Personally, as long as the teacher didn't give specific names I don't think it's a big deal.
My mother used to be a teacher and one of my cousins is a teacher, and they will openly talk about how bad or stupid their students act. There shouldn't be anything wrong with publicly saying bad things about your students in general.
And although I'm in my late 20s, I can clearly remember how me and my classmates would act in our classes. There was little respect for the teacher, and seeing some of the things written for homework or tests by students who simply didn't care about that subject, it could be scary for a teacher.
Plus, I'm sure most of you can remember talking equally bad about some of your teachers. Now as long as this was a personal blog, and not like a blog put on the schools website, I find nothing wrong with this.
Being a teacher in the US these days, you have little you can actually do about your students. To say that a teacher can't even talk negatively about their students in general in public is laughable.
He should be suing Fox. I'm sure it was Fox News that inspired this fear of Wikileaks within him. Plus, they did all this after they convince him that if he steps outside of his trailer animals are going to attack him from all directions.
While I'm not against Mastercard saying "We won't allow customers to use Mastercard to buy illegal goods", I doubt they'll have a proper list of who to deny.
It would be ironic if suddenly less people allowed Mastercard for online purchases. I gotta imagine that nowadays online transactions are a large proportion of their income.
It strikes me as odd that a woman afraid if being the target of a sex crime would hang her underwear outside in the first place. It seems like her own action is the root cause rather than Google.
Plus, I can't imagine someone stalking the house of someone who they've never seen because underwear was hung outside. Now if the image had her with her underwear, it could be more serious (Unless she's hideous)
While I agree with the articles stance on the Net Neutrality issue being passed, the article fails to mention why the bill is bad. It just repeatedly says how horrible it is without giving any reasons.
When there are so many problems with the bill, the least they could do is mention them.
(Personally, I do agree that it has many problems. I can only base this on articles I've read elsewhere since the one on huffington is all rhetoric and no fact)
Being that he's from Wisconsin, I'd be amazed if he won the election without visiting the rural US.
Although I'm no expert, wikipedia says that about 68% live in the cities. One can't just ignore 32% of the electorate and expect to win (and it was a close race as you may recall)
The one example you give is actually the only question that isn't provable by facts.
Now you can try to argue "believe climate change is not occurring"...but really it's occurring. Argument is whether we're causing it. This is still slightly iffy as the survey taker might read it wrong.
"believe the health reform law will increase the deficit" I think it was the non-partisan congressional commision that said it would decrease the deficit. Now whether you think it is a good idea is a different matter. It's factual that it's better for the deficit than what was in place before.
"believe Obama initiated the GM/Chrysler bailout" Now if it was rephrased 'democrats' it may be true. I don't know the exact details on this, but it's slightly questionable at best.
Every other question is a definite yes or no answer easily verifiable.
Divulging classified information may be a felony, but it's a felony in this country. It's hard to argue we should arrest a foreign citizen who hasn't set foot in American territory or stolen the documents himself. Now arresting the person who leaked the documents to Assange is a different matter.
By your point of view, if someone leaked information detailing Iran's nuclear program, we should immediately send them back to Iran to be executed. After all, it's clearly against the law
It's hard to hold it against NYT but not Wikileaks. Even if NYT didn't publish any of it, it would be publicly available for anyone to download, regardless of whether it's considered classified. Being that the purpose of being classified is to keep the information out of the hands of malicious people who could use the information to do harm, assuming that these people wouldn't be able to just get it form the widely available source is just silly.
The main difference with the NYT is a larger portion of the American public would read it. One would hope that in general our documents aren't classified so law-abiding Americans can't read them.
I did read the article...and yes, it does also mention different negative effects on the immune system of adults vs children, and then effectively says 'We don't know exactly what caused this' and 'although we found more allergies in children, this may actually be the cause of more cleaning rather than a effect'.
So the end of the article itself suggests 'These things we thought may be true may still be true, but this doesn't prove anything'
Saying that one ship pollutes as much as 50million cars is misleading. To be completely accurate, you must say one ship produces as much sulfer-pollution as 50million cars.
Now I have no doubt that this is still quite bad, but this doesn't mean that it has 50million times as much carbon emissions as cars. A quick google search shows that this can cause breathing problems and acid rain (both very bad) it doesn't seem to be a global warming problem. When you blindly say it pollutes 50million times as much of something cars now pollute very little of, it makes good headlines but it's bad science.
One of the common reasons that is given for having no earthquake alert system is that we can only predict an earth quake a matter of seconds in advance.
The idea of sending a text message to peoples cell phones, if done with some automated system, could potentially be used for this.
Though the question is how bogged down the cell networks would get, or if they'd have some sort of universal-packet where the cell-towers simply broadcast it to all phones, rather than targeting each phone individually.
Am I the only one who think it's more likely a reflection of today's bad economy?
I imagine with how difficult it is to get a job right now, even a student just graduating high school is aware that he'll have a hard time getting a decent job without a college or vocational degree.
Sure it's easier to apply online...but I don't think it's really harder for someone to send the application by mail, just slower
A for a traveling spaceship this could be useful. However, for the space station, most of the stuff we do is experiments in zero-gravity which couldn't be done if we're spinning it to simulate gravity.
If that's the reason it brings up other concerns. In particular the 'taller in the morning that at night syndrome'.
Eg, it's natural for the human body to contract during the day and expand at night. Who knows what the long term effects of not doing this for an extended period of time are. I could see this as being either good or bad
The article mentions wearing it in your sleep, but is that really necessary? I know I personally don't sleep standing up, so there's probably very little force-of-gravity effects on my legs.
It could be an issue if it's overly difficult to put on however, as that isn't mentioned.
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Personally, as long as the teacher didn't give specific names I don't think it's a big deal.
My mother used to be a teacher and one of my cousins is a teacher, and they will openly talk about how bad or stupid their students act. There shouldn't be anything wrong with publicly saying bad things about your students in general.
And although I'm in my late 20s, I can clearly remember how me and my classmates would act in our classes. There was little respect for the teacher, and seeing some of the things written for homework or tests by students who simply didn't care about that subject, it could be scary for a teacher.
Plus, I'm sure most of you can remember talking equally bad about some of your teachers. Now as long as this was a personal blog, and not like a blog put on the schools website, I find nothing wrong with this.
Being a teacher in the US these days, you have little you can actually do about your students. To say that a teacher can't even talk negatively about their students in general in public is laughable.
Isn't this more like the opposite of that?
Apple is squeezing itself in as yet another middleman in this instance
He should be suing Fox. I'm sure it was Fox News that inspired this fear of Wikileaks within him. Plus, they did all this after they convince him that if he steps outside of his trailer animals are going to attack him from all directions.
While I'm not against Mastercard saying "We won't allow customers to use Mastercard to buy illegal goods", I doubt they'll have a proper list of who to deny.
It would be ironic if suddenly less people allowed Mastercard for online purchases. I gotta imagine that nowadays online transactions are a large proportion of their income.
It strikes me as odd that a woman afraid if being the target of a sex crime would hang her underwear outside in the first place. It seems like her own action is the root cause rather than Google.
Plus, I can't imagine someone stalking the house of someone who they've never seen because underwear was hung outside. Now if the image had her with her underwear, it could be more serious (Unless she's hideous)
While I agree with the articles stance on the Net Neutrality issue being passed, the article fails to mention why the bill is bad. It just repeatedly says how horrible it is without giving any reasons.
When there are so many problems with the bill, the least they could do is mention them.
(Personally, I do agree that it has many problems. I can only base this on articles I've read elsewhere since the one on huffington is all rhetoric and no fact)
Being that he's from Wisconsin, I'd be amazed if he won the election without visiting the rural US.
Although I'm no expert, wikipedia says that about 68% live in the cities. One can't just ignore 32% of the electorate and expect to win (and it was a close race as you may recall)
The one example you give is actually the only question that isn't provable by facts.
Now you can try to argue "believe climate change is not occurring"...but really it's occurring. Argument is whether we're causing it. This is still slightly iffy as the survey taker might read it wrong.
"believe the health reform law will increase the deficit"
I think it was the non-partisan congressional commision that said it would decrease the deficit. Now whether you think it is a good idea is a different matter. It's factual that it's better for the deficit than what was in place before.
"believe Obama initiated the GM/Chrysler bailout"
Now if it was rephrased 'democrats' it may be true. I don't know the exact details on this, but it's slightly questionable at best.
Every other question is a definite yes or no answer easily verifiable.
One would assume that you would hardcode it so if the user loses his password, he can call the company. And trust me, they WILL lose their password.
One would hope that the password is put somewhere that a firmware flash can change it however.
Divulging classified information may be a felony, but it's a felony in this country. It's hard to argue we should arrest a foreign citizen who hasn't set foot in American territory or stolen the documents himself. Now arresting the person who leaked the documents to Assange is a different matter.
By your point of view, if someone leaked information detailing Iran's nuclear program, we should immediately send them back to Iran to be executed. After all, it's clearly against the law
It's hard to hold it against NYT but not Wikileaks. Even if NYT didn't publish any of it, it would be publicly available for anyone to download, regardless of whether it's considered classified. Being that the purpose of being classified is to keep the information out of the hands of malicious people who could use the information to do harm, assuming that these people wouldn't be able to just get it form the widely available source is just silly.
The main difference with the NYT is a larger portion of the American public would read it. One would hope that in general our documents aren't classified so law-abiding Americans can't read them.
This is news? Really?
I did read the article...and yes, it does also mention different negative effects on the immune system of adults vs children, and then effectively says 'We don't know exactly what caused this' and 'although we found more allergies in children, this may actually be the cause of more cleaning rather than a effect'.
So the end of the article itself suggests 'These things we thought may be true may still be true, but this doesn't prove anything'
Now the article suggests that it could either be caused by the hygiene or the chemicals used in the cleaners.
Now if this study was well done and had some control groups, say other forms of cleaners, we might learn something we didn't already know.
This article isn't about carbon emissions. It's actually about sulfur emissions (think acid rain)...misleading
As my earlier comment says, it's 500 times the *Sulfer* pollution of the world's vehicles....not climate change emissions
Saying that one ship pollutes as much as 50million cars is misleading. To be completely accurate, you must say one ship produces as much sulfer-pollution as 50million cars.
Now I have no doubt that this is still quite bad, but this doesn't mean that it has 50million times as much carbon emissions as cars. A quick google search shows that this can cause breathing problems and acid rain (both very bad) it doesn't seem to be a global warming problem. When you blindly say it pollutes 50million times as much of something cars now pollute very little of, it makes good headlines but it's bad science.
One of the common reasons that is given for having no earthquake alert system is that we can only predict an earth quake a matter of seconds in advance.
The idea of sending a text message to peoples cell phones, if done with some automated system, could potentially be used for this.
Though the question is how bogged down the cell networks would get, or if they'd have some sort of universal-packet where the cell-towers simply broadcast it to all phones, rather than targeting each phone individually.
Article summary states how it works incorrectly, which confused me.
"When the cells have been germinated, they burrow deep into the concrete until they reach the bottom."
should be
"When the cells have been germinated, they burrow deep into the concrete CRACKS until they reach the bottom"
Made me think at first it's going through the solid concrete which didn't sound like a good idea.
It seems to me that it's "Retailers demand exclusivity, threaten refusal to carry games"
Personally I think of boycott being something consumers do, not retailers. Walmart doesn't boycott products from 3rd world child labor, customers do.
Am I the only one who think it's more likely a reflection of today's bad economy?
I imagine with how difficult it is to get a job right now, even a student just graduating high school is aware that he'll have a hard time getting a decent job without a college or vocational degree.
Sure it's easier to apply online...but I don't think it's really harder for someone to send the application by mail, just slower
A for a traveling spaceship this could be useful. However, for the space station, most of the stuff we do is experiments in zero-gravity which couldn't be done if we're spinning it to simulate gravity.
If that's the reason it brings up other concerns. In particular the 'taller in the morning that at night syndrome'.
Eg, it's natural for the human body to contract during the day and expand at night. Who knows what the long term effects of not doing this for an extended period of time are. I could see this as being either good or bad
The article mentions wearing it in your sleep, but is that really necessary? I know I personally don't sleep standing up, so there's probably very little force-of-gravity effects on my legs.
It could be an issue if it's overly difficult to put on however, as that isn't mentioned.
Will consistency in inconsistency suffice?
Or consistently inconsistent