Not that they should, but the textbook industry does add quite a bit of value to the academic experience if your instructors just teach from the text, use quizzes provided by the publisher, and only provide their own feedback when there are questions.
That being said, I'm all for instructors having to actually develop the material for their courses. The problem is that they can claim they don't have time to develop their courses alone because they're teaching so many students because enrollment is up and they don't want to turn anyone away if they don't have to. Though this will depend on the type of college.
The funny thing is to hear these instructors complain that distance learning is killing their jobs because it's really just exposing the fact that they're choosing to only be conduits of information rather than actual teachers who develop coursework.
One second people are blowing bubbles and the next they are throwing bubble bottles and then next it's rocks and people are setting cars and buildings on fire and looting.
I'm not sure why you're a registered Republican based on the issues you mention. While both Democrats and Republicans seem typically interested in maintaining political power and supporting the interests of their corporate sponsors, the Republicans tend to have the worst record on the issues you're opposed to. They support the War on Drugs, the Patriot Act, and big government when it suits them.
The alternative to being treated like wards of the government is being treated like slaves of the corporations. If you're opposed to either, then we need to play them off each other instead of letting them play us off of either of them.
If you vote Republican, you're voting against your own interests. Many Republicans already do that (for instance the Tea Party patriots who vote Republican and think that Glenn Beck is some kind of grass roots patriot and not a millionaire blowhard more akin to a televangelist).
I don't like the Democrats either, but they tend to be the lesser of two evils.
RTFA again. He said he would install it and they would remove it. While your point about how doing this could possibly get him fired still stands, he's talking about only having the students remove it.
Just because lobbyists are arguing for a particular group doesn't mean they're always wrong.
No, it just means they're always biased and will use the truth to manipulate the legislative process to favor their interests. The most dangerous lies are 99% true.
While I can concur with most of your points regarding the subsequent wars (though however costly the Korean War was, it's still technically a stalemate rather than an outright loss), WWII was not won for the Americans by European scientists.
Certainly the Pacific front was ended sooner with the advent of the atomic bomb, but the European front was unaffected by this technology. The European front was finished off by the Allies after the Russians battled Germany to a standstill. Not to mention that the Pacific front was able to be ended with the atomic bomb because of the American victories in the Pacific up to that point, which involved many hard fought battles.
I would argue that it's not the American soldiers who didn't have many successes with their fighting, but rather the US Administration and their strategists and bureaucrats that have mucked up the potential of the American military.
Yes and no. Depends on whose perspective you take. Usually the victor gets to determine "the truth" after the fact.
There were no American citizens involved in the Revolutionary War until either the Declaration of Independence in 1776 (at which point they no longer considered themselves British subjects) or 1777 when the Articles of Confederation were adopted (i.e. United States government was formed and thus had its own citizens) or 1778 when France recognized the United States of America's sovereignty (i.e. even more official nationhood and thus citizenship established).
Definitely by the signing of the Treaty of Paris in 1783, they were in fact citizens of the United States of America.
With torrents, the act of downloading is simultaneous with uploading, and unavoidable. It's the same act. The company is double dipping if they try to hold you accountable for both downloading and uploading, because they're also suing the guy who downloaded from you.
In one respect, the Emperor has no clothes. College is a just a bunch of hoops to jump through to get a piece of paper that supposedly (but doesn't) mean that you have skills. What it actually means is that you spent a lot of money (and made the loan servicer and your college a lot of money) and you jumped through a bunch of hoops. The skills you could gain can be gained through checking books out from the library, camping at the bookstore, and googling everything. RTFM and JFGI (google the acronyms if you don't know what they stand for).
The upside to college is that there are some skills that are more difficult to learn on your own. Also, there are a lot of entrenched managers from older generations that won't look at your resume if you don't have that stupid piece of paper. So it can get you places and a modicum of respect, but you have to smile and say you learned a lot and deny that the emperor is buck naked.
On the other hand, you can just be self-taught. Web design can be learned through reading design blogs, reading web design books from the library, and a lot of experimentation and experience actually designing websites. Web design is a demonstrable skill that doesn't necessarily require a piece of paper on the wall. There will be some closed doors because of the lack of the piece of paper, though.
If you decide to go to college for web design, stay away from rip off online colleges that are just diploma mills. Four year colleges are expensive and unnecessary for a web design degree. Find a nice, cheap community college with a distance learning program and web design major available.
Build your resume with as much experience as possible and build an online portfolio of your designs. This will get you a lot farther than a piece of paper in many cases. A lot of clients are just looking for people who know how to design and they don't care where you picked it up. Show them what you can do.
So apparently you didn't RTFA to which you posted a link.
The comments explain that the results were merely domain vs domain and didn't take into account Google's other domains and services. It was strictly traffic to google.com and facebook.com. YouTube (owned by Google) was left out from Google's stats, as well as every other domain Google runs.
Damn lies != proof.
And what if you can't change the system?
What if you could look at the state of the system and realize that you don't have the kind of the budget to invest in fighting those who have near-infinite budgets for buying off the politicians and purchasing the laws they need to perpetuate their obsolete business models?
I have heard the "change the system" rhetoric a lot, but I've never actually heard any of the people who espouse that approach provide authentic, practical methods for doing so.
Beyond money, you would need to be very clever to come up with strategies to overcome the efforts and the cleverness of the significant portion of the population that is employed in maintaining and expanding the wealth of the wealthiest percent of the population.
Tell me, in practical, realistic steps, how I can change the system, while still remaining employed and able to make payments on my mortgage, and I will put full effort into it.
If you can't think of any such steps, please, don't suggest an impossibility and act like you contributed something valuable to the discussion.
I've always thought that since they're called "public servants," politicians elected to office should give up their privacy and become publicly broadcast. Basically they need their own reality shows. Camera crews following them 24/7. CSPAN meets Wifeswap. And corrupt politicians would be the sorry people. Bacon would no longer be good for them.
Um...Did you RTFB? It had everything to do with rewriting history. "We've always been at war with Eastasia." It was a reference to the actions of Stalin's regime. Hence the famous pictures of Stalin with the guys airbrushed out once they became persona non grata.
I'm tired of the fanbois talking about malware on PCs. If you have malware on your PC, you're an idiot who downloads shady programs from shady websites and doesn't use security software. That's not a flaw in the OS, it's a flaw in the user.
Some people associate the value of pirated games with the ability to obtain and play them for free. If you have to pay for it, it is no longer of value.
If the defendant could be held responsible for distributing content that others continued to seed after they downloaded said content from her, then they couldn't be held responsible for their actions since it was her fault. Therefore, since she only seeded from those who distributed to her, she can't be held responsible for distribution because she wouldn't have been able to upload if someone hadn't allowed her to download in the first place. So, no, not 4096. Just the 2.
Justice: "You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means."
What you're describing is superstition and paranoia, not justice.
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Not that they should, but the textbook industry does add quite a bit of value to the academic experience if your instructors just teach from the text, use quizzes provided by the publisher, and only provide their own feedback when there are questions.
That being said, I'm all for instructors having to actually develop the material for their courses. The problem is that they can claim they don't have time to develop their courses alone because they're teaching so many students because enrollment is up and they don't want to turn anyone away if they don't have to. Though this will depend on the type of college.
The funny thing is to hear these instructors complain that distance learning is killing their jobs because it's really just exposing the fact that they're choosing to only be conduits of information rather than actual teachers who develop coursework.
One second people are blowing bubbles and the next they are throwing bubble bottles and then next it's rocks and people are setting cars and buildings on fire and looting.
Careful, your slippery slope is showing.
I'm not sure why you're a registered Republican based on the issues you mention. While both Democrats and Republicans seem typically interested in maintaining political power and supporting the interests of their corporate sponsors, the Republicans tend to have the worst record on the issues you're opposed to. They support the War on Drugs, the Patriot Act, and big government when it suits them.
The alternative to being treated like wards of the government is being treated like slaves of the corporations. If you're opposed to either, then we need to play them off each other instead of letting them play us off of either of them.
If you vote Republican, you're voting against your own interests. Many Republicans already do that (for instance the Tea Party patriots who vote Republican and think that Glenn Beck is some kind of grass roots patriot and not a millionaire blowhard more akin to a televangelist).
I don't like the Democrats either, but they tend to be the lesser of two evils.
RTFA again. He said he would install it and they would remove it. While your point about how doing this could possibly get him fired still stands, he's talking about only having the students remove it.
Just because lobbyists are arguing for a particular group doesn't mean they're always wrong.
No, it just means they're always biased and will use the truth to manipulate the legislative process to favor their interests. The most dangerous lies are 99% true.
While I can concur with most of your points regarding the subsequent wars (though however costly the Korean War was, it's still technically a stalemate rather than an outright loss), WWII was not won for the Americans by European scientists.
Certainly the Pacific front was ended sooner with the advent of the atomic bomb, but the European front was unaffected by this technology. The European front was finished off by the Allies after the Russians battled Germany to a standstill. Not to mention that the Pacific front was able to be ended with the atomic bomb because of the American victories in the Pacific up to that point, which involved many hard fought battles.
I would argue that it's not the American soldiers who didn't have many successes with their fighting, but rather the US Administration and their strategists and bureaucrats that have mucked up the potential of the American military.
Yes and no. Depends on whose perspective you take. Usually the victor gets to determine "the truth" after the fact.
There were no American citizens involved in the Revolutionary War until either the Declaration of Independence in 1776 (at which point they no longer considered themselves British subjects) or 1777 when the Articles of Confederation were adopted (i.e. United States government was formed and thus had its own citizens) or 1778 when France recognized the United States of America's sovereignty (i.e. even more official nationhood and thus citizenship established).
Definitely by the signing of the Treaty of Paris in 1783, they were in fact citizens of the United States of America.
The truth is uncouth when scrawled on the wall of a bathroom stall or a telephone booth.
With torrents, the act of downloading is simultaneous with uploading, and unavoidable. It's the same act. The company is double dipping if they try to hold you accountable for both downloading and uploading, because they're also suing the guy who downloaded from you.
Mod parent as: WTF are you talking about?!?
You have a choice to make.
In one respect, the Emperor has no clothes. College is a just a bunch of hoops to jump through to get a piece of paper that supposedly (but doesn't) mean that you have skills. What it actually means is that you spent a lot of money (and made the loan servicer and your college a lot of money) and you jumped through a bunch of hoops. The skills you could gain can be gained through checking books out from the library, camping at the bookstore, and googling everything. RTFM and JFGI (google the acronyms if you don't know what they stand for).
The upside to college is that there are some skills that are more difficult to learn on your own. Also, there are a lot of entrenched managers from older generations that won't look at your resume if you don't have that stupid piece of paper. So it can get you places and a modicum of respect, but you have to smile and say you learned a lot and deny that the emperor is buck naked.
On the other hand, you can just be self-taught. Web design can be learned through reading design blogs, reading web design books from the library, and a lot of experimentation and experience actually designing websites. Web design is a demonstrable skill that doesn't necessarily require a piece of paper on the wall. There will be some closed doors because of the lack of the piece of paper, though.
If you decide to go to college for web design, stay away from rip off online colleges that are just diploma mills. Four year colleges are expensive and unnecessary for a web design degree. Find a nice, cheap community college with a distance learning program and web design major available.
Build your resume with as much experience as possible and build an online portfolio of your designs. This will get you a lot farther than a piece of paper in many cases. A lot of clients are just looking for people who know how to design and they don't care where you picked it up. Show them what you can do.
JFGI
So apparently you didn't RTFA to which you posted a link. The comments explain that the results were merely domain vs domain and didn't take into account Google's other domains and services. It was strictly traffic to google.com and facebook.com. YouTube (owned by Google) was left out from Google's stats, as well as every other domain Google runs. Damn lies != proof.
This was news like 2-3 weeks ago
Your observation, however, hasn't been relevant at any point in history.
And what if you can't change the system? What if you could look at the state of the system and realize that you don't have the kind of the budget to invest in fighting those who have near-infinite budgets for buying off the politicians and purchasing the laws they need to perpetuate their obsolete business models? I have heard the "change the system" rhetoric a lot, but I've never actually heard any of the people who espouse that approach provide authentic, practical methods for doing so. Beyond money, you would need to be very clever to come up with strategies to overcome the efforts and the cleverness of the significant portion of the population that is employed in maintaining and expanding the wealth of the wealthiest percent of the population. Tell me, in practical, realistic steps, how I can change the system, while still remaining employed and able to make payments on my mortgage, and I will put full effort into it. If you can't think of any such steps, please, don't suggest an impossibility and act like you contributed something valuable to the discussion.
I've always thought that since they're called "public servants," politicians elected to office should give up their privacy and become publicly broadcast. Basically they need their own reality shows. Camera crews following them 24/7. CSPAN meets Wifeswap. And corrupt politicians would be the sorry people. Bacon would no longer be good for them.
Great, now /. is going to get investigated by the Pakistani police. Happy?
Um...Did you RTFB? It had everything to do with rewriting history. "We've always been at war with Eastasia." It was a reference to the actions of Stalin's regime. Hence the famous pictures of Stalin with the guys airbrushed out once they became persona non grata.
And I'll leave this right here: http://adblockplus.org/en/
I'm tired of the fanbois talking about malware on PCs. If you have malware on your PC, you're an idiot who downloads shady programs from shady websites and doesn't use security software. That's not a flaw in the OS, it's a flaw in the user.
Ning recently announced it's focusing on its premium accounts and leaving the free accounts out in the cold.
Some people associate the value of pirated games with the ability to obtain and play them for free. If you have to pay for it, it is no longer of value.
If the defendant could be held responsible for distributing content that others continued to seed after they downloaded said content from her, then they couldn't be held responsible for their actions since it was her fault. Therefore, since she only seeded from those who distributed to her, she can't be held responsible for distribution because she wouldn't have been able to upload if someone hadn't allowed her to download in the first place. So, no, not 4096. Just the 2.
Your medical records are not contracts nor is your mail or conversations in a car.
Justice: "You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means." What you're describing is superstition and paranoia, not justice.