Tax money spent on government education has more than doubled on a per pupil basis in the last 30 years.
In K-12 education, no results have been seen since the customer, guardians, have no involvement in the pricing, i.e. tuition, pay. This leads to a lack of quality, since the customer is told to take the product, education, as is or pay an exorbitant amount of money, private schooling.
Colleges are a mess due to the ridiculous subsidizing that occurs with their customer. The more customers the college gets the more funding, government loans, the college gets. This drives prices skyward.
I'd say banning printing presses and burning books is in general a bad sign. Partially defunding schools without making alternatives available is worse than continuing to fund them. I say demonize the whole failed government education system. Teachers' unions are part of the failed government education system that perpetuates the ideas that only the government can educate children.
The government complains about plenty of things in which it's already heavily involved. The last thing those sectors need is the government to start helping.
The main issue with the public school system is the lack of feedback from the consumer. Taxes for schooling leaves the consumer, i.e. parents, out of the loop. Parents become complacent and in a lot of areas see schools as a daycare. If the parent's money is being spent, there will be a lot more interaction with the school and the child. An open voucher system would be a good way to hold schools accountable. This way the tax dollars would follow the student.
Is there lack of preschools where you live? Usually, the answer is no. Why? There are very few if any tax funded programs for preschools. This allows for a myriad of choices, i.e. price ranges, for consumers. Competing with another business is difficult. Competing with a business which has tax funding and offers the product for "free" is very difficult. The business which is not tax funded must show quality and charge an absorbent amount of money compete with free. Phasing out tax funded schooling would allow private school tuition to normalize over time.
Lastly, grin because you might think this is ridiculous, roll back some child labor laws and mandatory schooling laws. Some people just don't have what it takes to progress further than McDonalds. (Although, I was told at Occupy Portland that "Any one can be a doctor with enough schooling." This gem as well "A garbage man and a surgeon should be paid the same.") Some people also don't have to know more than grade school math and social facts to get through life. This might also open people up to having more children because all I see coming out of a womb is 15 years of my money, your money too if the kid goes to public school, going down the hole.
I have been ranting about a 13 month year to my coworkers for about a year now. 12 months would have 28 days. The last month would have 29 days. Every leap year the last month would have 30 days. A lot of companies would be giving an extra day of vacation every four years.
8a. I think people should be given the option to opt out of Social security (but not the full tax) and it should be illegal for them to be re-admitted later for any reason (including disability). My guess is less than 1% of Americans would even opt out, even the most vocal critics are likely to not opt out.
The government pays out Social Security (SS) benefits based upon how much you paid into the system. You're supposed to be paying for yourself not others. To still require those who opt out to pay into SS is unjust.
Would businesses still have to pay the other 7.5% of SS per employee who opted out?
OT - Do you find it a bit ridiculous you have to enroll in a federal retirement program (SS) to file your federal taxes?
I read a book about absolute zero. I can't remember the title of the book. The book had the historical account of Fahrenheit. It went like this: Originally, the Fahrenheit scale was supposed to be a medical temperature scale. The research was done with a saline solution. 100 degrees was supposed to be body temperature and 0 degrees was the temperature at which blood froze. This is why water freezes at the "arbitrary" temperature of 0 and boils at the "arbitrary" temperature of 212. The Fahrenheit scale is closer to human perception than the Celsius scale.
Although once you're used to one scale, it really doesn't matter. For science, I'm all about the Celsius scale, but for my "what do I wear in this weather, I like the Fahrenheit scale better. "It's 0F outside my blood will freeze."
If they won't directly compensate you, work it into your goals for the new year. Then "slowly" work on the software. Give management a schedule and give releases prior to the dates given. This way you'll always have extra time to figure out your next goal you'll accomplish.
I only suggest this because I don't imagine you have a lot of upward mobility in your department. I have also had that underwhelming feeling when handing over software and not being compensated. Never again.
I agree about the 13 month calendar. The last month should be 29 days. Leap years the last month should be 30 days. It's fairly easy to remember and there would be no fudging of the days. Plus the computer algorithms would be fairly straight forward.
Surprisingly, there would be a lot of people bitching about not getting 3 paychecks in one month. Interest on loans would be more understandable to the common man.
I am overjoyed there is no more sense of shared purpose. Otherwise, I might have been drafted to go to Iraq or Afghanistan or attack the Libyans from afar. This idea that countries must have a purpose or a goal is ridiculous. You'll end up with a state like China, where talking heads decide what the next goal is and then the people blindly follow. And in following that goal, the path is only the vision of the talking heads. When the US was founded, the philosophers who wrote the Constitution didn't talk about how the US was going to be first in education or dominate another country in GDP. The philosophers spoke about a country where each man would be able to follow his passions with in the law. The 13 colonies fought the war of independence for mutual benefit. It's hard to see the benefit in beating other countries in subjective goals.
Oh shit, now I'm rambling, but I hope you get the point.
"This leads to things like Phillip Morris killing people for profit for millions of years, because they did the cost/benefit analysis and realized that in reality they can get away with human life and suffering costing them many orders of magnitude LESS than they should, all because they have the power."
The smokers are to blame for killing themselves. I don't care if their "addicted" to their drug. It's a choice to smoke. The stuff about businesses polluting, I agree.
Is there another term besides corporate that you could use? Maybe business? Does business not have enough insinuation for you?
I think the test should be who is currently in office.
One would vote for president. Then a screen with 5 names and the option none of the above would appear on the screen. Pick the correct one and your vote counts. Pick the wrong one and your vote does not count.
Are you talking about the thickness of the ink on the page?
Open a book. Rotate the book to only view the thickness of the book. You could be looking at the page in four orientations: the first line of the top or bottom of the page, the first letter of each line from the left side of the page, or the last letter from the right side of the page. From the top or bottom, you could possibly read those lines, but how would you read the next line on the page? From the left or right you would be able to read one letter, maybe decipher the next letter, but you could not read the whole line. The information that the eye is trying to find, while reading, is in 2D.
Is that more clear or less clear? Could you give me an example of a font that is read by it's thickness? Can you read your computer screen from the side?
I never could understand how anyone would use a 3D desktop efficiently. The user can't really move through the space. The mouse or whatever you would use currently does not have a depth function. I don't like wading through files in 2D, let alone 3D. I've done a lot of reading and none of it seems to be in 3D. As it turns out, that's what matters. The way in which I learn and do work is an abstracted 2D technology (fonts, silly). Until the alphabet takes the next step to 3D, I doubt you'll see really efficient 3D desktops. I'm not saying it won't happen, I saying I have no clue how it would work.
I'd really like to use a big 3' by 4' 2D desktop with handwriting recondition software. I would be awesome to annotate class notes, do scratch work wherever, and not lose character sheets. Yeah, you'd be sitting at a table, but don't worry. There's a tablet that you can drag your work off of or on to it.
A little OT, I've seen print in the fourth dimension i.e. scrolling signs, but never really in the third. Who gives a shit if letters have depth?
In a proper libertarian society, government does not have a monopoly on force. Each Citizen has a small monopoly on force, distributing the force across the system.
OT: Lots of folks complain about businesses having monopolies. Why is okay for government to have such monopolies i.e. schools, money, possibly health care?
stole from the government and gave to the overtaxed. This guy is copying from the government and pasting to the people. He's more like a "Neo the Document Liberator?"
My ma, an RN, was very annoyed at the "death panels" part of the legislation because most hospitals already counsel old folks on their wishes for end of life treatment and living wills with their doctors.
As for government euthanasia, I'm all for it. How else are the United States going to pay their Social Security?
The scenes I appreciated the most were the simple shots through a window in a door. The control room was pretty cool in 3D, but now it sounds like I am smoking the herb:)
I think the movie would be much worse without the 3D. A person might focus on the craptastic story line instead of OMG Ponies with USB ports!
Walkable neighborhoods are not such a radical idea. First you have to get rid of zoning laws.
When was the last time you walked down to the neighborhood bar?
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Tax money spent on government education has more than doubled on a per pupil basis in the last 30 years.
In K-12 education, no results have been seen since the customer, guardians, have no involvement in the pricing, i.e. tuition, pay. This leads to a lack of quality, since the customer is told to take the product, education, as is or pay an exorbitant amount of money, private schooling.
Colleges are a mess due to the ridiculous subsidizing that occurs with their customer. The more customers the college gets the more funding, government loans, the college gets. This drives prices skyward.
I'd say banning printing presses and burning books is in general a bad sign. Partially defunding schools without making alternatives available is worse than continuing to fund them. I say demonize the whole failed government education system. Teachers' unions are part of the failed government education system that perpetuates the ideas that only the government can educate children.
The government complains about plenty of things in which it's already heavily involved. The last thing those sectors need is the government to start helping.
The main issue with the public school system is the lack of feedback from the consumer. Taxes for schooling leaves the consumer, i.e. parents, out of the loop. Parents become complacent and in a lot of areas see schools as a daycare. If the parent's money is being spent, there will be a lot more interaction with the school and the child. An open voucher system would be a good way to hold schools accountable. This way the tax dollars would follow the student.
Is there lack of preschools where you live? Usually, the answer is no. Why? There are very few if any tax funded programs for preschools. This allows for a myriad of choices, i.e. price ranges, for consumers. Competing with another business is difficult. Competing with a business which has tax funding and offers the product for "free" is very difficult. The business which is not tax funded must show quality and charge an absorbent amount of money compete with free. Phasing out tax funded schooling would allow private school tuition to normalize over time.
Lastly, grin because you might think this is ridiculous, roll back some child labor laws and mandatory schooling laws. Some people just don't have what it takes to progress further than McDonalds. (Although, I was told at Occupy Portland that "Any one can be a doctor with enough schooling." This gem as well "A garbage man and a surgeon should be paid the same.") Some people also don't have to know more than grade school math and social facts to get through life. This might also open people up to having more children because all I see coming out of a womb is 15 years of my money, your money too if the kid goes to public school, going down the hole.
I have been ranting about a 13 month year to my coworkers for about a year now. 12 months would have 28 days. The last month would have 29 days. Every leap year the last month would have 30 days. A lot of companies would be giving an extra day of vacation every four years.
8a. I think people should be given the option to opt out of Social security (but not the full tax) and it should be illegal for them to be re-admitted later for any reason (including disability). My guess is less than 1% of Americans would even opt out, even the most vocal critics are likely to not opt out.
The government pays out Social Security (SS) benefits based upon how much you paid into the system. You're supposed to be paying for yourself not others. To still require those who opt out to pay into SS is unjust.
Would businesses still have to pay the other 7.5% of SS per employee who opted out?
OT - Do you find it a bit ridiculous you have to enroll in a federal retirement program (SS) to file your federal taxes?
I read a book about absolute zero. I can't remember the title of the book.
The book had the historical account of Fahrenheit. It went like this:
Originally, the Fahrenheit scale was supposed to be a medical
temperature scale. The research was done with a saline solution.
100 degrees was supposed to be body temperature and 0 degrees was
the temperature at which blood froze. This is why water freezes at the
"arbitrary" temperature of 0 and boils at the "arbitrary" temperature of 212.
The Fahrenheit scale is closer to human perception than the Celsius scale.
Although once you're used to one scale, it really doesn't matter. For
science, I'm all about the Celsius scale, but for my "what do I wear
in this weather, I like the Fahrenheit scale better. "It's 0F outside my
blood will freeze."
the last time I used a CD or DVD that I hadn't burned myself.
I mainly read magazines while in the loo and I'm too worried about getting my phone full of germs.
If they won't directly compensate you, work it into your goals for the new year. Then "slowly" work on the software. Give management a schedule and give releases prior to the dates given. This way you'll always have extra time to figure out your next goal you'll accomplish.
I only suggest this because I don't imagine you have a lot of upward mobility in your department. I have also had that underwhelming feeling when handing over software and not being compensated. Never again.
I agree about the 13 month calendar. The last month should be 29 days. Leap years the last month should be 30 days. It's fairly easy to remember and there would be no fudging of the days. Plus the computer algorithms would be fairly straight forward.
Surprisingly, there would be a lot of people bitching about not getting 3 paychecks in one month. Interest on loans would be more understandable to the common man.
I am overjoyed there is no more sense of shared purpose. Otherwise, I might have been drafted to go to Iraq or Afghanistan or attack the Libyans from afar. This idea that countries must have a purpose or a goal is ridiculous. You'll end up with a state like China, where talking heads decide what the next goal is and then the people blindly follow. And in following that goal, the path is only the vision of the talking heads. When the US was founded, the philosophers who wrote the Constitution didn't talk about how the US was going to be first in education or dominate another country in GDP. The philosophers spoke about a country where each man would be able to follow his passions with in the law. The 13 colonies fought the war of independence for mutual benefit. It's hard to see the benefit in beating other countries in subjective goals.
Oh shit, now I'm rambling, but I hope you get the point.
"This leads to things like Phillip Morris killing people for profit for millions of years, because they did the cost/benefit analysis and realized that in reality they can get away with human life and suffering costing them many orders of magnitude LESS than they should, all because they have the power."
The smokers are to blame for killing themselves. I don't care if their "addicted" to their drug. It's a choice to smoke. The stuff about businesses polluting, I agree.
Is there another term besides corporate that you could use? Maybe business? Does business not have enough insinuation for you?
I think the test should be who is currently in office.
One would vote for president. Then a screen with 5 names and the option none of the above would appear on the screen. Pick the correct one and your vote counts. Pick the wrong one and your vote does not count.
democracy at its best. I'm so happy I live in a republic.
Ground Kontrol awesome bar. http://www.groundkontrol.com/
Ah... No worries. It really made me think how one would read a 3D font.
Are you talking about the thickness of the ink on the page?
Open a book. Rotate the book to only view the thickness of the book. You could be looking at the page in four orientations: the first line of the top or bottom of the page, the first letter of each line from the left side of the page, or the last letter from the right side of the page. From the top or bottom, you could possibly read those lines, but how would you read the next line on the page? From the left or right you would be able to read one letter, maybe decipher the next letter, but you could not read the whole line. The information that the eye is trying to find, while reading, is in 2D.
Is that more clear or less clear? Could you give me an example of a font that is read by it's thickness? Can you read your computer screen from the side?
I never could understand how anyone would use a 3D desktop efficiently. The user can't really move through the space. The mouse or whatever you would use currently does not have a depth function. I don't like wading through files in 2D, let alone 3D. I've done a lot of reading and none of it seems to be in 3D. As it turns out, that's what matters. The way in which I learn and do work is an abstracted 2D technology (fonts, silly). Until the alphabet takes the next step to 3D, I doubt you'll see really efficient 3D desktops. I'm not saying it won't happen, I saying I have no clue how it would work.
I'd really like to use a big 3' by 4' 2D desktop with handwriting recondition software. I would be awesome to annotate class notes, do scratch work wherever, and not lose character sheets. Yeah, you'd be sitting at a table, but don't worry. There's a tablet that you can drag your work off of or on to it.
A little OT, I've seen print in the fourth dimension i.e. scrolling signs, but never really in the third. Who gives a shit if letters have depth?
Ha!
OT: Lots of folks complain about businesses having monopolies. Why is okay for government to have such monopolies i.e. schools, money, possibly health care?
stole from the government and gave to the overtaxed. This guy is copying from the government and pasting to the people. He's more like a "Neo the Document Liberator?"
for snail mail as well. You never know when you'll need that year old coupon.
My ma, an RN, was very annoyed at the "death panels" part of the legislation because most hospitals already counsel old folks on their wishes for end of life treatment and living wills with their doctors. As for government euthanasia, I'm all for it. How else are the United States going to pay their Social Security?
if AMD went out of business and Intel cornered the market? How does that affect me as a consumer?
Somebody please explain that.
The scenes I appreciated the most were the simple shots through a window in a door. The control room was pretty cool in 3D, but now it sounds like I am smoking the herb :)
I think the movie would be much worse without the 3D. A person might focus on the craptastic story line instead of OMG Ponies with USB ports!
We could stop using the word 'nerd', but I prefer to do what I can to make the word a badge of honor. That, to me, is a much easier fight.
So, nerd is the new n-word?
Walkable neighborhoods are not such a radical idea. First you have to get rid of zoning laws. When was the last time you walked down to the neighborhood bar?