Yeah, except this does nothing to change to hinder privacy, as the cameras have already been in place for some time. I remember that story of the guy from Wired that tried to "disappear" and there was a photo of his car for at a toll booth.
That's fine, I get it that teachers need things. But to give them tools that are redundant and excessive while students are left without desks and books... well that's just fucking insane.
Are the schools there for the teachers' benefit or for the students'?
Teachers also get plenty of time off, unlike most jobs. And yes, I think that for the most part the extra time off is necessary, but a teacher shouldn't complain that their pro-rated or salary based summer/holiday paychecks are weaker when they have that much time off in a year. But, I guess the counter argument is that teachers actually do work all that time, and yes, some of them do, but a lot of them don't or they procrastinate so bad that they are forced to spend the last month of summer break preparing lesson plans for the coming year (and end up paying for materials out of pocket).
Trust me, I'm all for paying teachers more money, but where does that money come from? It's already there, it just gets wasted by all the bureaucratic weight (heavily contributed to by unions). Lose the weight, pay teachers more money, and buy the kids some damn books and desks. You won't hear me complaining about all the pass-out-sit-down teachers that end up losing their job.
Yeah, I know bashing unions is a great way to get labeled troll in a discussion on education, but I stand by it.
Inversely, I know it's just as easy to bash parents, the community, a poorly performing school district, etc.
The truth is, they are ALL a problem. And I wouldn't be so quick to trust numbers showing a stronger union produces better teacher pay and better performance. I am pretty sure there are a lot of other factors at play. Local economic conditions can also produce better pay and performance independent of union statistics, just like a poorly performing economic community won't be able to afford to pay teachers more.
My example above does illustrate that the union does their job, but in this case it is doing its job to the detriment of the students. Giving a teacher tons of cool stuff at the expense of the district while at the same time leaving students to fend for themselves creates a dangerous double standard in the classroom. I get it, the teacher is in charge (or is at least supposed to be, right?) and they should have privileges not available to students. But you have to look at it from the student's perspective. They get shit on by the districts while teachers are worshiped because the district is scared of the union. The balance there is off. Likewise, the balance is off when it comes to lawyers, as teachers and districts get shit on while students are worshiped for their ability to induce litigation with frivolous claims.
Honestly, and I really hate to make this a partisan thing, but education is simply too dominated by liberally minded people. There should be more of a balance. It bothers me that in very conservative states, like Wyoming, Democrats represent a vast majority of educators. The current balance is simply way too in favor of liberal ideals. It's tyranny of the majority and the result is the constant battle between teacher and student.
Besides, I have no problem with how much money teachers make. Nearly all of my close friends are teachers, and they're all doing just fine and have no problems finding a job making good money. Sure, it may not be on par with what other Master's degrees may fetch, but education majors also aren't the brightest bulbs in the box.
I guess the real solution would be to take all the money collected from NFL, MLB, NBA, etc fines and apply it directly to education.
Hey, I am only speaking from first-hand experience. I watched day after day of our students not being given ANY kind of educational materials (student computers, text books, and in many cases, kids didn't even have desks to sit in) because the district couldn't afford those materials after being forced (by the union) to provide teachers with brand new high-end computers (without any internet connection, ironically), expensive desks and chairs, not to mention the union mandated meetings... which were always during school hours, and always required staff to find substitutes or other means to keep their class busy while they go and schmooze around eating free doughnuts and coffee.
And yes, I said partially... there are a lot of factors at play, most of them revolving around either bureaucratic waste or the high cost of having to maintain legal counsel, and the union has a hand deep into both of those. You seem to think that unions have no involvement in the classroom dynamic, and I have to tell you, it couldn't be further from the truth. But, I guess if you were a student without a desk, or a book, or a computer, you'd probably just sit there and behave like a good little Johnny.
I'm all for unions in industries where employee abuse is common. Education is not one of them.
It's also ridiculous that teacher's unions require teachers to be given things like brand new $2000 computers that have no Internet connection, sofas, fancy desks, etc. while students are not given any form of text book.
True story, and it lasted nearly an entire school year.
It doesn't surprise me that the successful private school I used to work for was ruined in less than one school year after teachers were allowed to join the union. It
Maybe they can't do that because people just aren't interested in becoming teachers anymore. If you think a biology teacher not majoring in science is bad... well, I sure hope you don't discover all the other non-degreed employees in the education system that are teaching classes every day because schools are shorthanded and poorly resourced.
But yeah, you're right, the union is partially to blame. They've created a work environment that is one of the most absurd I've ever been exposed to. I'm still at a loss why the unions don't have to uphold a fiduciary responsibility to the students their members are hired to serve.
It's not like the paper encyclopedia guys have never done it. Heck, there's a volume of an encyclopedia floating around that covers everything from Menage-Ottawa. Surely that wasn't accidental.
I don't think it's really ethical to force a firmware update on someone without giving them the chance to accept it or not. For whatever reasons there are, you should always allow the user to avoid a potential brick by letting them choose when to update.
I'm at a loss for why it will take so long. I'm guessing it's because they'll have one guy working on it by himself during the weekends so he can avoid his nagging wife. When they asked him how long it would take him, he pulled "ahh! Four years!!" out of thin air.
I totally saw that link to "my cart" and "e-shop" and got all excited. I'd love to get me some North Korean swag. You can imagine my disappointment to find the service "now in suspension".
I wonder if it has something to do with the creamy white stuff dripping off of the navigation bar.
I mean, I see the similarities and everything, and if I were them I'd go after Capcom.
Of course, maybe their motivation for not doing so has nothing to do with Capcom being huge... maybe they're afraid of some Jihadist group claiming prior art.
If warming is not a contributing factor, how can it be explained that this insect's range is growing?
It is showing up at latitudes lower than previously common. If temperature wasn't a factor, they'd have been here a long time ago.
The only thing the forest fire and mono-culture has contributed to is the extent of the devastation. Instead of a low percentage of trees being susceptible (because of species diversity, age diversity, etc.) all the trees are susceptible because they all are the same age and species (because of no fires).
Overall, current MPB outbreaks are caused by both, warming and human determination to stagnate the forest.
I'm sure that'll put a dent in those little beetles.
I sure hope that's sarcasm. It takes a lot more than snow to kill these beetles (if all it took was a little snow, an insect called Mountain Pine Beetle that lives in Canada and the Western US wouldn't be around, would it?). The temperature needs to get down to about -30F for a week or two to kill these things.
Besides, it's nice and all that snow is in every state except Florida, but the first measurable snow here in Denver didn't occur until after Christmas, and the highs during December were regularly in the 50's and 60's F. Not exactly what I'd call a frigid winter, and in fact this is by far the warmest and driest winter I've ever seen in Colorado.
I meant to say lodgepole and ponderosa, not pinon. Pinon are affected, but at least around here, the pinon tend to be pretty sturdy and live in healthier environments where they aren't prematurely stressed from stuff like overcrowding. Same with bristlecone.
Sure, that's totally fair in an ideal world; however, the forests have developed a mono-culture because of all the fire suppression that has been going on for decades.
The forests were already over-crowded and unhealthy. The current pine beetle outbreak (which mostly affects lodgepole pines, but can also hit pinon, and a few others) is so devastating because of this.
In the past, outbreaks would be limited by a hard freeze in the winter which killed all the beetles and limited their range. Also, naturally healthy and diverse forests limited the scope of devastation. Today we have forests that are composed almost entirely of a single species in many places and the trees are all roughly the same age and present a similar amount of susceptibility.
Once the beetles have taken every last tree, the ability for the forest to replenish itself will be hindered by the fact that there is very little other plant life around to protect the soil. Unprotected soil leads to more violent snow melt runoff, erosion, water contamination, etc. The forest will have a much more difficult time replenishing itself.
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Yeah, except this does nothing to change to hinder privacy, as the cameras have already been in place for some time. I remember that story of the guy from Wired that tried to "disappear" and there was a photo of his car for at a toll booth.
lol @ $1 tolls in California. Isn't the GG like $5 now?
That's fine, I get it that teachers need things. But to give them tools that are redundant and excessive while students are left without desks and books... well that's just fucking insane.
Are the schools there for the teachers' benefit or for the students'?
Teachers also get plenty of time off, unlike most jobs. And yes, I think that for the most part the extra time off is necessary, but a teacher shouldn't complain that their pro-rated or salary based summer/holiday paychecks are weaker when they have that much time off in a year. But, I guess the counter argument is that teachers actually do work all that time, and yes, some of them do, but a lot of them don't or they procrastinate so bad that they are forced to spend the last month of summer break preparing lesson plans for the coming year (and end up paying for materials out of pocket).
Trust me, I'm all for paying teachers more money, but where does that money come from? It's already there, it just gets wasted by all the bureaucratic weight (heavily contributed to by unions). Lose the weight, pay teachers more money, and buy the kids some damn books and desks. You won't hear me complaining about all the pass-out-sit-down teachers that end up losing their job.
Yeah, I know bashing unions is a great way to get labeled troll in a discussion on education, but I stand by it.
Inversely, I know it's just as easy to bash parents, the community, a poorly performing school district, etc.
The truth is, they are ALL a problem. And I wouldn't be so quick to trust numbers showing a stronger union produces better teacher pay and better performance. I am pretty sure there are a lot of other factors at play. Local economic conditions can also produce better pay and performance independent of union statistics, just like a poorly performing economic community won't be able to afford to pay teachers more.
My example above does illustrate that the union does their job, but in this case it is doing its job to the detriment of the students. Giving a teacher tons of cool stuff at the expense of the district while at the same time leaving students to fend for themselves creates a dangerous double standard in the classroom. I get it, the teacher is in charge (or is at least supposed to be, right?) and they should have privileges not available to students. But you have to look at it from the student's perspective. They get shit on by the districts while teachers are worshiped because the district is scared of the union. The balance there is off. Likewise, the balance is off when it comes to lawyers, as teachers and districts get shit on while students are worshiped for their ability to induce litigation with frivolous claims.
Honestly, and I really hate to make this a partisan thing, but education is simply too dominated by liberally minded people. There should be more of a balance. It bothers me that in very conservative states, like Wyoming, Democrats represent a vast majority of educators. The current balance is simply way too in favor of liberal ideals. It's tyranny of the majority and the result is the constant battle between teacher and student.
Besides, I have no problem with how much money teachers make. Nearly all of my close friends are teachers, and they're all doing just fine and have no problems finding a job making good money. Sure, it may not be on par with what other Master's degrees may fetch, but education majors also aren't the brightest bulbs in the box.
I guess the real solution would be to take all the money collected from NFL, MLB, NBA, etc fines and apply it directly to education.
Hey, I am only speaking from first-hand experience. I watched day after day of our students not being given ANY kind of educational materials (student computers, text books, and in many cases, kids didn't even have desks to sit in) because the district couldn't afford those materials after being forced (by the union) to provide teachers with brand new high-end computers (without any internet connection, ironically), expensive desks and chairs, not to mention the union mandated meetings... which were always during school hours, and always required staff to find substitutes or other means to keep their class busy while they go and schmooze around eating free doughnuts and coffee.
And yes, I said partially... there are a lot of factors at play, most of them revolving around either bureaucratic waste or the high cost of having to maintain legal counsel, and the union has a hand deep into both of those. You seem to think that unions have no involvement in the classroom dynamic, and I have to tell you, it couldn't be further from the truth. But, I guess if you were a student without a desk, or a book, or a computer, you'd probably just sit there and behave like a good little Johnny.
I'm all for unions in industries where employee abuse is common. Education is not one of them.
It's also ridiculous that teacher's unions require teachers to be given things like brand new $2000 computers that have no Internet connection, sofas, fancy desks, etc. while students are not given any form of text book.
True story, and it lasted nearly an entire school year.
It doesn't surprise me that the successful private school I used to work for was ruined in less than one school year after teachers were allowed to join the union. It
Why stop at creationism? Might as well throw in a language class or two in Klingon while you're at it.
Maybe they can't do that because people just aren't interested in becoming teachers anymore. If you think a biology teacher not majoring in science is bad... well, I sure hope you don't discover all the other non-degreed employees in the education system that are teaching classes every day because schools are shorthanded and poorly resourced.
But yeah, you're right, the union is partially to blame. They've created a work environment that is one of the most absurd I've ever been exposed to. I'm still at a loss why the unions don't have to uphold a fiduciary responsibility to the students their members are hired to serve.
Are they hiring?
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Hell fuckin' yea!!!
Precisely.
What's wrong with using oil? It's working well here on Earth.
I'm curious what the mother elephant will think when a mammoth pops out. Would the creature be accepted?
I suppose it would make the line outside the Pearly Gates move a little more quickly.
Jules Basically I'm just gonna walk the Earth.
Vincent Whatcha mean, walk the Earth?
Jules You know like Caine in Kung Fu. Walk from place to place, meet people, get into adventures.
Vincent How long do you intend to walk the Earth?
Jules Until God puts me where he wants me to be.
Those hoaxes are just people have a bit of fun.
It's not like the paper encyclopedia guys have never done it. Heck, there's a volume of an encyclopedia floating around that covers everything from Menage-Ottawa. Surely that wasn't accidental.
I don't think it's really ethical to force a firmware update on someone without giving them the chance to accept it or not. For whatever reasons there are, you should always allow the user to avoid a potential brick by letting them choose when to update.
I'm at a loss for why it will take so long. I'm guessing it's because they'll have one guy working on it by himself during the weekends so he can avoid his nagging wife. When they asked him how long it would take him, he pulled "ahh! Four years!!" out of thin air.
I totally saw that link to "my cart" and "e-shop" and got all excited. I'd love to get me some North Korean swag. You can imagine my disappointment to find the service "now in suspension".
I wonder if it has something to do with the creamy white stuff dripping off of the navigation bar.
No.
I mean, I see the similarities and everything, and if I were them I'd go after Capcom.
Of course, maybe their motivation for not doing so has nothing to do with Capcom being huge... maybe they're afraid of some Jihadist group claiming prior art.
If warming is not a contributing factor, how can it be explained that this insect's range is growing?
It is showing up at latitudes lower than previously common. If temperature wasn't a factor, they'd have been here a long time ago.
The only thing the forest fire and mono-culture has contributed to is the extent of the devastation. Instead of a low percentage of trees being susceptible (because of species diversity, age diversity, etc.) all the trees are susceptible because they all are the same age and species (because of no fires).
Overall, current MPB outbreaks are caused by both, warming and human determination to stagnate the forest.
I'm sure that'll put a dent in those little beetles.
I sure hope that's sarcasm. It takes a lot more than snow to kill these beetles (if all it took was a little snow, an insect called Mountain Pine Beetle that lives in Canada and the Western US wouldn't be around, would it?). The temperature needs to get down to about -30F for a week or two to kill these things.
Besides, it's nice and all that snow is in every state except Florida, but the first measurable snow here in Denver didn't occur until after Christmas, and the highs during December were regularly in the 50's and 60's F. Not exactly what I'd call a frigid winter, and in fact this is by far the warmest and driest winter I've ever seen in Colorado.
I meant to say lodgepole and ponderosa, not pinon. Pinon are affected, but at least around here, the pinon tend to be pretty sturdy and live in healthier environments where they aren't prematurely stressed from stuff like overcrowding. Same with bristlecone.
Sure, that's totally fair in an ideal world; however, the forests have developed a mono-culture because of all the fire suppression that has been going on for decades.
The forests were already over-crowded and unhealthy. The current pine beetle outbreak (which mostly affects lodgepole pines, but can also hit pinon, and a few others) is so devastating because of this.
In the past, outbreaks would be limited by a hard freeze in the winter which killed all the beetles and limited their range. Also, naturally healthy and diverse forests limited the scope of devastation. Today we have forests that are composed almost entirely of a single species in many places and the trees are all roughly the same age and present a similar amount of susceptibility.
Once the beetles have taken every last tree, the ability for the forest to replenish itself will be hindered by the fact that there is very little other plant life around to protect the soil. Unprotected soil leads to more violent snow melt runoff, erosion, water contamination, etc. The forest will have a much more difficult time replenishing itself.