While I understand how some students do not have interests in math and therefore don't want to take it, but I have a problem when schools are encouraging them to drop those classes. The kids do it to have a better GPA and the schools do it so their average GPA is higher. There is something wrong there. I disagree with a grading system in general (this is not because I fail, in fact I got all A's). The purpose of schools is to educate kids. The purpose of education is make sure that we have all the knowledge necessary is succeed in life. Grade school education is supposed to give students general knowledge so that they may choose to specialize in whatever they want. Encouraging kids to take "easy" classes just so they and the school has a higher GPA is just a way of the school getting profit. It seems that greed and ambition is invading even our schools. Schools, like churches, shouldn't be made or run to garner a profit but rather to teach in whatever they are supposed to.
Thank you for the info. I did not realize that there were laws about that. I still have to point out that more than half of the states don't have laws to enforce electors to vote for who they pledge for.
Even if the vote is true, once the votes have been tallied, the winning party picks representatives who cast the electoral vote. Thing is, those representatives can vote for whoever they want. So far this has never changed an election but it could. There is no such thing as an unhackable computer. It sounds like all these voting machines are on a network, why not make each machine totally seperate? Make them not part of a network at all. Then at the end those voting counter people could just plug them into something and have it print out the votes. Then even if a hacker could hack one. It would just be one. Sure he could make it so that that one machine was several million votes for one side or the other but then wouldn't the people there notice when all the other machines have a couple hundred votes on them and the one hacked one has millions? The hacker would have to make it a reasonable number and to change the outcome of the election, hundreds of machines would have to be hacked. I think that it would be hard to hack that many without someone finding out.
I owe the idea to Larry Niven. In his sci-fi books he talks about how babies can't be born in null gee. Don't know whether he is right but it could be a potential problem for long distance flights and starting space colonies.
Even if it is habitable and/or Earth-like (extremely unlikely, even though the orbit is similar the mass of it could be ridiculously different)I doubt we will got there until we have near instantaneous travel and/or it is our last resort. First of all, we can't afford it or at least no one wants to pay for it. We can't afford and don't have the tech for a manned flight to any other planets in our own solar system, much less one 300 light years away. Also, no government will be willing to send someone there in a ship because way before they would get there we would likely create a faster engine. Then we will be hitting ourselves for sending it then. It is a self-perpetuating cycle. Even if we were going the speed of light, we would have to do some experimenting and see if babies can be born in null gee since the crew would have to raise kids on the ship and have them do the same in order to get there with people still alive.
I hardly think it matters whether the government or president is one party or another. Especially recently it seems like Republicans are siding with Democrats and vise versa. I think that there should be NO political parties at all and politicians should just say what they believe and stick by it. It was what George Washington intended and I don't really see how political parties help us. All we get is a bunch of sheep going, "I'm a Democrat!" or" I'm a Republican!" And that's how they vote, never mind who the candidate or what the subject is. But then again, sheep don't really want to take the trouble to think about who or what they are voting for. That's the lazy American society for you.
The whole point of keeping a paper trail is to prevent some hacker from messing with the vote, correct? Well I doubt it is much harder to mess with a paper vote either. Shredding machine, fireplace, there are plenty of ways to get rid of paper votes. And then there are people who go down the street getting votes from people who normally wouldn't go vote only to throw all the votes in the trash can except for the ones that they want. There wouldn't have been recounts in the elections before electronic voting if paper votes where failsafe. Neither option is totally safe. I say we pick one a beef up whatever defenses we can get on it instead of having two easily altered methods.
While the article didn't say so, it seems as though this chip would deliver small electric shocks into the brain in order to stimulate and/or shut down a synapse(s). While this has been proven to work in a much more imprecise manner a fairly common side effect of the shock is a lose of memory. While this is much sounds much more careful wouldn't it be possible for the same side effects to take place. Some ex-epileptic person is in the middle of a business meeting when he gets a shock. "As you can see this would benefit the company greatly because of... Who am I?"
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While I understand how some students do not have interests in math and therefore don't want to take it, but I have a problem when schools are encouraging them to drop those classes. The kids do it to have a better GPA and the schools do it so their average GPA is higher. There is something wrong there. I disagree with a grading system in general (this is not because I fail, in fact I got all A's). The purpose of schools is to educate kids. The purpose of education is make sure that we have all the knowledge necessary is succeed in life. Grade school education is supposed to give students general knowledge so that they may choose to specialize in whatever they want. Encouraging kids to take "easy" classes just so they and the school has a higher GPA is just a way of the school getting profit. It seems that greed and ambition is invading even our schools. Schools, like churches, shouldn't be made or run to garner a profit but rather to teach in whatever they are supposed to.
Thank you for the info. I did not realize that there were laws about that. I still have to point out that more than half of the states don't have laws to enforce electors to vote for who they pledge for.
Even if the vote is true, once the votes have been tallied, the winning party picks representatives who cast the electoral vote. Thing is, those representatives can vote for whoever they want. So far this has never changed an election but it could. There is no such thing as an unhackable computer. It sounds like all these voting machines are on a network, why not make each machine totally seperate? Make them not part of a network at all. Then at the end those voting counter people could just plug them into something and have it print out the votes. Then even if a hacker could hack one. It would just be one. Sure he could make it so that that one machine was several million votes for one side or the other but then wouldn't the people there notice when all the other machines have a couple hundred votes on them and the one hacked one has millions? The hacker would have to make it a reasonable number and to change the outcome of the election, hundreds of machines would have to be hacked. I think that it would be hard to hack that many without someone finding out.
I owe the idea to Larry Niven. In his sci-fi books he talks about how babies can't be born in null gee. Don't know whether he is right but it could be a potential problem for long distance flights and starting space colonies.
Even if it is habitable and/or Earth-like (extremely unlikely, even though the orbit is similar the mass of it could be ridiculously different)I doubt we will got there until we have near instantaneous travel and/or it is our last resort. First of all, we can't afford it or at least no one wants to pay for it. We can't afford and don't have the tech for a manned flight to any other planets in our own solar system, much less one 300 light years away. Also, no government will be willing to send someone there in a ship because way before they would get there we would likely create a faster engine. Then we will be hitting ourselves for sending it then. It is a self-perpetuating cycle. Even if we were going the speed of light, we would have to do some experimenting and see if babies can be born in null gee since the crew would have to raise kids on the ship and have them do the same in order to get there with people still alive.
I hardly think it matters whether the government or president is one party or another. Especially recently it seems like Republicans are siding with Democrats and vise versa. I think that there should be NO political parties at all and politicians should just say what they believe and stick by it. It was what George Washington intended and I don't really see how political parties help us. All we get is a bunch of sheep going, "I'm a Democrat!" or" I'm a Republican!" And that's how they vote, never mind who the candidate or what the subject is. But then again, sheep don't really want to take the trouble to think about who or what they are voting for. That's the lazy American society for you.
The whole point of keeping a paper trail is to prevent some hacker from messing with the vote, correct? Well I doubt it is much harder to mess with a paper vote either. Shredding machine, fireplace, there are plenty of ways to get rid of paper votes. And then there are people who go down the street getting votes from people who normally wouldn't go vote only to throw all the votes in the trash can except for the ones that they want. There wouldn't have been recounts in the elections before electronic voting if paper votes where failsafe. Neither option is totally safe. I say we pick one a beef up whatever defenses we can get on it instead of having two easily altered methods.
While the article didn't say so, it seems as though this chip would deliver small electric shocks into the brain in order to stimulate and/or shut down a synapse(s). While this has been proven to work in a much more imprecise manner a fairly common side effect of the shock is a lose of memory. While this is much sounds much more careful wouldn't it be possible for the same side effects to take place. Some ex-epileptic person is in the middle of a business meeting when he gets a shock. "As you can see this would benefit the company greatly because of... Who am I?"
I wonder if this new paper can be folded more than seven times if the piece of paper is 8 1/2 x 11