The American people did vote. They voted for a candidate that explicitly promised the closing of Guantanamo and an end to an unjust war. Instead what they got was more murder and a president that defends the massive spying aparatus. So who are we supposed to vote for?
Doesn't matter who you vote for, the outcome will always be the same until we have a president elected that is willing to sacrifice his own life to oust the perpetrators behind every conspiracy theory ever.
Until then it will be more of the same. President gets elected and is quickly transported to a secret medical facility where he is implanted with a device to track his location at all times. He's told this is for his own protection. Later, he is given privileged information about many events from the past and present and is forced to maintain the perpetrators' status quo. If he refuses, he will be killed. If he tries to hide, he will be killed.
I guess it just so happens that presidents tend to agree and go along with their chosen fate. Better to burn in Hell than to burn in a furnace.
If you're one of these people wondering what tags are, ignore whatever/. says they are (I've never even really noticed that/. uses tags) and have a visit to Stack Overflow (SO), or one of the many other Stack Exchange sites (if you're not into coding, then try the one that deals with grammar you silly pedant!)
Take a few minutes looking around and using the site. It should be quite obvious within a few minutes not only what a tag is, but why they are useful, but in a nutshell, they are essentially a saved search result. When I want to look at new SO questions about Magento, I click the appropriate tag I have starred and magically, the list of questions now only contains those with the Magento tag applied. One question can have multiple tags as well, so a Magento question will probably also have a PHP tag, maybe a MySQL tag, maybe a jQuery tag, and so on (depending on the specificity of the question).
Now, for those of you who thought you didn't know what a tag was, it's now been explained and I'm guessing that you probably already had a pretty good idea.
As for TFA, why does there need to be a "Best Way Forward" with tags? I think we pretty much have it down, though, I will say that it's likely/. still has a long way to go since tags here are hardly useful (at least for myself). Does anyone actually filter/. content based on some tag other than the shills and fanbois?
Even if you are correct, you're not going to get people to agree with you (that is your goal, isn't it?) if you act like a smug know-it-all douche nozzle.
The trolling bit stems from how you present your argument. Spewing xenophobic trash at people is a good way to get labeled "troll" or "flamebait", because that is what you are doing.
When I read your comments, I'm picturing a caricature of Woody Allen, arms flailing, walking around in circles just looking for someone to bitch at. Interestingly, I briefly talked with a person over the weekend that was acting this way at the bar. Not coincidentally, he was pretty much sitting by himself the entire night.
In the same way a Granny Smith apple is "made by man"?
I was always under the impression that citrus was similar to apples in that, yes, very specific cultivars we have now were selected by man for their useful traits, and those cultivars have been grown since discovery; however, it was not man that "made" the fruit, Mother Nature made the fruit and we simply selected and continued cultivating the varieties that we liked.
i think a lot of ppl dont like the idea of genetically modified foods because "humans shouldnt be playing god"
I presume you mean people like my grandmother? She and I had a conversation one day about assisted suicides. She's terribly Christian, and took the stance that even though this poor bastard had ALS and decided to end his days before the financial and emotional burdens became too much for his family, he was doing the wrong thing because "he was not letting God decide his fate".
Which is complete horseshit.
If he would have simply let God decide his fate, he would have passed long ago since he wouldn't have had any medication, or the ventilator, or other modern medical advancements to prop him up artificially.
I understand her argument, and why she believes in it, I just simply think it's hypocritical.
WTF are you talking about? Modern tomatoes have been selected mainly because they ripen uniformly, are more resistant to damage during shipping, and also more disease resistant. They ripen uniformly because they have a lower sugar content and therefore a blander taste.
Compare your run-of-the-mill roma tomato with any prized heirloom variety. The roma has been so hybridized that it has certain desirable features, but taste is not one of them. A nice heirloom variety, on the other hand, will have a sweeter, richer taste, though, the downside is that they damage more easily and have less disease resistance since they are simply one cultivar.
I get the point, really I do, but I don't think simply raising their pay is the answer, not to mention the economics of your suggestion are way off target.
LA Unified had over 27,000 teachers in 2012, quite a bit higher than the 1000 you suggest. Also, the average teacher pay in the district for 2012 was $66,000/year.
I do agree that you will get some improvement in quality of teachers if you started paying them more, but I don't think it will be significant. Education majors already have some of the worst SAT scores. Simply offering to pay them more isn't going to improve that much as you still have the very real issue of people simply not wanting to be teachers because it is a terrible job. You do have people who actually love teaching, but those folks are incredibly rare, and rarer still are those who love teaching and are good at their job.
You'd do more to improve the quality of public school education by making the job itself more attractive, not the pay. There are too many teachers burning out early in their careers which says a lot more about the job's environment than it does the compensation. I know that the main reason I quit working in education wasn't because the pay was shit, the main reason was because administrators often are too out of touch with the modern classroom that the students have no desire to learn, and the teacher ends up being nothing more than a baby sitter for 8 hours.
Class rooms are broken. Fix them and you will find more student engagement, which will improve the teachers' morale, which will result in a better education. Now, a snazzy piece of tech in each kids' hands might be a move in the right direction, but it just screams of a band-aid fix when instead it should be introduced as part of a comprehensive overhaul of the entire system.
Stopped by the grocery store last night to pick something up. Was delighted to find tri-tip not only available in Denver, but on sale for $4/lb (this cut of beef is usually only found in California, though, it's becoming more common elsewhere).
Simple rub, a five minute sear on each side on the grill, and 35 minutes over indirect heat on the grill. This is not rocket surgery. With a some roasted potatoes and fresh greens and tomatoes from the garden, this was easily an $18 plate at one of the trendy little boutique restaurants that line 6th avenue here. I paid $20 for groceries and there was enough leftover that I'm going to go have a sandwich now!
Besides all that, it's just much nicer sitting in the backyard having a nice meal than going to some douche-cafe and having to order something I don't particularly care for because "no substitutions" means they get all smug when I ask them to put their overbearing sauces on the side instead of smothering my food with it. Beef does not need 8 oz of garlic aioli on top of it to be delicious, salt and pepper will do.
Also note that documents revealed from the Biogenesis scandal apparently name a bunch of athletes from other sports, not just MLB, including boxing, tennis, basketball, NCAA athletes, and MMA (was there ever a doubt about those guys, though?)
Ryan Braun (a deliciously ironic last name) is suffering the worst of the witchhunt right now, but rest assured that a year or two from now, you're going to be hearing about folks across the entire sporting spectrum that have been taking these macho cocktails. People like to rip on baseball as the sport with the steroids problem, but in reality it's going to be every sport that has a problem, and baseball was simply the one that shined light on the whole thing.
Is that why this week there is a large-scale National Guard exercise in the Denver/CoSprings area?
I mean really, they're practicing what is called a "wildland fire with urban interface, including severe weather conditions". Sounds kind of like what they've been doing in reality for the last few summers.
The Georgetown Grade west of Denver gets endless homeward-bound skiers that way.
Ha! You are so full of shit! When was the last time you drove back to Denver on 70 after skiing and were able to even come close to doing the speed limit?
Of course, if you're talking about the frontage road, well then you have a case.
Some years ago, I had an idea for a tool that would, in a nutshell, identify a plant simply from a photo and some metadata (time of year, geolocation, etc). I know how it would work (and it would work), but I came to the conclusion that someone (ie. Google) would use the methods to develop a tool that would do the same thing but for human faces.
It was at that point I decided to leave that box closed.
And on the same note, a dog can predict where a ball is going to be when you bounce it off a wall, but that doesn't qualify it to go around processing physics simulations.
Also, consider that children, especially in a school setting, are often at the mercy of their social standing, unlike your pooch at home.
The punishments that are given to one student for specific behavior set the tone for similar potential behaviors from other students.
I certainly hope my children are not taught by a feel-good everything is happy teacher that refuses to discipline a child. If the child is throwing pencils several hours every day, what positive reinforcement are you going to use to get them to stop? Show them that pencils can do great things instead like art and literature? And if they're going to resent you and "turn worse" because you forced them to do math tables in crayon (something they will be able to joke about next week) instead then they are already beyond help.
Not anymore, no. I used to work in a day treatment facility that had nothing but students with behavior issues (among others with genuine development issues).
Time and time again, positive reinforcement with these students only worked to let these kids continue to behave poorly. I'm all for positive reinforcement, but unless you back it up with real consequences, it is completely ineffective in many cases.
But go right ahead, keep giving kids positive reinforcement up until they do something illegal and/or dangerous that they need to be called out on. You have now become the most untrustworthy person in their lives.
From the get go, a child needs positive direction, not false positive reinforcement. Show them the proper way to go (especially when they don't like it) and the issues that would arise when they eventually fuck up won't destroy that professional relationship.
There are a LOT of children that need that. I fully support the deployment of these things in schools for kids that are troublemakers.
Often, it is enough to simply single them out. Maybe it's a collar, maybe its only being allowed to use crayons because they're throwing pencils, it doesn't matter. Give them a reason to be embarrassed and watch them begin to listen.
A handful of years ago, my younger brother was considering enlisting to become a pilot. He's always had a knack for driving machines (tractors, large trucks, planes, etc) so I knew he would be successful.
One day he talked to a retired pilot and it was suggested that instead of enlisting he should get his private license and do whatever he can to log the hours he would need. Once he was ready he could enlist and be that far ahead of the game.
I suppose this path is somewhat common with young aspiring pilots and would lead me to believe that eventually the luster of being in the Air Force wears thin.
I recently watched "A Farewell to Arms". I've long been a Hemingway fan and this was a story I didn't know very well.
I suppose it was fairly formulaic, especially you compare the plot of the novel with the movie. There were a few convenient changes that seemed to make it more digestable.
The bloggers at MyDeals.com are some of the most forward thinking RF engineers on the planet, though, be sure not to confuse them with the exceptional Geo engineers often found blogging for FreeCreditReportOnline.com... those guys are genius.
The phone that launches a full desktop when docked (and has 128 GB of storage!) is a game changer in the mobile market.
I don't know about it being a game changer, but it might.
There's been so many tech toys that have features that "will become a game changer" that I'm afraid all this will do will introduce a potentially useful new feature that nobody ever uses, thus stagnating like so many before it.
Think about it, how many devices with "game changing" features have you owned where that feature was nothing more than a rushed out, underdeveloped bullet point used by marketing?
I see lots of TV ads showing hip kids bumping their phones together to share whatever it is they're sharing, but all I see in the real world are people with their faces glued to their phones with no intention of talking to anyone else around them.
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The American people did vote. They voted for a candidate that explicitly promised the closing of Guantanamo and an end to an unjust war. Instead what they got was more murder and a president that defends the massive spying aparatus. So who are we supposed to vote for?
Doesn't matter who you vote for, the outcome will always be the same until we have a president elected that is willing to sacrifice his own life to oust the perpetrators behind every conspiracy theory ever.
Until then it will be more of the same. President gets elected and is quickly transported to a secret medical facility where he is implanted with a device to track his location at all times. He's told this is for his own protection. Later, he is given privileged information about many events from the past and present and is forced to maintain the perpetrators' status quo. If he refuses, he will be killed. If he tries to hide, he will be killed.
I guess it just so happens that presidents tend to agree and go along with their chosen fate. Better to burn in Hell than to burn in a furnace.
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If you're one of these people wondering what tags are, ignore whatever /. says they are (I've never even really noticed that /. uses tags) and have a visit to Stack Overflow (SO), or one of the many other Stack Exchange sites (if you're not into coding, then try the one that deals with grammar you silly pedant!)
Take a few minutes looking around and using the site. It should be quite obvious within a few minutes not only what a tag is, but why they are useful, but in a nutshell, they are essentially a saved search result. When I want to look at new SO questions about Magento, I click the appropriate tag I have starred and magically, the list of questions now only contains those with the Magento tag applied. One question can have multiple tags as well, so a Magento question will probably also have a PHP tag, maybe a MySQL tag, maybe a jQuery tag, and so on (depending on the specificity of the question).
Now, for those of you who thought you didn't know what a tag was, it's now been explained and I'm guessing that you probably already had a pretty good idea.
As for TFA, why does there need to be a "Best Way Forward" with tags? I think we pretty much have it down, though, I will say that it's likely /. still has a long way to go since tags here are hardly useful (at least for myself). Does anyone actually filter /. content based on some tag other than the shills and fanbois?
Even if you are correct, you're not going to get people to agree with you (that is your goal, isn't it?) if you act like a smug know-it-all douche nozzle.
The trolling bit stems from how you present your argument. Spewing xenophobic trash at people is a good way to get labeled "troll" or "flamebait", because that is what you are doing.
When I read your comments, I'm picturing a caricature of Woody Allen, arms flailing, walking around in circles just looking for someone to bitch at. Interestingly, I briefly talked with a person over the weekend that was acting this way at the bar. Not coincidentally, he was pretty much sitting by himself the entire night.
In the same way a Granny Smith apple is "made by man"?
I was always under the impression that citrus was similar to apples in that, yes, very specific cultivars we have now were selected by man for their useful traits, and those cultivars have been grown since discovery; however, it was not man that "made" the fruit, Mother Nature made the fruit and we simply selected and continued cultivating the varieties that we liked.
Calling that "man-made" seems disingenuous.
i think a lot of ppl dont like the idea of genetically modified foods because "humans shouldnt be playing god"
I presume you mean people like my grandmother? She and I had a conversation one day about assisted suicides. She's terribly Christian, and took the stance that even though this poor bastard had ALS and decided to end his days before the financial and emotional burdens became too much for his family, he was doing the wrong thing because "he was not letting God decide his fate".
Which is complete horseshit.
If he would have simply let God decide his fate, he would have passed long ago since he wouldn't have had any medication, or the ventilator, or other modern medical advancements to prop him up artificially.
I understand her argument, and why she believes in it, I just simply think it's hypocritical.
...and is as tasty as any modern tomato.
WTF are you talking about? Modern tomatoes have been selected mainly because they ripen uniformly, are more resistant to damage during shipping, and also more disease resistant. They ripen uniformly because they have a lower sugar content and therefore a blander taste.
Compare your run-of-the-mill roma tomato with any prized heirloom variety. The roma has been so hybridized that it has certain desirable features, but taste is not one of them. A nice heirloom variety, on the other hand, will have a sweeter, richer taste, though, the downside is that they damage more easily and have less disease resistance since they are simply one cultivar.
Because it's the only way to inflame the populace enough to do something.
Inflamed? Better go do shit.
I get the point, really I do, but I don't think simply raising their pay is the answer, not to mention the economics of your suggestion are way off target.
LA Unified had over 27,000 teachers in 2012, quite a bit higher than the 1000 you suggest. Also, the average teacher pay in the district for 2012 was $66,000/year.
I do agree that you will get some improvement in quality of teachers if you started paying them more, but I don't think it will be significant. Education majors already have some of the worst SAT scores. Simply offering to pay them more isn't going to improve that much as you still have the very real issue of people simply not wanting to be teachers because it is a terrible job. You do have people who actually love teaching, but those folks are incredibly rare, and rarer still are those who love teaching and are good at their job.
You'd do more to improve the quality of public school education by making the job itself more attractive, not the pay. There are too many teachers burning out early in their careers which says a lot more about the job's environment than it does the compensation. I know that the main reason I quit working in education wasn't because the pay was shit, the main reason was because administrators often are too out of touch with the modern classroom that the students have no desire to learn, and the teacher ends up being nothing more than a baby sitter for 8 hours.
Class rooms are broken. Fix them and you will find more student engagement, which will improve the teachers' morale, which will result in a better education. Now, a snazzy piece of tech in each kids' hands might be a move in the right direction, but it just screams of a band-aid fix when instead it should be introduced as part of a comprehensive overhaul of the entire system.
Stopped by the grocery store last night to pick something up. Was delighted to find tri-tip not only available in Denver, but on sale for $4/lb (this cut of beef is usually only found in California, though, it's becoming more common elsewhere).
Simple rub, a five minute sear on each side on the grill, and 35 minutes over indirect heat on the grill. This is not rocket surgery. With a some roasted potatoes and fresh greens and tomatoes from the garden, this was easily an $18 plate at one of the trendy little boutique restaurants that line 6th avenue here. I paid $20 for groceries and there was enough leftover that I'm going to go have a sandwich now!
Besides all that, it's just much nicer sitting in the backyard having a nice meal than going to some douche-cafe and having to order something I don't particularly care for because "no substitutions" means they get all smug when I ask them to put their overbearing sauces on the side instead of smothering my food with it. Beef does not need 8 oz of garlic aioli on top of it to be delicious, salt and pepper will do.
They're so cool they don't even need to make sure the fonts on their website are legible.
Also note that documents revealed from the Biogenesis scandal apparently name a bunch of athletes from other sports, not just MLB, including boxing, tennis, basketball, NCAA athletes, and MMA (was there ever a doubt about those guys, though?)
Ryan Braun (a deliciously ironic last name) is suffering the worst of the witchhunt right now, but rest assured that a year or two from now, you're going to be hearing about folks across the entire sporting spectrum that have been taking these macho cocktails. People like to rip on baseball as the sport with the steroids problem, but in reality it's going to be every sport that has a problem, and baseball was simply the one that shined light on the whole thing.
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"Who's there?"
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Java!!!
Is that why this week there is a large-scale National Guard exercise in the Denver/CoSprings area?
I mean really, they're practicing what is called a "wildland fire with urban interface, including severe weather conditions". Sounds kind of like what they've been doing in reality for the last few summers.
The Georgetown Grade west of Denver gets endless homeward-bound skiers that way.
Ha! You are so full of shit! When was the last time you drove back to Denver on 70 after skiing and were able to even come close to doing the speed limit?
Of course, if you're talking about the frontage road, well then you have a case.
Some years ago, I had an idea for a tool that would, in a nutshell, identify a plant simply from a photo and some metadata (time of year, geolocation, etc). I know how it would work (and it would work), but I came to the conclusion that someone (ie. Google) would use the methods to develop a tool that would do the same thing but for human faces.
It was at that point I decided to leave that box closed.
And on the same note, a dog can predict where a ball is going to be when you bounce it off a wall, but that doesn't qualify it to go around processing physics simulations.
You're guest is as well as mein.
Also, consider that children, especially in a school setting, are often at the mercy of their social standing, unlike your pooch at home.
The punishments that are given to one student for specific behavior set the tone for similar potential behaviors from other students.
I certainly hope my children are not taught by a feel-good everything is happy teacher that refuses to discipline a child. If the child is throwing pencils several hours every day, what positive reinforcement are you going to use to get them to stop? Show them that pencils can do great things instead like art and literature? And if they're going to resent you and "turn worse" because you forced them to do math tables in crayon (something they will be able to joke about next week) instead then they are already beyond help.
I'm guessing you don't do much with children.
Not anymore, no. I used to work in a day treatment facility that had nothing but students with behavior issues (among others with genuine development issues).
Time and time again, positive reinforcement with these students only worked to let these kids continue to behave poorly. I'm all for positive reinforcement, but unless you back it up with real consequences, it is completely ineffective in many cases.
But go right ahead, keep giving kids positive reinforcement up until they do something illegal and/or dangerous that they need to be called out on. You have now become the most untrustworthy person in their lives.
From the get go, a child needs positive direction, not false positive reinforcement. Show them the proper way to go (especially when they don't like it) and the issues that would arise when they eventually fuck up won't destroy that professional relationship.
There are a LOT of children that need that. I fully support the deployment of these things in schools for kids that are troublemakers.
Often, it is enough to simply single them out. Maybe it's a collar, maybe its only being allowed to use crayons because they're throwing pencils, it doesn't matter. Give them a reason to be embarrassed and watch them begin to listen.
A handful of years ago, my younger brother was considering enlisting to become a pilot. He's always had a knack for driving machines (tractors, large trucks, planes, etc) so I knew he would be successful.
One day he talked to a retired pilot and it was suggested that instead of enlisting he should get his private license and do whatever he can to log the hours he would need. Once he was ready he could enlist and be that far ahead of the game.
I suppose this path is somewhat common with young aspiring pilots and would lead me to believe that eventually the luster of being in the Air Force wears thin.
I recently watched "A Farewell to Arms". I've long been a Hemingway fan and this was a story I didn't know very well.
I suppose it was fairly formulaic, especially you compare the plot of the novel with the movie. There were a few convenient changes that seemed to make it more digestable.
The bloggers at MyDeals.com are some of the most forward thinking RF engineers on the planet, though, be sure not to confuse them with the exceptional Geo engineers often found blogging for FreeCreditReportOnline.com... those guys are genius.
The phone that launches a full desktop when docked (and has 128 GB of storage!) is a game changer in the mobile market.
I don't know about it being a game changer, but it might.
There's been so many tech toys that have features that "will become a game changer" that I'm afraid all this will do will introduce a potentially useful new feature that nobody ever uses, thus stagnating like so many before it.
Think about it, how many devices with "game changing" features have you owned where that feature was nothing more than a rushed out, underdeveloped bullet point used by marketing?
I see lots of TV ads showing hip kids bumping their phones together to share whatever it is they're sharing, but all I see in the real world are people with their faces glued to their phones with no intention of talking to anyone else around them.