You obviously didnt read the study. The teachers were ranked based upon the change in students per year, not absolute scores. Seriously. read something before you shit all over it.
Its very easy to evaluate teachers, read the metrics that the LA study did. They measured change per student per year and compared it to other teachers with the same demographic and quality students coming in.
A "real" measure of an engineering department would be to compare results to similar situation departments, not to compare methodologies. You will note that the teachers weren't measured on anything other than results.
The evaluations take this into consideration. They primarily measure the change of the students over the year, relative to other teachers, the idea being that the teacher that can "teach" the most will show, and that shows even if the child is still under grade level at the end of the year.
Yes, overall education is VERY dependent on homelife, but in the same school you can easily see which teachers are making a difference and which are not, even if overall the students are good or bad.
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Hard liquor shot up because of transport / storage costs. Hard liquor is 10x more concentrated, and therefore 10x easier to smuggle than beer, and that matters because transporting / smuggling high volumes / weights is Hard.
Drugs are a different story, because the sizes and weights are smaller and current transport methods are better / more reliable.
Except i dont know how to do that already. What i do "know" is that somewhere in Word you can change cases. . . and sure enough, it took me 10 seconds to find, or about the same amount of time that it took you to type that -buggy- code.
Yes, yours does all files in a directory. Whats the real world use case on that? Try instead mine where i can easily select text in a file to do it on. Real world applicability for wanting a paragraph, not a whole document or directory lower case? A LOT more. It also includes things like sentence case and all caps. Whats your code for that?
Look, I get that programming is powerful, but its not always better or faster. For "power users" what is faster, a few clicks to their file then clicking the icon that looks like it changes cases (Aa) or banging out your limited code, including typing file paths?
The problem is -always- in vague wording as to what could be "detrimental to... national security"
Should power plants have regulated security, both physical and technical? Sure. Should 3rd party power plants that run factories be subject to the same? Is the loss of a small ISP detrimental to national security?
-Most- laws dont have bad intentions, but over time bad people abuse them, both corporation, lawyers and governmental agencies.
The UN has been in control of all Iraqi oil since the invasion. The US didnt make any money from the invasion, infact we will end up spending about 3 trillion on it.
To put that in perspective, that would be all of Iraq's oil production for the next 34 years.
U.S. military service disproportionately attracts enlisted personnel and officerswho do not come from disadvantaged backgrounds. Previous Heritage Foundation research demonstrated that the quality of enlisted troops has increased since the start of the Iraq war. This report demonstrates that the same is true of the officer corps.
Members of the all-volunteer military are significantly more likely to come from high-income neighborhoods than from low-income neighborhoods. Only 11 percent of enlisted recruits in 2007 came from the poorest one-fifth (quintile) of neighborhoods, while 25 percent came from the wealthiest quintile. These trends are even more pronounced in the Army Reserve Officer Training Corps (ROTC) program, in which 40 percent of enrollees come from the wealthiest neighborhoods-a number that has increased substantially over the past four years.
American soldiers are more educated than their peers. A little more than 1 percent of enlisted personnel lack a high school degree, compared to 21 percent of men 18-24 years old, and 95 percent of officer accessions have at least a bachelor's degree.
Contrary to conventional wisdom, minorities are not overrepresented in military service. Enlisted troops are somewhat more likely to be white or black than their non-military peers. Whites are proportionately represented in the officer corps, and blacks are overrepresented, but their rate of overrepresentation has declined each year from 2004 to 2007. New recruits are also disproportionately likely to come from the South, which is in line with the history of Southern military tradition.
Some of us believe in God given unalienable rights. The right to life, liberty and property are intrinsic to man.
Yes, you can die, be forced into servitude or be robbed, but that doesnt deprive you of the rights, it just means that someone (even society) has wronged you as a person. We voluntarily give -some- rights away to society, but the only reason we do that is to protect and gain others. We are not all strong enough to protect and defend our individual rights, so we form society to do that, society based on common values (read: we all believe in certain rights).
Please. Society isnt deferring rights, it is protecting them. It is protecting the right of the copyright holder to own the intellectual property in the exact same way that society protects the right for man to have physical property.
Using your logic man only has any property because society grants it to him, and that -all- property is really "ours".
The reason that society protects copyright isnt because we think that we can get more out of the creators that way, it is because we recognize that the labors of the mind are no less real than those of the body.
The only reason that there are time limits on works is to protect the ability of future men to create.
.... that makes little to no sense at all. Increased demand would be largely met by increased supply from the scrap yards. Its not like these people, or the people they are selling to are destroying the copper.
When they chop down poles to read the print on the cable its a bit late, AND companies arent going to rush out and rewire everything with all new (and more expensive cable) just so they can still have their poles cut.
I mean, i hear you, this is a long term solution, but all the "it isnt going to work" is based on the fact that few if any companies will jump on this bandwagon, especially when they know that when the economy improves theft will go down anyway.
Not really. Its the bosses job to manage his people. He is completely failing at that. The sales guy is making sales in a bad way, knowingly or not. End of the story, this situation is why we have managers to begin with, so if you are not willing to put responsibility where it is supposed to go then.... i dont know what to tell you.
What is worse, a bad employee or the person that is responsible for that person and continues to allow them to be bad? Because there is a person that is ultimately responsible for "shitty, unfounded promises", and that person is the boss.
There is no regulation driving technology that alerts you if you fall asleep at the wheel, that slows your cruise control when you approach a slower moving car, or that puts blind spot detectors and signals on side mirrors. Yet these things all are significant improvements in safety.
I didnt, or dont state that regulation didnt help by forcing seatbelts and airbags, or forcing safer cars by making them pass impact tests. But to assume that everything is based upon that is naive. Safety is a selling point and therefore car manufactures put 8 airbags in a car, well above what is necessary by regulation.
Returns are hard to quantify, but total foreign aid to Isreal is -relatively- small, and it is clear that Israel is delaying a nuclear Iran (read the news today), which would be very costly. Not necessarily that Iran would launch a missile at NY, but that they would/might give a bomb to terrorist groups for them to use.
The thing to also remember is that even if a nuclear or dirty bomb didnt hit the US, it would still cost the US a TON, in direct aid, charity, heightened military, and business losses if it were to hit anywhere in the world.
Lets see... an AC posting that they are Gods gift to man. . . then they dont get invited to meetings because they were exaggerating their contributions. Sounds to me like -someone- whined and complained and gloated to everyone that would listen how great that they were until the point that everyone had enough and didnt even want that person in meetings.
Are you a good programmer? Maybe. Are you a good worker? As in, are you a person that gets a job done in a team? No, not at all.
Maybe if you had been just a bit less egotistical you would have been invited to the meetings and you could have shared your views in a way that didnt make everyone hate you. Would your boss have listened? Maybe, maybe not. Worst case is that everyone remembers you as the guy that voted against the idea that turned into a disaster, best case is that you are the guy that proposes the good idea.
I am sorry to break this to you, but there are MANY companies that try their hardest to be actually helpful, and people remember them. Autorepair shops that are honest get TONS of work, because people want to, and will pay more to, deal with businesses that are honest. And they tell their friends about them as well.
USAA comes to mind as a business that does its best to be helpful and only give you what you need, even if that is recommending another company. This isnt just my experience, everyone that i know that uses USAA thinks the same way. Even when another company may have better rates on a credit card, and USAA tells me this openly, i still choose their card. Why? because i know they are honest and have great support.
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You obviously didnt read the study. The teachers were ranked based upon the change in students per year, not absolute scores. Seriously. read something before you shit all over it.
A "real" measure of an engineering department would be to compare results to similar situation departments, not to compare methodologies. You will note that the teachers weren't measured on anything other than results.
Yes, overall education is VERY dependent on homelife, but in the same school you can easily see which teachers are making a difference and which are not, even if overall the students are good or bad.
whoosh.
Drugs are a different story, because the sizes and weights are smaller and current transport methods are better / more reliable.
Read. more. The whole point is that rushing the process can cause a systemic failure that would leave them worse than before.
Except i dont know how to do that already. What i do "know" is that somewhere in Word you can change cases. . . and sure enough, it took me 10 seconds to find, or about the same amount of time that it took you to type that -buggy- code.
Yes, yours does all files in a directory. Whats the real world use case on that? Try instead mine where i can easily select text in a file to do it on. Real world applicability for wanting a paragraph, not a whole document or directory lower case? A LOT more. It also includes things like sentence case and all caps. Whats your code for that?
Look, I get that programming is powerful, but its not always better or faster. For "power users" what is faster, a few clicks to their file then clicking the icon that looks like it changes cases (Aa) or banging out your limited code, including typing file paths?
The problem is -always- in vague wording as to what could be "detrimental to ... national security"
Should power plants have regulated security, both physical and technical? Sure. Should 3rd party power plants that run factories be subject to the same? Is the loss of a small ISP detrimental to national security?
-Most- laws dont have bad intentions, but over time bad people abuse them, both corporation, lawyers and governmental agencies.
To put that in perspective, that would be all of Iraq's oil production for the next 34 years.
Most people that volunteer arent poor.
U.S. military service disproportionately attracts enlisted personnel and officerswho do not come from disadvantaged backgrounds. Previous Heritage Foundation research demonstrated that the quality of enlisted troops has increased since the start of the Iraq war. This report demonstrates that the same is true of the officer corps.
Members of the all-volunteer military are significantly more likely to come from high-income neighborhoods than from low-income neighborhoods. Only 11 percent of enlisted recruits in 2007 came from the poorest one-fifth (quintile) of neighborhoods, while 25 percent came from the wealthiest quintile. These trends are even more pronounced in the Army Reserve Officer Training Corps (ROTC) program, in which 40 percent of enrollees come from the wealthiest neighborhoods-a number that has increased substantially over the past four years.
American soldiers are more educated than their peers. A little more than 1 percent of enlisted personnel lack a high school degree, compared to 21 percent of men 18-24 years old, and 95 percent of officer accessions have at least a bachelor's degree.
Contrary to conventional wisdom, minorities are not overrepresented in military service. Enlisted troops are somewhat more likely to be white or black than their non-military peers. Whites are proportionately represented in the officer corps, and blacks are overrepresented, but their rate of overrepresentation has declined each year from 2004 to 2007. New recruits are also disproportionately likely to come from the South, which is in line with the history of Southern military tradition.
http://www.heritage.org/research/reports/2008/08/who-serves-in-the-us-military-the-demographics-of-enlisted-troops-and-officers
No really, -enlighten- me.
Adding energy increases mass, you normally dont notice it because c^2 is pretty big.
Some of us believe in God given unalienable rights. The right to life, liberty and property are intrinsic to man.
Yes, you can die, be forced into servitude or be robbed, but that doesnt deprive you of the rights, it just means that someone (even society) has wronged you as a person. We voluntarily give -some- rights away to society, but the only reason we do that is to protect and gain others. We are not all strong enough to protect and defend our individual rights, so we form society to do that, society based on common values (read: we all believe in certain rights).
Please. Society isnt deferring rights, it is protecting them. It is protecting the right of the copyright holder to own the intellectual property in the exact same way that society protects the right for man to have physical property.
Using your logic man only has any property because society grants it to him, and that -all- property is really "ours".
The reason that society protects copyright isnt because we think that we can get more out of the creators that way, it is because we recognize that the labors of the mind are no less real than those of the body.
The only reason that there are time limits on works is to protect the ability of future men to create.
So where are the people clamoring for a windfall profits tax on Apple?
Or do we just call for those against companies that we dont like (energy)?
.... that makes little to no sense at all. Increased demand would be largely met by increased supply from the scrap yards. Its not like these people, or the people they are selling to are destroying the copper.
When they chop down poles to read the print on the cable its a bit late, AND companies arent going to rush out and rewire everything with all new (and more expensive cable) just so they can still have their poles cut.
I mean, i hear you, this is a long term solution, but all the "it isnt going to work" is based on the fact that few if any companies will jump on this bandwagon, especially when they know that when the economy improves theft will go down anyway.
I dont understand your implication. Are you suggesting that people dont steal copper because of its current value?
Not really. Its the bosses job to manage his people. He is completely failing at that. The sales guy is making sales in a bad way, knowingly or not. End of the story, this situation is why we have managers to begin with, so if you are not willing to put responsibility where it is supposed to go then.... i dont know what to tell you.
What is worse, a bad employee or the person that is responsible for that person and continues to allow them to be bad? Because there is a person that is ultimately responsible for "shitty, unfounded promises", and that person is the boss.
There is no regulation driving technology that alerts you if you fall asleep at the wheel, that slows your cruise control when you approach a slower moving car, or that puts blind spot detectors and signals on side mirrors. Yet these things all are significant improvements in safety.
I didnt, or dont state that regulation didnt help by forcing seatbelts and airbags, or forcing safer cars by making them pass impact tests. But to assume that everything is based upon that is naive. Safety is a selling point and therefore car manufactures put 8 airbags in a car, well above what is necessary by regulation.
Returns are hard to quantify, but total foreign aid to Isreal is -relatively- small, and it is clear that Israel is delaying a nuclear Iran (read the news today), which would be very costly. Not necessarily that Iran would launch a missile at NY, but that they would/might give a bomb to terrorist groups for them to use.
The thing to also remember is that even if a nuclear or dirty bomb didnt hit the US, it would still cost the US a TON, in direct aid, charity, heightened military, and business losses if it were to hit anywhere in the world.
Lets see... an AC posting that they are Gods gift to man. . . then they dont get invited to meetings because they were exaggerating their contributions. Sounds to me like -someone- whined and complained and gloated to everyone that would listen how great that they were until the point that everyone had enough and didnt even want that person in meetings.
Are you a good programmer? Maybe. Are you a good worker? As in, are you a person that gets a job done in a team? No, not at all.
Maybe if you had been just a bit less egotistical you would have been invited to the meetings and you could have shared your views in a way that didnt make everyone hate you. Would your boss have listened? Maybe, maybe not. Worst case is that everyone remembers you as the guy that voted against the idea that turned into a disaster, best case is that you are the guy that proposes the good idea.
Blame the boss at the company that set up the system, not the sales guys.
I am sorry to break this to you, but there are MANY companies that try their hardest to be actually helpful, and people remember them. Autorepair shops that are honest get TONS of work, because people want to, and will pay more to, deal with businesses that are honest. And they tell their friends about them as well.
USAA comes to mind as a business that does its best to be helpful and only give you what you need, even if that is recommending another company. This isnt just my experience, everyone that i know that uses USAA thinks the same way. Even when another company may have better rates on a credit card, and USAA tells me this openly, i still choose their card. Why? because i know they are honest and have great support.