My mother told me this 20 years ago, this is like household wisdom.
You are correct, but without evidence, it has remained somewhat anecdotal. I know several parents who completely protect and shield their kids from everything and have wondered why they get sick so easy.... They didn't accept the anecdotal evidence, but maybe now they will accept the scientific evidence.
You lie! Brit food is like eating simple flavorless matter and mush!
I lived there for nearly 5 months, and like all foreign countries I've lived in, I try to eat the local food.... I couldn't. I did, but it sucked over and over again....
And then I realized (and heard on Radio 1) that Brits eat more curry than they do traditional brit food. And so I started to eat at Indian restaurants and was happy again.
Brit food is junk. It is honestly like someone made a random recipe and didn't have any spices.
... also be able to charge, fine, and incriminate the policemen who continue to do things illegally, thus setting example and ensuring better policemanship.
The police don't respect the law because very few people actually make them do it.
it means we're always plagued by the sick attributes of money and capitalism, but most of us spend our time looking at the outcomes and wondering why (without seeing the true root of the issue).
I'd say a lot of the limitations to the teachers is also our litigious society; teachers are afraid to say anything to bad students or do anything that is actually necessary for fear of getting sued.
Our country puts money over everything else, and like the sick disgusting zombies that follow money, we look at each other and wonder why we're all so hungry for brains.
Money is perverting and corrupting everything. Beit lawyers, the legal system, politics, nonprofits, science(pseudo-science), medicine...
You name it: it will have disgusting characteristics that can be found to be rooted in our thirst for money.
In a world where community and true happiness are goals, do you think the RIAA would even find lawyers to do what we see here on slashdot? No. But its hard to control people who are in agreement to maintain happiness and support each other. We need *competition* for necessary resources to pit us against each other and permit a select few of true controllers to direct our actions.
In response/support to what I was saying, a true competitive market is as this:
Some companies make phones
Some companies offer service
That's it. The europeans do it well. I loved it when I lived there. My phone had a swiss number, a german number, and an italian number. All depending on which SIM card I put in it. I paid for minutes and texts as I used them.
Why oh why is the american business model becoming "do as much anti-trust as you can, abuse the consumer, and pay penalties if you're caught".
WHY? Because we're not actually pursuing the blatant infringes on competition and the penalties are LOWER than the benefits reaped.
Everyone is doing it. Microsoft, IBM, big oil, big telco. Anyone on the planet that has used AT&T knows from their customer service that they don't care about you at all and don't need to because they are part of gigantic oligopolies.
Even if HTC offers the same model to another carrier, they aren't offering the SPRINT one. And in line with that is the limit to Spring. I cannot use it on another network if I choose. I am forced to exclusively use my hardware on a Sprint network.
Anti-trust crap happens all day all over the place. It is almost funny to see how few of these blatant offenses to competition actually get pursued.
More interesting is what is not contained in the emails. There is no evidence of any worldwide conspiracy, no mention of George Soros nefariously funding climate research, no grand plan to 'get rid of the MWP', no admission that global warming is a hoax, no evidence of the falsifying of data, and no 'marching orders' from our socialist/communist/vegetarian overlords. The truly paranoid will put this down to the hackers also being in on the plot though."
I think it is funny that people would begin to draw conclusions from data and e-mails that are not received in context or understood/interpreted as truth be told.
You could look up almost any e-mail from me and deduce all kinds of crap that isn't real, but if you're not me or the person who received it, you'll never know the truth unless you ask me to explain it.
The same goes for 'data'. Unless you've got a contextual explanation for all of the data, likely by those who collected it, it is pretty reckless to draw conclusions about it.
I'm a scientist, and in what I know, aside from what is published, raw data and notebooks (and e-mails in this case) are pretty hard to deduce 'truth' from without explanation.
Example: you could look at a note of me saying I discarded specific PCR amplified DNA sequences for organism X, Y, and Z. But if you don't have me there to explain the stuff you don't know, like that that they contained nonspecific amplification or maybe had messy chromatograms... well then you would never know. You might accuse me of tampering, though really you just don't know what is really going on.
This is why you can't just publish every damn thing that you did. It makes a big confusing mess. Instead, you take the data and your methods and results, provide discussion and interpretation, and then have peers review to make sure what you've done is reproducible and accounts for as many relative scientific facts as possible.
By the time you get to your final stereo mix, 16 bits is good enough for anyone.
Since when is, what you think to be, 'good enough' really what we should be going for here? We *can* do more, why not *do* do more?
There is a noticeable difference, the difference leads to better sounding music, we can jump the gap of difference easily somewhat easily ---- LETS DO IT!
It's true! I was sitting there, minding my own business (or so I thought) and listening to some Shostakovich with some earphones while eating some fruit when, lo and behold, a dimensional rift open right up in my living room and a large two-headed octopus summoned itself right in front of me! Then, the octopus introduced itself as "Bill and Steve". One head, so it said, specialized in hellish gates, which were used to keep souls in, while the other specialized in Satanic jobs, which were used to secure the souls. I was scared out of my wits! Not only did I nearly choke on my apple, I was ready to jump out of one of my seven windows! Absolutely terrifying!
Fortunately, I knew a priest, so I asked him what I should do. He told me to say a Hail Mary every six months, dispose of the earphones, wipe the hard drive to my laptop, install Slackware, then, just to be certain that I cast out the demon, install Qemu and set up a pair of virtual machines, one running Gentoo and the other running Debian Stable. What I didn't realize until it was far too late, though, was that the priest was a prick. Granted, his suggested penance did indeed cast out the two-headed cephalopod from my apartment. However, I now have a serious infestation of daemons!
Slashdot, I pray to you! Tell me what I must do to cast out this new scourge!
You need snacks and guns. Get some smartfood popcorn and a 12 gauge. Just stay in your house, eat the popcorn, and shoot anything that moves.
F*em. You don't even know em. Daemon... cephaloturd... whatevers.. Just shoot and keep em held down till Ash from housewares shows up. Shop smart.. Shop S Mart.
i want to move to 24bit 48khz wavs... or at least 24 bit audio. The highs are way crisper, and I mean very noticeably. It was once perceived that 16/44.1 was as good as we hear... no effin way. I mixdown at 24bit/48khz... as soon as I convert it to even a 320kbps mp3 at 16 bit (or even just a 16 bit wav)... all the crispy comes out of my mix.
Lets not worry so much about if one compression is as good as another, or even better... drives and such can handle larger file sizes and our ears deserve the difference.
"...when the company fails to support public services in most of the states in which it does have a physical presence..."
O really? So those physically present businesses aren't paying property taxes and all kinds of taxes related to operating a business?
GTFO. I gotta see proof of them actually evading these taxes before I'm about o believe this junk. I would safely assume that if they have a physically present business, they are paying taxes there in one way or another.
We all know they work extra hours for free, so why not give them the benefit of the doubt and allow it? We're getting what we paid for anyway, so why get upset?
All creations 'while at work'. You are still free to engineer things on your own at home or elsewhere. If you make a home-made kite with your son on a saturday, you don't owe it to your company.
As for supply/demand, there is much more demand for teachers and education. What we do as a government is an artificially limited employment of teachers. In reality we could and should have more for better teacher to student ratios and more personalized education.
To achieve better ends, the means demand more teachers. We don't do that, and with all the money we spend elsewhere, we keep acting like it isn't important. It is. Ignorance is why this country only has two parties; why 'faith' and interpretation is more valuable that facts and reason; why racism persists; why critical thinking is absent; why peace goes unfound.
We can and should do better than this. Our artificially set 'demand' for teachers is junk and it is starting to show in public opinion and polls.
they aren't charging the students, they are selling plans to other teachers. so that less experienced teachers can free up time and buy a plan for something they are having a tough time coming up with good ideas for.
this marketplace should be very good for both new teachers needing ideas and experienced teachers with the skills to put together great lessons.
I agree. I think those who have not developed great lessons will get some great ones. The access will become slightly competitive and even the better ones will be hailed and shared. Oh, and people pay a fee they are cool with for a lesson and a guy who did it so great gets paid. Cha ching. I wish I was great at something enough to sell a lesson plan at it! Whattya say I go give it a shot! Pay the mortgage with a nice one man!
This can't make anything worse as far as I can tell. Things can really only be neutral or better.
and if you ate food off government food stamps we literally own a piece of your ass that grew from it. and if you ever drove on the road, you'd better bow down and thank us for paying for it.
dude, nobody is getting hurt here. the kids are getting their lessons, people are willing to pay for some good ones, and the people who made them so great are gonna get paid for it.
its not the end of the world, ya know. it's not like, say, the catholic church silencing 500 cases against them regarding molested children with a $600M payout. I mean... whoah. lets worry about my unmowed lawn for a minute here too.:)
We need phDs in high school and true masters in our colleges. We should be paying teachers twice what they are now and expecting the very best for it. But more teachers, too, so that students are not overly inaccesible -- and involving people of the community to come and teach about their jobs and lives. Teach about regular things that people do, don't give the kids a robo-baby in Home-Ec (they did that with me), take them to a nursery and bring in local moms with babies.
Education, community, and communication are the way to understanding and peace. We should do this first, food and basic shelter as well. Our armies are amazingly equipped, we don't need to spend so much there anymore. I would know, I'm a veteran and with what we've already got we can basically run anyone into a meatgrinder in the blink of an eye. No, we don't really need a new fighter jet that costs 200BN to develop (discussed here on slashdot a few months back). Our current jets are amazing.
We can do this. We can spend money where it helps and is actually needed.
Critics: please don't tell me you saw some 20/20 special that said it isn't the money that makes schools good. We've got schools with Taco Bell ads on their roofs so they can afford supplies and TVs donated by advertisers requiring the kids to watch at least a short advertisement viewing to use them for class purposes. The money does matter when its pissed away on new ways to kill people.
What if they wrote the plan on their own time, but in support of the course? Surely you've seen, for example, a man who serves his country as a National Guardsman, and fulfills the same position as a Civilian Contract Worker when it isn't on the weekend. I've seen it many times. And so when it isn't done during the hours of when the school is gettin work off them, it is their own time and their own efforts, just like you reselling a few things on ebay.
Stuff like that takes work! And if you go above and beyond to work at something and make it great on your own time (albeit for the benefit of your students, too) then why not profit from it if someone is willing to pay? Hell, I am a help-people-for-free kinda guy but I'm not gonna knock someone for putting up one side of a fair deal here. If the buyers didn't wanna pay money, they wouldn't! Everyone wins here, so you can't really get upset about it. Sometimes its ok not to get all upset about something; i think this is one of them.
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My mother told me this 20 years ago, this is like household wisdom.
You are correct, but without evidence, it has remained somewhat anecdotal. I know several parents who completely protect and shield their kids from everything and have wondered why they get sick so easy.... They didn't accept the anecdotal evidence, but maybe now they will accept the scientific evidence.
God had nothing to do with any of this.
You lie! Brit food is like eating simple flavorless matter and mush!
I lived there for nearly 5 months, and like all foreign countries I've lived in, I try to eat the local food.... I couldn't. I did, but it sucked over and over again....
And then I realized (and heard on Radio 1) that Brits eat more curry than they do traditional brit food. And so I started to eat at Indian restaurants and was happy again.
Brit food is junk. It is honestly like someone made a random recipe and didn't have any spices.
You will see more of london that way.
Seeing london on the internet doesn't require you to fly over there and pay for hotels and crap.
Set it all aside and do something completely different for a change! I bet you'll love it.
... also be able to charge, fine, and incriminate the policemen who continue to do things illegally, thus setting example and ensuring better policemanship.
The police don't respect the law because very few people actually make them do it.
Make them.
its poetic.
it means we're always plagued by the sick attributes of money and capitalism, but most of us spend our time looking at the outcomes and wondering why (without seeing the true root of the issue).
I'd say a lot of the limitations to the teachers is also our litigious society; teachers are afraid to say anything to bad students or do anything that is actually necessary for fear of getting sued.
Our country puts money over everything else, and like the sick disgusting zombies that follow money, we look at each other and wonder why we're all so hungry for brains.
Money is perverting and corrupting everything. Beit lawyers, the legal system, politics, nonprofits, science(pseudo-science), medicine...
You name it: it will have disgusting characteristics that can be found to be rooted in our thirst for money.
In a world where community and true happiness are goals, do you think the RIAA would even find lawyers to do what we see here on slashdot? No. But its hard to control people who are in agreement to maintain happiness and support each other. We need *competition* for necessary resources to pit us against each other and permit a select few of true controllers to direct our actions.
Kinda.
... why are we not doing anything real about it to stop them? why do we permit these attacks?
Let me guess... tit for tat. The whole world is full of lies and deception. It doesn't talk about us doing it to China, but how is that not obvious?
In response/support to what I was saying, a true competitive market is as this:
Some companies make phones
Some companies offer service
That's it. The europeans do it well. I loved it when I lived there. My phone had a swiss number, a german number, and an italian number. All depending on which SIM card I put in it. I paid for minutes and texts as I used them.
Why oh why is the american business model becoming "do as much anti-trust as you can, abuse the consumer, and pay penalties if you're caught".
WHY? Because we're not actually pursuing the blatant infringes on competition and the penalties are LOWER than the benefits reaped.
Everyone is doing it. Microsoft, IBM, big oil, big telco. Anyone on the planet that has used AT&T knows from their customer service that they don't care about you at all and don't need to because they are part of gigantic oligopolies.
... any different?
Even if HTC offers the same model to another carrier, they aren't offering the SPRINT one. And in line with that is the limit to Spring. I cannot use it on another network if I choose. I am forced to exclusively use my hardware on a Sprint network.
Anti-trust crap happens all day all over the place. It is almost funny to see how few of these blatant offenses to competition actually get pursued.
More interesting is what is not contained in the emails. There is no evidence of any worldwide conspiracy, no mention of George Soros nefariously funding climate research, no grand plan to 'get rid of the MWP', no admission that global warming is a hoax, no evidence of the falsifying of data, and no 'marching orders' from our socialist/communist/vegetarian overlords. The truly paranoid will put this down to the hackers also being in on the plot though."
I think it is funny that people would begin to draw conclusions from data and e-mails that are not received in context or understood/interpreted as truth be told.
You could look up almost any e-mail from me and deduce all kinds of crap that isn't real, but if you're not me or the person who received it, you'll never know the truth unless you ask me to explain it.
The same goes for 'data'. Unless you've got a contextual explanation for all of the data, likely by those who collected it, it is pretty reckless to draw conclusions about it.
I'm a scientist, and in what I know, aside from what is published, raw data and notebooks (and e-mails in this case) are pretty hard to deduce 'truth' from without explanation.
Example: you could look at a note of me saying I discarded specific PCR amplified DNA sequences for organism X, Y, and Z. But if you don't have me there to explain the stuff you don't know, like that that they contained nonspecific amplification or maybe had messy chromatograms... well then you would never know. You might accuse me of tampering, though really you just don't know what is really going on.
This is why you can't just publish every damn thing that you did. It makes a big confusing mess. Instead, you take the data and your methods and results, provide discussion and interpretation, and then have peers review to make sure what you've done is reproducible and accounts for as many relative scientific facts as possible.
By the time you get to your final stereo mix, 16 bits is good enough for anyone.
Since when is, what you think to be, 'good enough' really what we should be going for here? We *can* do more, why not *do* do more?
There is a noticeable difference, the difference leads to better sounding music, we can jump the gap of difference easily somewhat easily ---- LETS DO IT!
It's true! I was sitting there, minding my own business (or so I thought) and listening to some Shostakovich with some earphones while eating some fruit when, lo and behold, a dimensional rift open right up in my living room and a large two-headed octopus summoned itself right in front of me! Then, the octopus introduced itself as "Bill and Steve". One head, so it said, specialized in hellish gates, which were used to keep souls in, while the other specialized in Satanic jobs, which were used to secure the souls. I was scared out of my wits! Not only did I nearly choke on my apple, I was ready to jump out of one of my seven windows! Absolutely terrifying!
Fortunately, I knew a priest, so I asked him what I should do. He told me to say a Hail Mary every six months, dispose of the earphones, wipe the hard drive to my laptop, install Slackware, then, just to be certain that I cast out the demon, install Qemu and set up a pair of virtual machines, one running Gentoo and the other running Debian Stable. What I didn't realize until it was far too late, though, was that the priest was a prick. Granted, his suggested penance did indeed cast out the two-headed cephalopod from my apartment. However, I now have a serious infestation of daemons!
Slashdot, I pray to you! Tell me what I must do to cast out this new scourge!
You need snacks and guns. Get some smartfood popcorn and a 12 gauge. Just stay in your house, eat the popcorn, and shoot anything that moves.
F*em. You don't even know em. Daemon... cephaloturd... whatevers.. Just shoot and keep em held down till Ash from housewares shows up. Shop smart.. Shop S Mart.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=95ikA4DKgBg
just put your man on em and see what happens.
Sorry, but earphones will burn your house down and summon satan. Get some nice monitors for your living room.
i want to move to 24bit 48khz wavs... or at least 24 bit audio. The highs are way crisper, and I mean very noticeably. It was once perceived that 16/44.1 was as good as we hear... no effin way. I mixdown at 24bit/48khz... as soon as I convert it to even a 320kbps mp3 at 16 bit (or even just a 16 bit wav)... all the crispy comes out of my mix.
Lets not worry so much about if one compression is as good as another, or even better... drives and such can handle larger file sizes and our ears deserve the difference.
24-bit lets go!
BactoBlood was by far my favorite IGEM (2007) submission ever.
"...when the company fails to support public services in most of the states in which it does have a physical presence..."
O really? So those physically present businesses aren't paying property taxes and all kinds of taxes related to operating a business?
GTFO. I gotta see proof of them actually evading these taxes before I'm about o believe this junk. I would safely assume that if they have a physically present business, they are paying taxes there in one way or another.
We all know they work extra hours for free, so why not give them the benefit of the doubt and allow it? We're getting what we paid for anyway, so why get upset?
All creations 'while at work'. You are still free to engineer things on your own at home or elsewhere. If you make a home-made kite with your son on a saturday, you don't owe it to your company.
As for supply/demand, there is much more demand for teachers and education. What we do as a government is an artificially limited employment of teachers. In reality we could and should have more for better teacher to student ratios and more personalized education.
To achieve better ends, the means demand more teachers. We don't do that, and with all the money we spend elsewhere, we keep acting like it isn't important. It is. Ignorance is why this country only has two parties; why 'faith' and interpretation is more valuable that facts and reason; why racism persists; why critical thinking is absent; why peace goes unfound.
We can and should do better than this. Our artificially set 'demand' for teachers is junk and it is starting to show in public opinion and polls.
they aren't charging the students, they are selling plans to other teachers. so that less experienced teachers can free up time and buy a plan for something they are having a tough time coming up with good ideas for.
this marketplace should be very good for both new teachers needing ideas and experienced teachers with the skills to put together great lessons.
I agree. I think those who have not developed great lessons will get some great ones. The access will become slightly competitive and even the better ones will be hailed and shared. Oh, and people pay a fee they are cool with for a lesson and a guy who did it so great gets paid. Cha ching. I wish I was great at something enough to sell a lesson plan at it! Whattya say I go give it a shot! Pay the mortgage with a nice one man!
This can't make anything worse as far as I can tell. Things can really only be neutral or better.
blah blah blah...
and if you ate food off government food stamps we literally own a piece of your ass that grew from it. and if you ever drove on the road, you'd better bow down and thank us for paying for it.
dude, nobody is getting hurt here. the kids are getting their lessons, people are willing to pay for some good ones, and the people who made them so great are gonna get paid for it.
its not the end of the world, ya know. it's not like, say, the catholic church silencing 500 cases against them regarding molested children with a $600M payout. I mean... whoah. lets worry about my unmowed lawn for a minute here too. :)
We need phDs in high school and true masters in our colleges. We should be paying teachers twice what they are now and expecting the very best for it. But more teachers, too, so that students are not overly inaccesible -- and involving people of the community to come and teach about their jobs and lives. Teach about regular things that people do, don't give the kids a robo-baby in Home-Ec (they did that with me), take them to a nursery and bring in local moms with babies.
Education, community, and communication are the way to understanding and peace. We should do this first, food and basic shelter as well. Our armies are amazingly equipped, we don't need to spend so much there anymore. I would know, I'm a veteran and with what we've already got we can basically run anyone into a meatgrinder in the blink of an eye. No, we don't really need a new fighter jet that costs 200BN to develop (discussed here on slashdot a few months back). Our current jets are amazing.
We can do this. We can spend money where it helps and is actually needed.
Critics: please don't tell me you saw some 20/20 special that said it isn't the money that makes schools good. We've got schools with Taco Bell ads on their roofs so they can afford supplies and TVs donated by advertisers requiring the kids to watch at least a short advertisement viewing to use them for class purposes. The money does matter when its pissed away on new ways to kill people.
What if they wrote the plan on their own time, but in support of the course? Surely you've seen, for example, a man who serves his country as a National Guardsman, and fulfills the same position as a Civilian Contract Worker when it isn't on the weekend. I've seen it many times. And so when it isn't done during the hours of when the school is gettin work off them, it is their own time and their own efforts, just like you reselling a few things on ebay.
Stuff like that takes work! And if you go above and beyond to work at something and make it great on your own time (albeit for the benefit of your students, too) then why not profit from it if someone is willing to pay? Hell, I am a help-people-for-free kinda guy but I'm not gonna knock someone for putting up one side of a fair deal here. If the buyers didn't wanna pay money, they wouldn't! Everyone wins here, so you can't really get upset about it. Sometimes its ok not to get all upset about something; i think this is one of them.
Where's my flying car, then?
We're still trying to figure out how to make it run on coal.