But I know people who send their kids to "non-denominational" (fundamentalist) Christian schools and who home-school them with curricula that teach Creation in place of evolution as science.
I'm afraid to ask what they teach in place of "Social Studies."
Nobody makes them pay for the private education. They pay for that if they choose to do so. They must pay for the public education because it's a public enterprise.
It might be reasonable to waive school district taxes for parents who have all their school-age children enrolled in schools that receive zero funding from the district, but ONLY while they have the children in those schools.
The textbook providers are capitalist enterprises. The article correctly points out that their incentives are to do whatever it takes to sell books, not to provide the best possible books.
The fact that this even affects MATH texts indicates how pervasive and corrupting the process is. Unlike history and science, there is no need for the content to change from decade to decade. We could have optimized math texts long ago.
No. The scientists were being attacked because they dared to publish science results that some politicians didn't like. Those politicians were Republicans. You're entitled to your own opinions but not to make up your own facts.
That's a weak argument -- essentially a mass scale argument from authority. The strong argument is that the data support the conclusion that the climate is warming and that much of that warming is due to human activity -- and no other possible cause has been shown to be sufficient to cause what has been observed.
THAT is why the smart money is on continued warming and on conservation or other measures to contain it.
Reading a bullshit article about a bullshit demonstration won't improve anybody's understanding. The apparatus they show doesn't impart any novel characteristic to EM waves. It's a kind of polarizer and there is nothing new about using linear or circular polarization to transmit independent signals in the same bandwidth.
They can't use this method to increase the number of signals that can be transmitted in the same bandwidth over conventional methods because they are actually using conventional methods but describing what they're doing in a way that is unconventional and misleading. That's either because they are frauds or because theyre incompetent.
The funny thing is I've seen a lot of these models and most of their bodies that don't look unhealthy. They're a little on the slim side but well within the normal range -- for girls in their 20s who are TALLER than average. Most fashion models are well over average height because designers like to see their clothes on tall girls.
The trouble comes when other young women who are inches shorter with wider frames try to make themselves look like tall girls with narrow frames.
Since 90% aren't smart enough to be scientists or engineers and we also need smart people for a few other things, I don't see this as likely to change.
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That functionality was integrated a few years back into digikam.
How can those corporations always get away with patenting stuff under prior art?
There are two ways.
1. Simply ignore prior art and claim everything as your own invention.
2. Make a trivial change and then claim that and bamboozle the patent office into believing you have therefore invented the wheel.
Where are the mod points when I need them?
But I know people who send their kids to "non-denominational" (fundamentalist) Christian schools and who home-school them with curricula that teach Creation in place of evolution as science.
I'm afraid to ask what they teach in place of "Social Studies."
Nobody makes them pay for the private education. They pay for that if they choose to do so. They must pay for the public education because it's a public enterprise.
It might be reasonable to waive school district taxes for parents who have all their school-age children enrolled in schools that receive zero funding from the district, but ONLY while they have the children in those schools.
Or the seventies.
Inaccurate, incomplete, contradictory and poorly stated data and questions are par for the course.
Maybe it's a good thing for students to be exposed to some poorly worded and insoluble problems in their education.
The textbook providers are capitalist enterprises. The article correctly points out that their incentives are to do whatever it takes to sell books, not to provide the best possible books.
The fact that this even affects MATH texts indicates how pervasive and corrupting the process is. Unlike history and science, there is no need for the content to change from decade to decade. We could have optimized math texts long ago.
It is 100% guaranteed to go badly if the UKers allow this to go forward. Kiss whatever meager right you thought you had goodbye.
It's gratifying to see one of my dark predictions realized even if it does mean that a lot of morons got ripped off.
The agenda is the government doesn't like being sued. The government owns the courts. Nothing to see here.
No. The scientists were being attacked because they dared to publish science results that some politicians didn't like. Those politicians were Republicans. You're entitled to your own opinions but not to make up your own facts.
That's a weak argument -- essentially a mass scale argument from authority. The strong argument is that the data support the conclusion that the climate is warming and that much of that warming is due to human activity -- and no other possible cause has been shown to be sufficient to cause what has been observed.
THAT is why the smart money is on continued warming and on conservation or other measures to contain it.
Bullshit.
Global temperatures are still rising. Anybody saying otherwise has come unmoored from the data.
http://data.giss.nasa.gov/gistemp/graphs_v3/Fig.E.gif
Wait, I'm confused. Corporations are persons that can be sued but universities aren't?
Reading a bullshit article about a bullshit demonstration won't improve anybody's understanding. The apparatus they show doesn't impart any novel characteristic to EM waves. It's a kind of polarizer and there is nothing new about using linear or circular polarization to transmit independent signals in the same bandwidth.
They can't use this method to increase the number of signals that can be transmitted in the same bandwidth over conventional methods because they are actually using conventional methods but describing what they're doing in a way that is unconventional and misleading. That's either because they are frauds or because theyre incompetent.
The funny thing is I've seen a lot of these models and most of their bodies that don't look unhealthy. They're a little on the slim side but well within the normal range -- for girls in their 20s who are TALLER than average. Most fashion models are well over average height because designers like to see their clothes on tall girls.
The trouble comes when other young women who are inches shorter with wider frames try to make themselves look like tall girls with narrow frames.
Because it would be too difficult to get the regulators to agree on whether the perfect specimen is Liv Tyler or Beyonce Knowles.
And how could you televise the cage match between the top champions of their perfection?
Let's ban fat people on TV too. Everybody you see must be within 10% of their ideal weight as determined by government regulators.
Yet most of us are fat. Anybody else see a contradiction?
Does anybody have any other kind of degree in physics?
http://www.engr.psu.edu/awe/misc/ARPs/ARP_InfoSheet_Science.pdf
It's partly a question of relative interest in different sciences. Women are strongly represented in psych, sociology, chemistry and biology.
Photons do.
Photons are part of the EM spectrum.
Polarization comprises photon angular momentum.
And there's nothing "orbital" about their apparatus. It's a reflector that imparts polarization at the cost of directivity.
Since 90% aren't smart enough to be scientists or engineers and we also need smart people for a few other things, I don't see this as likely to change.
For certain untestable versions of theory.
Maybe if they figured out if warp drives can exist first...