You immediately lose all credibility when you say you failed to grok RPN and call it a craze.
It is neither. You are just exposing your inadequate education.
As far as local school boards, please explain to me why other 'socialist' countries, like those in Europe beat the crap out of our school systems every year. Clue: it isn't because of Federal control. It's because of the stupid idea that local school boards made up of elected politicians with NO training in education have any place in running school systems.
My objection to Common Core doesn't involve cherry picking questions and presenting them in media out of context.
The problem with Common Core is that it isn't ambitious enough. In some states the whining has already begun that it's too hard.
Wait until they learn that it's nowhere near hard enough. The states that actually try to give their kids a good education, like Massachusetts, are lowering their standards to participate in this program.
What are they thinking? Even though Massachusetts has the best statewide education system in the US, it still falls considerably short of the top programs in the world, say Singapore.
Common Core should require everyone to upgrade to the level of Massachusetts, and THEN start raising the bar from there.
And fuck all the legislatures and parents who whine about that being too hard.
The higher ups can get away with it because they are higher up. The peons answering a phone call from their mistresses and stock brokers are likely to piss off their bosses. So not a good thing.
I was at a company-wide meeting once in which a higher up was giving a presentation. His boss called him on his cell, and he just walked out leaving the entire company except his boss (the CEO) hanging.
Of course that was ok because the CEO has first priority.
Safe isn't a binary thing. It's a continuous probability function. So if a highway was designed for cars of the 60's and you are driving a safer car of the 21st century you are not safe. You are safer.
The problem is there are significant numbers of people who would benefit greatly from self-driving cars. For example my father, who is 88 is at the point where he cannot safely drive a vehicle because of his eyesight. Such a car would be a huge benefit to him.
Over the past two years I lost power for about 4 weeks.
The last two weeks were miserable because it happened in early November when the weather was cold.
So I spent about 5k for a good multi-fuel generator and installation of a manual transfer switch. So now a prolonged grid outage will at least not leave me freezing in the dark.
Beach replenishment from the action of nor'easters is an annual or nearly so thing around here. In fact they generally do more damage than hurricanes. It's one of the the things your beach tag pays for.
Yes, if all you had was catastrophic coverage and are now over 30 you are going to have to pay more. However that is just one scenario, and the overall effects of the program are driving down the growth rate of health care costs on a national basis. Ultimately this is the biggest long term problem the US economy faces.
The working poor get it free via expanded Medicaid.
The middle class generally qualify for subsidies.
My two sons, who are in their 30's are ending up with significantly better insurance coverage at lower costs.
The ACA seems also to be slowing the overall growth of health care cost inflation.
Ending the practice of emergency room treatment for the uninsured is likely to improve health care overall in the US.
Analog phone lines are subject to a requirement that they admit various carriers on the lines.
So for example while Verizon ran the POTS lines to my home I was free (and did) to use AT&T as my carrier.
The problem is that this sharing process does not apply to cable or wireless.
I'm fortunate that I live in an area that is served by FIOS as well as a cable company; there are two sets of lines in my neighborhood. The effects of this are very real - I get a very significant discount to my cable service, no caps on the amount of data I receive per month and a quite attractive bandwidth of 120 Mbps down / 30 Mbps up for less than $50/mo.
Simply the reason costs are higher in the US is the lack of sharing the infrastructure among various carriers. I think this is most critical with internet service because there is so much than can be done with just this.
> all they have to do is show is that after accounting for all possible cycles, there's no way of explaining observations
Do you have problems with reading comprehension?
The goal of the study is not explaining climate change. The goal is determining the EFFECTS of climate change on NEBRASKA. If you eliminate non-cyclical effects from that study (whether or not they are anthropogenic) you eliminate some types of climate change from the study.
It should be OBVIOUS that this makes the goal of the study impossible to perform in a useful fashion.
The purpose of the study is SUPPOSED to be on the effect of climate change on Nebraska.
If they are restricted to studying the cyclical climate change they aren't going to be able to do a comprehensive evaluation.
It's quite clear here that the parameters of the study are being set by politicians with the hopes that it will support their particular biases rather than provide a useful technical conclusion.
The scientists are quite right to refuse to participate in this hooey.
The drafting of a constitutional document in the German Democratic Republic (GDR) was virtually contemporaneous with the promulgation of the Basic Law in the Federal Republic. Like its West German counterpart, the GDR constitution also established the political structure and basic operations of the countryâ(TM)s constitutional organs. One must distinguish, however, between the written constitution reproduced below and the âoereal constitutionâ under which East Germans lived. Stalinization had begun in the Soviet Occupation Zone under the leadership of Walter Ulbrichtâ(TM)s Socialist Unity Party in 1946, and, as it progressed, the principles of liberty, democracy, and equality enumerated in the constitution became a faÃade behind which party organs, censors, and police authorities maintained a dictatorship. In this regard, it is telling that the GDR constitution begins with âoefundamentals of state authority,â and not with guarantees of universal human rights.
When I was young teen I used to ride my bike to a used bookstore and buy cheap used paperbacks for 50 cents. Loved it. As I got older I moved to an area that had only regular bookstores, and the books were 10-50 times more costly. So I couldn't read as much.
Now though with eBay and Amazon I can get cheap books again. So I can afford to read again.
I guess if I want to be able to keep reading I'll have to stay out of France.
The same could have been said of many other companies. Apple. Google. Intel. Microsoft.
Stocks are sold on the basis of a claim on future earnings. Earnings start with revenues. Amazon's revenue growth is spectacular. That is a rare attribute in the current economy.
Sure it's speculative. It might flop. But dayumm look at that growth.
Oh bullcrap. Any reasonable reading of the IRS evidence shows that it was going after both parts of the political spectrum equally. The law itself is very vague and clearly led to the situation.
Bush made a mockery of FOIA requests as well.
The Attorney General being held in contempt was an action by Dan Issa's group of monkey's. It was a completely partisan vote y a body whose openly avowed purpose was to do anything possible to prevent the re-election of the sitting president.
I notice you DIDN'T mention the Valery Plame affair which in my opinion was FAR worse than anything that has happened in the Obama Whitehouse and led to criminal prosecution of a White House aid.
In East Germany this would never be subject to judicial review or public comment. The concept of 'warrantless wiretap' would be preposterous because warrants were never required under any circumstances.
There would also be no notification to the defendant that anything unusual was happening, nor publication of that information in a newspaper. There would be no prior court case on the topic, or appeals related to that non-existent action.
There would be no publication of how the evidence was obtained, or public notice of the case and the person charged would just disappear.
There would be no enabling law like the Patriot Act under discussion.
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You immediately lose all credibility when you say you failed to grok RPN and call it a craze.
It is neither. You are just exposing your inadequate education.
As far as local school boards, please explain to me why other 'socialist' countries, like those in Europe beat the crap out of our school systems every year. Clue: it isn't because of Federal control. It's because of the stupid idea that local school boards made up of elected politicians with NO training in education have any place in running school systems.
My objection to Common Core doesn't involve cherry picking questions and presenting them in media out of context.
The problem with Common Core is that it isn't ambitious enough. In some states the whining has already begun that it's too hard.
Wait until they learn that it's nowhere near hard enough. The states that actually try to give their kids a good education, like Massachusetts, are lowering their standards to participate in this program.
What are they thinking? Even though Massachusetts has the best statewide education system in the US, it still falls considerably short of the top programs in the world, say Singapore.
Common Core should require everyone to upgrade to the level of Massachusetts, and THEN start raising the bar from there.
And fuck all the legislatures and parents who whine about that being too hard.
The assault weapons laws in CA have more holes in them than high quality Swiss cheese.
The higher ups can get away with it because they are higher up. The peons answering a phone call from their mistresses and stock brokers are likely to piss off their bosses. So not a good thing.
I was at a company-wide meeting once in which a higher up was giving a presentation. His boss called him on his cell, and he just walked out leaving the entire company except his boss (the CEO) hanging.
Of course that was ok because the CEO has first priority.
Safe isn't a binary thing. It's a continuous probability function. So if a highway was designed for cars of the 60's and you are driving a safer car of the 21st century you are not safe. You are safer.
It's not 600 million.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/fact-checker/wp/2013/10/24/how-much-did-healthcare-gov-cost/?wprss=rss_politics
Host it in a closet and you never have to worry about some LEO doing an end run around the 4th amendment to access your email.
The problem is there are significant numbers of people who would benefit greatly from self-driving cars. For example my father, who is 88 is at the point where he cannot safely drive a vehicle because of his eyesight. Such a car would be a huge benefit to him.
The thing I was most afraid of was the weather getting cold enough to freeze pipes.
I don't think the hot water bottles would be enough in that case.
Over the past two years I lost power for about 4 weeks.
The last two weeks were miserable because it happened in early November when the weather was cold.
So I spent about 5k for a good multi-fuel generator and installation of a manual transfer switch. So now a prolonged grid outage will at least not leave me freezing in the dark.
Beach replenishment from the action of nor'easters is an annual or nearly so thing around here. In fact they generally do more damage than hurricanes. It's one of the the things your beach tag pays for.
Not a big deal. Think Sisyphus,
And no, Sandy was not a hurricane.
Yes, if all you had was catastrophic coverage and are now over 30 you are going to have to pay more. However that is just one scenario, and the overall effects of the program are driving down the growth rate of health care costs on a national basis. Ultimately this is the biggest long term problem the US economy faces.
The working poor get it free via expanded Medicaid.
The middle class generally qualify for subsidies.
My two sons, who are in their 30's are ending up with significantly better insurance coverage at lower costs.
The ACA seems also to be slowing the overall growth of health care cost inflation.
Ending the practice of emergency room treatment for the uninsured is likely to improve health care overall in the US.
Not really. Tax dollars aren't available to repair 2nd homes, and the amounts aren't really big enough to repair a high value home.
The beaches are getting fixed, but that is the economic life blood of a coastal town.
Analog phone lines are subject to a requirement that they admit various carriers on the lines.
So for example while Verizon ran the POTS lines to my home I was free (and did) to use AT&T as my carrier.
The problem is that this sharing process does not apply to cable or wireless.
I'm fortunate that I live in an area that is served by FIOS as well as a cable company; there are two sets of lines in my neighborhood. The effects of this are very real - I get a very significant discount to my cable service, no caps on the amount of data I receive per month and a quite attractive bandwidth of 120 Mbps down / 30 Mbps up for less than $50/mo.
Simply the reason costs are higher in the US is the lack of sharing the infrastructure among various carriers. I think this is most critical with internet service because there is so much than can be done with just this.
Why would a company deal with contracts like that when they can just have a industry non-poaching agreement?
That's just as free market.
The free market ends when government comes in and creates these annoying anti-trust laws.
The only persons that win these are the lawyers.
> all they have to do is show is that after accounting for all possible cycles, there's no way of explaining observations
Do you have problems with reading comprehension?
The goal of the study is not explaining climate change. The goal is determining the EFFECTS of climate change on NEBRASKA. If you eliminate non-cyclical effects from that study (whether or not they are anthropogenic) you eliminate some types of climate change from the study.
It should be OBVIOUS that this makes the goal of the study impossible to perform in a useful fashion.
The purpose of the study is SUPPOSED to be on the effect of climate change on Nebraska.
If they are restricted to studying the cyclical climate change they aren't going to be able to do a comprehensive evaluation.
It's quite clear here that the parameters of the study are being set by politicians with the hopes that it will support their particular biases rather than provide a useful technical conclusion.
The scientists are quite right to refuse to participate in this hooey.
From this one report you draw the conclusion that the Japanese do not surveil their citizens?
Sorry, but Japanese have very different ideas of what privacy means compared to people in western cultures.
http://privacy.org.nz/assets/Files/Technology-Forums/Rowena-Cullens-presentation.ppt
This story is very misleading.
> Pfft. Nice attempt to troll. If you wanted to read more, you could use the library.
I guess you never were a serious reader.
The fact is I read the entire contents of several sections of my Public Library. That was exhausted by the time I was 13.
Liar. The GDR Constitution never guaranteed human rights the way the US Constitution does. Not to mention it was a complete farce.
Here is what history says:
http://germanhistorydocs.ghi-dc.org/sub_document.cfm?document_id=2859
The drafting of a constitutional document in the German Democratic Republic (GDR) was virtually contemporaneous with the promulgation of the Basic Law in the Federal Republic. Like its West German counterpart, the GDR constitution also established the political structure and basic operations of the countryâ(TM)s constitutional organs. One must distinguish, however, between the written constitution reproduced below and the âoereal constitutionâ under which East Germans lived. Stalinization had begun in the Soviet Occupation Zone under the leadership of Walter Ulbrichtâ(TM)s Socialist Unity Party in 1946, and, as it progressed, the principles of liberty, democracy, and equality enumerated in the constitution became a faÃade behind which party organs, censors, and police authorities maintained a dictatorship. In this regard, it is telling that the GDR constitution begins with âoefundamentals of state authority,â and not with guarantees of universal human rights.
When I was young teen I used to ride my bike to a used bookstore and buy cheap used paperbacks for 50 cents. Loved it. As I got older I moved to an area that had only regular bookstores, and the books were 10-50 times more costly. So I couldn't read as much.
Now though with eBay and Amazon I can get cheap books again. So I can afford to read again.
I guess if I want to be able to keep reading I'll have to stay out of France.
The same could have been said of many other companies. Apple. Google. Intel. Microsoft.
Stocks are sold on the basis of a claim on future earnings. Earnings start with revenues. Amazon's revenue growth is spectacular. That is a rare attribute in the current economy.
Sure it's speculative. It might flop. But dayumm look at that growth.
Oh bullcrap. Any reasonable reading of the IRS evidence shows that it was going after both parts of the political spectrum equally. The law itself is very vague and clearly led to the situation.
Bush made a mockery of FOIA requests as well.
The Attorney General being held in contempt was an action by Dan Issa's group of monkey's. It was a completely partisan vote y a body whose openly avowed purpose was to do anything possible to prevent the re-election of the sitting president.
I notice you DIDN'T mention the Valery Plame affair which in my opinion was FAR worse than anything that has happened in the Obama Whitehouse and led to criminal prosecution of a White House aid.
In East Germany this would never be subject to judicial review or public comment. The concept of 'warrantless wiretap' would be preposterous because warrants were never required under any circumstances.
There would also be no notification to the defendant that anything unusual was happening, nor publication of that information in a newspaper. There would be no prior court case on the topic, or appeals related to that non-existent action.
There would be no publication of how the evidence was obtained, or public notice of the case and the person charged would just disappear.
There would be no enabling law like the Patriot Act under discussion.
Besides that they are exactly the same.
OK?