The British original was one of the few "Oh God I've pissed myself" funny shows. The funniest part was being at a business meeting the next day and seeing the same things in real life, and nearly soiling more clothes realising that there were other people also seeing exactly the same things.
I believe you forgot to mention that "Three's Company" was a very poor copy of "Man about the House" and the terrible adaptations of "The Office" and "Kath and Kim". I suspect that the American networks have a very poor opinion of their customer's intelligence, and remake these shows to cater for the crowd that cannot tie their own shoelaces.
I hear you. I spent 10 years on pain meds for a nasty pain syndrome. In that time I was on Tramal, Morphine, Fentanyl and OCs. At the start of this year I went into remission and came off the meds. Now don't get me wrong, there was a period of 5 days that was very unpleasant, but coming off oxy was a walk in the park compared with getting off nicotine. I swear everyday I'll not have a cigarette. And that lasts 3 hours at most.
I'm no longer in remission, and am wearing a Norspan patch. But I know that if my pain drops back to something I can live with it's not that big a deal to dry out again. Meanwhile I'd love tobacco to be prohibited, as that's the only way I can see to stop smoking.
I'm not saying you're wrong, but as someone who came close to having this op done to me, this is a tricky job. Care has to be taken with the brachial plexus, as cutting the wrong nerves leaves a patient who would rather the gangrene had done its worse.
I find it interesting that so many kids put in 4+ hours at home on their studies and still struggle. To me this is indicative of the way we've added all this content that isn't relevant while standards have slipped.
I remember my amazement that UNIX didn't have completion for many years, as I'd grown addicted to ESC-completion in TOPS20 back in 1980. I was so relieved when I first met bash in 1994.
But SB, WAIS form F and the one with the complicated Russian sounding name are nothing like those. Those online tests are more tests of American general knowledge, and seem to me to be tests of education. They basically score high if you are a middle class white American (as does SB).
Actually I have an uncanny ability and aptitude for IQ tests. I've done several under proper conditions, as well as being assessed by a university psychology department. In many respects I'm an "idiot savant" for them, as I seem to really struggle with real world problem solving, yet get absurd results on the tests intuitively.
For me at least the scores from IQ tests measure my ability to do IQ tests, and seem to be very weakly correlated to any practical measure of intelligence.
It's odd how the genes mix. My IQ is absurdly high (over 180) and my wife's is 130+. We have 2 kids that are 140+, and 3 around 120. This suggests to me that the ability to do IQ tests is not purely a matter of inheritance, but is a very complex thing, far more complex than IQ tests. The catch is of course that ability to do IQ tests has very little to do with success in the real world. Based on what we see, our daughter, who is merely bright, looks like the one who is most likely to succeed. The brilliant 2 show little signs of having a real clue about life.
"I used to think of Australia as one of the freest nations in the world (in some respects, even more free than the U.S. itself). What the hell happened???"
Who took away our firearms? Who set up concentration camps in the desert?
And as I recall Internet filtering was raised by Senator Alston to get Senator Harradine onside when he controlled the balance of power. Harradine wanted porn and online gambling filtered. This was back in the mid 90s when JWH was in his 1st term as PM.
I first saw a colour TV when I was 14, and we got one when I was 18. I have never, as far as I can recall, dreamed in B&W, and I have an excellent memory and can usually remember 5 to 10 dreams that I have each night. I have to wonder what the studies are really measuring.
You mean they are wary of gifts from the people who stole their land, language and children. Many adult indigenous Australians cannot go into schools because these were the places they experienced profound abuse of many kinds, and it brings back shocking memories.
In QLD the MS licence is $4.95 per machine. Support is contracted to UNISYS, who then subcontract to the lowest bidder for individual schools. Unfortunately the schools get the support that the lowest price usually brings.
1) Write your letter. Send it to the PM, Roxon, and your state and federal members.
2) Go to your local ALP branch meeting. You don't have to be a member. When the chair asks if there is any other business, ask if you can speak. As a visitor you don't have a right to speak, but I've yet to see a branch that won't listen.
3) If you speak well the branch members will vote for the Member to follow up the issue. The MP is then obligated to take the matter further.
I am only slightly older than you, and what I see as the biggest difference is that the kids today aren't motivated to "get under the hood". There wasn't much software available for us, so we were keen to make the machines do what we wanted them to do. The modern kids just find software to do what they want and download it.
As a maths teacher who has worked in primary, secondary and tertiary education, the biggest problem is a misproportioned misinterpreted focus on "equity". As a result classes now contain more "challenged" students. Now there is lots of evidence that the slower kids benefit significantly in many, ways by not being marginalised in "special schools". But when you factor in the large classes (driven mainly by low teacher salaries and low funding) the teachers find themselves spending over half their time managing the behaviour of the 10% of kids who never used to be there.
The other big factor is curriculum bloat. Look at curriculum and see how much time is spent on such things as teaching against homophobia or on "modern popular culture". As more is added to the curriculum less time is available to teach literacy and numeracy. As a result, the minimum standards are lowered to make the numbers look good. Meanwhile we as teachers do not have the time to really engage the kids in the really interesting and fun content. This sucks a great deal.
I believe there has to be a serious look at getting balance back in the curriculum - 3 hours maths a week for 15 year olds is inadequate. And there has to be a rethink on how to lift the challenged without handicapping the "normal" kids and start inspiring the gifted.
As a bearded person, I have always been subjected to lengthy searches and interviews when entering the US, except for the one time I entered clean shaven. I suppose we Australians are probable terrorists if we wear a beard!
Back in the 70s Alan Kay developed a vision for a multimedia authouring system when he invented the laptop and Smalltalk. This was the inspiration for Hypercard and is the direct ancestor of Sophie. Look at squeakland.org for the kind of things Kay has done with the idea, as a system for kids to use. The reality is that Smalltalk has a tiny userbase, regardless of how cool the language is.
As someone who is no longer a postgrad student, I have to tell you there is a point when you'll realise that as you continue to specialise, you learn more and more about less and less, until you know practically everything about virtually nothing.
Spreadsheets are used a lot in mathematical biology for quick-and-dirty data exploration. Like any tool they have their limits, but as long as you remain cognisant of these limits they are a valuable tool.
No, he didn't sue anyone, he complained to the Telecommunications Industry Ombudsman. Under the Telecommunications Act providers have an obligation to provide set levels of service, with potentially huge fines if they are in breach of the Act. In some cases the ISP has to pay the fines (thousands of $ / day) to the customer. If you let your ISP know you will contact the TIO if they don't fix something it's usually fixed within 3 days.
By the way, illustrating the sampling errors in Ivor Panin's "biblical numerology" is a great way to show kids the importance of proper sampling and experimental design in senior maths.
As a teacher of maths and science, I see teaching the kids to think clearly and critically as just as important as the key content. I know that much of what I teach (in science) will be outdated in their lives, so they have to be equipped to critically discriminate fact from fiction.
I also expect my students to question what I say. They are expected to question anything I teach until it makes sense to them.
If the Easter Bunny, creationism or pink unicorns can be used to do this I'll use it.
why should my kids be deprived of a real science education just because someone else indoctrinated their children with specious non-scientific beliefs?
if a kid raises creationist objections to evolutionary theory, the teacher should kindly say to him "that is religious mythology, not science," and end the discussion there. pseudoscience is pseudoscience, and there's no reason to make special allowances for discussing pseudoscience in a science class just because it's based on a popular religion.
As a teacher, I believe it is vital that we take the time to explain why creationism is not science, so that the students have a solid understanding of the issue to debate and defend their positions. Your approach is asking the students to accept your statement on faith, which will not help them learn science.
I can see the point in being cautious about where this is used, but surely this would be very handy in operating theatres and other places where a sterile environment is important?
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The British original was one of the few "Oh God I've pissed myself" funny shows. The funniest part was being at a business meeting the next day and seeing the same things in real life, and nearly soiling more clothes realising that there were other people also seeing exactly the same things.
I believe you forgot to mention that "Three's Company" was a very poor copy of "Man about the House" and the terrible adaptations of "The Office" and "Kath and Kim". I suspect that the American networks have a very poor opinion of their customer's intelligence, and remake these shows to cater for the crowd that cannot tie their own shoelaces.
I hear you. I spent 10 years on pain meds for a nasty pain syndrome. In that time I was on Tramal, Morphine, Fentanyl and OCs. At the start of this year I went into remission and came off the meds. Now don't get me wrong, there was a period of 5 days that was very unpleasant, but coming off oxy was a walk in the park compared with getting off nicotine. I swear everyday I'll not have a cigarette. And that lasts 3 hours at most.
I'm no longer in remission, and am wearing a Norspan patch. But I know that if my pain drops back to something I can live with it's not that big a deal to dry out again. Meanwhile I'd love tobacco to be prohibited, as that's the only way I can see to stop smoking.
I'm not saying you're wrong, but as someone who came close to having this op done to me, this is a tricky job. Care has to be taken with the brachial plexus, as cutting the wrong nerves leaves a patient who would rather the gangrene had done its worse.
I find it interesting that so many kids put in 4+ hours at home on their studies and still struggle. To me this is indicative of the way we've added all this content that isn't relevant while standards have slipped.
I remember my amazement that UNIX didn't have completion for many years, as I'd grown addicted to ESC-completion in TOPS20 back in 1980. I was so relieved when I first met bash in 1994.
But SB, WAIS form F and the one with the complicated Russian sounding name are nothing like those. Those online tests are more tests of American general knowledge, and seem to me to be tests of education. They basically score high if you are a middle class white American (as does SB).
Actually I have an uncanny ability and aptitude for IQ tests. I've done several under proper conditions, as well as being assessed by a university psychology department. In many respects I'm an "idiot savant" for them, as I seem to really struggle with real world problem solving, yet get absurd results on the tests intuitively.
For me at least the scores from IQ tests measure my ability to do IQ tests, and seem to be very weakly correlated to any practical measure of intelligence.
It's odd how the genes mix. My IQ is absurdly high (over 180) and my wife's is 130+. We have 2 kids that are 140+, and 3 around 120. This suggests to me that the ability to do IQ tests is not purely a matter of inheritance, but is a very complex thing, far more complex than IQ tests. The catch is of course that ability to do IQ tests has very little to do with success in the real world. Based on what we see, our daughter, who is merely bright, looks like the one who is most likely to succeed. The brilliant 2 show little signs of having a real clue about life.
To quote the person I replied to:
"I used to think of Australia as one of the freest nations in the world (in some respects, even more free than the U.S. itself). What the hell happened???"
Who took away our firearms? Who set up concentration camps in the desert?
And as I recall Internet filtering was raised by Senator Alston to get Senator Harradine onside when he controlled the balance of power. Harradine wanted porn and online gambling filtered. This was back in the mid 90s when JWH was in his 1st term as PM.
John Winston Howard happened. It'll take a while for sanity to prevail.
I first saw a colour TV when I was 14, and we got one when I was 18. I have never, as far as I can recall, dreamed in B&W, and I have an excellent memory and can usually remember 5 to 10 dreams that I have each night. I have to wonder what the studies are really measuring.
You mean they are wary of gifts from the people who stole their land, language and children. Many adult indigenous Australians cannot go into schools because these were the places they experienced profound abuse of many kinds, and it brings back shocking memories.
In QLD the MS licence is $4.95 per machine. Support is contracted to UNISYS, who then subcontract to the lowest bidder for individual schools. Unfortunately the schools get the support that the lowest price usually brings.
For future reference, here is how to get heard:
1) Write your letter. Send it to the PM, Roxon, and your state and federal members.
2) Go to your local ALP branch meeting. You don't have to be a member. When the chair asks if there is any other business, ask if you can speak. As a visitor you don't have a right to speak, but I've yet to see a branch that won't listen.
3) If you speak well the branch members will vote for the Member to follow up the issue. The MP is then obligated to take the matter further.
I am only slightly older than you, and what I see as the biggest difference is that the kids today aren't motivated to "get under the hood". There wasn't much software available for us, so we were keen to make the machines do what we wanted them to do. The modern kids just find software to do what they want and download it.
As a maths teacher who has worked in primary, secondary and tertiary education, the biggest problem is a misproportioned misinterpreted focus on "equity". As a result classes now contain more "challenged" students. Now there is lots of evidence that the slower kids benefit significantly in many, ways by not being marginalised in "special schools". But when you factor in the large classes (driven mainly by low teacher salaries and low funding) the teachers find themselves spending over half their time managing the behaviour of the 10% of kids who never used to be there.
The other big factor is curriculum bloat. Look at curriculum and see how much time is spent on such things as teaching against homophobia or on "modern popular culture". As more is added to the curriculum less time is available to teach literacy and numeracy. As a result, the minimum standards are lowered to make the numbers look good. Meanwhile we as teachers do not have the time to really engage the kids in the really interesting and fun content. This sucks a great deal.
I believe there has to be a serious look at getting balance back in the curriculum - 3 hours maths a week for 15 year olds is inadequate. And there has to be a rethink on how to lift the challenged without handicapping the "normal" kids and start inspiring the gifted.
As a bearded person, I have always been subjected to lengthy searches and interviews when entering the US, except for the one time I entered clean shaven. I suppose we Australians are probable terrorists if we wear a beard!
Back in the 70s Alan Kay developed a vision for a multimedia authouring system when he invented the laptop and Smalltalk. This was the inspiration for Hypercard and is the direct ancestor of Sophie. Look at squeakland.org for the kind of things Kay has done with the idea, as a system for kids to use. The reality is that Smalltalk has a tiny userbase, regardless of how cool the language is.
As someone who is no longer a postgrad student, I have to tell you there is a point when you'll realise that as you continue to specialise, you learn more and more about less and less, until you know practically everything about virtually nothing.
Spreadsheets are used a lot in mathematical biology for quick-and-dirty data exploration. Like any tool they have their limits, but as long as you remain cognisant of these limits they are a valuable tool.
No, he didn't sue anyone, he complained to the Telecommunications Industry Ombudsman. Under the Telecommunications Act providers have an obligation to provide set levels of service, with potentially huge fines if they are in breach of the Act. In some cases the ISP has to pay the fines (thousands of $ / day) to the customer. If you let your ISP know you will contact the TIO if they don't fix something it's usually fixed within 3 days.
By the way, illustrating the sampling errors in Ivor Panin's "biblical numerology" is a great way to show kids the importance of proper sampling and experimental design in senior maths.
As a teacher of maths and science, I see teaching the kids to think clearly and critically as just as important as the key content. I know that much of what I teach (in science) will be outdated in their lives, so they have to be equipped to critically discriminate fact from fiction.
I also expect my students to question what I say. They are expected to question anything I teach until it makes sense to them.
If the Easter Bunny, creationism or pink unicorns can be used to do this I'll use it.
why should my kids be deprived of a real science education just because someone else indoctrinated their children with specious non-scientific beliefs?
if a kid raises creationist objections to evolutionary theory, the teacher should kindly say to him "that is religious mythology, not science," and end the discussion there. pseudoscience is pseudoscience, and there's no reason to make special allowances for discussing pseudoscience in a science class just because it's based on a popular religion.
As a teacher, I believe it is vital that we take the time to explain why creationism is not science, so that the students have a solid understanding of the issue to debate and defend their positions. Your approach is asking the students to accept your statement on faith, which will not help them learn science.
I can see the point in being cautious about where this is used, but surely this would be very handy in operating theatres and other places where a sterile environment is important?