There have been districts with >100% voter turn out as recently as last election, but I guess the dead voting is normal to you.
feel free to post an example, but meanwhile:
"Q: Is it true that there were more votes than voters in Wood County, Ohio, and St. Lucie County, Fla., and that Obama lost every state with photo ID laws?
A: No. A viral email that makes those claims is bogus. It fabricates Ohio and Florida results. Also, Obama won four of the 11 states with photo ID laws."
http://www.factcheck.org/2013/...
buy stuff for all your friends and neighbors. baby diapers, adult diapers, feminine hygiene products, athletic supporters, ayn rand books, al franken books.
Jimminy Cricket, this is the 21st century. Do you see no other political solution to your grievance than buying a gun?
Don't you realise there's no other functioning democracy other than the USA? The existence of guns is the only thing that keeps the country in check!/sarcasm.
honestly, i'm glad you had that sarcasm tag, because it's getting very close to real posts.
You have noticed that those other methods are currently not at all effective, right?
Soap box, Ballot Box, Jury Box, Ammo Box.
The soap box has failed and if you think the ballot box has any hope in hell of being useful you haven't noticed this years election cycle, and the SCOTUS has been fucking us more and more recently with bullshit like Citizens United.
Jimmy Cricket, this is the 21st century with massive amounts of global communication and you're not able to see how important this is to preventing tyranny? Did you study American history at all in school?
Fighting is a last resort, but stop being retarded and pretending people are acting like its the only choice. Some people understand history and don't like the idea of it repeating itself. I suggest a good high school course on what drove the colonization of america. Which unfortunately includes all the evil shit we did in the process which was a lot of horrible stuff don't get me wrong, but theres a DAMN GOOD REASON why American's love their guns and all you have to do is look at a history book long enough to understand it and how we're rapidly moving in that direction again.
Not there yet, but it won't be too much longer unless something changes. People are tired of the bullshit politicians.
right; americans love our guns because it allowed us to screw the indians, african slaves, anybody who didn't have more guns than we did.
Gosh, I'd love to find the link and read the whole context of your Daniel Webster quote. I tried to googled it, and my meager search skills were unable to locate the source.
And, given the stuff Webster has written elsewhere about the public health approach, see http://annals.org/article.aspx... this quote doesn't really sound like Webster...
As you've noted, Mr. Webster runs the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health’s Center for Gun Policy and Research; his job is basically to fund and promote anti-gun research, so when Daniel Webster comes out and says a pro-gun-control study is flawed you know it has got to have some serious problems!
Looks like the majority of the Daniel Webster quotes indicting Bindu Kalesan's study are from an email exchange with the Washington Post.
hey, we apparently agree; trying to reduce avoidable injuries and death means you're anti-gun! wow, never thought you'd say it. congrats on your honesty.
some people don't trust the government to make good decisions
Indeed. Certainly if someone trusts the government to make good decisions on who does/does not "need" guns, they should trust the government to have a backdoor to every encryption scheme. If you need a gun to defend yourself and you don't have one, you may end up dead. It's rare for someone to wrongfully die because the government had access to more information during the course of either preventing terrorist acts or apprehending terrorists.
the citizens who have the wisdom to decide whether or not they need guns and even whether or not somebody needs shooting are wiser than the citizens who elect the government which doesn't let the citizens have the guns they want.
got it.
The brakes on your car can be used to keep it from slamming into things it shouldn't hit. They can also be used to render your vehicle completely immobile and thus unable to serve as a source of transportation. It all depends on what the guy in charge of the brakes decides they will be used for.
In completely unrelated news, some people don't trust the government to make good decisions.
these same people generally, however, like the government to make decisions concerning the incarceration and/of execution of their fellow citizens, and especially the en masse killings of foreign citizens. it's just decisions regarding supplying food to hungry families which they are suspicious of.
Fessenheim is an old plant which had many accidents in recent years. For example they had to introduce large quantities of Bohr into the reactor cooling to inhibit chain reaction because they were unable to insert the regulator rods. Yes I know Bohr is also used during regular operation. However, in much lower quantities. They also neglected to report all details which would have been necessary for Germany to prepare in case of an accident. Fessenheim is directly at the border to Germany.
You might confuse 'accidents' with 'incidents'. Nuclear plants will have 'incidents' where parts fail to operate properly for one reason or another. They are designed diversity and redundancy to take that into account. Yes, older plants generally have more incidents. But just because a plant shuts down safely due to an equipment issue does not make it an 'accident'. Plants are designed to be able to remain safe even with stuck control rods.
And it is boron, not Bohr, that can be used as neutron poison if needed.
This plant is near the end of its 40 year original design life. It has produced a monumentally huge amount of CO2 free power, and we are all better off for it having been in service.
like when somebody has an incident in their pants.
a wall on the border to keep mexicans out is stupid and wasteful. just dress all the border patrols like Mounties, and the immigrants will think they've gone too far north and turn back.
No. You have to be retarded NOT to. Given full information.
Not the shiny-happy-speak that the entire renewables industry is pushing, along with the "Nuclear = BOMBZ!!!!" movement.
And what's going to threaten the structural integrity of a powerplant in the middle of the fucking french countryside? It's not like they're a high frequency earthquake zone. And nobody's stupid enough to NOT do geological surveys on land where they're going to build a reactor. So the possibilities of it disappearing down a sinkhole are slim. Same thing goes for building it on a flood plain.
And deliberate bombing? You DO understand that these sites have security to prevent that right?
So what are you expecting? A meteor to fall out of the sky and god-rod the site?
meanwhile, back on the farm, lassie senses danger:
In the last year alone, Indian Point has suffered seven major malfunctions — pump and power failures, a transformer explosion, radiation leaks, a fire and an oil spill....The licenses for Indian Point’s two reactors expired in 2013 and 2015; the Nuclear Regulatory Commission is still weighing whether to renew them.... The commission even permits Indian Point to evade its own safety standards requiring that the electrical cables that control emergency reactor shutdowns have insulation that would last 60 minutes in a fire — giving the plant an exemption after finding that this insulation lasted just 27 minutes.
Poor maintenance at Indian Point has caused groundwater radiation levels to soar to 740 times federal limits, yet the commission just handed Entergy a five-year delay of the deadline for testing for possible leaks from the No. 2 reactor — the suspected source of this latest leak of radioactive contamination. The commission admits that tritium in the groundwater will reach the Hudson River and that the radioactive isotope, for which there is no safe dose, can cause cancer.
Indian Point also has about 1,500 tons of radioactive waste in the form of spent fuel rods packed into pools. These, too, are leaking radiological contamination that violates the Clean Water Act. In addition, the plant’s cooling system has devastating effects on the Hudson’s ecology, killing more than a billion fish, eggs and larvae each year as it draws millions of gallons of water per day from the river.
The commission has reported that one of Indian Point’s reactors has the highest risk of all the country’s reactors of being damaged by an earthquake, and federal studies show that Indian Point is incredibly vulnerable to acts of terrorism. Tens of millions of people live within the reach of an Indian Point nuclear disaster. An evacuation would be practically impossible and emergency responses would be largely futile.
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/03...
As a person with a philosophy degre, I feel professionally obliged to remind you that all mathematics and science...in effect all of human progress...are simply branches of philosophy which eventually became specialized enough and developed enough axioms to seperate themselves. Science was once known as natural philosphy, Turing's "Computing Machinery and Intelligence" whcih essentially defined the computer is a pure philisophical work and Bertrand Russel is dually one of the great mathematicians and philosophers of the 20th century. Any time before 1600 if you asked anybody who engaged with scientific or mathematical problems what they were doing, I give you much better than even odds that they would have said "philosophy".
I am NOT saying that people should rush out and get philosophy degrees (not on their own at least, it's a great double major). However, if STEM graduates would consider how much funding philosophy departments get against what we have given the species,they might consider refraining from kicking us.
they do hand out PhDs, after all, in the sciences.
I think this is an excellent view. We should collectively try to rise above petty politics and have an objective look at what she did. She needs to go through the due process just like everyone else, no exceptions.
One could of course argue that there are other immoral or illegal actions closely tied to certain politicians (torture to death for example), but the glass shield needs to be broken somewhere. Once you punch through, the whole illusion of privilege tied to high positions in the political system will come down.
you realize that there is an investigation ongoing, right? like the neverending benghazi investigation? or mr. trump's top operatives' discovery of "unbelievable evidence" that Obama wasn't born in Hawaii? perhaps well discover that Monica Lewinsky gave Hillary oral sex, and thereby save the Republic from destruction.
Even if it were true that the markings had been removed before emailing, THAT in itself warrants a major investigation. And we know there is at least one email where someone was instructed to do just that.
There seems to be almost zero chance that this information wasn't compromised to foreign governments. As if Russia and China didn't know about this and have it breached...
Yes, as proved by today's news that the server logs show no evidence of any hacking. " Security logs keep track of, among other things, who accessed the network and when. They are not definitive, and forensic experts can sometimes spot sophisticated hacking that is not apparent in the logs, but computer security experts view logs as key documents when detecting hackers."
but you think "almost zero chance", so who needs evidence? that only applies to things like the documented hacking of the official state dept email server by russians.
And items that were classified had their classification removed before being emailed per Hillary's instruction.
She had her staff / interns scan/fax shit, remove the designation, and then email it. When it hit her email it wasn't marked classified. It's the equivalent of painting over a handicapped parking spot then parking on it.
FACT: None Of The Emails Sent To Clinton Were Labeled As "Classified" Or "Top Secret"
FACT: Emails Originated In State Dept. System, And Questions About Retroactive Classification Would Have Occurred Regardless Of Clinton's Server Use
FACT: Experts Have Debunked Any Comparison Between Clinton's Email Use And David Petraeus' Crimes
FACT: IG Referral To Justice Department Was Not Criminal, And FBI Isn't Targeting Clinton Herself
Of course, if you're a DNC shill, you think she has done nothing wrong, in spite of the ongoing revelations of secret, classified, and beyond classified documents found on an unsecured server. I am sure that if this were an (R) running for President, you'd be calling for his hanging, and not saying "nothing to see here, move along"
Which is why I hate party politics, because people like you only see the Party, and not the crimes.
a lot of people don't see the crimes because there has to be, you know, crimes.
classifying emails as classified, after the fact? not as convincing as if the emails were classified BEFORE they were sent to the server.
in any event, given the evidence of hackers hitting the state department server, not to mention the FBI server and the office of personnel management server, and god knows what else; and the evidence of no hacking from Clinton's server, you'd think pure embarrassment would lead to the end of the witch hunt.
ironically, the people most interested in hillary's theoretical crime involving email servers are the same people who would dismiss a theoretical crime involving a firearm, and vice versa. "OK, so there was no ill effect of your use of a private server/unregistered gun, and granted that some folks who did not do so have been victimized, nevertheless theoretically use of a private server/unregistered gun could lead to a problem and therefore you must be punished."
except for the part where her server was not in fact illegal when set up.
in conclusion, BENGAZARAH!
distinctly remember hating word problems because they were always so inane. "If the flag pole is 10 feet tall and the sun is at a 30 degree angle, how long is the shadow?"
Those are the best kind of problems, because they test understanding. Using those instead of rote formulas is what other countries do and is one reason why they score so well.
In your example case, it's not about whether you use the "right" formula, but whether you apply your knowledge to get a correct answer.
The thought process could go something like:
The flag pole, ground shadow and line from the end of the ground shadow to the top of the pole forms a triangle. The pole is 10', and the angle at the end of the shadow is 30 degrees.
sine(30) is 0.5[*], so the flag pole height is half of the hypotenuse (distance between end of shadow and top of pole). So the hypotenuse is 20'. The cosine of 30 degrees is about 0.866[*], so the ground shadow will be about 0.866 times 20, or about 17.3'
(Or alternatively, if not remembering what a cosine is, deduce that the opposite angle must be 60 degrees, and use sine(60) instead)
Then the litmus test - does the answer seem reasonable? 30 degrees is the sun being rather low, so shadows are long. It seems reasonable that the shadow is almost twice as long as the height of the pole.
No x, y, z needed. By all means, use them, but you should be able to calculate stuff like this in your head, at least to get an approximate answer.
That's where we fail - our students memorize, they don't *understand*, so they can't apply the knowledge to real life. So you end up with ramps that are too steep for a wheelchair, or extend into the street, because someone didn't understand simple trig.
[*] At least the 30/45/60 degree sines should be memorized, because they crop up so often. Much like pi and the square root of two, knowing the first couple of decimals comes in very handy. But even if you don't, there are sine tables, slide rules, calculators and computers.
the thing is that there are lots of people with language problems rather than math problems, who could do the math in that problem if they could translate it fro the english; but for whatever reasons can't parse out the language to write down the equations they have to solve.
the net effect is the same, but the problem isn't math literacy, it's dyslexia of some type.
The problem is the focus on grades, which is preventing us from learning.
I had an argument a while back about this.
Me: College Requirements for graduation should have more Advanced Math classes, as Math teaches you valuable problem solving skills.
Education Major: Not everyone is good at Math, so they shouldn't be forced to take the classes and hurt their GPA
Me: Well I am not good at English classes and they are hurting my GPA so I shouldn't have to take them?
Education Major: No you need to take these classes, They offer valuable skills for understanding people and society.
Me: But Math offers valuable problem solving skills.
Education Major: But not everyone is good at Math....
The problem is with our grading system, we reward people who already know the answers, and not on what is learned. For Liberal Arts, you many can BS their way a good grade on a paper. Approaches include a war of attrition where you give so much words that it is impossible for the grader to really grade correctly. Play to the graders ideology You can twist the topic around to support what ever cause the grader feels strongly at. It is difficult to BS in math. If the answer is correct or not, that is where the hatred of math is.
Math isn't about working hard, it is more about doing it right. So people make mistakes and they can't make it up by just doing more. So they feel like they suck at math because where they may be an A+ student they get Cs in Math. Because Math Grading is normally very mechanical.
However from my experience classes I got a C in are the classes I have learned the most in, the ones I got in A in was because it covered topics I already knew a lot about.
as usual, people assume that the way things are is either the way things have always been, and.or the way things should be and have always been moving towards.
the fact, of course, is that our modern system of education is a relatively recent artifact of the industrial revolution, and reflects the concept of an assembly line mass production approach to education, with a product that would similarly be a standardized replaceable widget suitable for large business concerns. and it's clear that the education industry is one of the worst in society judging by the rate of failures produced; and worst of all, because these are human beings, not ball bearings or ICs.
whereas, of course, the method of education for most of humanity has been and still is something along the lines of apprenticeship, which is how an individual picks up individual skills to suit an individual career and future. note that advance education, grad school, etc, still follows this model, by and large.
the mass education model does seem to work for a lot of basic things; reading and writing, for instance. not perfect there, though.
bottom line, any education system that produces people who look at donald trump and say "i wanna invest money/future in that" is a failure.
Forget algebra, how can you teach stats to someone with zero exposure to calculus? Probability theory can't be described without limits and infinite summations, i.e. you can't comprehend it without calculus.
some schools try to teach engineering without teaching calculus. (or at least used to). if you think calculus is too hard, try understanding basic engineering concepts without it.
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There have been districts with >100% voter turn out as recently as last election, but I guess the dead voting is normal to you.
feel free to post an example, but meanwhile: "Q: Is it true that there were more votes than voters in Wood County, Ohio, and St. Lucie County, Fla., and that Obama lost every state with photo ID laws?
A: No. A viral email that makes those claims is bogus. It fabricates Ohio and Florida results. Also, Obama won four of the 11 states with photo ID laws." http://www.factcheck.org/2013/...
buy stuff for all your friends and neighbors. baby diapers, adult diapers, feminine hygiene products, athletic supporters, ayn rand books, al franken books.
How is gun control "anti-gun"? More realistically it is anti-allowing-crazies-access-to-guns.
Nope. It's all about disarming victims. All that noise about keeping guns away from crazies and bad people is just the sales pitch.
-jcr
you're worried that people would class you among the crazies and take away your guns. yeah, somehow i can see that as possible.
Jimminy Cricket, this is the 21st century. Do you see no other political solution to your grievance than buying a gun?
Don't you realise there's no other functioning democracy other than the USA? The existence of guns is the only thing that keeps the country in check! /sarcasm.
honestly, i'm glad you had that sarcasm tag, because it's getting very close to real posts.
You have noticed that those other methods are currently not at all effective, right?
Soap box, Ballot Box, Jury Box, Ammo Box.
The soap box has failed and if you think the ballot box has any hope in hell of being useful you haven't noticed this years election cycle, and the SCOTUS has been fucking us more and more recently with bullshit like Citizens United.
Jimmy Cricket, this is the 21st century with massive amounts of global communication and you're not able to see how important this is to preventing tyranny? Did you study American history at all in school?
Fighting is a last resort, but stop being retarded and pretending people are acting like its the only choice. Some people understand history and don't like the idea of it repeating itself. I suggest a good high school course on what drove the colonization of america. Which unfortunately includes all the evil shit we did in the process which was a lot of horrible stuff don't get me wrong, but theres a DAMN GOOD REASON why American's love their guns and all you have to do is look at a history book long enough to understand it and how we're rapidly moving in that direction again.
Not there yet, but it won't be too much longer unless something changes. People are tired of the bullshit politicians.
right; americans love our guns because it allowed us to screw the indians, african slaves, anybody who didn't have more guns than we did.
Gosh, I'd love to find the link and read the whole context of your Daniel Webster quote. I tried to googled it, and my meager search skills were unable to locate the source.
And, given the stuff Webster has written elsewhere about the public health approach, see http://annals.org/article.aspx... this quote doesn't really sound like Webster...
As you've noted, Mr. Webster runs the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health’s Center for Gun Policy and Research; his job is basically to fund and promote anti-gun research, so when Daniel Webster comes out and says a pro-gun-control study is flawed you know it has got to have some serious problems! Looks like the majority of the Daniel Webster quotes indicting Bindu Kalesan's study are from an email exchange with the Washington Post.
hey, we apparently agree; trying to reduce avoidable injuries and death means you're anti-gun! wow, never thought you'd say it. congrats on your honesty.
his job is basically to fund and promote anti-gun research
How is gun control "anti-gun"? More realistically it is anti-allowing-crazies-access-to-guns.
Or political opponents.
Or disenfranchised citizens.
Or colonists rebelling against the crown.
or crazies.
Indeed. Certainly if someone trusts the government to make good decisions on who does/does not "need" guns, they should trust the government to have a backdoor to every encryption scheme. If you need a gun to defend yourself and you don't have one, you may end up dead. It's rare for someone to wrongfully die because the government had access to more information during the course of either preventing terrorist acts or apprehending terrorists.
the citizens who have the wisdom to decide whether or not they need guns and even whether or not somebody needs shooting are wiser than the citizens who elect the government which doesn't let the citizens have the guns they want. got it.
The brakes on your car can be used to keep it from slamming into things it shouldn't hit. They can also be used to render your vehicle completely immobile and thus unable to serve as a source of transportation. It all depends on what the guy in charge of the brakes decides they will be used for. In completely unrelated news, some people don't trust the government to make good decisions.
these same people generally, however, like the government to make decisions concerning the incarceration and/of execution of their fellow citizens, and especially the en masse killings of foreign citizens. it's just decisions regarding supplying food to hungry families which they are suspicious of.
Fessenheim is an old plant which had many accidents in recent years. For example they had to introduce large quantities of Bohr into the reactor cooling to inhibit chain reaction because they were unable to insert the regulator rods. Yes I know Bohr is also used during regular operation. However, in much lower quantities. They also neglected to report all details which would have been necessary for Germany to prepare in case of an accident. Fessenheim is directly at the border to Germany.
You might confuse 'accidents' with 'incidents'. Nuclear plants will have 'incidents' where parts fail to operate properly for one reason or another. They are designed diversity and redundancy to take that into account. Yes, older plants generally have more incidents. But just because a plant shuts down safely due to an equipment issue does not make it an 'accident'. Plants are designed to be able to remain safe even with stuck control rods. And it is boron, not Bohr, that can be used as neutron poison if needed. This plant is near the end of its 40 year original design life. It has produced a monumentally huge amount of CO2 free power, and we are all better off for it having been in service.
like when somebody has an incident in their pants.
a wall on the border to keep mexicans out is stupid and wasteful. just dress all the border patrols like Mounties, and the immigrants will think they've gone too far north and turn back.
No. You have to be retarded NOT to. Given full information.
Not the shiny-happy-speak that the entire renewables industry is pushing, along with the "Nuclear = BOMBZ!!!!" movement.
And what's going to threaten the structural integrity of a powerplant in the middle of the fucking french countryside? It's not like they're a high frequency earthquake zone. And nobody's stupid enough to NOT do geological surveys on land where they're going to build a reactor. So the possibilities of it disappearing down a sinkhole are slim. Same thing goes for building it on a flood plain.
And deliberate bombing? You DO understand that these sites have security to prevent that right?
So what are you expecting? A meteor to fall out of the sky and god-rod the site?
meanwhile, back on the farm, lassie senses danger: ...The licenses for Indian Point’s two reactors expired in 2013 and 2015; the Nuclear Regulatory Commission is still weighing whether to renew them.... The commission even permits Indian Point to evade its own safety standards requiring that the electrical cables that control emergency reactor shutdowns have insulation that would last 60 minutes in a fire — giving the plant an exemption after finding that this insulation lasted just 27 minutes.
Poor maintenance at Indian Point has caused groundwater radiation levels to soar to 740 times federal limits, yet the commission just handed Entergy a five-year delay of the deadline for testing for possible leaks from the No. 2 reactor — the suspected source of this latest leak of radioactive contamination. The commission admits that tritium in the groundwater will reach the Hudson River and that the radioactive isotope, for which there is no safe dose, can cause cancer.
Indian Point also has about 1,500 tons of radioactive waste in the form of spent fuel rods packed into pools. These, too, are leaking radiological contamination that violates the Clean Water Act. In addition, the plant’s cooling system has devastating effects on the Hudson’s ecology, killing more than a billion fish, eggs and larvae each year as it draws millions of gallons of water per day from the river.
The commission has reported that one of Indian Point’s reactors has the highest risk of all the country’s reactors of being damaged by an earthquake, and federal studies show that Indian Point is incredibly vulnerable to acts of terrorism. Tens of millions of people live within the reach of an Indian Point nuclear disaster. An evacuation would be practically impossible and emergency responses would be largely futile.
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/03...
In the last year alone, Indian Point has suffered seven major malfunctions — pump and power failures, a transformer explosion, radiation leaks, a fire and an oil spill.
As a person with a philosophy degre, I feel professionally obliged to remind you that all mathematics and science...in effect all of human progress...are simply branches of philosophy which eventually became specialized enough and developed enough axioms to seperate themselves. Science was once known as natural philosphy, Turing's "Computing Machinery and Intelligence" whcih essentially defined the computer is a pure philisophical work and Bertrand Russel is dually one of the great mathematicians and philosophers of the 20th century. Any time before 1600 if you asked anybody who engaged with scientific or mathematical problems what they were doing, I give you much better than even odds that they would have said "philosophy".
I am NOT saying that people should rush out and get philosophy degrees (not on their own at least, it's a great double major). However, if STEM graduates would consider how much funding philosophy departments get against what we have given the species,they might consider refraining from kicking us.
they do hand out PhDs, after all, in the sciences.
That happens automatically when a ship decloaks.
Is that a Romulan or Klingon cloaking device?
"Captain, there's a Bird of Prey, declucking!"
I think this is an excellent view. We should collectively try to rise above petty politics and have an objective look at what she did. She needs to go through the due process just like everyone else, no exceptions.
One could of course argue that there are other immoral or illegal actions closely tied to certain politicians (torture to death for example), but the glass shield needs to be broken somewhere. Once you punch through, the whole illusion of privilege tied to high positions in the political system will come down.
you realize that there is an investigation ongoing, right?
like the neverending benghazi investigation?
or mr. trump's top operatives' discovery of "unbelievable evidence" that Obama wasn't born in Hawaii?
perhaps well discover that Monica Lewinsky gave Hillary oral sex, and thereby save the Republic from destruction.
Even if it were true that the markings had been removed before emailing, THAT in itself warrants a major investigation. And we know there is at least one email where someone was instructed to do just that.
There seems to be almost zero chance that this information wasn't compromised to foreign governments. As if Russia and China didn't know about this and have it breached...
Yes, as proved by today's news that the server logs show no evidence of any hacking.
" Security logs keep track of, among other things, who accessed the network and when. They are not definitive, and forensic experts can sometimes spot sophisticated hacking that is not apparent in the logs, but computer security experts view logs as key documents when detecting hackers."
but you think "almost zero chance", so who needs evidence? that only applies to things like the documented hacking of the official state dept email server by russians.
And items that were classified had their classification removed before being emailed per Hillary's instruction. She had her staff / interns scan/fax shit, remove the designation, and then email it. When it hit her email it wasn't marked classified. It's the equivalent of painting over a handicapped parking spot then parking on it.
FACT: None Of The Emails Sent To Clinton Were Labeled As "Classified" Or "Top Secret" FACT: Emails Originated In State Dept. System, And Questions About Retroactive Classification Would Have Occurred Regardless Of Clinton's Server Use FACT: Experts Have Debunked Any Comparison Between Clinton's Email Use And David Petraeus' Crimes FACT: IG Referral To Justice Department Was Not Criminal, And FBI Isn't Targeting Clinton Herself
Of course, if you're a DNC shill, you think she has done nothing wrong, in spite of the ongoing revelations of secret, classified, and beyond classified documents found on an unsecured server. I am sure that if this were an (R) running for President, you'd be calling for his hanging, and not saying "nothing to see here, move along"
Which is why I hate party politics, because people like you only see the Party, and not the crimes.
a lot of people don't see the crimes because there has to be, you know, crimes.
classifying emails as classified, after the fact? not as convincing as if the emails were classified BEFORE they were sent to the server.
in any event, given the evidence of hackers hitting the state department server, not to mention the FBI server and the office of personnel management server, and god knows what else; and the evidence of no hacking from Clinton's server, you'd think pure embarrassment would lead to the end of the witch hunt.
ironically, the people most interested in hillary's theoretical crime involving email servers are the same people who would dismiss a theoretical crime involving a firearm, and vice versa. "OK, so there was no ill effect of your use of a private server/unregistered gun, and granted that some folks who did not do so have been victimized, nevertheless theoretically use of a private server/unregistered gun could lead to a problem and therefore you must be punished."
except for the part where her server was not in fact illegal when set up.
in conclusion, BENGAZARAH!
"beyond classified"? Pray tell, what's that?
double secret probation
The Clinton have far too many suicides of partners in their history. If the FBI doesn't protect the witness, that one will surely die as well.
They had the ghost of Vince Foster kill Scalia.
now he won't get diseases.
distinctly remember hating word problems because they were always so inane. "If the flag pole is 10 feet tall and the sun is at a 30 degree angle, how long is the shadow?"
Those are the best kind of problems, because they test understanding. Using those instead of rote formulas is what other countries do and is one reason why they score so well.
In your example case, it's not about whether you use the "right" formula, but whether you apply your knowledge to get a correct answer.
The thought process could go something like: The flag pole, ground shadow and line from the end of the ground shadow to the top of the pole forms a triangle. The pole is 10', and the angle at the end of the shadow is 30 degrees. sine(30) is 0.5[*], so the flag pole height is half of the hypotenuse (distance between end of shadow and top of pole). So the hypotenuse is 20'. The cosine of 30 degrees is about 0.866[*], so the ground shadow will be about 0.866 times 20, or about 17.3' (Or alternatively, if not remembering what a cosine is, deduce that the opposite angle must be 60 degrees, and use sine(60) instead) Then the litmus test - does the answer seem reasonable? 30 degrees is the sun being rather low, so shadows are long. It seems reasonable that the shadow is almost twice as long as the height of the pole. No x, y, z needed. By all means, use them, but you should be able to calculate stuff like this in your head, at least to get an approximate answer. That's where we fail - our students memorize, they don't *understand*, so they can't apply the knowledge to real life. So you end up with ramps that are too steep for a wheelchair, or extend into the street, because someone didn't understand simple trig.
[*] At least the 30/45/60 degree sines should be memorized, because they crop up so often. Much like pi and the square root of two, knowing the first couple of decimals comes in very handy. But even if you don't, there are sine tables, slide rules, calculators and computers.
the thing is that there are lots of people with language problems rather than math problems, who could do the math in that problem if they could translate it fro the english; but for whatever reasons can't parse out the language to write down the equations they have to solve.
the net effect is the same, but the problem isn't math literacy, it's dyslexia of some type.
The problem is the focus on grades, which is preventing us from learning.
I had an argument a while back about this. Me: College Requirements for graduation should have more Advanced Math classes, as Math teaches you valuable problem solving skills. Education Major: Not everyone is good at Math, so they shouldn't be forced to take the classes and hurt their GPA Me: Well I am not good at English classes and they are hurting my GPA so I shouldn't have to take them? Education Major: No you need to take these classes, They offer valuable skills for understanding people and society. Me: But Math offers valuable problem solving skills. Education Major: But not everyone is good at Math. ...
The problem is with our grading system, we reward people who already know the answers, and not on what is learned. For Liberal Arts, you many can BS their way a good grade on a paper. Approaches include a war of attrition where you give so much words that it is impossible for the grader to really grade correctly. Play to the graders ideology You can twist the topic around to support what ever cause the grader feels strongly at. It is difficult to BS in math. If the answer is correct or not, that is where the hatred of math is.
Math isn't about working hard, it is more about doing it right. So people make mistakes and they can't make it up by just doing more. So they feel like they suck at math because where they may be an A+ student they get Cs in Math. Because Math Grading is normally very mechanical.
However from my experience classes I got a C in are the classes I have learned the most in, the ones I got in A in was because it covered topics I already knew a lot about.
as usual, people assume that the way things are is either the way things have always been, and.or the way things should be and have always been moving towards. the fact, of course, is that our modern system of education is a relatively recent artifact of the industrial revolution, and reflects the concept of an assembly line mass production approach to education, with a product that would similarly be a standardized replaceable widget suitable for large business concerns. and it's clear that the education industry is one of the worst in society judging by the rate of failures produced; and worst of all, because these are human beings, not ball bearings or ICs. whereas, of course, the method of education for most of humanity has been and still is something along the lines of apprenticeship, which is how an individual picks up individual skills to suit an individual career and future. note that advance education, grad school, etc, still follows this model, by and large. the mass education model does seem to work for a lot of basic things; reading and writing, for instance. not perfect there, though. bottom line, any education system that produces people who look at donald trump and say "i wanna invest money/future in that" is a failure.
It's also useful to detect how someone's data is misrepresented. Can anyone lie with statistics to a statistician?
serendipitously, yesterday's news on the debunking of the research debunking psych research. http://www.nytimes.com/2016/03... as bad statistics.
Forget algebra, how can you teach stats to someone with zero exposure to calculus? Probability theory can't be described without limits and infinite summations, i.e. you can't comprehend it without calculus.
some schools try to teach engineering without teaching calculus. (or at least used to). if you think calculus is too hard, try understanding basic engineering concepts without it.