No they don't. When I was in high school, all the math teachers commented about what a great teacher my trig teacher was. She sucked; she was easily the worst math teacher I had in high school. Her distinguishing feature (over the other teachers) was that she had more tenure than any of them. In their mind, that somehow made her a great teacher. The best math teacher I had (for Algebra II) was the youngest teacher I had, but she didn't get that kind of respect.
Neither the teachers nor the administrators in our public schools can recognize good teachers, because the whole system has been built up over many decades to reward incompetence and longevity, so neither the administrators nor the teachers are any good, on average. How's an incompetent teacher going to recognize a good teacher?
Very interesting; this is a new development. 302HP out of a 2L 4-cylinder engine is quite a feat.
Regardless, those aren't Ford engines by any stretch of the imagination. They ended their relationship with Ford quite some time ago.
As for Ford reliability, did you realize you're also saying that Mazdas are unreliable? The platform shared between the three shared a lot of parts between all three makers. And by most accounts, it's actually one of the most reliable Volvos ever made, and the Mazda3 (up until 2013) is generally considered very reliable as well.
You really have no idea what you're talking about. "T5" is Volvo's nomenclature for their turbo 5-cylinder 2.5L engine. "T6" is a turbo V6 engine. No, they don't sell any 4-cylinder models here.
Where? I see a bunch of Volvos listed with some 4-cylinder engine. Volvo doesn't sell any cars with 4-cylinder engines in the US, only 5-cylinder and 6-cylinder engines. If some Europeans are having problems with their Volvos, I certainly haven't heard of it, nor am I likely to over here.
My S40's 5-cylinder is working just fine, thank you.
(Actually, I think Volvo just started selling some wagon this year in the US with a 4-cylinder option, but it's not listed here, and is a brand-new (and likely all-Volvo) engine.)
They don't need to be sent with bags and boxes. They can buy those here quite easily. They just need a little training, and some money to buy "burner" phones (or SIM cards). If all it takes to completely terrorize the populace and disrupt everything is some backpacks or some phone calls, then we're really fucked as a society.
Actually, most people who complain about this tend to favor not killing anyone, but rather sterilizing such people so they can't make any more offspring. Then they can live out their lives (more easily too, since they wouldn't have any more kids), and the problem would resolve itself in a generation or two. I've never seen anyone in my lifetime advocate murdering people who have too many kids. The debate is about sterilization, usually either forcible, or tying it to some kind of benefits or payout.
So what you're doing is actually pretty disgusting it seems, since you're demonizing your opponent and setting up a strawman argument.
No, Ford sold off their interest in Volvo and it's now owned by Geely in China. The Ford-made Volvos are actually some of the best; they share parts with Mazdas and Fords, and all three brands seem to have benefited a lot from the cooperation. Before Ford came along, Volvos had a lot of reliability problems. Sure, they were safe in an accident, but that's not the same as reliability. The newest Volvos, while Chinese-owned (but made in Sweden or Belgium) have excellent reliability.
I never said open-source was perfect, but there's no shortage of vulnerabilities discovered in closed-source software. Heartbleed is just an exceptional case, and was very quickly fixed once reported. How many proprietary vendors have sat on vulnerabilities and refused to fix them for ages? They even contend that vulnerabilities should never be disclosed to the public, so that they can take their time fixing them, if they ever get around to it.
You can't trust open source either. Devices like these often have "binary blobs" that aren't open source
No, you CAN trust open source. If it has a binary blob, then by definition, it is not open source.
it would be naive to assume that the NSA can't hire programmers to contribute to these projects and that they can't be good enough at what they do to make a backdoors that would pass a code review without being detected.
That's still better than closed-source code that you can never inspect. Also, any such contributions will be recorded and tracked. Serious open-source projects like the Linux kernel don't accept anonymous contributions; they have to be signed off by someone. Also importantly, if you look at the Linux kernel, you'll find most contributions (esp. in an area where a backdoor could have a real impact, not places like USB joystick drivers or whatever) come from programmers working for well-known companies, not from random people on the internet.
If it was 10-20 years ago, she may be young enough to still be employable.
Assuming you had a good income, she's not going to pay the mortgage and raise the kids on a waitress's income.
If it was 10-20 years ago, she could go back home to her then-healthier parents
Not everyone has parents who will take in their adult kids and then take over parenting responsibilities for them until the grandkids are in college. That's a lot to ask of your parents really.
If worst comes to worst, she can give up the kids.
There's no shortage of abuse in foster situations. Anyone who really cares about their kids wouldn't give them up to the state.
Ok, forget that, because obviously you've been lucky and haven't gotten hit by a bus or a meteorite before you got your kids out of the house.
Rewind 10-20 years, back to when your kids were 5-10 years old. You get hit by a bus, or drop dead from a heart attack because you overworked yourself with your own business. You don't have much property, because you're still young, and the business hasn't been generating positive returns for very long. Your house is mortgaged and has very little equity.
Now what does she do? She has no skills, little money saved, and a bunch of kids to take care of.
Japan may be slightly smaller than California, but much of its land is highly mountainous and not arable. California is so productive because not only does it have large cities, it also has an enormous amount of agriculture, because it's mostly flat and has great weather for growing crops. Japan does not.
Have you forgotten South Korea? It's right next door, and is fairly similar culturally and economically.
The main problem is that's it. They're nothing like NK or China (and are at odds with both of them), and anything else is quite a long distance away. They're probably a lot closer to Hawaii than Australia.
It's especially bad because it has no insurance. If your husband turns out to be abusive, or if he gets hit by a speeding bus or a meteorite, then suddenly you have no way of supporting your family at its previous standard of living.
Human behavior is mostly learned, not hereditary. Cultures is passed down because parents raise their own kids, usually. Send the kids off to foster care and they're fucked up for life, regardless of their lineage. The problem with immigrants is that their kids are raised by themselves, so they mostly retain their parents' culture, or become caught between incompatible cultures and develop all kinds of behavioral problems as a result.
The problem is you need money to raise kids, and when you're young, you don't have any money. You need to borrow a bunch of money, in fact, to go to college so you can get a good job, and work in that career a while and build up wealth, so you can afford a decent house and to raise a family, and that takes time. By the time you're well-off, you're now 40 or so, and at that age, women have a hard time getting pregnant.
So we need to either change to a society where women are encouraged to avoid college and just marry older men and be their breeders, or we need to develop medical advances so that women can have children in their 40s-60s (and both parents can feel youthful and energetic at that age), or we need to adopt line marriages like Robert Heinlein discussed in his stories.
Yes, I remember that much about HHGTTG, but again, I think it's pretty silly (like most of the book). Space is incredibly vast; the idea of a star system (or worse, a single planet) being "in the way" of anything is utterly ridiculous. I suppose it's remotely possible, but so improbable it's not worth considering. The way I see it, there's only two valid reasons a starfaring civilization would ever want to visit any particular planet: 1) that planet has resources they want, or 2) they want to visit for some reason (diplomacy, curiosity, trade, tourism). Actually traveling to any planet would either require an enormous amount of energy and resources (assuming non-FTL), not to mention time, plus a very high degree of technological capability, or it would require a level of technology we can barely comprehend (basically Star Trek tech) plus an understanding of fundamental physics far beyond our own (assuming FTL is possible). If it's the latter, then you're talking about a minimum Type-I civilization (probably not far from Type II really, to have that capability), and a civilization that, like Star Trek, is not resource-constrained. If you have warp drive, you can go anywhere and harvest infinite dead worlds for all the resources you desire. If it's the former (non-FTL-capable), then there's very little likelihood the resources we have would be worth the amount of resources (and time) needed to come here to get them.
Now I suppose it is possible I've overlooked something. Maybe the physics needed for FTL travel really isn't hard at all, and we've just managed to overlook it somehow. Maybe some other civilization that is at 1950s tech has figured it out, and that civilization is warlike and expansionist, and will be visiting us soon. Someone wrote a short story about that a while ago, about some alien invaders who figured out FTL but still used medieval-level firearms tech, so we humans easily defeated them, took their FTL tech, and then embarked on a wave of expansion and conquering throughout the galaxy. But I do think this is pretty remote; all indications are that FTL is not possible, or if it is, it's far, far beyond our capabiliities since we don't even understand the physics.
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Good teachers recognize other good teachers.
No they don't. When I was in high school, all the math teachers commented about what a great teacher my trig teacher was. She sucked; she was easily the worst math teacher I had in high school. Her distinguishing feature (over the other teachers) was that she had more tenure than any of them. In their mind, that somehow made her a great teacher. The best math teacher I had (for Algebra II) was the youngest teacher I had, but she didn't get that kind of respect.
Neither the teachers nor the administrators in our public schools can recognize good teachers, because the whole system has been built up over many decades to reward incompetence and longevity, so neither the administrators nor the teachers are any good, on average. How's an incompetent teacher going to recognize a good teacher?
They're not supposed to, not when you take a former cable and wireless [arstechnica.com] lobbyist and put him in charge.
And remember, he was appointed there by Obama, who promised on the campaign trail not to appoint lobbyists to policy-making positions.
Very interesting; this is a new development. 302HP out of a 2L 4-cylinder engine is quite a feat.
Regardless, those aren't Ford engines by any stretch of the imagination. They ended their relationship with Ford quite some time ago.
As for Ford reliability, did you realize you're also saying that Mazdas are unreliable? The platform shared between the three shared a lot of parts between all three makers. And by most accounts, it's actually one of the most reliable Volvos ever made, and the Mazda3 (up until 2013) is generally considered very reliable as well.
That's why you don't use their version, you load your own version from a trusted source (like openwrt.org).
You really have no idea what you're talking about. "T5" is Volvo's nomenclature for their turbo 5-cylinder 2.5L engine. "T6" is a turbo V6 engine. No, they don't sell any 4-cylinder models here.
Where? I see a bunch of Volvos listed with some 4-cylinder engine. Volvo doesn't sell any cars with 4-cylinder engines in the US, only 5-cylinder and 6-cylinder engines. If some Europeans are having problems with their Volvos, I certainly haven't heard of it, nor am I likely to over here.
My S40's 5-cylinder is working just fine, thank you.
(Actually, I think Volvo just started selling some wagon this year in the US with a 4-cylinder option, but it's not listed here, and is a brand-new (and likely all-Volvo) engine.)
They don't need to be sent with bags and boxes. They can buy those here quite easily. They just need a little training, and some money to buy "burner" phones (or SIM cards). If all it takes to completely terrorize the populace and disrupt everything is some backpacks or some phone calls, then we're really fucked as a society.
So you advocate killing them and their offspring?
Actually, most people who complain about this tend to favor not killing anyone, but rather sterilizing such people so they can't make any more offspring. Then they can live out their lives (more easily too, since they wouldn't have any more kids), and the problem would resolve itself in a generation or two. I've never seen anyone in my lifetime advocate murdering people who have too many kids. The debate is about sterilization, usually either forcible, or tying it to some kind of benefits or payout.
So what you're doing is actually pretty disgusting it seems, since you're demonizing your opponent and setting up a strawman argument.
No, they don't. Citation or STFU.
No, Volvo uses Volvo-designed engines.
So what, exactly, does GM view as its market for this particular scam?
AOL users. They're out there.
No, Ford sold off their interest in Volvo and it's now owned by Geely in China. The Ford-made Volvos are actually some of the best; they share parts with Mazdas and Fords, and all three brands seem to have benefited a lot from the cooperation. Before Ford came along, Volvos had a lot of reliability problems. Sure, they were safe in an accident, but that's not the same as reliability. The newest Volvos, while Chinese-owned (but made in Sweden or Belgium) have excellent reliability.
I never said open-source was perfect, but there's no shortage of vulnerabilities discovered in closed-source software. Heartbleed is just an exceptional case, and was very quickly fixed once reported. How many proprietary vendors have sat on vulnerabilities and refused to fix them for ages? They even contend that vulnerabilities should never be disclosed to the public, so that they can take their time fixing them, if they ever get around to it.
You can't trust open source either.
Devices like these often have "binary blobs" that aren't open source
No, you CAN trust open source. If it has a binary blob, then by definition, it is not open source.
it would be naive to assume that the NSA can't hire programmers to contribute to these projects and that they can't be good enough at what they do to make a backdoors that would pass a code review without being detected.
That's still better than closed-source code that you can never inspect. Also, any such contributions will be recorded and tracked. Serious open-source projects like the Linux kernel don't accept anonymous contributions; they have to be signed off by someone. Also importantly, if you look at the Linux kernel, you'll find most contributions (esp. in an area where a backdoor could have a real impact, not places like USB joystick drivers or whatever) come from programmers working for well-known companies, not from random people on the internet.
If it was 10-20 years ago, she may be young enough to still be employable.
Assuming you had a good income, she's not going to pay the mortgage and raise the kids on a waitress's income.
If it was 10-20 years ago, she could go back home to her then-healthier parents
Not everyone has parents who will take in their adult kids and then take over parenting responsibilities for them until the grandkids are in college. That's a lot to ask of your parents really.
If worst comes to worst, she can give up the kids.
There's no shortage of abuse in foster situations. Anyone who really cares about their kids wouldn't give them up to the state.
My wife could move in with my son,
Ok, forget that, because obviously you've been lucky and haven't gotten hit by a bus or a meteorite before you got your kids out of the house.
Rewind 10-20 years, back to when your kids were 5-10 years old. You get hit by a bus, or drop dead from a heart attack because you overworked yourself with your own business. You don't have much property, because you're still young, and the business hasn't been generating positive returns for very long. Your house is mortgaged and has very little equity.
Now what does she do? She has no skills, little money saved, and a bunch of kids to take care of.
They haven't ruined Google Maps. Just click on the gear icon, and select "return to Classic Maps".
When this option goes away, then you can say "They RUINED Google Maps". Not until then.
Japan may be slightly smaller than California, but much of its land is highly mountainous and not arable. California is so productive because not only does it have large cities, it also has an enormous amount of agriculture, because it's mostly flat and has great weather for growing crops. Japan does not.
Have you forgotten South Korea? It's right next door, and is fairly similar culturally and economically.
The main problem is that's it. They're nothing like NK or China (and are at odds with both of them), and anything else is quite a long distance away. They're probably a lot closer to Hawaii than Australia.
And what's your wife going to do when you're hit by a speeding bus one day? How's she going to support the kids without your income?
It's especially bad because it has no insurance. If your husband turns out to be abusive, or if he gets hit by a speeding bus or a meteorite, then suddenly you have no way of supporting your family at its previous standard of living.
Human behavior is mostly learned, not hereditary. Cultures is passed down because parents raise their own kids, usually. Send the kids off to foster care and they're fucked up for life, regardless of their lineage. The problem with immigrants is that their kids are raised by themselves, so they mostly retain their parents' culture, or become caught between incompatible cultures and develop all kinds of behavioral problems as a result.
The problem is you need money to raise kids, and when you're young, you don't have any money. You need to borrow a bunch of money, in fact, to go to college so you can get a good job, and work in that career a while and build up wealth, so you can afford a decent house and to raise a family, and that takes time. By the time you're well-off, you're now 40 or so, and at that age, women have a hard time getting pregnant.
So we need to either change to a society where women are encouraged to avoid college and just marry older men and be their breeders, or we need to develop medical advances so that women can have children in their 40s-60s (and both parents can feel youthful and energetic at that age), or we need to adopt line marriages like Robert Heinlein discussed in his stories.
Yes, I remember that much about HHGTTG, but again, I think it's pretty silly (like most of the book). Space is incredibly vast; the idea of a star system (or worse, a single planet) being "in the way" of anything is utterly ridiculous. I suppose it's remotely possible, but so improbable it's not worth considering. The way I see it, there's only two valid reasons a starfaring civilization would ever want to visit any particular planet: 1) that planet has resources they want, or 2) they want to visit for some reason (diplomacy, curiosity, trade, tourism). Actually traveling to any planet would either require an enormous amount of energy and resources (assuming non-FTL), not to mention time, plus a very high degree of technological capability, or it would require a level of technology we can barely comprehend (basically Star Trek tech) plus an understanding of fundamental physics far beyond our own (assuming FTL is possible). If it's the latter, then you're talking about a minimum Type-I civilization (probably not far from Type II really, to have that capability), and a civilization that, like Star Trek, is not resource-constrained. If you have warp drive, you can go anywhere and harvest infinite dead worlds for all the resources you desire. If it's the former (non-FTL-capable), then there's very little likelihood the resources we have would be worth the amount of resources (and time) needed to come here to get them.
Now I suppose it is possible I've overlooked something. Maybe the physics needed for FTL travel really isn't hard at all, and we've just managed to overlook it somehow. Maybe some other civilization that is at 1950s tech has figured it out, and that civilization is warlike and expansionist, and will be visiting us soon. Someone wrote a short story about that a while ago, about some alien invaders who figured out FTL but still used medieval-level firearms tech, so we humans easily defeated them, took their FTL tech, and then embarked on a wave of expansion and conquering throughout the galaxy. But I do think this is pretty remote; all indications are that FTL is not possible, or if it is, it's far, far beyond our capabiliities since we don't even understand the physics.
Oh really? Sorry, I didn't realize that that was now the case. Thanks!