This is a great example of "fake news". They'll all get back pay, nobody lost anything.
Are you for or against the statement? The post by NoNonAlphaCharsHere is correct and is pointing out the "fake news" (#3) from the AC post. If you said the fake news is from NoNonAlphaCharsHere's post, you are the one who is trying to spread fake news. And it shows that you have neither worked nor had friends working for the government but rather want to spout completely wrong information to others, who don't know anything about how furlough works, in order to support your own agenda. However, if you agreed with NoNonAlphaCharsHere, then that's fine.
P.S. I have friends who work for government and either were furloughed or worked without pay during the period of shut down. They weren't affected in getting by during the time but they DID NOT have free month vacation as the AC said.
DirectTV streaming is shit. You are forced to watch "the embedded commercial", what feels like a 1000 times without the ability to skip. By this I mean each show will have one or two commercial segments. These identical commercials are forced, without fast-forward, to be viewed at least 5-10 times during the show. Can't finish the show, you are forced to watch it all over again, including "the commercial" 5-10 times to get to the spot you got interrupted at.
I make a note to never use that sponsor for the rest of my life!
That's the way it is for "on demand" thing. Some shows may include short ads here and there, and some don't have any ads at all. At least this is from my experience with Fios.
At a company I ran in 1990s we self-hosted version control, email, everything. We assembled our own servers, we wrote out own highly secure password manager. We did everything ourselves. We saved a lot of money vs buying. We also spent so much time and attention on handling our own infrastructure that we had little energy left to put toward our actual business, building our customer base, our brand, etc.
If I run a company again, I may let someone else worry about some of infrastructure while we worry about the things our business does.
In other words, time has changed. Back then, letting someone else taking care of hosting cost a lot more money than you do it yourself. Nowadays, it is the opposite. That's the advantage of doing so (ignoring any security issues that may arise).
Have you really read TFA? He didn't use the app but his ex did by impersonating him. Also, there are other things happening afterward before it led to the law suit (read TFA). Typical./er who either doesn't read or pick and choose only a portion in the summary to whine about.
Exactly. One overlooked fact is the war of ideas between eugenicists and US geneticists, the latter is the idea discussed here. Itâ(TM)s not âoelook at birth defects, gypsies badâ itâ(TM)s look at birth defects, letâ(TM)s fix the specific cause regardless of ethnic identity. It is blowing my mind that people are freaking out over AIDS resistance being given to a kid. You understand that the entire human population would have to get decimated by AIDS as children for evolution to select the same gene, or hundreds of generations of people suffering from AIDs would have to occur? Evolution is powerful and comprehensive, but so slow. Thereâ(TM)s no reason not to improve the quality of life, yes that includes cosmetically and mentally, right now.
You seem to oversimplify things as the parent said.
First, they found genes associated with AIDS, but they don't know other effects of the genes. Taking out certain genes would have consequences. If the same genes are also associated with other significant functionalities, then no one knows until the time comes because there is no way to accelerate the time in human. Then what's next? You can't simply add genes back to already mitosis organisms. As a result, you have created an unfixable problem. Please don't tell me that they could add the genes back to their children while they are still a cell. Similar chain of actions doesn't make it right. However, even though it is an amoral act, I understand why they want to do it. So I can't say I agree and disagree with the action.
Second, with current medicine, we have found a way to keep the HIV under control. HIV is NOT AIDS. HIV is a virus which destroys your immune system. As a result, you eventually has AIDS. It is obvious that you don't understand that, or you wouldn't make a claim about human population gets decimated by AIDS. This is an ignoring part of yours.
Last, yes evolution is slow, but it doesn't mean we, humans, should take a short cut and expect only positive consequences. We should consider what negative consequences would be as well. If the weight of negative consequences is more than the positive ones, then we should not do it. I agree that there is no reason not to improve the quality of life, but one must also weight with consequences we are going to face. Simply look at a short-term gain as quality of life is not a real quality of life.
IANAL either, and I need more information. From what I gather from TFA, they seem to have no idea about the age.
After the service member responded, prisoners would then assume a role of the female's father, who claimed the female was a juvenile.
However, TFA didn't clearly say anything about those service members knowing those fictitious young females' age before hand. If they knew about the age and the age was younger than 18, then there is no defend for them and they are possibly (dishonorably) discharged. If they didn't know and there was no evidence of the knowledge, or they were told that the age was 18+, then I would agree with you that the punishment shouldn't be too harsh (but could still face a discharge).
Most artists never color anime you know. It is not only specialized but hardly anyone I ever met likes the work
I am guessing you are from a western country. I highly doubt you really know how Japanese comics were published back in 80's or 90's (before anime). IIRC, Anime nowadays was called girl cartoon back then because the drawing was very girlish and most of them were about young people love stories.
Anyway, back then the artist (the author) would draw outline of the comic. The artist will have a helper or two (depending on how famous his/her comic is). The helpers are those who "fill in color" and enhance the outline. Some of these helpers will become new artists later on. That is what rhsanborn was talking about.
You are obviously not listening or even think out of the box as many others do. I am not going to try further to explain it to you anymore. You keep using the same reasoning which is the base part of learning. Anyway I should have left it as is (as others stopped after they said/insulted you). I now know why others don't want to reply to your objection. It is my fault to attempt to show you a way.
Still, you missed the point of the poster. And yes, we can learn from logical conclusion without going through a scenario or repetitions.
Repetition is a brute-force learning. We, humans, can still learn a different way that is not necessary to be brute-force. All you are talking about is just an obvious learning and basic -- first-hand experience. Logic is a part of second-hand experience because we could use knowledge proven by others to make a conclusion; thus it is another type of learning.
Yes. You said a human doesn't have to run through a scenario repeatedly to learn it; you seem to think each scenario is unique, and not comparable to different scenarios already experienced repeatably--i.e. that most "new" scenarios are actually old scenarios.
No, what he/she said is that unlike AI, human does NOT need to learn from repetitions. Human can learn by using logic (as an assumption).
The effect of gene modifying in human may not even show up for a long time. We still have to wait for at least another 20-30 years or even human life time. At least these twin girls would be the first guinea pig for the whole human race (regardless the ethical issue which may rise in the future).
this is the future.. I hope other companies are paying close attention to this...
also.. employees need regular traning... even people in tech
It is not necessary to be true. It all depends on the type of your services/products. If it is about software and you can do anything online, then yes; otherwise, you still need some people on the ground to have physical access to certain tasks. In this case, it happens to be fine with doing everything online. However, if your company is servicing clients with servers and your company host the (physical) servers, then you still need a kind of office for your data center even though majority of your employees may be telecommute to work. Some other type of services, e.g. manufacturing, will need more physical access. You may dream about having robots to do everything in manufacturing, but that is still a dream which may not come true soon. Besides, the company still need physical access to maintenance those robots.
You would have been better off creating something under copyright. Patents are only good for 20 years.Copyrights last a lifetime (and the lifetime of your offspring).
Yes and no. Even though copyright has much longer life time enforcement, it has much lower power than patent. In patent, if anyone makes and sells something as described in your patent, you can sue the person regardless the person knew nothing about the patent and came up with the idea himself/herself.
In copyright, if someone creates work and holds copyright of the work, you can still create the same work with similar technique and won't infringe on the copyright. For example, a famous photographer takes a picture of the Eiffel tower and sells it for good money. You then go to the exactly the same spot and use exactly the same camera/lens to take a picture. You get the similar picture (using similar photography technique) and sell it for good money. Then you are not infringing the copyright of the famous photographer because it is your own work. I believe there is a case lawsuit somewhere similar to the example I gave. I just can't find it online.
What grade helium are you talking about. The stuff you use for balloons is a much lower grade and much cheaper than what is used in a MRI scanner. He for a scanner was $5 back in 2010. That's not what it costs currently.
Helium is a commodity and the market price per liter fluctuates periodically. In the last year, we have heard from people getting it for as low as $9.00 per liter or as high as $20.00 per liter.
MRI costs $700 near me. (In the US.) Apparently you're just paying for someone's yaucht.
Well, this site gives some ideas about how much a MRI procedure cost. It seems that there are many different types of MRI procedures depending on where they want to look at inside your body. Also, the cost does NOT include physician fees.
Depends on what they're taught. Since we're talking New Zealand here, where a nationwide computer retailer sells Windows laptops [pbtech.co.nz] at lower prices than Chromebooks [pbtech.co.nz] (as you point out, the belief that Chromebooks are cheaper only holds if you compare them to business-grade laptops and fancy ultrabooks, you can mass-produce cheap shit Windows laptops for less than cheap shit Chromebooks),
Errr, you are missing the point. The problem is NOT the hardware (as you mentioned about "laptop") but it is rather the software. Even though Windows OS comes with its hardware for "somewhat" free, the one which comes with Chromebooks is free (at least for now, and expecting to be for long). It doesn't matter if MS can come out with cheaper laptop, most software of MS (especially office software) are NOT free. Have you ever learned when MS "force" update/upgrade? That is a huge inconvenience.
and where kids are taught Excel, Word, and others (and later on things like programming in Python, the obligatory HTML and CSS, etc [school.nz]) because that's what they'll need to know to get a job.
From what you said, It is obvious that you know nothing about programming. If you know, then you wouldn't say things like this because all of what you are talking about can be done in ANY OS. They are not OS specific (except when MS intends to break the standard, then you need to learn the "work around").
I'm not sure this is a good choice. Yeah, sure, Chromebooks, Linux, stick it to the man, etc, but teaching them how to create animations on a Chromebook isn't going to help them use Excel in an accounting job.
The animation should be taught in trade schools. Also, it shows that you have no knowledge of other open source office software out there. Besides, you also don't even know how office software users are doing. There are at least a few popular office software that can be run on both Linux and Windows. Libreoffice is one of them. The interface of it is similar (both spreadsheet, words, and presentation). Most users just learn how to create tables and deal with some formulas in spreadsheet where you do your "accounting" stuff. You can balance the sheet (table), do some statistics, graphing, etc. with Libreoffice. It is similar to Excel. It just doesn't have all extra features that most people don't need for their work. Or is that what you want, to have extra stuff that you never use but just to have them?
I can work with any kind of office software even though I have never used it before. I started working with Lotus123 before Excel came out. Then I switch to Excel and had no problem adapting to it. Then I had to work with Linux, so I used OpenOffice and now LibreOffice. They all are very similar from interface to functionalities. I believe that anyone who need to work with office software should be able to adapt to any office software regardless the OS. If they can't, they are technology illiterate and may need to work with pen and paper instead.
A so-so school will mess things up with any and all of Chromebooks, Windows, or OS X, but a good school will teach marketable skills, and for that Windows is your best option.
Yes, marketable skills should be taught in school, but they should not be OS. Computer users nowadays do NOT NEED to know what OS is because they are NOT going to configure their computer at work. If they are going to be in IT field, then they should learn ALL OSs, not just Windows.
OS is not the problem if you or your kids are not a sysadmin. But again, if you and/or your kids are going to be a competent sysadmin, then you and/or your kids should have capability to learn any systems without a problem. Thus, there shouldn't be a preference in what OS is.
Actually that's a problem when people learn "anything" online. People tend to go overboard on this idea, and thus believe everything whatever the online said whether or not it is true. I just hope that more people know how to verify information and understand it instead of take everything as a fact or truth due to bias and belief.
The OS shouldn't be a problem for you, but applications will. Safari is an application and it will eventually stop working properly. If you think of it, more and more new features come out that browsers nowadays want/need to support. The old one which you have will not understand the message/parameter, and as a result can't display or brokenly displays the content. As long as you use your iPhone as a phone and/or play game offline, then it would still be fine. If you want to link it with nowadays technology, you will need a new one.
You are talking of an old verification system which is already out-dated. What employers now need to do is to include E-Verify process at the same the employer is filing the form I-9. The system has been in place for many years already.
The problem is the appearance... Those who were born by the same race parents will keep their race appearance, e.g. Asians. As a result, even they were born in America, raised in America, and have lived all their lives in America, they can still be looked at as immigrants. Even though the melting pot is supposed to be about the culture, there are too many white/black Americans who think that America is only for white and some black. I guess the meaning of the word should be taught early in school in hope that everyone would understand what it is.
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This is a great example of "fake news". They'll all get back pay, nobody lost anything.
Are you for or against the statement? The post by NoNonAlphaCharsHere is correct and is pointing out the "fake news" (#3) from the AC post. If you said the fake news is from NoNonAlphaCharsHere's post, you are the one who is trying to spread fake news. And it shows that you have neither worked nor had friends working for the government but rather want to spout completely wrong information to others, who don't know anything about how furlough works, in order to support your own agenda. However, if you agreed with NoNonAlphaCharsHere, then that's fine.
P.S. I have friends who work for government and either were furloughed or worked without pay during the period of shut down. They weren't affected in getting by during the time but they DID NOT have free month vacation as the AC said.
How is it 'minimalist' being locked to a vendor's ecosystem
What locked? From Apple page, it is clearly said 'unlocked' phone.
DirectTV streaming is shit. You are forced to watch "the embedded commercial", what feels like a 1000 times without the ability to skip. By this I mean each show will have one or two commercial segments. These identical commercials are forced, without fast-forward, to be viewed at least 5-10 times during the show. Can't finish the show, you are forced to watch it all over again, including "the commercial" 5-10 times to get to the spot you got interrupted at. I make a note to never use that sponsor for the rest of my life!
That's the way it is for "on demand" thing. Some shows may include short ads here and there, and some don't have any ads at all. At least this is from my experience with Fios.
At a company I ran in 1990s we self-hosted version control, email, everything. We assembled our own servers, we wrote out own highly secure password manager. We did everything ourselves. We saved a lot of money vs buying. We also spent so much time and attention on handling our own infrastructure that we had little energy left to put toward our actual business, building our customer base, our brand, etc.
If I run a company again, I may let someone else worry about some of infrastructure while we worry about the things our business does.
In other words, time has changed. Back then, letting someone else taking care of hosting cost a lot more money than you do it yourself. Nowadays, it is the opposite. That's the advantage of doing so (ignoring any security issues that may arise).
Have you really read TFA? He didn't use the app but his ex did by impersonating him. Also, there are other things happening afterward before it led to the law suit (read TFA). Typical ./er who either doesn't read or pick and choose only a portion in the summary to whine about.
How about read this case law? It is similar but not exactly. Though, it is in California court.
Exactly. One overlooked fact is the war of ideas between eugenicists and US geneticists, the latter is the idea discussed here. Itâ(TM)s not âoelook at birth defects, gypsies badâ itâ(TM)s look at birth defects, letâ(TM)s fix the specific cause regardless of ethnic identity. It is blowing my mind that people are freaking out over AIDS resistance being given to a kid. You understand that the entire human population would have to get decimated by AIDS as children for evolution to select the same gene, or hundreds of generations of people suffering from AIDs would have to occur? Evolution is powerful and comprehensive, but so slow. Thereâ(TM)s no reason not to improve the quality of life, yes that includes cosmetically and mentally, right now.
You seem to oversimplify things as the parent said.
First, they found genes associated with AIDS, but they don't know other effects of the genes. Taking out certain genes would have consequences. If the same genes are also associated with other significant functionalities, then no one knows until the time comes because there is no way to accelerate the time in human. Then what's next? You can't simply add genes back to already mitosis organisms. As a result, you have created an unfixable problem. Please don't tell me that they could add the genes back to their children while they are still a cell. Similar chain of actions doesn't make it right. However, even though it is an amoral act, I understand why they want to do it. So I can't say I agree and disagree with the action.
Second, with current medicine, we have found a way to keep the HIV under control. HIV is NOT AIDS. HIV is a virus which destroys your immune system. As a result, you eventually has AIDS. It is obvious that you don't understand that, or you wouldn't make a claim about human population gets decimated by AIDS. This is an ignoring part of yours.
Last, yes evolution is slow, but it doesn't mean we, humans, should take a short cut and expect only positive consequences. We should consider what negative consequences would be as well. If the weight of negative consequences is more than the positive ones, then we should not do it. I agree that there is no reason not to improve the quality of life, but one must also weight with consequences we are going to face. Simply look at a short-term gain as quality of life is not a real quality of life.
IANAL either, and I need more information. From what I gather from TFA, they seem to have no idea about the age.
After the service member responded, prisoners would then assume a role of the female's father, who claimed the female was a juvenile.
However, TFA didn't clearly say anything about those service members knowing those fictitious young females' age before hand. If they knew about the age and the age was younger than 18, then there is no defend for them and they are possibly (dishonorably) discharged. If they didn't know and there was no evidence of the knowledge, or they were told that the age was 18+, then I would agree with you that the punishment shouldn't be too harsh (but could still face a discharge).
Most artists never color anime you know. It is not only specialized but hardly anyone I ever met likes the work
I am guessing you are from a western country. I highly doubt you really know how Japanese comics were published back in 80's or 90's (before anime). IIRC, Anime nowadays was called girl cartoon back then because the drawing was very girlish and most of them were about young people love stories.
Anyway, back then the artist (the author) would draw outline of the comic. The artist will have a helper or two (depending on how famous his/her comic is). The helpers are those who "fill in color" and enhance the outline. Some of these helpers will become new artists later on. That is what rhsanborn was talking about.
You are obviously not listening or even think out of the box as many others do. I am not going to try further to explain it to you anymore. You keep using the same reasoning which is the base part of learning. Anyway I should have left it as is (as others stopped after they said/insulted you). I now know why others don't want to reply to your objection. It is my fault to attempt to show you a way.
Still, you missed the point of the poster. And yes, we can learn from logical conclusion without going through a scenario or repetitions.
Repetition is a brute-force learning. We, humans, can still learn a different way that is not necessary to be brute-force. All you are talking about is just an obvious learning and basic -- first-hand experience. Logic is a part of second-hand experience because we could use knowledge proven by others to make a conclusion; thus it is another type of learning.
Yes. You said a human doesn't have to run through a scenario repeatedly to learn it; you seem to think each scenario is unique, and not comparable to different scenarios already experienced repeatably--i.e. that most "new" scenarios are actually old scenarios.
No, what he/she said is that unlike AI, human does NOT need to learn from repetitions. Human can learn by using logic (as an assumption).
The effect of gene modifying in human may not even show up for a long time. We still have to wait for at least another 20-30 years or even human life time. At least these twin girls would be the first guinea pig for the whole human race (regardless the ethical issue which may rise in the future).
this is the future.. I hope other companies are paying close attention to this...
also.. employees need regular traning... even people in tech
It is not necessary to be true. It all depends on the type of your services/products. If it is about software and you can do anything online, then yes; otherwise, you still need some people on the ground to have physical access to certain tasks. In this case, it happens to be fine with doing everything online. However, if your company is servicing clients with servers and your company host the (physical) servers, then you still need a kind of office for your data center even though majority of your employees may be telecommute to work. Some other type of services, e.g. manufacturing, will need more physical access. You may dream about having robots to do everything in manufacturing, but that is still a dream which may not come true soon. Besides, the company still need physical access to maintenance those robots.
You would have been better off creating something under copyright. Patents are only good for 20 years.Copyrights last a lifetime (and the lifetime of your offspring).
Yes and no. Even though copyright has much longer life time enforcement, it has much lower power than patent. In patent, if anyone makes and sells something as described in your patent, you can sue the person regardless the person knew nothing about the patent and came up with the idea himself/herself.
In copyright, if someone creates work and holds copyright of the work, you can still create the same work with similar technique and won't infringe on the copyright. For example, a famous photographer takes a picture of the Eiffel tower and sells it for good money. You then go to the exactly the same spot and use exactly the same camera/lens to take a picture. You get the similar picture (using similar photography technique) and sell it for good money. Then you are not infringing the copyright of the famous photographer because it is your own work. I believe there is a case lawsuit somewhere similar to the example I gave. I just can't find it online.
Hey - can we now revisit the whole cola war episode? Maybe the EU courts could straighten all that out.
Which cases are you talking about? Are you sure that they are about copyright? Not trademark? Not trade secret?
What grade helium are you talking about. The stuff you use for balloons is a much lower grade and much cheaper than what is used in a MRI scanner. He for a scanner was $5 back in 2010. That's not what it costs currently.
Just did a google search and I found this blog site "MRI Helium Refills and Boil-off Rates: The Top Six Magnets" talking about He. The blog was written in Feb 2017 though.
Helium is a commodity and the market price per liter fluctuates periodically. In the last year, we have heard from people getting it for as low as $9.00 per liter or as high as $20.00 per liter.
MRI costs $700 near me. (In the US.) Apparently you're just paying for someone's yaucht.
Well, this site gives some ideas about how much a MRI procedure cost. It seems that there are many different types of MRI procedures depending on where they want to look at inside your body. Also, the cost does NOT include physician fees.
AT&T, T-Mobile, and Verizon promised eSIM support at launch, ...
What does this tell you? It is in the summary as well. Your last sentence is debunked.
Depends on what they're taught. Since we're talking New Zealand here, where a nationwide computer retailer sells Windows laptops [pbtech.co.nz] at lower prices than Chromebooks [pbtech.co.nz] (as you point out, the belief that Chromebooks are cheaper only holds if you compare them to business-grade laptops and fancy ultrabooks, you can mass-produce cheap shit Windows laptops for less than cheap shit Chromebooks),
Errr, you are missing the point. The problem is NOT the hardware (as you mentioned about "laptop") but it is rather the software. Even though Windows OS comes with its hardware for "somewhat" free, the one which comes with Chromebooks is free (at least for now, and expecting to be for long). It doesn't matter if MS can come out with cheaper laptop, most software of MS (especially office software) are NOT free. Have you ever learned when MS "force" update/upgrade? That is a huge inconvenience.
and where kids are taught Excel, Word, and others (and later on things like programming in Python, the obligatory HTML and CSS, etc [school.nz]) because that's what they'll need to know to get a job.
From what you said, It is obvious that you know nothing about programming. If you know, then you wouldn't say things like this because all of what you are talking about can be done in ANY OS. They are not OS specific (except when MS intends to break the standard, then you need to learn the "work around").
I'm not sure this is a good choice. Yeah, sure, Chromebooks, Linux, stick it to the man, etc, but teaching them how to create animations on a Chromebook isn't going to help them use Excel in an accounting job.
The animation should be taught in trade schools. Also, it shows that you have no knowledge of other open source office software out there. Besides, you also don't even know how office software users are doing. There are at least a few popular office software that can be run on both Linux and Windows. Libreoffice is one of them. The interface of it is similar (both spreadsheet, words, and presentation). Most users just learn how to create tables and deal with some formulas in spreadsheet where you do your "accounting" stuff. You can balance the sheet (table), do some statistics, graphing, etc. with Libreoffice. It is similar to Excel. It just doesn't have all extra features that most people don't need for their work. Or is that what you want, to have extra stuff that you never use but just to have them?
I can work with any kind of office software even though I have never used it before. I started working with Lotus123 before Excel came out. Then I switch to Excel and had no problem adapting to it. Then I had to work with Linux, so I used OpenOffice and now LibreOffice. They all are very similar from interface to functionalities. I believe that anyone who need to work with office software should be able to adapt to any office software regardless the OS. If they can't, they are technology illiterate and may need to work with pen and paper instead.
A so-so school will mess things up with any and all of Chromebooks, Windows, or OS X, but a good school will teach marketable skills, and for that Windows is your best option.
Yes, marketable skills should be taught in school, but they should not be OS. Computer users nowadays do NOT NEED to know what OS is because they are NOT going to configure their computer at work. If they are going to be in IT field, then they should learn ALL OSs, not just Windows.
OS is not the problem if you or your kids are not a sysadmin. But again, if you and/or your kids are going to be a competent sysadmin, then you and/or your kids should have capability to learn any systems without a problem. Thus, there shouldn't be a preference in what OS is.
Education is free. You can learn anything online.
You pay for the diploma.
Actually that's a problem when people learn "anything" online. People tend to go overboard on this idea, and thus believe everything whatever the online said whether or not it is true. I just hope that more people know how to verify information and understand it instead of take everything as a fact or truth due to bias and belief.
The OS shouldn't be a problem for you, but applications will. Safari is an application and it will eventually stop working properly. If you think of it, more and more new features come out that browsers nowadays want/need to support. The old one which you have will not understand the message/parameter, and as a result can't display or brokenly displays the content. As long as you use your iPhone as a phone and/or play game offline, then it would still be fine. If you want to link it with nowadays technology, you will need a new one.
You are talking of an old verification system which is already out-dated. What employers now need to do is to include E-Verify process at the same the employer is filing the form I-9. The system has been in place for many years already.
The problem is the appearance... Those who were born by the same race parents will keep their race appearance, e.g. Asians. As a result, even they were born in America, raised in America, and have lived all their lives in America, they can still be looked at as immigrants. Even though the melting pot is supposed to be about the culture, there are too many white/black Americans who think that America is only for white and some black. I guess the meaning of the word should be taught early in school in hope that everyone would understand what it is.
"it was only Asians who were excluded then" And, so, you dispute your own statement...
Errr, no. I think you need to reread the "whole" sentence/paragraph of what the parent said instead of pick and choose only a portion to argue.