Similarly, an election does not show the electorate's ability to think rationally, but rather who's political campaign staff is more efficient.
I propose some kind of critical thinking requirement in the public education curriculum.
Iran doesn't need a missile or stealth bomber to deliver a warhead - a freighter hold or terrorist cell could also work. I don't say that because i think they'll do it (nor would i say they won't do it) but looking at the most expensive options and rejecting those doesn't do the analysis any good. And asking whether a country will use nukes is of temporary usefulness. This is the culture that fielded the children's martyr brigade against Iraq's well-supplied machine gun nests. After allowing the nuclear genie out of the bottle who can say what the next 40 years will bring?
I just focus better in my tiny, half-walled cell at the office. There are a lot of people parading to my office for help with various issues and it's a fine thing for my boss to see that, too. I get lots of chances to work at home, sometimes without the kids, but there are many distractions. Who wants to tune a query or troubleshoot PL/SQL when there's an XBox sitting 10 feet away?
And what country are you from? Name one country that has not engaged in "toppling peaceful regimes, undermining democracies, assassinating legitimate heads of state, waging illegitimate war and generally just fucking things up and killing thousands just for the sake of funnelling money into the right pockets" for thousands of years. If you want to hold us (America) responsible for every action our country has been engaged in, I would wager that our 250 year history is nothing compared to the rampant bloodshed, Feudalism, and barbaric nature of 95% of the planet.
The fucking Swiss.
Laundered money for the Nazis. Probably still some gold Jewish teeth rattling in a few bank vaults over there.
I was a rater for 1 year some time ago. My impression was the rating was against results from updates they were considering for the production algorithm. Testing at the QA level. I found it boring and soulless, but a wide knowledge of obscure, otherwise-useless facts really facilitated the work. Sometimes a little-known double meaning for a concept would cause disagreements among raters, and once a moderator hated my opinion so much he had my home phone called several times to demand I change my rating.
Wait, someone said most US citizens have more debt than cash, so inflation is a good thing because it only hurts lenders and responsible people who've been managing their finances carefully! Nevermind that most people use a generally fixed income to pay for basic needs...
Seeing this idea posted to Slashdot, then lauded as reasonable by so many is just unreal.
Yah, we don't have, need, or want long distance service on our land line but every couple years it magically gets added back on (system upgrade? restore? planetary alignment?) and our bill goes up by several bucks. I wanted to get rid of the land line years ago but it's one of those ancillary issues the wife won't budge on.
This. It doesn't mean you're a boring person - there's only so much you want to share with co-workers. Can't get too personal, too political, or too funny...
My ideal would be lunch as a team on Tuesdays and Thursdays.
...you'd hate us just as much if we stayed out of everyone else's business.
This is exactly true. The US is seen as selfish and insular when it doesn't step right up and sacrifice soldiers. Is there any American, anywhere, that hasn't been upbraided by a Briton about a) being a reckless cowboy always ready to start a war and, practically in the same breath, b) showing up to WWII so "late"?
The US will receive hatred and vitriol proportionate to its global influence regardless of the paths taken, and Americans would do well to not get worked up over it while giving due concern.
Yes, there are different types and categories. I fall into the same category as you, but being able to play without looking at the fretboard leaves you more flexible for all situations. It is not necessary but ideal and as such teachers should promote this rather than assume what road their student will take. The last band I was in was a trio, and the lead singer/guitarist was amazing at hardly ever having to look at the fretboard, playing all guitar parts because I was on bass and his brother was on drums. It was a definite advantage.
I'm a musician but my sons aren't (yet). The 7yo wants to learn guitar, but it's difficult for a beginner. Done well, something like this could get him excited about practicing every day. Worth looking into. I hope they have plenty of beginner material.
Because, ideally, you should be looking at sheet music (or have the capacity to do so). I expect less dependence on watching the fretboard translates to more comfort singing into a microphone while playing as well.
As someone who looks at the fretboard as needed you might be surprised at the number of people who develop excellent technical skill with an instrument but have trouble memorizing music scores. My wife is like that. She can play piano far better than I, but if there's no sheet music around you'd never know it. I've memorized what I play because I cannot sight read (an annoying limitation I'll never find time to fix). With sheet music she puts me to shame.
Really! A decent beginners guitar will set you back $50...
You ever tried keeping a $50 guitar in tune during even a modest practice session? If you're just starting out you won't even know how badly you've fallen out of tune. The cost isn't your primary point, but I suggest people steer clear of el cheapo at Toys R Us, or even Guitar Center.
You don't need a game to do this! It's called Real Life and it's a lot more fun.
Sure, you don't need a game to do this, but anything that keeps my 8yo son excited about practice is worth looking into.
They treat their employees decently and donate a lot of money to charity.
Like when they pushed the US gov't so hard to increase H-1B work visas because there "isn't enough" homegrown talent, then laid off a large number of developers shortly thereafter?
Yes, the people crowing about the disaster while citing Pearl Harbor are clueless idiots, but with so many Americans using Facebook it's an unremarkable number. Thanks for posting this on every Japan thread with a judgement leveled at the US as a whole based on this insignificant sample. I'm sure the general public in your nation are curing cancer, sharing their own translations of Beowulf, and achieving other matchless deeds on Facebook.
The rich, if less is taken in the form of taxes, are *not* going to use it to create jobs. They are more than likely going to put it into savings/investments, whereas taking less from a middle-class family means that a higher proportion of the money "saved" will be put back into the immediate economy.
you do realise that making interest from "savings/investments" is possible because that money is used to conduct economic activity such as hiring people to produce goods and services, right?
More like credit to burn, and that's no reason to assume a forced purchase/course fee is acceptable or appropriate. Also, GP's earlier point that people already pay for many things they don't want doesn't make clear why people should be forced to pay for yet another thing they don't necessarily want. A lot of people still prefer the good old fashioned tactile book. Why isn't an optional program appropriate?
Yes... remind me, which countries in the region developed nuclear weapons against the non-proliferation treaties? Does this happen to include Israel? Bunch of fucking hypocrites - they should give up their nukes if they want their neighbors not to have them, a power imbalance like this clearly creates tensions.
Israel hasn't violated the NPT because they never signed it.
One could also say a power imbalance is what allowed Israel to survive the 20th century.
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Similarly, an election does not show the electorate's ability to think rationally, but rather who's political campaign staff is more efficient. I propose some kind of critical thinking requirement in the public education curriculum.
Iran doesn't need a missile or stealth bomber to deliver a warhead - a freighter hold or terrorist cell could also work. I don't say that because i think they'll do it (nor would i say they won't do it) but looking at the most expensive options and rejecting those doesn't do the analysis any good. And asking whether a country will use nukes is of temporary usefulness. This is the culture that fielded the children's martyr brigade against Iraq's well-supplied machine gun nests. After allowing the nuclear genie out of the bottle who can say what the next 40 years will bring?
I just focus better in my tiny, half-walled cell at the office. There are a lot of people parading to my office for help with various issues and it's a fine thing for my boss to see that, too. I get lots of chances to work at home, sometimes without the kids, but there are many distractions. Who wants to tune a query or troubleshoot PL/SQL when there's an XBox sitting 10 feet away?
And what country are you from? Name one country that has not engaged in "toppling peaceful regimes, undermining democracies, assassinating legitimate heads of state, waging illegitimate war and generally just fucking things up and killing thousands just for the sake of funnelling money into the right pockets" for thousands of years. If you want to hold us (America) responsible for every action our country has been engaged in, I would wager that our 250 year history is nothing compared to the rampant bloodshed, Feudalism, and barbaric nature of 95% of the planet.
The fucking Swiss.
Laundered money for the Nazis. Probably still some gold Jewish teeth rattling in a few bank vaults over there.
New Zealand.
Let's go with "Who stole their land from the native Maoris, Alex."
I was a rater for 1 year some time ago. My impression was the rating was against results from updates they were considering for the production algorithm. Testing at the QA level. I found it boring and soulless, but a wide knowledge of obscure, otherwise-useless facts really facilitated the work. Sometimes a little-known double meaning for a concept would cause disagreements among raters, and once a moderator hated my opinion so much he had my home phone called several times to demand I change my rating.
No, his reposonse is "almost constantly"
As much as people hate the tea party, a balanced budget constitutional amendment is not evil.
It says a lot that the balanced budget argument is often these days reviled variously as crazy, ignorant, and/or evil.
Wait, someone said most US citizens have more debt than cash, so inflation is a good thing because it only hurts lenders and responsible people who've been managing their finances carefully! Nevermind that most people use a generally fixed income to pay for basic needs... Seeing this idea posted to Slashdot, then lauded as reasonable by so many is just unreal.
Yah, we don't have, need, or want long distance service on our land line but every couple years it magically gets added back on (system upgrade? restore? planetary alignment?) and our bill goes up by several bucks. I wanted to get rid of the land line years ago but it's one of those ancillary issues the wife won't budge on.
This. It doesn't mean you're a boring person - there's only so much you want to share with co-workers. Can't get too personal, too political, or too funny... My ideal would be lunch as a team on Tuesdays and Thursdays.
I'm wondering whether it would be able to capture phone storage thru USB to allow them to work on passwords/encryption later.
...you'd hate us just as much if we stayed out of everyone else's business.
This is exactly true. The US is seen as selfish and insular when it doesn't step right up and sacrifice soldiers. Is there any American, anywhere, that hasn't been upbraided by a Briton about a) being a reckless cowboy always ready to start a war and, practically in the same breath, b) showing up to WWII so "late"? The US will receive hatred and vitriol proportionate to its global influence regardless of the paths taken, and Americans would do well to not get worked up over it while giving due concern.
if he writes a long-ass article about his meddling in the janitorial hiring within his company based on personal mop preferences, yes.
Yes, there are different types and categories. I fall into the same category as you, but being able to play without looking at the fretboard leaves you more flexible for all situations. It is not necessary but ideal and as such teachers should promote this rather than assume what road their student will take. The last band I was in was a trio, and the lead singer/guitarist was amazing at hardly ever having to look at the fretboard, playing all guitar parts because I was on bass and his brother was on drums. It was a definite advantage.
I'm a musician but my sons aren't (yet). The 7yo wants to learn guitar, but it's difficult for a beginner. Done well, something like this could get him excited about practicing every day. Worth looking into. I hope they have plenty of beginner material.
Because, ideally, you should be looking at sheet music (or have the capacity to do so). I expect less dependence on watching the fretboard translates to more comfort singing into a microphone while playing as well. As someone who looks at the fretboard as needed you might be surprised at the number of people who develop excellent technical skill with an instrument but have trouble memorizing music scores. My wife is like that. She can play piano far better than I, but if there's no sheet music around you'd never know it. I've memorized what I play because I cannot sight read (an annoying limitation I'll never find time to fix). With sheet music she puts me to shame.
...or you could end up like the uncountable number of very awful guitar players or people who just plain gave up.
Really! A decent beginners guitar will set you back $50...
You ever tried keeping a $50 guitar in tune during even a modest practice session? If you're just starting out you won't even know how badly you've fallen out of tune. The cost isn't your primary point, but I suggest people steer clear of el cheapo at Toys R Us, or even Guitar Center.
You don't need a game to do this! It's called Real Life and it's a lot more fun.
Sure, you don't need a game to do this, but anything that keeps my 8yo son excited about practice is worth looking into.
They treat their employees decently and donate a lot of money to charity.
Like when they pushed the US gov't so hard to increase H-1B work visas because there "isn't enough" homegrown talent, then laid off a large number of developers shortly thereafter?
Yes, the people crowing about the disaster while citing Pearl Harbor are clueless idiots, but with so many Americans using Facebook it's an unremarkable number. Thanks for posting this on every Japan thread with a judgement leveled at the US as a whole based on this insignificant sample. I'm sure the general public in your nation are curing cancer, sharing their own translations of Beowulf, and achieving other matchless deeds on Facebook.
Poor money can't afford to get itself spent on real-estate projects in Dubai.
This is true, poor money must settle for being funneled thru Walmart and spent on the Three Gorges Dam and whatnot.
The rich, if less is taken in the form of taxes, are *not* going to use it to create jobs. They are more than likely going to put it into savings/investments, whereas taking less from a middle-class family means that a higher proportion of the money "saved" will be put back into the immediate economy.
you do realise that making interest from "savings/investments" is possible because that money is used to conduct economic activity such as hiring people to produce goods and services, right?
More like credit to burn, and that's no reason to assume a forced purchase/course fee is acceptable or appropriate. Also, GP's earlier point that people already pay for many things they don't want doesn't make clear why people should be forced to pay for yet another thing they don't necessarily want. A lot of people still prefer the good old fashioned tactile book. Why isn't an optional program appropriate?
Yes... remind me, which countries in the region developed nuclear weapons against the non-proliferation treaties? Does this happen to include Israel? Bunch of fucking hypocrites - they should give up their nukes if they want their neighbors not to have them, a power imbalance like this clearly creates tensions.
Israel hasn't violated the NPT because they never signed it.
One could also say a power imbalance is what allowed Israel to survive the 20th century.