In the above, if by "education" you meant: "the education process", you are right.
If you meant "the results of the education process", then my point applies. In this context, I'll be repeating myself: if you fail one of the necessary components, all the others are wastage (even you reduce their cost to zero, it's still wasted time).
That's not teaching, at the best that's "lecturing".
While lecturing is necessary, it is by no way sufficient in most of the cases.
By reducing the per-student cost and increasing the convenience of the -- as you note, necessary -- lecture component of the teaching, you are increasing the resources available, all other things being equal, for all other necessary components. Thereby, improving education overall. Lecturing doesn't have to be sufficient on its own for increasing the efficiency of delivering the lecture component to be sufficient to enable overall improvements.
Lower cost... probably. Better education? There are other necessary components for teaching/education: unless you cover them what you reduced in lecturing costs is not getting you any closer to the desired result. So, no, only by addressing a single component of the education, an overall improvement may be illusory.
My point: fail any of the necessary aspects of the education and you are going to be wasteful not matter how brilliant you cover the others. Car analogy: it doesn't matter if the potential mileage of your engine is extraordinary if the car doesn't have a driving wheel.
Yes, I noted your "all other things being equal" assumption and I'm willing to add the implied meaning of "all the other things are properly provided". My point does not contradict yours: it just complement it by highlighting the consequences of operating outside the assumption.
Chalkboards? In my day, we chiseled our notes onto a granite slate.
I see... Iron Age.
In my time, we used wet clay slates. One needed to pay double attention to the homework, once baked in the kiln you simply couldn't erase it. Also, the major expense for post-graduate studies was not the tuition fees but the amount of firewood one could buy. A reasonable PhD would use between 30 and 40 tonnes of wood.
I mean, I hate those drunk alcoholic loud-mouthed mental patients but that usually doesn't translate into business price points.
I hate MS, Apple and Adobe too. Unfortunately, I'm not related to them to the degree that would allow me to sign their papers for a forced admission in a mental hospital or rehabilitation clinic.
We already owe the Chinese 1.2 Trillion. Might as well throw 'em a bone.
I don't think China would accept a bone in return.
Following the line of your suggestion, I guess the question should be: "Should Solar New Year be banished as a Fed holiday?" on the ground that working on those days would pay the debts faster.
Doesn't this have a more MBA-ish translation in "planned obsolescence"? There you go, this fragility may be necessary for somebody, even if not... err, umm... necessarily for you (or me for the matter)
But still I imagine most people don't really care where their solar panels come from, and if they get paid for the surplus energy they provide, they'll probably care even less.
I imagine when you live in a quite packed neighborhood (like most Germans do), your roof area is going to be small and you will prefer highly efficient PV-es. Especially when you get as much sunlight as Alaska.
Have you tried restoring it to it's default settings?
I'm afraid such an operation will require a reboot: the default settings don't make sense anymore in the context of such an advanced state of internal corruption and aberrant operational mode.
had a complex brain with a large lobe for interpreting smells and a corpus callosum, the bundle of... etc
Somehow my brain kept interpreting this akin to the concerto for smells and a corpus callosum, interpreted by the brain rather than a large lobe, to interpret the smells, and a corpus callosum; the later is the bundle of... I reckon its something to do with commas and the mixed nature of details: purpose (for smell) with details of structure (the bundle etc).
So your argument is, they act guilty therefore they're guilty?
No, that's not what I argued.
There's no evidence here and any presumption of guilt is wrong.
You are correct in what you say... too pity is irrelevant. And it's irrelevant because at no point I implied anything about guilt.
To make clear the terminology: what I saw and pointed out in TFA is evidence of corruption (enough to make allegations of corruption) but not proof of corruption (which is, indeed, required to establish the guilt)... I trust you will be able to perceive the difference.
To put the things better, I was answering to a claim that TFA doesn't contain any reference to corruption.
Well, I RTFA and I didn't see any corruption specified.
I hope that my previous post do provide a proof on the contrary (i.e. the article contains at least allegations of corruption). Other than this, there are no other things which I wanted said in or understood from my post. Are we clear now?
So, as long as there is an asshole victim, it is OK for a male to post sex tapes of an 18-year-old girl. That's what's so remarkable - remove this one factor and the frame instantly changes to 'creepy perv should be shot'.
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I surmise the 18-year-old girl's performance was work for hire. As such, the only parties that can claim damages would be the business executives which paid for the said performance and became the owners of the copyright on the art work posted on youtube by Zhu.</large-grin>
(18-year-old girl indeed... were did you get this one and the idea of rape? You really think those business executives arranged for 11 people - the one that resigned or were sacked - to rape a girl for the purpose of blackmailing them afterwards? Wouldn't it be simpler and safer to hire a hooker on a handful of coins for the purpose? Maybe it's time for your periodic touch with the real-world outside? You know, you shouldn't let the computers uninterruptedly eat from your mind for long stretches of time)
The plot is thicker than the simplistic way you perceived it; the real "heroes" were the business executives attempting a blackmail on bureaucrats (that would be, in a Chinese setup, the hand of free market attempting to cut back on the burden of a leeching government).
The compromising images of Lei Zhengfu, the Chongqing official caught having sex with the 18-year-old, have been an anti-graft jackpot for Mr. Zhu: 11 officials have resigned or been fired for their role in what was a honey trap organized by business executives seeking to blackmail powerful bureaucrats to win government contracts. The scheme ultimately failed, but the tapes ended up in the hands of the Chongqing police. After investigators failed to act, Mr. Zhu says, a disgruntled person inside the department sent the evidence his way.
The compromising images of Lei Zhengfu, the Chongqing official caught having sex with the 18-year-old, have been an anti-graft jackpot for Mr. Zhu: 11 officials have resigned or been fired for their role in what was a honey trap organized by business executives seeking to blackmail powerful bureaucrats to win government contracts. The scheme ultimately failed, but the tapes ended up in the hands of the Chongqing police. After investigators failed to act, Mr. Zhu says, a disgruntled person inside the department sent the evidence his way.
Either you are pretending that you RTFA or you you have a deficit in the reading comprehension area
The compromising images of Lei Zhengfu, the Chongqing official caught having sex with the 18-year-old, have been an anti-graft jackpot for Mr. Zhu: 11 officials have resigned or been fired for their role in what was a honey trap organized by business executives seeking to blackmail powerful bureaucrats to win government contracts. The scheme ultimately failed, but the tapes ended up in the hands of the Chongqing police. After investigators failed to act, Mr. Zhu says, a disgruntled person inside the department sent the evidence his way.
So, let's count:
1. successful bribery - (otherwise why 11 resignations/sacking after the tapes containing the sex scene ended at the Chongqing police?)
2. blackmail attempt (even if the blackmail scheme failed)
3. police failing to act
To my count, that's at least 3 cases I'd classify as corruption
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the aussies might fight back by not selling us Crocodile Dundee sequel movies or WTF they sell us.
Try beef. I hear 2012 saw some impact in beef livestock in US to the point of US seeing an estimated 11% growth in beef imports.
These days, I have no clue where Microsoft is going
Oh, that's easy to figure out. Just look at what Apple did in the last year and expect Microsoft to go there in two years.
Ummm... shed 40% of the stock price in the last 5 months? I think it will happen to MS sooner than 2 years.
Warning: may have backdoors planted by People's Liberation Army.
Thereby, improving education overall.
In the above, if by "education" you meant: "the education process", you are right.
If you meant "the results of the education process", then my point applies. In this context, I'll be repeating myself: if you fail one of the necessary components, all the others are wastage (even you reduce their cost to zero, it's still wasted time).
(I hope the terminology is clearer now).
By reducing the per-student cost and increasing the convenience of the -- as you note, necessary -- lecture component of the teaching, you are increasing the resources available, all other things being equal, for all other necessary components. Thereby, improving education overall. Lecturing doesn't have to be sufficient on its own for increasing the efficiency of delivering the lecture component to be sufficient to enable overall improvements.
Lower cost... probably. Better education? There are other necessary components for teaching/education: unless you cover them what you reduced in lecturing costs is not getting you any closer to the desired result. So, no, only by addressing a single component of the education, an overall improvement may be illusory.
My point: fail any of the necessary aspects of the education and you are going to be wasteful not matter how brilliant you cover the others.
Car analogy: it doesn't matter if the potential mileage of your engine is extraordinary if the car doesn't have a driving wheel.
Yes, I noted your "all other things being equal" assumption and I'm willing to add the implied meaning of "all the other things are properly provided". My point does not contradict yours: it just complement it by highlighting the consequences of operating outside the assumption.
Chalkboards? In my day, we chiseled our notes onto a granite slate.
I see... Iron Age.
In my time, we used wet clay slates. One needed to pay double attention to the homework, once baked in the kiln you simply couldn't erase it.
Also, the major expense for post-graduate studies was not the tuition fees but the amount of firewood one could buy. A reasonable PhD would use between 30 and 40 tonnes of wood.
Why? What do "today's tech/IT settings" bring to the table that is of actual benefit to the learning environment?
Lower costs and better instruction. By using technology, a professor can teach to 300,000 instead of thirty.
That's not teaching, at the best that's "lecturing".
While lecturing is necessary, it is by no way sufficient in most of the cases.
If universities are so suited to the task of educating people, why do they routinely fail to do so?
Because you/we've let them to. Because too many went to university to get skills for a job rather than to get an education.
Cute. So how old am I, with my ZERO DIGIT UID huh?
Eternally immortal, AC, thus since the beginning of time.
I mean, I hate those drunk alcoholic loud-mouthed mental patients but that usually doesn't translate into business price points.
I hate MS, Apple and Adobe too. Unfortunately, I'm not related to them to the degree that would allow me to sign their papers for a forced admission in a mental hospital or rehabilitation clinic.
We already owe the Chinese 1.2 Trillion. Might as well throw 'em a bone.
I don't think China would accept a bone in return.
Following the line of your suggestion, I guess the question should be: "Should Solar New Year be banished as a Fed holiday?" on the ground that working on those days would pay the debts faster.
(should have tried with cyanide gas first)
Nexus 4 is a LG and unnecessarily fragile.
Doesn't this have a more MBA-ish translation in "planned obsolescence"? There you go, this fragility may be necessary for somebody, even if not... err, umm... necessarily for you (or me for the matter)
groove IP is great (unsure if apple has that)
Apple does have an IP on rounded corners, but not (yet?) on grooves.
(ducks)
Dammit, I'm going to have to re-calibrate my tard-o-meter.
You can't, the sensitivity isn't low enough. Switch to a turd-o-meter.
But still I imagine most people don't really care where their solar panels come from, and if they get paid for the surplus energy they provide, they'll probably care even less.
I imagine when you live in a quite packed neighborhood (like most Germans do), your roof area is going to be small and you will prefer highly efficient PV-es. Especially when you get as much sunlight as Alaska.
And stop creating government regulations that give them lots of loopholes to exploit.
Yeap. Better totally deregulate the industry... you see?... no loopholes to exploit
(ducks)
Have you tried restoring it to it's default settings?
I'm afraid such an operation will require a reboot: the default settings don't make sense anymore in the context of such an advanced state of internal corruption and aberrant operational mode.
had a complex brain with a large lobe for interpreting smells and a corpus callosum, the bundle of ... etc
Somehow my brain kept interpreting this akin to the concerto for smells and a corpus callosum, interpreted by the brain rather than a large lobe, to interpret the smells, and a corpus callosum; the later is the bundle of... I reckon its something to do with commas and the mixed nature of details: purpose (for smell) with details of structure (the bundle etc).
So your argument is, they act guilty therefore they're guilty?
No, that's not what I argued.
There's no evidence here and any presumption of guilt is wrong.
You are correct in what you say... too pity is irrelevant. And it's irrelevant because at no point I implied anything about guilt.
To make clear the terminology: what I saw and pointed out in TFA is evidence of corruption (enough to make allegations of corruption) but not proof of corruption (which is, indeed, required to establish the guilt)... I trust you will be able to perceive the difference.
To put the things better, I was answering to a claim that TFA doesn't contain any reference to corruption.
Well, I RTFA and I didn't see any corruption specified.
I hope that my previous post do provide a proof on the contrary (i.e. the article contains at least allegations of corruption). Other than this, there are no other things which I wanted said in or understood from my post. Are we clear now?
Poe's law - on /. nobody see your smile (or grin).
So, as long as there is an asshole victim, it is OK for a male to post sex tapes of an 18-year-old girl. That's what's so remarkable - remove this one factor and the frame instantly changes to 'creepy perv should be shot'.
<large-grin> I surmise the 18-year-old girl's performance was work for hire. As such, the only parties that can claim damages would be the business executives which paid for the said performance and became the owners of the copyright on the art work posted on youtube by Zhu.</large-grin>
(18-year-old girl indeed... were did you get this one and the idea of rape? You really think those business executives arranged for 11 people - the one that resigned or were sacked - to rape a girl for the purpose of blackmailing them afterwards? Wouldn't it be simpler and safer to hire a hooker on a handful of coins for the purpose?
Maybe it's time for your periodic touch with the real-world outside? You know, you shouldn't let the computers uninterruptedly eat from your mind for long stretches of time)
The compromising images of Lei Zhengfu, the Chongqing official caught having sex with the 18-year-old, have been an anti-graft jackpot for Mr. Zhu: 11 officials have resigned or been fired for their role in what was a honey trap organized by business executives seeking to blackmail powerful bureaucrats to win government contracts. The scheme ultimately failed, but the tapes ended up in the hands of the Chongqing police. After investigators failed to act, Mr. Zhu says, a disgruntled person inside the department sent the evidence his way.
The compromising images of Lei Zhengfu, the Chongqing official caught having sex with the 18-year-old, have been an anti-graft jackpot for Mr. Zhu: 11 officials have resigned or been fired for their role in what was a honey trap organized by business executives seeking to blackmail powerful bureaucrats to win government contracts. The scheme ultimately failed, but the tapes ended up in the hands of the Chongqing police. After investigators failed to act, Mr. Zhu says, a disgruntled person inside the department sent the evidence his way.
The compromising images of Lei Zhengfu, the Chongqing official caught having sex with the 18-year-old, have been an anti-graft jackpot for Mr. Zhu: 11 officials have resigned or been fired for their role in what was a honey trap organized by business executives seeking to blackmail powerful bureaucrats to win government contracts. The scheme ultimately failed, but the tapes ended up in the hands of the Chongqing police. After investigators failed to act, Mr. Zhu says, a disgruntled person inside the department sent the evidence his way.
So, let's count:
1. successful bribery - (otherwise why 11 resignations/sacking after the tapes containing the sex scene ended at the Chongqing police?)
2. blackmail attempt (even if the blackmail scheme failed)
3. police failing to act
To my count, that's at least 3 cases I'd classify as corruption