It has NOTHING to do with the skills of teachers. It's a problem with our expectations of what our educational system should provide, and a dearth of parental influence. Somewhere along the line, we decided that introducing Algebra and the history of Pre-Columbian Meso-American fishing cultures to third graders was a wonderful idea, and that we needed to test for every piece of trivia that any expert thought our 10th graders should know. Meanwhile, mommy and daddy both work until 6:30 pm, and barely have time to check if the kids have finished their 4 hours of homework per night.
When my son finishes high school, I want him to be self-sufficient. That means being capable of researching any topic, writing a concise summary of what he's found out and advocating his own opinion on the subject. That means balancing a checkbook and calculating how much wood he'll need to build fence. That means being able to reason his way through a natural disaster, and walk 5 miles to the nearest gas station when his car breaks down. That also means controlling his own emotions well enough to smile and wave at road-ragers. The rest, I am confident, he will get from my wife and I, and fill in for himself, based upon natural human curiosity and ambition.
Let's get the trivial pursuit tests out of our schools and give our kids the chance to take responsibility for their own future. America's aptly titled "greatest generation" grew up in the depression helping their families make ends meet, and their kids grew up on howdy-doody, and took us to the moon with slide rules. We're not going to get back to that by cramming more powerpoint presentations and multiple choice tests down our kids' throats. We're going to get back there by restoring single paycheck families and giving families the time to do something BESIDES watch TV for an hour before bedtime.
I don't think there's as much distance between our views as your post suggests. I would heartily agree with you that there is waste in health care spending. That doesn't mean the answer is cutting funding, however. Unfortunately, cuts DO affect EMS first, and America's EMS system is so near collapse that if it were a single company, it would have long ago filed bankruptcy and dissolved. Corporations will still take their profits. Doctors will still need to be highly paid to attract quality candidates. Higher paid than similarly educated, though? I think you'd need to document that. You rightfully suggest that there are alternatives to all or nothing. Unfortunately, you follow that by framing the question as medical care spending or every other field of study. That's also a false set of choices. Thanks for sharing your view with me.
If you think health care system spending is too high, you are probably under the mistaken idea that it's all for other people, and you'll never need to use the system yourself. I don't think you'll find anyone (sane) in an emergency room that wants to sign your petition endorsing less public spending on health care. Feel free to do your part, though, by putting DNR instructions in your wallet. Medical care and the military have a lot in common, they are only appreciated and supported when we need them RIGHT NOW, and then it's usually too late to add resources.
So go spend $130 on immunizing children. If you don't like what they're doing to make the world a better place, then go make it better your own way. Maslow didn't tell us how to make our world better, just what motivates our basic self-interest.
I'm not sure why I'm going to play Devil's advocate on an issue like this, but I am. There's no logical inconsistency with being gay and opposing gay marriage. The third leg to stand that hypocrisy stool up, is to oppose sex outside of marriage. You could even hold all three of those positions, if you were celibate, or catholic and you felt really bad about it afterwards.
I learned this by calling around last year for the XBOX 360, which I ebayed for a profit of $40/hour invested. Head out to a rural town just big enough to have a walmart that DOES NOT have a college of any sort nearby, and arrive a few hours (2-3 is plenty) before the ticket handout. You won't have a problem. You might drive a little farther to do this, but it's a lit more comfortable to drive a few hours out of town, then to sit in a lawnchair for 3 days. This may, of course, vary by state, or if Walmart's are exceedingly rare in your area.
Oh, I thought they said turn the Internet over to the The Onion. Never mind, then. If hilarity is not going to ensue, then take my name off the petition.
This is exactly the sort of coverage that makes Daily Show and You Tube important to our political process. Instead of Kerry's odd responses, I think this clip should be forwarded to anyone spouting off about how "offended" they were.
exNay on the Aysaying ouye umpedde ablecay, atthe's hyway iacomVe oesgay fterAy tubeUway!
Btw, if it's already up, you seriously need to see yesterday's analysis of the Kerry- flap-up, absolutely the best coverage of the issue on any medium, including newsprint.
Anti (Against)- Biotic (Relating to Life)... Antibiotic- Anti-Life, so technically a viral immunization could be considered an antibiotic (as long as you consider a virus to be alive, which is an open scientific question). The the virus itself could also be considered antibiotic, as could anti-freeze and anti-personnel mines. It sounds nitpicky, but no more so than usual for slashdot. The editor should probably go back and insert antiviral resistant, and penicillin should probably be referred to as anti-bacteriological.
Actually, in iWoz he claims he "invented" the personal computer. You don't even have to read the book, that's in the title, actually. It would probably be more accurate to say he "designed" the Apple series that pre-dated the MAC, but why quibble. (Oh wait, right, this is slashdot.)
I have a lot of respect for Steve Wozniak. I don't begrudge the guy a joke or two, but when you are writing up a review for publication, heroin-cultivation seems a bit beyond the pale, even if you want to just let the pot issue slide on the assumption he's from a different era. Not my intent to rally the pitch-fork wielding villagers to burn him out of his castle, just pointing out something from the article that made me pause.
Here's his review of the virtual plant idea from the article-
-Steve Wozniak (Apple) - Finals: -This would only be remotely entertaining if the plant was marijuana or opium and when you did -certain things like actually work, you killed your crop. Maybe you could make virtual cash and -compete online for the best cash crop. In order to grow the weed and heroin you have to browse -certain web sites that would require you be smoking weed to start with; like the Microsoft.com -Vista developer site.
I know he's never been the CEO type, but for the inventor of the MAC and a former teacher, I thought this was a bit crass. I wouldn't want to publish an app with someone who thought this was an appropriate public pronouncement. He sounds like a Slashdot troll.
If they don't like my ability to sell something I've bought to someone else, and buy similarly, then I have a simple solution for them. They can vote with their products and not sell them.
Space Invaders- Plot- Orderly flying aliens destroy New York City, floor by floor. Stars- Jackie Chan, Shaquille O'Neal and love interest Paris Hilton. Scene Take- Shaq: Jackie, [mumble] aliens [mumble] have to [mumble] Wall Street. (Jackie Chan begins climbing UN Building, swinging from flag to flag.) Paris: I think the aliens are hot.
Breakout- Plot- After construction fraud results in shoddy construction at a maximum security prison, a pair of wrongly convicted prisoners plot their escape on the handball court. Stars- The Rock, Nicholas Cage, Dave Chapelle (who dies during the escape) and Bill Mahr as the bumbling warden. Scene Take- Chapelle: Are you two stupid? You don't think anyone's going to notice you knocking the damn back wall down? Forget this! I'm gonna go see if the warden needs any more weed. The Rock: I don't want to do this, but the Warden's left me no other choice. Nicholas Cage stares out window intently. (Meanwhile in the Warden's office) Mahr (on phone): New Rule! If the prisoners have multiple life terms, they must attend the buddhist prayer services, so they will come back here in their next life too!
Asteroids- Plot: A giant asteroid is heading towards Earth and the only hope is a crack team of oil drillers. Stars: Bruce Willis, Ben Affleck and love interest Liv Tyler with Steve Buschemi as the lovable freak. Scene- Oh wait, never mind....
I could be wrong, and if I am someone will point it out (along with corrections to my grammar, punctuation and font size), but downloading copyrighted material isn't a violation. The violation is sharing the material without permission. Now, I suppose the MPAA might argue that the DMCA forbids circumventing DRM by using P2P, but they would be SOL because now you can claim you were intending to download the MP3 from JZ, but hey IANAL, I just like acronyms (a lot).
First, they came for the newspapers, and I did nothing because the Farsi Side comic was just re-prints now.
Next, they came for the books, and I looked the other way because the Death to America Book of the Month Club was only recommending books to burn anyway.
Then, they came for the Satellite Dishes, and I said nothing because I still had a year left on my Infidelphia Cable contract.
Finally, they came for my Internet Service, and no one was left to hear my ululation!
They are working with SUN to develop a portable XBOX to compete with PSP. If you look a few stories earlier you can find the prototype, codenamed "Blackbox".
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Cool, does this mean I'm now qualified to become a slashdot editor?
(Let me save you the trouble... "Qualified? You must be new here.")
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To answer my own question, there seems to be on-going speculations about Oracle buying out a distro. Specifically, Novell(SUSE), Ubuntu and Red Hat have been previously discussed as acquisitions.
I don't see anything indicated in his comment that would make me think they are going to create their own brand of linux. My first reaction would be that they would acquire an existing brand. That way they have some kind of name recognition within the linux community with which to start. Then they can tinker/screw with it to their heart's content. I don't know the Linux Distros very well, anyone suggest a name that might be open to being acquired?
This seems to be an infected memory stick, not a player. That would be some serious news, by itself, if McDonalds was giving out MP3 players with meals in Japan, viros or not.
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It has NOTHING to do with the skills of teachers. It's a problem with our expectations of what our educational system should provide, and a dearth of parental influence. Somewhere along the line, we decided that introducing Algebra and the history of Pre-Columbian Meso-American fishing cultures to third graders was a wonderful idea, and that we needed to test for every piece of trivia that any expert thought our 10th graders should know. Meanwhile, mommy and daddy both work until 6:30 pm, and barely have time to check if the kids have finished their 4 hours of homework per night.
When my son finishes high school, I want him to be self-sufficient. That means being capable of researching any topic, writing a concise summary of what he's found out and advocating his own opinion on the subject. That means balancing a checkbook and calculating how much wood he'll need to build fence. That means being able to reason his way through a natural disaster, and walk 5 miles to the nearest gas station when his car breaks down. That also means controlling his own emotions well enough to smile and wave at road-ragers. The rest, I am confident, he will get from my wife and I, and fill in for himself, based upon natural human curiosity and ambition.
Let's get the trivial pursuit tests out of our schools and give our kids the chance to take responsibility for their own future. America's aptly titled "greatest generation" grew up in the depression helping their families make ends meet, and their kids grew up on howdy-doody, and took us to the moon with slide rules. We're not going to get back to that by cramming more powerpoint presentations and multiple choice tests down our kids' throats. We're going to get back there by restoring single paycheck families and giving families the time to do something BESIDES watch TV for an hour before bedtime.
I don't think there's as much distance between our views as your post suggests. I would heartily agree with you that there is waste in health care spending. That doesn't mean the answer is cutting funding, however. Unfortunately, cuts DO affect EMS first, and America's EMS system is so near collapse that if it were a single company, it would have long ago filed bankruptcy and dissolved. Corporations will still take their profits. Doctors will still need to be highly paid to attract quality candidates. Higher paid than similarly educated, though? I think you'd need to document that. You rightfully suggest that there are alternatives to all or nothing. Unfortunately, you follow that by framing the question as medical care spending or every other field of study. That's also a false set of choices. Thanks for sharing your view with me.
If you think health care system spending is too high, you are probably under the mistaken idea that it's all for other people, and you'll never need to use the system yourself. I don't think you'll find anyone (sane) in an emergency room that wants to sign your petition endorsing less public spending on health care. Feel free to do your part, though, by putting DNR instructions in your wallet. Medical care and the military have a lot in common, they are only appreciated and supported when we need them RIGHT NOW, and then it's usually too late to add resources.
This time, I'm SURE itsatrap!
(Actually, it's probably just a rescue mission for the polar bears.)
A monkey punched me and stole my IPOD, you insensitive clod!
So go spend $130 on immunizing children. If you don't like what they're doing to make the world a better place, then go make it better your own way. Maslow didn't tell us how to make our world better, just what motivates our basic self-interest.
I'm not sure why I'm going to play Devil's advocate on an issue like this, but I am. There's no logical inconsistency with being gay and opposing gay marriage. The third leg to stand that hypocrisy stool up, is to oppose sex outside of marriage. You could even hold all three of those positions, if you were celibate, or catholic and you felt really bad about it afterwards.
I learned this by calling around last year for the XBOX 360, which I ebayed for a profit of $40/hour invested. Head out to a rural town just big enough to have a walmart that DOES NOT have a college of any sort nearby, and arrive a few hours (2-3 is plenty) before the ticket handout. You won't have a problem. You might drive a little farther to do this, but it's a lit more comfortable to drive a few hours out of town, then to sit in a lawnchair for 3 days. This may, of course, vary by state, or if Walmart's are exceedingly rare in your area.
Turn over the Internet to the U.N.?
Oh, I thought they said turn the Internet over to the The Onion. Never mind, then. If hilarity is not going to ensue, then take my name off the petition.
Here's the Daily Show Clip
This is exactly the sort of coverage that makes Daily Show and You Tube important to our political process. Instead of Kerry's odd responses, I think this clip should be forwarded to anyone spouting off about how "offended" they were.
exNay on the Aysaying ouye umpedde ablecay, atthe's hyway iacomVe oesgay fterAy tubeUway!
Btw, if it's already up, you seriously need to see yesterday's analysis of the Kerry- flap-up, absolutely the best coverage of the issue on any medium, including newsprint.
Anti (Against)- Biotic (Relating to Life)...
Antibiotic- Anti-Life, so technically a viral immunization could be considered an antibiotic (as long as you consider a virus to be alive, which is an open scientific question). The the virus itself could also be considered antibiotic, as could anti-freeze and anti-personnel mines. It sounds nitpicky, but no more so than usual for slashdot. The editor should probably go back and insert antiviral resistant, and penicillin should probably be referred to as anti-bacteriological.
That's true, since many browsers automatically post on the .com if you skip putting the tld, you can just tell them to go to hell!
Actually, in iWoz he claims he "invented" the personal computer. You don't even have to read the book, that's in the title, actually. It would probably be more accurate to say he "designed" the Apple series that pre-dated the MAC, but why quibble. (Oh wait, right, this is slashdot.)
I have a lot of respect for Steve Wozniak. I don't begrudge the guy a joke or two, but when you are writing up a review for publication, heroin-cultivation seems a bit beyond the pale, even if you want to just let the pot issue slide on the assumption he's from a different era. Not my intent to rally the pitch-fork wielding villagers to burn him out of his castle, just pointing out something from the article that made me pause.
Here's his review of the virtual plant idea from the article-
-Steve Wozniak (Apple) - Finals:
-This would only be remotely entertaining if the plant was marijuana or opium and when you did -certain things like actually work, you killed your crop. Maybe you could make virtual cash and -compete online for the best cash crop. In order to grow the weed and heroin you have to browse -certain web sites that would require you be smoking weed to start with; like the Microsoft.com -Vista developer site.
I know he's never been the CEO type, but for the inventor of the MAC and a former teacher, I thought this was a bit crass. I wouldn't want to publish an app with someone who thought this was an appropriate public pronouncement. He sounds like a Slashdot troll.
If they don't like my ability to sell something I've bought to someone else, and buy similarly, then I have a simple solution for them. They can vote with their products and not sell them.
Space Invaders-
Plot- Orderly flying aliens destroy New York City, floor by floor.
Stars- Jackie Chan, Shaquille O'Neal and love interest Paris Hilton.
Scene Take-
Shaq: Jackie, [mumble] aliens [mumble] have to [mumble] Wall Street.
(Jackie Chan begins climbing UN Building, swinging from flag to flag.)
Paris: I think the aliens are hot.
Breakout-
Plot- After construction fraud results in shoddy construction at a maximum security prison, a pair of wrongly convicted prisoners plot their escape on the handball court.
Stars- The Rock, Nicholas Cage, Dave Chapelle (who dies during the escape) and Bill Mahr as the bumbling warden.
Scene Take-
Chapelle: Are you two stupid? You don't think anyone's going to notice you knocking the damn back wall down? Forget this! I'm gonna go see if the warden needs any more weed.
The Rock: I don't want to do this, but the Warden's left me no other choice.
Nicholas Cage stares out window intently.
(Meanwhile in the Warden's office)
Mahr (on phone): New Rule! If the prisoners have multiple life terms, they must attend the buddhist prayer services, so they will come back here in their next life too!
Asteroids-
Plot: A giant asteroid is heading towards Earth and the only hope is a crack team of oil drillers.
Stars: Bruce Willis, Ben Affleck and love interest Liv Tyler with Steve Buschemi as the lovable freak.
Scene- Oh wait, never mind....
This is a slightly better article discussing more of the substance of the claim.
I could be wrong, and if I am someone will point it out (along with corrections to my grammar, punctuation and font size), but downloading copyrighted material isn't a violation. The violation is sharing the material without permission. Now, I suppose the MPAA might argue that the DMCA forbids circumventing DRM by using P2P, but they would be SOL because now you can claim you were intending to download the MP3 from JZ, but hey IANAL, I just like acronyms (a lot).
First, they came for the newspapers, and I did nothing
because the Farsi Side comic was just re-prints now.
Next, they came for the books, and I looked the other way
because the Death to America Book of the Month Club
was only recommending books to burn anyway.
Then, they came for the Satellite Dishes, and I said nothing
because I still had a year left on my Infidelphia Cable contract.
Finally, they came for my Internet Service, and no one was left
to hear my ululation!
They are working with SUN to develop a portable XBOX to compete with PSP. If you look a few stories earlier you can find the prototype, codenamed "Blackbox".
Cool, does this mean I'm now qualified to become a slashdot editor?
(Let me save you the trouble... "Qualified? You must be new here.")
To answer my own question, there seems to be on-going speculations about Oracle buying out a distro. Specifically, Novell(SUSE), Ubuntu and Red Hat have been previously discussed as acquisitions.
I don't see anything indicated in his comment that would make me think they are going to create their own brand of linux. My first reaction would be that they would acquire an existing brand. That way they have some kind of name recognition within the linux community with which to start. Then they can tinker/screw with it to their heart's content. I don't know the Linux Distros very well, anyone suggest a name that might be open to being acquired?
This seems to be an infected memory stick, not a player. That would be some serious news, by itself, if McDonalds was giving out MP3 players with meals in Japan, viros or not.