I would expect performance on par with whatever neighborhood they happened to land end. That seemed to be the with the Asian refugees that settled in my working class neighborhood in the 80s.
The same goes for suburbia now for those of us that managed to escape.
We currently have this one size fits all idea about education that equals "college prep". Not everyone can train for the same job or role in society. People themselves have different preferences. American schools don't acknowledge that anymore and it's not getting any better.
They are not at all legitimate. While they may be the result of past "sins", they are nothing that can't be overcome with the desire to do so. For blacks in particular, they have to worry less about "racism" and more about a culture that treats success as selling out.
I did respond directly to what you said. The WORST thing you can do to a person is treat them as if they are a victim. It doesn't matter if they're actually a victim or not.
If they aren't taking advantage of that very well established part of the welfare state then they have much bigger problems then whether or not they're going to get into the GT program.
Kids like that get a free meal on school days, if not two.
> For a gifted kid from poor minority parents it usually takes exceptionally dedicated parents. > >For a gifted kid from rich white parents it usually takes mildly dedicated parents. > > That's how institutional racism works,
THAT is not "racism". That's bleeding hearts making excuses for people and ultimately robbing them of any pride or free will.
Pretending that these people are somehow "incapable" for whatever lame ass reason. THAT's racism.
Nonsense. Kids that are motivated can get into a gifted program if they are marginal and the tests are "biased" against their strengths. The kid's motivation can be substituted for the parent's motivation. Parental motivation can even make a difference for cases of marginal talent.
As always, this is all about the parents and whether or not they value education. Those that make time will push their kids to perform better. Those who can't be bothered MIGHT be lucky enough to have a kid that has natural drive.
In a Hispanic family, if dad can't help then grandma should be there to help.
This is what distinguishes the Asians. They push harder than anybody and they don't make excuses.
What? The ability to run any application they want on a PC platform?
If MacOS is a Unix, then it shouldn't need to be treated like such a delicate flower. The user should be able to safely run programs without having them blessed by the OS vendor.
US actions in Libya were requested by the surrounding Arab countries.
Syria fell apart without any US help.
All 3 were brutal tyrannical regimes that had no problems using weapons of mass destruction on their own citizens. All 3 were countries that bleeding hearts thought we should undermine or shun.
With the current state of things in terms of cell network pricing in the US, this is defective design. It's a disaster waiting to happen. If any device is "using lots more data" then that's probably a serious design issue driven by the mobile version of "game developer syndrome".
Even as a software vendor we see this problem. Does it make more sense to build a solution from scratch versus trying to shoehorn their requirements into something we've already got on the shelf? Trying to do the latter can be a disaster where the end result is so customized you're not really using any part of the "off the shelf" solution anymore.
So the idea that it makes sense for a company to do it themselves is not so shocking. They could even outsource the whole thing if they don't have their own staff. It ends up being the same thing either way.
The catch with not being "cross-platform" is that your designated platform may still quickly go the way of the do-do even if it is associated with the brand du jour for which you cannot be fired for buying.
ActiveX is a great example of that.
A good developer has to see past the current development cycle. Never mind anyone with "architect" in his job title.
Some well made systems can last 30 years being useful and able to deflect constant attempts by new managers to ditch it for something "shiny and new".
These days with the level of paranoia associated with any sort of unsupervised play, children could certainly use more of that kind of activity imposed upon them in school. One important aspect of the "obesity" epidemic that constantly gets glossed over is exercise. While food education (and vocational education) went to sh*t, so did PE and the level of voluntary exercise children engage in.
...that's achieved through efficient design. This is not efficient design. You're confusing the UI's of Unix with DOS.
Dealing with n+1 keyboards is hardly efficient. Once you've created something suitably flexible for 2015, then such a a single suitable programmable keyboard could have the most often used emoji on the "default page" ONE keyboard. Much better than mucking around with n+1 them.
That's kind of how Apple took over the market. They went cheap. They didn't make the first tablets. They made the first really cheap ones. If you're talking about "serious work", especially in creative fields then there's a good chance that a cheap consumer gadget isn't going to cut the mustard.
If anything, touch focus and control is much more crude than a mouse, keyboard, or stylus. Thus Jobs screeching about a precision control feature (the stylus) that eventually showed up everywhere else. It will probably show up on Apple sooner or later too (just like smaller tablets).
> The wealthiest country ever in human history, and (both privately and publicly) deeply in debt because we cannot afford all the things we want to buy.
The NHS just had to say fuck you to a bunch of cancer patients because they busted their annual drug budget. There's really no getting around the fact that there's no free lunch. On the one hand there's Germany and on the other there's Greece. Neither reflects the cultural mix in the US.
Thinking that you can transplant social welfare programs from one country to another basically fails to genuinely acknowledge "multicultural diversity".
Except Stallman has never advocated corporate capitalism. Quite the contrary. Free Software is about as far away from communism or "genuine socialism" as you can get.
> So now if you have down syndrome you have to stuff envelopes until you die?
Why not? Everyone else does. Or at least they do this until retirement age. Being "handicapped" should be all about milking the system and taking advantage of the rest of us.
The ridiculous cost of healthcare is a media myth. It's just part of the bogus media narrative that trying to pretend that we're Germany would magically fix everything.
Medical billing is another form of fiction and so-called journalists like to fixate on the numbers that suit them even if they aren't real.
As far as what "the government" actually spends, they really rip off the doctors and hospitals. They pay even less than the insurance companies. It's so bad that some providers avoid it entirely (medicare/medicaid).
They pay a fraction of what insurance companies do and that's a fraction of what "billed rates" actually are.
...except some people will be distinctively worse off. This is especially true for anyone using a public healthcare option. They're going to basically be screwed as their "gauranted income" isn't going to cover either their medical bills or a replacement health insurance policy. For the oldsters, it will also be a cut in their benefits.
Sure, screw the elderly so that young people can be worthless layabouts.
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> It's not treating them as a victim, it's removing the obstacles that don't exist for other people.
It's time to extract the silver spoon from yourself wherever it may have worked itself into over the years.
I would expect performance on par with whatever neighborhood they happened to land end. That seemed to be the with the Asian refugees that settled in my working class neighborhood in the 80s.
The same goes for suburbia now for those of us that managed to escape.
We currently have this one size fits all idea about education that equals "college prep". Not everyone can train for the same job or role in society. People themselves have different preferences. American schools don't acknowledge that anymore and it's not getting any better.
They are not at all legitimate. While they may be the result of past "sins", they are nothing that can't be overcome with the desire to do so. For blacks in particular, they have to worry less about "racism" and more about a culture that treats success as selling out.
I did respond directly to what you said. The WORST thing you can do to a person is treat them as if they are a victim. It doesn't matter if they're actually a victim or not.
It's far worse than burning a flag in their yard.
If they aren't taking advantage of that very well established part of the welfare state then they have much bigger problems then whether or not they're going to get into the GT program.
Kids like that get a free meal on school days, if not two.
> For a gifted kid from poor minority parents it usually takes exceptionally dedicated parents.
>
>For a gifted kid from rich white parents it usually takes mildly dedicated parents.
>
> That's how institutional racism works,
THAT is not "racism". That's bleeding hearts making excuses for people and ultimately robbing them of any pride or free will.
Pretending that these people are somehow "incapable" for whatever lame ass reason. THAT's racism.
Nonsense. Kids that are motivated can get into a gifted program if they are marginal and the tests are "biased" against their strengths. The kid's motivation can be substituted for the parent's motivation. Parental motivation can even make a difference for cases of marginal talent.
As always, this is all about the parents and whether or not they value education. Those that make time will push their kids to perform better. Those who can't be bothered MIGHT be lucky enough to have a kid that has natural drive.
In a Hispanic family, if dad can't help then grandma should be there to help.
This is what distinguishes the Asians. They push harder than anybody and they don't make excuses.
What? The ability to run any application they want on a PC platform?
If MacOS is a Unix, then it shouldn't need to be treated like such a delicate flower. The user should be able to safely run programs without having them blessed by the OS vendor.
US actions in Libya were requested by the surrounding Arab countries.
Syria fell apart without any US help.
All 3 were brutal tyrannical regimes that had no problems using weapons of mass destruction on their own citizens. All 3 were countries that bleeding hearts thought we should undermine or shun.
1630 is closer to the peak of the last Muslim Empire right before it started to go into decline and disintegrate.
With the current state of things in terms of cell network pricing in the US, this is defective design. It's a disaster waiting to happen. If any device is "using lots more data" then that's probably a serious design issue driven by the mobile version of "game developer syndrome".
...plus, I don't see what the big deal is in terms of "installing an app". If the web version can be turnkey, then so can the 'app' variant.
Even as a software vendor we see this problem. Does it make more sense to build a solution from scratch versus trying to shoehorn their requirements into something we've already got on the shelf? Trying to do the latter can be a disaster where the end result is so customized you're not really using any part of the "off the shelf" solution anymore.
So the idea that it makes sense for a company to do it themselves is not so shocking. They could even outsource the whole thing if they don't have their own staff. It ends up being the same thing either way.
The catch with not being "cross-platform" is that your designated platform may still quickly go the way of the do-do even if it is associated with the brand du jour for which you cannot be fired for buying.
ActiveX is a great example of that.
A good developer has to see past the current development cycle. Never mind anyone with "architect" in his job title.
Some well made systems can last 30 years being useful and able to deflect constant attempts by new managers to ditch it for something "shiny and new".
These days with the level of paranoia associated with any sort of unsupervised play, children could certainly use more of that kind of activity imposed upon them in school. One important aspect of the "obesity" epidemic that constantly gets glossed over is exercise. While food education (and vocational education) went to sh*t, so did PE and the level of voluntary exercise children engage in.
...that's achieved through efficient design. This is not efficient design. You're confusing the UI's of Unix with DOS.
Dealing with n+1 keyboards is hardly efficient. Once you've created something suitably flexible for 2015, then such a
a single suitable programmable keyboard could have the most often used emoji on the "default page" ONE keyboard. Much better than mucking around with n+1 them.
Yes. Quite. There are some things you can't avoid in that condition and others that should be easily avoidable.
Although we still have to pick up the pieces after someone inflicts stupid upon themselves.
That's kind of how Apple took over the market. They went cheap. They didn't make the first tablets. They made the first really cheap ones. If you're talking about "serious work", especially in creative fields then there's a good chance that a cheap consumer gadget isn't going to cut the mustard.
If anything, touch focus and control is much more crude than a mouse, keyboard, or stylus. Thus Jobs screeching about a precision control feature (the stylus) that eventually showed up everywhere else. It will probably show up on Apple sooner or later too (just like smaller tablets).
> The wealthiest country ever in human history, and (both privately and publicly) deeply in debt because we cannot afford all the things we want to buy.
The NHS just had to say fuck you to a bunch of cancer patients because they busted their annual drug budget. There's really no getting around the fact that there's no free lunch. On the one hand there's Germany and on the other there's Greece. Neither reflects the cultural mix in the US.
Thinking that you can transplant social welfare programs from one country to another basically fails to genuinely acknowledge "multicultural diversity".
> Why do you think you are "entitled" to hoard money and belongings?
Personal effort and choices have allowed me to do this.
I am a productive member of society and not just a leech.
Except Stallman has never advocated corporate capitalism. Quite the contrary. Free Software is about as far away from communism or "genuine socialism" as you can get.
> So now if you have down syndrome you have to stuff envelopes until you die?
Why not? Everyone else does. Or at least they do this until retirement age. Being "handicapped" should be all about milking the system and taking advantage of the rest of us.
The ridiculous cost of healthcare is a media myth. It's just part of the bogus media narrative that trying to pretend that we're Germany would magically fix everything.
Medical billing is another form of fiction and so-called journalists like to fixate on the numbers that suit them even if they aren't real.
As far as what "the government" actually spends, they really rip off the doctors and hospitals. They pay even less than the insurance companies. It's so bad that some providers avoid it entirely (medicare/medicaid).
They pay a fraction of what insurance companies do and that's a fraction of what "billed rates" actually are.
...except some people will be distinctively worse off. This is especially true for anyone using a public healthcare option. They're going to basically be screwed as their "gauranted income" isn't going to cover either their medical bills or a replacement health insurance policy. For the oldsters, it will also be a cut in their benefits.
Sure, screw the elderly so that young people can be worthless layabouts.