So you avoid public schools like the plague, yet you're willing to pontificate on the plebes being herded around and tracked electronically like cattle. Does your darling private school child get tracked the same way? Are you agitating for that at your school?
FTA -- "There's a misconception that somebody's sitting in a room with a bank full of monitors looking at where 1,200 kids are here at Anson Middle School. That's not true," he said. "It's not even feasible. We're not staffed nor are we interested in knowing where all the kids are at a particular moment."
Every time one of these Orwellian surveillance nightmares pops up, one of the defenders says something like this. Constantly look at all the students? "It's not even feasible... we're not staffed [with enough people]".
Well someone needs to get these lackwits into the current millennium and tell them about these amazing fucking "computers" these days that can do all that automatically.
The sex-workers-rights-activists that I've known, and have volunteered time for, and who grew up exceedingly poor, disagree with every single one of your points. Do you have a citation (short quote, name, source) for your assertion that "it is usually exploitative"? Or is this just dumb repetition of cultural mythology?
From the Honest Courtesan (blog by ex-prostitute) -- "The Swedish Model of prostitution law is based on the premise that women are moral imbeciles who are psychologically incompetent to determine the conditions under which we will consent to sex, and the state therefore assumes the right to set those conditions for us."
"If the courts do not rule narrowly and uphold first sale doctrine for these EEE books, the publishers will simply stop licensing EEE books under cheap terms. Millions of Asian students will be affected."
Recommendations: - Uphold the law of first-sale. - Defend people's right of free speech. - Expand the freedom of information. - Get working on open-source textbooks.
And OMG it's my single least favorite class to teach. Here's reason #1: even concentrating solely on MS products, with step-by-step instructions and illustrated UI tutorials, most of the class (associate's degree program at a community college) finds it basically impossible to follow along. Ask them a conceptual question on a test and they go semi-beserk. Ask them to compute a number of bytes in something as an exercise and they groan in despair. Give an assignment in Excel and the whole class copies the file from the one guy who figured it out (frequently not even changing his name).
The level of skill in a class like that is so low that you probably wouldn't believe it. Suggested starting point for your project -- Ask 3 random fellow students to show you their work for the next assignment. Having considered their output, ask yourself honestly if they will be capable of a higher level of abstraction with a different application and a different UI. Hint: These will be the same people who can't pass a rudimentary algebra course, because they can't wrap their head around "x" being an abstraction for a number (this being about half of all students in community colleges in the U.S.).
I've been told that the school I'm at will be simply dropping the course entirely at some point in the future, which I think is probably great because it's irredeemable. In any case, at least I don't teach it anymore which solves the #1 pain my ass in my teaching position in the last few years. Good riddance. There is absolutely, positively no way you can make any suggestion for change in the direction you suggest and have it be taken up.
That's some very fine religious interpretive mangling bullshit that you've got going on there. "Judge not" doesn't mean "judge not" indeed. Very nice. I suspect I can guess your sect that engages in that more than others.
Of course, Christianity took off and lasted over 1,000 years at a time when the vast majority of adherents couldn't read at all. So it's not a necessary condition... if anything, the possibility is a historical oddity.
"If a fully naturalized citizen must present ID to board an airplane, buy alcohol, or even travel by car near the beach on a holiday weekend (hello, welcome to the checkpoint, papers please!), why is it suddenly 'racist' to demand ID to vote?"
Ah, the "Slippery slope exists, and I LOVE it!" argument. Don't double-down and expand on tyranny, roll that shit back.
And yes, minorities do tend to have lower incomes, less flexibility in work schedules, and greater burden make travel happen, so requirements that they get ID cards do in fact hit them (and also senior citizens, and the handicapped) harder. Plus in some districts the non-driver ID cards come from a separate office that's open for 1 hour a week -- nice trick.
I think the far more likely interpretation is that over half didn't read the statement carefully the first time.
If they verbalized a coherent argument "pro" and page 1 and then a coherent argument "con" on page 2 then they'd have something; but as-is this just bolsters my experience in the classroom that most people can't read or write details at all.
Slashdot Mirror
So you avoid public schools like the plague, yet you're willing to pontificate on the plebes being herded around and tracked electronically like cattle. Does your darling private school child get tracked the same way? Are you agitating for that at your school?
Psalm 90:4: "For you, a thousand years are as a passing day, as brief as a few night hours."
FTA -- "There's a misconception that somebody's sitting in a room with a bank full of monitors looking at where 1,200 kids are here at Anson Middle School. That's not true," he said. "It's not even feasible. We're not staffed nor are we interested in knowing where all the kids are at a particular moment."
Every time one of these Orwellian surveillance nightmares pops up, one of the defenders says something like this. Constantly look at all the students? "It's not even feasible... we're not staffed [with enough people]".
Well someone needs to get these lackwits into the current millennium and tell them about these amazing fucking "computers" these days that can do all that automatically.
The sex-workers-rights-activists that I've known, and have volunteered time for, and who grew up exceedingly poor, disagree with every single one of your points. Do you have a citation (short quote, name, source) for your assertion that "it is usually exploitative"? Or is this just dumb repetition of cultural mythology?
From the Honest Courtesan (blog by ex-prostitute) -- "The Swedish Model of prostitution law is based on the premise that women are moral imbeciles who are psychologically incompetent to determine the conditions under which we will consent to sex, and the state therefore assumes the right to set those conditions for us."
http://maggiemcneill.wordpress.com/2011/02/16/the-swedish-disease-spreads/
Those are competing interests coming from different parties.
The police who have the policy of regularly publishing this stuff are interested in maximizing the damage, not reducing it.
"Only real benefit was to the coders who had jobs there for a few years."
I think that's the broken-window fallacy. But the rest I agree with, and thanks for posting it.
- Books killed storytelling.
- Movies killed theater.
- Videos killed radio.
- Arcades killed boardgames.
"If the courts do not rule narrowly and uphold first sale doctrine for these EEE books, the publishers will simply stop licensing EEE books under cheap terms. Millions of Asian students will be affected."
Recommendations:
- Uphold the law of first-sale.
- Defend people's right of free speech.
- Expand the freedom of information.
- Get working on open-source textbooks.
Prove it. (Thus returning us to the great-great-grandfather post.)
I think most people would measure how "big" it is by height, and yes, the new one will be about 3 times taller.
You're correct that the old one had greater capacity.
Nothing in that language asserts that "client's best interest == biggest profit possible".
"Yes, since it's 'open source' we will probably be able to convert the books, but how many people are going to know how to do that?"
There need be only one!
"(btw, why the hell is Political Science a science?)"
Because, strategically, they knew that was better than calling their discipline "Professional Bullshit Artist".
"Either they'll accept your suggestion or they won't. It doesn't hurt to try."
I guarantee you it's 100% wasted effort and time.
And OMG it's my single least favorite class to teach. Here's reason #1: even concentrating solely on MS products, with step-by-step instructions and illustrated UI tutorials, most of the class (associate's degree program at a community college) finds it basically impossible to follow along. Ask them a conceptual question on a test and they go semi-beserk. Ask them to compute a number of bytes in something as an exercise and they groan in despair. Give an assignment in Excel and the whole class copies the file from the one guy who figured it out (frequently not even changing his name).
The level of skill in a class like that is so low that you probably wouldn't believe it. Suggested starting point for your project -- Ask 3 random fellow students to show you their work for the next assignment. Having considered their output, ask yourself honestly if they will be capable of a higher level of abstraction with a different application and a different UI. Hint: These will be the same people who can't pass a rudimentary algebra course, because they can't wrap their head around "x" being an abstraction for a number (this being about half of all students in community colleges in the U.S.).
I've been told that the school I'm at will be simply dropping the course entirely at some point in the future, which I think is probably great because it's irredeemable. In any case, at least I don't teach it anymore which solves the #1 pain my ass in my teaching position in the last few years. Good riddance. There is absolutely, positively no way you can make any suggestion for change in the direction you suggest and have it be taken up.
Thomas who? I'm not finding him in this U.S. history book from Texas.
And where do we look it up? Short quote, title, page number, please. Three quotes would be excellent.
That's some very fine religious interpretive mangling bullshit that you've got going on there. "Judge not" doesn't mean "judge not" indeed. Very nice. I suspect I can guess your sect that engages in that more than others.
Of course, Christianity took off and lasted over 1,000 years at a time when the vast majority of adherents couldn't read at all. So it's not a necessary condition... if anything, the possibility is a historical oddity.
And Sarah Silverman responds -- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ypRW5qoraTw
"If a fully naturalized citizen must present ID to board an airplane, buy alcohol, or even travel by car near the beach on a holiday weekend (hello, welcome to the checkpoint, papers please!), why is it suddenly 'racist' to demand ID to vote?"
Ah, the "Slippery slope exists, and I LOVE it!" argument. Don't double-down and expand on tyranny, roll that shit back.
And yes, minorities do tend to have lower incomes, less flexibility in work schedules, and greater burden make travel happen, so requirements that they get ID cards do in fact hit them (and also senior citizens, and the handicapped) harder. Plus in some districts the non-driver ID cards come from a separate office that's open for 1 hour a week -- nice trick.
We also keep spending on food every week. Over and over again. And the cost goes up over time. This must be stopped!!
I think the far more likely interpretation is that over half didn't read the statement carefully the first time.
If they verbalized a coherent argument "pro" and page 1 and then a coherent argument "con" on page 2 then they'd have something; but as-is this just bolsters my experience in the classroom that most people can't read or write details at all.
From the summary -- "I considered using typewriters but they are in limited supply on the market."
Seriously, what is wrong with Slashdot people that you can't even read an 8-line summary, and mod something like the above to maximum value? Geez.