Except that the IRS targeting of tea party organization was also accompanied by targeting of organizations with Progressive in their name. And more left organizations were actually denied tax exempt status (which isn't hard because no tea party organizations were denied tax exempt status). And the IRS guy in charge was a Bush appointee. And Bush era IRS targeted liberal churches that dared to mention there was an election happening at the same time that conservative churches were beating the drums to elect Bush. And really the tragedy is that we let any groups that are not 100% dedicated to social welfare claim tax exempt status at all and/or hide their donors.
Love how conservatives continually claim to be persecuted and the facts tend to disagree.
I also stayed away from the forums because I just didn't have time to participate and by the time I read through a interesting topic I really didn't want to start posting on a topic that was already pretty old. I don't care for the forums on Coursera. It might be easier if I could filter by recent topics so I can focus on the conversations that are fresher. (If that is already possible then I missed it some how.)
I do like the student evaluation process in the class I'm taking. There just doesn't seem to be a way to find those people and continue conversing on the assignment.
This is ridiculous. Many religions promote the idea of people thinking for themselves. Society of Friends and Unitarian Universalists are the easy ones, but Baptist congregations have their own interpretations of the core Baptist creed.
Unitarian Universalist religion is non-creedal and follows seven principles http://www.uua.org/beliefs/principles/index.shtml to try to make the world a better place. Not because there is some reward waiting, but because it's the right thing to do as a people.
Religion is helpful to build communities that come together to help make the world a better place. I'd be happy if atheists and agnostics also built communities to do the same.
While going to church won't make you a better person unless you want to change, there are moral lessons to be learned and heard. Yes many churches are dogmatic. Some are not. There are a number of non-creedal churches (Unitarian Universalist, Quakers (Religous Society of Friends), and others.) I can't speech to religions like Buddhism or Hinduism though.
The point is where are people going to be hearing about treating people better if not at a church? Ideally the parents. Where else? And, sure churches have done bad things. So have governments and we still have those too.
Choosing not to participate in a religion just lets other people control the power churches/religion to influence behavior.
When my wife's mother died, we recorded her reading her favorite Christmas story and other favorite children's stories for us to play for our children (we didn't yet have children at that time). It was a nice way for our kids to eventually see my wife's mother.
So do I. I'd rather only see ads for what may interest me. This has to be a win for both me and the company buying the ad. I'm happier because I see stuff I'm interested in and they are happier because if I know about it I'm more likely to buy it.
I can remember complaining to Yahoo years ago about them advertising services to me that my computer didn't support. What was the point of telling me about some cool new service if Mac or Linux wasn't supported. Heck they had to know what system I was running, better they put an ad there that would actually be useful.
My kids have a idiosyncratic food reaction to corn and corn syrup. (We discovered it when they were infants.) We pretty much don't have anything in the house with corn. I hated to give up corn bread, corn chips and popcorn but with me the only one eating it (my wife gave it up too while breast-feeding) it was easier.
No processed foods, no fast foods (all their buns mostly have corn syrup). and just a few sodas now and then that don't have corn syrup. Only a few brands of ice cream without it.
We had trouble finding BBQ without corn syrup but found a few brands. Trader Joe's now has a brand of catsup without corn syrup but we did okay without it for a long time.
I made marshmallows from maple syrup so our kids could have s'mores at camp.
It has been a pain but it has also made us more aware of the sugar in foods and we just make our own or do without. Avoiding processed foods is the easiest way.
Manually coded English (the more proper identification of Signed English) usually has significant trouble with homonyms and often has trouble with words built like "ice cream." Instead of using the ASL sign for "ice cream" I've seen people sign/ICE/ then sign/CREAM/. Which makes no sense when you could just use the sign/ICE CREAM/
It's written component was developed by William Stokoe for research purposes much like the International Phonetic Alphabet is used to transcribe spoken speech.
There's a lot of grammar encoded in facial expressions and body position have information much like vocal pitch and inflection convey in spoken language.
I will say that there is a continuum of languages from ASL to Signed English that most signers can flow from one to the other without too much trouble.
Medicare used to be the floor but it's apparently becoming the ceiling now.
I have been telling my congress critters that a public option is important to me. I'd love to start my own business but I can't afford to pay for insurance for my family without getting it through an established company.
In some ways it's actually worse. My wife overheard parents talking about all the tough projects their kids had to do and how the parents ended up doing most of the work. When they asked my wife what she did with her kids, she told them, "We just make them do the work. How else will they learn?"
This was for elementary school. I was shocked as who cares about the kids grades in elementary school? This is the time to learn and do it yourself. My kids do their own planning for science fairs, pinewood derby, and school projects. We help and advise but they have to do the work.
Some where along the line people have forgotten how important failure is. You learn more by failing than getting it right the first time.
I was able to visit one christian private school in the San Francisco Bay area was and looked at one of their geology text books. The chapter on the Earth structure started out saying that since God created the Earth and because people can never hope to fully understand God's will, mankind can never understand the structure of the Earth.
I feel sorry for the kids who went to that school.
Educational software/hardware has long been a bit of a scam. As much fun as it was to shoot Injuns in Oregon Trail or sell lemonade with Lemonade Stand, I'm not exactly sure what it accomplished. I think computers have their place, but this idea that they could do for education what they did for business has never really come to fruition.
As someone involved in developing children's software in the mid to late 90s at The Learning Company, we designed games to match standards and tried to avoid multiple choice questions (which is really just one of the lowest levels of Bloom's Taxometry of Learning) and try to move up the hierarchy. The problem is that you really need some kind of intelligence to interpret a child's answers when you get into more sophisticated learning.
Early games that had more sophisticated problem solving like Rocky's Boots or open ending exploring like Millie's Math House got left behind as the things turned mass market and it became important for marketing purposes to put a year in a box.
Games like Lemonade stand teach lots of things having to do with running a business. Predict your sales, market your product, price your product appropriately. Some versions are more sophisticated than others.
Sure Oregon Trail doesn't handle issues when the players diverge from what would be expected behavior on the trail and in a classroom where you are leading a unit on the Oregon Trail teachers should be watching something about what the children are doing. But if you are just playing a game then sure play to win.
And young kids should be using chalk, crayons, and other tactile objects instead of spending too much time on computers. I remember letters from parents and teachers who used my products and it helped kids learn to read but I wouldn't use those programs as a substitute for a teacher but using computer programs and a good teacher are beneficial.
The second to last sentence in the article. Maybe they have.
"I want to be the president of China," said three-year-old girl, Liu Xiao Liao. "Then people will be scared of me."
NPR the main organization gets about 2% of revenues from the government. All in competitive grants.
Member stations might get as much as 14% from government (individual stations) and I'll bet most of that goes to stations that service areas thinly populated but I can't find figures.
As for bias, it will depend upon your on point of view but the best NPR shows have a bias to the truth. Air Talk with Larry Mantle has had some of the best reporting on an issue and he is comfortable calling out speakers who don't tell the truth on the air.
I've seen that very few NPR shows will call out a speaker's comments when they contradict fact, no matter if the speaker is conservative or liberal.
As long as the news is just a mouthpiece for groups to put their own spin on facts, truth suffers. We need more reporters like Larry Mantle who call out speakers who don't tell the truth.
No body likes the truth-sayers though (ask any whistle blower) and I doubt there's much of a business model for truth these days.
German or Designer board games often balance things by auctions or player choice. There are still first move advantages but auction do help balance.
Though different game groups often have different balance points. I've played with some groups that valued items differently in Princes of Florence than my usual group did.
Some games like Power Grid reverse the turn order to give advantages to players behind.
And Agricola has different players all picking from exclusive actions where each player is trying to follow their own strategy based on some of their cards (minor improvements and occupations).
Designer board games are fairly well balanced but skill will generally put you ahead. They are often designed to play with the entire family (most have rules about the youngest player going first usually a kid playing against parents).
Sure some of these games can be considered lightly themed, but the interesting part of the games are the mechanics not the theme. Some of the better games have mechanics that go well with the theme. Other games are less successful in matching theme to mechanic. Some of us are more interested in the mechanics though.
Slashdot Mirror
http://www.forbes.com/sites/kashmirhill/2012/02/16/how-target-figured-out-a-teen-girl-was-pregnant-before-her-father-did/ ...says no. When people got creeped out by the pregnancy targeted ads, they mixed them with random coupons and people used the pregnancy coupons.
Except that the IRS targeting of tea party organization was also accompanied by targeting of organizations with Progressive in their name. And more left organizations were actually denied tax exempt status (which isn't hard because no tea party organizations were denied tax exempt status). And the IRS guy in charge was a Bush appointee. And Bush era IRS targeted liberal churches that dared to mention there was an election happening at the same time that conservative churches were beating the drums to elect Bush. And really the tragedy is that we let any groups that are not 100% dedicated to social welfare claim tax exempt status at all and/or hide their donors.
Love how conservatives continually claim to be persecuted and the facts tend to disagree.
I start steam in offline mode all the time in Windows 7. It asks if you want to go online but you can say no and it works.
I also stayed away from the forums because I just didn't have time to participate and by the time I read through a interesting topic I really didn't want to start posting on a topic that was already pretty old. I don't care for the forums on Coursera. It might be easier if I could filter by recent topics so I can focus on the conversations that are fresher. (If that is already possible then I missed it some how.)
I do like the student evaluation process in the class I'm taking. There just doesn't seem to be a way to find those people and continue conversing on the assignment.
um, there is an option to sign up without facebook. Did so without any problems.
It probably won't be like this
http://www.boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/2192/rivets
This is ridiculous. Many religions promote the idea of people thinking for themselves. Society of Friends and Unitarian Universalists are the easy ones, but Baptist congregations have their own interpretations of the core Baptist creed.
Try Unitarian Universalism.
Unitarian Universalist religion is non-creedal and follows seven principles http://www.uua.org/beliefs/principles/index.shtml
to try to make the world a better place. Not because there is some reward waiting, but because it's the right thing to do as a people.
Religion is helpful to build communities that come together to help make the world a better place. I'd be happy if atheists and agnostics also built communities to do the same.
I opt out all the time, but at the airports I go to they are not always running. But I also rarely see people opt out.
While going to church won't make you a better person unless you want to change, there are moral lessons to be learned and heard. Yes many churches are dogmatic. Some are not. There are a number of non-creedal churches (Unitarian Universalist, Quakers (Religous Society of Friends), and others.) I can't speech to religions like Buddhism or Hinduism though.
The point is where are people going to be hearing about treating people better if not at a church? Ideally the parents. Where else? And, sure churches have done bad things. So have governments and we still have those too.
Choosing not to participate in a religion just lets other people control the power churches/religion to influence behavior.
David Brin's book - The Transparent Society talks about this kind of city/state/nation over 12 years ago.
In general since the commonfolk will likely lose privacy the goal was to make sure the elites do to.
http://www.davidbrin.com/transparent.htm
Probably Charles Lee Smith, 1928 in Little Rock, Arkansas http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Lee_Smith
When my wife's mother died, we recorded her reading her favorite Christmas story and other favorite children's stories for us to play for our children (we didn't yet have children at that time). It was a nice way for our kids to eventually see my wife's mother.
So do I. I'd rather only see ads for what may interest me. This has to be a win for both me and the company buying the ad. I'm happier because I see stuff I'm interested in and they are happier because if I know about it I'm more likely to buy it.
I can remember complaining to Yahoo years ago about them advertising services to me that my computer didn't support. What was the point of telling me about some cool new service if Mac or Linux wasn't supported. Heck they had to know what system I was running, better they put an ad there that would actually be useful.
No processed foods, no fast foods (all their buns mostly have corn syrup). and just a few sodas now and then that don't have corn syrup. Only a few brands of ice cream without it.
We had trouble finding BBQ without corn syrup but found a few brands. Trader Joe's now has a brand of catsup without corn syrup but we did okay without it for a long time.
I made marshmallows from maple syrup so our kids could have s'mores at camp.
It has been a pain but it has also made us more aware of the sugar in foods and we just make our own or do without. Avoiding processed foods is the easiest way.
Or take a look at the list of quotes from the founding fathers on religion. http://skeptically.org/thinkersonreligion/id9.html
Manually coded English (the more proper identification of Signed English) usually has significant trouble with homonyms and often has trouble with words built like "ice cream." Instead of using the ASL sign for "ice cream" I've seen people sign /ICE/ then sign /CREAM/. Which makes no sense when you could just use the sign /ICE CREAM/
It's written component was developed by William Stokoe for research purposes much like the International Phonetic Alphabet is used to transcribe spoken speech.
There's a lot of grammar encoded in facial expressions and body position have information much like vocal pitch and inflection convey in spoken language.
I will say that there is a continuum of languages from ASL to Signed English that most signers can flow from one to the other without too much trouble.
Medicare used to be the floor but it's apparently becoming the ceiling now.
I have been telling my congress critters that a public option is important to me. I'd love to start my own business but I can't afford to pay for insurance for my family without getting it through an established company.
Secret ballots are a help to prevent vote selling. If you don't know how I voted you don't know if I voted the way you paid me to vote.
This was for elementary school. I was shocked as who cares about the kids grades in elementary school? This is the time to learn and do it yourself. My kids do their own planning for science fairs, pinewood derby, and school projects. We help and advise but they have to do the work.
Some where along the line people have forgotten how important failure is. You learn more by failing than getting it right the first time.
I was able to visit one christian private school in the San Francisco Bay area was and looked at one of their geology text books. The chapter on the Earth structure started out saying that since God created the Earth and because people can never hope to fully understand God's will, mankind can never understand the structure of the Earth. I feel sorry for the kids who went to that school.
Educational software/hardware has long been a bit of a scam. As much fun as it was to shoot Injuns in Oregon Trail or sell lemonade with Lemonade Stand, I'm not exactly sure what it accomplished. I think computers have their place, but this idea that they could do for education what they did for business has never really come to fruition.
As someone involved in developing children's software in the mid to late 90s at The Learning Company, we designed games to match standards and tried to avoid multiple choice questions (which is really just one of the lowest levels of Bloom's Taxometry of Learning) and try to move up the hierarchy. The problem is that you really need some kind of intelligence to interpret a child's answers when you get into more sophisticated learning.
Early games that had more sophisticated problem solving like Rocky's Boots or open ending exploring like Millie's Math House got left behind as the things turned mass market and it became important for marketing purposes to put a year in a box.
Games like Lemonade stand teach lots of things having to do with running a business. Predict your sales, market your product, price your product appropriately. Some versions are more sophisticated than others.
Sure Oregon Trail doesn't handle issues when the players diverge from what would be expected behavior on the trail and in a classroom where you are leading a unit on the Oregon Trail teachers should be watching something about what the children are doing. But if you are just playing a game then sure play to win.
And young kids should be using chalk, crayons, and other tactile objects instead of spending too much time on computers. I remember letters from parents and teachers who used my products and it helped kids learn to read but I wouldn't use those programs as a substitute for a teacher but using computer programs and a good teacher are beneficial.
The second to last sentence in the article. Maybe they have. "I want to be the president of China," said three-year-old girl, Liu Xiao Liao. "Then people will be scared of me."
Member stations might get as much as 14% from government (individual stations) and I'll bet most of that goes to stations that service areas thinly populated but I can't find figures.
As for bias, it will depend upon your on point of view but the best NPR shows have a bias to the truth. Air Talk with Larry Mantle has had some of the best reporting on an issue and he is comfortable calling out speakers who don't tell the truth on the air.
I've seen that very few NPR shows will call out a speaker's comments when they contradict fact, no matter if the speaker is conservative or liberal.
As long as the news is just a mouthpiece for groups to put their own spin on facts, truth suffers. We need more reporters like Larry Mantle who call out speakers who don't tell the truth.
No body likes the truth-sayers though (ask any whistle blower) and I doubt there's much of a business model for truth these days.
Though different game groups often have different balance points. I've played with some groups that valued items differently in Princes of Florence than my usual group did.
Some games like Power Grid reverse the turn order to give advantages to players behind.
And Agricola has different players all picking from exclusive actions where each player is trying to follow their own strategy based on some of their cards (minor improvements and occupations).
Designer board games are fairly well balanced but skill will generally put you ahead. They are often designed to play with the entire family (most have rules about the youngest player going first usually a kid playing against parents).
Sure some of these games can be considered lightly themed, but the interesting part of the games are the mechanics not the theme. Some of the better games have mechanics that go well with the theme. Other games are less successful in matching theme to mechanic. Some of us are more interested in the mechanics though.