Possible explanations: (a) the distinction you make is not an important one. Just the casing is not standard Apple issue, and could arguably called customized. (b) the submitter might be a fanboi and didn't want Apple to sound as much like jerks as they actually were. Refusing to customize an iphone is one thing, refusing to provide even a blank casing is a new level of jackassry.
"In my (admittedly limited) experience, the teachers of technical subject in the lower schools are almost always incompetent. The explanation is well-known: If you're competent in math, why would you voluntarily spend your time in a low-paid job like grade-school teacher, when you could be making much better money elsewhere?"
High skill in math is not needed to teach math to lower school students; what's more important is ability to teach.
Only if we get to watch it via live webcam so we can see all these "self-reliant" libertarian types trying to survive on their own. That would be unbearably hilarious.
Seriously? They pay your salary by administering the Federal student aid program. And what state are you in exactly? Are you that sure your state pays out more money in education funds than it gets back?
Wow, usually when people find out that, as taxpayers, they're on the hook for billions in defaulted law school loans they get angry. Not you, though; I salute you! You actually do like the fact that the law students who spent 3 years partying and using your money for bottle service at fancy clubs that you can't afford were doing it on your dime!
"Merck decided to fire him after due to frequent illness thanks to the cancer, so it was lost."
Once a pension benefit is vested it can't be lost. If Merck was playing around with that they were violating the law. Sorry to hear about your loan trouble, I am in slightly better shape (far more loans, but good job) but even while I can pay them they are a huge (though I can't benefit from IBR for most of them, like recent graduates can).
"Maybe Little Johnny shouldn't borrow $100,000 if he doesn't have a reasonable plan for a career after graduation."
Maybe Little Johnny shouldn't be told by every single adult as he's growing up that it is critically important to go to college, even if he goes into debt for it?
Don't bother trying to explain that simple point. There is a large contingent on slashdot so mind-numbingly stupid they don't understand it and never will.
Celebrate Steve Jobs day by not giving any money to charity, treating your employees like garbage, disowning your children, and throwing a tantrum anytime anything happens that you don't like.
Have to add my disagreement here; science is all about the why. In ecology and biology textbooks you'll sometimes see equations like this ("this formula is based on empirical observation") but the authors are typically very careful about distinguishing it from the rest of what they present, and usually describe it in an embarassing tone ("we really wish we knew why this formula works, but for the present moment all we do know is it does").
"This is sheer folly. It is like insisting that the force of gravity should be an INDIVIDUAL opt in!"
Yes, but the metaphor only works if gravity is supplied by a private enterprise gravity service provider.
Agreed. The most confusing part was where suddenly people have been referring to Jobs as an "inventor" which is just absurd. And on a personal level everything I've heard about Jobs has indicated he was an unpleasant narcissist with no empathy for others, and no, I don't care if "that's how Apple became successful," I'm sick of our culture placing ability to make money above being a decent human being. This is a guy who Woz even admits could be dishonest, who canceled Apple's charity program (and no, creating Apple was not some great boon to mankind), whose own daughter had to live on welfare because Jobs refused to take responsibility for a good portion of her life, and who belittled and fired people for little or no reason.
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Slashdot libertarians compulsively speak up constantly about their little pet ideology, so you're probably wrong on that.
Possible explanations: (a) the distinction you make is not an important one. Just the casing is not standard Apple issue, and could arguably called customized. (b) the submitter might be a fanboi and didn't want Apple to sound as much like jerks as they actually were. Refusing to customize an iphone is one thing, refusing to provide even a blank casing is a new level of jackassry.
Curriculum is designed at the state level.
"In my (admittedly limited) experience, the teachers of technical subject in the lower schools are almost always incompetent. The explanation is well-known: If you're competent in math, why would you voluntarily spend your time in a low-paid job like grade-school teacher, when you could be making much better money elsewhere?" High skill in math is not needed to teach math to lower school students; what's more important is ability to teach.
If there was no federal student loan aid you would likely be out of a job, or be making about half what you make now.
"How can you possibly believe this giant federal bureaucracy doesn't needlessly squander money?"
Where did I say that?
If you're black, latino, asian, female, and/or poor, then yes, our education system is substantially better.
Clinton's reinventing government initiative trimmed and streamlined the federal government with measurable results: http://govinfo.library.unt.edu/npr/whoweare/historypart5.html
Only most of what he proposes to axe are explictly permitted the federal government by the Constitution.
Only if we get to watch it via live webcam so we can see all these "self-reliant" libertarian types trying to survive on their own. That would be unbearably hilarious.
Hahaha....suuuuure.
Seriously? They pay your salary by administering the Federal student aid program. And what state are you in exactly? Are you that sure your state pays out more money in education funds than it gets back?
Wow, usually when people find out that, as taxpayers, they're on the hook for billions in defaulted law school loans they get angry. Not you, though; I salute you! You actually do like the fact that the law students who spent 3 years partying and using your money for bottle service at fancy clubs that you can't afford were doing it on your dime!
Nope. If you got private loans before the whole system was federalized you are out of luck.
"Merck decided to fire him after due to frequent illness thanks to the cancer, so it was lost."
Once a pension benefit is vested it can't be lost. If Merck was playing around with that they were violating the law. Sorry to hear about your loan trouble, I am in slightly better shape (far more loans, but good job) but even while I can pay them they are a huge (though I can't benefit from IBR for most of them, like recent graduates can).
"Maybe Little Johnny shouldn't borrow $100,000 if he doesn't have a reasonable plan for a career after graduation."
Maybe Little Johnny shouldn't be told by every single adult as he's growing up that it is critically important to go to college, even if he goes into debt for it?
Nope. Griggs simply said those tests have to be related to the job, and can't just be a way to weed out people whose skin color you don't like.
In another words, you're not really a drummer, you're a waiter or office drudge who wants to be a drummer.
Don't bother trying to explain that simple point. There is a large contingent on slashdot so mind-numbingly stupid they don't understand it and never will.
"Climate change happens, with or without Man's impact, those who reject that climate change happens without blaming man are the true deniers."
Strawman.
"I typically listen to it while at work,"
If you're a drummer, how can you listen to it while at work?
Celebrate Steve Jobs day by not giving any money to charity, treating your employees like garbage, disowning your children, and throwing a tantrum anytime anything happens that you don't like.
Have to add my disagreement here; science is all about the why. In ecology and biology textbooks you'll sometimes see equations like this ("this formula is based on empirical observation") but the authors are typically very careful about distinguishing it from the rest of what they present, and usually describe it in an embarassing tone ("we really wish we knew why this formula works, but for the present moment all we do know is it does").
You're a 1L taking civ pro, right? Due process extends waaay beyond service of process. You'll deal with it more when you take criminal procedure.
"This is sheer folly. It is like insisting that the force of gravity should be an INDIVIDUAL opt in!" Yes, but the metaphor only works if gravity is supplied by a private enterprise gravity service provider.
Agreed. The most confusing part was where suddenly people have been referring to Jobs as an "inventor" which is just absurd. And on a personal level everything I've heard about Jobs has indicated he was an unpleasant narcissist with no empathy for others, and no, I don't care if "that's how Apple became successful," I'm sick of our culture placing ability to make money above being a decent human being. This is a guy who Woz even admits could be dishonest, who canceled Apple's charity program (and no, creating Apple was not some great boon to mankind), whose own daughter had to live on welfare because Jobs refused to take responsibility for a good portion of her life, and who belittled and fired people for little or no reason.