The problem with crackpot conspiracies is that there always ARE people who come out. Just none with any credibility and/or evidence. There are tons of people with "inside info" on who killed JFK, UFOs, Bigfoot, the Sasquatch, etc. When I first got into politics and the internet, I bought into the Whitewater and Vince Foster conspiracies precisely because there were people with clout saying these things were true. Hell, there was even an article in Time! Same goes for the Swiftboaters and Reagan-created-AIDS.
What I'm saying is, a conspiracy, by my colloquial definition, is a strongly or widely held belief in a dictionary definition conspiracy based on false or little real evidence.
Wrong. There's such a glut of oil that tankers have nowhere to go. On top of that, gas prices dropped like a rock over the last two year with only meager price hikes.
That's precisely the point I'm NOT trying to make. I'm talking about the prestige projects that have upfront costs and potential long-term benefits. As your sibling lists, projects like the moon landing, ARPANET, and GPS that were initially on expenses that became technology drivers.
One thing that's been missing from this country is the willingness to do big, daring things out of national pride. For example, the Europeans had the Concorde and Japan has their high-speed rail. I'd love to see this happen just to show that we can. Develop the technology and let others follow.
One of my cult favorites is the movie The Fifth Element. There are several great scenes in the tiny, but ingeniously-design "maximized space" apartment that the hero Corbin Dallas lives in.
The fridge descended into the floor and revealed a shower stall. The bed worked as a previous poster noted in a English flat, half-way out==couc, all-the-way-out==bed. Everything was stored in wall spaces.
First, you don't need to provide 1-to-1 PCs. Second, your infrastructure will only extend to a handful of rooms. Third, you can invest in higher end machines with better software. Fourth, you can also afford real IT support. Sixth, you can more easily monitor how computers are being used by teachers in lesson planning. Scheduled computer lab time means that teachers can create simple atomic lessons rather than being pressured to integrate computers into the everyday teaching experience. Seventh, you can keep your PCs secure without worrying about theft or mommy taking the kid's PC to the local pawn shop for beer money.
I worked in school district that ran on this model. Additionally, each teacher had a single PC in her room. The only caveat I'd add is that students should also have access to computer labs on their own time; mornings, lunch, after school. This lets them explore a bit and increase their familiarity.
Stop being such a jerk to Andie MacDowell and trying to get in her pants all the time and maybe you'll break the loop. After all, the great lesson of the universe is trying to score is evil. Stop touching yourself!
Haven't played in a while, but I didn't know about this. Now, hopefully the inflation hell that is gold farming will settle down prices and make it worth the time to farm.
I assumed Democrat, not because of the issue or because I knew who she was, but because I assumed Latino name=Democrat. I wonder how much stereotyping had to do with the omission? I'll admit that I did.
Huh? Seven of 9 justices were put in place by conservative Presidents. Some people like to consider 2 others "liberal" by a very right-leaning standard. There isn't a solidly liberal justice on the court right now in the tradition of an Earl Warren. We don't have a Supreme Court that in any way approaches left-leaning. That's propaganda to get the right-wing based fired up. It'll take 3 picks, all replacing Conservatives, to sway the court. Sutter retiring is a one-for-one.
And, this bill was proposed by 15 kooky Congressmen. If it approaches even consideration for a vote I'd be shocked; much less passed by either House. It so shallowly smacks of an affront to the 1st amendment, the sponsors should be whacked with rolled-up newspapers for crapping on the spirit of Free Speech. BTW, I thought the court case was bogus too.
Hey, I hate paying taxes too (I pay more in taxes than my salary was when I started my current job). But, I also love all this free street light and the paved roads and not worrying about corrupt magistrates busting my door down and raping my family and demanding bribes.
You want to see what it's like living in a country with low taxes and weak government, vacation in the 3rd world.
It's PARENTS. I worked in a high school for 2 years. Parents today are sending less disciplined, less respectful students to school and expecting the teachers to make up the slack.
Parents are so arrogant that when Little Johnny comes home with a story about why their teacher is so bad and mean to them, they never even stop to consider that their child could be doing what children do; lying to avoid responsibility for their own actions.
Kind of a long story, but I'll share one incident. The junior class at the school I worked at was getting into LOTS of trouble; DUIs, MIPs, bad academics, poor performance in school sports, you name it. So, the principal called an assembly where he sent out all of the teachers except for a handful of administrators. He told them quite frankly that they were screwing up and ruining their futures. He basically challenged them to turn their class around.
Well, ALL the kids ran home and told their parents what a mean, bad principal they had and that he'd called them stupid slackers, etc. Naturally, having worked with the students when I heard this story I called BS and did my own questioning of kids. What they'd all admit if you took the 30 seconds to skeptically question them was that the principal had done nothing of the sort. That they were exaggerating what he'd said and that they had gotten the precise response they wanted from their parents. The parents blamed the teachers and the administrators.
And, this wasn't some poor, troubled school. This was a obscenely wealthy school district in a college town with a lot of children of college staff and administration in attendance.
This "debate" has been going on for a long time. The problem with the current tiered model is that cable providers are forced to pay for services that many users don't want because large segments of the customer base want them. So, Comcast can't negotiate their licensing prices based on the fact that only X% of users want those channels. CNN and ESPN packages account for a huge portion of the typical cable bill (about $8 as I recall).
With a la carte pricing, these content providers won't be able to leverage the need to service all-or-none in their pricing.
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The problem with crackpot conspiracies is that there always ARE people who come out. Just none with any credibility and/or evidence. There are tons of people with "inside info" on who killed JFK, UFOs, Bigfoot, the Sasquatch, etc. When I first got into politics and the internet, I bought into the Whitewater and Vince Foster conspiracies precisely because there were people with clout saying these things were true. Hell, there was even an article in Time! Same goes for the Swiftboaters and Reagan-created-AIDS.
What I'm saying is, a conspiracy, by my colloquial definition, is a strongly or widely held belief in a dictionary definition conspiracy based on false or little real evidence.
"This message was paid for by Americans for Refrigeration Freedom." Was it really necessary to stand up for the fridge in this story?
NASA has designated contingency landing strips all across the planet. They only use the most convenient strips because it's, well, conveninet.
Wrong. There's such a glut of oil that tankers have nowhere to go. On top of that, gas prices dropped like a rock over the last two year with only meager price hikes.
That's precisely the point I'm NOT trying to make. I'm talking about the prestige projects that have upfront costs and potential long-term benefits. As your sibling lists, projects like the moon landing, ARPANET, and GPS that were initially on expenses that became technology drivers.
One thing that's been missing from this country is the willingness to do big, daring things out of national pride. For example, the Europeans had the Concorde and Japan has their high-speed rail. I'd love to see this happen just to show that we can. Develop the technology and let others follow.
That trick only works for tripping up armored walkers.
Did you watch the Superbowl this year? I don't see that happening.
So, is Salma Hayek the first Mexican American astronaut?
Not all Americans think torture is cool. Just the 1/2 of us who brought you George Bush. (hint: they're called Republicans)
One of my cult favorites is the movie The Fifth Element. There are several great scenes in the tiny, but ingeniously-design "maximized space" apartment that the hero Corbin Dallas lives in.
The fridge descended into the floor and revealed a shower stall. The bed worked as a previous poster noted in a English flat, half-way out==couc, all-the-way-out==bed. Everything was stored in wall spaces.
Fifth, you can learn how to count :)
First, you don't need to provide 1-to-1 PCs. Second, your infrastructure will only extend to a handful of rooms. Third, you can invest in higher end machines with better software. Fourth, you can also afford real IT support. Sixth, you can more easily monitor how computers are being used by teachers in lesson planning. Scheduled computer lab time means that teachers can create simple atomic lessons rather than being pressured to integrate computers into the everyday teaching experience. Seventh, you can keep your PCs secure without worrying about theft or mommy taking the kid's PC to the local pawn shop for beer money.
I worked in school district that ran on this model. Additionally, each teacher had a single PC in her room. The only caveat I'd add is that students should also have access to computer labs on their own time; mornings, lunch, after school. This lets them explore a bit and increase their familiarity.
Mindlessly easy to use, you can burn it onto floppies or CDs as a boot image, and effective.
But, they'd have to upgrade it to a real online paper and not the template they're using right now.
Yes, more women!
Debating the astrophysics of a warp drive tops that in my book. Now, where's that carburetor rebuilding thread?
Stop being such a jerk to Andie MacDowell and trying to get in her pants all the time and maybe you'll break the loop. After all, the great lesson of the universe is trying to score is evil. Stop touching yourself!
Haven't played in a while, but I didn't know about this. Now, hopefully the inflation hell that is gold farming will settle down prices and make it worth the time to farm.
I assumed Democrat, not because of the issue or because I knew who she was, but because I assumed Latino name=Democrat. I wonder how much stereotyping had to do with the omission? I'll admit that I did.
I'm all for taking away the rights of children to have Free Speech; or noise in general when I'm trying to watch TV.
Huh? Seven of 9 justices were put in place by conservative Presidents. Some people like to consider 2 others "liberal" by a very right-leaning standard. There isn't a solidly liberal justice on the court right now in the tradition of an Earl Warren. We don't have a Supreme Court that in any way approaches left-leaning. That's propaganda to get the right-wing based fired up. It'll take 3 picks, all replacing Conservatives, to sway the court. Sutter retiring is a one-for-one.
And, this bill was proposed by 15 kooky Congressmen. If it approaches even consideration for a vote I'd be shocked; much less passed by either House. It so shallowly smacks of an affront to the 1st amendment, the sponsors should be whacked with rolled-up newspapers for crapping on the spirit of Free Speech. BTW, I thought the court case was bogus too.
Hey, I hate paying taxes too (I pay more in taxes than my salary was when I started my current job). But, I also love all this free street light and the paved roads and not worrying about corrupt magistrates busting my door down and raping my family and demanding bribes.
You want to see what it's like living in a country with low taxes and weak government, vacation in the 3rd world.
It's PARENTS. I worked in a high school for 2 years. Parents today are sending less disciplined, less respectful students to school and expecting the teachers to make up the slack.
Parents are so arrogant that when Little Johnny comes home with a story about why their teacher is so bad and mean to them, they never even stop to consider that their child could be doing what children do; lying to avoid responsibility for their own actions.
Kind of a long story, but I'll share one incident. The junior class at the school I worked at was getting into LOTS of trouble; DUIs, MIPs, bad academics, poor performance in school sports, you name it. So, the principal called an assembly where he sent out all of the teachers except for a handful of administrators. He told them quite frankly that they were screwing up and ruining their futures. He basically challenged them to turn their class around.
Well, ALL the kids ran home and told their parents what a mean, bad principal they had and that he'd called them stupid slackers, etc. Naturally, having worked with the students when I heard this story I called BS and did my own questioning of kids. What they'd all admit if you took the 30 seconds to skeptically question them was that the principal had done nothing of the sort. That they were exaggerating what he'd said and that they had gotten the precise response they wanted from their parents. The parents blamed the teachers and the administrators.
And, this wasn't some poor, troubled school. This was a obscenely wealthy school district in a college town with a lot of children of college staff and administration in attendance.
This "debate" has been going on for a long time. The problem with the current tiered model is that cable providers are forced to pay for services that many users don't want because large segments of the customer base want them. So, Comcast can't negotiate their licensing prices based on the fact that only X% of users want those channels. CNN and ESPN packages account for a huge portion of the typical cable bill (about $8 as I recall).
With a la carte pricing, these content providers won't be able to leverage the need to service all-or-none in their pricing.