I think the main problem that the comics industry faced is when they started letting the artists write the comics. Which got us a procession of ridiculously silly, macho heroes with names that sounded like they were invented by the combined effort of a junior high school heavy metal band. "Spawn"? I mean, really.
Because he was a fanatic caught up in the idiotic anti-communist paranoia of the times. The ridiculous idea that some tiny South American country turning communist would somehow pose such a danger to the United States that it requires someone to violate their oath, lie to their president, and break the law, is stupid on its face.
It is possible (indeed it is likely, at the Pentagon level) to find oneself in a position of choosing between two foul acts.
Not. Their. Choice. The Pentagon's job is to carry out the policy of the civilian government, and if the officers there don't like it they're welcome to resign their commissions.
That should be a clue that you don't know the other half of the story.
There is no legitimate other half. The policy goals of North and his co-conspirators is perfectly clear and perfectly wrong.
By calling him 'evil', you've announced that you have no desire to understand his decisions.
That's a false argument. I understand his decisions. I undertand his motivation. I reject his viewpoint. It's an evil view of the world that overlooks human lives in favor of abstract ideology. That's what fanatics believe in.
I didn't say WHEN they found it. There was a substantial time period between the time Obi-Wan Kenobi was killed, and the Death Star was destroyed by rebel forces based out of Yavin IV. Considering the pristine condition of the hallways of the Death Star, it seems highly unlikely that the robe would just be left there for the weeks or months that took place between the two events.
Don't try to outgeek me; I get geekier things than you in my breakfast cereal.
Even if robots never achieve sentience, mistreating robots that look identical humans could have a serious impact on the human being doing the mistreating.
Holy cow! You managed to combine role playing and Star Wars along with a desperate desire for companionship in one line on Slashdot. Geekdom so tightly compressed you risked creating a singularity, destroying humanity.
I think he was one Dr. Who reference away from killing us all.
Her firm's too-obvious euphemisms for this were 'profit centers' and 'cost centers'.
That's actually the standard term used in the business world. It's always tempting for senior management to squeeze the cost centers, usually ending with hits to the profit centers too because they're not getting the support they require.
If the test reflects the learning objectives - then "teaching to the test" is teaching the objectives.
The problem isn't what's being taught, or tested, but rather the methodology. When you teach like that you're basically filling up the students' short-term memory, but much less sinks in.
If it's the school administration, then you risk the principal's favorites getting paid just because they're the favorites.
If it's based on standardized tests, then you just get teachers teaching kids how to take standardized tests, which is ultimately results in a lousier education.
You can compensate for dried out meat with oil. I like to mix lean ground beef with a little bit of olive oil, which adds the fat back but in a much healthier form.
Oh yeah, let's get rid of homework because the poor kiddies are stressed out.
Hell yes. This article isn't talking about high school, or even junior high school, it's talking about freaking elementary school. When you're 8 years old you damn well shouldn't have to be stressed out every day, and only a sociopath would think otherwise. These are not the ages to start teaching kids about the "real world". They can stress out for the next 70 years of their life, why can't we let them be a kid for just a few years?
demands for $6 billion more from the state budget for their failing schools and socialized medicine plans.
Like I said, NYC supports the rest of the state, and then everyone upstate starts whining when NYC asks for some of the money back.
The rest of us (who are actually a majority republican, agricultural and small business type people) will be able to do what we think is best instead of what Sheldon Silver thinks is good for NYC.
It's worse in law, we actually have to use latin words somewhat frequently, but they're all pronounced in a weird, arbitrary-sounding way. They definitely don't follow classical pronunciations, and based on what little I know of church latin it's not that either.
NYC is the financial capital of the world or maybe it was [timesonline.co.uk]. The rest of the state has already been decimated as key companies like Kodak and Xerox move out of state and wither away.
New York City's economy is going quite strong, thanks.
NYC's politicians already sucked the rest of the state dry and its only a matter of time before they go down the tube with us.
That's a complete and utter fabrication. New York City pays substantially more in taxes than it receives in funding. If you're living in New York State but outside NYC, you're not pulling your own weight and you're being subsidized by NYC. Furthermore, by population NYC residents are significantly underrepresented in the NY legislature.
Companies aren't just outsourcing to other countries, many are just moving to other states. Up here in Rochester, the University of Rochester is now our biggest employer and the government is the only sector with any type of job growth.
Despite decades of other states promising tax breaks, less environmental regulations, and weak labor laws, most have not been too successful in attracting NYC's businesses.
Support the FairTax, bring corporate headquarters back to the US and end this ridiculous waste of everyone's time.
...because when it comes to a 13 trillion dollar economy and the well-being of 300 million people, let's gamble on instituting dramatic systematic changes that look good on paper to a few people but have never been proven in real life.
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I swear, I really do have those mail order degrees in Murderology AND Murderonomy.
Welcome to the 3rd world, the local version of OSHA doesn't exactly have much power.
But...but...the libertarians always told me that if you get rid of labor laws workers become safer and better paid! I don't understand.
Having read the article, it seems more like its a case where a bunch of guys who happen to be in law school talking about who they think is hot or not
As a former law student I can assure you that was a VERY popular pasttime. On both sides of the gender gap.
I think the main problem that the comics industry faced is when they started letting the artists write the comics. Which got us a procession of ridiculously silly, macho heroes with names that sounded like they were invented by the combined effort of a junior high school heavy metal band. "Spawn"? I mean, really.
Do you know why he did those things?
Because he was a fanatic caught up in the idiotic anti-communist paranoia of the times. The ridiculous idea that some tiny South American country turning communist would somehow pose such a danger to the United States that it requires someone to violate their oath, lie to their president, and break the law, is stupid on its face.
It is possible (indeed it is likely, at the Pentagon level) to find oneself in a position of choosing between two foul acts.
Not. Their. Choice. The Pentagon's job is to carry out the policy of the civilian government, and if the officers there don't like it they're welcome to resign their commissions.
That should be a clue that you don't know the other half of the story.
There is no legitimate other half. The policy goals of North and his co-conspirators is perfectly clear and perfectly wrong.
By calling him 'evil', you've announced that you have no desire to understand his decisions.
That's a false argument. I understand his decisions. I undertand his motivation. I reject his viewpoint. It's an evil view of the world that overlooks human lives in favor of abstract ideology. That's what fanatics believe in.
I didn't say WHEN they found it. There was a substantial time period between the time Obi-Wan Kenobi was killed, and the Death Star was destroyed by rebel forces based out of Yavin IV. Considering the pristine condition of the hallways of the Death Star, it seems highly unlikely that the robe would just be left there for the weeks or months that took place between the two events.
Don't try to outgeek me; I get geekier things than you in my breakfast cereal.
Even if robots never achieve sentience, mistreating robots that look identical humans could have a serious impact on the human being doing the mistreating.
Holy cow! You managed to combine role playing and Star Wars along with a desperate desire for companionship in one line on Slashdot. Geekdom so tightly compressed you risked creating a singularity, destroying humanity.
I think he was one Dr. Who reference away from killing us all.
How many Americans understand Oliver North's point, that often it is morally correct to break the law?
I have a pretty strict policy of not going to Oliver North for advice on morality.
Who found it?
Someone found it crumpled up on the floor of the Death Star.
Her firm's too-obvious euphemisms for this were 'profit centers' and 'cost centers'.
That's actually the standard term used in the business world. It's always tempting for senior management to squeeze the cost centers, usually ending with hits to the profit centers too because they're not getting the support they require.
If the test reflects the learning objectives - then "teaching to the test" is teaching the objectives.
The problem isn't what's being taught, or tested, but rather the methodology. When you teach like that you're basically filling up the students' short-term memory, but much less sinks in.
The joke's still really funny.
My first reaction is suspicion
As I knew it would be!
How about basing teacher pay on performance?
And who judges performance?
If it's the school administration, then you risk the principal's favorites getting paid just because they're the favorites.
If it's based on standardized tests, then you just get teachers teaching kids how to take standardized tests, which is ultimately results in a lousier education.
You can compensate for dried out meat with oil. I like to mix lean ground beef with a little bit of olive oil, which adds the fat back but in a much healthier form.
80/20 lean beef
Not that I don't agree with everything else you said, but 80/20 isn't that lean...
Oh yeah, let's get rid of homework because the poor kiddies are stressed out.
Hell yes. This article isn't talking about high school, or even junior high school, it's talking about freaking elementary school. When you're 8 years old you damn well shouldn't have to be stressed out every day, and only a sociopath would think otherwise. These are not the ages to start teaching kids about the "real world". They can stress out for the next 70 years of their life, why can't we let them be a kid for just a few years?
From my experience, homework is used as a tool by bad teachers to teach their lessons.
In a lot of jurisdictions teachers have no choice about how much homework they give out.
Most young people I meet today not only haven't a clue how a piano works, they seem to have no familiarity with the bill of rights, either.
Most older people don't either. Honestly, there isn't really that big a difference between this generation and the last few.
Um. 15 what?
Reading Units.
demands for $6 billion more from the state budget for their failing schools and socialized medicine plans.
Like I said, NYC supports the rest of the state, and then everyone upstate starts whining when NYC asks for some of the money back.
The rest of us (who are actually a majority republican, agricultural and small business type people) will be able to do what we think is best instead of what Sheldon Silver thinks is good for NYC.
The rest of you are a MINORITY.
ultra liberal Senators
Like Al D'Amato?
It's worse in law, we actually have to use latin words somewhat frequently, but they're all pronounced in a weird, arbitrary-sounding way. They definitely don't follow classical pronunciations, and based on what little I know of church latin it's not that either.
NYC is the financial capital of the world or maybe it was [timesonline.co.uk]. The rest of the state has already been decimated as key companies like Kodak and Xerox move out of state and wither away.
New York City's economy is going quite strong, thanks.
NYC's politicians already sucked the rest of the state dry and its only a matter of time before they go down the tube with us.
That's a complete and utter fabrication. New York City pays substantially more in taxes than it receives in funding. If you're living in New York State but outside NYC, you're not pulling your own weight and you're being subsidized by NYC. Furthermore, by population NYC residents are significantly underrepresented in the NY legislature.
Companies aren't just outsourcing to other countries, many are just moving to other states. Up here in Rochester, the University of Rochester is now our biggest employer and the government is the only sector with any type of job growth.
Despite decades of other states promising tax breaks, less environmental regulations, and weak labor laws, most have not been too successful in attracting NYC's businesses.
Support the FairTax, bring corporate headquarters back to the US and end this ridiculous waste of everyone's time.
...because when it comes to a 13 trillion dollar economy and the well-being of 300 million people, let's gamble on instituting dramatic systematic changes that look good on paper to a few people but have never been proven in real life.