Well, some people *think* they know that God does not exist. They have about the same amount of proof as those who *think* they know that God does exist.
I also think I know that there are no invisible penguins in my dishwasher. And I have exactly the same amount of proof.
TFS mentions a "cosmological constant" as the reason for the acceleration of the expansion of the universe. I thought that the cosmological constant was a so-called "fudge factor" to back the steady state theory-- and that Einstein said it was the biggest blunder of his career. Can someone enlighten me about which constant is being referred to in the summary?
... when these measurements corroborate the existing (and already very convincing) evidence for sea level rise, the wingnuts will come up with yet another obscure rationalization explaining why they should be discarded or ignored.
Alas, with deniers, it's like playing whack-a-mole: when you point to any specific piece of evidence, then out come the excuses for why that one thing is not relevant. When you point out the totality of evidence, out come the irrelevant details.
Really, how hard is it to act professional in a workplace and refrain from speech or actions that someone might find harassing
I think this is the crux of the matter - anyone is able to claim that anything makes them feel harassed, and the speaker is always instantly assumed to be in the wrong.
Or, possibly, the crux of the matter is that clear, over-the-top sexual harassment is widespread in academia, and people are finally refusing to accept it as normal.
GP is right: it isn't really all that hard to not act like a dick, but some people can't seem to make even that very low bar.
You knew him personally? What else was he like? Oh...I see...you don't know him. You have no idea what you are talking about and are just parroting nonsense.
That having been said, some of the incidents described are pretty egregious. But then university administrators have been cowardly autocrats since universities began.
Licensed drivers kill far more people than do murderers who use guns (whether obtained and possessed legally OR illegally). The irony here is that you think you're making some sort of constructive point, when you're actually undermining what appears to be your agenda.
This has to be the stupidest thing I've read in a very long time, even on/.
Overall death rates involving motor vehicles and firearms are roughly equal, somewhat in excess of 30,000 per year in the U.S. (The motor vehicle death rate is comparable to other developed nations, while the firearm death rate is far higher.) If you want to talk only about "muderers who use guns", then the relevant comparison is firearm homicides (more than 8,000 in 2011according to the FBI), to vehicular homicides, which are so rare that it is difficult to even find statistics on them. A few hundred a year at most.
I quit shopping at Home Depot after the time I ran into a cashier who insisted that I could not buy what was in my cart unless I supplied my zip code as part of the credit card transaction, despite having it explained to her that it is a violation of their merchant agreement, and in many states is also illegal. I left my shit in the shopping cart and left.
I was utterly unsurprised to see that Home Depot got breached. I hope they have to pay out big.
First they'll come for out killbots, then our machine guns, and sooner or later they will take away our muskets. It's a slippery slope! Wake up, sheeple!
The way math is taught, Math is a chore. The way common core teaches it, it's a stupid, idiotic chore.
Having seen quite a bit of Common Core math at this point, I have to disagree. I have taken a lot of advanced math, and use it every day. Common Core teaches math the way I think about math. As an example: What's 25 + 36? I don't approach this problem by adding 6 and 5, getting one-carry-one, then adding 1+2+3 and putting it in the tens column. I remember that 2+3 = 5, so 20+30=50, with 5+6 left over, which gives us one more ten (for 60) and one left over (for 61). Common Core teaches addition that way, with lots of visualizations so children can see how much ten is, and that a hundred is ten groups of ten, and so on. This is just one example. It teaches kids to reason about numbers, not just calculate.
An additional advantage of the standardization brought about by Common Core is that it makes is possible for third parties to create software, web sites, etc. that are aligned with the standard and thus relevant to what's happening in the actual curriculum, without having to custom-build for each school district. This means that there is a ton of supplemental material available on the web, a lot of it free, that is perfectly aligned with the curriculum. It's awesome.
That having been said, teachers who were already in the habit of teaching math as dreary, meaningless memorized computation can certainly do so with Common Core. That's not a problem with the standards. The problem there is the teachers.
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To the surprise of no one - the $70 million bond request by the school district was voted down by a 3 to 1 measure.
Which will provide the answer, in ten years, as to how they ended up with a 70 year-old system...
Public radio is tyranny! Tyranny, I tell you!
Yeah, because regulating the safety of medical devices is tyrrany!
AI's will also never best you at sitting on the couch in your parents' basement eating cheetos and watching anime. Your skillz are safe.
Well, some people *think* they know that God does not exist. They have about the same amount of proof as those who *think* they know that God does exist.
I also think I know that there are no invisible penguins in my dishwasher. And I have exactly the same amount of proof.
Horrible from a human perspective. He is transcendent, we are just too dumb to understand the inner beauty.
That's what I tell people about my code all the time.
I'd might as well be voting for some third world dictator thug.
Then Trump's your man.
TFS mentions a "cosmological constant" as the reason for the acceleration of the expansion of the universe. I thought that the cosmological constant was a so-called "fudge factor" to back the steady state theory-- and that Einstein said it was the biggest blunder of his career. Can someone enlighten me about which constant is being referred to in the summary?
The same one. It's back.
... when these measurements corroborate the existing (and already very convincing) evidence for sea level rise, the wingnuts will come up with yet another obscure rationalization explaining why they should be discarded or ignored.
Alas, with deniers, it's like playing whack-a-mole: when you point to any specific piece of evidence, then out come the excuses for why that one thing is not relevant. When you point out the totality of evidence, out come the irrelevant details.
I think this is the crux of the matter - anyone is able to claim that anything makes them feel harassed, and the speaker is always instantly assumed to be in the wrong.
Or, possibly, the crux of the matter is that clear, over-the-top sexual harassment is widespread in academia, and people are finally refusing to accept it as normal.
GP is right: it isn't really all that hard to not act like a dick, but some people can't seem to make even that very low bar.
You knew him personally? What else was he like? Oh...I see...you don't know him. You have no idea what you are talking about and are just parroting nonsense.
Well, Jefferson was pretty certainly a rapist.
>cowardly autocrats
Kind of an oxymoron, don't you think?
You obviously haven't spent much time dealing with university administrators.
The John William Pope Center is a mouthpiece for a right-wing think tank, and is no friend of higher education.
That having been said, some of the incidents described are pretty egregious. But then university administrators have been cowardly autocrats since universities began.
You reverse the polarity of the neutron flow.
Shit. Are you sure it's not a tachyon pulse?
How do you stop at the other end?
Licensed drivers kill far more people than do murderers who use guns (whether obtained and possessed legally OR illegally). The irony here is that you think you're making some sort of constructive point, when you're actually undermining what appears to be your agenda.
This has to be the stupidest thing I've read in a very long time, even on /.
Overall death rates involving motor vehicles and firearms are roughly equal, somewhat in excess of 30,000 per year in the U.S. (The motor vehicle death rate is comparable to other developed nations, while the firearm death rate is far higher.) If you want to talk only about "muderers who use guns", then the relevant comparison is firearm homicides (more than 8,000 in 2011according to the FBI), to vehicular homicides, which are so rare that it is difficult to even find statistics on them. A few hundred a year at most.
The irony is that he had to have a license to drive his car, but to buy the handgun? Not so much.
I quit shopping at Home Depot after the time I ran into a cashier who insisted that I could not buy what was in my cart unless I supplied my zip code as part of the credit card transaction, despite having it explained to her that it is a violation of their merchant agreement, and in many states is also illegal. I left my shit in the shopping cart and left.
I was utterly unsurprised to see that Home Depot got breached. I hope they have to pay out big.
Or you could use O.J. Simpson and fake it.
...likely hasn't even been born yet, because we're not going any time soon. NASA "plan" is a load of vapor.
This is pretty rich coming from people who count single downloads as multiple lost sales.
Sort of like every time I look at your wife, it means I've banged her six times.
First they'll come for out killbots, then our machine guns, and sooner or later they will take away our muskets. It's a slippery slope! Wake up, sheeple!
I will give up my killbot when you pry the controller from my cold, dead hands! Because the Constitution!
The way math is taught, Math is a chore. The way common core teaches it, it's a stupid, idiotic chore.
Having seen quite a bit of Common Core math at this point, I have to disagree. I have taken a lot of advanced math, and use it every day. Common Core teaches math the way I think about math. As an example: What's 25 + 36? I don't approach this problem by adding 6 and 5, getting one-carry-one, then adding 1+2+3 and putting it in the tens column. I remember that 2+3 = 5, so 20+30=50, with 5+6 left over, which gives us one more ten (for 60) and one left over (for 61). Common Core teaches addition that way, with lots of visualizations so children can see how much ten is, and that a hundred is ten groups of ten, and so on. This is just one example. It teaches kids to reason about numbers, not just calculate.
An additional advantage of the standardization brought about by Common Core is that it makes is possible for third parties to create software, web sites, etc. that are aligned with the standard and thus relevant to what's happening in the actual curriculum, without having to custom-build for each school district. This means that there is a ton of supplemental material available on the web, a lot of it free, that is perfectly aligned with the curriculum. It's awesome.
That having been said, teachers who were already in the habit of teaching math as dreary, meaningless memorized computation can certainly do so with Common Core. That's not a problem with the standards. The problem there is the teachers.
... the British also want to issue tax stamps on tea.