"Western education system, but western schools foster discussions, arguments and debates"
What western school did you go to? I'd say western education fosters ego, abusiveness and limits discussion.
Throughout my school experience I noted one thing recurrently, most of the times a student tried to interject with a differing opinion the teacher used a self-appeal to authority and firmly (and often rudely) put them in their place.
Even though many times the student was in fact correct.That's typical western education.
Another possibility, is that your two children were two distinct and different people. And your parenting style worked with one but not the other.
And you never stepped back to see if the two needed to be handled very differently.
I've got three, and they're each different. And I hope and pray I can get all three to manageable adultness.
I also don't want to knock on the poster above either. Knowing how hard parenting is, and how ineffective everything I try can be with my eldest. Sometimes there is just no answer.
And yet in my own case, for all the self-centeredness my daughter demonstrates. She goes and does that stand out thing. Like in Sunday school when they asked everyone what they wanted to pray for...my daughter who must always have more than her brother, the bigger one, and have it now...goes "the hungry children in Africa".
You're understanding is nice in theory but utterly failed to the nth degree in reality.
I mean, who the heck thinks of using a chainsaw to go through the front door of a house. It's not even a fast or effective way. A sledgehammer is far more efficient.
First off, doctors are notorious for knowing jack....anyone who has taken their child to the ER or pediatrician is aware of these. As routinely you must go 2-3 times before the proper care is rendered or correct diagnosis (usually the one you've been exclaiming the whole time as they ignore you).
And for you bloody morons who suck down your throat everything you ever are told. Pull your neuron cluster out of your waste depositor and realize - it's not always correct. (Just research the use of perfectly safe doctor recommended X-rays before the advent of ultrasounds.)
*** Yes, I'm raging pissed about this topic. And you caught me in a bad time as I just had to deal with it 30 minutes ago.
Unlike most of you pie-holes talking, I've actually read a lot regarding this matter. And what I came away with is the following:
1) There is proof of risk of vaccines, maybe not autism. But there are known risks....albeit slim. And I am willing to take those risks in most cases but not all.
2) Kids immune systems are not fully developed. The medical community being full of lazy people concerned about profit knows that in order to be economical they need less vaccination visits. As such they try to dump 2-3 or even more vaccinations per visit.
3) While studies may show that the vaccine itself is seemingly safe, it does not take into account periodic failures in manufacturing. I used to work for a company that created testing standards. One time we received a standard back because it was off. We re-tested, re-tested...and what did we discover? The NIST standard it was being tested against was in fact off - not ours.
The point being that in all manufacturing, batches come out that are poor grade. And I wager most of the problems we see are from those batches.
4) High contagious infectious diseases warrant vaccinations. But why the frak does my toddler need a HepB vaccine to go to school. Toddlers have nearly zero risk of catching HepB. It's a blood/bodily fluid transferred disease just like HIV. Other than infants born to infected mothers and older kids (entering sexual activity) it's got a very small infection rate. And even an infected child is unlikely to pass the contagion on.
My wife is a nurse. In fact she was very pro-vaccine and dismissed those who objected as just uneducated tin-foil types. She mocked them and thought them silly - just like you.
Not so much anymore. The more you read on the subject, the more you learn about the risks. And the very questionable reporting methods. And a resistance by the medical community to even associate any reaction to the vaccine. (Vaccines can cause problems. Therefore this problem is not vaccine related. Therefore we know vaccines do not cause problems because there are no cases of problems - see the logic error in that reasoning?)
Regardless, I am actually mostly for vaccines. My daughter has received EVERY recommended vaccine but HepB.
But we didn't do it normally. Rather than have my daughter receive 2-4 vaccinations at once. We spread them out, endeavoring only one vaccine at at time as much as possible.
Oh, have you ever seen a child after a vaccination. Half the time my kids have been vaccinated the next 1-2 days they're miserable. It puts a strain on their little bodies. Hitting with 5 vaccinations - who thinks that's a rational intellligent scientific methodology of vaccination of an undeveloped immune system.
What does living in a vaccine dictatorship world mean?
It means, because we didn't do the vaccinations at the doctors scheduled pace. My daughter's pediatrician dropped us. Oh, should I mention we were bringing our daughter in for a painful ear infection and they refused to see us anymore.
Seriously,
Later, when we tried to enroll our daughter in pre-school. She was kicked out on the first day for not having HepB.
And the truth is most of you posters have no frakking clue.
a) half of you haven't had kids b) half of those who remain, probably let
So let's talk truth (something AT&T has never been fond of).
20,000% - about the markup on a txt msg by the way.
But lets talk 4G. How much faster is 4G than 3G?
Cellular cost of service is tied to tower utilization cost - connectivity. When I connect and make a 60 minute phone call. I have put 60 minutes of draw on AT&T's celluar capacity.
AT&T makes the argument that if I download 100 MBs verus 1GB that clearly, we are talking about a 10 time utilization, right?
And at first it would appear to be so. But I call BS!!!!
If 4G offers 5x-10x the performance over the older 3G. That means I can download a 50MB-100MB file on 4G in the same time it used to take me to download a 10MB on 3G.
The amount of time I must be connected to the cell tower has been reduced by an order of magnitude (theoretically).
In which case, I am in fact not putting as much of a draw on AT&T's system. Now granted there are other aspects, theoretical performance is never the same as actual performance.
But AT&T's celluar system usage per MB has very likely gone down dramatically with 4G. And every 4G phone while it may be downloading twice as much content as a 3G user, it's in fact using less resources.
Don't you know the law is only for big fish. That's why the FDA goes around in sting operations against Amish farmers who might sell the occasional court of raw milk.
But then turns a blind eye to Mosanto (no, no, no....don't let consumers decide. GMO warning labels might scare people. How about GMO Free, no, no, no...).
Frankly, twits who complain about over-population, and pollution, and want to see the human race be declinded are annoying.
If it is something you feel so intensely about, you can always improve matters through suicide. But no, sir, you don't have the right to make that decision for another individual.
Probably not in all circumstances. But if it's got a tighter-turning radius, that will give it an advantage in some scenarios.
The other aspect is that nearly ALL of the car's weight is at floor level (batteries and electric motors). So what you get is a super-super-low center of gravity. And that allows sharp turns with weight applied to wheels and little body lift.;-)
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"Western education system, but western schools foster discussions, arguments and debates"
What western school did you go to? I'd say western education fosters ego, abusiveness and limits discussion.
Throughout my school experience I noted one thing recurrently, most of the times a student tried to interject with a differing opinion the teacher used a self-appeal to authority and firmly (and often rudely) put them in their place.
Even though many times the student was in fact correct.That's typical western education.
Gee I need to make more money so I can think $35 fines are trivial and double-park.
Another possibility, is that your two children were two distinct and different people. And your parenting style worked with one but not the other.
And you never stepped back to see if the two needed to be handled very differently.
I've got three, and they're each different. And I hope and pray I can get all three to manageable adultness.
I also don't want to knock on the poster above either. Knowing how hard parenting is, and how ineffective everything I try can be with my eldest. Sometimes there is just no answer.
And yet in my own case, for all the self-centeredness my daughter demonstrates. She goes and does that stand out thing. Like in Sunday school when they asked everyone what they wanted to pray for...my daughter who must always have more than her brother, the bigger one, and have it now...goes "the hungry children in Africa".
Guess there is still hope yet.
Er...
Um...
Yeah...
First off, are these fines working?
Seriously, gum chewing in schools is a big problem. It is disgusting finding your pants stuck to a desk because someone stuck their gum there.
What's wrong with teaching about plagiarism with a fine. In the real world, fine's are much more.
What are the penalties of not paying a fine? (Can it be sent to collection and ruin your credit rating? That might be too much.)
Are the kids learning? Is the learning environment better than the comparable city schools thanks to the discipline?
OH MY GOD!!!!!
Disciplining children. I mean we removed spanking. We removed yelling. Now we're having issue with financial penalties.
Would someone like to propose an alternative for keeping out classrooms from being like zoos?
You're understanding is nice in theory but utterly failed to the nth degree in reality.
I mean, who the heck thinks of using a chainsaw to go through the front door of a house. It's not even a fast or effective way. A sledgehammer is far more efficient.
http://boston.cbslocal.com/2012/01/31/fbi-uses-chainsaw-in-raid-on-wrong-fitchburg-apartment/
And people wonder why we have a 2nd Amendment....
It's there to protect the 1st.
First off, doctors are notorious for knowing jack....anyone who has taken their child to the ER or pediatrician is aware of these. As routinely you must go 2-3 times before the proper care is rendered or correct diagnosis (usually the one you've been exclaiming the whole time as they ignore you).
And for you bloody morons who suck down your throat everything you ever are told. Pull your neuron cluster out of your waste depositor and realize - it's not always correct. (Just research the use of perfectly safe doctor recommended X-rays before the advent of ultrasounds.)
***
Yes, I'm raging pissed about this topic. And you caught me in a bad time as I just had to deal with it 30 minutes ago.
Unlike most of you pie-holes talking, I've actually read a lot regarding this matter. And what I came away with is the following:
1) There is proof of risk of vaccines, maybe not autism. But there are known risks....albeit slim.
And I am willing to take those risks in most cases but not all.
2) Kids immune systems are not fully developed. The medical community being full of lazy people concerned about profit knows that in order to be economical they need less vaccination visits. As such they try to dump 2-3 or even more vaccinations per visit.
3) While studies may show that the vaccine itself is seemingly safe, it does not take into account periodic failures in manufacturing. I used to work for a company that created testing standards. One time we received a standard back because it was off. We re-tested, re-tested...and what did we discover? The NIST standard it was being tested against was in fact off - not ours.
The point being that in all manufacturing, batches come out that are poor grade. And I wager most of the problems we see are from those batches.
4) High contagious infectious diseases warrant vaccinations. But why the frak does my toddler need a HepB vaccine to go to school. Toddlers have nearly zero risk of catching HepB. It's a blood/bodily fluid transferred disease just like HIV. Other than infants born to infected mothers and older kids (entering sexual activity) it's got a very small infection rate. And even an infected child is unlikely to pass the contagion on.
My wife is a nurse. In fact she was very pro-vaccine and dismissed those who objected as just uneducated tin-foil types. She mocked them and thought them silly - just like you.
Not so much anymore. The more you read on the subject, the more you learn about the risks. And the very questionable reporting methods. And a resistance by the medical community to even associate any reaction to the vaccine. (Vaccines can cause problems. Therefore this problem is not vaccine related. Therefore we know vaccines do not cause problems because there are no cases of problems - see the logic error in that reasoning?)
Regardless, I am actually mostly for vaccines. My daughter has received EVERY recommended vaccine but HepB.
But we didn't do it normally. Rather than have my daughter receive 2-4 vaccinations at once. We spread them out, endeavoring only one vaccine at at time as much as possible.
Oh, have you ever seen a child after a vaccination. Half the time my kids have been vaccinated the next 1-2 days they're miserable. It puts a strain on their little bodies. Hitting with 5 vaccinations - who thinks that's a rational intellligent scientific methodology of vaccination of an undeveloped immune system.
What does living in a vaccine dictatorship world mean?
It means, because we didn't do the vaccinations at the doctors scheduled pace. My daughter's pediatrician dropped us. Oh, should I mention we were bringing our daughter in for a painful ear infection and they refused to see us anymore.
Seriously,
Later, when we tried to enroll our daughter in pre-school. She was kicked out on the first day for not having HepB.
And the truth is most of you posters have no frakking clue.
a) half of you haven't had kids
b) half of those who remain, probably let
So let's talk truth (something AT&T has never been fond of).
20,000% - about the markup on a txt msg by the way.
But lets talk 4G. How much faster is 4G than 3G?
Cellular cost of service is tied to tower utilization cost - connectivity. When I connect and make a 60 minute phone call. I have put 60 minutes of draw on AT&T's celluar capacity.
AT&T makes the argument that if I download 100 MBs verus 1GB that clearly, we are talking about a 10 time utilization, right?
And at first it would appear to be so. But I call BS!!!!
If 4G offers 5x-10x the performance over the older 3G. That means I can download a 50MB-100MB file on 4G in the same time it used to take me to download a 10MB on 3G.
The amount of time I must be connected to the cell tower has been reduced by an order of magnitude (theoretically).
In which case, I am in fact not putting as much of a draw on AT&T's system. Now granted there are other aspects, theoretical performance is never the same as actual performance.
But AT&T's celluar system usage per MB has very likely gone down dramatically with 4G. And every 4G phone while it may be downloading twice as much content as a 3G user, it's in fact using less resources.
Something AT&T is NOT talking about.
That's the mark-up on text messages right?
Don't you know the law is only for big fish. That's why the FDA goes around in sting operations against Amish farmers who might sell the occasional court of raw milk.
But then turns a blind eye to Mosanto (no, no, no....don't let consumers decide. GMO warning labels might scare people. How about GMO Free, no, no, no...).
Only if you want to be shot dead first.
Frankly, twits who complain about over-population, and pollution, and want to see the human race be declinded are annoying.
If it is something you feel so intensely about, you can always improve matters through suicide. But no, sir, you don't have the right to make that decision for another individual.
But I also have a large family, and sometimes carry friends and extended family members (they're taller than me).
But really, if I'm using only moderately more energy than the sedan. Does it matter?
And if I had such a vehicle, rest assured I'd also add solar panels to charge it. In which case...
WHO GIVE A !@#$%
I'll be driving my big honkey SUV for free and using less energy than the pretentious hippie in their Smartcar.
Well, you always have the ability to reduce the contamination of this planet by one.
Just saying....
It's both. It's about saving money and getting off of foriegn oil.
We need to get off this planet...
Seriously, if we moved most of industry to the Moon. We wouldn't have the environmental poisoning we have now.
If we had small colonies elsewhere, we could re-populate the earth in case of a cataclysmic impact.
We spend trillions on welfare and war, and how meaningless will those expenditures be if the human race goes *poof*
Just saying...
Oh, it's not a matter of if, only of "when" a big asteroid will hit the earth. Our excuse is "it only happens xxxxx number of years....so we're safe".
Well, it could happen tomorrow. And in truth, we're probably closer to the end of that xxxxx number of years.
Could it be you are mis-informed?
a) NASA didn't expend the $$$ developing the pen
b) It was needed because of fears that a broken pencil lead could cause damage to sensitive and life-depending machinery.
c) Americans used pencils too, at first. Then when the pen was developed the Russians used it as well...
http://www.snopes.com/business/genius/spacepen.asp
I always find it sad that people cannot see both the benefits of space exploration/colonization, and the need for it.
Seriously, one errant asteroid and all those trillions spent on welfare and war seem pretty stupid.
Human Race....R.I.P.
10,000 B.C. - 2012 A.D.
What do you consider attractive? A Pinto or Yugo?
Probably not in all circumstances. But if it's got a tighter-turning radius, that will give it an advantage in some scenarios.
The other aspect is that nearly ALL of the car's weight is at floor level (batteries and electric motors). So what you get is a super-super-low center of gravity. And that allows sharp turns with weight applied to wheels and little body lift. ;-)
Use the money you save not buying any gas and rent a car for a week. ;-)
And what is ugly about it?
In fact, it's lines are so sleek that at first look I thought it was just a typical 5 passenger vehicle. When I saw it was 7, I became super-jazzed.
Seriously, I want to go out and make some money so I can buy this.
I believe it stated it has air suspension to raise the vehicle similar to the Porsche Cayenne.
I believe they're powered and articulated. And it'd be very easy to prevent drive mode until the doors are cosed.
Good chance, the estimates are around 250-300 mile range for the bigger battery pack.
And I wager improvements over the next 2-3 years (when vehicle is released to production) will likely push it over the 300 mile mark.