Well, given the wealth disparity, the scheme the rightists are using is definitely working much better. Now the very wealthy own virtually everything and almost everyone from the far left to the far right are scrambling for crumbs. Yay for the very poor right! Y'all won! *sigh*
Or he could, you know... stop fucking golfing so much on our dime. It's not like the exercise is doing him any good as he's still a fat-fuck blob. He probably sucks at golf anyhow which is why we don't hear too much about his scores there. Or come to think of it, about how much he bangs his hag. He'd definitely be bragging about that if it was happening.
Common Core is for grade school, we're discussing college textbooks here. I'm guessing you're a republitard and figured this was a good place to bang one of your favorite drums. It isn't and you're as stupid as you look.
Here you go troll:
What is Common Core? The Common Core State Standards Initiative is an educational initiative in the United States that details what K–12 students should know in English language arts and mathematics at the end of each grade. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
CC also does not specify how to teach it but rather it instructs on the kind of learning and thinking skills that should be taught to the students.
I'm also not a big fan of the current educational system but CC is the least of my concerns.
I'm totally cool with the license not granting people the right to use a text-book commercially. The information is given freely, it should be passed on freely? Don't like the license? Don't use the work. It is basic true-capitalism. It gives freedom-of-choice. What's not to like?
Your analogy couldn't have been more perfectly bad. In an open source software project, the product is the software, not the documentation. In an open textbook project, the product is the book, not the documentation of how it works.
So all of the intangible benefits you elucidated belong to the people who created the content of the book. There are also tangible benefits, such as grants to create the work etc. No doubt it is a strong resume builder and with a proper community in place around the book, it would be easy to track user retention and engagement which can be highlighted in a CV.
Since society benefits from an educated population, be it very intellectual or very vocational (who doesn't want a great plumber?). Why not implement what you propose and boost it with free education? That way everyone is educated appropriate to their desires and abilities, society benefits, and no one has to worry about paying off some stupid loan. I disagree that the loan situation is not a contributor to the problem, in fact it might even exacerbate the situation you are concerned about. Since universities are not worried about loan defaults, they have less incentive to be selective about enrollment. They don't give a shit if they put out low quality graduates since they know that eventually, _they_will_be_paid_.
I used a physics textbook that was the same one (same fucking exact one) that my Dad had used when learning physics. Of course I'd bought my own recently published copy of a 40 year old physics book. Our professors at community college created spiral bound lab books that were probably around $20. These were fantastic as they expanded on topics and had nice hand-drawn illustrations, etc... Ah, the good-old days.
For calculus a revision every 20 years would probably be far too frequent. The main valid reason for a rewrite would be to improve the teaching style, more likely this would result in a whole new book. So outside of a whole new book, new calculus, chemistry, math, logic books are probably not needed once good ones are written. Every 20 years, add some new examples, to make it so not everyone is a blonde, blue eyed male who wants to become a nuclear engineer. Publish errata that can be easily added and continue to sell re-prints of the same book as the older books fall apart and out of the market from re-use, loss, theft, water and fire damage, etc.
Maybe if there were a more active market for used textbooks, students would make the attempt to sell their old, bought used textbooks and the market would become more active. Yes, that's circular but so is: students don't sell their old textbooks because they know no one is buying them.
I wasn't correcting a grammar mistake, that was a misuse of a word which falls outside the purview of grammar. I am not that great at grammar so I let a lot of stuff go, like your sentence fragment, for example.
Really? I totally missed where you explained that. Could you explain it with more detail? Sometimes subtle stuff gets by me and I miss it.
Were you trying to show that small businesses are more immune to a non-neutral net than a neutral one? Because your several sentences did not appear to explain that at all. Of course I only started speaking, writing, and reading Americanese some 41 years ago so maybe something got by me...
I know right? I guess that's why those companies are like, tots on the edge of bankruptcy, always asking for bailout money and stuff... totally! \
Let's say we agree that they're acting in their own best financial interests, would that make you happy? Chances are they are acting in their own best economic interests. I do feel however that the larger companies are much more able to adapt to a higher bandwidth cost scenario than watchLosFromLA_makeAnAssOfHimself.com/livestream would. Seriously, I would be broke if I hit 100 users. Youtube, facebook, amazon and others can afford to mirror their servers at key points and all other kind of stuff smaller content providers can't do so, yeah.
On your sig: I think you meant "intents and purposes" rather than "intensive" unless you are doing something more clever and subtle that completely whooshed over my head.
I was definitely serious. Thanks! South Park is not in my regular rotation, not my style. I watched a few episodes but just couldn't get into it, my life doesn't feel that impoverished for having deleted that from my viewing habits.
World's 6th largest economy according to the latest numbers thank-you-very much. The pension won't break our economy anyhow, and who cares if it does, fuck, we'll just go bankrupt and start over. FTW.
I was going to stop at "As a mostly libertarian person," since usually what follows is a nonsensical rant about not wanting public education, or roads, or fire departments. Interestingly, you came up with something that at first glance makes sense. Congrats! Suggestion: Maybe you should close with "btw, I'm mostly libertarian", that way you don't turn most of your readers off from the start.
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Well, given the wealth disparity, the scheme the rightists are using is definitely working much better.
Now the very wealthy own virtually everything and almost everyone from the far left to the far right are scrambling for crumbs.
Yay for the very poor right! Y'all won! *sigh*
Or he could, you know... stop fucking golfing so much on our dime.
It's not like the exercise is doing him any good as he's still a fat-fuck blob.
He probably sucks at golf anyhow which is why we don't hear too much about his scores there. Or come to think of it, about how much he bangs his hag. He'd definitely be bragging about that if it was happening.
Common Core is for grade school, we're discussing college textbooks here. I'm guessing you're a republitard and figured this was a good place to bang one of your favorite drums. It isn't and you're as stupid as you look.
Here you go troll:
What is Common Core?
The Common Core State Standards Initiative is an educational initiative in the United States that details what K–12 students should know in English language arts and mathematics at the end of each grade.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
CC also does not specify how to teach it but rather it instructs on the kind of learning and thinking skills that should be taught to the students.
I'm also not a big fan of the current educational system but CC is the least of my concerns.
I'm totally cool with the license not granting people the right to use a text-book commercially. The information is given freely, it should be passed on freely? Don't like the license? Don't use the work. It is basic true-capitalism. It gives freedom-of-choice. What's not to like?
Do it! You can do it!
Your analogy couldn't have been more perfectly bad.
In an open source software project, the product is the software, not the documentation.
In an open textbook project, the product is the book, not the documentation of how it works.
So all of the intangible benefits you elucidated belong to the people who created the content of the book. There are also tangible benefits, such as grants to create the work etc. No doubt it is a strong resume builder and with a proper community in place around the book, it would be easy to track user retention and engagement which can be highlighted in a CV.
oh, the irony!
Since society benefits from an educated population, be it very intellectual or very vocational (who doesn't want a great plumber?). Why not implement what you propose and boost it with free education? That way everyone is educated appropriate to their desires and abilities, society benefits, and no one has to worry about paying off some stupid loan.
I disagree that the loan situation is not a contributor to the problem, in fact it might even exacerbate the situation you are concerned about. Since universities are not worried about loan defaults, they have less incentive to be selective about enrollment. They don't give a shit if they put out low quality graduates since they know that eventually, _they_will_be_paid_.
Nice info, thanks!
I used a physics textbook that was the same one (same fucking exact one) that my Dad had used when learning physics. Of course I'd bought my own recently published copy of a 40 year old physics book. Our professors at community college created spiral bound lab books that were probably around $20. These were fantastic as they expanded on topics and had nice hand-drawn illustrations, etc... Ah, the good-old days.
For calculus a revision every 20 years would probably be far too frequent. The main valid reason for a rewrite would be to improve the teaching style, more likely this would result in a whole new book. So outside of a whole new book, new calculus, chemistry, math, logic books are probably not needed once good ones are written. Every 20 years, add some new examples, to make it so not everyone is a blonde, blue eyed male who wants to become a nuclear engineer. Publish errata that can be easily added and continue to sell re-prints of the same book as the older books fall apart and out of the market from re-use, loss, theft, water and fire damage, etc.
Maybe if there were a more active market for used textbooks, students would make the attempt to sell their old, bought used textbooks and the market would become more active. Yes, that's circular but so is: students don't sell their old textbooks because they know no one is buying them.
It's _always_ raining men on the slashdot.
oh, yeah! Now it makes more sense. Thanks!
I wasn't correcting a grammar mistake, that was a misuse of a word which falls outside the purview of grammar. I am not that great at grammar so I let a lot of stuff go, like your sentence fragment, for example.
Here's a link to some knowledge for you:
https://www.merriam-webster.co...
You're welcome, have a great day!
Really? I totally missed where you explained that. Could you explain it with more detail? Sometimes subtle stuff gets by me and I miss it.
Were you trying to show that small businesses are more immune to a non-neutral net than a neutral one? Because your several sentences did not appear to explain that at all. Of course I only started speaking, writing, and reading Americanese some 41 years ago so maybe something got by me...
I know right? I guess that's why those companies are like, tots on the edge of bankruptcy, always asking for bailout money and stuff... totally! \
Let's say we agree that they're acting in their own best financial interests, would that make you happy? Chances are they are acting in their own best economic interests. I do feel however that the larger companies are much more able to adapt to a higher bandwidth cost scenario than watchLosFromLA_makeAnAssOfHimself.com/livestream would. Seriously, I would be broke if I hit 100 users. Youtube, facebook, amazon and others can afford to mirror their servers at key points and all other kind of stuff smaller content providers can't do so, yeah.
:-)
On your sig:
I think you meant "intents and purposes" rather than "intensive" unless you are doing something more clever and subtle that completely whooshed over my head.
Lol.
What a cruelly improbable thing for most slashdotters
Sounds like a reasonable policy.
I was definitely serious. Thanks!
South Park is not in my regular rotation, not my style. I watched a few episodes but just couldn't get into it, my life doesn't feel that impoverished for having deleted that from my viewing habits.
World's 6th largest economy according to the latest numbers thank-you-very much. The pension won't break our economy anyhow, and who cares if it does, fuck, we'll just go bankrupt and start over. FTW.
razor thin margins on huge volume apparently adds up to huge market valuations and even some profit. Who would have thought that math works?
I was going to stop at "As a mostly libertarian person," since usually what follows is a nonsensical rant about not wanting public education, or roads, or fire departments. Interestingly, you came up with something that at first glance makes sense. Congrats!
Suggestion:
Maybe you should close with "btw, I'm mostly libertarian", that way you don't turn most of your readers off from the start.
Or prevent it by supporting net neutrality, you dumbfucktard.