You're right, it is all very clear, which is why they said
We oppose the teaching of Higher Order Thinking Skills (HOTS) (values clarification), critical thinking skills and similar programs that are simply a relabeling of Outcome-Based Education (OBE) (mastery learning) which suck
Oh no, wait, they said
We oppose the teaching of Higher Order Thinking Skills (HOTS) (values clarification), critical thinking skills and similar programs that are simply a relabeling of Outcome-Based Education (OBE) (mastery learning) which focus on behavior modification and have the purpose of challenging the student’s fixed beliefs and undermining parental authority.
You may be right that they suck, but being right about its suckage doesn't win you this argument because the Republicans made no claims regarding the suckiness of the curriculum, only that it challenges fixed beliefs and undermines parental authority.
"States Rights" sounds like some sort of great idea until you consider that the focus is on the right of the state over the rights of individuals.
Really, most of the people pushing "States' Rights" mean "right for the state to do what I want it to do" and squeal like a stuck pig when a state legalizes gay marriage or marijuana.
I can only imagine that when someone invents teleportation, it will be outlawed and the designs burned and the inventor executed, because of the fear that 75% of the population will lose their jobs.
Eh, losing jobs only gets half the population riled up. Who's going to bother?
The guy would be executed and the plans burned because someone somewhere might teleport into an elementary school girl's restroom.
IPv4 NAT can do 1:1 if you bother to set up the mapping (this is how "address independence" works: your internal 192.168.1.x network stays the same when you change ISPs, you just update the firewall with the new address mappings), and you could probably whack at iptables/conntrack on linux to get N:1 mapping in IPv4 as well (you need conntrack to get the return packet back to the right external IP). Even if it was easy, IPv4 just doesn't have the address space to do cool tricks like your automatic multi-homing example.
players should not be locked out of large swathes of gameplay and RP experience simply because they have a low score in some stat
No, but they're going to have to deal with the consequences of that score. Otherwise, why bother with the score at all? Mine did so by chaining the freak up and pretending to be a travelling troupe. With a strength of 18/64 (funny what you remember when its a power of two) it didn't bother him one bit.
As for me being lousy, maybe I was, everyone had fun though, which was kind of the goal when we were all in highschool, and kind of why I quit when I got to college and ran into players whose characters all apparently lived in worlds so grimdark the god of humor had been slain and all the jesters executed or something.
1: No NAT, so an intruder can fire up a scan and find your network topology from anywhere in the world. Only way to deal with this is to tunnel to IPV4 then back again, which is a hack.
Maybe you should install FreeBSD then, it's pf has supported IPv6 NAT since 2010 (at least).
2: No support for packet level encryption. It is mentioned, but it is an option that vendors don't need to follow or bother with.
Which is how ipsec works now. In other words, you and your partner obtain compatible implementations and it works.
3: no address independence
See nat66 (or freebsd).
4: Unknown 0-day security holes. Just what we want... to relive the days of pings of death, land, teardrop, smurf, SYN flooding and other attacks.
Now it's true that there are probably buggy implementations, after all the implementations have only been around a decade or so and only 0.2% of the internet has used them. That's what, 10 people?
Character attribute selection + no penalties for low charisma, intelligence, or wisdom for non-spellcasters
Anyone who tried playing a character with charisma below 6 in my games got ran out of town by the locals for looking like some kind of monster. Dealing with low-int and low-wis fighter in RP is a lot harder (and yeah, the save penalties are pretty much the only in-game rules that apply, and most of the people I was playing with thought that playing a hallucinating character was a trip;). I basically gave up on trying to RP against fighters with int/wis dump stats and just assumed that the smarter characters had the patience to explain everything to the idiot and went from there.
It would certainly be bad if one of them was the only game in town but I don't see that happening (at least for long) outside of them getting some sweetheart deal with the government that actually blocks competition from forming.
Yep. Government. Let's how how it plays out:
Entrepreneur: goes to VC firm, hat in hand, pitching an idea that will undercut Walmazon and make billions.
Venture Capitalist: looks at smoldering ruins of the last 29 people that tried it. "Uh-huh. Sure."
Entrepreneur: "No really, this time will be different!"
Venture Capitalist: runs some figures, decides he needs a tax writeoff anyway. "Fine, knock yourself out"
Walmazon: Notices competition, lowers prices back to pre-monopoly levels.
Entrepreneur: "I'm melting, mellltinnnng!"
Walmazon: Notices competition has died, raises prices back to monopoly levels, replenishing warchest depleted while crushing competition.
Venture Capitalist: Chalks up #30. "At least I get a tax break on my losses!"
Trains do not work in the US because of who Americans are.
Trains do not work in the US because they're pushed by idiots who don't take into account who Americans are or by idiots who are convinced they can change who Americans are.
Car-driving Europeans seem to manage fine with trains over there.
Sure, they were on file all this time, on the bottom of a locked filing cabinet stuck in a disused lavatory with a sign on the door saying beware of the leopard. Man, you'd think the newspaper had never submitted a request for information before and had no idea how the thing was supposed to work.
and was being closed to be consolidated with other facilities. According to the article, less than half of the infected could be housed at that hospital.
"Last year, Duval County sent 11 patients to A.G. Holley under court order. Last week, with A.G. Holley now closed, one was sent to Jackson Memorial Hospital in Miami. The ones who will stay put in Jacksonville are being put up in motels, to make it easier for public health nurses to find them, Duval County health officials said."
I'm not sure that the local Motel 8 counts as "consolidating with other facilities".
Best I can tell from what passes as thought in the politically correct set, diseases got rights or something.
Well, here's the truth, and nobody's gonna like it: Bipartisianship brought us this current state of affairs. Liberals said "it's mean to imprison people because they're sick" and conservatives said "who the fuck's gonna pay for this? Not me!" and so with much fanfare and accord, they closed down mental and medical institutions nationwide and there was much rejoicing thanks to bipartisianship.
how are you going to hit them? They're *passing* you....
I've met (fortunately without hitting) two classes of people whose antics force me to brake while I'm doing 60 on the freeway:
One class tries to fit into a space that is 1.5 car lengths wide by flooring it, pulling over at 65+, nearly rear-ending the guy in front doing 60, then slamming on his brakes to 55- so he can make space in front of him.
The other class hasn't got a fucking clue what's going on, and starts pulling into my lane while I'm about even with him. I'm look over at him through his passenger window and he doesn't even turn his head to look at what's going on when I start honking.
This is the real solution, because let's face it: not everyone needs a java instance running with -MmmXxWTFBBQMemory 500000000 and 60000 classes to run a forum. People use PHP when they neither need nor want "application servers", they want it to just work.
Make a mod_pdr (or at least a fastcgi-compatible script executor where nobody has to implement the fastcgi protocol by hand for every single script like python or ruby), and you'll have the attention of the hosting people. They don't want to have to babysit 50000 different users' rails or tomcat instances, so they don't offer them.
Now go hit the 'ol Wikipedia on "Outcome Based Education".... I'll wait. For the impatient I'll summarize: This is just a re-run of the long running battles in the late '80s and early '90s over new age teaching methods/using our teachers and kids as lab animals to try radical 'progressive' new ideas in teaching how to be a good progressive doubleplus good thinker that knows everything about stopping mom from putting the trash in the wrong recycling bin but can't locate the US on a map or tell you who George Washington was.
Interesting summary. Funny, though, when I read the article it was mostly about people complaining about testing, testing, demanding students to "enjoy physical education", testing, teaching fuzzy untestable things, testing, testing. For instance, in the United States section:
The best-known and most far-reaching standards-based education law in the U.S. is the No Child Left Behind Act, which mandated certain measurements as a condition of receiving federal education funds. States are free to set their own standards, but the federal law mandates public reporting of math and reading test scores for disadvantaged demographic subgroups, including racial minorities, low-income students, and special education students. Various consequences for schools that do not make "adequate yearly progress" are included in the law.
I guess it must have been vandalized sometime after you posted.
In your example you must be able to spot that the supermarket wins as well. He has just sold a bunch of stuff at ask price that any normal customer might not have purchased
Except that as the flash crash showed us, if the HFTer fails to sell the goods, he can force the supermarkets to take them back at great inconvenience to everyone involved.
so all you can do is try to get as many angles on an issue as you can in order to grasp the reality of the situation.
The problem is that the truth isn't "in the middle". You put a crazy right winger and a crazy left winger in a room together and you don't get moderation, you get an insane asylum.
The problem is that despite all the yammering about skilled vs unskilled labor, the ability to withstand manual labor in the summer sun all day long is very much an acquired skill, one which a lot of legal workers don't have, and no about of screaming at unemployment recipients will magically imbue it.
Without all those government grants of market monopolies, public-private-partnership scams, bailouts, tax privileges, excessive regulatory barriers to entry of competitors, and on and on, the market would quickly decimate those "abusive" corporations that poorly serve their customers.
The real question is whether the Libertarians will succeed in removing all those government grants as fast as they remove the government regulations.
I suspect that if we ever end up with a three-way government, they'll talk big about it, then form a coalition with Republicans to remove the EPA, FDA, etc. then suddenly get "distracted" before eliminating corporate personhood, the corporate veil, tax privileges, shell corporations and fake "bankruptcy", etc.
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You're right, it is all very clear, which is why they said
Oh no, wait, they said
You may be right that they suck, but being right about its suckage doesn't win you this argument because the Republicans made no claims regarding the suckiness of the curriculum, only that it challenges fixed beliefs and undermines parental authority.
Really, most of the people pushing "States' Rights" mean "right for the state to do what I want it to do" and squeal like a stuck pig when a state legalizes gay marriage or marijuana.
I can only imagine that when someone invents teleportation, it will be outlawed and the designs burned and the inventor executed, because of the fear that 75% of the population will lose their jobs.
Eh, losing jobs only gets half the population riled up. Who's going to bother?
The guy would be executed and the plans burned because someone somewhere might teleport into an elementary school girl's restroom.
Bing will be replaced by Google and Microsoft websites will load half as quickly.
If you call and complain they'll disavow any knowledge of problems on the network and it must be Microsoft's fault.
IPv4 NAT can do 1:1 if you bother to set up the mapping (this is how "address independence" works: your internal 192.168.1.x network stays the same when you change ISPs, you just update the firewall with the new address mappings), and you could probably whack at iptables/conntrack on linux to get N:1 mapping in IPv4 as well (you need conntrack to get the return packet back to the right external IP). Even if it was easy, IPv4 just doesn't have the address space to do cool tricks like your automatic multi-homing example.
players should not be locked out of large swathes of gameplay and RP experience simply because they have a low score in some stat
No, but they're going to have to deal with the consequences of that score. Otherwise, why bother with the score at all? Mine did so by chaining the freak up and pretending to be a travelling troupe. With a strength of 18/64 (funny what you remember when its a power of two) it didn't bother him one bit.
As for me being lousy, maybe I was, everyone had fun though, which was kind of the goal when we were all in highschool, and kind of why I quit when I got to college and ran into players whose characters all apparently lived in worlds so grimdark the god of humor had been slain and all the jesters executed or something.
1: No NAT, so an intruder can fire up a scan and find your network topology from anywhere in the world. Only way to deal with this is to tunnel to IPV4 then back again, which is a hack.
Maybe you should install FreeBSD then, it's pf has supported IPv6 NAT since 2010 (at least).
2: No support for packet level encryption. It is mentioned, but it is an option that vendors don't need to follow or bother with.
Which is how ipsec works now. In other words, you and your partner obtain compatible implementations and it works.
3: no address independence
See nat66 (or freebsd).
4: Unknown 0-day security holes. Just what we want... to relive the days of pings of death, land, teardrop, smurf, SYN flooding and other attacks.
Now it's true that there are probably buggy implementations, after all the implementations have only been around a decade or so and only 0.2% of the internet has used them. That's what, 10 people?
and that's often discovered by an insider or via social engineering.
Or just knowing that the mail server is named "mail.university.co.uk" and stores people's mail in "/var/spool/mail"
Anyone who tried playing a character with charisma below 6 in my games got ran out of town by the locals for looking like some kind of monster. Dealing with low-int and low-wis fighter in RP is a lot harder (and yeah, the save penalties are pretty much the only in-game rules that apply, and most of the people I was playing with thought that playing a hallucinating character was a trip ;). I basically gave up on trying to RP against fighters with int/wis dump stats and just assumed that the smarter characters had the patience to explain everything to the idiot and went from there.
Yep. Government. Let's how how it plays out:
Entrepreneur: goes to VC firm, hat in hand, pitching an idea that will undercut Walmazon and make billions.
Venture Capitalist: looks at smoldering ruins of the last 29 people that tried it. "Uh-huh. Sure."
Entrepreneur: "No really, this time will be different!"
Venture Capitalist: runs some figures, decides he needs a tax writeoff anyway. "Fine, knock yourself out"
Walmazon: Notices competition, lowers prices back to pre-monopoly levels.
Entrepreneur: "I'm melting, mellltinnnng!"
Walmazon: Notices competition has died, raises prices back to monopoly levels, replenishing warchest depleted while crushing competition.
Venture Capitalist: Chalks up #30. "At least I get a tax break on my losses!"
Yep. All government's fault.
Trains do not work in the US because of who Americans are.
Trains do not work in the US because they're pushed by idiots who don't take into account who Americans are or by idiots who are convinced they can change who Americans are.
Car-driving Europeans seem to manage fine with trains over there .
Sure, they were on file all this time, on the bottom of a locked filing cabinet stuck in a disused lavatory with a sign on the door saying beware of the leopard. Man, you'd think the newspaper had never submitted a request for information before and had no idea how the thing was supposed to work.
"Last year, Duval County sent 11 patients to A.G. Holley under court order. Last week, with A.G. Holley now closed, one was sent to Jackson Memorial Hospital in Miami. The ones who will stay put in Jacksonville are being put up in motels, to make it easier for public health nurses to find them, Duval County health officials said."
I'm not sure that the local Motel 8 counts as "consolidating with other facilities".
I agree.
Well, here's the truth, and nobody's gonna like it: Bipartisianship brought us this current state of affairs. Liberals said "it's mean to imprison people because they're sick" and conservatives said "who the fuck's gonna pay for this? Not me!" and so with much fanfare and accord, they closed down mental and medical institutions nationwide and there was much rejoicing thanks to bipartisianship.
how are you going to hit them? They're *passing* you....
I've met (fortunately without hitting) two classes of people whose antics force me to brake while I'm doing 60 on the freeway:
One class tries to fit into a space that is 1.5 car lengths wide by flooring it, pulling over at 65+, nearly rear-ending the guy in front doing 60, then slamming on his brakes to 55- so he can make space in front of him.
The other class hasn't got a fucking clue what's going on, and starts pulling into my lane while I'm about even with him. I'm look over at him through his passenger window and he doesn't even turn his head to look at what's going on when I start honking.
Clearly, then, they should redirect everyone to MyCleanPC ;)
This is the real solution, because let's face it: not everyone needs a java instance running with -MmmXxWTFBBQMemory 500000000 and 60000 classes to run a forum. People use PHP when they neither need nor want "application servers", they want it to just work.
Make a mod_pdr (or at least a fastcgi-compatible script executor where nobody has to implement the fastcgi protocol by hand for every single script like python or ruby), and you'll have the attention of the hosting people. They don't want to have to babysit 50000 different users' rails or tomcat instances, so they don't offer them.
otherwise the first method would have been fixed rather than "replaced".
That is directly from the mysql API. http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/mysql-real-escape-string.html
Make of it what you will.
Interesting summary. Funny, though, when I read the article it was mostly about people complaining about testing, testing, demanding students to "enjoy physical education", testing, teaching fuzzy untestable things, testing, testing. For instance, in the United States section:
I guess it must have been vandalized sometime after you posted.
Except that as the flash crash showed us, if the HFTer fails to sell the goods, he can force the supermarkets to take them back at great inconvenience to everyone involved.
If that doesn't work, run two computers with one head each and use Synergy to move between them.
so all you can do is try to get as many angles on an issue as you can in order to grasp the reality of the situation.
The problem is that the truth isn't "in the middle". You put a crazy right winger and a crazy left winger in a room together and you don't get moderation, you get an insane asylum.
Combine them both and you get Ceiling Cat. Where is your god now, indeed.
The problem is that despite all the yammering about skilled vs unskilled labor, the ability to withstand manual labor in the summer sun all day long is very much an acquired skill, one which a lot of legal workers don't have, and no about of screaming at unemployment recipients will magically imbue it.
The real question is whether the Libertarians will succeed in removing all those government grants as fast as they remove the government regulations.
I suspect that if we ever end up with a three-way government, they'll talk big about it, then form a coalition with Republicans to remove the EPA, FDA, etc. then suddenly get "distracted" before eliminating corporate personhood, the corporate veil, tax privileges, shell corporations and fake "bankruptcy", etc.
Until you have a reason to cook. Then cooking gets awesome.