In the words of a US Embassy dispatch "The Shah's picture is everywhere. The beginning of all film showings in public theaters presents the Shah in various regal poses accompanied by the strains of the National anthem... The monarch also actively extends his influence to all phases of social affairs...there is hardly any activity or vocation which the Shah or members of his family or his closest friends do not have a direct or at least a symbolic involvement. In the past' he had claimed to take a two party-system seriously and declared "If I were a dictator rather than a constitutional monarch' then I might be tempted to sponsor a single dominant party such as Hitler organized".
However by 1975 he abolished the multi-party system of government so that he could rule through a one-party state under the Rastakhiz (Resurrection) Party in autocratic fashion. All Iranians were pressured to join in. The Shah's own words on its justification was; "We must straighten out Iranians' ranks. To do so' we divide them into two categories: those who believe in Monarchy' the constitution and the Six Bahman Revolution and those who don't.... A person who does not enter the new political party and does not believe in the three cardinal principles will have only two choices. He is either an individual who belongs to an illegal organization' or is related to the outlawed Tudeh Party' or in other words a traitor. Such an individual belongs to an Iranian prison' or if he desires he can leave the country tomorrow' without even paying exit fees; he can go anywhere he likes' because he is not Iranian' he has no nation' and his activities are illegal and punishable according to the law".[25] In addition' the Shah had decreed that all Iranian citizens and the few remaining political parties must become part of Rastakhiz.
They did end tyranny by replacing the shah and they did establish a democracy when they voted for Mossadegh - only when that didn't work (i.e. the CIA undid all that and restored the shah) did they resort to more radical means.
I hope professors understand that a very large portion of students get past exams and assignment solutions from friends who have taken the class before and this is simply not fair to those students who don't have access to that material - especially if the exact same exam/assignment is going to be given. But unfortunately there's very little a school can do to stop students from sharing assignments, so to level the playing field professors should not reuse exams and assignments. In fact, they should always make last semester's exam available to all students as a practice so the few students who don't happen to have a friend who already took the exam don't get unfairly punished.
Americans have never accepted a radical political transformation that would change their future.
Sorry but I think Corn is dead wrong on this assertion. America was founded on a radical political transformation and the abolition of slavery and the end of segregation are both radical transformations that have arguably changed the future of all Americans more than any single technology.
Well the lawsuit is now a problem. They'll claim you found out they were Mormon and that's the reason you won't hire them. You claim it is for another reason, maybe something they've now removed from their page. Well it's now "He said, she said." Maybe the jury doesn't buy that the other thing was what you cared about and all of a sudden you owe a bunch of money.
BRAD
What do you want?
LESTER
One year's salary, with benefits.
BRAD
That's not going to happen.
LESTER
Well, what do you say I throw in a little sexual harassment charge to boot?
Brad LAUGHS.
BRAD
Against who?
LESTER
Against you.
Brad stops laughing.
LESTER (cont'd)
Can you prove you didn't offer to save my job if I'd let you blow me?
You may be interested in a paper that discusses the results of TIMSS, which is an organization that compares the quality of K-12 education in the US to that of other countries.
Despite the wealth of information provided by the TIMSS publications, it is fair
to say that two specific TIMSS findings have captured the majority of the headlines,
and have had the greatest influence on classroom practice and education policy.
The most eye-opening results come from the achievement scores of students
around theworld. For example, in the little multicultural, multilingual, top-performing
country of Singapore, some 46% of the eighth graders scored in the top 10% of the
world. And 75% of their students placed among the top 25% of all eighth graders
worldwide. Just 1% of their students placed among the bottom 25% of all eighth
graders around the world. This is a stunning achievement. Singapore has indeed
shown what it really means to have an education system where no child is left behind.
Moreover, these performance results have held up with remarkable consistency in
each of the TIMSS testing rounds. Just a notch down from Singapore, the next group
of top performers have been Korea, Hong Kong, Chinese Taipei (formerly known as
Taiwan) and Japan (mostly in this order) with Flemish Belgium trailing somewhat
behind, but consistently next in line.
The U.S. scores are also worth mentioning. Roughly put, American fourth graders
and eighth graders scored somewhat above the international average. But at the twelfth
grade, the U.S. scored at the bottom of the industrialized world, and only significantly
out-performed two countries: South Africa and Cyprus. No other country fell so far
so fast. There was also a more sophisticated twelfth grade test that was reserved for
twelfth graders in advanced math programs in the participating countries. On that
test, the U.S. was next-to-last; even Cyprus performed significantly better.
For completeness, it should be noted that the twelfth grade testing has not been
repeated since 1995 and the U.S. plummet just described. This is unfortunate because
the lack of follow-up testing forces us to infer whether the American mathematics
programs have recovered from the results documented in 1995. Moreover, the real
purpose of a K-8 program is to prepare students for subsequent study as opposed to an
eighth grade TIMSS test. So our understanding of mathematics education around the
world would be greatly enhanced by a schedule of testing that includes grade twelve
as well as grades four and eight.4
In view of the absence of follow-up twelfth grade testing, one could speculate that
the American TIMSS scores might show that the newest programs are beginning to
make a difference. After all, the latest math reforms are often introduced at the earlier
grades first, and then extended by one grade level per year. Could it be that U.S. high
school students are performing better now because more of them are participating in
reform math programs? The answer seems to be a clear no. A variety of studies
have documented very little progress in high school math achievement over the last
decade. To date, the NAEP scores, for example, have been most notable for their lack
of improvement.
Yes, you have a point about our standard of living but it's not only our standard of living that has caused this problem, it's also the deterioration of the quality of k-12 education in the US - especially in math.
When I did my undergrad, more often than not, kids who didn't know standard mathematical identities, were Americans. I don't see how someone who doesn't understand logs and exponents inside out can do well in a (respectable) comp sci program. Why should US companies hire mediocre US comp sci students when they can hire higher quality students overseas at a cheaper price?
There have already been incidents where offshore foreign workers were bribed to provide account information on bank customers.
The reality is that major American system may have already been compromised by bribes to offshore foreign workers to insert malicious code into the American systems where they have direct access.
Do you honestly think American workers don't do the same? It's almost as if your argument is that American workers are inherently more ethical than foreign ones and that therefore offshoring is a bad thing.
Exactly, I just booked a roundtrip ticket from NYC to Dallas,TX for $175 - taxes included.
Can anyone explain to me why I would want to go by rail instead when it would take at least twice as long?
It's not like either of these companies is regulated in any way
Considering that the gov't does most of the spying, I don't think that using a regulated company's service will necessarily give you more privacy. In fact, I expect that the gov't has a harder time spying on skype/google conversations than they do regular phone lines.
I wonder what a Yahoo user might say if you asked them the same question. Maybe people are more likely to use only 1 search engine - it's certainly easier to change your terms than to go to a new website.
As far as I'm concerned it's fairly irrelevant that AIPAC is a powerful lobbying group because the group they lobby against can't stop shooting themselves in the foot.
I don't know where you get your information from and I'm not saying your unjustified in your opinion but I believe that many people think that Palestinians are "shooting themselves in the foot" *because* pro-Israel lobbying groups are there to work the media while the Palestinian side of the story goes largely untold.
I think you seriously underestimate how powerful the pro-Zionism lobby in the US is. AIPAC has frequently been ranked as the most powerful lobbying group in the US.
Considering that the US Jewish population is only about 2%, AIPAC's amount of influence on US politics is very impressive.
From a purely algorithm perspective you are correct, but it will be easier to implement that O(n) algorithm in a high level scripting language like python than it would be to implement it assembly or even C and I think that's where the submitter's argument of relying on hardware to make up the speed difference makes sense.
It's possible that Java is actually better implemented for Vista but because Vista uses more resources it ends up running slower. It would be interesting to see a comparison where the amount of available resources is equal.
any battery technology developed is released into the public domain. (if you want public funding, you need to make your research results public as well.)
The problem with that is once you release it into public domain other countries - who did not contribute to the funding and whom the US is competing with - also gain access to the research.
That's not really the same. Drug prohibition doesn't work because it outlaws a victimless activity, so the parties involved have no motive to report the crime to the police.
Enforcing spam laws is also difficult but not for the same reason because spam victimizes unwilling participants by wasting their bandwidth. Spam laws are difficult to enforce because of the borderless nature of the internet and a lack of cooperation between countries but this is a political problem that - unlike prohibition - is solvable.
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In the words of a US Embassy dispatch "The Shah's picture is everywhere. The beginning of all film showings in public theaters presents the Shah in various regal poses accompanied by the strains of the National anthem... The monarch also actively extends his influence to all phases of social affairs...there is hardly any activity or vocation which the Shah or members of his family or his closest friends do not have a direct or at least a symbolic involvement. In the past' he had claimed to take a two party-system seriously and declared "If I were a dictator rather than a constitutional monarch' then I might be tempted to sponsor a single dominant party such as Hitler organized".
However by 1975 he abolished the multi-party system of government so that he could rule through a one-party state under the Rastakhiz (Resurrection) Party in autocratic fashion. All Iranians were pressured to join in. The Shah's own words on its justification was; "We must straighten out Iranians' ranks. To do so' we divide them into two categories: those who believe in Monarchy' the constitution and the Six Bahman Revolution and those who don't.... A person who does not enter the new political party and does not believe in the three cardinal principles will have only two choices. He is either an individual who belongs to an illegal organization' or is related to the outlawed Tudeh Party' or in other words a traitor. Such an individual belongs to an Iranian prison' or if he desires he can leave the country tomorrow' without even paying exit fees; he can go anywhere he likes' because he is not Iranian' he has no nation' and his activities are illegal and punishable according to the law".[25] In addition' the Shah had decreed that all Iranian citizens and the few remaining political parties must become part of Rastakhiz.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mohammad_Reza_Pahlavi
Cartman?
They did end tyranny by replacing the shah and they did establish a democracy when they voted for Mossadegh - only when that didn't work (i.e. the CIA undid all that and restored the shah) did they resort to more radical means.
I hope professors understand that a very large portion of students get past exams and assignment solutions from friends who have taken the class before and this is simply not fair to those students who don't have access to that material - especially if the exact same exam/assignment is going to be given. But unfortunately there's very little a school can do to stop students from sharing assignments, so to level the playing field professors should not reuse exams and assignments. In fact, they should always make last semester's exam available to all students as a practice so the few students who don't happen to have a friend who already took the exam don't get unfairly punished.
In other words it's exactly like business school
Sorry but I think Corn is dead wrong on this assertion. America was founded on a radical political transformation and the abolition of slavery and the end of segregation are both radical transformations that have arguably changed the future of all Americans more than any single technology.
But even then human verification will be required for all ads that match a trademark and it would be unfair to expect Google to shoulder this cost.
A good compromise would be for Google to display a warning to the user when a trademarked keyword is used but to allow all keywords.
If a violation does occur then the keyword buyer should be held responsible
Well the lawsuit is now a problem. They'll claim you found out they were Mormon and that's the reason you won't hire them. You claim it is for another reason, maybe something they've now removed from their page. Well it's now "He said, she said." Maybe the jury doesn't buy that the other thing was what you cared about and all of a sudden you owe a bunch of money.
BRAD What do you want?
LESTER One year's salary, with benefits.
BRAD That's not going to happen.
LESTER Well, what do you say I throw in a little sexual harassment charge to boot?
Brad LAUGHS.
BRAD Against who?
LESTER Against you.
Brad stops laughing.
LESTER (cont'd) Can you prove you didn't offer to save my job if I'd let you blow me?
Brad leans back in his chair, studying Lester.
BRAD Man. You are one twisted fuck.
You may be interested in a paper that discusses the results of TIMSS, which is an organization that compares the quality of K-12 education in the US to that of other countries.
You can find the original paper here.
Despite the wealth of information provided by the TIMSS publications, it is fair to say that two specific TIMSS findings have captured the majority of the headlines, and have had the greatest influence on classroom practice and education policy. The most eye-opening results come from the achievement scores of students around theworld. For example, in the little multicultural, multilingual, top-performing country of Singapore, some 46% of the eighth graders scored in the top 10% of the world. And 75% of their students placed among the top 25% of all eighth graders worldwide. Just 1% of their students placed among the bottom 25% of all eighth graders around the world. This is a stunning achievement. Singapore has indeed shown what it really means to have an education system where no child is left behind. Moreover, these performance results have held up with remarkable consistency in each of the TIMSS testing rounds. Just a notch down from Singapore, the next group of top performers have been Korea, Hong Kong, Chinese Taipei (formerly known as Taiwan) and Japan (mostly in this order) with Flemish Belgium trailing somewhat behind, but consistently next in line.
The U.S. scores are also worth mentioning. Roughly put, American fourth graders and eighth graders scored somewhat above the international average. But at the twelfth grade, the U.S. scored at the bottom of the industrialized world, and only significantly out-performed two countries: South Africa and Cyprus. No other country fell so far so fast. There was also a more sophisticated twelfth grade test that was reserved for twelfth graders in advanced math programs in the participating countries. On that test, the U.S. was next-to-last; even Cyprus performed significantly better. For completeness, it should be noted that the twelfth grade testing has not been repeated since 1995 and the U.S. plummet just described. This is unfortunate because the lack of follow-up testing forces us to infer whether the American mathematics programs have recovered from the results documented in 1995. Moreover, the real purpose of a K-8 program is to prepare students for subsequent study as opposed to an eighth grade TIMSS test. So our understanding of mathematics education around the world would be greatly enhanced by a schedule of testing that includes grade twelve as well as grades four and eight.4
In view of the absence of follow-up twelfth grade testing, one could speculate that the American TIMSS scores might show that the newest programs are beginning to make a difference. After all, the latest math reforms are often introduced at the earlier grades first, and then extended by one grade level per year. Could it be that U.S. high school students are performing better now because more of them are participating in reform math programs? The answer seems to be a clear no. A variety of studies have documented very little progress in high school math achievement over the last decade. To date, the NAEP scores, for example, have been most notable for their lack of improvement.
Yes, you have a point about our standard of living but it's not only our standard of living that has caused this problem, it's also the deterioration of the quality of k-12 education in the US - especially in math.
When I did my undergrad, more often than not, kids who didn't know standard mathematical identities, were Americans. I don't see how someone who doesn't understand logs and exponents inside out can do well in a (respectable) comp sci program. Why should US companies hire mediocre US comp sci students when they can hire higher quality students overseas at a cheaper price?
There have already been incidents where offshore foreign workers were bribed to provide account information on bank customers.
The reality is that major American system may have already been compromised by bribes to offshore foreign workers to insert malicious code into the American systems where they have direct access.
Do you honestly think American workers don't do the same? It's almost as if your argument is that American workers are inherently more ethical than foreign ones and that therefore offshoring is a bad thing.
Good news. Every number is a sum of powers of two.
Exactly, I just booked a roundtrip ticket from NYC to Dallas,TX for $175 - taxes included. Can anyone explain to me why I would want to go by rail instead when it would take at least twice as long?
Start supporting projects like freenetproject.org.
Considering that the gov't does most of the spying, I don't think that using a regulated company's service will necessarily give you more privacy. In fact, I expect that the gov't has a harder time spying on skype/google conversations than they do regular phone lines.
I wonder what a Yahoo user might say if you asked them the same question. Maybe people are more likely to use only 1 search engine - it's certainly easier to change your terms than to go to a new website.
Politicians are not going to be experts in every field they pass laws for. Ideally, they get advised by experts and this may have been the case here.
We're not talking about lobbying. We're talking about PR.
PR is an integral part of lobbying. This is especially true for AIPAC but also for other groups like the NRA, AARP and ACLU.
As far as I'm concerned it's fairly irrelevant that AIPAC is a powerful lobbying group because the group they lobby against can't stop shooting themselves in the foot.
I don't know where you get your information from and I'm not saying your unjustified in your opinion but I believe that many people think that Palestinians are "shooting themselves in the foot" *because* pro-Israel lobbying groups are there to work the media while the Palestinian side of the story goes largely untold.
I think you seriously underestimate how powerful the pro-Zionism lobby in the US is. AIPAC has frequently been ranked as the most powerful lobbying group in the US.
Considering that the US Jewish population is only about 2%, AIPAC's amount of influence on US politics is very impressive.
Because rainbow tables are useless if the hash is salted
You do whatever it takes to get the job done, under impossible deadlines.
Luckily, that's not the case at all when you're your own boss ;)
From a purely algorithm perspective you are correct, but it will be easier to implement that O(n) algorithm in a high level scripting language like python than it would be to implement it assembly or even C and I think that's where the submitter's argument of relying on hardware to make up the speed difference makes sense.
It's possible that Java is actually better implemented for Vista but because Vista uses more resources it ends up running slower. It would be interesting to see a comparison where the amount of available resources is equal.
any battery technology developed is released into the public domain. (if you want public funding, you need to make your research results public as well.)
The problem with that is once you release it into public domain other countries - who did not contribute to the funding and whom the US is competing with - also gain access to the research.
That's not really the same. Drug prohibition doesn't work because it outlaws a victimless activity, so the parties involved have no motive to report the crime to the police.
Enforcing spam laws is also difficult but not for the same reason because spam victimizes unwilling participants by wasting their bandwidth. Spam laws are difficult to enforce because of the borderless nature of the internet and a lack of cooperation between countries but this is a political problem that - unlike prohibition - is solvable.