One secondary purpose of homework is getting parents involved in their children's education. Homework serves to blur the lines between home and school, making parents (hopefully) more aware of what their children are learning, more involved in teaching their kids and more interested in their child's educational success.
"It's not suggesting women can't do math, it just says that they are not genetically apt to be good at it because of their gender."
Sorry to jump your shit here, but there is absolutely no genetic basis whatsoever for differences in mental performance between the sexes. Keep in mind that there are other non-genetic differences between the sexes (I'm not talking about child rearing here). For example, in the US and many other nations, males and females use segregated communal bathing facilities instead of integrated communal bathing. How could that non-genetic difference contribute to mental performance? The Connecticut Longitudinal Study showed that 90% of 3rd and 4th grade teachers are female. How would that change mental performance?
Don't forget the Nurture part of Nature vs Nurture.
The evolutionists are wrong because there is no reason to try to prove that creationists are wrong. Don't forget, however, that the creationists, working backwards from assumptions of faith, are demanding in places that their faith-based views on evolution be taught equal-time with scientific views on evolution.
The scientists don't demand that we get time in Bible School to teach about the way scientists believe that the earth and life were created...
Don't forget, they're both just myths or legends in two different cultures.
If you want to read the seminal work on this topic it was published by Michael J. Behe in Darwin's Black Box (Amazon.com). Behe has also published a number of scientific articles (He is a biochemist, you know). Search Pubmed (http://www.pubmed.gov) for "Behe MJ."
The more and more of these large and broad class-action lawsuits that I see, the more freightened and encouraged I become. As someone posted before, yes, class-action lawsuits make very little money for the plaintiffs, but boo-queue (boo-koo?) bucks for the lawyers involved.
It wouldn't take much legislation at all to resolve that problem. What if there came a day where the class-action lawsuit was a means for redistributing the wealth that corporations amass back to the consumers they swindle? If, for example, PalmOne makes $100 pure profit (an unreasonable figure, I'm sure) off the sale of every high-end palm. The palm purchasers band together, whine, and get a refund of $100.
Egads, It could become like the crappy mail-in-rebate system. Buy this product which someone says has this major flaw, get a big refund from the ensuing class-action lawsuit!
Elderly widows begin to join thousands of class-action lawsuits to help supplement their fixed income.
Defective and flawed products have increased sales due to the possible rebates from the class-action suit. Product quality drops to an all-time low.
Corporate tax reform is dropped in leu of class-action suit reform.
I STRONGLY recommend you read this article by Warren Smith of Temple University. (PDF 368K) He summarizes clearly what is wrong with our system of Government and how flaws in our voting system have led to the propagation of 50/50 elections, big-money spending and corrupt politicians. Excellent read. It lays things out so clearly that I was actually encouraged that changing our political system is possible!
Abstract: The USA has been and is evolving into an undemocratic state in
which rich moneyed entities control politics to favor their own interests at
the expense of the majority of the voting population. This evolution is a
natural and inevitable consequence of certain logical- historical- economic-
political laws that operate under the US's present system of government. The
process is self-strengthening via "positive feedback." We back these
statements up with evidence. We state and argue for the validity of several
dynamical laws which underlie this. We then analyse the feedback process
they cause. Six alterations in the political system are then proposed and
analysed that could weaken the positive feedback and hopefully allow a
renaissance of democracy. The most subtle, but perhaps quite effective,
among our suggestions (and the only one to which we devote much analytic
attention) is to replace the present "plurality voting system" with "range
voting." It is argued that this will decrease both 2-party dominance and
motivations for the major parties to try to appear identical ("Tweedledum
and Tweedledee").
I recently opened up my AlBook (15") to hopefully to upgrade from a combo drive to a super drive. Lemmie tell you - opening up this case is HARD! Undoing all of the right screws is nothing, but removing the top deck with those tabs - It's murder. I scratched the heck out of my computer and even when I took it to my Apple-Certified technicians (Yes, they claim there's a special tool for unclipping those little metal tabs.) they scratched the heck out of my computer and bent the bit of metal above the CD slot.
If anyone knows more details about a magic tool to help "pop the top" on an AlBook - Please, let the world know about it. Otherwise, I strongly recommend you get a thin plastic-coated pry bar for popping those tabs, and DON'T use a lot of force.
I see the Internet as a place, like Amsterdam or Mars.
A proper name of place is capitalized, hence i capitalize the Internet accordingly.
Well, just shot yerself in the foot there. The fact that you feel the need to put an article (i.e. "the") before the word "Internet" is a very good indicator (in the English language) that the thing is not a proper noun. Take these two sentences, for example:
I went to the grocery store.
I went to Cub Foods.
Mind you, there are exceptions for proper nouns, but it's typically when the "The" is part of the name. For example:
I went to The Limited.
I am staying at The Crown Plaza.
It's funny to note that Apple manual writers latched onto this concept when writing the iPod manual. All references to iPod are done as proper nouns (minus the proper capitalization). So you plug iPod into the iPod dock and sync iPod to your titanium powerbook.
FINALLY my grammar nazi skills have found a place at/..
Help the elderly with their computers. Somewhere in every community is a center for elderly people who still live independently. Offer up your services to teach them how to use a computer or help do repairs or upgrades. It's tech support, I know, but it's somehow more rewarding than just doing "tech support."
After a little while these people LOVE YOU! You are the saving grace between them and their technology. It's like having 10-20 loving and caring grandparents.
Then... Milk them for contacts. Many of these people are very well respected in their fields and they've had a good number of years to build up a good reputation. You're doing them a very important service and they will happily repay you by writing letters of recommendation.
Let's reduce our foreign oil dependence, and not have a need to drill ANWR. Use Diesel & Biodiesel!
As much as I LOVE the idea of reducing foreign oil dependence, I am more concerned with increasing our spent-cooking-oil dependence. I can just see the cooperative McDonald$ and Texico commercials, "We're deep-frying all of our foods to help save the environment. McDonalds and Texico have partnered to make a cleaner environment by KILLING OFF ALL OF THE FAT AMERICAN FUCKS!"
The point is that Biodiesel is a great thing for a small group of people. Once we actually meet the used-fry-oil supply with our fuel demands (which should happen rather quickly, from where I see it) we're going to become dependent upon something else.
The best remedy to our foreign oil dependence is reducing our dependence on any fuel source, not shifting our dependence from a foreign source to a domestic one. Instead of Biodiesel - why not ride the bus? Bicycle? Walk?
BTW: I was going to buy a Civic Hybrid - I think I'll go back to looking at the plain-old Civic.
I also work with clinical trials and the FDA breathing down my neck. My office is all running Macs. Intentionally. We knew that the small functionality loss from "going Mac" would be much much less than the horrific security problems unleashed on the Windows World.
Hey - Accessibility isn't just about the blind. I actually use the screen reader for a lot of purposes. For example, I am curently using the screen reader to help me audit a bunch of data files. The computer reads, "1000 mhz 10 db, 1250 mhz 15db..." and I check everything on paper while it's talking. The spoken interface is also great for when I'm using my bluetooth mouse from WAAY across the room (i.e. watching a DVD) and I need to know what time it is.
Actually, the device is combining the technology that went into Holter Monitors with the technology that is in current internal/automatic insulin testing and despensing montors (The kind that people have tapped directly into their pancreas.)
It seems from the article, however, that these devices are monitoring blood levels which would require little tiny lab tests int the device.
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If you're really going to warp them put on NPR instead of top-40-pop.
They will be Academic Bowl/Quiz Bowl champions by the age of 12.
One secondary purpose of homework is getting parents involved in their children's education. Homework serves to blur the lines between home and school, making parents (hopefully) more aware of what their children are learning, more involved in teaching their kids and more interested in their child's educational success.
Please, don't forget your towel.
Maybe I will go visit my grandfather in Dayton now...
For some folks stateside, we have KCRW out of Santa Monica, California. Their music channel is out of this world.
"It's not suggesting women can't do math, it just says that they are not genetically apt to be good at it because of their gender."
Sorry to jump your shit here, but there is absolutely no genetic basis whatsoever for differences in mental performance between the sexes. Keep in mind that there are other non-genetic differences between the sexes (I'm not talking about child rearing here). For example, in the US and many other nations, males and females use segregated communal bathing facilities instead of integrated communal bathing. How could that non-genetic difference contribute to mental performance? The Connecticut Longitudinal Study showed that 90% of 3rd and 4th grade teachers are female. How would that change mental performance?
Don't forget the Nurture part of Nature vs Nurture.
http://www.apple.com/ipodshuffle/ The caption under the "gum" picture reads, "iPod Shuffle: Smaller than a pack of gum and much more fun.(2)"
(2) "Do not eat iPod shuffle."
Thank you for one of the best laughs I've had in a long time.
The evolutionists are wrong because there is no reason to try to prove that creationists are wrong.
Don't forget, however, that the creationists, working backwards from assumptions of faith, are demanding in places that their faith-based views on evolution be taught equal-time with scientific views on evolution.
The scientists don't demand that we get time in Bible School to teach about the way scientists believe that the earth and life were created...
Don't forget, they're both just myths or legends in two different cultures.
If you want to read the seminal work on this topic it was published by Michael J. Behe in Darwin's Black Box (Amazon.com). Behe has also published a number of scientific articles (He is a biochemist, you know). Search Pubmed (http://www.pubmed.gov) for "Behe MJ."
Oh, well... It's a Saturday.
Jeez - only total losers post on Slashdot on Saturday nights instead of going out on the town...
Oh...
The more and more of these large and broad class-action lawsuits that I see, the more freightened and encouraged I become. As someone posted before, yes, class-action lawsuits make very little money for the plaintiffs, but boo-queue (boo-koo?) bucks for the lawyers involved.
It wouldn't take much legislation at all to resolve that problem. What if there came a day where the class-action lawsuit was a means for redistributing the wealth that corporations amass back to the consumers they swindle? If, for example, PalmOne makes $100 pure profit (an unreasonable figure, I'm sure) off the sale of every high-end palm. The palm purchasers band together, whine, and get a refund of $100.
Egads, It could become like the crappy mail-in-rebate system. Buy this product which someone says has this major flaw, get a big refund from the ensuing class-action lawsuit!
Elderly widows begin to join thousands of class-action lawsuits to help supplement their fixed income.
Defective and flawed products have increased sales due to the possible rebates from the class-action suit. Product quality drops to an all-time low.
Corporate tax reform is dropped in leu of class-action suit reform.
I think I have the idea for my next novel...
Yeah... My dad used to holler "Tax collector" and take a big bite out of all of my candy bars. That was also a life lesson.
I STRONGLY recommend you read this article by Warren Smith of Temple University. (PDF 368K) He summarizes clearly what is wrong with our system of Government and how flaws in our voting system have led to the propagation of 50/50 elections, big-money spending and corrupt politicians. Excellent read. It lays things out so clearly that I was actually encouraged that changing our political system is possible!
Abstract: The USA has been and is evolving into an undemocratic state in which rich moneyed entities control politics to favor their own interests at the expense of the majority of the voting population. This evolution is a natural and inevitable consequence of certain logical- historical- economic- political laws that operate under the US's present system of government. The process is self-strengthening via "positive feedback." We back these statements up with evidence. We state and argue for the validity of several dynamical laws which underlie this. We then analyse the feedback process they cause. Six alterations in the political system are then proposed and analysed that could weaken the positive feedback and hopefully allow a renaissance of democracy. The most subtle, but perhaps quite effective, among our suggestions (and the only one to which we devote much analytic attention) is to replace the present "plurality voting system" with "range voting." It is argued that this will decrease both 2-party dominance and motivations for the major parties to try to appear identical ("Tweedledum and Tweedledee").
I recently opened up my AlBook (15") to hopefully to upgrade from a combo drive to a super drive. Lemmie tell you - opening up this case is HARD! Undoing all of the right screws is nothing, but removing the top deck with those tabs - It's murder. I scratched the heck out of my computer and even when I took it to my Apple-Certified technicians (Yes, they claim there's a special tool for unclipping those little metal tabs.) they scratched the heck out of my computer and bent the bit of metal above the CD slot.
If anyone knows more details about a magic tool to help "pop the top" on an AlBook - Please, let the world know about it. Otherwise, I strongly recommend you get a thin plastic-coated pry bar for popping those tabs, and DON'T use a lot of force.
Ooh - I get the first chance to say -
Fox is Evil and Bad for canceling Firefly. It's a great show.
I see the Internet as a place, like Amsterdam or Mars.
A proper name of place is capitalized, hence i capitalize the Internet accordingly.
Well, just shot yerself in the foot there. The fact that you feel the need to put an article (i.e. "the") before the word "Internet" is a very good indicator (in the English language) that the thing is not a proper noun. Take these two sentences, for example:
I went to the grocery store.
I went to Cub Foods.
Mind you, there are exceptions for proper nouns, but it's typically when the "The" is part of the name. For example:
I went to The Limited.
I am staying at The Crown Plaza.
It's funny to note that Apple manual writers latched onto this concept when writing the iPod manual. All references to iPod are done as proper nouns (minus the proper capitalization). So you plug iPod into the iPod dock and sync iPod to your titanium powerbook.
FINALLY my grammar nazi skills have found a place at /..
Help the elderly with their computers. Somewhere in every community is a center for elderly people who still live independently. Offer up your services to teach them how to use a computer or help do repairs or upgrades. It's tech support, I know, but it's somehow more rewarding than just doing "tech support."
After a little while these people LOVE YOU! You are the saving grace between them and their technology. It's like having 10-20 loving and caring grandparents.
Then... Milk them for contacts. Many of these people are very well respected in their fields and they've had a good number of years to build up a good reputation. You're doing them a very important service and they will happily repay you by writing letters of recommendation.
Let's reduce our foreign oil dependence, and not have a need to drill ANWR. Use Diesel & Biodiesel!
As much as I LOVE the idea of reducing foreign oil dependence, I am more concerned with increasing our spent-cooking-oil dependence. I can just see the cooperative McDonald$ and Texico commercials, "We're deep-frying all of our foods to help save the environment. McDonalds and Texico have partnered to make a cleaner environment by KILLING OFF ALL OF THE FAT AMERICAN FUCKS!"
The point is that Biodiesel is a great thing for a small group of people. Once we actually meet the used-fry-oil supply with our fuel demands (which should happen rather quickly, from where I see it) we're going to become dependent upon something else.
The best remedy to our foreign oil dependence is reducing our dependence on any fuel source, not shifting our dependence from a foreign source to a domestic one. Instead of Biodiesel - why not ride the bus? Bicycle? Walk?
BTW: I was going to buy a Civic Hybrid - I think I'll go back to looking at the plain-old Civic.
Oracle Clinical: http://www.oracle.com/industries/life_sciences/ind ex.html?content.html
Additional features and support provided by Westat. They're currently working all of the CRF collection for Phase I/II/III NCI trials.
I also work with clinical trials and the FDA breathing down my neck. My office is all running Macs. Intentionally. We knew that the small functionality loss from "going Mac" would be much much less than the horrific security problems unleashed on the Windows World.
Hey - Accessibility isn't just about the blind. I actually use the screen reader for a lot of purposes. For example, I am curently using the screen reader to help me audit a bunch of data files. The computer reads, "1000 mhz 10 db, 1250 mhz 15db..." and I check everything on paper while it's talking. The spoken interface is also great for when I'm using my bluetooth mouse from WAAY across the room (i.e. watching a DVD) and I need to know what time it is.
Actually, the device is combining the technology that went into Holter Monitors with the technology that is in current internal/automatic insulin testing and despensing montors (The kind that people have tapped directly into their pancreas.)
It seems from the article, however, that these devices are monitoring blood levels which would require little tiny lab tests int the device.
THEY STOLE MY COLLECTION OF 1CM PHLEBOTOMISTS!!
Does this still mean that I'm weird when I do the waltz down the aisles of the grocery store?