Personally, I'd like to ban collective bargaining in jobs where people hold the public hostage like schools, public transportation, and police. Because of it in Ontario we have bus drivers who are paid more than nurses. We also have an abundance of teachers, but supply and demand can't work where a union says you can't pick the best of the bunch.
So, you're saying that supply and demand only works when management has arbitrary power?
If you want to "let the market decide", why don't workers' wills matter as much as management's?
It's time to put the "invisible hand" mythology to rest.
Easy. Fuck the union. Make it a system where you can get fired if you don't do well.
But how do you know when failure is the teacher's fault, rather than something else?
Yeah, the Republican party and the middle/working class fools who listen to them have made teachers' unions the villain in our presumed educational crisis, but where's the evidence? They think *every* union is the villain in *some* drama.
If you want to "fix" education, you need to start by stating what about it you want to fix, and work backwards from there to the actual problem.
AFAICT, lots of people graduate from high school with decent educations. Do you claim that they all went to schools where the teachers don't have unions?
Rather than pointing the finger at some ideological "cause" for some vaguely defined problem, let's find out why some students graduate with decent educations and others don't, then see what we might do about those causes.
Frankly, I think grade school teachers get about half the pay and a tenth of the respect that they deserve. It's a miracle we can find anyone to take the job at all. Maybe stronger unions would *improve* our educational system.
The whole article argues that we don't really know when someone is "dead" yet in the cases outlined; just best guesses by doctors.
Would you trust a doctor from 100 years ago today? Maybe we should hedge a bit that we may be killing people for their organs who aren't quite dead yet, and some more research needs to go into when you're officially "braindead".
I prefer trusting the doctors, who *might* make a bad call, *if* I ever get into this situation, in preference to the guarantee of spending decades as a vegetable on life support because someone thinks I might wake up.
Fair enough. Personally, I don't consider a position in direct opposition to a person's religion's official stance to a be representative of any "religious group", much as I would say that a person self-identifying as following Islam who says Allah doesn't exist, is not, in fact, following a position of a "religious group" (other than, perhaps, a group consisting of him/herself), but rather, is an individual with a wrong opinion about what their religion is
So now all the advocates of bed-wetting at FOX news can quit trying to scare us with "Islamic terrorists", and start warning about heretical or lapsed Muslims, who think suicide is OK?
Hacktivism is to protest political ends. I belive the term is misused here...
Right. Unless all those credit card numbers were stolen to support the Club A Baby Seal for Supply-Side Jesus movement, it was just theft, not hactivism.
From the article: 'He said he has considered multiple directions that an Education X Prize could take, such as coming up with better ways to crowd-source education, or rewarding the creation of "powerful, addictive game" that promotes education.
This isn't a game or something that is fixed by simply throwing money at. It is a social problem first and foremost. The culture of this country does not appreciate education, and the idea of studying as hard as South Koreans or Japanese is seen as if it were child abuse or something like that.
But he isn’t sure which way to go.
What strikes me about the article is, he wants to "fix" education but he doesn't tell us what's wrong with it.
...is also present in dark beers and roasted foods. It is one of many substances, like acrylamide, formed during browning. So, even if they avoid it in cola drinks, we can expect California warning labels on more foods and beverages.
And since it's created by roasting, they'll stick it on the product *after* you cook it.
ddt scare was frautlent and has been proven so. coca cola on the other hand should be outlawed. Soda cause more death and disease in this country every year than tobacco could ever hope to achieve.
When I visited a laboratory of Dow Chemical, the engineers had a great cartoon on the wall. I really wish I had a chance to get a copy of it. There's a rat with a big pipe going in its mouth and a big pipe coming out it's rear, with one lab technician examing a clipboard and stating to another, "Well, looks like drinking water causes cancer."
Considering how familiar these people were with the concept of ppm or ppb they could laugh.
Given some of the intermediate substances Dow uses in their plants, it's hard to understand why they would think it a laughing matter.
However, I've noticed a trend (small sample size) for engineers in the petrochemical industry to adopt the management line after working there for a few years.
And give up thinking for themselves in other areas, such as politics, too.
Maybe solve the problems of overpopulation on earth - send the billion Chinese to Mars, the 2 billion Muslims to Venus, and a billion Indians to say one of Jupiter's moons, and the world's population will be down to 3 billion, and that too a bulk of who are not reproducing @ replacement levels e.g. the Russians.
Pretty expensive operation there.
Plus people are probably breeding faster than we'll ever be able to ship them off to colonies.
Indeed. It would be a quiet source of entertainment (perhaps some irony?) to see another alien race converted by human preachers.
Maybe they're the "sheep from other folds" that Jesus is said to have made passing mention of.
There is also the not so mirthful possibility that they will be a first contact for another race, declare them to be demons, fire on them, and doom the rest of the human race (as this race seeks revenge by removing the human scum).
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Personally, I'd like to ban collective bargaining in jobs where people hold the public hostage like schools, public transportation, and police. Because of it in Ontario we have bus drivers who are paid more than nurses. We also have an abundance of teachers, but supply and demand can't work where a union says you can't pick the best of the bunch.
So, you're saying that supply and demand only works when management has arbitrary power?
If you want to "let the market decide", why don't workers' wills matter as much as management's?
It's time to put the "invisible hand" mythology to rest.
Easy. Fuck the union. Make it a system where you can get fired if you don't do well.
But how do you know when failure is the teacher's fault, rather than something else?
Yeah, the Republican party and the middle/working class fools who listen to them have made teachers' unions the villain in our presumed educational crisis, but where's the evidence? They think *every* union is the villain in *some* drama.
If you want to "fix" education, you need to start by stating what about it you want to fix, and work backwards from there to the actual problem.
AFAICT, lots of people graduate from high school with decent educations. Do you claim that they all went to schools where the teachers don't have unions?
Rather than pointing the finger at some ideological "cause" for some vaguely defined problem, let's find out why some students graduate with decent educations and others don't, then see what we might do about those causes.
Frankly, I think grade school teachers get about half the pay and a tenth of the respect that they deserve. It's a miracle we can find anyone to take the job at all. Maybe stronger unions would *improve* our educational system.
Perhaps your organs will save the life of a child who will invent a brain repair technology 30 years from now ;)
And another who will invent the time machine...
From the summary, it says each person is worth 2 million dollars in a 20 billion per year industry.
If a person is worth so much, then why is "gifting organs upon death" required to be a donation?
Selling organs is banned by international treaties for good reasons.
Also, that 2 mil doesn't just go into someone's pocket. An organ transplant is a very complex procedure, with lots of people and facilities involved.
From the summary, it says each person is worth 2 million dollars in a 20 billion per year industry. I would say that can cause some bias.
How much money does someone stand to gain if they keep you on life support for 30 years?
I remember reading recently about an operation in China where people were being harvested.
Supposedly people sometimes get harvested when they go in for dental surgery.
I'm not sure why you're not modded up yet.
The whole article argues that we don't really know when someone is "dead" yet in the cases outlined; just best guesses by doctors.
Would you trust a doctor from 100 years ago today? Maybe we should hedge a bit that we may be killing people for their organs who aren't quite dead yet, and some more research needs to go into when you're officially "braindead".
I prefer trusting the doctors, who *might* make a bad call, *if* I ever get into this situation, in preference to the guarantee of spending decades as a vegetable on life support because someone thinks I might wake up.
So, basically, ignore all discussion of morality by labelling it all as "god-bothering"
Yes, God's busy helping Tebow win his football game, and doesn't want to be bothered about people suffering head trauma.
Fair enough. Personally, I don't consider a position in direct opposition to a person's religion's official stance to a be representative of any "religious group", much as I would say that a person self-identifying as following Islam who says Allah doesn't exist, is not, in fact, following a position of a "religious group" (other than, perhaps, a group consisting of him/herself), but rather, is an individual with a wrong opinion about what their religion is
So now all the advocates of bed-wetting at FOX news can quit trying to scare us with "Islamic terrorists", and start warning about heretical or lapsed Muslims, who think suicide is OK?
Political activists use legitimate methods to increase their influence.
Yeah, like gerrymandering, suppressing voter turnout, diddling voting machines, and "losing" the ballots from precincts likely to vote the wrong way.
Hacktivism is to protest political ends. I belive the term is misused here...
Right. Unless all those credit card numbers were stolen to support the Club A Baby Seal for Supply-Side Jesus movement, it was just theft, not hactivism.
From the article: 'He said he has considered multiple directions that an Education X Prize could take, such as coming up with better ways to crowd-source education, or rewarding the creation of "powerful, addictive game" that promotes education.
This isn't a game or something that is fixed by simply throwing money at. It is a social problem first and foremost. The culture of this country does not appreciate education, and the idea of studying as hard as South Koreans or Japanese is seen as if it were child abuse or something like that.
But he isn’t sure which way to go.
What strikes me about the article is, he wants to "fix" education but he doesn't tell us what's wrong with it.
Doomed to failure.
READ THE FUCKING TITLE if your confused
Heh. And somehow we expect people to RTFA.
Wonder how much heat is dissipated when you mod a post down?
My poltergeist is going to have fun now!
Alot more "Un-Nerdy" stories being posted lately since 'Taco left. Is a shift in content what drove him to leave?
It's nothing to do with Taco. They just quit posting stories that might cause cancer...
...is also present in dark beers and roasted foods. It is one of many substances, like acrylamide, formed during browning. So, even if they avoid it in cola drinks, we can expect California warning labels on more foods and beverages.
And since it's created by roasting, they'll stick it on the product *after* you cook it.
"Waiter, what's this sticker on my steak?"
ddt scare was frautlent and has been proven so. coca cola on the other hand should be outlawed. Soda cause more death and disease in this country every year than tobacco could ever hope to achieve.
Freutian slip, I'm sure.
When I visited a laboratory of Dow Chemical, the engineers had a great cartoon on the wall. I really wish I had a chance to get a copy of it. There's a rat with a big pipe going in its mouth and a big pipe coming out it's rear, with one lab technician examing a clipboard and stating to another, "Well, looks like drinking water causes cancer."
Considering how familiar these people were with the concept of ppm or ppb they could laugh.
Given some of the intermediate substances Dow uses in their plants, it's hard to understand why they would think it a laughing matter.
However, I've noticed a trend (small sample size) for engineers in the petrochemical industry to adopt the management line after working there for a few years.
And give up thinking for themselves in other areas, such as politics, too.
"Virii" and "Priii" is what people like to type when they want to appear smart (using the Latin plural). The rest of us just type viruses and Priuses.
Bah, the -us/-i variation is used in plain ol' English, too:
asparagus, asparagi
broccolus, broccoli
spaghettus, spaghetti
us, I
Whoops, that last one is backwards...
It's part of their new branding strategy.
I always spin off evil operations as a subsidiary, so the masses will still think I'm the good guy.
Usually an overseas subsidiary, so I can get evil on the cheap.
Expect a quick change of mind after the first Chinese lunar colony is established.
Or as soon as we realize that they're actively working toward one.
The shift form pubic to private is
A scam to put public money in private pockets, as always.
Maybe solve the problems of overpopulation on earth - send the billion Chinese to Mars, the 2 billion Muslims to Venus, and a billion Indians to say one of Jupiter's moons, and the world's population will be down to 3 billion, and that too a bulk of who are not reproducing @ replacement levels e.g. the Russians.
Pretty expensive operation there.
Plus people are probably breeding faster than we'll ever be able to ship them off to colonies.
.... on mars will there ever be any significant corporate interest in going there.
Some may decide it's a good place to conduct operations free of legal constraints.
Indeed. It would be a quiet source of entertainment (perhaps some irony?) to see another alien race converted by human preachers.
Maybe they're the "sheep from other folds" that Jesus is said to have made passing mention of.
There is also the not so mirthful possibility that they will be a first contact for another race, declare them to be demons, fire on them, and doom the rest of the human race (as this race seeks revenge by removing the human scum).
Or reduce us to slavery.