Fact is most poor people do not wish to educate themselves, they would rather watch sports shows and eat bread.
The rich tend to behave similarly until enough education sinks in to make them think otherwise.
But yeah the issue is the education system does not work for the poor. My only "progressive" idea for fixing it is still kind of libertarian.
The poor use school as free childcare. Hence free after school programs. Now, if we allow the public school system to expel students, but still keep it basically free for the poor, parents will make their kids study.
Apologies if I am misquoting, but I'll go with Henri Theil: "models are to be used, not believed".
Real science isn't about belief. When scientists try to advocate for teaching any theory (yes, even gravity) as a belief system, they get sucked into a debate that is not winnable -- exactly what the creationists want.
The ideal scientists is like the ideal gas, a nice model. Most people, including those with PhDs, believe in things. Examples such as "No replacement for displacement," "goto is evil," and "Windows Sucks Linux rules" are examples of belief. One may be able to cite evidence of a larger engine being better than a smaller one with a turbo charger, and would reconsider their beliefs if a really efficient turbo charger was made. However, that stated maxim represents one of their "beliefs."
Now we are talking about K-12 education here. A very small percentage of these students will truly grasp the scientific method. While we need to teach them how to think critically, and encourage those with the potential to become scientists, in the end there is only so much you can teach them. In order to explain certain concepts, you have to make them accept certain things on faith, at least temporally.
I accept that the plastic keys on this keyboard came from crude oil. I have no idea how the polycarbons in crude oil get refined to plastic. Quite frankly I'll probably never need to know.
Kind of sad when you got to take kids OUT of public education to avoid nutcases. In my world, you got nutcase ideas (like religion) you should pay extra to have them taught at school.
Again, evolution must be taught as a theory, just as global warming, just as relativity.
How about abolishing education and making parents pay for either situation. Now the thing is, the people of Louisiana think not believing in evolution is normal, just as you think believing in evolution is normal. However to be quite honest, for most people their beliefs in the origins of life or quantum physics.
If I adopted a fundamentalists belief system, it really wouldn't affect my ability to write software. In the end, without years of study relating to the issues both the Creationists and the Evolutionists believe in a concept because of elementary explanations that are accepted by perceived authorities.
You are aware that the French are partially responsible for the American Revolutionary War victory George Washington scored over the British, right?
Americans really should learn more history, even their own would help them to navigate the currents of this world's events.
We had a common enemy at the time. Lets be honest we like the British as long as they don't tell us what to do. Hence why we basically made nice nice after the war of 1812
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At which point, it'll be cost-effective to install and operate a nation-wide high-speed passenger and light-cargo rail service network.
How about expanding our heavy rail system putting lightrail systems in local areas that don't need full train service? We can run 2 car light rail systems in the suburbs. The cities should all get subways like NYC.
The failure of Linux to converge on common network infrastructure is, to me, the most soul crushing failure I have witnessed from open source.
NIS works just fine, and ldap isn't that hard. One thing I love about windows is ACLs. Yet I never setup posix ACLs on a machine. I don't think there is a "just works" solution for a ldap server, but there are easy to follow howto's. Redhat allows you to setup ldap authentication against active directory at setup time.
There is little need for centralized authentication in most enterprises. How many unix servers these days have user accounts for users that don't have root access. A few might have users with limited sudo rights, but few have shell accounts for anyone other than admin and support staff.
The problem is more along the lines of there are so many choices for centralized authentication in unix that there is no obvious default.
Having to support 10 different wonky platforms and trying to make a cohesive infrastructure from them?
I'm glad those bad-old-days are over.
How about just getting those 10 wonky platforms to all speak LDAP to centralize your authentication. I really wouldn't mind having a dedicated OS to run my web or database server. If AS/400's weren't so boring and IBMish and I was a DB2 fan, I'd be an advocate of the iSeries as a datasource for any java/php/.net/ruby/perl shop with more than 2 gigs of data.
Cliffs Notes are for literary works that people can't be bothered to actually read. They don't have them for technical documents like the PMBOK. The technical equivalent is known as a "textbook".
Theres some value to Cliff's Notes. I resorted to them once as a substitute for finishing Moby Dick. I was in 6th grade and chose to read the book on my own. I made it about 3/4ths through and give up the Saturday before the monday the book report was due. I also owned up to using them to my teacher. I think I was to young to appreciate all the symbolism that was in 3 chapters about pumping water out of the bottom of the ship.
If I saw Cliff's notes for the Similaron I'd pick up a copy, that's almost as dry a read as Moby Dick. Christopher should allow someone to reedit the book into something more interesting.
Granted, my HS teachers recommended monarch notes if we needed a supplementary aide./p>
That's dumb. As dirty as coal plants are, they are far cleaner than the equivalent power output from internal combustion engines. If it takes n joules to get you from place to place, you're better off using the more efficient method of getting those joules.
Nuclear power isn't cheap at all. Name a single generation station project that was on-time and on-budget. Let alone disposing of the waste.
One can go over time and budget and still be cheap. That being said I don't have numbers on either. As far as waste, we have plenty of dessert and empty coal mines.
How many letters have you written to your congressman advocating that the government build a coal plant on your block? That's the fuel that America has the most of.
Because it would make less sense to import uranium. And I'd have no problem living next to a nuclear reactor plant, except of course living in Queens (NYC Borough) and they would never out one that close to Manhattan. Assuming I lived in Sachem though, I'd be all for them firing up the plant there. Its a small risk for cheap energy.
No, we could have done any variety of workarounds. Because it wasn't originally built with a D drive and the "Program Files" folder in the default location, we were told to start from scratch to appease the coder.
Was this girl coder 17 years old and the CTO's step daughter who he desperately wants to be accepted by? The non discriminatory thing to do would be a kick to the clit.
The specific case of Douglas Kmiec goes against that theory. He publicly supported Obama and was denied communion. He personally is against abortion but supported a candidate who is in favor of abortion rights.
That *does* seem like meddling -- can a Catholic not lend their support to someone who disagrees with some particular corner of the Catholic faith?
I was unaware of that specific case and I agree that it is crossing a line.
If my priest . . . denied me communion because of my political affiliation or voting record (as happens at some Catholic churches) I would leave it, and hope that I could find some place to be in community with folk who share some of the same ideas about God that I have.
People were denied communion because of stances they took on issues, not because of their party. The Catholic Church is against abortion, and believes it to be murder. It denies communion to those that allow abortion (as they see it murder) to happen on a large scale.
I don't see that as meddling with politics in ways it should not.
We finally had to give up on Borland because somehow, now that MS was competing against it, every OS upgrade would break competitors software.
Actually, one thing Microsoft is actually good about, is third party development tools. This has been the case for a while. Granted it took a while before they gave mostly working, but one language at a time only IDEs out for free, but the command line tools have been free since.NET 1.0, and nmake for windows has always been a free download.
So maybe very early on Borland was viewed as a competitor. However, they were all about alowing the "Developers Developers Developers Developers" to "raise the roof" using any tools they wanted, be it theirs or their competitors.
Capitalism and all its fictional scarcity have been destroying productivity in the name of control for a long time.
A lot of capitalistic theory deals with the reality of scarcity. When you reduce costs to zero, you eventually get to the point where you realize time is scarce. Now time is sometimes hard to reduce to a simple and abstract currency, and opportunity costs complicate things, but scarcity exists.
BTW distributing free software does cost money. It is cheap, cheap enough for entities like sourceforge to absorb, but servers require electricity, which in tern require nuclear rectors or fossil fuel to make.
Now open source does lower the cost of entry for building and using software, along with other benefits, but it does so because of capitalism, not in spite of it.
For all the talk of people sponging off the state it is rather hard to keep body and soul together on £50 per week.
I'm sure there are those that make a job out of collecting the multiple forms of assistance as they do here in the states.
So out of curiosity, what would a single room occupancy, or the typical living arrangement of a "working poor" person in your country cost in terms of monthly rent?
What those things mean is defined by the UN. For the UK, most of 'Social protection' is social security benefits, i.e. money given to the unemployed, families, retired people etc.
Interesting. As a libertarian, I'd be for privatizing most everything for defense, and partially privatizing that. But at least I have a basis for comparison now.
Jobseekers allowance is an interesting thing. I assume that's intended for job search expenses and not basic living, as I don't see how on 73.60 US Dollars a week. That's one social program I'd be in favor of considering for the US.
We spend plenty on education. The problems with our education system are cultural. Maybe Europe spends more than we do. I have no idea. However, I don't think our education problems can be solved by throwing more money at them.
Now can you show we spend less money on education per capita than europeans, or were you just implying Americans are stupid?
Also, while our European governments steal all our money for taxes, we use it for better things than throwing bombs at some desert...
And what exactly do you use it for? I'm always hearing how universal healthcare costs Europe less per capita than the US system costs our government. Now if your not going to war (where most of our budget goes), and spend less on healthcare then us, what are you doing with all those taxes?
I discovered several stupid bugs in Visual Studio where I didn't apparently conform to the WallyWorld work usage, and no one at WallyWorld had ever imagined someone might one to do things a different way.
I think with more than two hours you could do things the way you wanted, or discover a better way of doing things that Visual studio will allow. Visual Studio is one of the better microsoft products.
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Integrates in windows explorer. Setting up a server might take a bit of fiddling, but if you have a linux box svn+ssh just works.
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somehow create the elements synthetically
Let me go fire up my heavy fusion reactor and get to work on that.
Fact is most poor people do not wish to educate themselves, they would rather watch sports shows and eat bread.
The rich tend to behave similarly until enough education sinks in to make them think otherwise.
But yeah the issue is the education system does not work for the poor. My only "progressive" idea for fixing it is still kind of libertarian.
The poor use school as free childcare. Hence free after school programs. Now, if we allow the public school system to expel students, but still keep it basically free for the poor, parents will make their kids study.
Apologies if I am misquoting, but I'll go with Henri Theil: "models are to be used, not believed".
Real science isn't about belief. When scientists try to advocate for teaching any theory (yes, even gravity) as a belief system, they get sucked into a debate that is not winnable -- exactly what the creationists want.
The ideal scientists is like the ideal gas, a nice model. Most people, including those with PhDs, believe in things. Examples such as "No replacement for displacement," "goto is evil," and "Windows Sucks Linux rules" are examples of belief. One may be able to cite evidence of a larger engine being better than a smaller one with a turbo charger, and would reconsider their beliefs if a really efficient turbo charger was made. However, that stated maxim represents one of their "beliefs."
Now we are talking about K-12 education here. A very small percentage of these students will truly grasp the scientific method. While we need to teach them how to think critically, and encourage those with the potential to become scientists, in the end there is only so much you can teach them. In order to explain certain concepts, you have to make them accept certain things on faith, at least temporally.
I accept that the plastic keys on this keyboard came from crude oil. I have no idea how the polycarbons in crude oil get refined to plastic. Quite frankly I'll probably never need to know.
Kind of sad when you got to take kids OUT of public education to avoid nutcases. In my world, you got nutcase ideas (like religion) you should pay extra to have them taught at school.
Again, evolution must be taught as a theory, just as global warming, just as relativity.
How about abolishing education and making parents pay for either situation. Now the thing is, the people of Louisiana think not believing in evolution is normal, just as you think believing in evolution is normal. However to be quite honest, for most people their beliefs in the origins of life or quantum physics.
If I adopted a fundamentalists belief system, it really wouldn't affect my ability to write software. In the end, without years of study relating to the issues both the Creationists and the Evolutionists believe in a concept because of elementary explanations that are accepted by perceived authorities.
You are aware that the French are partially responsible for the American Revolutionary War victory George Washington scored over the British, right?
Americans really should learn more history, even their own would help them to navigate the currents of this world's events.
We had a common enemy at the time. Lets be honest we like the British as long as they don't tell us what to do. Hence why we basically made nice nice after the war of 1812
How about expanding our heavy rail system putting lightrail systems in local areas that don't need full train service? We can run 2 car light rail systems in the suburbs. The cities should all get subways like NYC.
The failure of Linux to converge on common network infrastructure is, to me, the most soul crushing failure I have witnessed from open source.
NIS works just fine, and ldap isn't that hard. One thing I love about windows is ACLs. Yet I never setup posix ACLs on a machine. I don't think there is a "just works" solution for a ldap server, but there are easy to follow howto's. Redhat allows you to setup ldap authentication against active directory at setup time.
There is little need for centralized authentication in most enterprises. How many unix servers these days have user accounts for users that don't have root access. A few might have users with limited sudo rights, but few have shell accounts for anyone other than admin and support staff.
The problem is more along the lines of there are so many choices for centralized authentication in unix that there is no obvious default.
Having to support 10 different wonky platforms and trying to make a cohesive infrastructure from them?
I'm glad those bad-old-days are over.
How about just getting those 10 wonky platforms to all speak LDAP to centralize your authentication. I really wouldn't mind having a dedicated OS to run my web or database server. If AS/400's weren't so boring and IBMish and I was a DB2 fan, I'd be an advocate of the iSeries as a datasource for any java/php/.net/ruby/perl shop with more than 2 gigs of data.
Cliffs Notes are for literary works that people can't be bothered to actually read. They don't have them for technical documents like the PMBOK. The technical equivalent is known as a "textbook".
Theres some value to Cliff's Notes. I resorted to them once as a substitute for finishing Moby Dick. I was in 6th grade and chose to read the book on my own. I made it about 3/4ths through and give up the Saturday before the monday the book report was due. I also owned up to using them to my teacher. I think I was to young to appreciate all the symbolism that was in 3 chapters about pumping water out of the bottom of the ship.
If I saw Cliff's notes for the Similaron I'd pick up a copy, that's almost as dry a read as Moby Dick. Christopher should allow someone to reedit the book into something more interesting.
Granted, my HS teachers recommended monarch notes if we needed a supplementary aide./p>
That's dumb. As dirty as coal plants are, they are far cleaner than the equivalent power output from internal combustion engines. If it takes n joules to get you from place to place, you're better off using the more efficient method of getting those joules.
Except batteries are so damn inefficient.
One can go over time and budget and still be cheap. That being said I don't have numbers on either. As far as waste, we have plenty of dessert and empty coal mines.
Because it would make less sense to import uranium. And I'd have no problem living next to a nuclear reactor plant, except of course living in Queens (NYC Borough) and they would never out one that close to Manhattan. Assuming I lived in Sachem though, I'd be all for them firing up the plant there. Its a small risk for cheap energy.
Was this girl coder 17 years old and the CTO's step daughter who he desperately wants to be accepted by? The non discriminatory thing to do would be a kick to the clit.
I was unaware of that specific case and I agree that it is crossing a line.
People were denied communion because of stances they took on issues, not because of their party. The Catholic Church is against abortion, and believes it to be murder. It denies communion to those that allow abortion (as they see it murder) to happen on a large scale.
I don't see that as meddling with politics in ways it should not.
Actually, one thing Microsoft is actually good about, is third party development tools. This has been the case for a while. Granted it took a while before they gave mostly working, but one language at a time only IDEs out for free, but the command line tools have been free since .NET 1.0, and nmake for windows has always been a free download.
So maybe very early on Borland was viewed as a competitor. However, they were all about alowing the "Developers Developers Developers Developers" to "raise the roof" using any tools they wanted, be it theirs or their competitors.
A lot of capitalistic theory deals with the reality of scarcity. When you reduce costs to zero, you eventually get to the point where you realize time is scarce. Now time is sometimes hard to reduce to a simple and abstract currency, and opportunity costs complicate things, but scarcity exists.
BTW distributing free software does cost money. It is cheap, cheap enough for entities like sourceforge to absorb, but servers require electricity, which in tern require nuclear rectors or fossil fuel to make.
Now open source does lower the cost of entry for building and using software, along with other benefits, but it does so because of capitalism, not in spite of it.
I'm sure there are those that make a job out of collecting the multiple forms of assistance as they do here in the states.
So out of curiosity, what would a single room occupancy, or the typical living arrangement of a "working poor" person in your country cost in terms of monthly rent?
Interesting. As a libertarian, I'd be for privatizing most everything for defense, and partially privatizing that. But at least I have a basis for comparison now.
Jobseekers allowance is an interesting thing. I assume that's intended for job search expenses and not basic living, as I don't see how on 73.60 US Dollars a week. That's one social program I'd be in favor of considering for the US.
We spend plenty on education. The problems with our education system are cultural. Maybe Europe spends more than we do. I have no idea. However, I don't think our education problems can be solved by throwing more money at them.
Now can you show we spend less money on education per capita than europeans, or were you just implying Americans are stupid?
You can find a find some interesting things you didn't know about if you take a different route... and some scary ones...
Like Harold and Kumar type scary?
BTW on the topic of alternate routes, any Brooklyn/Queens residents reverse commuting to Suffolk County, take the ocean parkway on ocassion.
Or any given attractive female in ones office for that matter.
And what exactly do you use it for? I'm always hearing how universal healthcare costs Europe less per capita than the US system costs our government. Now if your not going to war (where most of our budget goes), and spend less on healthcare then us, what are you doing with all those taxes?
I think with more than two hours you could do things the way you wanted, or discover a better way of doing things that Visual studio will allow. Visual Studio is one of the better microsoft products.
tortoisesvn.tigris.org
Integrates in windows explorer. Setting up a server might take a bit of fiddling, but if you have a linux box svn+ssh just works.