So feeling bad is now a medical issue? Then why are all drugs that make you feel really good, illegal?
The fact that this summary makes it seem ridiculous, the issue isn't "feeling bad." It's feeling "excessively bad to the detriment of your life and well being." Contrary to popular belief, just because you're really sad doesn't make you depressed, and just because you think you deserved that raise instead of that twerp down the hall doesn't mean you have this new one either.
As for the "feel good drugs" being illegal, most of it's politics, coupled with some actually having pretty fucking nasty side-effects if use isn't monitored by a medical professional, hence so many pharmacologicals being illegal to distribute without being a pharmacist.
Seriously. Marvel Universe doesn't have a revolving door. It's more like a vertical wall of slippery ice where if your grip slips, you'll fall back to life. It's just not possible to stay dead there. And that's not even counting the periodic universal destruction specials.
I know people have a disturbing tendency to refuse to stay buried (there's a hilarious cartoon on Newgrounds called X-Men: Death Becomes Them. Look it up). I was saying more that if they were going to bring him back, outside a continuity reset, they'd probably have started laying the groundwork. Granted, the quality of writing lately, it could come down to *battle where friend of Cap's is about to die* *Cap interceeds from nowhere* "I thought you were dead!" "I got better."
No, the only real question is: when they bring him back, what modifications will they include in a failed effort to make the character more "hip"?
Well, you're right about one thing. What followed your first sentence WAS utter crap.
Most socialist countries do have probably about 95% of the rights you have. The biggest differences are usually weapons-related. Freedom of the press/speech? Check. Freedom of association? check Freedom of movement? Check. Elected governments? Yeppers. Owning property? Sure! Innocent until proven guilty, state-provided lawyers, and trials? Yeah, that too.
Can you honestly name a freedom-as-right that's withheld in an honestly socialist nation? Not totalitarian regimes, such as China, Cuba, etc. which could be considered socialist in practice, but places like Sweden? Increased taxes doesn't count. I don't remember a "right to profit" anywhere.
People need to be able to fail as well as succeed. Safety-nets hinder progress.
Agreed, but why should failure result in ruining that person? I make a buisiness, pour all my money in to it. It's a great buisiness model. Nothing can go wrong. Except for one thing that I couldn't possibly have foreseen: I get in a car accident that breaks both my legs and fractures my skull, putting me in the hospital for months. Since I'm not able to do anything with my buisiness, it flounders and fails, either because someone moves in on my territory, or I simply didn't have other employees, or any of a myriad of reasons. On top of losing all my money in my buisness, through no fault of my own, I'm racking up astronomical medical bills. If I'm a couple hundred thousand in debt, with no resources anymore, do you realistically think that's something a person can ever reasonably recover from? I had a good idea once, but due to crushing debt, if I have another, it'll never happen. Thus a lack of a safety net hinders progress. I think you need to start considering the full implications of something before you speak.
>... is that the word no longer means communism. Now it means oppressive government,
No, it ALWAYS meant 'planned economy' and that implies a planner. To make that work requires force, and the only entity which can use force is the State.
See, you're imposing your beliefs on to the argument. It may have always meant "planned economy," but that doesn't imply a single planner, nor would it take force to ensure compliance. The system could work by everyone putting in requests for what they need, and a list of what they have that they don't need, compare the lists, swap what you can, put in storage what's not needed, and make what you don't have. It'd be more difficult in larger communities, but then you just have it broken down to those smaller communities, which then communicate with each other, and have some focus on producing goods which are more suited to their region. Places with large metal deposits would have mines and factories for easily transported goods, places with farmland would be food producers, etc. No one's tied to a particular community, and can move to where ever to persue what jobs they want.
The barrier to this kind of system is the "hoarding" mentality most people have. I don't know if it's an evolutionary imperitive, socially ingrained, or what, but most people think more stuff = I'm better than you.
But still, barrier or not, it's a system with no centralized planner, and very much communist, as production is based on what can be made, and people are given things according to what they need.
I dunno. Seems fairly permanent this time. The only thing I could see them doing is pulling a DC "continuity reset." Granted, I think everything since the "House of M" has been pretty shite for Marvel, so I'd welcome an Infinite Crisis of their own.
While I appriciate the reference, I must point out that in point of fact, Apple would completely go against the spirit of Rapture, and thus Andrew Ryan wouldn't stand for it.
Rapture was all about unbound advancements and collaberation. Apple's insular policies would have them kneecapped before they even started.
While this certainly may be true, I and several others I have met spent time "homeschooling" because there weren't any private schools worth beans in the area and the public schools were an order of magnitude worse.
I recognize that home schooling can be of value, and didn't discount that, as I used "vast majority," and with the way school systems in North America in general are swinging, there's an increase in legitimate uses of homeschooling. However, that doesn't change the fact that the historical majority, as well as a very large number of current cases of homeschooling are to inculcate students to the parents' beliefs, so accusations of public schools indoctrinating students are laughable at best, dangerously misleading at worst. After all, if a student learns something at school, and then goes home, and a parent tells them different, the child's been given two separate viewpoints to consider. With homeschooling, those who homeschool for similar reasons tend to congregate, thus all espousing the same views, which presents a homogenous viewpoint for the child, and doesn't give the opportunity for objective analysis, since "everyone" believes it.
As for the claim that the majority of homeschoolers are racists--where did this come from?
Not to be rude, but, apparently, it came from your ass. I never said homeschoolers were racist. I pointed out two ideologies that a parent might wish to pass on to a child which would be contra-induced by public schooling. Evolution - generally a *religous* point of contention, and racism, an *asshole* point of contention. And I then went on to say it's "whackjobs period" who use homeschooling in that fashion. Any fringe view can be passed on to a child if the parent's the only one presenting information, thus making homeschooling the refuge of people with extreme viewpoints which don't stand up to logical scrutiny. To make an analogy, however, to soothe any ruffled feathers, I will say that "just because pirates use the internet doesn't mean all the people who use the internet are pirates."
AKA: Just because whackjobs homeschool doesn't make everyone who homeschools a whackjob.
You'll notice a careful absence of absolutes in my two posts? Simply "majorities." My proof for majorities? Take a good look in homeschooling bookshops. Many absolutely cater to specific points of view.
Oh, and learning _is_ a chore, so shut the fuck up.
Wow. I'm sure you're a great teacher with that attitude. If you define chore as "A task, especially a difficult, unpleasant, or routine one," no wonder kids have difficulty learning. Learning should never be routine, difficult, or unpleasant. You may need to occassionally learn about things you prefer not to, but a good teacher can at least make it not routine, and hopefully ease the students in to it. The best way is the classic "streaming" classes. For those who learn a subject quickly, put them in to one class, so it'll be less routine and unpleasant. For those who need more assistance to grasp certain topics, another class, so that it's not too difficult or unpleasant. The worst thing for students is either to be the smartest kid in the class by a wide margin, or to be the slowest, by a decent gap. You're either bored spitless, or you have no idea what's going on, and can't get an idea because it's moving so much faster than your abilities.
The issue doesn't seem to be educating those with ADHD, it seems to be that most people honestly believe, rightly or wrongly, ADD/ADHD simply isn't the actual problem for a number of those who are diagnosed with it. Being able to teach to those with it doesn't help if someone doesn't actually have it.
Now, if this thing can prove whether people actually DO have ADHD, then we should all be fucking ecstatic, since it'll finally put this branch of the argument to rest, and then we can move on to your branch, of how to teach those who actually have it.
I think the biggest problem is thanks to teacher's unions, schools can't kick out the bad teachers, teaching isn't a competitive profession. You get a school you work at, you get the children "zoned" for your school.. I bet if schools had to compete for their money, they'd be a whole lot better.
wow. What school districts have you been in? Around here, new teachers are given a yearly contract, and let go if they're not performing well, and even teachers long in the service are only on slightly extended contracts (usually about 5 years). It's a simple matter of just waiting out the contract, and then trying to find a replacement.
I sense that you are mixing home schooling as a punishement with home schooling as a choice. Why would the results of home schooling be depressing in many cases? The only way I could see that being true is if the parents don't care, but if that's the case then it wouldn't matter what environment the child was in. It would be better for those in the educational system if those individuls weren't there.
That's basically exactly what I read it as GP said. If the parents don't care enough to help the kid do well in school, they're not going to help them do well in home schooling.
On the other hand kids who are home schooled by parental choice can become much better prepared to function in the real world. Indoctrination is more indicative of what is happening in the public school system than in those who are home schooled.
Um... I hate to burst your bubble, but the vast majority of home schooled students are taught so because their parents don't want them picking up "incorrect ideas" such as "evolution," "all races are equal," and more. It's not just religious whackjobs, it's whackjobs period who do the majority of homeschooling, nowadays. The best way to indoctrinate your kid is to make sure you're the one feeding them all the information.
Hey! Chain mail has tons of practical uses nowadays! It's more flexible while providing greater protection than something like a safety apron in a work shop.
As the other pointed out, that's existed for ages, but what's more, there's ones like that which you can just hook the camera directly to, and print from it without a computer.
I prefer the idea you were alluding to with this bit:
Have a Digital Camera, that takes AND STORES pictures, just like they do today, but have an OPTION to spit out an Instant Picture as well?
Basically, combine a digital and polaroid camera. Take the picture, have it show up on a screen, and ask if you want to (s)ave, (p)rint, (d)elete? And you can save it, then go back to it on the screen, and print multiple copies right then and there. I can't imagine that this wouldn't have a market. People would love to be able to crank out 3 or 4 copies of a photo right then and there, and then go home and throw it up on facebook, all on their own.
If they had some sort of license server type model where you could check out the book electronically and then "return it" when your done that would be awesome. Mah, I should run for office, virtual libraries here I come:)
It could be basically a "netflix for books" type service. You get your eReader of whatever kind, and it has however much memory, maybe for 2 or 3 books. Depending on your subscription level, you might get multiple books at a time (hey, I used to have 3 books on the go at a time). Then, when you want a new book, you pick a memory slot, and it's downloaded to there, overwriting the book that was previously in there. If it was done with the wireless-only, it'd even be half-way secure, since most people wouldn't be arsed to crack it to pull the eBooks off. It could either be done on the library model, where you get the books for free, and it's supported through whatever the equivilent of the fees would be, plus money from a source equivilent to the government, it could be on the netflix subscription model I went in to, or it could be on an advertising model, where while the machine boots or loads data, or whichever, it's got a splashscreen ad up. But I will personally brutally, bloodily murder the first person to insert inline eBook ads on this device.
Except if someone's watching you closely enough, they can tell the basic pattern your fingers move in, which severely limits the possible combinations. Seriously. Look at the back of your hand, and wiggle some fingers. There's movement there, on the back of your hand, so if they can tell what order you're using your fingers in, each spot in your PIN is reduced to 3 or 4 options, since most people use 1 finger for each row, if they're doing the "cover up with your hand" method. With a bit more effort, you can sometimes tell if someone's finger is going up or down the pad.
Except this system doesn't actually do that. If you read the patent application, they're simply checking for invalid characters being entered before you click submit.
And I'm pretty sure I've had games check if the key I entered was valid as soon as I finished entering it, not needing to submit it, so this has already been done, by other people, in the wild. Seems like it should fail on that merit alone.
I know this, and you know this. Which is why minor league hockey's slowly gaining in popularity. But that doesn't change that on a professional level, NHL's more wussy than lacrosse.
Yeah, that's what I'd like to know. I'm in a provincial capital city, and people get booked for assault and other minor crimes on a regular basis. Sounds more like his city just has fucking shitty police. Happens in a lot of metropolitan police departments. Small places with RCMP detachments usually fare better, since the Mounties are cycled occassionally, and so you don't get the complacency. Also, people tend to respect the RCMP a bit more than local cops. Not sure why...
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So feeling bad is now a medical issue? Then why are all drugs that make you feel really good, illegal?
The fact that this summary makes it seem ridiculous, the issue isn't "feeling bad." It's feeling "excessively bad to the detriment of your life and well being." Contrary to popular belief, just because you're really sad doesn't make you depressed, and just because you think you deserved that raise instead of that twerp down the hall doesn't mean you have this new one either.
As for the "feel good drugs" being illegal, most of it's politics, coupled with some actually having pretty fucking nasty side-effects if use isn't monitored by a medical professional, hence so many pharmacologicals being illegal to distribute without being a pharmacist.
Seriously. Marvel Universe doesn't have a revolving door. It's more like a vertical wall of slippery ice where if your grip slips, you'll fall back to life. It's just not possible to stay dead there. And that's not even counting the periodic universal destruction specials.
I know people have a disturbing tendency to refuse to stay buried (there's a hilarious cartoon on Newgrounds called X-Men: Death Becomes Them. Look it up). I was saying more that if they were going to bring him back, outside a continuity reset, they'd probably have started laying the groundwork. Granted, the quality of writing lately, it could come down to *battle where friend of Cap's is about to die* *Cap interceeds from nowhere* "I thought you were dead!" "I got better."
No, the only real question is: when they bring him back, what modifications will they include in a failed effort to make the character more "hip"?
Oh. My. God. *screams in horror*
Well, you're right about one thing. What followed your first sentence WAS utter crap.
Most socialist countries do have probably about 95% of the rights you have. The biggest differences are usually weapons-related.
Freedom of the press/speech? Check.
Freedom of association? check
Freedom of movement? Check.
Elected governments? Yeppers.
Owning property? Sure!
Innocent until proven guilty, state-provided lawyers, and trials? Yeah, that too.
Can you honestly name a freedom-as-right that's withheld in an honestly socialist nation? Not totalitarian regimes, such as China, Cuba, etc. which could be considered socialist in practice, but places like Sweden? Increased taxes doesn't count. I don't remember a "right to profit" anywhere.
People need to be able to fail as well as succeed. Safety-nets hinder progress.
Agreed, but why should failure result in ruining that person? I make a buisiness, pour all my money in to it. It's a great buisiness model. Nothing can go wrong. Except for one thing that I couldn't possibly have foreseen: I get in a car accident that breaks both my legs and fractures my skull, putting me in the hospital for months. Since I'm not able to do anything with my buisiness, it flounders and fails, either because someone moves in on my territory, or I simply didn't have other employees, or any of a myriad of reasons. On top of losing all my money in my buisness, through no fault of my own, I'm racking up astronomical medical bills. If I'm a couple hundred thousand in debt, with no resources anymore, do you realistically think that's something a person can ever reasonably recover from? I had a good idea once, but due to crushing debt, if I have another, it'll never happen. Thus a lack of a safety net hinders progress. I think you need to start considering the full implications of something before you speak.
But then you posted AC, so I'm sure you did.
> ... is that the word no longer means communism. Now it means oppressive government,
No, it ALWAYS meant 'planned economy' and that implies a planner. To make that work requires force, and the only entity which can use force is the State.
See, you're imposing your beliefs on to the argument. It may have always meant "planned economy," but that doesn't imply a single planner, nor would it take force to ensure compliance. The system could work by everyone putting in requests for what they need, and a list of what they have that they don't need, compare the lists, swap what you can, put in storage what's not needed, and make what you don't have. It'd be more difficult in larger communities, but then you just have it broken down to those smaller communities, which then communicate with each other, and have some focus on producing goods which are more suited to their region. Places with large metal deposits would have mines and factories for easily transported goods, places with farmland would be food producers, etc. No one's tied to a particular community, and can move to where ever to persue what jobs they want.
The barrier to this kind of system is the "hoarding" mentality most people have. I don't know if it's an evolutionary imperitive, socially ingrained, or what, but most people think more stuff = I'm better than you.
But still, barrier or not, it's a system with no centralized planner, and very much communist, as production is based on what can be made, and people are given things according to what they need.
I think not.
Then how do we know you exist?
I dunno. Seems fairly permanent this time. The only thing I could see them doing is pulling a DC "continuity reset." Granted, I think everything since the "House of M" has been pretty shite for Marvel, so I'd welcome an Infinite Crisis of their own.
Now get off your lawn?
because they absolutely stop slowing anything down after that time.
Pretty much, yep. The indexing/superfetch is pretty good about only running while your system's idle, once it's finished the initial build.
No, it's Windows 6.5. If you had 4 working brain cells, you'd know the worthwhile features aren't available in Vista, except as crippled versions.
While I appriciate the reference, I must point out that in point of fact, Apple would completely go against the spirit of Rapture, and thus Andrew Ryan wouldn't stand for it.
Rapture was all about unbound advancements and collaberation. Apple's insular policies would have them kneecapped before they even started.
While this certainly may be true, I and several others I have met spent time "homeschooling" because there weren't any private schools worth beans in the area and the public schools were an order of magnitude worse.
I recognize that home schooling can be of value, and didn't discount that, as I used "vast majority," and with the way school systems in North America in general are swinging, there's an increase in legitimate uses of homeschooling. However, that doesn't change the fact that the historical majority, as well as a very large number of current cases of homeschooling are to inculcate students to the parents' beliefs, so accusations of public schools indoctrinating students are laughable at best, dangerously misleading at worst. After all, if a student learns something at school, and then goes home, and a parent tells them different, the child's been given two separate viewpoints to consider. With homeschooling, those who homeschool for similar reasons tend to congregate, thus all espousing the same views, which presents a homogenous viewpoint for the child, and doesn't give the opportunity for objective analysis, since "everyone" believes it.
As for the claim that the majority of homeschoolers are racists--where did this come from?
Not to be rude, but, apparently, it came from your ass. I never said homeschoolers were racist. I pointed out two ideologies that a parent might wish to pass on to a child which would be contra-induced by public schooling. Evolution - generally a *religous* point of contention, and racism, an *asshole* point of contention. And I then went on to say it's "whackjobs period" who use homeschooling in that fashion. Any fringe view can be passed on to a child if the parent's the only one presenting information, thus making homeschooling the refuge of people with extreme viewpoints which don't stand up to logical scrutiny. To make an analogy, however, to soothe any ruffled feathers, I will say that "just because pirates use the internet doesn't mean all the people who use the internet are pirates."
AKA: Just because whackjobs homeschool doesn't make everyone who homeschools a whackjob.
You'll notice a careful absence of absolutes in my two posts? Simply "majorities." My proof for majorities? Take a good look in homeschooling bookshops. Many absolutely cater to specific points of view.
As, according to Amazon, that hasn't been released yet, I'd say I'd had a decent idea, with little way to know the product had been brought to market.
Which leads me to ask why someone modded me redundant.
Oh, and learning _is_ a chore, so shut the fuck up.
Wow. I'm sure you're a great teacher with that attitude. If you define chore as "A task, especially a difficult, unpleasant, or routine one," no wonder kids have difficulty learning. Learning should never be routine, difficult, or unpleasant. You may need to occassionally learn about things you prefer not to, but a good teacher can at least make it not routine, and hopefully ease the students in to it. The best way is the classic "streaming" classes. For those who learn a subject quickly, put them in to one class, so it'll be less routine and unpleasant. For those who need more assistance to grasp certain topics, another class, so that it's not too difficult or unpleasant. The worst thing for students is either to be the smartest kid in the class by a wide margin, or to be the slowest, by a decent gap. You're either bored spitless, or you have no idea what's going on, and can't get an idea because it's moving so much faster than your abilities.
The issue doesn't seem to be educating those with ADHD, it seems to be that most people honestly believe, rightly or wrongly, ADD/ADHD simply isn't the actual problem for a number of those who are diagnosed with it. Being able to teach to those with it doesn't help if someone doesn't actually have it.
Now, if this thing can prove whether people actually DO have ADHD, then we should all be fucking ecstatic, since it'll finally put this branch of the argument to rest, and then we can move on to your branch, of how to teach those who actually have it.
I think the biggest problem is thanks to teacher's unions, schools can't kick out the bad teachers, teaching isn't a competitive profession. You get a school you work at, you get the children "zoned" for your school.. I bet if schools had to compete for their money, they'd be a whole lot better.
wow. What school districts have you been in? Around here, new teachers are given a yearly contract, and let go if they're not performing well, and even teachers long in the service are only on slightly extended contracts (usually about 5 years). It's a simple matter of just waiting out the contract, and then trying to find a replacement.
I sense that you are mixing home schooling as a punishement with home schooling as a choice. Why would the results of home schooling be depressing in many cases? The only way I could see that being true is if the parents don't care, but if that's the case then it wouldn't matter what environment the child was in. It would be better for those in the educational system if those individuls weren't there.
That's basically exactly what I read it as GP said. If the parents don't care enough to help the kid do well in school, they're not going to help them do well in home schooling.
On the other hand kids who are home schooled by parental choice can become much better prepared to function in the real world. Indoctrination is more indicative of what is happening in the public school system than in those who are home schooled.
Um... I hate to burst your bubble, but the vast majority of home schooled students are taught so because their parents don't want them picking up "incorrect ideas" such as "evolution," "all races are equal," and more. It's not just religious whackjobs, it's whackjobs period who do the majority of homeschooling, nowadays. The best way to indoctrinate your kid is to make sure you're the one feeding them all the information.
Hey! Chain mail has tons of practical uses nowadays! It's more flexible while providing greater protection than something like a safety apron in a work shop.
As the other pointed out, that's existed for ages, but what's more, there's ones like that which you can just hook the camera directly to, and print from it without a computer.
I prefer the idea you were alluding to with this bit:
Have a Digital Camera, that takes AND STORES pictures, just like they do today, but have an OPTION to spit out an Instant Picture as well?
Basically, combine a digital and polaroid camera. Take the picture, have it show up on a screen, and ask if you want to (s)ave, (p)rint, (d)elete? And you can save it, then go back to it on the screen, and print multiple copies right then and there. I can't imagine that this wouldn't have a market. People would love to be able to crank out 3 or 4 copies of a photo right then and there, and then go home and throw it up on facebook, all on their own.
Do you also have many tattoos, telling you about important information?
If they had some sort of license server type model where you could check out the book electronically and then "return it" when your done that would be awesome. Mah, I should run for office, virtual libraries here I come :)
It could be basically a "netflix for books" type service. You get your eReader of whatever kind, and it has however much memory, maybe for 2 or 3 books. Depending on your subscription level, you might get multiple books at a time (hey, I used to have 3 books on the go at a time). Then, when you want a new book, you pick a memory slot, and it's downloaded to there, overwriting the book that was previously in there. If it was done with the wireless-only, it'd even be half-way secure, since most people wouldn't be arsed to crack it to pull the eBooks off. It could either be done on the library model, where you get the books for free, and it's supported through whatever the equivilent of the fees would be, plus money from a source equivilent to the government, it could be on the netflix subscription model I went in to, or it could be on an advertising model, where while the machine boots or loads data, or whichever, it's got a splashscreen ad up. But I will personally brutally, bloodily murder the first person to insert inline eBook ads on this device.
Except if someone's watching you closely enough, they can tell the basic pattern your fingers move in, which severely limits the possible combinations. Seriously. Look at the back of your hand, and wiggle some fingers. There's movement there, on the back of your hand, so if they can tell what order you're using your fingers in, each spot in your PIN is reduced to 3 or 4 options, since most people use 1 finger for each row, if they're doing the "cover up with your hand" method. With a bit more effort, you can sometimes tell if someone's finger is going up or down the pad.
Except this system doesn't actually do that. If you read the patent application, they're simply checking for invalid characters being entered before you click submit.
And I'm pretty sure I've had games check if the key I entered was valid as soon as I finished entering it, not needing to submit it, so this has already been done, by other people, in the wild. Seems like it should fail on that merit alone.
I know this, and you know this. Which is why minor league hockey's slowly gaining in popularity. But that doesn't change that on a professional level, NHL's more wussy than lacrosse.
Yeah, that's what I'd like to know. I'm in a provincial capital city, and people get booked for assault and other minor crimes on a regular basis. Sounds more like his city just has fucking shitty police. Happens in a lot of metropolitan police departments. Small places with RCMP detachments usually fare better, since the Mounties are cycled occassionally, and so you don't get the complacency. Also, people tend to respect the RCMP a bit more than local cops. Not sure why...