It is probably not that we are importing less labor, it is that we are importing less skilled labor. The number of H2B visas that the US is allowing has increased 45%, or 15,000 more visas. This has allowed Mar-a-Lago, for instance, to hire 70 foreign workers to do job that any local resident could do. Local resources to help people get jobs have reportedly stated that they were not asked to help locals get the jobs that pay over $10 an hour, and the ads placed in local newspapers were the smallest possible.
Of course this is a small number compared to the 60 to 90,000 H1B visas, about a quarter for higher degrees, but one can imagine that for a federal government that wants to cut down on immigration, prioritizing the help at the country club over the technical needs for innovative companies might seem like a reasonable choice.
I saw him and he elaborated on 'the smell of space'. It was the smell of the airlock, or whatever, that had been recently exposed to the vacuum of LEO and then pressurized. He said it was a unique and clearly identifiable smell.
The interesting thing is the vacuum of low earth orbit is pretty dirty. We can make much better and cleaner vacuum on earth on a limited basis, say in a cubic meter or so. Even on earth, after pressurizing a vacuum you can smell the difference. On earth that might be because it is a nitrogen rich atmosphere at that point. But there is smell.
The most poignant thing he said was that he got a call where NASA cut off external communications, like to NASA TV, to talk to him. It was about his sister in law being shot. Each time the channels were cleared after that he wondered what catastrophe happened.
The funniest thing is the difference between Russian and US culture. When there was a possibility of a collision, one that would like destroy the station, the US procedure was to lock everything down in a futile attempt to minimize damage. The Russian response was to accept the inevitable outcome if the station was hit and have lunch. It reminds me of French colleague that always insisted that the problem would still be there in a hour, so there was no reason not to have a peaceful lunch.
He does talk about what it is like coming down on Russian hardware. You are crammed into a small space. Piece of the vehicle are flying off and passing in front of the viewport, which is inches away from your face. It is so exciting he said, it is the main reason he would go up again.
Also, if they fully implement this, it will kill gmail. Every time I accidentally hit my gmail bookmark, i can't just go back to my original page. Gmail is one of the many websites where the ridiculous use of redirects kills the back button. That way there is no easy way for the user to leave the page.
Probably if google would stop pioneering such malicious techniques, other websites would not consider them so acceptable.
Why does a conservative snowflake's need to work only with men trump my desire to not work with conservative snowflakes? I mean in the real world we need to be able to work with anyone. and we certainly don't want to work with people whose mind is so weak that they can't differentiate someone looking different from someone who is less able. This reminds me of a snowflake working for a Austin tech company that could not hold meeting with women because his wife would yell at him. This is especially funny because it was not so long ago that a conservative man who was afraid of his wife would be summarily laughed out of town by all the real conservative men.
It is naive to think anyone who uses a computer can get away from Google without expending an impractical amount of effort and money. It is also unreasonable to think that Google is the problem, not the structure of the free services on the internet. What is reasonable is to weight the risks and benefits of the services we use. To apply the popular car analogy, not everyone pays for a car that is build for security because the benefits for a particular person may not be that great. For instance, a car that is difficult to steal may also be difficult to modify or even may not start if if one of the checks are faulty.
There are two things we know. We know that if we are not paying a fee to support the service, then the end user is the product. We know that corporate can get to our data, and profit pressures will promote bad behavior if a corporate entity, for instance Verizon, is facing profit pressures. In the case of google, we know that it's business model is to mine data, and that Documents and Drive were arguably developed to facilitate that collection.
Take google drive for instance. We have always known that google has access to the data, and that google controls if we have access to the data. For me that means that anything that is secure, anything that is critical, goes on a paid service. However, I use Drive and Documents for certain things because it is a good solution. It does not matter if Google has my data. It does not matter if tomorrow google shuts down the service.
Gmail is the same thing. For most people the cost of a paid service is not going to be meaningful. I wonder about the people who do business over gmail, a paid hosting and domain name is less than $100 a year, but for them maybe their business is not serious.
Google makes it money by tracking every move on the web. It does not matter the website, web browser, service used. Ads, ad tracking, click tracking, is everywhere.
The problem with fake science is that reporters state supposition as fact even when the data suggests it is not, and scientists hang onto to their 90% confidence level even when data suggests there is no such thing.
This is an old story, and I think the analysis has shown it to be more conjecture that a real model. There is simply too many assumptions that need to be made, the variables are too complex.
The analysis was interesting, and if it had worked would have a great feat of data analysis. But over a year ago drift analysis of the wreckage indicated that any probably location was nowhere near the IMSAT estimated locations.
If credit cards were as effective as tracking purchases and customers as 'loyalty cards', then stores would not incur the expense of running the programs.
Also, if a store wants to give me something extra, that is great. A free piece of chocolate every month with purchase. Or a free pair of underwear every month. But don't jack up the prices and then pretend you are giving me a discount. Many retailers have been fined for such practices, and the one retailer who really started the practice back late in the last century was forced out of business.
Pretty much Whole Foods has become a place to get drunk on wine while buying prepared food for dinner. 20 years ago they started realizing they could make a lot of money by selling 'natural' junk food. On the other hand, there things that Whole Foods has that are a good value or simply are hard to find.
Amazon likely bought whole foods simply to expand the Amazon Fresh program and to have a local store from for pickup and returns. It probably does not need to increase sales, as it is looking for, I think the buzzword is, synergy. In this case there probably is profit to be made simply in the merger. Those who shop at whole foods will continue to . Amazon Prime Delivery already is delivering Whole Foods products.
Those who want to be ripped at at Krogers unless they show their papers will continue to make that choice.
Traders Joes provides a good choice for those who simply don't want to shop with the urban or rural males.
Define young footballer. I suspect most children want to play futbol or football. Even at the high school level, I bet more kids end up with jobs in research than in paying jobs in sports.
In any case, working in your chosen field is hardly even an issue. There are a lot of engineers, chemical, electrical, civil, who I know who code. They did not want to code, but that is where the money is. Likewise, most people with doctorates I know are making a living. I wonder what the percentage of people who actually dedicated their whole live to sport, as opposed to just using it as a means to end, actually are making a living at it. I suspect, for most high school, the number is close to zero. I suspect overall the number is close to zero.
Not all investments are equal. Not all investors receive dividends which are directly connected to profits. Some investors simply receive profits if the values of the stock increases, which is not necessarily linked to any profits. Some companies with profits actually see their stock valuations fall, which is a loss to some investors.
It could be that crowdsourcing misrepresents itself by claiming to offer a product when in fact people are making an investment, or, in some cases, more accurately making a donation.
Innovation does require that people, some of who are called early adopters, take risks. If no one buys the product, if no one invests in the product, then no innovation occurs. What wins and does not win is determined as much by sales as it is by innovation. Many would agree that Apple products are not always the most innovative, but they usually sell enough to support further innovation. This is not the case with many other products
What is nice about crowdsourcing is that provides a way to help innovate a very specific idea, such as a watch, or a tracker, or something like that. What is not nice, and the reason most of use invest in mutual funds instead of specific companies, is that it is hard for the small investor to due proper due dilligence.
And honestly, some people pay almost that much, If you bought a top of the line iPhone 6 or 7, you probably paid $900. The real difference here is that there is no low end to the iPhone X. There is no small model for around $700, with the top around $900. All you have is the X around the same price as a top of the line 8(on a 24 payment plan it is $2 more a month) or the top of the line for $200 more.
The question is not why someone would pay $1000, but who would pay the same price for the top of the line 8 instead of a X. It is not like we store music on the phone anymore.
Apple is replacing swollen batteries on watches. They replaced mine, I know at least two other who have had their battery replaced, and when I went into the store last time there was a women there who was having her battery replaced. There were no questions asked.
At work I have lost two old macs because the battery swelled, but these were about four years old.
If this is a problem for the iPhone it is bad news, but I suspect they will replace it. If this is a problem for the iPhone, when it is new then I suspect it is going to be a widespread problem, like the watch.
I don’t think so. It is the magic the military tells us they have, and we need to pay several million to acquire.
I always assume that most of the money the military spends is bribes and kickbacks, which is why I never fell for things like Nigerian scams and flipping.
I do think we have radar and software to avoid collisions, or at least we would if generals were not busy banging journalists.
I wonder what black hawk helicopter was doing over a civilian residential neighborhood. I often wonder why I have loud military vehicles rooming my peaceful neighborhood. Are military supposed to be conducting operations on US property? What are they going to do next, shoot our houses?
I think civilian drone operators needs to be responsible. but the land, the air, everything in the US belongs to the people, not the military. If the military is going to operate, they need to be diligent and responsible, not jacking off while they are on duty.
I am afraid that this is going to be an excuse to limit our rights. What is going to be next? Are streets going to be closed because military drivers can't be responsible enough to not look at pictures of naked female military personal posed online while driving?
Again, the drone operator bears some responsibility, but if our helicopters can theoretically evade RPGs, what the hell was the helicopter pilot doing?
It sounds like a legal way and face saving way for Google to prop up HTC. I can imagine the backlash is Google just gave HTC the billion. It wouls likely be unfortunate for Google if Samsung was the only major supplier of Android phones.
This is what I think. The likely impulse means that everyone will die. The only question is how many other people and structures it destroys on the way. The most dangerous part of plane trip is take off and landing which is why there is often a large buffer zone. One can imagine a hyperloop doing real damage.
It was a hundred years ago a department store owner said half his advertising budget is wasted, but he did know which half.
The difference is now that we can see which half is working, if we measure it by immediate purchases. If you pay for ad, and it does not result in a sale, then is it working? Some would say no.
In a way we are back to the mode of print advertising a hundred years ago. A store runs an ad for a sale, the store can then look to see if revenue increases for the day, and then judge if the ad works. Since that ad is likely run on many outlets, one can't say exactly which ad works. This is what is different now.
But that misses the advertising model of the past 50 years, which is branding and long term returns. You advertise beer on the Super Bowl not just to get sales today, but so the kids will hopefully buy your beer later. You give away a magnum of expensive alcohol to soccer players not to sell the alcohol right then, but to connect with the fans that when they celebrate they are going to buy it.
So maybe branding is still a thing. Maybe putting the Amazon name everywhere is valuable. The problem with advertising and the dot com crisis was that there was an incestuous relationship between advertising dollars and advertisers. it was actually the same money looping around from one had to another, with no value being created. That is no longer the problem. it is that the 'new economy' people still think they have found a new economics, and the cost of acquiring customers can be reduced to zero.
Special Ed actually encompasses a wide range of students. Anytime someone generalizes the group as 'the worst' pretty much means you can ignore the rest of what the person is saying, as they know nothing. Gifted and talented are special ed as they will likely act out in a regular classroom. You have someone who is reading at a college level, someone who can solve adult level problems, and put them with regular kids, you are inviting disaster.
One thing with XQ is that they are pushing to change the one size fit all model. One major initiative is student choice. Providing lost of options and exposing the students to a lot of different ideas and then allowing the student to explore in depth the topics that are interesting. It is even taking time out the school day to allow that exploration of topics in a non-academic setting.
I mention this but the computer instruction I most benefited from was creative and analysis. Khan is tradition lecture and benefits traditional students. I wasted a lot of time on computers, but I learned a lot. It prepared me for using the computer a tool for making money when most people did not even know how to turn a computer on.
Most state and federal authority are focused on measuring students as a way to asses teachers, not on maximizing student learning. This prevents any innovation that would actually benefit the student. We believe that if a teacher is good at teaching kids to fill in the right bubble, they are good at teaching. XQ does have some components such as this, but are much more geared to student learning rather than teacher assessment.
Wasn't there just a security alert about phines being rolled back without the users knowledge on phones?
On a PC if you are going to 'roll back' the best thing to do it start from a clean hard disk. The only reason to this is if there are problems, in which case the safetest thing to do is to wipe the machine.
Does the Android phone have forced installation, if so then Antoine buying it is an idiot. If not, then why bring it up.
And as always data is only lost if you don't back it up. Now, on upgrade data can also be migrated so you may not be able to use it one an old system, but again, if this is not a forced upgrade, why didnt you back up data.
What is this, the day/. lets the children run the front page so they can whine about the fact the candy store charges momey?
I find the influences in education to be annoying but mostly benign. They do clog up the message boards with their not-so-sublte promotional materials, but honestly they would like do so anyway. In most case these teachers are the extroverts who think they are good simply because they have a selected group of students to work with. These are not the public teachers who take their duty to educate every child seriously. The are the prima donas would throw a temper tantrum if they get an M&M that is the wrong color.
This is a relatively benign problem because of the way funding works in most schools. The economics here is not like the medical proffesion where the cash to waste is much less limited and not coming out of the doctors pocket. The pharmaceutical scam works because people are much more willing to feel obligated to return a favor for a gift if there is no opportunity or really costs. All doctors have to do to return a gift is prescribe a name brand instead of a generic, costing the doctor nothing. In the case of education, a teacher has to put their ass out there pretty far, and maybe have it chopped off, to purchase anything. It is not that likely that any promotion is going to result in a purchase. On there other hand, it is useful to have teachers trying new things, to see what works for their kids and that teacher, so there is nothing wrong with other teachers saying what works for them, and individual teachers trying products for a year or so.
The thing is we need to educate the kids for the world come. We can't repeat the failures of the 40's, 50's and 60's when absolutely incompetent, inept, and bigoted teachers failed the country and produced a group of students that just spent all day getting high and lead to the economic figure of the 70's, when there was no one educated enough to actually complete a day work.
We need to expand the innovation of the 60's, 70's and 80's when teachers began to really start teaching, not only things more complicated than auto mechanics, but also looking at how to reach all students. Teachers like I had where we programmed a embedded device in assembly to be a robot. Where we just spent days drawing and building things, not just learning maths and science and reading and writing, which we did. Not just looking at what improved our test scores, but what improved our ability to be productive members of society.
And yes, playing with Twitter, instagram, creating web pages, writing silly programs that generate 3-d trigonometric functions, making robots that do nothing in particular, are all things that is going to help these kids live in a world where they are not coal miners or assembly workers, but actually have to solve real problems. It was like when i was at the store the other day. We were all in line waiting for five minutes for the cashier to get a supervisor to teach her how to change the roll of paper in the printer. What high school graduate does not know how to do that, or can figure it out quickly. It is not that hard, open the case, take out the old roller, tear off the new roll, lift out the end and close the cover. Has this person never been in a store and seen this done, or have then told that all they need to know to be successful is how to fill in bubbles on a sheet of paper with a number 2 pencil?
If you don't want publishers to scrap every penny from whatever dregs you left behind, the only thing to do is destroy the work. Some writers like Heinlein were probably ok with work being published posthumously. He was well known to believe that he wrote for a paycheck, and everything he wrote was to published. He supposedly said the day that his publisher rejected a work was the day he would walk across the street to another publisher.
For those who are more selective, destruction is the best option.
I can tell you that in the US my friends and colleagues have been harassed by police for standing on the road with a camera. They were required to deleted the pictures and leave the area or be arrested. Outside of the US we have been harassed and required to delete photos of public buildings.
The laws prohibiting photography in the world where everyone fears terrorism more than they value freedom are sometimes pretty vague and give the police excessive power to harass.
I have no doubt that standing in a field with a camera, especially if that field were next to a sensitive target, would get a photographer arrested.
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Of course this is a small number compared to the 60 to 90,000 H1B visas, about a quarter for higher degrees, but one can imagine that for a federal government that wants to cut down on immigration, prioritizing the help at the country club over the technical needs for innovative companies might seem like a reasonable choice.
The interesting thing is the vacuum of low earth orbit is pretty dirty. We can make much better and cleaner vacuum on earth on a limited basis, say in a cubic meter or so. Even on earth, after pressurizing a vacuum you can smell the difference. On earth that might be because it is a nitrogen rich atmosphere at that point. But there is smell.
The most poignant thing he said was that he got a call where NASA cut off external communications, like to NASA TV, to talk to him. It was about his sister in law being shot. Each time the channels were cleared after that he wondered what catastrophe happened.
The funniest thing is the difference between Russian and US culture. When there was a possibility of a collision, one that would like destroy the station, the US procedure was to lock everything down in a futile attempt to minimize damage. The Russian response was to accept the inevitable outcome if the station was hit and have lunch. It reminds me of French colleague that always insisted that the problem would still be there in a hour, so there was no reason not to have a peaceful lunch.
He does talk about what it is like coming down on Russian hardware. You are crammed into a small space. Piece of the vehicle are flying off and passing in front of the viewport, which is inches away from your face. It is so exciting he said, it is the main reason he would go up again.
Probably if google would stop pioneering such malicious techniques, other websites would not consider them so acceptable.
Why does a conservative snowflake's need to work only with men trump my desire to not work with conservative snowflakes? I mean in the real world we need to be able to work with anyone. and we certainly don't want to work with people whose mind is so weak that they can't differentiate someone looking different from someone who is less able. This reminds me of a snowflake working for a Austin tech company that could not hold meeting with women because his wife would yell at him. This is especially funny because it was not so long ago that a conservative man who was afraid of his wife would be summarily laughed out of town by all the real conservative men.
There are two things we know. We know that if we are not paying a fee to support the service, then the end user is the product. We know that corporate can get to our data, and profit pressures will promote bad behavior if a corporate entity, for instance Verizon, is facing profit pressures. In the case of google, we know that it's business model is to mine data, and that Documents and Drive were arguably developed to facilitate that collection.
Take google drive for instance. We have always known that google has access to the data, and that google controls if we have access to the data. For me that means that anything that is secure, anything that is critical, goes on a paid service. However, I use Drive and Documents for certain things because it is a good solution. It does not matter if Google has my data. It does not matter if tomorrow google shuts down the service.
Gmail is the same thing. For most people the cost of a paid service is not going to be meaningful. I wonder about the people who do business over gmail, a paid hosting and domain name is less than $100 a year, but for them maybe their business is not serious.
Google makes it money by tracking every move on the web. It does not matter the website, web browser, service used. Ads, ad tracking, click tracking, is everywhere.
This is an old story, and I think the analysis has shown it to be more conjecture that a real model. There is simply too many assumptions that need to be made, the variables are too complex.
The analysis was interesting, and if it had worked would have a great feat of data analysis. But over a year ago drift analysis of the wreckage indicated that any probably location was nowhere near the IMSAT estimated locations.
Also, if a store wants to give me something extra, that is great. A free piece of chocolate every month with purchase. Or a free pair of underwear every month. But don't jack up the prices and then pretend you are giving me a discount. Many retailers have been fined for such practices, and the one retailer who really started the practice back late in the last century was forced out of business.
Amazon likely bought whole foods simply to expand the Amazon Fresh program and to have a local store from for pickup and returns. It probably does not need to increase sales, as it is looking for, I think the buzzword is, synergy. In this case there probably is profit to be made simply in the merger. Those who shop at whole foods will continue to . Amazon Prime Delivery already is delivering Whole Foods products.
Those who want to be ripped at at Krogers unless they show their papers will continue to make that choice.
Traders Joes provides a good choice for those who simply don't want to shop with the urban or rural males.
In any case, working in your chosen field is hardly even an issue. There are a lot of engineers, chemical, electrical, civil, who I know who code. They did not want to code, but that is where the money is. Likewise, most people with doctorates I know are making a living. I wonder what the percentage of people who actually dedicated their whole live to sport, as opposed to just using it as a means to end, actually are making a living at it. I suspect, for most high school, the number is close to zero. I suspect overall the number is close to zero.
Not all investments are equal. Not all investors receive dividends which are directly connected to profits. Some investors simply receive profits if the values of the stock increases, which is not necessarily linked to any profits. Some companies with profits actually see their stock valuations fall, which is a loss to some investors.
Innovation does require that people, some of who are called early adopters, take risks. If no one buys the product, if no one invests in the product, then no innovation occurs. What wins and does not win is determined as much by sales as it is by innovation. Many would agree that Apple products are not always the most innovative, but they usually sell enough to support further innovation. This is not the case with many other products
What is nice about crowdsourcing is that provides a way to help innovate a very specific idea, such as a watch, or a tracker, or something like that. What is not nice, and the reason most of use invest in mutual funds instead of specific companies, is that it is hard for the small investor to due proper due dilligence.
And honestly, some people pay almost that much, If you bought a top of the line iPhone 6 or 7, you probably paid $900. The real difference here is that there is no low end to the iPhone X. There is no small model for around $700, with the top around $900. All you have is the X around the same price as a top of the line 8(on a 24 payment plan it is $2 more a month) or the top of the line for $200 more. The question is not why someone would pay $1000, but who would pay the same price for the top of the line 8 instead of a X. It is not like we store music on the phone anymore.
At work I have lost two old macs because the battery swelled, but these were about four years old.
If this is a problem for the iPhone it is bad news, but I suspect they will replace it. If this is a problem for the iPhone, when it is new then I suspect it is going to be a widespread problem, like the watch.
I always assume that most of the money the military spends is bribes and kickbacks, which is why I never fell for things like Nigerian scams and flipping.
I do think we have radar and software to avoid collisions, or at least we would if generals were not busy banging journalists.
I think civilian drone operators needs to be responsible. but the land, the air, everything in the US belongs to the people, not the military. If the military is going to operate, they need to be diligent and responsible, not jacking off while they are on duty.
I am afraid that this is going to be an excuse to limit our rights. What is going to be next? Are streets going to be closed because military drivers can't be responsible enough to not look at pictures of naked female military personal posed online while driving?
Again, the drone operator bears some responsibility, but if our helicopters can theoretically evade RPGs, what the hell was the helicopter pilot doing?
It sounds like a legal way and face saving way for Google to prop up HTC. I can imagine the backlash is Google just gave HTC the billion. It wouls likely be unfortunate for Google if Samsung was the only major supplier of Android phones.
This is what I think. The likely impulse means that everyone will die. The only question is how many other people and structures it destroys on the way. The most dangerous part of plane trip is take off and landing which is why there is often a large buffer zone. One can imagine a hyperloop doing real damage.
The difference is now that we can see which half is working, if we measure it by immediate purchases. If you pay for ad, and it does not result in a sale, then is it working? Some would say no.
In a way we are back to the mode of print advertising a hundred years ago. A store runs an ad for a sale, the store can then look to see if revenue increases for the day, and then judge if the ad works. Since that ad is likely run on many outlets, one can't say exactly which ad works. This is what is different now.
But that misses the advertising model of the past 50 years, which is branding and long term returns. You advertise beer on the Super Bowl not just to get sales today, but so the kids will hopefully buy your beer later. You give away a magnum of expensive alcohol to soccer players not to sell the alcohol right then, but to connect with the fans that when they celebrate they are going to buy it.
So maybe branding is still a thing. Maybe putting the Amazon name everywhere is valuable. The problem with advertising and the dot com crisis was that there was an incestuous relationship between advertising dollars and advertisers. it was actually the same money looping around from one had to another, with no value being created. That is no longer the problem. it is that the 'new economy' people still think they have found a new economics, and the cost of acquiring customers can be reduced to zero.
One thing with XQ is that they are pushing to change the one size fit all model. One major initiative is student choice. Providing lost of options and exposing the students to a lot of different ideas and then allowing the student to explore in depth the topics that are interesting. It is even taking time out the school day to allow that exploration of topics in a non-academic setting.
I mention this but the computer instruction I most benefited from was creative and analysis. Khan is tradition lecture and benefits traditional students. I wasted a lot of time on computers, but I learned a lot. It prepared me for using the computer a tool for making money when most people did not even know how to turn a computer on.
Most state and federal authority are focused on measuring students as a way to asses teachers, not on maximizing student learning. This prevents any innovation that would actually benefit the student. We believe that if a teacher is good at teaching kids to fill in the right bubble, they are good at teaching. XQ does have some components such as this, but are much more geared to student learning rather than teacher assessment.
Are allies astronomer watching you have sex?
On a PC if you are going to 'roll back' the best thing to do it start from a clean hard disk. The only reason to this is if there are problems, in which case the safetest thing to do is to wipe the machine.
Does the Android phone have forced installation, if so then Antoine buying it is an idiot. If not, then why bring it up.
And as always data is only lost if you don't back it up. Now, on upgrade data can also be migrated so you may not be able to use it one an old system, but again, if this is not a forced upgrade, why didnt you back up data.
What is this, the day /. lets the children run the front page so they can whine about the fact the candy store charges momey?
This is a relatively benign problem because of the way funding works in most schools. The economics here is not like the medical proffesion where the cash to waste is much less limited and not coming out of the doctors pocket. The pharmaceutical scam works because people are much more willing to feel obligated to return a favor for a gift if there is no opportunity or really costs. All doctors have to do to return a gift is prescribe a name brand instead of a generic, costing the doctor nothing. In the case of education, a teacher has to put their ass out there pretty far, and maybe have it chopped off, to purchase anything. It is not that likely that any promotion is going to result in a purchase. On there other hand, it is useful to have teachers trying new things, to see what works for their kids and that teacher, so there is nothing wrong with other teachers saying what works for them, and individual teachers trying products for a year or so.
The thing is we need to educate the kids for the world come. We can't repeat the failures of the 40's, 50's and 60's when absolutely incompetent, inept, and bigoted teachers failed the country and produced a group of students that just spent all day getting high and lead to the economic figure of the 70's, when there was no one educated enough to actually complete a day work.
We need to expand the innovation of the 60's, 70's and 80's when teachers began to really start teaching, not only things more complicated than auto mechanics, but also looking at how to reach all students. Teachers like I had where we programmed a embedded device in assembly to be a robot. Where we just spent days drawing and building things, not just learning maths and science and reading and writing, which we did. Not just looking at what improved our test scores, but what improved our ability to be productive members of society.
And yes, playing with Twitter, instagram, creating web pages, writing silly programs that generate 3-d trigonometric functions, making robots that do nothing in particular, are all things that is going to help these kids live in a world where they are not coal miners or assembly workers, but actually have to solve real problems. It was like when i was at the store the other day. We were all in line waiting for five minutes for the cashier to get a supervisor to teach her how to change the roll of paper in the printer. What high school graduate does not know how to do that, or can figure it out quickly. It is not that hard, open the case, take out the old roller, tear off the new roll, lift out the end and close the cover. Has this person never been in a store and seen this done, or have then told that all they need to know to be successful is how to fill in bubbles on a sheet of paper with a number 2 pencil?
For those who are more selective, destruction is the best option.
The laws prohibiting photography in the world where everyone fears terrorism more than they value freedom are sometimes pretty vague and give the police excessive power to harass.
I have no doubt that standing in a field with a camera, especially if that field were next to a sensitive target, would get a photographer arrested.