Why shouldn't it? We pour millions into movies and television shows that vilify science and portray anyone who can do more than addition in their heads as undesirable mates. This is going to be expensive to combat.
So, let's start a race between who's able to waste the most, I'm damn'd sure it will be very educational indeed! Not to mention that movies/TV will be so ashamed they'd lost the race, they'll close the shop and go into the retirement home.
Heck, combating wastage may be OK of a goal, the proposed means are totally stupid to my mind.
This is not just about gaining knowledge, but about inspiring younger generations of people to get into engineering or related fields.
What does space race and Hubble have to do with breaking the land speed record using a rocket? If anything, the best expression in regards with "younger generation getting into engineering" is not inspiring but tricking - you see, the vast majority of engineers rarely appreciate wastage: there are so many useful things that can be built and technical problems to be solved if only resources wouldn't be wasted somewhere else.
Personally, I very, very rarely have trouble sleeping. I usually find myself getting too tired for interactive entertainment about an hour before I want to sleep. I'd *love* to be able to continue playing video games up until lights out, but I just don't have the energy. Those who have lots of energy will keep playing/blogging/hacking.
Based on your/. ID, I reckon most of your inability to continue playing and low energy levels might be age related.
i thought the military proved a long time ago that people only need 4 hours sleep every 25 hours... And that we are addicted to sleep (for a lack of media?)
For military, that highly likely true... You see, while in the army you are not suppose to think, only to react (at orders or at on how the tactical situation evolves)... with rest, the reflex-arcs recover much sooner than your central nervous system.
Let's agree not to call this a "Republican" or "Democratic" position... Generally I choose respected scientists, but its still faith on my part because I haven't done the research myself.
If you don't know enough about something, common-sense would suggest not to make steps based on faith, but abstain to take the decision/action and delegate it to those who know better
But... that's exactly what politicians would see as a threat - delegating their power: less likely to see common sense prevailing; more probable to see the Congress decreeing the value of PI to 3.25 (the hell with those irrational numbers, we are rational beings!!) and repelling the law of gravity (look, do you want to see Mars colonized or not? 'Cause if you do, this pesky gravity is taxing everything on Earth too high, we need to lower it... now... where is your tea?).
Don't delude yourself, the drop has nothing to do with the quality or the price of education. Would they want the education industry booming, the feds should address the immigration policies, this was what made Australian colleges and TAFEs attractive for foreign students during Howard's govt.
You've got it all wrong. They're going with style (easy, sexy, and makes for good admissions brochures) over substance (tedious, frustrating, difficult to market).
Yeap. Being a college that prepares overseas students for undergraduate university entry (TFA) and given that the number of international students studying in Australia is dropping, the competition is heating up: anything to lure them students is welcomed, they are paying higher tuition fees anyway.
What for? Let me guess: overexerting and possible spine damages.
TFA
Trinity found through its trial that iPads were not a replacement for desktop or laptop computers — or even other educational technologies — but were an “enhancement”.
So, not a replacement for textbooks, desktop/laptop. Dam'!!! Will they at least let the students use it during an exam?
How long they'll get used into ominous use by police force? Not that the CCTV stories in UK reveal much usefulness for them, but... new toys, extra budgets, too tempting to refuse.
Well, nothing would happen. Nobody is out there to enforce the U.S. paying back those loans. World banking organizations might get pissed off, and some of China's allies might as well, but nobody is going to do anything about it. Hell, if the U.S. wanted to throw it's diplomatic relations to the wind (or if China and the U.S. goes to war), it'd be really easy for the U.S. to say, "we aren't paying those loans back. suck it."
You really think that foreign debts are like your mortgage? Downgrade the credit rating for US and nobody will offer money to US: good luck with the trade and budget deficit US is running, hope you can be self-sustaining in a short time otherwise you'll put the trucks on hold and transport whatever food you can by horse carriage.
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>But what useful knowledge would we gain from this experiment?
Advances in medical technology when the guy crashes
Huh! Better build a cannon for this, much cheaper way to blow the guy into a goo.
Why shouldn't it? We pour millions into movies and television shows that vilify science and portray anyone who can do more than addition in their heads as undesirable mates. This is going to be expensive to combat.
So, let's start a race between who's able to waste the most, I'm damn'd sure it will be very educational indeed! Not to mention that movies/TV will be so ashamed they'd lost the race, they'll close the shop and go into the retirement home.
Heck, combating wastage may be OK of a goal, the proposed means are totally stupid to my mind.
This is not just about gaining knowledge, but about inspiring younger generations of people to get into engineering or related fields.
What does space race and Hubble have to do with breaking the land speed record using a rocket?
If anything, the best expression in regards with "younger generation getting into engineering" is not inspiring but tricking - you see, the vast majority of engineers rarely appreciate wastage: there are so many useful things that can be built and technical problems to be solved if only resources wouldn't be wasted somewhere else.
Chinese virtues as in blocking and tracking what people post?
No, but rather on the line of "To win 100 victories in 100 battles is not the highest skill". Which translates to:
Sit in a chair and stare at the wall?
Have you tried reading "A la recherche du temps perdu", "War and peace" or "Crime and punishment"?
Personally, I very, very rarely have trouble sleeping. I usually find myself getting too tired for interactive entertainment about an hour before I want to sleep. I'd *love* to be able to continue playing video games up until lights out, but I just don't have the energy. Those who have lots of energy will keep playing/blogging/hacking.
Based on your /. ID, I reckon most of your inability to continue playing and low energy levels might be age related.
i thought the military proved a long time ago that people only need 4 hours sleep every 25 hours... And that we are addicted to sleep (for a lack of media?)
For military, that highly likely true... You see, while in the army you are not suppose to think, only to react (at orders or at on how the tactical situation evolves)... with rest, the reflex-arcs recover much sooner than your central nervous system.
Let's agree not to call this a "Republican" or "Democratic" position... Generally I choose respected scientists, but its still faith on my part because I haven't done the research myself.
If you don't know enough about something, common-sense would suggest not to make steps based on faith, but abstain to take the decision/action and delegate it to those who know better
But... that's exactly what politicians would see as a threat - delegating their power: less likely to see common sense prevailing; more probable to see the Congress decreeing the value of PI to 3.25 (the hell with those irrational numbers, we are rational beings!!) and repelling the law of gravity (look, do you want to see Mars colonized or not? 'Cause if you do, this pesky gravity is taxing everything on Earth too high, we need to lower it... now... where is your tea?).
Don't delude yourself, the drop has nothing to do with the quality or the price of education. Would they want the education industry booming, the feds should address the immigration policies, this was what made Australian colleges and TAFEs attractive for foreign students during Howard's govt.
all staff involved in Trinity’s Foundation Studies course, which prepares overseas students for undergraduate university entry
Are international students using more of those? 'Cause they sure pay more on their tuition.
You've got it all wrong. They're going with style (easy, sexy, and makes for good admissions brochures) over substance (tedious, frustrating, difficult to market).
Yeap. Being a college that prepares overseas students for undergraduate university entry (TFA) and given that the number of international students studying in Australia is dropping, the competition is heating up: anything to lure them students is welcomed, they are paying higher tuition fees anyway.
I'd be suing, if I attended there.
What for? Let me guess: overexerting and possible spine damages. TFA
Trinity found through its trial that iPads were not a replacement for desktop or laptop computers — or even other educational technologies — but were an “enhancement”.
So, not a replacement for textbooks, desktop/laptop. Dam'!!! Will they at least let the students use it during an exam?
So unless they've found a way to break the light barrier, this is a load of bull.
With enough bullying, why not? After all, it's smart-queuing.
Skin cancer everyone?
FTFY
And why aren't these people in jail?
But... they are in jail.... one that is called USofA.
I think they are explicitly going to be used for surveillance at home and not abroad.
In dire need indeed
How long they'll get used into ominous use by police force? Not that the CCTV stories in UK reveal much usefulness for them, but... new toys, extra budgets, too tempting to refuse.
Well, nothing would happen. Nobody is out there to enforce the U.S. paying back those loans. World banking organizations might get pissed off, and some of China's allies might as well, but nobody is going to do anything about it. Hell, if the U.S. wanted to throw it's diplomatic relations to the wind (or if China and the U.S. goes to war), it'd be really easy for the U.S. to say, "we aren't paying those loans back. suck it."
You really think that foreign debts are like your mortgage? Downgrade the credit rating for US and nobody will offer money to US: good luck with the trade and budget deficit US is running, hope you can be self-sustaining in a short time otherwise you'll put the trucks on hold and transport whatever food you can by horse carriage.
Yeah! Us Aussies need to try harder! Download! Download! Download!
And use US proxies.
I miss when a 266 MHz CPU and 64 MB of RAM was enough to do serious work under Linux.
I miss RHL 6.2. That was as stable and clean an OS as I've used.
I miss using 486/20 MB RAM to develop a PHP/FI 2.0 site against Postgres and verify it using Netscape 2.0.
Hmmm... I'll try to use US based proxies next time, instead of Canadian ones.
Just give me a reason to solidify my decision..
Antarctica will welcome you and help you solidify your decision quite swiftly (as long as you keep your decision on your - frozen - self).
And most important...where the fuck is it in the constitution for the Federal Govt. to issues national id??
Devil's advocate: where in the constitution is something to forbid Feds imposing a national ID?
Why is this modded "informative"? It should have been modded funny.
For the fun of it.
Mortal Kombat without the (often hilariously) excessive violence is more or less like going to a strip club to look at shoes.
Watching a "sanitized" version of Tarantino's Kill Bill? How come the movie wasn't refused classification in Aus?