Actually, slavery did not end "a LONG time ago"... it's still happening all over the world to the tune of 40+ million slaves. https://www.walkfreefoundation...
Counterpoint #1: it might be important for parents to ask their children how they felt about a game, winning and losing are very emotional, and in childhood sports the experience should be about learning to deal with those feelings. There is nothing wrong with focusing on feelings and dealing with them, both positive and negative feelings, in constructive ways.
Counterpoint #2: a good many psychologists doing "therapy" these days are often quite focused on practicing skills for regulating negative effects of emotions. They are usually working with people who have had worse than average difficulty mastering these skills. And there aren't a lot of psychologists "lining their wallets", it's not exactly a cash cow profession. In fact, most therapists these days are actually social workers with Master's Degrees and not PhDs. To be angry at a group because they make upper-middle class incomes seems ludicrous. Most of them work hard in school for years to get into those professions, and the jobs are not easy by any stretch of the imagination.
Learning to give presentations and the skills involved in preparing for and delivering them are not a pointless waste of time. These are valuable life skills for pretty much everyone. Eventually you may be on a jury, or called to witness in front of a courtroom, two situations that are definitely going to require being capable of speaking in front of a group. Capable != comfortable. There are variations of "public speaking" that run the gamut from informally speaking in front of groups of peers to giving large, formal presentations to "audiences".
But public speaking and presenting are a critical part of a well-rounded education. Even delivering presentations in the form of recorded audio/video or via teleconference (conference calls or Skype) fall into this. The question is not whether or not to teach this skill, or whether there should be requirements to give presentations, at least not at this point... the question really should be HOW to teach this. Sink or swim approach to presenting is terrible, I'll grant. But generally kids should have been getting exposure to these skills by doing things like: reading in front of class, getting up to show work in math, delivering one-liners, presenting in a group, etc. There are lots of ways to build up the background skills and confidence that should be worked on before getting a student to the point of being the sole presenter of a longer piece. If a student truly has a crippling anxiety, they should be afforded special education resources to help them adjust, not merely have this requirement waived. And, yes, it may be necessary in some cases to provide accommodations, but I would think those are few and far between.
Even people whose whole job it is to provide public presentations (e.g. actors, musicians, educators) often have high levels of anxiety around being in front of a crowd or on stage. Many of these people learn to do calming exercises, learn to work with the anxiety, or find medical assistance (drugs that can reduce anxiety without harmful side-effects). Any teacher who is involved in teaching the art of public speaking should be able to mentor students through the experience without simply providing a single crushing class presentation experience as the only opportunity to learn to do public speaking.
Well, I guess I'd have to hand it to Hillary on the "mother" front. Her child seems relatively OK-- not to mention that instead of living in a trailer park in Arkansas, she's in multi-million dollar condo in NYC, right? As a wife... Bill seems OK with her. At least he hasn't been reported sexually harassing the people who work for him lately? As a First Lady? She was a disaster and half. She totally whiffed on health care reform. As a Senator? Total shit show. As Secretary of State? Miserable. As a possible President? That lying pathetic shrew? Are you kidding me? I mean, seriously, come at me with this Hillary Clinton shit all day. I hate her. I didn't vote for her stupid husband and I didn't vote for her. Doesn't mean I have to think that Dick Cheney was all that competent or that the current crop of Republicans are anything but common criminals.
I actually think Dick Cheney only looked competent because his boss was a simpleton. Kind of like how Mike Pence looks like an even-handed, normal-ish guy next to Trump.
Absolutely brilliant response to the Agile Manifesto. As someone who used to be an Agile fanatic, I've never once seen it work the way it's supposed to. The fact that it's so prone to abuse is just further evidence to me that it's a flawed ideal. I especially dislike the "welcome changes in requirements" part... WTF. No. It's one thing to *clarify* requirements as you go along, it's another thing to scrap them completely. And even the most rigid waterfall system always had a robust system for change control, updating requirements, and responding to new information/understanding. The best thing I can say about Agile or DevOps is that it's got management types actually taking things like automated deploys and source control seriously. But as you say, that's "tools and processes" over individuals.
Not to mention that things like mass market paperbacks have rarely, if ever, had much residual value. Like a new car, most of your equity in the book is gone the minute you crack the spine to read the book. Most of us who used to read a lot of said paperbacks were never going to be able to resell them for anything other than store credit at a used bookstore, so the argument that I can't resell my ebook doesn't carry much weight either. Eventually maybe people will have vast libraries of licensed books and Amazon will develop something similar to the secondary market for paperback books (a market where they totally destroyed most of the brick and mortars in their first iteration, btw)... the real trick for Amazon isn't to price their ebooks cheaper than their actual new books, but to make both cheaper than what I'd pay in a brick and mortar. And just for an example of how well they're doing that: I just bought an actual physical book today from Amazon, didn't have to fuck around going to any stores, got to read reviews of the book first, and paid HALF the cover price and it was delivered to my door. If the book had been the same price but more appropriate as an ebook, I wouldn't have thought twice about buying in that format at the same price.
And when you say "on the internet" do you mean from Amazon or from The Pirate Bay? Because what makes me not care so much if most people don't own "stuff" but license it or whatever, is the fact that a huge amount of all this "stuff" is now available digitally as video files, MP3s, ebooks, ROMs, etc. Netflix can't revoke my ownership of an.m4v file. Amazon can't take back my.mobi files. Sony can't prevent me from playing games on an emulator with ROM images. You want to "own" stuff still? Piracy makes that easy. And if piracy isn't your thing, there is still a startlingly large amount of actual free content that can be downloaded and kept regardless of some corporation's desire to remove it from your device. I do realize that relying on either copyright infringement or the public domain limits the availability of certain things, but it's still an incredible amount of stuff.
That is a very good point and one that occurred to me as I was hitting the pipe this morning. If one reads the study, it's pretty clear what kind of device and juice they used. Unflavored 50/50 VG/PG with 36mg nic and the most popular device in the UK (something from Kanger) with fully charged batteries and clean atomizers. It's a pretty "clean" test of a general type vape. So while it might be worth trying variants to see if there can be safer vapes, I was responding more to the skeptical idea that this was some sort of badly designed experiment. It looks pretty well done to me in that it captures the best case scenario (fresh equipment, no flavorings) for the way real-world vaping happens.
Who cares? I'd say that vaping is obviously NOT better than just breathing clean air. But as far as nicotine delivery systems go, it's certainly healthier than cigarettes and way more fun than gum or patches or whatever. But I have to say that vaping, as a nicotine delivery system, has actually been helping me lose weight by providing me with a sugar-free way to enjoy a sweet flavored treat and suppressing my appetite.
My own health has been far more impacted by the ready availability of way too much sugar, especially soda and sugary cereal (used to work at a place that had all you can drink/eat supplies of both). Combined with an increasingly sedentary lifestyle, my weight has been out of control. I'll take some chances with vaping until I see that it's no longer helping me control my weight.
But the vaping is hardly without some negative throat/lung effects... It's been 20+ years since I smoked even occasionally and tobacco smoke disgusts me, so I can say for sure that anything I'm noticing is all vape-related, and I'm noticing it. So to me this study is basically: water is wet.
Too bad Apple doesn't really have any proprietary video game franchises. Because this sounds like a Nintendo DS to me. Maybe they could take the 3D screen idea while they're at it.
Of course they know the American government won't touch them. Facebook has access to all their private posts, friend lists, all their friends' posts, etc etc. The "accidental" data leaks are just waiting to happen as soon as anyone in government actually gets serious.
One thing a list like this is helpful for is anyone looking to learn a new language, or learning programming or computer science without prior experience... if your school is teaching their mainline classes in a language not on this list, that is a major red flag. Probably should be in the top 5, to be honest, given what's in the 6-10 slots.
Or, if you don't really know what you're looking to get into, other than being able to make your computer do stuff, then this might be a good guide. Start by defining the type of programming that interests you, then look at this list for the best-in-class option(s). A seasoned programmer looking for a change of pace would do worse than to pick up one of the others on this list-- just for the paradigm shifts and being forced to exercise a bit differently.
I mean, I do see some "not-on-your-life" languages in the list, especially PHP. But given the apparent demand, even that might be a good way to break into the industry for a later-life career change for someone with a technical bent. Something to do for ten years until retirement kind of thing.
I wish to god there was a waiting period on pressure cookers. My wife bought one of the damn things on sale last year and it's just been sitting there like a giant dust magnet. Hasn't been used at all!
Sounds like a lot of work, too... much easier to run over to Walmart and buy a damn gun. I mean, seriously, the kind of people who can't buy themselves a gun legally are going to manage to make a working weapon with a 3D printer? Pfft! If you're planning to break the law once you get the gun, just break the law to buy or steal the gun... still probably a hell of a lot easier than trying to make your own with complicated technology.
I get that the majority wouldn't have been that great, BUT Ben Carson for HUD? Devos for Education? Perry for EPA? Sessions for AG? Steven Bannon for anything? She would have at least avoided the serious right-wing looney-tunes... *shrug*
Why should they care? Because if I start noticing a bunch of apps running shit at 100% in the background on my phone all the time or if my phone catches fire, I'm going to pretty much stop buying any app ever again from the Play Store. If the app has to ask for a special permission to take major risks with my hardware, then maybe. But otherwise it's all about trust, and unlike some app stores out there (ahem: Amazon), I actually trust Google a little bit. They seem to be pretty good at keeping outright scams and stuff out of their catalog.
Yeah, mining crypto on devices that are not remotely designed for such a use case is _the_ alternative to ad revenue. Because there's no such thing as Kickstarter, Patreon, PayPal, sending money orders by mail, or any of a million other ways to raise money out there.
And then go use that refund to buy which phone to replace it, exactly? I doubt any phone on the consumer market is designed to withstand that kind of use.
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And possibly copyright infringement.
I think the White House should choose a different font from those so-called news organizations: Alternativ Factica.
Actually, slavery did not end "a LONG time ago"... it's still happening all over the world to the tune of 40+ million slaves. https://www.walkfreefoundation...
Counterpoint #2: a good many psychologists doing "therapy" these days are often quite focused on practicing skills for regulating negative effects of emotions. They are usually working with people who have had worse than average difficulty mastering these skills. And there aren't a lot of psychologists "lining their wallets", it's not exactly a cash cow profession. In fact, most therapists these days are actually social workers with Master's Degrees and not PhDs. To be angry at a group because they make upper-middle class incomes seems ludicrous. Most of them work hard in school for years to get into those professions, and the jobs are not easy by any stretch of the imagination.
Learning to give presentations and the skills involved in preparing for and delivering them are not a pointless waste of time. These are valuable life skills for pretty much everyone. Eventually you may be on a jury, or called to witness in front of a courtroom, two situations that are definitely going to require being capable of speaking in front of a group. Capable != comfortable. There are variations of "public speaking" that run the gamut from informally speaking in front of groups of peers to giving large, formal presentations to "audiences".
But public speaking and presenting are a critical part of a well-rounded education. Even delivering presentations in the form of recorded audio/video or via teleconference (conference calls or Skype) fall into this. The question is not whether or not to teach this skill, or whether there should be requirements to give presentations, at least not at this point... the question really should be HOW to teach this. Sink or swim approach to presenting is terrible, I'll grant. But generally kids should have been getting exposure to these skills by doing things like: reading in front of class, getting up to show work in math, delivering one-liners, presenting in a group, etc. There are lots of ways to build up the background skills and confidence that should be worked on before getting a student to the point of being the sole presenter of a longer piece. If a student truly has a crippling anxiety, they should be afforded special education resources to help them adjust, not merely have this requirement waived. And, yes, it may be necessary in some cases to provide accommodations, but I would think those are few and far between.
Even people whose whole job it is to provide public presentations (e.g. actors, musicians, educators) often have high levels of anxiety around being in front of a crowd or on stage. Many of these people learn to do calming exercises, learn to work with the anxiety, or find medical assistance (drugs that can reduce anxiety without harmful side-effects). Any teacher who is involved in teaching the art of public speaking should be able to mentor students through the experience without simply providing a single crushing class presentation experience as the only opportunity to learn to do public speaking.
Well, I guess I'd have to hand it to Hillary on the "mother" front. Her child seems relatively OK-- not to mention that instead of living in a trailer park in Arkansas, she's in multi-million dollar condo in NYC, right? As a wife... Bill seems OK with her. At least he hasn't been reported sexually harassing the people who work for him lately? As a First Lady? She was a disaster and half. She totally whiffed on health care reform. As a Senator? Total shit show. As Secretary of State? Miserable. As a possible President? That lying pathetic shrew? Are you kidding me? I mean, seriously, come at me with this Hillary Clinton shit all day. I hate her. I didn't vote for her stupid husband and I didn't vote for her. Doesn't mean I have to think that Dick Cheney was all that competent or that the current crop of Republicans are anything but common criminals.
I actually think Dick Cheney only looked competent because his boss was a simpleton. Kind of like how Mike Pence looks like an even-handed, normal-ish guy next to Trump.
Dick Cheney competent in his office? He couldn't even go hunting without shooting his pal in the face!
Absolutely brilliant response to the Agile Manifesto. As someone who used to be an Agile fanatic, I've never once seen it work the way it's supposed to. The fact that it's so prone to abuse is just further evidence to me that it's a flawed ideal. I especially dislike the "welcome changes in requirements" part... WTF. No. It's one thing to *clarify* requirements as you go along, it's another thing to scrap them completely. And even the most rigid waterfall system always had a robust system for change control, updating requirements, and responding to new information/understanding. The best thing I can say about Agile or DevOps is that it's got management types actually taking things like automated deploys and source control seriously. But as you say, that's "tools and processes" over individuals.
Reality TV is just a twist on game shows which have existed for quite a long time, the first one being "Spelling Bee" from 1938.
Not to mention that things like mass market paperbacks have rarely, if ever, had much residual value. Like a new car, most of your equity in the book is gone the minute you crack the spine to read the book. Most of us who used to read a lot of said paperbacks were never going to be able to resell them for anything other than store credit at a used bookstore, so the argument that I can't resell my ebook doesn't carry much weight either. Eventually maybe people will have vast libraries of licensed books and Amazon will develop something similar to the secondary market for paperback books (a market where they totally destroyed most of the brick and mortars in their first iteration, btw)... the real trick for Amazon isn't to price their ebooks cheaper than their actual new books, but to make both cheaper than what I'd pay in a brick and mortar. And just for an example of how well they're doing that: I just bought an actual physical book today from Amazon, didn't have to fuck around going to any stores, got to read reviews of the book first, and paid HALF the cover price and it was delivered to my door. If the book had been the same price but more appropriate as an ebook, I wouldn't have thought twice about buying in that format at the same price.
And when you say "on the internet" do you mean from Amazon or from The Pirate Bay? Because what makes me not care so much if most people don't own "stuff" but license it or whatever, is the fact that a huge amount of all this "stuff" is now available digitally as video files, MP3s, ebooks, ROMs, etc. Netflix can't revoke my ownership of an .m4v file. Amazon can't take back my .mobi files. Sony can't prevent me from playing games on an emulator with ROM images. You want to "own" stuff still? Piracy makes that easy. And if piracy isn't your thing, there is still a startlingly large amount of actual free content that can be downloaded and kept regardless of some corporation's desire to remove it from your device. I do realize that relying on either copyright infringement or the public domain limits the availability of certain things, but it's still an incredible amount of stuff.
That is a very good point and one that occurred to me as I was hitting the pipe this morning. If one reads the study, it's pretty clear what kind of device and juice they used. Unflavored 50/50 VG/PG with 36mg nic and the most popular device in the UK (something from Kanger) with fully charged batteries and clean atomizers. It's a pretty "clean" test of a general type vape. So while it might be worth trying variants to see if there can be safer vapes, I was responding more to the skeptical idea that this was some sort of badly designed experiment. It looks pretty well done to me in that it captures the best case scenario (fresh equipment, no flavorings) for the way real-world vaping happens.
Who cares? I'd say that vaping is obviously NOT better than just breathing clean air. But as far as nicotine delivery systems go, it's certainly healthier than cigarettes and way more fun than gum or patches or whatever. But I have to say that vaping, as a nicotine delivery system, has actually been helping me lose weight by providing me with a sugar-free way to enjoy a sweet flavored treat and suppressing my appetite.
My own health has been far more impacted by the ready availability of way too much sugar, especially soda and sugary cereal (used to work at a place that had all you can drink/eat supplies of both). Combined with an increasingly sedentary lifestyle, my weight has been out of control. I'll take some chances with vaping until I see that it's no longer helping me control my weight.
But the vaping is hardly without some negative throat/lung effects... It's been 20+ years since I smoked even occasionally and tobacco smoke disgusts me, so I can say for sure that anything I'm noticing is all vape-related, and I'm noticing it. So to me this study is basically: water is wet.
Absolutely, I wasn't trying to imply that a button-less Mac would even be as good as a DS.
Too bad Apple doesn't really have any proprietary video game franchises. Because this sounds like a Nintendo DS to me. Maybe they could take the 3D screen idea while they're at it.
Of course they know the American government won't touch them. Facebook has access to all their private posts, friend lists, all their friends' posts, etc etc. The "accidental" data leaks are just waiting to happen as soon as anyone in government actually gets serious.
One thing a list like this is helpful for is anyone looking to learn a new language, or learning programming or computer science without prior experience... if your school is teaching their mainline classes in a language not on this list, that is a major red flag. Probably should be in the top 5, to be honest, given what's in the 6-10 slots.
Or, if you don't really know what you're looking to get into, other than being able to make your computer do stuff, then this might be a good guide. Start by defining the type of programming that interests you, then look at this list for the best-in-class option(s). A seasoned programmer looking for a change of pace would do worse than to pick up one of the others on this list-- just for the paradigm shifts and being forced to exercise a bit differently.
I mean, I do see some "not-on-your-life" languages in the list, especially PHP. But given the apparent demand, even that might be a good way to break into the industry for a later-life career change for someone with a technical bent. Something to do for ten years until retirement kind of thing.
I wish to god there was a waiting period on pressure cookers. My wife bought one of the damn things on sale last year and it's just been sitting there like a giant dust magnet. Hasn't been used at all!
Sounds like a lot of work, too... much easier to run over to Walmart and buy a damn gun. I mean, seriously, the kind of people who can't buy themselves a gun legally are going to manage to make a working weapon with a 3D printer? Pfft! If you're planning to break the law once you get the gun, just break the law to buy or steal the gun... still probably a hell of a lot easier than trying to make your own with complicated technology.
I get that the majority wouldn't have been that great, BUT Ben Carson for HUD? Devos for Education? Perry for EPA? Sessions for AG? Steven Bannon for anything? She would have at least avoided the serious right-wing looney-tunes... *shrug*
Why should they care? Because if I start noticing a bunch of apps running shit at 100% in the background on my phone all the time or if my phone catches fire, I'm going to pretty much stop buying any app ever again from the Play Store. If the app has to ask for a special permission to take major risks with my hardware, then maybe. But otherwise it's all about trust, and unlike some app stores out there (ahem: Amazon), I actually trust Google a little bit. They seem to be pretty good at keeping outright scams and stuff out of their catalog.
Troll.
Yeah, mining crypto on devices that are not remotely designed for such a use case is _the_ alternative to ad revenue. Because there's no such thing as Kickstarter, Patreon, PayPal, sending money orders by mail, or any of a million other ways to raise money out there.
And then go use that refund to buy which phone to replace it, exactly? I doubt any phone on the consumer market is designed to withstand that kind of use.