It's perfectly legal, even required, to bribe lawmakers by contributing to their re-election campaigns. But those same lawmakers will pretend indignation when they hear this story about police officers receiving kickbacks. They will probably pass a new law or two to curb this disgusting practice and then posture about campaign finance reform.
There are two schools of thought on the purpose of schooling.
1. People should be given a well-rounded education until they reach the age to decide what they want to pursue for themselves. This includes things like literature and history as well as "more practical" subjects like math and science.
2. The purpose of school is to turn out productive members of society by training them in a particular vocation.
In either sense the American school system is a dismal disaster. I don't know about the rest of you but during my high school years I didn't truly learn much of anything. In history class you are not offered explanations for why things happened or lessons for how to prevent similar catastrophes from happening again, you are given a list of terms and dates to memorize. The same is true to some extent for every subject I was taught.
As far as vocational training, I would guess less than 1% of the average individual's useful job knowledge comes from their high school experience. Basic math, science and language are obviously useful. But there is no significant push toward understanding economics, computers, business practices in the real world, etc.
Combine this with the HD capabilities in Tiger and you end up with a pretty nice setup for not a lot of dough. But will 54 MB/s be enough to stream TV shows and movies without pausing and skipping? Hmm, why has Apple been doing so much work on low-bandwidth video protocols?
I'm keeping my fingers crossed that the next version of OS X will be codenamed LYGER.
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It's perfectly legal, even required, to bribe lawmakers by contributing to their re-election campaigns. But those same lawmakers will pretend indignation when they hear this story about police officers receiving kickbacks. They will probably pass a new law or two to curb this disgusting practice and then posture about campaign finance reform.
It's broke dammit!
kinch
http://returnself.com/blog/
There are two schools of thought on the purpose of schooling.
1. People should be given a well-rounded education until they reach the age to decide what they want to pursue for themselves. This includes things like literature and history as well as "more practical" subjects like math and science.
2. The purpose of school is to turn out productive members of society by training them in a particular vocation.
In either sense the American school system is a dismal disaster. I don't know about the rest of you but during my high school years I didn't truly learn much of anything. In history class you are not offered explanations for why things happened or lessons for how to prevent similar catastrophes from happening again, you are given a list of terms and dates to memorize. The same is true to some extent for every subject I was taught.
As far as vocational training, I would guess less than 1% of the average individual's useful job knowledge comes from their high school experience. Basic math, science and language are obviously useful. But there is no significant push toward understanding economics, computers, business practices in the real world, etc.
Gates is right. High school is obselete.
kinch
http://returnself.com/blog/
Combine this with the HD capabilities in Tiger and you end up with a pretty nice setup for not a lot of dough. But will 54 MB/s be enough to stream TV shows and movies without pausing and skipping? Hmm, why has Apple been doing so much work on low-bandwidth video protocols?
I'm keeping my fingers crossed that the next version of OS X will be codenamed LYGER.
http://returnself.com/blog/