There is a type of resistance to authority, whose name escapes me at the moment, in which the person protesting follows every rule down to the most mundane detail as a way to stop productivity. It's hard to punish people for because they aren't actually breaking any rules, they're following ALL of them. Maybe the cop was protesting against the massively defective legal system by being this pedantic?
Nah, he was probably just taking out his frustration on one of them tree huggers. But a man can dream.
Somehow I can't picture a fixed gear bicycle with a small motor getting up any hills that are steep enough to challenge even someone with no motor and a compact gearset.
That's a really good point, most of them probably didn't care. They should have offered the kids some kind of incentive for doing well just to make sure they were paying attention.
Granted the same incentive doesn't really translate to the same motivation across cultures so that would skew the results a little but that's better than the current situation where the test merely measures the number of students who immediately pay attention to any arbitrary commands issued by an authority figure. And on that note, way to go China!
Now if only there were some way of American cities using two parallel school systems - one for students without discipline problems and a seperate set of schools for those with discipline problems so the later can't interfere with the education of the former.
It appears that the FlyKly and Copenhagen Wheel will only work with hipster fixed gears initially but there will be a more expensive version that works with actual bicycles later on.
When Apple finally stops producing desktops/laptops and moves entirely to phones and tablets will idiots claim that iPad is the best platform for content creation / video editing / music development because it's made by Apple?
I agree, it's entirely the fault of Microsoft and Windows 8. With Vista Microsoft did their job of making sure the core operating system was so inefficient that it required new high end hardware just to run basic applications smoothly. With Windows 7 and 8 Microsoft has actually been backpedling by writing code that actually runs MORE efficiently!
Clearly the way to save the computer industry is for Microsoft to introduce some major bugs to their next OS that causes it to require 10x the system resources of Windows 8.
"Even citizens with rights have to follow procedure."
So what you're saying is in order to remove all our rights all the government has to do is make the procedures difficult and esoteric enough that no one could follow them? I hate to bring up Kafka in situations like this but this seems a bit too like something out of Kafka.
I realize this is hindsight but maybe the Ring of Fire isn't the best place to build nuclear reactors? Not that the Japanese have much option there if they want nuclear power.
The journalists that have the data need to do what wikileaks did: encrypt the entire Snowden information and upload it as a torrent.
As long as there are only a few people with access to the data there is a threat the spy agencies will go after them directly. They need to know that if they try that then everything will be released to the public at once.
Banning the beheading clips would be irresponsible because it helps people look the other way and pretend things like this don't happen. If the media actually reported on things like the FSA's leader eating human hearts and using rape to encourage his troops among other major atrocities it would be political suicide for Obama to continue supporting him in Syria, but as things are the average citizen doesn't know or care.
You're implying that bike theft is the first step toward some sort of productive career? Or what are you getting at? To imply that rejection of criminality of 'elitist' is to suggest that criminality is acceptable behavior.
It isn't luck that gets you out of poverty - it's planning and a few simple rules. 1: Graduate high-school 2: Work hard and don't be a criminal 3: Don't have kids before you're financially stable with a solid safety net
The sorts of people that run off with bikes aren't doing it because they want to feed themselves. They do so because they don't value the property rights of others. Those are not the sorts of people I want working with or under me.
The thieves aren't just taking the wheels and seats to assemble bikes later. They're marking them hoping that someone will come back to their bike without a seat or wheel will leave it there overnight rather than carry it home.
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There is a type of resistance to authority, whose name escapes me at the moment, in which the person protesting follows every rule down to the most mundane detail as a way to stop productivity. It's hard to punish people for because they aren't actually breaking any rules, they're following ALL of them. Maybe the cop was protesting against the massively defective legal system by being this pedantic?
Nah, he was probably just taking out his frustration on one of them tree huggers. But a man can dream.
Somehow I can't picture a fixed gear bicycle with a small motor getting up any hills that are steep enough to challenge even someone with no motor and a compact gearset.
At that time, the iPad just might be the best content creation tool.
Oh God. It's started.
That's a really good point, most of them probably didn't care. They should have offered the kids some kind of incentive for doing well just to make sure they were paying attention.
Granted the same incentive doesn't really translate to the same motivation across cultures so that would skew the results a little but that's better than the current situation where the test merely measures the number of students who immediately pay attention to any arbitrary commands issued by an authority figure. And on that note, way to go China!
(identify the smallest value in a table). Highest rank for that question was Shanghai-China (89%). USA was 48%.
Thanks, before I was just disappointed with America, now I'm disappointed in the world!
Now if only there were some way of American cities using two parallel school systems - one for students without discipline problems and a seperate set of schools for those with discipline problems so the later can't interfere with the education of the former.
No, that would never work.
According to the article they WERE testing 15 year olds.
It appears that the FlyKly and Copenhagen Wheel will only work with hipster fixed gears initially but there will be a more expensive version that works with actual bicycles later on.
So I can use this to connect to a VPN and get free internet access without any invasion of my privacy? I like it.
When Apple finally stops producing desktops/laptops and moves entirely to phones and tablets will idiots claim that iPad is the best platform for content creation / video editing / music development because it's made by Apple?
I agree, it's entirely the fault of Microsoft and Windows 8. With Vista Microsoft did their job of making sure the core operating system was so inefficient that it required new high end hardware just to run basic applications smoothly. With Windows 7 and 8 Microsoft has actually been backpedling by writing code that actually runs MORE efficiently!
Clearly the way to save the computer industry is for Microsoft to introduce some major bugs to their next OS that causes it to require 10x the system resources of Windows 8.
Sounds like someone is trying really really hard for an Ig Nobel.
Why would you want to buy Apple products anyway?
"The problem isn't just parents, it is also that we allow sociopaths to pass the bar exam."
I disagree. Parents aren't doing enough these days to keep their kids out of law school.
Finally I can have my own version of wikipedia so I can correct all those changes I haven't been allowed to enter into the official version!
Program it to say "What?" and "Where's the tea?" Who'd know the difference?
"Even citizens with rights have to follow procedure."
So what you're saying is in order to remove all our rights all the government has to do is make the procedures difficult and esoteric enough that no one could follow them? I hate to bring up Kafka in situations like this but this seems a bit too like something out of Kafka.
I realize this is hindsight but maybe the Ring of Fire isn't the best place to build nuclear reactors? Not that the Japanese have much option there if they want nuclear power.
It is illegal for employers in the US to ask "have you ever been arrested?". They can only ask, "have you ever been convicted?"
The journalists that have the data need to do what wikileaks did: encrypt the entire Snowden information and upload it as a torrent.
As long as there are only a few people with access to the data there is a threat the spy agencies will go after them directly. They need to know that if they try that then everything will be released to the public at once.
Exactly this.
Banning the beheading clips would be irresponsible because it helps people look the other way and pretend things like this don't happen. If the media actually reported on things like the FSA's leader eating human hearts and using rape to encourage his troops among other major atrocities it would be political suicide for Obama to continue supporting him in Syria, but as things are the average citizen doesn't know or care.
You're implying that bike theft is the first step toward some sort of productive career? Or what are you getting at? To imply that rejection of criminality of 'elitist' is to suggest that criminality is acceptable behavior.
It isn't luck that gets you out of poverty - it's planning and a few simple rules.
1: Graduate high-school
2: Work hard and don't be a criminal
3: Don't have kids before you're financially stable with a solid safety net
The sorts of people that run off with bikes aren't doing it because they want to feed themselves. They do so because they don't value the property rights of others. Those are not the sorts of people I want working with or under me.
What makes you think bike theft is any sort of priority for police? They can't make money from it.
See, this is why we can't have nice things.
The thieves aren't just taking the wheels and seats to assemble bikes later. They're marking them hoping that someone will come back to their bike without a seat or wheel will leave it there overnight rather than carry it home.