A troll is someone you may disagree with, but not always. I know people who troll and get all sorts of +5 Insightful. Those are troll that many agree with, but they are trolls none the less.
A troll is a stupid comment designed to illicit a emotional response. I know I've got plenty of "troll" mods for things I've said that weren't meant to be "troll" posts. SImply saying "Troll" meaning "I disagree" is in itself a troll.
Name Calling is trollish (___ is stupid). So are out of context random quotes (GNAA). Most Sexual comments (unless in a related topic) are troll posts. Any post that has a sole purpose of inciting a FLAME WAR is a troll (PCs Rule!!).
I'm waiting for a Manufacturer to offer a Cyanogenmod version of Adroid as Stock ROM, with everything working out of the box. Samsung might go that route having hired Cyanogen himself. If they do, my next phone will be a Samsung, and I won't even look at another phone.
In America it is NOT cheaper to buy a phone and go with a month to month contract. Those contracts are MORE expensive than plans that include subsidized phones. I've done the math repeatedly to try to find the best deal. Hands down, it is cheaper to buy a phone on a two year contract, than it is to buy a phone up front and go with a similar month to month plan. It isn't even close.
You're arguing over two completely different aspects
holds value.
not useful
There is no XOR operand for those two items, and so the existence of one does not negate the other.
Deflation is valuable in a growing population, in that the harder you word early, the better you are off in the end. We would not need Social Security or "welfare" or... even growing tax rates, if we had deflationary currency. INFLATION is the result of trying to fix other problems with currency and the economy (like debt).
If you view Debt bad, and savings good, deflation is better choice. The moment the economy shifted towards debt based economy, inflation became the only viable means of governance.
Well, now that I called the bet, you want to change the terms of it? Right. There isn't enough people paying taxes right now for this to work. Half of all people don't pay taxes, what makes you think they will pay the government "tax" on health insurance?
No. The Government requiring everyone have health insurance but giving the option of not having insurance but still being covered is going to kill the insurance industry. The whole design of this is to get people out of private insurance and into Single Payer Insurance (government run).
Most people like that the IRS is now going to audit their healthcare choices? REALLY?
It isn't what is "provided" that most people have issues with, it is the ENFORCEMENT that makes it possible. that most people don't like. This is the devils deal. I'll give you immortality, does that sound good? Yeah, that sounds good, UNTIL the details (cost) are exposed. The problem is, we made the deal with the devil, and we don't yet know the cost
Wanna bet? I'm willing to put money on your assumption. Here now. Why buy insurance to get the same coverage after paying a smaller fine? THAT is the whole point of Obama Care. Everyone gets Medical Care whether they have insurance or not. I'm choosing "not" when the mandate goes into effect. I'll pay the damn fine, and anyone doing anything different is a fool (and paying for my medical care)
You won't be able to find insurance in a few years, even if you wanted to buy it. The government has just killed the Insurance Industry, Medical Industry and enhanced the Government Industry. If I can get the same coverage paying a small fine as I do buying insurance, the hell if I am gonna buy insurance.
provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare, and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity
This is why LIBERTY is gone! People don't know what the Constitution actually says. We used to have to memorize this in grade school. Nobody cares about liberty any more, they are scared of liberty, and thus, we continue to limit the liberties we are endowed with by the Declaration of Independence, all in the name of Security.
Those who give up essential Liberty in the name of Security, will receive and deserve neither.
You don't understand the type. There is a group of people who see "Cops Bust ______ " and automatically think "Cops are Criminals", giving the entire benefit of the doubt to the people busted. It was entrapment, they got innocent people or some other excuse is "more likely" than cops actually doing something good.
These people have a natural distaste for law enforcement.
Every Corporation is run by top management and boards of directors. It is these people who should be held responsible for the culture of corruption that many corporations have. The solution is simple, develop a legal framework whereby a jury decides if a corporation has crossed some ethical boundary. Such a framework would allow the legal system to punish the entire managing group with civil and criminal charges.
The idea that "no one person" caused it may be true, but the "whole management team" allowed it to take place changes the scope. If you toss these people in jail, revoke all the trusts and confiscate all their wealth, the culture would necessarily change.
Now this won't fix what many here call "exploitation" whereby people agree to do business together. You know, like Best Buy selling HDMI cables for 8x their actual value. While that may seem like exploitation it is not, it is just taking advantage of stupidity. And (IMHO) stupid should hurt.
Your assessment on technology is wrong, because it focuses on the technology not the tasks technology is supposed to do.
a) The focus is on what "technology can do" is wrong. It should be changed to "what the student needs". Technology is a tool, not an end to the means.
b) Training has got to be desired. Most teachers I know (I'm in education, as technology professional) don't want training, don't want the technology, don't want the shit crammed down their throats. They don't want it, and don't have the desire to use it, so it sits unused (thousands of dollars wasted) gathering dust and becoming unusable.
c) is useless. Money does not solve education problems. Throwing more money cannot nor willnot ever fix the "problems" of our educational system. IF you take money out of the equation, you'll start understanding the main issues of education are all "sociological" in nature. ALL of them. We spend an inordinate amount of effort trying to educate people who are NOT interested in learning anything. And it is a waste. Meanwhile there aren't enough resources for those people that DO want to learn, because we are using them trying to educate those that don't.
Your conclusion is close but doesn't reflect your three premises. I can already write faster using swype style keyboard than trying to write something legibly I've got to the point of almost being able to type as fast that way as a conventional keyboard. However being able to type something doesn't equate into an ability to reason out sound arguments and construct them into a coherent whole. THAT is where technology fails, and why we still need good teachers. And why technology is only useful for somethings, but will never be the panacea many would love it to be.
If you read what you posted, even if you hid your new FB email address, it is still there, and anyone with half a brain or knows someone with half a brain could "guess" what your FB email address is. So, hiding your FB email address does absolutely nothing to anyone with half a brain (or knows someone with half a brain).
Just like IRL (politics) So this is a grand way of enslaving the masses who just don't care enough to do something about the water slowly getting hot. Ribbit
Don't have to carry all that stuff around all the time. There is enough evidence available that it is relatively easy for me to prove my citizenship. The point is, you don't have a clue what you're really saying, while I've got actual experience.
Latinos have NOTHING to worry about except liberals who can't think straight. Born and raise American Kid is not going to raise suspicions of being an illegal alien, just by walking down the street. But you keep believing that, OK?
It is a law that targets illegal aliens. Most of whom are Latino, but not necessarily from Mexico. People like you continue to spout simplistic slogans in an effort to close the gap between legal and illegal immigration. The law won't affect people who live here... legally. It is NOT that hard to prove you belong here, regardless of the color of your skin.
I was born in Pasadena, at Huntington Memorial Hospital to my Parents, born in Monterey California (Presidio) and St Louis Illinios. I have a brother in Texas, born at the same Hospital as me. I have a Passport, Drivers License and Birth Certificate within feet of me at this point. IF I were elsewhere, even in say Philippines and I had to prove myself a citizen of the US, because I had my Passport Stolen (it happened) I could do it in a few hours,, even standing in line for several hours to get into the Embassy.
The problem is, people have no clue how this works, love creating nearly impossible (15 secs) scenarios which they think proves their point. It doesn't! All it does is show who the real assholes are. But then again, you'll win because people won't care about how it really works YOU POSTED SOMETHING SCARY!!!!!
Actually, there are lots of things that require ID these days, one of the most important, is driving.
AND the way the dipshits would have it, if you are pulled over without a driver's license and cannot speak a word of English, we can't assume that you're an illegal alien, because that is "Profiling". And then you have people like you suggesting that a cop, looking at the color of your skin, can stop you walking down the street and say "Papers Please" as being the "norm" under this law.
If you're being stopped by a police officer and he suspects you might be illegal, to fucking bad. Learn to speak English, and if Antonio Banderas can do it, anyone can.
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A troll is someone you may disagree with, but not always. I know people who troll and get all sorts of +5 Insightful. Those are troll that many agree with, but they are trolls none the less.
A troll is a stupid comment designed to illicit a emotional response. I know I've got plenty of "troll" mods for things I've said that weren't meant to be "troll" posts. SImply saying "Troll" meaning "I disagree" is in itself a troll.
Name Calling is trollish (___ is stupid). So are out of context random quotes (GNAA). Most Sexual comments (unless in a related topic) are troll posts. Any post that has a sole purpose of inciting a FLAME WAR is a troll (PCs Rule!!).
I'm waiting for a Manufacturer to offer a Cyanogenmod version of Adroid as Stock ROM, with everything working out of the box. Samsung might go that route having hired Cyanogen himself. If they do, my next phone will be a Samsung, and I won't even look at another phone.
In America it is NOT cheaper to buy a phone and go with a month to month contract. Those contracts are MORE expensive than plans that include subsidized phones. I've done the math repeatedly to try to find the best deal. Hands down, it is cheaper to buy a phone on a two year contract, than it is to buy a phone up front and go with a similar month to month plan. It isn't even close.
You're arguing over two completely different aspects
There is no XOR operand for those two items, and so the existence of one does not negate the other.
Deflation is valuable in a growing population, in that the harder you word early, the better you are off in the end. We would not need Social Security or "welfare" or ... even growing tax rates, if we had deflationary currency. INFLATION is the result of trying to fix other problems with currency and the economy (like debt).
If you view Debt bad, and savings good, deflation is better choice. The moment the economy shifted towards debt based economy, inflation became the only viable means of governance.
A perfectly flat currency is impossible.
A lot of people who don't have computers have gold. India is a great place to see "poor" who have gold even a little bit of it.
AND Gold is one of those things, unlike bitcoin/ecash, that can be had with a little work in many places around the world.
Oh sorry, Leftwing Propaganda is so much more reliable! / sarcasm
http://articles.businessinsider.com/2011-08-31/home/30073202_1_income-tax-federal-income-state-and-local-income
Reality, the antidote for liberalism
Well, now that I called the bet, you want to change the terms of it? Right. There isn't enough people paying taxes right now for this to work. Half of all people don't pay taxes, what makes you think they will pay the government "tax" on health insurance?
No. The Government requiring everyone have health insurance but giving the option of not having insurance but still being covered is going to kill the insurance industry. The whole design of this is to get people out of private insurance and into Single Payer Insurance (government run).
Most people like that the IRS is now going to audit their healthcare choices? REALLY?
It isn't what is "provided" that most people have issues with, it is the ENFORCEMENT that makes it possible. that most people don't like. This is the devils deal. I'll give you immortality, does that sound good? Yeah, that sounds good, UNTIL the details (cost) are exposed. The problem is, we made the deal with the devil, and we don't yet know the cost
Wanna bet? I'm willing to put money on your assumption. Here now. Why buy insurance to get the same coverage after paying a smaller fine? THAT is the whole point of Obama Care. Everyone gets Medical Care whether they have insurance or not. I'm choosing "not" when the mandate goes into effect. I'll pay the damn fine, and anyone doing anything different is a fool (and paying for my medical care)
You won't be able to find insurance in a few years, even if you wanted to buy it. The government has just killed the Insurance Industry, Medical Industry and enhanced the Government Industry. If I can get the same coverage paying a small fine as I do buying insurance, the hell if I am gonna buy insurance.
That is what Obama Care is all about.
Health care should be disconnected from Government ...
This is why LIBERTY is gone! People don't know what the Constitution actually says. We used to have to memorize this in grade school. Nobody cares about liberty any more, they are scared of liberty, and thus, we continue to limit the liberties we are endowed with by the Declaration of Independence, all in the name of Security.
Those who give up essential Liberty in the name of Security, will receive and deserve neither.
You don't understand the type. There is a group of people who see "Cops Bust ______ " and automatically think "Cops are Criminals", giving the entire benefit of the doubt to the people busted. It was entrapment, they got innocent people or some other excuse is "more likely" than cops actually doing something good.
These people have a natural distaste for law enforcement.
Every Corporation is run by top management and boards of directors. It is these people who should be held responsible for the culture of corruption that many corporations have. The solution is simple, develop a legal framework whereby a jury decides if a corporation has crossed some ethical boundary. Such a framework would allow the legal system to punish the entire managing group with civil and criminal charges.
The idea that "no one person" caused it may be true, but the "whole management team" allowed it to take place changes the scope. If you toss these people in jail, revoke all the trusts and confiscate all their wealth, the culture would necessarily change.
Now this won't fix what many here call "exploitation" whereby people agree to do business together. You know, like Best Buy selling HDMI cables for 8x their actual value. While that may seem like exploitation it is not, it is just taking advantage of stupidity. And (IMHO) stupid should hurt.
Your assessment on technology is wrong, because it focuses on the technology not the tasks technology is supposed to do.
a) The focus is on what "technology can do" is wrong. It should be changed to "what the student needs". Technology is a tool, not an end to the means.
b) Training has got to be desired. Most teachers I know (I'm in education, as technology professional) don't want training, don't want the technology, don't want the shit crammed down their throats. They don't want it, and don't have the desire to use it, so it sits unused (thousands of dollars wasted) gathering dust and becoming unusable.
c) is useless. Money does not solve education problems. Throwing more money cannot nor willnot ever fix the "problems" of our educational system. IF you take money out of the equation, you'll start understanding the main issues of education are all "sociological" in nature. ALL of them. We spend an inordinate amount of effort trying to educate people who are NOT interested in learning anything. And it is a waste. Meanwhile there aren't enough resources for those people that DO want to learn, because we are using them trying to educate those that don't.
Your conclusion is close but doesn't reflect your three premises. I can already write faster using swype style keyboard than trying to write something legibly I've got to the point of almost being able to type as fast that way as a conventional keyboard. However being able to type something doesn't equate into an ability to reason out sound arguments and construct them into a coherent whole. THAT is where technology fails, and why we still need good teachers. And why technology is only useful for somethings, but will never be the panacea many would love it to be.
I asked if it knew what Google was. That was the first question, and from the response it was clear it was a bot. A complete non-sequitor
If you read what you posted, even if you hid your new FB email address, it is still there, and anyone with half a brain or knows someone with half a brain could "guess" what your FB email address is. So, hiding your FB email address does absolutely nothing to anyone with half a brain (or knows someone with half a brain).
Do you see the problem now?
Just like IRL (politics) So this is a grand way of enslaving the masses who just don't care enough to do something about the water slowly getting hot. Ribbit
Don't have to carry all that stuff around all the time. There is enough evidence available that it is relatively easy for me to prove my citizenship. The point is, you don't have a clue what you're really saying, while I've got actual experience.
Latinos have NOTHING to worry about except liberals who can't think straight. Born and raise American Kid is not going to raise suspicions of being an illegal alien, just by walking down the street. But you keep believing that, OK?
It is a law that targets illegal aliens. Most of whom are Latino, but not necessarily from Mexico. People like you continue to spout simplistic slogans in an effort to close the gap between legal and illegal immigration. The law won't affect people who live here ... legally. It is NOT that hard to prove you belong here, regardless of the color of your skin.
I was born in Pasadena, at Huntington Memorial Hospital to my Parents, born in Monterey California (Presidio) and St Louis Illinios. I have a brother in Texas, born at the same Hospital as me. I have a Passport, Drivers License and Birth Certificate within feet of me at this point. IF I were elsewhere, even in say Philippines and I had to prove myself a citizen of the US, because I had my Passport Stolen (it happened) I could do it in a few hours,, even standing in line for several hours to get into the Embassy.
The problem is, people have no clue how this works, love creating nearly impossible (15 secs) scenarios which they think proves their point. It doesn't! All it does is show who the real assholes are. But then again, you'll win because people won't care about how it really works YOU POSTED SOMETHING SCARY!!!!!
Actually, there are lots of things that require ID these days, one of the most important, is driving.
AND the way the dipshits would have it, if you are pulled over without a driver's license and cannot speak a word of English, we can't assume that you're an illegal alien, because that is "Profiling". And then you have people like you suggesting that a cop, looking at the color of your skin, can stop you walking down the street and say "Papers Please" as being the "norm" under this law.
If you're being stopped by a police officer and he suspects you might be illegal, to fucking bad. Learn to speak English, and if Antonio Banderas can do it, anyone can.
Option 2 for the win