Scrap foreign language and fractions. Just teach em how to flip burgers.
Chinese is incredibly useful BTW. The consumer base there is growing and no doubt if you know Chinese and English there is a good job waiting for you.
The purpose of k-12 should not be to train workers for our corporate overlords. k-12 is to instill a love of learning. Expose kids to the world so they can decide what route they want to take in life. I am really tired of this cold and sterile view of education.
Why is it one or the other? I managed to take Visual Basic AND French. Both equally useless.
Its simply not accurate to call any programming language a "foreign" language. Programming belongs in the mathematics and engineering side of academia, not language.
I'd agree that in North America learning a coding program will be more valuable to a student from a low income background. But catagorizing it as a foreign language is ridiculous and slimy, and nonacademic.
Your steam on your PC links to steam OS. Nvidia has already done this with their hand held device. You play the game on your nvidia sheild thing, but its actually being processed by your PC.
Who is everyone that insists they are 100% healthy? From what I've seen, the makers of these e-cig products are going out of their way to not claim health benefits. They claim other benefits like not smelling of smoke, and potentially not have to go outside all the time. its just a different way to get your fix.
i have never been a habitual smoker. but i am a nervous, anxious person and occasionally smoke cigarettes for the calming effect. its got me through getting my drivers license. there are things i do to keep myself from becoming addicted. (First advantage is I never tried it when I was a teen, thats probably the biggest help) I never smoke for work/daily related stress and on the occasion that i do have a cig i make sure to not have another that same day. Cigarettes are gross and i've never had the urge to have a smoke for the smoke's sake.
The 1 thing the nay sayers have against ecigs is its still addictive. But that argument means nothing to me since I'm not an addict.
I wouldn't even care if the same restrictions applied to e-cigs as regular cigs. Just let me buy them. They are not available in my town, and online stores won't ship them here.
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Scrap foreign language and fractions. Just teach em how to flip burgers. Chinese is incredibly useful BTW. The consumer base there is growing and no doubt if you know Chinese and English there is a good job waiting for you.
Judging by this thread, kids will use and value their programming credit as much as their foreign language credit.
The purpose of k-12 should not be to train workers for our corporate overlords. k-12 is to instill a love of learning. Expose kids to the world so they can decide what route they want to take in life. I am really tired of this cold and sterile view of education.
Also, other languages are hard as shit. We might share lots of vocabulary with french but the grammar is so different. And fuck genders.
And the person who has to program that universal communicator will have to know programming AND foreign languages.
Why is it one or the other? I managed to take Visual Basic AND French. Both equally useless. Its simply not accurate to call any programming language a "foreign" language. Programming belongs in the mathematics and engineering side of academia, not language.
I'd agree that in North America learning a coding program will be more valuable to a student from a low income background. But catagorizing it as a foreign language is ridiculous and slimy, and nonacademic.
I was the last year subjected to grade 13. If every other province can send students from grade 12 to university, so can Ontario.
I wonder if those parts of the brain can be developed like you develop muscles. Or is it genetic?
Theres was a slashdot story yesterday about how an airline company is buying 11k of the surface 2
Why is Microsoft's future in question?
I think the point is you don't have to be a linux zealot to use a linux based OS anymore.
Your steam on your PC links to steam OS. Nvidia has already done this with their hand held device. You play the game on your nvidia sheild thing, but its actually being processed by your PC.
2 years? Yeah I believe him!
Laws go to the highest bidder. What could be more free market?
here we have something that could really kill the tobacco industry, and all thats needed, for once, is LESS regulation.
Isn't weird how the most ardent anti cigarette advocates are actually on the same side as big tobacco?
Who is everyone that insists they are 100% healthy? From what I've seen, the makers of these e-cig products are going out of their way to not claim health benefits. They claim other benefits like not smelling of smoke, and potentially not have to go outside all the time. its just a different way to get your fix.
i have never been a habitual smoker. but i am a nervous, anxious person and occasionally smoke cigarettes for the calming effect. its got me through getting my drivers license. there are things i do to keep myself from becoming addicted. (First advantage is I never tried it when I was a teen, thats probably the biggest help) I never smoke for work/daily related stress and on the occasion that i do have a cig i make sure to not have another that same day. Cigarettes are gross and i've never had the urge to have a smoke for the smoke's sake. The 1 thing the nay sayers have against ecigs is its still addictive. But that argument means nothing to me since I'm not an addict. I wouldn't even care if the same restrictions applied to e-cigs as regular cigs. Just let me buy them. They are not available in my town, and online stores won't ship them here.
i can only find nicotine free e cigs in canada, and online stores won't ship to canada. how do i get some?
I would have opted for the name "Yeskia"
Finally, we can have a real life Clone High!
You're right, I was picturing Alaska and Sarah Palin driving a drone to shoot wolves.
Did anyone else think this article was going to be about hunting animals WITH drones?
I knew right away these were not the words of a 20 or 30 something.