is why I stated Rock Band drums are not realistic.
Wake me up when I can use my TWC subscription to watch tv on my mobile device AWAY from my house. That would be cool.
I don't have to be at my house to use my Netflix subscription. I dont' have to be at my house to watch something I rent/buy from the iTunes store. I don't have to be at my house to listen to rhapsody or the radio. Come on TWC...you have a chance to be really cool. If you do, I'll stop bad-mouthing your gawd-awful scientific atlantic DVRs.
Speaking of ignorant, we capitalize the first letter of a new sentence in English.
There is a significant possibility that those health risks had something to do with why most religions have a prohibition of homosexual behavior.
There is a significant possibility that those who practice religion have increased risks of lacking critical thinking skills as well.
You respond to hitler by not supporting him and by speaking out against him, not by shooting him.
If there were ever ONE event in the history of the world that would justify the shooting of a leader, I think this would be it.
People who are affected by emotion are weak-minded? What are you, a fucking robot?
The US seems to fail to understand this in foreign policy, too. Contrast how the IRA has been neutered and ETA more recently tackled.
EXCELLENT point! When you spend more money on military than every other country AND you have a well-paid professional military, politicians think sending them to police the globe works by their sheer brute force.
People want to downlplay Reagan, but when you think of all the bravado with the complete lack of military action that got results, his foreign policy was genius compared to Bush/Clinton/Bush/Obama.
Bullies are the insecure ones who like to deal pyschologically by projecting or some other sort of coping mechanism. I'm not sure a punch in the nose will fix all of them, but much like A Christmas Story, it might work against a few?
Other bullies are just dicks that grow up to be adult dicks. Probably because their parents are dicks.
The most helpful way to think of it is to imagine that the school is your employer.
Actually, the most helpful way to think of it is to imagine the school as your parent, since that's exactly what in loco parentis is.
Not everything that makes this government run is enumerated in the Constitution. To be honest, I've never heard anyone advocate the Supreme Court being stripped of their job of ruling on constitutionality. Well maybe that's not true. I'm pretty sure the hot air on right wing talk radio is always complaining about "legislating from the bench" which is code for "I disagree with constitutional lawyers, even though I'm not remotely qualified enough myself to argue constitutional law".
Supreme court precedence has ruled in loco parentis, effectively limiting childrens' consitutional rights while in custody of the school.
Hahahahha!! That's the funniest thing I've read this month!
I'm a curriculum manager, and I always have to just smile politely and bite my tongue when talking to dumbass homeschool proponents who don't know the first damn thing about education.