And yet my African friends' kids are all honor students..
Because the biggest factor, besides natural ability, is parents. Parents, white or black, who say "School isn't important" or the black parents saying that doing well in school is "selling out to the white man" will have kids who don't do well in school. A teacher trying to get a kid to do well when every time they go home they're told not to try because school is for losers, is not going to be able to help those kids. That is the biggest problem with education in the US - the fact that we have a culture that promotes being uneducated (for all races, but especially for blacks).
Bull. It has no effect on her ability to teach. Plenty of college professors will openly tell you to your face in front of the whole class if you're an idiot. This was talking about unnamed students where they couldn't see unless they happened to stumble across it. I fully support calling out idiots - I had a history class once where a moron wrote about how Hitler was with the Allies during WWII - and the teacher read this in front of everyone and called him a moron in class. If you don't want to be humiliated for being stupid, then try using your brain.
So you've never said "customer / co-worker X is a moron" on one of those days? I highly, HIGHLY doubt it. This was something she wrote on her personal blog, not something she said in class or emailed out to parents. Would you support yourself being fired if you were talking to friends and said "God, this guy X today at work was so stupid I wanted to smack him" and he overheard you? I doubt it.
She did not say "Johny Storm is a fucking moron", she said an unnamed student is a moron. That's hardly the same thing. There's no "rudeness" about it, you just cannot accept the reality that some kids are goddamn idiots and schools would be better off if they were tossed out. Grow up, quit crying that someone doesn't think the sun shines out of your ass, and live in the real world.
Why? Why the hell can't a teacher be honest? If a kid is stupid / unwilling to learn, then why should the teacher kiss their ass and pretend like they're wonderful?
The "logical" reason behind it is because, for some unknown reason, Slashdot has developed a love of the incompetent in recent times. I remember years ago when people on here would complain about all of the stupid people in the world, yet now they demand that you love and adore the stupid people and you should be punished if you expect them to use their brains.
I don't recall it mentioning her insulting ALL students, only select ones. And you know what? Some kids are unteachable. I know many teachers and every one of them complains about the idiot students who have no desire to learn or are just flat out incapable of it. This whole notion of "all students are of equal ability / work ethic" mentality is just foolish. Just like how people in IT complain about having to deal with moronic customers, teachers complain about having to deal with the same thing. Or do you think all IT workers who complain about morons who can't figure out where the "any" key is should be fired as well?
No, unions were a good thing. Now that we have all of the laws regarding workplace conditions, they serve no purpose but to ridiculously inflate wages (look at GM) and to keep bad workers from being fired for poor performance (look at every unionized institution around the world).
On an unrelated note, why the fuck don't html tags work on the new version of slashdot?
Read closer. I wasn't talking about the beer company firing someone for drinking another beer, I was talking about his claim that it's only Republicans who do this and never a Democrat.
Plus there's been several stories of people fired for political bumper stickers because the company owner didn't agree (it's always right wing bosses firing left wings employees too...).
Care to provide some support for that claim? Or does it not need support since anyone who doesn't worship the DNC is automatically evil and doesn't need any proof before crucifying them?
Uhm, no. Not true at all. Even if you never browse for another new app again, you'll still access the Marketplace every time that you update an app (which Android apps tend to get updated pretty frequently with new features being added all the time - it's actually a nice improvement over when I had an iPhone and you only got updates once a month because Apple makes them submit each update for approval).
And everything you buy costs more as a result. Look back at the quality of life 70 years ago when we didn't have the automation or nearly as much trade with other countries. Then look at the lavish life you have in comparison as a result of automation and large amounts of trade. Which one do you prefer?
So? I find it amusing that Slashdot, supposedly fully of people with above average intelligence, has this devotion to promoting the dumb (you used the word first). Most people are not "dumb" as in lacking actual physical or mental ability, they're "dumb" in that they did not put out the effort to learn. This is merely a behavior and CAN be fixed, especially if they know that the alternative is poverty. If Johnny decides to good off instead of learning, that's his problem, not mine, yours, or anyone else's problem if he ends up poor as a result of his actions.
Then your neighbor is asking too much money. Is it a crime for Joe to pay you to mow his lawn because you charge $10 and I demand $100? No, it's common sense. Americans need to stop expecting fortunes for low-skill jobs. I work at an American call center and I can tell you, $15 an hour is all that it's actually worth, because it's a pretty low skill job (I'm in grad school right now, so this isn't a career for me, just a job).
It's so wonderfully racist of you to assume that because they're not white that they must provide inferior quality service. I can only assume then that you've only ever received absolute perfect service from every white American you've done business, right?
The "problem" (it's only a problem for Americans who lack the work ethic and / or skills to adapt) is that the world is becoming ever more interconnected and eventually, it will be one completely interconnected economy. This means that wages in poorer countries will rise and wages in richer countries will at best stay the same, but will likely fall some, until there is an equilibrium reached where a programmer in India gets paid the same as any other country in the world.
Manufacturing in the US suffered such massive losses because the workers (primarily unionized) demanded absurdly high wages relative to their actual productivity and skills - they priced themselves out of the market. If you tell a business owner that his options are pay you so much that he goes bankrupt or to hire someone else (in this case, someone from another country) who's going to charge an amount where he can make a profit, it's a no brainer. Now, I know people will start in with the "evil businessmen" speeches - forget it. For some reason, you're under the delusion that businesses are charities set up to benefit people - they're not. Businesses exist for one reason and one reason only - to make money for the owners. If they provide a valuable product or service along the way, that's great (and if they don't, they'll go out of business unless there's government interference).
Americans need to get over this arrogance of thinking that they deserve to be paid a fortune just because they're American. If you're doing unskilled work that a monkey could literally do, then you're not deserving of $50,000 a year and it's ridiculous to believe that you should be paid that much.
This ridiculous racism and xenophobia hurts the US much more than the mythical harms of outsourcing, because it leads to both uninformed people pushing for economic changes that they don't understand and if they succeed, not only will the number of products available dramatically decrease, but you'll pay out the ass for it as well. Ask people who are senior citizens - they can tell you how it used to be, where they owned maybe 5% of the clothes they now have (because it was incredibly expensive), got far fewer gifts (and the ones they got were usually much less valuable), as well as everything else costing much more as a percentage of their income.
Well my question is why do you continue to live in a city with such horrible traffic instead of moving to one of the countless other cities that DON'T have that problem? And even when I have been stuck in 1 hour+ crawling traffic, it's not really an issue in newer manuals (over the last say 20 years) because their clutches don't require nearly as much pressure to operate.
No, telling them to get in shape is not an acceptable option: two of these people were in major accidents that weren't their fault, and have medical reasons they can no longer maintain strong muscles.
I'm confused due to your wording - were these accidents caused by someone else or caused because they could no longer drive a manual properly and crashed?
Spoken like someone who's never driven a manual. You pay attention to the road because you need to know what's coming so you know when to shift, what gear you need (hills, corners, etc) - you pay more attention to how close you get to other drivers (especially when stopping at hills) and you pay more attention to everything going on. Every person I know who went from driving a manual on a regular basis to driving an automatic on a regular basis openly admits that owning an automatic has made them a worse driver because it doesn't require any thought or attention to operate.
I like my fake-manual transmission when I want to accelerate fast, but I can feel the extra thought it takes to shift.
When you own a manual, there's no conscious thought for shifting gears - it's a vague "back of your head" thought process, just like how you don't actively think about how your legs move when you walk. You just do. Please, learn to actually drive a manual and spend a few hundred hours practicing driving one before assuming that you know anything about what it's like to drive one.
Not to mention the wussamatics with the paddle shifters (I'm talking actual automatics, not sequential transmissions) are the ultimate in faking it. It's the car equivalent of "beating" a game using God Mode.
Oh, and don't worry - it's not just you. Even my best friends who own automatics know that I look down on them for not buying a real car that takes skill to drive.
Please repeat after me - correlation also does not imply a lack of causation. Yes, we all know that just because two things are correlated that it doesn't mean one causes the other - but your implication that it's impossible for one thing to cause another when two things that are correlated is absurd.
Wow, you really have no real life experience, do you? He was addressing a specific sub-group of girls - a group that are both stupid AND have bad personalities (hence "bimbo" and "bitch"). Would you be crying if he had been talking about men and said "Neanderthal" and "asshole"? No, you wouldn't and you'be well aware of the specific sub-group that he was referring to. There is nothing misogynistic about words to describe a persons mental ability or behavior towards others.
That's not contradicting the study - that's simply saying that the game is not a 100% perfect recreation of real life. The game clearly taught him the track well enough that he got pretty damn close to his game time, especially given that (as most games go, I'm assuming Gran Tourismo does this too) the in-game cars are significantly faster than their real life counterparts.
And since we're on the "safety" thing, you cannot press a key to restore your car on the track
I dunno, I heard that Bill Gates has that option....;-)
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And yet my African friends' kids are all honor students..
Because the biggest factor, besides natural ability, is parents. Parents, white or black, who say "School isn't important" or the black parents saying that doing well in school is "selling out to the white man" will have kids who don't do well in school. A teacher trying to get a kid to do well when every time they go home they're told not to try because school is for losers, is not going to be able to help those kids. That is the biggest problem with education in the US - the fact that we have a culture that promotes being uneducated (for all races, but especially for blacks).
Saying "Don't be honest about the mental abilities of your students or you'll be fired" is censoring.
Bull. It has no effect on her ability to teach. Plenty of college professors will openly tell you to your face in front of the whole class if you're an idiot. This was talking about unnamed students where they couldn't see unless they happened to stumble across it. I fully support calling out idiots - I had a history class once where a moron wrote about how Hitler was with the Allies during WWII - and the teacher read this in front of everyone and called him a moron in class. If you don't want to be humiliated for being stupid, then try using your brain.
So you've never said "customer / co-worker X is a moron" on one of those days? I highly, HIGHLY doubt it. This was something she wrote on her personal blog, not something she said in class or emailed out to parents. Would you support yourself being fired if you were talking to friends and said "God, this guy X today at work was so stupid I wanted to smack him" and he overheard you? I doubt it.
She did not say "Johny Storm is a fucking moron", she said an unnamed student is a moron. That's hardly the same thing. There's no "rudeness" about it, you just cannot accept the reality that some kids are goddamn idiots and schools would be better off if they were tossed out. Grow up, quit crying that someone doesn't think the sun shines out of your ass, and live in the real world.
Why? Why the hell can't a teacher be honest? If a kid is stupid / unwilling to learn, then why should the teacher kiss their ass and pretend like they're wonderful?
The "logical" reason behind it is because, for some unknown reason, Slashdot has developed a love of the incompetent in recent times. I remember years ago when people on here would complain about all of the stupid people in the world, yet now they demand that you love and adore the stupid people and you should be punished if you expect them to use their brains.
I don't recall it mentioning her insulting ALL students, only select ones. And you know what? Some kids are unteachable. I know many teachers and every one of them complains about the idiot students who have no desire to learn or are just flat out incapable of it. This whole notion of "all students are of equal ability / work ethic" mentality is just foolish. Just like how people in IT complain about having to deal with moronic customers, teachers complain about having to deal with the same thing. Or do you think all IT workers who complain about morons who can't figure out where the "any" key is should be fired as well?
No, unions were a good thing. Now that we have all of the laws regarding workplace conditions, they serve no purpose but to ridiculously inflate wages (look at GM) and to keep bad workers from being fired for poor performance (look at every unionized institution around the world).
On an unrelated note, why the fuck don't html tags work on the new version of slashdot?
Ah yes, this old line again that anyone to the right of Stalin is a "conservative". That joke was never funny and it's way past it's prime.
Read closer. I wasn't talking about the beer company firing someone for drinking another beer, I was talking about his claim that it's only Republicans who do this and never a Democrat.
Plus there's been several stories of people fired for political bumper stickers because the company owner didn't agree (it's always right wing bosses firing left wings employees too...).
Care to provide some support for that claim? Or does it not need support since anyone who doesn't worship the DNC is automatically evil and doesn't need any proof before crucifying them?
Uhm, no. Not true at all. Even if you never browse for another new app again, you'll still access the Marketplace every time that you update an app (which Android apps tend to get updated pretty frequently with new features being added all the time - it's actually a nice improvement over when I had an iPhone and you only got updates once a month because Apple makes them submit each update for approval).
And everything you buy costs more as a result. Look back at the quality of life 70 years ago when we didn't have the automation or nearly as much trade with other countries. Then look at the lavish life you have in comparison as a result of automation and large amounts of trade. Which one do you prefer?
So? I find it amusing that Slashdot, supposedly fully of people with above average intelligence, has this devotion to promoting the dumb (you used the word first). Most people are not "dumb" as in lacking actual physical or mental ability, they're "dumb" in that they did not put out the effort to learn. This is merely a behavior and CAN be fixed, especially if they know that the alternative is poverty. If Johnny decides to good off instead of learning, that's his problem, not mine, yours, or anyone else's problem if he ends up poor as a result of his actions.
Then your neighbor is asking too much money. Is it a crime for Joe to pay you to mow his lawn because you charge $10 and I demand $100? No, it's common sense. Americans need to stop expecting fortunes for low-skill jobs. I work at an American call center and I can tell you, $15 an hour is all that it's actually worth, because it's a pretty low skill job (I'm in grad school right now, so this isn't a career for me, just a job).
It's so wonderfully racist of you to assume that because they're not white that they must provide inferior quality service. I can only assume then that you've only ever received absolute perfect service from every white American you've done business, right?
The "problem" (it's only a problem for Americans who lack the work ethic and / or skills to adapt) is that the world is becoming ever more interconnected and eventually, it will be one completely interconnected economy. This means that wages in poorer countries will rise and wages in richer countries will at best stay the same, but will likely fall some, until there is an equilibrium reached where a programmer in India gets paid the same as any other country in the world.
Manufacturing in the US suffered such massive losses because the workers (primarily unionized) demanded absurdly high wages relative to their actual productivity and skills - they priced themselves out of the market. If you tell a business owner that his options are pay you so much that he goes bankrupt or to hire someone else (in this case, someone from another country) who's going to charge an amount where he can make a profit, it's a no brainer. Now, I know people will start in with the "evil businessmen" speeches - forget it. For some reason, you're under the delusion that businesses are charities set up to benefit people - they're not. Businesses exist for one reason and one reason only - to make money for the owners. If they provide a valuable product or service along the way, that's great (and if they don't, they'll go out of business unless there's government interference).
Americans need to get over this arrogance of thinking that they deserve to be paid a fortune just because they're American. If you're doing unskilled work that a monkey could literally do, then you're not deserving of $50,000 a year and it's ridiculous to believe that you should be paid that much.
This ridiculous racism and xenophobia hurts the US much more than the mythical harms of outsourcing, because it leads to both uninformed people pushing for economic changes that they don't understand and if they succeed, not only will the number of products available dramatically decrease, but you'll pay out the ass for it as well. Ask people who are senior citizens - they can tell you how it used to be, where they owned maybe 5% of the clothes they now have (because it was incredibly expensive), got far fewer gifts (and the ones they got were usually much less valuable), as well as everything else costing much more as a percentage of their income.
Only Zuel.
Yes, but for some reason we have groups who want to get upset that the unfit kill themselves off.
No, telling them to get in shape is not an acceptable option: two of these people were in major accidents that weren't their fault, and have medical reasons they can no longer maintain strong muscles.
I'm confused due to your wording - were these accidents caused by someone else or caused because they could no longer drive a manual properly and crashed?
Spoken like someone who's never driven a manual. You pay attention to the road because you need to know what's coming so you know when to shift, what gear you need (hills, corners, etc) - you pay more attention to how close you get to other drivers (especially when stopping at hills) and you pay more attention to everything going on. Every person I know who went from driving a manual on a regular basis to driving an automatic on a regular basis openly admits that owning an automatic has made them a worse driver because it doesn't require any thought or attention to operate.
I like my fake-manual transmission when I want to accelerate fast, but I can feel the extra thought it takes to shift.
When you own a manual, there's no conscious thought for shifting gears - it's a vague "back of your head" thought process, just like how you don't actively think about how your legs move when you walk. You just do. Please, learn to actually drive a manual and spend a few hundred hours practicing driving one before assuming that you know anything about what it's like to drive one.
Not to mention the wussamatics with the paddle shifters (I'm talking actual automatics, not sequential transmissions) are the ultimate in faking it. It's the car equivalent of "beating" a game using God Mode.
Oh, and don't worry - it's not just you. Even my best friends who own automatics know that I look down on them for not buying a real car that takes skill to drive.
Please repeat after me - correlation also does not imply a lack of causation. Yes, we all know that just because two things are correlated that it doesn't mean one causes the other - but your implication that it's impossible for one thing to cause another when two things that are correlated is absurd.
Wow, you really have no real life experience, do you? He was addressing a specific sub-group of girls - a group that are both stupid AND have bad personalities (hence "bimbo" and "bitch"). Would you be crying if he had been talking about men and said "Neanderthal" and "asshole"? No, you wouldn't and you'be well aware of the specific sub-group that he was referring to. There is nothing misogynistic about words to describe a persons mental ability or behavior towards others.
That's not contradicting the study - that's simply saying that the game is not a 100% perfect recreation of real life. The game clearly taught him the track well enough that he got pretty damn close to his game time, especially given that (as most games go, I'm assuming Gran Tourismo does this too) the in-game cars are significantly faster than their real life counterparts.
And since we're on the "safety" thing, you cannot press a key to restore your car on the track
I dunno, I heard that Bill Gates has that option.... ;-)