Volvos have gotten better looking recently. I don't think I would ever expect radical styling out of Scandinavia given that using salt+pepper seems to be living dangerously, but than again they were a hell of a reliable vehicle. One of my mom's friends had one up until a few years ago and no repair shop would touch it since it was so rusted out, but then it was a '72 with 350,000+ miles on it. This was the typical ugly box on tires Volvo wagon, but that diesel engine just didn't want to die even the the salted Minnesota roads did the rest of the vehicle in.
That was kind of my impression as well. The Samsungs were great and the Intel ones being a very good reliable choice as well but not as good as Samsung. I went with the Intel ones since they were substantially cheaper (about 30%) when I bought than the comparable Samsung ones.
Looks to be on average about every other day (PDF warning) but there are often multiple auctions on the same day for T-Bills. As far as $100 bills I think you need to be a member bank of the Federal Reserve.
Then it would seem that the simple fix for New York would be to modify their law so that charter schools can't be selective in who they accept. It would make sense to allow an exemption for siblings though.
As far as longer hours and lower pay that doesn't seem to happen as much here, but that is based off of my wife's experience working at 2 charter schools. The pay was usually slightly lower but the difference was usually made up in other benefits, usually with health insurance being fully paid by the charter school with no monthly contribution.
While actually having the teachers be free to teach and not incumbered by bureaucrats does seem reasonable it seem that the lack of regulation and oversight have lead to other problems. One of the most notable examples in Minnesota was TIZA Academy and their separation of church and state issues. There was another school that needed better oversight and was basically used to funnel money into private hand but that was even farther back and that one just folded quietly so I don't remember much. As yet another example the previous school my wife worked at got a new director (import for New York City) who seems to need adult supervision and is basically running the school into the ground, much as she almost did with the school she came from in NYC. In each of the last 2 years there has been at least 1/3 turnover in teaching staff each year and large withdrawals of families from the school. Of those who have left voluntarily (families and teachers) they all cite the current director's actions and inabilities. My wife was actually relieved to be fired last year so she wouldn't be working under the school's current director, who was insistent that my was was a poor teacher yet had been working at the school for 8 years was one of the lead teachers, and up until that point was always highly rated by all of the previous directors. There were other teachers who were also let go under similar circumstances and the general consensus among them was that it was done as a sort of house cleaning to get rid of teachers might question the directors abilities and show her incompetents. It would appear that this is still on going.
The tire idea is interesting, but I would think it would be easier to auto adjust the pressure so that the tire was either riding on the hard rubber strip in the middle (high pressure), or riding on the softer rubber on the rest of the tire (lower pressure). It seems like a better system than adjusting camber angles.
The reason charter schools are cheaper is that they can pass the difficult kids on to the public schools.
I keep hearing this but in Minnesota this isn't the case. Charter schools are, for the most part, not allowed to be selective in the students (see Subd. 9. Admission requirements.) they accept as charter schools are publicly funded. The only preference that a charter school can offer is in also allowing siblings to attend, which makes sense given that charter schools will likely have a slightly different schedule than the schools in the surrounding district.
Because most of the charter schools offer smaller class sizes as one of their selling points the local schools like to encourage the parents of "problem" children to enroll at a charter school so they can get more individual attention. So it isn't uncommon here for the local charter school to have a higher percentage of "difficult" children than the surrounding schools. For example the last year my wife taught at one she had 12 out of 28 children in her class on IEPs (Individual Education Plans for children with special needs) and this was a regular class. It usually takes a few years for this to happen since the schools initially are populated by founding families children but once space starts to open up then the dumping begins. I am actually amazed that the charter schools manage to do as well as they do.
The other big problem I have seen is that within charter schools there is a lot more office politics since in Minnesota the teachers at charters are not part of a union and do not get tenure. The administrators tend to be very petty and seek their own fiefdoms.
How about we have this chat bot and a real 13 year old Ukrainian boy who knows limited English respond and let the judges decide which is the computer.
Actually the SKS has a 10 round capacity, not 5. The SKS is also a popular one for bans because it looks kind of similar to the AK, more so if you have an aftermarket duckbill 30 round clip for it.
From what I understand you can change what the machine believes it is loaded with. So if it is physically loaded up with $20 bills then you tell it is loaded with $1 bills and let people make withdrawals. The person goes and makes a withdrawal for $40 dollars, so $40 gets subtracted from their account but instead they get $800 physical dollars because they got 40 $20 bills.
Minecraft supplements, not replaces, Lego in the minds of creative kids. Minecraft is neat, and it lets you do a lot, but there's something special about being physically engaged with what you're building. You can't take your Minecraft creation out back to play by the stream (unless you recreate it with Legos?).
For example I had a friend who was selling Mary Kay products and she wanted to show off how well a product like this worked and after the demo I made a comment that it worked and smelled just like Gojo. She wanted to know if I would buy it and I asked how much and then said no because I can buy a gallon of Gojo for something like $15 (this was years ago)
Probably the most accurate statement applicable to Snowden
Earth President Susanna Luchenko: Well, Captain, you caused quite a stir. Half of EarthForce wants to give you a kiss on the cheek and the Medal of Honor. The other half wants you taken out and shot. As a politician you learn how to compromise. Which by all right means I should give you the Medal of Honor, then have you shot. I confess the idea had a certain appeal when I mentioned it to the Joint Chiefs two hours ago. [] The bitch of it is that you probably did the right thing. But you did it in the wrong way, in the inconvenient way. Now you have to pay the penalty for that. I know it stinks, but that's the way it is.
Then you have the quiet crazies who are more likely to act instead of being internet tough guys. The morons who spout off don't worry me much since they are like most slashdotters in that they typically talk a big game on the internet but don't ever follow through. A perfect example is all the people who never bother contacting their various elected representatives to voice their opinion but piss and moan about what their representatives do.
Are they complete myrmidons? Are they "true believers" who really managed to convince themselves this is all for some kind of nebulous greater good? Are they simply sociopaths with no conscience?
Based off of the ones I know it seems like it is mix of all 3 for the cops I know. some are the power hungry assholes, some are loyal to the force above all else, but it seems that most I know are the true believers.
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Volvos have gotten better looking recently. I don't think I would ever expect radical styling out of Scandinavia given that using salt+pepper seems to be living dangerously, but than again they were a hell of a reliable vehicle. One of my mom's friends had one up until a few years ago and no repair shop would touch it since it was so rusted out, but then it was a '72 with 350,000+ miles on it. This was the typical ugly box on tires Volvo wagon, but that diesel engine just didn't want to die even the the salted Minnesota roads did the rest of the vehicle in.
That was kind of my impression as well. The Samsungs were great and the Intel ones being a very good reliable choice as well but not as good as Samsung. I went with the Intel ones since they were substantially cheaper (about 30%) when I bought than the comparable Samsung ones.
Greasy enough so it exits faster that in entered.
Here is Minnesota it is probably also sexist thanks to Amy Klobuchar. The linked is to her news release on expanding H-1B visas.
Looks to be on average about every other day (PDF warning) but there are often multiple auctions on the same day for T-Bills. As far as $100 bills I think you need to be a member bank of the Federal Reserve.
Or maybe the universe is so competitive that anyone who announces their presence eats the bad end of a relativistic weapon.
Maybe we have already seen evidence of such things. As far relativistic weapons go this seems to be a pretty cool explanation of their effects.
Then it would seem that the simple fix for New York would be to modify their law so that charter schools can't be selective in who they accept. It would make sense to allow an exemption for siblings though.
As far as longer hours and lower pay that doesn't seem to happen as much here, but that is based off of my wife's experience working at 2 charter schools. The pay was usually slightly lower but the difference was usually made up in other benefits, usually with health insurance being fully paid by the charter school with no monthly contribution.
While actually having the teachers be free to teach and not incumbered by bureaucrats does seem reasonable it seem that the lack of regulation and oversight have lead to other problems. One of the most notable examples in Minnesota was TIZA Academy and their separation of church and state issues. There was another school that needed better oversight and was basically used to funnel money into private hand but that was even farther back and that one just folded quietly so I don't remember much. As yet another example the previous school my wife worked at got a new director (import for New York City) who seems to need adult supervision and is basically running the school into the ground, much as she almost did with the school she came from in NYC. In each of the last 2 years there has been at least 1/3 turnover in teaching staff each year and large withdrawals of families from the school. Of those who have left voluntarily (families and teachers) they all cite the current director's actions and inabilities. My wife was actually relieved to be fired last year so she wouldn't be working under the school's current director, who was insistent that my was was a poor teacher yet had been working at the school for 8 years was one of the lead teachers, and up until that point was always highly rated by all of the previous directors. There were other teachers who were also let go under similar circumstances and the general consensus among them was that it was done as a sort of house cleaning to get rid of teachers might question the directors abilities and show her incompetents. It would appear that this is still on going.
The tire idea is interesting, but I would think it would be easier to auto adjust the pressure so that the tire was either riding on the hard rubber strip in the middle (high pressure), or riding on the softer rubber on the rest of the tire (lower pressure). It seems like a better system than adjusting camber angles.
The reason charter schools are cheaper is that they can pass the difficult kids on to the public schools.
I keep hearing this but in Minnesota this isn't the case.
Charter schools are, for the most part, not allowed to be selective in the students (see Subd. 9. Admission requirements.) they accept as charter schools are publicly funded. The only preference that a charter school can offer is in also allowing siblings to attend, which makes sense given that charter schools will likely have a slightly different schedule than the schools in the surrounding district.
Because most of the charter schools offer smaller class sizes as one of their selling points the local schools like to encourage the parents of "problem" children to enroll at a charter school so they can get more individual attention. So it isn't uncommon here for the local charter school to have a higher percentage of "difficult" children than the surrounding schools. For example the last year my wife taught at one she had 12 out of 28 children in her class on IEPs (Individual Education Plans for children with special needs) and this was a regular class. It usually takes a few years for this to happen since the schools initially are populated by founding families children but once space starts to open up then the dumping begins. I am actually amazed that the charter schools manage to do as well as they do.
The other big problem I have seen is that within charter schools there is a lot more office politics since in Minnesota the teachers at charters are not part of a union and do not get tenure. The administrators tend to be very petty and seek their own fiefdoms.
If there is truly intellgient AI in the future, it's reasonable to expect its evolution to start with easier people to emulate before trying harder.
So you are saying if I wanted to have an easy time passing the Turing test I should have a chat bot that imitates a politician.
How about we have this chat bot and a real 13 year old Ukrainian boy who knows limited English respond and let the judges decide which is the computer.
I think their funding needs to be cut by more than 1/10.
Hot enough coming in at 1950C in air
I think it is more dependent on how much of a statist one is rather than their liberal/conservative (left/right) leanings.
That settles it, time to piss in someone's gas tank.
Actually the SKS has a 10 round capacity, not 5. The SKS is also a popular one for bans because it looks kind of similar to the AK, more so if you have an aftermarket duckbill 30 round clip for it.
Well it has been done before and this seems like something that would be accessible when in operator mode.
From what I understand you can change what the machine believes it is loaded with. So if it is physically loaded up with $20 bills then you tell it is loaded with $1 bills and let people make withdrawals. The person goes and makes a withdrawal for $40 dollars, so $40 gets subtracted from their account but instead they get $800 physical dollars because they got 40 $20 bills.
Of all the days to not have mod points. Parent needs some +1s even if they are Anonymous Coward.
Minecraft supplements, not replaces, Lego in the minds of creative kids. Minecraft is neat, and it lets you do a lot, but there's something special about being physically engaged with what you're building. You can't take your Minecraft creation out back to play by the stream (unless you recreate it with Legos?).
And now the inverse is also true
Sadly this is too true.
For example I had a friend who was selling Mary Kay products and she wanted to show off how well a product like this worked and after the demo I made a comment that it worked and smelled just like Gojo. She wanted to know if I would buy it and I asked how much and then said no because I can buy a gallon of Gojo for something like $15 (this was years ago)
I would agree with that
Earth President Susanna Luchenko: Well, Captain, you caused quite a stir. Half of EarthForce wants to give you a kiss on the cheek and the Medal of Honor. The other half wants you taken out and shot. As a politician you learn how to compromise. Which by all right means I should give you the Medal of Honor, then have you shot. I confess the idea had a certain appeal when I mentioned it to the Joint Chiefs two hours ago. [] The bitch of it is that you probably did the right thing. But you did it in the wrong way, in the inconvenient way. Now you have to pay the penalty for that. I know it stinks, but that's the way it is.
Then you have the quiet crazies who are more likely to act instead of being internet tough guys. The morons who spout off don't worry me much since they are like most slashdotters in that they typically talk a big game on the internet but don't ever follow through. A perfect example is all the people who never bother contacting their various elected representatives to voice their opinion but piss and moan about what their representatives do.
Are they complete myrmidons? Are they "true believers" who really managed to convince themselves this is all for some kind of nebulous greater good? Are they simply sociopaths with no conscience?
Based off of the ones I know it seems like it is mix of all 3 for the cops I know. some are the power hungry assholes, some are loyal to the force above all else, but it seems that most I know are the true believers.