Agree. As someone who graduated a few years ago and is starting grad school this fall, I think professors should be required to put detailed notes of all their lectures online.
Why? Because that way students can actually pay attention to the lecture. With notes online, students can listen to the lecture and take notes on what seems important without having to worry about missing writing something down because they were actually thinking about the lecture instead of just blindly copying what the professor has on the board. It also means that if a student misses a lecture due to being sick or some other reason, they don't have to hassle another student for notes from that day.
Some of my best classes in undergrad I didn't spend much time taking notes because the professor put the lecture notes online and I could really focus on what the professor was saying.
If employers keep asking for ever-increasing qualifications, isn't that an indication that universities aren't providing the right education?
Not true at all. Employers ask for ever-increasing qualifications because they want the best employee they can get for their buck. If you want to be the best company in X industry, you want the most qualified employees, which (typically) means people with more advanced degrees).
Education is only important to things you don't like. If you are truly interested in a field you'll learn these things on your own; often better than can be taught.
Partially true. However, some topics are very hard to find sufficient materials to learn from on your own - and some of the more complicated things even the brightest people need someone to help explain it to them so that they fully understand it.
Incorrect. You're ignoring that a minority of the population (say 25-30%) is young enough to have been through the more recent decline of the American education system. I got through just early enough that by the time I was around 7th or 8th grade, it was noticeable when they started changing the textbooks to champion socialist principles and vilify white people.
The biggest problem with the US education system is that intelligence is not valued in our culture and parents (in general) do not push their kids to work hard in school and succeed. The second biggest problem is that the people running our schools are utter morons who care nothing about educating and only about their delusional ideals that have nothing to do with education. Many of my family members are teachers, as are a great deal of my friends (each one teaches at a different school). These teachers have actually seen smart and motivated students berated by the administrators for wanting to take advanced classes because taking advanced classes and getting the best education you can is "elitist" and "wrong". The people running our schools think that students should never fail (it might hurt their self esteem), even if they do no work and don't learn anything. They waste class time on making sure students have high self esteem instead of making sure that they learn, which is ironic because many kids would gain self esteem by working hard and being one of the best in their class (or at least seeing a significant improvement in their grades due to improved effort).
So wait, you took A class that was like that - one - and you're saying all classes are? I guess you should've taken a class on logic while you were there. As for your comments about community college? Well yea, community colleges are for the people who just need a piece of paper to get in the door for a job and lack the intellectual capabilities to get into a real college.
It's like how Megan Fox/Christina Hendricks are not actually the most attractive women in the world but will always win the polls because the majority of the contestants aren't well known enough to compete.
While I agree about your point with universities relying on popularity, you're far off base with Megan Fox and Christina Hendricks - people vote them as attractive in polls because they ARE damn sexy.
You don't have to ban it. Capping it alone will jack the price of energy to the point where many people can no longer afford it.
Go on youtube and do a search - even the Messiah President has that if his cap and trade plan he wants is passed "of course energy prices would skyrocket".
Actually, I can't recall the last time I saw someone claim that temperatures weren't changing. I've only seen people dispute the "It's the evil technology, we much abandon it and make peace with Gaia to stop temperature change!" crap.
"Cap" would be drastic, and probably a lot less stupid.
Yea, because essentially saying "no more power" is "a lot less stupid". I'm all for switching over to non-fossil fuels. However, fucking our society up to try to speed up the rate that the technology is built / implemented and designed is NOT an intelligent move.
Though, if the same people pushing cap and trade hadn't been anti-nuclear in the US for the last 60 years, we'd already be a lot farther along towards being able to switch away from fossil fuels.
If you look at the GLOBAL trend, it is getting hotter
Yes, as it's done before. Then after X years it will cool down again (as it has before), then warm up again......it's a vicious cycle!
We've known for ages that the planet is a living, changing thing, yet for some reason people freak the fuck out when they happen to see real life changes as opposed to "5 million years ago, Y happened".
You didn't ready all of what I wrote. I said with a Masters degree +30 (an additional 30 hours of graduate work) AND 20+ years of experience, you're looking at around $75,000, though of course that varies some by location. I know teachers in very average areas who make that much and ones who only have a couple years of experience making around $35,000 - $40,000.
The fact that you ignore the VAT that is added to the price of every goddamn thing you buy shows that you're either incompetent or just out trolling. Once you add that on top of the 40% or so income tax, it comes out to roughly 60% (if not higher if you have a good job). Why you insist on denying the extra taxes is beyond me.
Seeing as how you've never done any research into moving to the EU and getting a job, I'm doubtful that you'd know what the rules are - just like the majority of native born people in any country are pretty clueless as to the rule for immigration, because it's not something they'd ever have to worry about.
First, it's true - I looked into it just about 6 months ago, since I've always wanted to travel to the UK (I've been to most of the EU). Second, the 60+% was talking about ALL taxes, not just income tax. You forget the massive taxes on gas, VAT, and the tax on pretty much else imaginable that's all added on top of the typical 40-ish% income tax.
But hey, why let facts get in the way of bashing someone.
You want to blame the banks / colleges because you and your wife were dumb enough to spend $200,000 on a masters to be a frakking teacher? I'm sorry, but you definitely deserved that for not exercising a little common sense. I know many teachers, and with 20+ years of experience with a masters +30, you're only looking at around $75,000 a year - nowhere near enough to justify that level of debt.
I've seen too many articles / people posting online lately where they blame the banks and colleges because they didn't exercise any common sense and racked up six figures in debt on a degree that will only make them around $50,000 a year. Sorry, but you have to accept the consequences of your actions and you have no one to blame but yourselves.
The people that did get to serve were actually roughly as educated as the public, which is to say several had university degrees.
Yes, but having an education doesn't mean you're intelligent. Congress if full of people with bachelor's degrees, masters degrees, J.D.'s, and M.D.'s - yet only a very small handful of them are intelligent.
I have an honest question for you: Why the fuck do you still live in that country?
Well, EU law makes it quite hard for an American to move to the EU or the UK. Due to their labor law demanding that jobs only be given to EU / UK citizens or spouses of citizens, it makes it extremely hard for someone to move to the EU, get a job in their field, and then become a citizen.
I've looked into it, not that the 60+% taxes really make it appealing.......but when you're unemployed, you look at all options.
I virtually never play multiplayer online (I'll play multiplayer console games with friends, but virtually never with random people). Why? Two reasons. First, multiplayer is horribly repetitive and lacks originality. Secondly, when doing random matches online, the overwhelming majority of people are total asshats (see John Gabriel's Greater Internet Fuckwad Theory) that completely ruin any fun.
Companies need to focus on having original gameplay and an involving story that keeps you wanting to play, not just repetitive multiplayer.
Agreed. However, having taken multiple microbiology classes in college and not being religious, I still find macroevolution to be a joke. I say teach both evolution and creationism in the same class where you learn Greek / Roman mythology - it's all different unprovable explanations about how the world was created.
I know I'll get flamed for saying that because people don't like to have their religion questioned. And yes, sadly, evolution wen't from being a scientific theory to a religion at least 10 years ago.
It is well-known that we acknowledge researcher's contributions in our bulletins when a researcher has coordinated the release of vulnerability details with the release of a security update
Yea, because we all know that people really value having their name in a newsletter over having their name in a newsletter AND a few thousand dollars....
Sending an email / im is NOT "announcing something to the public", nor is making a file transfer. Posting something on a message board that anyone can read is, but again, they shouldn't be allowed to track your IP address because it's infinitely harder to identify someone who publicly says something in real life.
Now imagine there is a security vulnerability allowing the interception of such a communication. Accordingly, those responsible might patch that vulnerability, but you, as the user, are negligent and fail to install that patch. If that intercepted communication is subsequently used to prosecute you, it is partly your fault.
p.No, it's not. It's called "inadmissible evidence". Just like how the police can't use a phone call against you in court without a legal warrant to listen to your calls, they should be required under the same anti-wiretapping laws to have a warrant to monitor your internet activity. The only reason that this isn't the norm (applying wiretapping laws to the internet) is because corrupt government officials realize that it's their chance to get away from the restrictions of wiretapping laws.
Child Pornography, hell. Look back a century, "children" were getting married to middle-aged men and having their babies. The only difference is, back then nobody arrested you for it, or even thought twice about it.
I know, that always kills me. People try to say that they're "kids", yet not that long ago they would be married at that age. Hell, people try to talk down on teenagers and say that they're stupid and such, but it's only because society changed to make them less responsible. 100 years ago many of those high schoolers would have had a job and a family already. That's how things were for thousands of years, then all of the sudden society goes batshit crazy and decides that anyone under 30 is incompetent and needs the government to tell them what they can and cannot do.
I'm all for punishing people who intentionally harm others. However, I'm not for having blanket rules because a few old people who had crappy lives decide that they know better than everyone else.
I think that'll be small potatoes compared to the fact that every black hat, spammer, script kiddie, phisherman, fraudster, terrorist, and mobster can safely do whatevery they want and not have to worry about it.
You know what? I say good. Just like how the government needs a warrant to tap your phone, it's absurd to think it's ok for them to monitor everything everyone does on the internet. The government has no authority to stop people from having private conversations in person or on the phone, the internet shouldn't be any different.
This is just like how each time a new form of media comes out, the MPAA / RIAA try to sue for using it for "piracy" - just because the internet is a "new" form of communication, they want to ignore laws against spying on people.
Freedom doesn't just apply when you want it to apply.
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Agree. As someone who graduated a few years ago and is starting grad school this fall, I think professors should be required to put detailed notes of all their lectures online.
Why? Because that way students can actually pay attention to the lecture. With notes online, students can listen to the lecture and take notes on what seems important without having to worry about missing writing something down because they were actually thinking about the lecture instead of just blindly copying what the professor has on the board. It also means that if a student misses a lecture due to being sick or some other reason, they don't have to hassle another student for notes from that day.
Some of my best classes in undergrad I didn't spend much time taking notes because the professor put the lecture notes online and I could really focus on what the professor was saying.
If employers keep asking for ever-increasing qualifications, isn't that an indication that universities aren't providing the right education?
Not true at all. Employers ask for ever-increasing qualifications because they want the best employee they can get for their buck. If you want to be the best company in X industry, you want the most qualified employees, which (typically) means people with more advanced degrees).
Education is only important to things you don't like. If you are truly interested in a field you'll learn these things on your own; often better than can be taught.
Partially true. However, some topics are very hard to find sufficient materials to learn from on your own - and some of the more complicated things even the brightest people need someone to help explain it to them so that they fully understand it.
Incorrect. You're ignoring that a minority of the population (say 25-30%) is young enough to have been through the more recent decline of the American education system. I got through just early enough that by the time I was around 7th or 8th grade, it was noticeable when they started changing the textbooks to champion socialist principles and vilify white people.
The biggest problem with the US education system is that intelligence is not valued in our culture and parents (in general) do not push their kids to work hard in school and succeed. The second biggest problem is that the people running our schools are utter morons who care nothing about educating and only about their delusional ideals that have nothing to do with education. Many of my family members are teachers, as are a great deal of my friends (each one teaches at a different school). These teachers have actually seen smart and motivated students berated by the administrators for wanting to take advanced classes because taking advanced classes and getting the best education you can is "elitist" and "wrong". The people running our schools think that students should never fail (it might hurt their self esteem), even if they do no work and don't learn anything. They waste class time on making sure students have high self esteem instead of making sure that they learn, which is ironic because many kids would gain self esteem by working hard and being one of the best in their class (or at least seeing a significant improvement in their grades due to improved effort).
So wait, you took A class that was like that - one - and you're saying all classes are? I guess you should've taken a class on logic while you were there. As for your comments about community college? Well yea, community colleges are for the people who just need a piece of paper to get in the door for a job and lack the intellectual capabilities to get into a real college.
It's like how Megan Fox/Christina Hendricks are not actually the most attractive women in the world but will always win the polls because the majority of the contestants aren't well known enough to compete.
While I agree about your point with universities relying on popularity, you're far off base with Megan Fox and Christina Hendricks - people vote them as attractive in polls because they ARE damn sexy.
You don't have to ban it. Capping it alone will jack the price of energy to the point where many people can no longer afford it.
Go on youtube and do a search - even the Messiah President has that if his cap and trade plan he wants is passed "of course energy prices would skyrocket".
Actually, I can't recall the last time I saw someone claim that temperatures weren't changing. I've only seen people dispute the "It's the evil technology, we much abandon it and make peace with Gaia to stop temperature change!" crap.
Apparently you lack a sense of humor - the "it's a vicious cycle!" is a Fat Bastard quote from Austin Powers.
"Cap" would be drastic, and probably a lot less stupid.
Yea, because essentially saying "no more power" is "a lot less stupid". I'm all for switching over to non-fossil fuels. However, fucking our society up to try to speed up the rate that the technology is built / implemented and designed is NOT an intelligent move.
Though, if the same people pushing cap and trade hadn't been anti-nuclear in the US for the last 60 years, we'd already be a lot farther along towards being able to switch away from fossil fuels.
If you look at the GLOBAL trend, it is getting hotter
Yes, as it's done before. Then after X years it will cool down again (as it has before), then warm up again......it's a vicious cycle!
We've known for ages that the planet is a living, changing thing, yet for some reason people freak the fuck out when they happen to see real life changes as opposed to "5 million years ago, Y happened".
You didn't ready all of what I wrote. I said with a Masters degree +30 (an additional 30 hours of graduate work) AND 20+ years of experience, you're looking at around $75,000, though of course that varies some by location. I know teachers in very average areas who make that much and ones who only have a couple years of experience making around $35,000 - $40,000.
The fact that you ignore the VAT that is added to the price of every goddamn thing you buy shows that you're either incompetent or just out trolling. Once you add that on top of the 40% or so income tax, it comes out to roughly 60% (if not higher if you have a good job). Why you insist on denying the extra taxes is beyond me.
Seeing as how you've never done any research into moving to the EU and getting a job, I'm doubtful that you'd know what the rules are - just like the majority of native born people in any country are pretty clueless as to the rule for immigration, because it's not something they'd ever have to worry about.
First, it's true - I looked into it just about 6 months ago, since I've always wanted to travel to the UK (I've been to most of the EU). Second, the 60+% was talking about ALL taxes, not just income tax. You forget the massive taxes on gas, VAT, and the tax on pretty much else imaginable that's all added on top of the typical 40-ish% income tax.
But hey, why let facts get in the way of bashing someone.
You want to blame the banks / colleges because you and your wife were dumb enough to spend $200,000 on a masters to be a frakking teacher? I'm sorry, but you definitely deserved that for not exercising a little common sense. I know many teachers, and with 20+ years of experience with a masters +30, you're only looking at around $75,000 a year - nowhere near enough to justify that level of debt.
I've seen too many articles / people posting online lately where they blame the banks and colleges because they didn't exercise any common sense and racked up six figures in debt on a degree that will only make them around $50,000 a year. Sorry, but you have to accept the consequences of your actions and you have no one to blame but yourselves.
The people that did get to serve were actually roughly as educated as the public, which is to say several had university degrees.
Yes, but having an education doesn't mean you're intelligent. Congress if full of people with bachelor's degrees, masters degrees, J.D.'s, and M.D.'s - yet only a very small handful of them are intelligent.
I have an honest question for you: Why the fuck do you still live in that country?
Well, EU law makes it quite hard for an American to move to the EU or the UK. Due to their labor law demanding that jobs only be given to EU / UK citizens or spouses of citizens, it makes it extremely hard for someone to move to the EU, get a job in their field, and then become a citizen.
I've looked into it, not that the 60+% taxes really make it appealing.......but when you're unemployed, you look at all options.
I virtually never play multiplayer online (I'll play multiplayer console games with friends, but virtually never with random people). Why? Two reasons. First, multiplayer is horribly repetitive and lacks originality. Secondly, when doing random matches online, the overwhelming majority of people are total asshats (see John Gabriel's Greater Internet Fuckwad Theory) that completely ruin any fun.
Companies need to focus on having original gameplay and an involving story that keeps you wanting to play, not just repetitive multiplayer.
Agreed. However, having taken multiple microbiology classes in college and not being religious, I still find macroevolution to be a joke. I say teach both evolution and creationism in the same class where you learn Greek / Roman mythology - it's all different unprovable explanations about how the world was created.
I know I'll get flamed for saying that because people don't like to have their religion questioned. And yes, sadly, evolution wen't from being a scientific theory to a religion at least 10 years ago.
They have a geographical monopoly across virtually all of Canada.
Impossible! I know for a fact from all my years of reading Slashdot that monopolies and companies raising prices only happen in America!
It is well-known that we acknowledge researcher's contributions in our bulletins when a researcher has coordinated the release of vulnerability details with the release of a security update
Yea, because we all know that people really value having their name in a newsletter over having their name in a newsletter AND a few thousand dollars....
Sending an email / im is NOT "announcing something to the public", nor is making a file transfer. Posting something on a message board that anyone can read is, but again, they shouldn't be allowed to track your IP address because it's infinitely harder to identify someone who publicly says something in real life.
Now imagine there is a security vulnerability allowing the interception of such a communication. Accordingly, those responsible might patch that vulnerability, but you, as the user, are negligent and fail to install that patch. If that intercepted communication is subsequently used to prosecute you, it is partly your fault.
p.No, it's not. It's called "inadmissible evidence". Just like how the police can't use a phone call against you in court without a legal warrant to listen to your calls, they should be required under the same anti-wiretapping laws to have a warrant to monitor your internet activity. The only reason that this isn't the norm (applying wiretapping laws to the internet) is because corrupt government officials realize that it's their chance to get away from the restrictions of wiretapping laws.
Child Pornography, hell. Look back a century, "children" were getting married to middle-aged men and having their babies. The only difference is, back then nobody arrested you for it, or even thought twice about it.
I know, that always kills me. People try to say that they're "kids", yet not that long ago they would be married at that age. Hell, people try to talk down on teenagers and say that they're stupid and such, but it's only because society changed to make them less responsible. 100 years ago many of those high schoolers would have had a job and a family already. That's how things were for thousands of years, then all of the sudden society goes batshit crazy and decides that anyone under 30 is incompetent and needs the government to tell them what they can and cannot do.
I'm all for punishing people who intentionally harm others. However, I'm not for having blanket rules because a few old people who had crappy lives decide that they know better than everyone else.
I think that'll be small potatoes compared to the fact that every black hat, spammer, script kiddie, phisherman, fraudster, terrorist, and mobster can safely do whatevery they want and not have to worry about it.
You know what? I say good. Just like how the government needs a warrant to tap your phone, it's absurd to think it's ok for them to monitor everything everyone does on the internet. The government has no authority to stop people from having private conversations in person or on the phone, the internet shouldn't be any different.
This is just like how each time a new form of media comes out, the MPAA / RIAA try to sue for using it for "piracy" - just because the internet is a "new" form of communication, they want to ignore laws against spying on people.
Freedom doesn't just apply when you want it to apply.