Why does the content matter? Playing a game with offensive / questionable content doesn't impart that behavior onto the player. Those ratings are pointless
That is completely fair, I only used the term Caucasian to give a picture of who I would like to talk with, not to say I only talk to white people. My girl friend is Chinese and talks 100% prefect English and Mandarin.
Outsourcing IT will only save you money and nothing else. Having a fair amount of experience in IT I already know the challenges faced between the geeks and the normal staff, now throw a thick Indian accent with horrible English on top of that combined with absolutely no skill and computer guided scripts they can't read, you'll be lucky to have a company at all after 2 months. Outsourcing has got so bad that unless I can talk to a Caucasian, with no accent, who is intelligent and well versed in what I want to know, I'll hang up the phone or ask for another person. It's not racism or anything stupid like that, it's purely the fact that 99.9999% out the people who work in these outsourced call centers know absolutely nothing about what they are working on and 98% of the time they can't understand English well enough to understand the problem you want to get across. I say no to outsourcing, it's a cancer to a company, it's make employees hate going to work or having to ask for help, it makes tension grow well at work and it makes everyone hate having to deal with anything.
Well just buying something simple and well supported like the Arduino, then you can literally learn by examples and trial and error. I would recommend not touching OO languages until you're well versed in C because OO languages don't offer a good interface with memory and architecture, which I personally feel are essential for good programming.
When I learned to program I started at the machine level with ASM and then moved up to C. I've done a ton of C++, PHP, C#, Java and etc.. but they just don't compare to C for both understanding and ease of use.
If you want to get into programming then I suggest grabbing an embedded board and by using C and ASM make LED's blink, Make motors spin and make stuff just happen. Nothing will get you hooked faster then seeing your code do useful work. I think that is what is missing from most programming classes.
The iPhone is a horrible mobile platform, it's to small, poorly designed and leaves the user feeling like they were ripped off. The S3 still beats the iPhone everyday of the week hands down and backwards. The biggest upgrade Apple can do is to make the phone decent enough to use on a day to day basis, i have an iPhone for work and I hate it, it's the biggest piece of shit I've ever used. It's to small, to sluggish and it's software design makes me feel like high school students made it. I also have a S3 which I use everyday and it's hands down 10 thousand times better in every single aspect.
I work 7 - 3 and I really only work about 8 - 2 in that block and not in a lump sum. You need breaks and resting periods. I take about 3 hours of the day and just take it easy, this leaves the other 5 open for great work. If you stress your brain it will get to stressed to help you out, you need to take it easy and let your brain guide you. You'll get the same if not more work done coding for 5 hours of broken time as you will coding for 8 hours of tight compressed time.
Blackberry stopped innovating like 10 years ago and expected to stay the leader in the smart phone industry. Blackberry OS 6.0 was the last real progress and innovation made by the company and from there on they have really just stood still and watched iOS and Android take over. The biggest joke of all is that BB10 was going to save the company! BB10 is a mix / copy of iOS and Android built on top of a third party ( which they own ) Operating System. If you want to make a new phone platform that is going to shake the status quo then you have two options, 1) Make it innovative and not a copy of the existing mobile operating systems or 2) switch to selling ice cream.
I have 0 formal business training but it's so obvious that even when I worked for Blackberry or Rim at the time it was already doomed. Internally the company at that time was a mess, it had no direction, no vision and no hard deadlines. Development in the company was a joke and I do mean a laughing joke, hardware was being designed and scrapped regularly and everyone passed the buck around never taking blame or control. Basically Blackberry was run and is ran is by a bunch of high school students trying to play in school business where if you fail you can restart tomorrow.
If they really want to save this company they need to start from the ground up and really try this time. Don't copy all the phones on the market, even if you originally designed them. Don't copy the software look, feel and operation and start making HARD deadlines that actually get met. This problem has been staring them in the face for a decade and thanks to really bad business leadership from the top down it's cost thousands or people jobs and money.
I've been using SSD's for a few years now and I'm NEVER going back to traditional hard disks for boot drives. I moved myself over to SSD boot disk a few years ago, maybe 5, In the last 5 years I've had 1 SSD die and it was replaced with no questions asked. If I look at how many traditional hard disks I lost in 5 years when I was using them as boot and storage disks I would probably average 2 or 3 a year. SSD technology is quickly becoming the only sensible solution for computing, not only does it last N times longer then traditional hard disks, it's faster and more rugged.
I have worked under two different rock star developers and the one thing I noticed about them was that they wrote HORRIBLE code. The first one I worked under wouldn't comment his code, he wouldn't structure his code in a logical way and tried to do everything with a single line. He didn't do anything with out complicating it and never produced clean code. His code worked and he could write it super fast and solve large problems but no one could his code. The second one I worked with was a joke, he talked about his skills like he was a god amount men, he never really wrote any code and what he did write I had to re-write. He was a joke, my point is that I don't think any true rock star developers exist, I think to be a rock star developer you need to write rock star code and not complicated, unusable code that stinks of a teenager getting compile happy and trying to over optimize everything.
Sometime in the last few days my home computer rebooted, on my home computer I run Windows 7 and Gentoo Linux, each on separate SSD's. Last night I was at home for the first time all week and noticed Windows couldn't boot, it would just hang in the start up screen and not do anything. I decided to run the recovery console program because frankly I couldn't do anything else, the recovery console program kept failing saying it couldn't run any checks. I decided maybe running msconfig.exe from the command prompt would help as I could disable all the extra services that were starting, well of course with Microsoft not understanding computer security and having blocked administrator access I couldn't run msconfig, not even with the runas command. Finally after spending probably two hours trying to get windows to boot I just decided to try one last really weird fix. I unplugged my SSD running Gentoo and surprise surprise the recovery console was able to repair my windows install and boot it.
It's 2013 and Microsoft still doesn't have multi-disk support working! I have many other issues with it, hence why I run Linux, if it wasn't for work I would never boot into windows. Now this isn't the first time I've seen this, I've actually called Microsoft about this very issue and been told things such as:
"A standard computer only has one hard disk and therefore this problem isn't our fault, you're running to many hard disks", I've also been told "If you run Linux then Windows won't know how to handle the drives and will get confused," You have to be kidding me, these are the support "professionals" saying these things.
Basically Microsoft knows they have built a pile of an operating system and refused to fix it. This post is about patches braking the system, well when you can't get simple multi-disk support working or good file system support working then why are you trying to write patches. It's clear that at least some of the developers at Microsoft are still learning the basics of operating system development because in 2013 these are unacceptable things to not have working. When windows grows up one day it will become Linux, that will be when windows is finally out of Beta. ( 25 years and counting )
Passing the buck again and making no one responsible for being a dumb ass. Yes bad drivers exist and yes none observant pedestrians exist but I don't think we need to use technology to protect these people. If you're going to be walking around in a traffic populated area and not pay attention then don't complain when you get hit. In the same right if you're in a car and you are in an area where there is high pedestrian traffic then pay attention and drive slow. It shouldn't be the phones problem to warm idiots that there own stupidity is about to get them in trouble. After all with a system like this what will end up happening is that the system will start getting blamed when it doesn't work rather then the idiots being blamed for being the problem in the first place.
I disagree, I think anyone who cares about the use of the correct "there vs their" or the correct use of "to vs too" has nothing better to worry about. The fact is which there you use or which too you use won't change how you comprehend what is written down. If the incorrect use of those words is leading to trouble reading or understand literature then I wouldn't blame the author but more so the reader. English has too many pedantic and annoying rules that frankly are just pointless and stupid. The english language has no need for multiple forms of the word "there" or multiple forms of the word "to", whenever and whoever decided we did was just incorrect and wanted to cause annoyance for a prolonged time going forwards.
I would argue that you don't look illiterate by using the incorrect forms but rather you look like you have better things to worry about during your day then which pedantic grammar form you decide to display. That's just me, I don't expect you to agree or side with me in any way. In the last 26 years of my life I have never once been at a disadvantage for my choice to ignore the different forms of "there" and "to", it has never once led to me having opportunities taken away or stopped my from graduating with two very high level degrees and winning several high level engineering competitions.
If 1 in 100 000 users of an application can cause a bug to appear then it should be fixed. If 1 school in 100 000 have serious problems then you can bet others are to. 1 in X is to many when it's talking about education. The aim of the canadian government should be 0 in X schools have issues. I know from my little cousins still in school right now that at least three other schools are having similar issues.
I disagree with you. The school system needs to be entirely restructured from the ground up. We teach kids at a snails pace and I think that needs to stop. Grade 1 - 3 should be all basic math, english, science and history, Grade 4 - 5 should be a bridge between basic concepts and advanced concepts, Grade 6 - 8 should be introducing concepts like calculus, physics and basic advanced concepts. I personally feel that by the end of grade 8 a student should be able to handle basic calculus, basic physics and be able to comprehend adult literature.
Why do I think this? In grade 6,7,8 I kept asking questions about basically everything. I kept wanting to know how why my science textbook said something or how my math textbook can claim something works out. My teachers could never answer me and I think that is completely unacceptable. If you're going to teach out of a textbook you should be able to handle all the questions that can arise. I can read the textbook, I already mentioned that. As a teacher you have to pick up where the textbook leaves off, other wise you doing no more of a job then I'm doing. I can read and understand the material so if you the teacher can't add another dimension to it then I have to question your job.
When I was in grade 8 I literally asked this question to the teachers: "Ms Patterson, I don't believe light can travel in straight line because at some point it will approach a black hole, when it approaches a black hole, which I understand to have infinite gravity, won't the light be bent and there for no long travelling in a straight line?", Her response was, "No light always travels in a straight line because the textbook says it does", I questioned her again and got kicked out of the room for being a disturbance. Being a disturbance in my school usually mean't you asked a question which the bone heads couldn't answer and that made the "slow" kids have more difficultly.
How should of this been handled? Simple, Ms Patterson should of told me, "Well that's an interesting concept, I will let you know tomorrow", she should of gone home and looked it up and let the entire class know what the outcome was. A teachers job is grow knowledge and induce a deep love of learning into the students. Currently we under teach kids and make them feel like the only acceptable way to deal with school is to keep your mouth shut and not asked questions.
This is why I think we need the more qualified teachers. Well I don't think that a grade 8 teacher should had a PhD in quantum physics I do think that a grade 8 teacher should be able to openly and knowledgeable talk about everything in a grade 8 textbook including handling questions about the material.
Again for the Nth time I'm going to fall back on my personal education experience.
I had horrible teachers growing up, when I say horrible, all but one of them was even worth her paycheck . An elementary school teacher should be an expert in all areas that they teach.
In my elementary school ( 1992 - 2000 ) we had one teacher for the entire day, that teacher did math, history, english and etc.... For the school system to effectively work what you need is for that teacher to be an expert in all of those subjects, an expert to the point that they don't require a textbook. The textbook is for the students to assist and supplement the information from the teacher, NOT for the teacher to use as a coverup for not knowing the subject.
So often we as students were told to close the textbooks and just understand the material well a lazy teacher sat at the front of the room and simply just read from it. A big secret to good education is that the teacher should never be doing the students job, reading from a textbook simple means that the teacher is only as qualified as the student and not really doing his / her job.
This post talks about the materials that the students can use to assist in there education. Well in my school we had the resources but the teachers and support staff just weren't trained on how to deploy and use the materials. The computer lab was off limits because ALL of the teachers had no clue how to really use them, the science lab was closed because the teachers and staff didn't know how to setup or use the equipment.
This is my problem with the school system, it's setup to protect the teachers and it leaves the students on the side of the road. I pointed this out in my school several times when I was there and every time I was given an excuse, "The teachers work very hard and it's not there job" or "The government wants us to teach this way so we are". It's sad and horrible, the school system ( in Canada ) is in the shitter. I have little cousins right now and from what they tell me the system hasn't changed.
So what's my point? Well here is the big secret to making the education system work, HIRE QUALIFIED TEACHERS AND GET THE RIGHT MATERIAL IN PLACE!!!!!! That's it, it hasn't happened yet at least from what I've seen and been through. Simple answer to a not complicated question.
To any teacher that doesn't fit into what I just explained I don't want to bash you. I know good teachers and good school exist, they do and they are great, just the majority of the system is broke and that shouldn't make the good few look bad.
That is one of the worst ideas I've ever heard. It's up to the driver to not check his or her phone well driving, thats it. It doesn't matter if people are texting you, calling you or even trying to IM you, just don't pick up the phone. This is another example of the pass the buck system of law making. Lets not make any one person responsible for being irresponsible and immature, lets make everyone deal with the fact no one has grown up.
Why should the US have the right to strike another country? The US strikes Syria and then Syria strikes the US and we start a war, so how about sitting down and thinking about the best course of action first. Weak men / women go to war, strong men and women find ways to settle the issues with out having to strike blindly.
That fair, everyone has there own experiences with the health care system. Waiting for me has never been an issue. I currently live in Toronto and come to Kitchener / Waterloo often for work, the Toronto wait times for me are super quick, often under a 1/2 hour, the wait time for KW are usually not bad, sub hour, if you actually require quick and responsive service then I've personally seen response times that are almost sub minute.
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Why does the content matter? Playing a game with offensive / questionable content doesn't impart that behavior onto the player. Those ratings are pointless
That is completely fair, I only used the term Caucasian to give a picture of who I would like to talk with, not to say I only talk to white people. My girl friend is Chinese and talks 100% prefect English and Mandarin.
Of course I would be fine with that, my main point is no accent and a great handle on what you're trying to help me with.
Outsourcing IT will only save you money and nothing else. Having a fair amount of experience in IT I already know the challenges faced between the geeks and the normal staff, now throw a thick Indian accent with horrible English on top of that combined with absolutely no skill and computer guided scripts they can't read, you'll be lucky to have a company at all after 2 months. Outsourcing has got so bad that unless I can talk to a Caucasian, with no accent, who is intelligent and well versed in what I want to know, I'll hang up the phone or ask for another person. It's not racism or anything stupid like that, it's purely the fact that 99.9999% out the people who work in these outsourced call centers know absolutely nothing about what they are working on and 98% of the time they can't understand English well enough to understand the problem you want to get across. I say no to outsourcing, it's a cancer to a company, it's make employees hate going to work or having to ask for help, it makes tension grow well at work and it makes everyone hate having to deal with anything.
Well just buying something simple and well supported like the Arduino, then you can literally learn by examples and trial and error. I would recommend not touching OO languages until you're well versed in C because OO languages don't offer a good interface with memory and architecture, which I personally feel are essential for good programming. When I learned to program I started at the machine level with ASM and then moved up to C. I've done a ton of C++, PHP, C#, Java and etc.. but they just don't compare to C for both understanding and ease of use.
If you want to get into programming then I suggest grabbing an embedded board and by using C and ASM make LED's blink, Make motors spin and make stuff just happen. Nothing will get you hooked faster then seeing your code do useful work. I think that is what is missing from most programming classes.
The iPhone is a horrible mobile platform, it's to small, poorly designed and leaves the user feeling like they were ripped off. The S3 still beats the iPhone everyday of the week hands down and backwards. The biggest upgrade Apple can do is to make the phone decent enough to use on a day to day basis, i have an iPhone for work and I hate it, it's the biggest piece of shit I've ever used. It's to small, to sluggish and it's software design makes me feel like high school students made it. I also have a S3 which I use everyday and it's hands down 10 thousand times better in every single aspect.
They wonder why they have to lay 4500 people off. This is exactly how Blackberry works, they set a deadline and then miss it completely.
I work 7 - 3 and I really only work about 8 - 2 in that block and not in a lump sum. You need breaks and resting periods. I take about 3 hours of the day and just take it easy, this leaves the other 5 open for great work. If you stress your brain it will get to stressed to help you out, you need to take it easy and let your brain guide you. You'll get the same if not more work done coding for 5 hours of broken time as you will coding for 8 hours of tight compressed time.
I think Blackberry's internal saying is: "Never deliver on time, even when it matters!"
Blackberry stopped innovating like 10 years ago and expected to stay the leader in the smart phone industry. Blackberry OS 6.0 was the last real progress and innovation made by the company and from there on they have really just stood still and watched iOS and Android take over. The biggest joke of all is that BB10 was going to save the company! BB10 is a mix / copy of iOS and Android built on top of a third party ( which they own ) Operating System. If you want to make a new phone platform that is going to shake the status quo then you have two options, 1) Make it innovative and not a copy of the existing mobile operating systems or 2) switch to selling ice cream.
I have 0 formal business training but it's so obvious that even when I worked for Blackberry or Rim at the time it was already doomed. Internally the company at that time was a mess, it had no direction, no vision and no hard deadlines. Development in the company was a joke and I do mean a laughing joke, hardware was being designed and scrapped regularly and everyone passed the buck around never taking blame or control. Basically Blackberry was run and is ran is by a bunch of high school students trying to play in school business where if you fail you can restart tomorrow.
If they really want to save this company they need to start from the ground up and really try this time. Don't copy all the phones on the market, even if you originally designed them. Don't copy the software look, feel and operation and start making HARD deadlines that actually get met. This problem has been staring them in the face for a decade and thanks to really bad business leadership from the top down it's cost thousands or people jobs and money.
I've been using SSD's for a few years now and I'm NEVER going back to traditional hard disks for boot drives. I moved myself over to SSD boot disk a few years ago, maybe 5, In the last 5 years I've had 1 SSD die and it was replaced with no questions asked. If I look at how many traditional hard disks I lost in 5 years when I was using them as boot and storage disks I would probably average 2 or 3 a year. SSD technology is quickly becoming the only sensible solution for computing, not only does it last N times longer then traditional hard disks, it's faster and more rugged.
I have worked under two different rock star developers and the one thing I noticed about them was that they wrote HORRIBLE code. The first one I worked under wouldn't comment his code, he wouldn't structure his code in a logical way and tried to do everything with a single line. He didn't do anything with out complicating it and never produced clean code. His code worked and he could write it super fast and solve large problems but no one could his code. The second one I worked with was a joke, he talked about his skills like he was a god amount men, he never really wrote any code and what he did write I had to re-write. He was a joke, my point is that I don't think any true rock star developers exist, I think to be a rock star developer you need to write rock star code and not complicated, unusable code that stinks of a teenager getting compile happy and trying to over optimize everything.
Sometime in the last few days my home computer rebooted, on my home computer I run Windows 7 and Gentoo Linux, each on separate SSD's. Last night I was at home for the first time all week and noticed Windows couldn't boot, it would just hang in the start up screen and not do anything. I decided to run the recovery console program because frankly I couldn't do anything else, the recovery console program kept failing saying it couldn't run any checks. I decided maybe running msconfig.exe from the command prompt would help as I could disable all the extra services that were starting, well of course with Microsoft not understanding computer security and having blocked administrator access I couldn't run msconfig, not even with the runas command. Finally after spending probably two hours trying to get windows to boot I just decided to try one last really weird fix. I unplugged my SSD running Gentoo and surprise surprise the recovery console was able to repair my windows install and boot it.
It's 2013 and Microsoft still doesn't have multi-disk support working! I have many other issues with it, hence why I run Linux, if it wasn't for work I would never boot into windows. Now this isn't the first time I've seen this, I've actually called Microsoft about this very issue and been told things such as:
"A standard computer only has one hard disk and therefore this problem isn't our fault, you're running to many hard disks", I've also been told "If you run Linux then Windows won't know how to handle the drives and will get confused," You have to be kidding me, these are the support "professionals" saying these things.
Basically Microsoft knows they have built a pile of an operating system and refused to fix it. This post is about patches braking the system, well when you can't get simple multi-disk support working or good file system support working then why are you trying to write patches. It's clear that at least some of the developers at Microsoft are still learning the basics of operating system development because in 2013 these are unacceptable things to not have working. When windows grows up one day it will become Linux, that will be when windows is finally out of Beta. ( 25 years and counting )
Passing the buck again and making no one responsible for being a dumb ass. Yes bad drivers exist and yes none observant pedestrians exist but I don't think we need to use technology to protect these people. If you're going to be walking around in a traffic populated area and not pay attention then don't complain when you get hit. In the same right if you're in a car and you are in an area where there is high pedestrian traffic then pay attention and drive slow. It shouldn't be the phones problem to warm idiots that there own stupidity is about to get them in trouble. After all with a system like this what will end up happening is that the system will start getting blamed when it doesn't work rather then the idiots being blamed for being the problem in the first place.
I disagree, I think anyone who cares about the use of the correct "there vs their" or the correct use of "to vs too" has nothing better to worry about. The fact is which there you use or which too you use won't change how you comprehend what is written down. If the incorrect use of those words is leading to trouble reading or understand literature then I wouldn't blame the author but more so the reader. English has too many pedantic and annoying rules that frankly are just pointless and stupid. The english language has no need for multiple forms of the word "there" or multiple forms of the word "to", whenever and whoever decided we did was just incorrect and wanted to cause annoyance for a prolonged time going forwards.
I would argue that you don't look illiterate by using the incorrect forms but rather you look like you have better things to worry about during your day then which pedantic grammar form you decide to display. That's just me, I don't expect you to agree or side with me in any way. In the last 26 years of my life I have never once been at a disadvantage for my choice to ignore the different forms of "there" and "to", it has never once led to me having opportunities taken away or stopped my from graduating with two very high level degrees and winning several high level engineering competitions.
If 1 in 100 000 users of an application can cause a bug to appear then it should be fixed. If 1 school in 100 000 have serious problems then you can bet others are to. 1 in X is to many when it's talking about education. The aim of the canadian government should be 0 in X schools have issues. I know from my little cousins still in school right now that at least three other schools are having similar issues.
no it's not but an entire school for a small town does make a good point about the lack of real education happening in small town Ontario Canada.
I disagree with you. The school system needs to be entirely restructured from the ground up. We teach kids at a snails pace and I think that needs to stop. Grade 1 - 3 should be all basic math, english, science and history, Grade 4 - 5 should be a bridge between basic concepts and advanced concepts, Grade 6 - 8 should be introducing concepts like calculus, physics and basic advanced concepts. I personally feel that by the end of grade 8 a student should be able to handle basic calculus, basic physics and be able to comprehend adult literature.
Why do I think this? In grade 6,7,8 I kept asking questions about basically everything. I kept wanting to know how why my science textbook said something or how my math textbook can claim something works out. My teachers could never answer me and I think that is completely unacceptable. If you're going to teach out of a textbook you should be able to handle all the questions that can arise. I can read the textbook, I already mentioned that. As a teacher you have to pick up where the textbook leaves off, other wise you doing no more of a job then I'm doing. I can read and understand the material so if you the teacher can't add another dimension to it then I have to question your job.
When I was in grade 8 I literally asked this question to the teachers: "Ms Patterson, I don't believe light can travel in straight line because at some point it will approach a black hole, when it approaches a black hole, which I understand to have infinite gravity, won't the light be bent and there for no long travelling in a straight line?", Her response was, "No light always travels in a straight line because the textbook says it does", I questioned her again and got kicked out of the room for being a disturbance. Being a disturbance in my school usually mean't you asked a question which the bone heads couldn't answer and that made the "slow" kids have more difficultly.
How should of this been handled? Simple, Ms Patterson should of told me, "Well that's an interesting concept, I will let you know tomorrow", she should of gone home and looked it up and let the entire class know what the outcome was. A teachers job is grow knowledge and induce a deep love of learning into the students. Currently we under teach kids and make them feel like the only acceptable way to deal with school is to keep your mouth shut and not asked questions.
This is why I think we need the more qualified teachers. Well I don't think that a grade 8 teacher should had a PhD in quantum physics I do think that a grade 8 teacher should be able to openly and knowledgeable talk about everything in a grade 8 textbook including handling questions about the material.
Again for the Nth time I'm going to fall back on my personal education experience.
I had horrible teachers growing up, when I say horrible, all but one of them was even worth her paycheck . An elementary school teacher should be an expert in all areas that they teach.
In my elementary school ( 1992 - 2000 ) we had one teacher for the entire day, that teacher did math, history, english and etc.... For the school system to effectively work what you need is for that teacher to be an expert in all of those subjects, an expert to the point that they don't require a textbook. The textbook is for the students to assist and supplement the information from the teacher, NOT for the teacher to use as a coverup for not knowing the subject.
So often we as students were told to close the textbooks and just understand the material well a lazy teacher sat at the front of the room and simply just read from it. A big secret to good education is that the teacher should never be doing the students job, reading from a textbook simple means that the teacher is only as qualified as the student and not really doing his / her job.
This post talks about the materials that the students can use to assist in there education. Well in my school we had the resources but the teachers and support staff just weren't trained on how to deploy and use the materials. The computer lab was off limits because ALL of the teachers had no clue how to really use them, the science lab was closed because the teachers and staff didn't know how to setup or use the equipment.
This is my problem with the school system, it's setup to protect the teachers and it leaves the students on the side of the road. I pointed this out in my school several times when I was there and every time I was given an excuse, "The teachers work very hard and it's not there job" or "The government wants us to teach this way so we are". It's sad and horrible, the school system ( in Canada ) is in the shitter. I have little cousins right now and from what they tell me the system hasn't changed.
So what's my point? Well here is the big secret to making the education system work, HIRE QUALIFIED TEACHERS AND GET THE RIGHT MATERIAL IN PLACE!!!!!! That's it, it hasn't happened yet at least from what I've seen and been through. Simple answer to a not complicated question.
To any teacher that doesn't fit into what I just explained I don't want to bash you. I know good teachers and good school exist, they do and they are great, just the majority of the system is broke and that shouldn't make the good few look bad.
That is one of the worst ideas I've ever heard. It's up to the driver to not check his or her phone well driving, thats it. It doesn't matter if people are texting you, calling you or even trying to IM you, just don't pick up the phone. This is another example of the pass the buck system of law making. Lets not make any one person responsible for being irresponsible and immature, lets make everyone deal with the fact no one has grown up.
Why should the US have the right to strike another country? The US strikes Syria and then Syria strikes the US and we start a war, so how about sitting down and thinking about the best course of action first. Weak men / women go to war, strong men and women find ways to settle the issues with out having to strike blindly.
Eat a balanced diet, Work out and making sure to stay active. It's not hard to stay healthy.
As a guy who can drink 2L of coffee a day that is scary.
That fair, everyone has there own experiences with the health care system. Waiting for me has never been an issue. I currently live in Toronto and come to Kitchener / Waterloo often for work, the Toronto wait times for me are super quick, often under a 1/2 hour, the wait time for KW are usually not bad, sub hour, if you actually require quick and responsive service then I've personally seen response times that are almost sub minute.