Corporal punishment only did one thing for me: Making sure I don't get found out again. That did hone my skill, admittedly, in avoiding being detected and led to general distrust of anything that could represent an authority figure.
The problem is exactly that teaches don't know how to use the machines sensibly and hence they become a tack-on while they try to teach with the same old material they used to stuff into students half a century ago. The solution is not to pull students back to pen and paper but to teach teachers how to use current equipment.
Seriously, I'm asking, why did anyone expect laptops to have a positive impact on test scores? Unless of course that laptop has internet access and may be used during tests, since 99% of our tests are geared towards regurgitating something, so the answer can easily be googled. But for learning?
Take a look at how those laptops are being used by the kids and, more importantly, how they are integrated into the class by the teachers: Not at all. How would they? You expect teachers who have exactly ZERO clue about computers, who probably know LESS about those machines than the students they're teaching, to show kids how to use computers to learn more efficiently? The teachers themselves could not use them, let alone teach how to use them.
That's the core of the problem, and unless you solve this bit you will not see any kind of benefit from handing machines to students.
When there is no way to learn anything useful at school, every minute you spend there is wasted, and if you absolutely have to be there, every minute you spend there awake is wasted.
While true, I do sincerely hope the US medical education does not depend on what's taught about organs in high school, or the US medical system is even more fucked than I imagined.
America was trying to strangle Japan to halt its expansion. You needn't drop bombs on a country to wage war with it, provided you can tell half the world to not do business with someone.
If you look back to the situation before WW2, the US wasn't really a military nation either. Most of what the US did concerning the war effort happened in that short period between Pearl Harbor and Hiroshima.
CAN is not a secure bus. And it was never meant to be one. CAN, when it was invented, was to be a lightweight bus system that connects internal car systems. And as such it works perfectly. At its conception, there was neither any kind of provision to make it "user space safe" nor was any form of wireless connection to it foreseen.
And if you use it as such it is a great bus system and does its job. Of course if you let marketing run amok, well, you get what you get when you let marketing amok. I highly doubt that any engineer said it would be a really splendid idea to make user systems part of the mission critical CAN bus (read: The one that any of the car's important systems listen to) or to allow wireless connections to it.
Then the pruning continues here with those poor white kids that didn't want to join the army and the poor brown kids that managed to scrape together the money to hire some human trafficker and now need to make money to pay their debt.
Don't worry, anyone who is in any way relevant will be protected. The system works.
Enjoy that multicultural bullshit for a while and then talk. We're at the point where the immigrants that have immigrated earlier and have been naturalized are now voting for the xenophobic-racist parties, if that gives you any ideas just how fucked up the situation is.
Odd. They seem to have moved elsewhere. All I get to see around here are unemployable bums who can barely communicate in their own language. Care to point to them? I'd like to find a few of those.
Tell me, has that promotion of sodomy made you gay? And if not, why do you think anyone who is gay would instead want to marry and breed?
We're not talking about "oh, if they outlaw Diesel engines I'll have to buy a car burning premium". This is about sexual preferences. You can't simply switch over. If you think it's possible, imagine fucking a guy.
Just imagine for a moment that fucking women is outlawed and if you want to get laid you have to fuck other guys. Well? Guess you'd probably prefer going solo, wouldn't you?
Why the fuck do you think anyone who is gay could get hard with a woman? That puzzles me to no end. Or are you one of those idiots that think you can pray away the gay?
Tell me: What do you think will happen when you take in a couple million people with zero marketable skill (because goat herding isn't that big an industry in your country) who don't even start to speak the language or write it (or any language for that matter) who make the Southern Baptists look secular, and throw them into a highly industrialized, practically irreligious and open minded society?
If you wanna know, take a look at Sweden or Germany. Especially around New Year's Eve.
That's basically our problem: We're aging, we're not repopulating at a sustainable rate and our economy does its best to make having kids as impossible as it can be.
Then he is unfit for the title of king, for a king that cannot or isn't willing to unite and lead his people out of a tyranny imposed by external or (worse) internal enemies of the people is no king.
I expect from a king that he is more than a puppet. If that's all he is, replace him with some stuffed animal. It's cheaper and has the same function.
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Corporal punishment only did one thing for me: Making sure I don't get found out again. That did hone my skill, admittedly, in avoiding being detected and led to general distrust of anything that could represent an authority figure.
In other words, I think it's a good thing.
The problem is exactly that teaches don't know how to use the machines sensibly and hence they become a tack-on while they try to teach with the same old material they used to stuff into students half a century ago. The solution is not to pull students back to pen and paper but to teach teachers how to use current equipment.
Well, more and more applications for social services and government handouts are done online, so...
The question is rather, why does it work in Scandinavia and not in the US?
Seriously, I'm asking, why did anyone expect laptops to have a positive impact on test scores? Unless of course that laptop has internet access and may be used during tests, since 99% of our tests are geared towards regurgitating something, so the answer can easily be googled. But for learning?
Take a look at how those laptops are being used by the kids and, more importantly, how they are integrated into the class by the teachers: Not at all. How would they? You expect teachers who have exactly ZERO clue about computers, who probably know LESS about those machines than the students they're teaching, to show kids how to use computers to learn more efficiently? The teachers themselves could not use them, let alone teach how to use them.
That's the core of the problem, and unless you solve this bit you will not see any kind of benefit from handing machines to students.
When there is no way to learn anything useful at school, every minute you spend there is wasted, and if you absolutely have to be there, every minute you spend there awake is wasted.
While true, I do sincerely hope the US medical education does not depend on what's taught about organs in high school, or the US medical system is even more fucked than I imagined.
America was trying to strangle Japan to halt its expansion. You needn't drop bombs on a country to wage war with it, provided you can tell half the world to not do business with someone.
For reference, see Cuba.
I think Russian soldiers might want a word with you concerning the question who had to bear what burden of that victory... if dead people could talk.
Thanks for the service, you were great while you were great.
NEXT!
If you look back to the situation before WW2, the US wasn't really a military nation either. Most of what the US did concerning the war effort happened in that short period between Pearl Harbor and Hiroshima.
Some inmates engage in such activity. Curiously it's roughly the fraction of people that are bi- or homosexual.
Fill up the oil and check the gas once in a while, yeah, I had a car like that, too...
CAN is not a secure bus. And it was never meant to be one. CAN, when it was invented, was to be a lightweight bus system that connects internal car systems. And as such it works perfectly. At its conception, there was neither any kind of provision to make it "user space safe" nor was any form of wireless connection to it foreseen.
And if you use it as such it is a great bus system and does its job. Of course if you let marketing run amok, well, you get what you get when you let marketing amok. I highly doubt that any engineer said it would be a really splendid idea to make user systems part of the mission critical CAN bus (read: The one that any of the car's important systems listen to) or to allow wireless connections to it.
Then the pruning continues here with those poor white kids that didn't want to join the army and the poor brown kids that managed to scrape together the money to hire some human trafficker and now need to make money to pay their debt.
Don't worry, anyone who is in any way relevant will be protected. The system works.
Enjoy that multicultural bullshit for a while and then talk. We're at the point where the immigrants that have immigrated earlier and have been naturalized are now voting for the xenophobic-racist parties, if that gives you any ideas just how fucked up the situation is.
Odd. They seem to have moved elsewhere. All I get to see around here are unemployable bums who can barely communicate in their own language. Care to point to them? I'd like to find a few of those.
So one of the few hundred assaults was made up? That changes everything!
Of course I go to work before I'm awake, it's bad enough that I have to be there but if I woke up before I can quit I'd probably go insane.
Tell me, has that promotion of sodomy made you gay? And if not, why do you think anyone who is gay would instead want to marry and breed?
We're not talking about "oh, if they outlaw Diesel engines I'll have to buy a car burning premium". This is about sexual preferences. You can't simply switch over. If you think it's possible, imagine fucking a guy.
Just imagine for a moment that fucking women is outlawed and if you want to get laid you have to fuck other guys. Well? Guess you'd probably prefer going solo, wouldn't you?
Why the fuck do you think anyone who is gay could get hard with a woman? That puzzles me to no end. Or are you one of those idiots that think you can pray away the gay?
Hey, we're currently trying that in Europe!
Tell me: What do you think will happen when you take in a couple million people with zero marketable skill (because goat herding isn't that big an industry in your country) who don't even start to speak the language or write it (or any language for that matter) who make the Southern Baptists look secular, and throw them into a highly industrialized, practically irreligious and open minded society?
If you wanna know, take a look at Sweden or Germany. Especially around New Year's Eve.
Pruning is currently in effect. We send poor white kids down into some countries to gun down poor brown kids. Don't worry, the system works.
That's basically our problem: We're aging, we're not repopulating at a sustainable rate and our economy does its best to make having kids as impossible as it can be.
Then he is unfit for the title of king, for a king that cannot or isn't willing to unite and lead his people out of a tyranny imposed by external or (worse) internal enemies of the people is no king.
I expect from a king that he is more than a puppet. If that's all he is, replace him with some stuffed animal. It's cheaper and has the same function.
I'm more besides it. A continent away, to be exact.
Hate all you want, but keep it on your continent. And it seems this time it's our turn to rebuild your continent after the war.