I know too much about this. I'm a Korea-phile, so last year I applied to a graduate school in South Korea and they required me to download like 2 or so add-ons to IE to even complete the online application.
Omitted in this “scientific text” is the existence of other scientific data and theories, for example, the cyclical nature of the planet’s climate and the impact of solar activity on Earth’s temperatures. Nor does it mention the fact that the concept of man-made global warming is most actively promoted by those politicians who have a vested interest in imposing government regulations, which would allow them a greater control over the economy and people’s lives.
Sounds like she's just upset that she isn't drilling her own ideology into the students.
I'm agreeing with Toe, The. (That's an awkward name to type out). This is like putting down the singleton code pattern because there is one bad implementation of it that you've come across. The Common Core are standards which, actually, give a lot of freedom to the individual states (once again following the Federalist pattern).
Digging a little deeper, we have this tid-bit about what 1st graders should learn about addition and subtraction:
Use addition and subtraction within 20 to solve word problems involving situations of adding to, taking from, putting together, taking apart, and comparing, with unknowns in all positions, e.g., by using objects, drawings, and equations with a symbol for the unknown number to represent the problem.
Nothing about making drawings that put pennies into cups. May be it should say "using objects in familiar and sensible fucking ways"? But what can you expect. It's a standard, not a rule for writing tests...plus, you'd expect more intelligence from the people actually writing the tests.
If anything, this could give air to the argument that the Common Core is too vague, which is what the point of it was. Apparently, it was drafted in such a way to give freedom to the states and local educators to decide the best way to teach 1st graders how to add and subtract within 20. If anything, that says DOE should have more say in what and how states teach their kids to avoid them fucking up like this.
I don't think people from the other side (like me) who are sane think capitalism is bad. The issue is capitalism isn't the point of society, instead, it should be a tool to promote common good, to increase the utility of society.
So, profit isn't bad, as it increases utility in society. Whoever, when capitalism becomes the point, the motivation, that is when we draw the line. It's like a CS instructor focusing on teaching C or C++ but not teaching how to program with any tool they can find. Some tools are better (I think capitalism with some restrictions is the best) than others for certain jobs. However, let's not read too far into the tool beyond its utility to us.
You have a point, but reread the his/er post: "aimed at rich people who are swaying elections in directions that they appreciate." I see no equating the rich to the right.
In any case, RTFA, I think I'd need to see the policy he is critizing to judge it, but it does sound a bit ambitious especially for the age group he claims it's for.
The only problem with your opinion is we don't really have examples of this. Elsewhere, where there are government controls, prices are lower; ie., we have examples of the opposing opinion.
The problem with libertarianism is the same of socialism. We have no successfully working examples. (Of course, thankfully for us in the modern age, we have examples for how communism will fail spectacularly instead.)
Why is Broadband more expensive? Why do we pay more for healthcare? Why is our productivity so high compared to real wages? Why does our government spy on us and disregard our civil liberties? Why are we below the average in ability according to OECD? Why is the gap between the richest and the poorest on par with that of African countries?
And finally, why the fuck do people keep telling me this is the greatest country on Earth?
I want to be proud for my country and what it stood for, but it's hard to see nowadays.
This is true. I'm a physics graduate student and I use it for all of my homework and I even use it for taking notes in class. The shortcuts are so intuitive and easy that I can manage to spit out complicated formulae just as quickly as it is written down on the board.
Unfortunately, the system isn't very stable and at times needs to be restarted after a long session of a couple of hours of running. I was once rushing to finish some homework that was due in an hour and the underlying whatever-lisp became corrupted somehow that everytime I activated an figure area, it would crash. I had to literally reinstall the program to get it back to a useable state (and I was able to finish the homework on time!)
Nonetheless, it is a powerful and awesome program, but alas, like most OSS projects lacks the man-power to become the stable, reliable tool that it could be. I personally have considered carving out sometime to contribute to TeXmacs since I use it on such a regular basis.
Great job slashdot! 10 years for a significant linux distro and even if it isn't your choice, it is historically significant in that regard. These comment threads are riveting! May be we should have inserted some bit about the government or liberals or guns into this article to get some clicks.
I for one, congradulate them and wish them the best.
[...]reaching an amount never before encountered by humans, federal scientists said.
There weren't any humans around 450 million years ago.
Furthermore, you copy-and-pasted directly but left out the rest of the paragraph
CO2 levels of more than 4000 parts per million (ppm) occurred during the Ordovician-Silurian (450 million years ago). There is also evidence of a glacial event occurring during this period. This has been used by some to attempt to disprove the link between temperature and CO2. Royer et al. (2006) considered the CO2 forced climate thresholds over the Phanerozoic eon (the last 545 million years). It was found that there is insufficient proxy data to determine that a high CO2 event coincided with the Ordovician-Silurian glacial event. The only proxy CO2 data near this glacial event could be up to five million years younger than the event. Further, the Earth was a very different place during this period including differences in solar luminosity, albedo, distribution of continents and vegetation, orbital parameters and other greenhouse gases.
You should try to think more, brah. It can actually save you from embarrasment.
The problem with libertarianism is that they don't have that example, or that we do and they ignore it (much of the 3rd world). We have the example of the extreme-left and the extreme-right (communism, facism) and how they failed. However, we don't have the example of "extreme freedom" or the state of nature that libertarians can't or won't explain away as being the true result of their idealism. Some liberts actually think Somalia is a good example of the power of unregulated markets and thus study their "currency" as an example of the power of no-government but are sure to explain away their social problems due to culture, etc.
It is a reality that women are are poorly represented in IT. In fact, if you're one of those types who believe "reverse discrimination" is an issue, you should be upholding her as an example that women can and do succeed in computing and thus need no special attention.
I'm happy because she can be a role model for her peers, both male and female.
Incorrect. The response to "The adverse health effects (like early beginnings of brain tumors) start showing up after two years." was "Cellphone radiation is non-ionizing.", suggesting that there are no adverse health effects if the radiation is non-ionizing. That claim is false, as shown by documented cases of adverse health effects caused by non-ionizing radiation.
Uh, no. Tumors == Cancer. Below red EM doesn't cause cancer from what we know. You're the one who implied cancer, and he responded to that claim.
Slashdot Mirror
I know, we should just ionize lead until it is a nucleus, then we'll have 82 charges! These guys aren't thinking big enough.
I know too much about this. I'm a Korea-phile, so last year I applied to a graduate school in South Korea and they required me to download like 2 or so add-ons to IE to even complete the online application.
There's more good stuff from your link:
Omitted in this “scientific text” is the existence of other scientific data and theories, for example, the cyclical nature of the planet’s climate and the impact of solar activity on Earth’s temperatures. Nor does it mention the fact that the concept of man-made global warming is most actively promoted by those politicians who have a vested interest in imposing government regulations, which would allow them a greater control over the economy and people’s lives.
Sounds like she's just upset that she isn't drilling her own ideology into the students.
I'm agreeing with Toe, The. (That's an awkward name to type out). This is like putting down the singleton code pattern because there is one bad implementation of it that you've come across. The Common Core are standards which, actually, give a lot of freedom to the individual states (once again following the Federalist pattern).
Digging a little deeper, we have this tid-bit about what 1st graders should learn about addition and subtraction:
Use addition and subtraction within 20 to solve word problems involving situations of adding to, taking from, putting together, taking apart, and comparing, with unknowns in all positions, e.g., by using objects, drawings, and equations with a symbol for the unknown number to represent the problem.
Nothing about making drawings that put pennies into cups. May be it should say "using objects in familiar and sensible fucking ways"? But what can you expect. It's a standard, not a rule for writing tests...plus, you'd expect more intelligence from the people actually writing the tests.
If anything, this could give air to the argument that the Common Core is too vague, which is what the point of it was. Apparently, it was drafted in such a way to give freedom to the states and local educators to decide the best way to teach 1st graders how to add and subtract within 20. If anything, that says DOE should have more say in what and how states teach their kids to avoid them fucking up like this.
I have a Midterm tomorrow, so I'm studying.
When the prof found out it would be tomorrow on Halloween night, he said it was quite fitting.
I don't think people from the other side (like me) who are sane think capitalism is bad. The issue is capitalism isn't the point of society, instead, it should be a tool to promote common good, to increase the utility of society.
So, profit isn't bad, as it increases utility in society. Whoever, when capitalism becomes the point, the motivation, that is when we draw the line. It's like a CS instructor focusing on teaching C or C++ but not teaching how to program with any tool they can find. Some tools are better (I think capitalism with some restrictions is the best) than others for certain jobs. However, let's not read too far into the tool beyond its utility to us.
Let's see...clicking around TFA's website:
http://www.cringely.com/bout-bob/
You have a point, but reread the his/er post: "aimed at rich people who are swaying elections in directions that they appreciate." I see no equating the rich to the right.
and my mistake was mixing those up. doh. what a spectacular fail.
...is that it's "you're", not "your."
...should be left to self-absorbed narcissists?
In any case, RTFA, I think I'd need to see the policy he is critizing to judge it, but it does sound a bit ambitious especially for the age group he claims it's for.
Nonetheless, he's a ignorant ingrate.
I agree. Skeptism is fair, slashdot. Even cynisim is warranted. Perhaps his motives aren't pure, but a step forward is better than standing still.
AC's joking. Relax, bud.
The only problem with your opinion is we don't really have examples of this. Elsewhere, where there are government controls, prices are lower; ie., we have examples of the opposing opinion.
The problem with libertarianism is the same of socialism. We have no successfully working examples. (Of course, thankfully for us in the modern age, we have examples for how communism will fail spectacularly instead.)
Why is Broadband more expensive?
Why do we pay more for healthcare?
Why is our productivity so high compared to real wages?
Why does our government spy on us and disregard our civil liberties?
Why are we below the average in ability according to OECD?
Why is the gap between the richest and the poorest on par with that of African countries?
And finally, why the fuck do people keep telling me this is the greatest country on Earth?
I want to be proud for my country and what it stood for, but it's hard to see nowadays.
This is true. I'm a physics graduate student and I use it for all of my homework and I even use it for taking notes in class. The shortcuts are so intuitive and easy that I can manage to spit out complicated formulae just as quickly as it is written down on the board.
Unfortunately, the system isn't very stable and at times needs to be restarted after a long session of a couple of hours of running. I was once rushing to finish some homework that was due in an hour and the underlying whatever-lisp became corrupted somehow that everytime I activated an figure area, it would crash. I had to literally reinstall the program to get it back to a useable state (and I was able to finish the homework on time!)
Nonetheless, it is a powerful and awesome program, but alas, like most OSS projects lacks the man-power to become the stable, reliable tool that it could be. I personally have considered carving out sometime to contribute to TeXmacs since I use it on such a regular basis.
Great job slashdot! 10 years for a significant linux distro and even if it isn't your choice, it is historically significant in that regard. These comment threads are riveting!
May be we should have inserted some bit about the government or liberals or guns into this article to get some clicks.
I for one, congradulate them and wish them the best.
lol.
This is slashdot, but not many people will understand this joke.
I'd mod you up, but you're already at five. You deserve a 6 out of 5, my good man.
if they had called themselves the "Brony Patriot Thank You Fund", we'd have a different story.
TFS:
[...]reaching an amount never before encountered by humans, federal scientists said.
There weren't any humans around 450 million years ago.
Furthermore, you copy-and-pasted directly but left out the rest of the paragraph
CO2 levels of more than 4000 parts per million (ppm) occurred during the Ordovician-Silurian (450 million years ago). There is also evidence of a glacial event occurring during this period. This has been used by some to attempt to disprove the link between temperature and CO2. Royer et al. (2006) considered the CO2 forced climate thresholds over the Phanerozoic eon (the last 545 million years). It was found that there is insufficient proxy data to determine that a high CO2 event coincided with the Ordovician-Silurian glacial event. The only proxy CO2 data near this glacial event could be up to five million years younger than the event. Further, the Earth was a very different place during this period including differences in solar luminosity, albedo, distribution of continents and vegetation, orbital parameters and other greenhouse gases.
You should try to think more, brah. It can actually save you from embarrasment.
The problem with libertarianism is that they don't have that example, or that we do and they ignore it (much of the 3rd world). We have the example of the extreme-left and the extreme-right (communism, facism) and how they failed. However, we don't have the example of "extreme freedom" or the state of nature that libertarians can't or won't explain away as being the true result of their idealism. Some liberts actually think Somalia is a good example of the power of unregulated markets and thus study their "currency" as an example of the power of no-government but are sure to explain away their social problems due to culture, etc.
I really hope so, bro. Given the short-sightedness of some on this planet, it seems like it will be a while until that "day" will actually come.
It is a reality that women are are poorly represented in IT. In fact, if you're one of those types who believe "reverse discrimination" is an issue, you should be upholding her as an example that women can and do succeed in computing and thus need no special attention.
I'm happy because she can be a role model for her peers, both male and female.
Incorrect. The response to "The adverse health effects (like early beginnings of brain tumors) start showing up after two years." was "Cellphone radiation is non-ionizing.", suggesting that there are no adverse health effects if the radiation is non-ionizing. That claim is false, as shown by documented cases of adverse health effects caused by non-ionizing radiation.
Uh, no. Tumors == Cancer. Below red EM doesn't cause cancer from what we know. You're the one who implied cancer, and he responded to that claim.