In New York it costs several hundred thousand dollars to fire a teacher. I am unaware of any state where it is trivial to fire teachers, please give me a specific example.
In what way does an MS or PhD make someone a better teacher? I fail to see any advantage for a high school or lower teacher to have an MS or PhD from the perspective of the learning done by the students.
Where in the U.S. do they pay teachers next to nothing? According to everything I have been able to find the state that pays the lowest average teacher's salary (South Dakota) pays teachers an average salary that pro-rates to higher than the average household income for the entire U.S.. That is not "next to nothing"!
As was paying teachers shit wages so that the only people who would vie for such jobs would be the people you mention. They need to give teachers tenure or something to counter-act it (which would also fix the teaching evolution problem), or they just need to pay them more.
Where do you live that teachers are paid a shit wage? The average teacher salary in South Dakota (which is the lowest in the country.) is $34,709, which pro-rates to $46,857 for a full year's work (teachers work approximately 180 days a year--state mandated 175 in SD--the typical person works 243 days a year). The average household income for the entire U.S. is $44,389. That is a decent wage. No, it is not out of line for the job that teachers do, but it is by no means a low wage.
In addition, you are apparently unaware that teachers do get tenure. I am unaware of any states where public school teachers do not get tenure. br
The problem with the school system in the U.S. is that our society no longer shares a common world view and the common calues that would grow out of it. Public schools were created to teach everyone the values and knowledge that are necessary to be good citizens. We no longer agree on what those are and the disagreement has gotten so great that even a "least common denominator" approach no longer works, if anyone was willing to accept it.
When will car manufacturers do the same and force you to drive only on preselected roads and to never replace the steering wheels or the radio?
I am not sure about the legal precedent relative to roads, but the car manufacturers have already lost the steering wheel and radio issues quite some time back. There is established legal precedent that they cannot limit your ability to replace the radio or steering wheel with third party versions. Now, if they could get Congress to pass a new law, they might be able to open that back up. Fortunately, enough people understand cars well enough that any Congress person who proposed such a law would be unlikely to win re-election, no matter how much money the car companies gave him/her.
Yes and no. It depends on what judges in what state. However, in this case it is in Federal Court and Federal Judges are all appointed, not elected. So, campaign funds are not part of this case (at least not election funds for the judge).
You know, I think you might be able to make a case that current copyright law actually violates the Constitution. The key phrase for that argument is "by securing...to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to thier respective Writings and Discoveries." I am pretty sure that you are not securing to the author any rights that are extended beyond said author's death. I am quote sure it would be rather difficult to convince the courts of this, but it is an argument that I think should be made
I do not know the individual involved in this article, however, is it not a possibility that his autism led to a style of play that was a) successful and b) appeared to be a cheat?
The gist of the answer of several people who spoke about how cheating is detected in such games was, "No."
Now, several people replied to those answers by pointing out that Microsoft does not say how they determined he was cheating, so it is possible that they did not use any of the types of methods that the first group described and indeed the answer is, "Yes." However, I think that as things stand we should accept Microsoft's position that he did indeed cheat, while insisting that Microsoft give a least a little more detail on how they determined that.
Can you give an example of that happening? I can imagine it happening, but I have never heard of it actually happening. Hospitals and such have much less need for advertising than just about any other business (which is why organizations comp a celebrity most of the time).
Yeah, because Peter Jackson really needs to have the taxpayer cover his medical expenses. Especially considering that the per capita income in NZ is $27,460 (according to the IMF). I am quite confident that Peter Jackson earns quite a bit more than that....even after you take out $100,000 to cover this procedure.
Why do you think that an autistic child cannot be savvy enough to cheat? There is a large range of autism, some people with autism are capable of functioning independently in society. We do not know what level of autism this child has. It is even possible that this child would not technically be considered autistic but is merely suffering Asperger's syndorme and the article simplified it to "autistic".
Are you sure you watched the extras on the LoTR disks? Because that is where I got the info that Peter Jackson used a whole bunch of different tricks(camera and otherwise) to get the various proportions right. Peter jackson explicitly says that they didn't use just one technique, that they used every trick he knew of. Yes, they had other actors who they used for distance shots, or shots where the characters faces were not clear, but there were many shots where they had both a fullsized character and a hobbit in the same scene where they used camera tricks to create the impression that Ian McKellan was much taller than Elijah Wood (to use one example).
Which actually supports his point. Without the advantage of breaking the Japanese code, Midway would have been a rather decisive victory for the Japanese (although it's only major effect would have been lengthening the war, as the only way Japan could have won at that time was by causing the U.S. to surrender and Japan did not have the resources to accomplish that).
The difference between militarization of the sea and militarization of space is that it was possible to launch battleships outside of the reach of another country's military (at least at the time of launch). Of course it also illustrates why Britain was able to build and maintain the most powerful navy, their competitors had limited options for naval bases that made it trivially easy for the British to monitor and blockade (although there were several other important factors as well, including a significant dose of good luck).
Actually, LoTR used computers and the technique described by the previous poster. One of the reasons LoTR worked so well was because Peter Jackson switched back and forth between various different tricks to convey the characters as being different sizes even when the actors were not appropriately different in size. The most interesting thing to me was that John Rhys-Davies was the correct proportion taller than the actors who played the hobbits that no tricks were necessary when it was just him and the hobbits in a scene.
If your suggested option was correct, why would Oracle have not given the OO.o brand to the new organziation that started the fork? They asked Oracle for it when it began to appear that Oracle had no interest in continuing OO.o.
That is not true, Republicans are not nearly as beholden to the Entertainment Industry (not that they don't tend to do their bidding, just that the Entertainment Industry does not give nearly enough money to Republican candidates to make them an essential support). If Republicans were as beholden to the Entertainment Industry as Democrats are, there would be vey few Republican elected officials, since the Entertainment Industry overwhelmingly favors Democrats. This fact always makes me wonder what causes so many Republican elected officials to support an industry contrary to their own self-interest.
It depends on how you define pro-business. I would say that Obama is anti-business but pro-corporation. However, the only thing that has changed with Obama is his rhetoric. His policies have always favored large corporations and harmed small business.
He ran as a Democrat. That means he ran as someone who is committed to the interests of the Entertainment Industry, Unions, and trial lawyers. No one who is not committed to the interests of those three groups can get the Democratic nomination.
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In New York it costs several hundred thousand dollars to fire a teacher. I am unaware of any state where it is trivial to fire teachers, please give me a specific example.
In what way does an MS or PhD make someone a better teacher? I fail to see any advantage for a high school or lower teacher to have an MS or PhD from the perspective of the learning done by the students.
Where in the U.S. do they pay teachers next to nothing? According to everything I have been able to find the state that pays the lowest average teacher's salary (South Dakota) pays teachers an average salary that pro-rates to higher than the average household income for the entire U.S.. That is not "next to nothing"!
As was paying teachers shit wages so that the only people who would vie for such jobs would be the people you mention. They need to give teachers tenure or something to counter-act it (which would also fix the teaching evolution problem), or they just need to pay them more.
Where do you live that teachers are paid a shit wage? The average teacher salary in South Dakota (which is the lowest in the country.) is $34,709, which pro-rates to $46,857 for a full year's work (teachers work approximately 180 days a year--state mandated 175 in SD--the typical person works 243 days a year). The average household income for the entire U.S. is $44,389. That is a decent wage. No, it is not out of line for the job that teachers do, but it is by no means a low wage.
In addition, you are apparently unaware that teachers do get tenure. I am unaware of any states where public school teachers do not get tenure.
br The problem with the school system in the U.S. is that our society no longer shares a common world view and the common calues that would grow out of it. Public schools were created to teach everyone the values and knowledge that are necessary to be good citizens. We no longer agree on what those are and the disagreement has gotten so great that even a "least common denominator" approach no longer works, if anyone was willing to accept it.
When will car manufacturers do the same and force you to drive only on preselected roads and to never replace the steering wheels or the radio?
I am not sure about the legal precedent relative to roads, but the car manufacturers have already lost the steering wheel and radio issues quite some time back. There is established legal precedent that they cannot limit your ability to replace the radio or steering wheel with third party versions. Now, if they could get Congress to pass a new law, they might be able to open that back up. Fortunately, enough people understand cars well enough that any Congress person who proposed such a law would be unlikely to win re-election, no matter how much money the car companies gave him/her.
Yes and no. It depends on what judges in what state. However, in this case it is in Federal Court and Federal Judges are all appointed, not elected. So, campaign funds are not part of this case (at least not election funds for the judge).
You know, I think you might be able to make a case that current copyright law actually violates the Constitution. The key phrase for that argument is "by securing...to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to thier respective Writings and Discoveries." I am pretty sure that you are not securing to the author any rights that are extended beyond said author's death. I am quote sure it would be rather difficult to convince the courts of this, but it is an argument that I think should be made
I do not know the individual involved in this article, however, is it not a possibility that his autism led to a style of play that was a) successful and b) appeared to be a cheat?
The gist of the answer of several people who spoke about how cheating is detected in such games was, "No."
Now, several people replied to those answers by pointing out that Microsoft does not say how they determined he was cheating, so it is possible that they did not use any of the types of methods that the first group described and indeed the answer is, "Yes." However, I think that as things stand we should accept Microsoft's position that he did indeed cheat, while insisting that Microsoft give a least a little more detail on how they determined that.
You are correct. Employer provided health "insurance" is a bad model. It separates the consumer of healthcare from the cost of healthcare.
Can you give an example of that happening? I can imagine it happening, but I have never heard of it actually happening. Hospitals and such have much less need for advertising than just about any other business (which is why organizations comp a celebrity most of the time).
Yeah, because Peter Jackson really needs to have the taxpayer cover his medical expenses. Especially considering that the per capita income in NZ is $27,460 (according to the IMF). I am quite confident that Peter Jackson earns quite a bit more than that....even after you take out $100,000 to cover this procedure.
Why do you think that an autistic child cannot be savvy enough to cheat? There is a large range of autism, some people with autism are capable of functioning independently in society. We do not know what level of autism this child has. It is even possible that this child would not technically be considered autistic but is merely suffering Asperger's syndorme and the article simplified it to "autistic".
Well, I'm sorry you are such a poor student of history.
Are you sure you watched the extras on the LoTR disks? Because that is where I got the info that Peter Jackson used a whole bunch of different tricks(camera and otherwise) to get the various proportions right. Peter jackson explicitly says that they didn't use just one technique, that they used every trick he knew of. Yes, they had other actors who they used for distance shots, or shots where the characters faces were not clear, but there were many shots where they had both a fullsized character and a hobbit in the same scene where they used camera tricks to create the impression that Ian McKellan was much taller than Elijah Wood (to use one example).
Which actually supports his point. Without the advantage of breaking the Japanese code, Midway would have been a rather decisive victory for the Japanese (although it's only major effect would have been lengthening the war, as the only way Japan could have won at that time was by causing the U.S. to surrender and Japan did not have the resources to accomplish that).
The difference between militarization of the sea and militarization of space is that it was possible to launch battleships outside of the reach of another country's military (at least at the time of launch). Of course it also illustrates why Britain was able to build and maintain the most powerful navy, their competitors had limited options for naval bases that made it trivially easy for the British to monitor and blockade (although there were several other important factors as well, including a significant dose of good luck).
Actually, LoTR used computers and the technique described by the previous poster. One of the reasons LoTR worked so well was because Peter Jackson switched back and forth between various different tricks to convey the characters as being different sizes even when the actors were not appropriately different in size. The most interesting thing to me was that John Rhys-Davies was the correct proportion taller than the actors who played the hobbits that no tricks were necessary when it was just him and the hobbits in a scene.
Relative to Comcast taking over NBC, it would be surprising if it goes very far right since the Roberts (father and son) are staunch Democrats.
If your suggested option was correct, why would Oracle have not given the OO.o brand to the new organziation that started the fork? They asked Oracle for it when it began to appear that Oracle had no interest in continuing OO.o.
My impression was that Oracle changed something in the way they dealt with the OO.o community, I no longer recall what and so may be mistaken.
It still means that no "machine" is theoretically 100% efficient.
That is not true, Republicans are not nearly as beholden to the Entertainment Industry (not that they don't tend to do their bidding, just that the Entertainment Industry does not give nearly enough money to Republican candidates to make them an essential support). If Republicans were as beholden to the Entertainment Industry as Democrats are, there would be vey few Republican elected officials, since the Entertainment Industry overwhelmingly favors Democrats. This fact always makes me wonder what causes so many Republican elected officials to support an industry contrary to their own self-interest.
The Second Law of Thermodynamics states that over time in a closed system the amount of energy available to do work reduces to zero.
Only if you beleive that a comedian really understands the world better than a politician who remade a nation.
It depends on how you define pro-business. I would say that Obama is anti-business but pro-corporation. However, the only thing that has changed with Obama is his rhetoric. His policies have always favored large corporations and harmed small business.
Was he elected under false pretenses?
He ran as a Democrat. That means he ran as someone who is committed to the interests of the Entertainment Industry, Unions, and trial lawyers. No one who is not committed to the interests of those three groups can get the Democratic nomination.