our liberty depends on the freedom of the press which can not be limitet without being lost , jefferson ! i saw that statement daily for years in the brisbane courier mail , QLD australia , the newspaper was sold , and that line disappeard ,
well put ! as a believer (christian ) , however i do not like manmade institutions , cos time after time they have proven that they can not be trusted ! and a scientist , we seem to have forgotten what civilatation and society means ! apart from having very adaptable bodies what sets us apart from other mammals , we send our offspring into wars , not for food or room , mostly we send them to die for believes , religeous , political , and this does not make sense . for at least 2 reasons , 1st evelution , how will our species evolve . 2nd " go forth and multiply " not go forth and kill people who do not share your opinion !
unfortunetly any department will ( on rare occation ) have , a wrong person in a possition of power ! and how will we protect our children from A STOP AND GROPE !! i strongly feel this problem should get more attention . i also sadly include female officers . who watches the guards ?
reading the comments written by most people i wonder how many of them actualy read the whole article ? due to the massproduction of blue LED's it became possible to make white leds !! thus saving a lot of electrisity ! before that blue due to its expense of production was used only in medical devices and needless to say military apps . i also feel that the people complaining about blues being overused , while true , has nothing to do with the overall achievement !!! lets face it why blame the people who made it possible for the way the invention is missused . on the subject of missuse the people making rediculus large and loud speakers that some idiots must have in their cars , making it almost impossible ( when the car next to you has them crancked up so high ) that normal people can not make use of their ears in traffic . i blame the people who have these things in the cars for deafening me , not the people who invented them , or even the manufacterer , cos once the item is sold , it is out of their control !
if the people who stopped the iceage had only known that their actions will start global warming would they still have done it ?? and the iceage before that , and so on ! i know that polushion is a bad thing , as for co2 , at present we are more than 7,000,000,000, people on earth ! each of us exhale co2 , has anyone calculated how much co2 we humans create ? the worst part of this is that nobody is doing anything about that ( the production of co2 by our bodies ) , just as nobody is doing anything about the methane produced by cattle , ect ! the point i am trying to make is that a lot of people seem to consern themself with bits and pieces , instead of looking at the compleat picture ! for instance all of a sudden we must buy little bottles of water made out of plastic , thus leading to mointans of plastic bottles !! what is the reason that stopped milk in glass bottles , they can be used time after time ( i used to work at a milk bottling plant , we washed the glass bottles then refill them ) the amount of soap used was small ! lastly recycling paper , how many people take into consideration the heavy metals in the ink , hands up all those who do know that !
gday meustrus , you took the words out of my mouth , i totally agree , and as another poster stated you wrote it much better ! i would like to add that our very everyday languige adds to the problem , consider " the earth goes AROUND the sun " when in fact the orbit is not a circle ! " what goes up MUST come down " when we have sent things that will leave our solar system , and i assume by that logic the things we left on the moon will fall back to earth ! in school i learned that our solar system has 9 planets , now it seems we have 8 , as a matter of fact most things i was tought have changed . i know people who are convinced that TIME is a manmade thing , when i replyed with " thats strange i have never seen a baby turn into an adult instatainiuosly , or as seed grow into a tree in zero time " i was told that i miss the point . then there was the bloke who told me that it is AIRPRESSURE that keeps our feet on the ground ! when i told my TEACHER that 1 litre of water weighs " at a certain temp " i kg he took a glass bottle put a ltr water into it , did not tare the bottle , put it on a scale and told me i was wrong , and there is the prove ! then most people only know half answers , water boils at a 100 deg C ( it does but at seelevel ) i have checked the boiling point at 2000 metres , needless to say it was lower . i have even had to try to explain to a uni educated manager why it took me longer to take things at first 100 feet , then 300 feet , he wanted to know why it was taking me longer ! after half an hour trying to explain , he said " i have heard what you are saying , but i still want to know why it's taking you so long !! all these people though they where intelegent !
we are not all as smart as you , i wish i had your intellegence , and experience , my complaint about 8 is the FACT that every time i try to upgrade something on my LAPTOP running vista is that all i get is microsoft's unbelievable HARDSELL that i should buy 8 , numerous times they send me in circles !! i am sure that if i knew as much as you ! this would not be a problem , cos there is an easy way to avoid this ! there must be , and i am doing something wrong , so is a friend of mine he had to delite the 1 from windows 8.1 cos he was unable to play his games ! so if he knwe as much as you , this would not have been needed , his desktop cost him only AUD 2000 , but then he knows as little as i , he also found out that he is unable to sell a laptop with windows 8 as the os , noone wants it purely cos of 8 , i feel that because you are an expert , it would have been more helpfull if you share some of that knowhow !!! kindest regards peter
it is not only humans that are intellegent , i have seen dogs do things that if a human did it , shev would be called a genius , the main reason we are supposetly on top of the foodchain in my view is not our brains , but our bodys the way we move , and can do and make things ! however i do not believe that there are no amimals who if their brain was in a body like ours would be our equals !
i agree with most of your opinion , we are very good at killing , as for socalled smart machines for the last 50 years we have been told that live for humans will be a utopia , im still waiting for that ! i feel that because the military is using computers as weapons , will it be mashines taking over or mashines used by humans to control other people ?
how many people out there know that the greatest inventions ( greatest impact ) of the 20th century , even with patents got nothing out of it !! WAP patent granted 1948 , companies are making a bit of money with cellphones , the patent holder got nothing . TESLA had a great many patens , diad a pauper , TURING as far as i know did not patend , but it was he who made our techno era possible , everything we now call computers , smart phone , so many other things are based on his original work . remember rubic , bloke who made a cube , lost everything taking people infringing on his patend to court
i totally agree with you , i have spent a lot of time , thinking about time . and learning about it , books , artikles , and unfortunetly talked to people about time ! i found that a relative large % of people believe that TIME is something manmade , i kid you not ! when i countered their believe by stating that iv never seen a seed grow into a tree intantly , or a baby grow ( become ) an adult without any passing of time , it was suggested that i am crazy . maybe so . but how many people take time into consideration ? ie , did some overtime shifting stock , from A to B , after a month was told to take to take it about twice as far ! a week later was ordered to see the manager , he wanted to know why it is taking me longer , i was unable to explain to that uni educated fool of a manager that it takes more time cos of the greater distance . he on the other hand used the brocken record technique , ever 5 or so minutes , he would say i do not care about that , why are you slower ! over the years i have learned that he was not an exaption , but the rule . time after time different managers , have proven to me that TIME does not enter their thoughts . nor does a geodisic , that word means the shortest possible distance beetwen two points . ie the shortest distance from A to B is a straight line , but if there is a wall between a and b one has to go around it if one wants to get to b . this takes longer as well . for the most part i now work on this very interesting subject alone . finally to the people who believe you were beaten , someone else thought of it before you . CARL SAGEN in his great book COSMOS wrote about ( his term ) spontanious discovery , he is of the opinion that provided a person on their own discover something , nothing should diminish that persons achivement !! food for thought:)
i know that the population of australia is small , but my nephew did 2 tours in afganistan for the us of america ! does anyone remember the with us or against us speach by pres g walker bush ? on top of that australian taxpayers had to pay for the bombs ect , droped for the usa , and we had to pay for the things , add to that that 60 % of aussies were against going to war,against iraq ! lastly i was visiting relatives in europe , and quickly learned not to say where i live from england , france , germany , and a couple of other countries , cos at that time coming from oz , and militarily supporting america was very uncool .
I think the value of a bachelors degree is that it's in fact hard to get and requires investment in time and money.
A large part of the point of a degree - particularly a batchelors - is that it requires you to think, and to work outside the area that you're comfortable with. If you're looking for a qualification that only requires time and money, then you are looking at something more akin to an apprenticeship or a work placement. Which the OP seems to have done already, with his years of successful employment in the field.
If he's just looking for something to puff up his CV and justify a higher ticket price... then one avenue that he could consider is volunteer teaching in CS at $LocalCommunityCollege$. (Or, as my father has done since I was a teenager, at the workers Education Association. But if the OP is in America, that would probably get him a holiday in Guantanamo or something equally desirable.)
That sort of thing looks great on a CV ; it speaks highly of one's communication skills ; it's a sign of a well-rounded and grounded personality, rather than a spotty-faced youth who'll leave the project half-way through for a higher-ticket job. And it only costs the investment of time and money (at least, as an opportunity cost).
Of course, there's always the possibility that it'll expose areas where the OP's practical experience in programming doesn't give him the theoretical background to carry the teaching load. Which itself would be useful knowledge to the OP, allowing him to target his learning more closely.
i am sorry to say that an actual bachelors , or masters , do not mean that the person with one has any brains at all ! consider this , ( this really did happen to me ) the place i worked at changed one of the things i was doing there , ie , i had to move things from one place to another , this was changed and i had to move them twice as far ! two weeks later i was called into the supervisors office , he had a MASTERS , the reason he wanted to talk to me was that he wanted an explanation as to why it was taking me longer to do said work , i was in that office for over an hour , explaining that it takes longer to go 200 meters than 100 , i kid you not , at the end of the conversation " VERY STRESSFULL HOUR " he still kept asking " why are you taking so long ? " i had been working for this company for about 6 years when that happend ! then the way water from a 1500 gallon tank to another was changed and instead of the water going thru a 4 inch pipe and a distance of about 75 meters , was changed to a 2 inch pipe and a distanse of 500 meters , cos i had a lot of experience with irrigation , i knew about friction ect , this time a different super i think he had a "bachler " supervisors had to have a uni degree . came to where i was working and you gessed it , he wanted to know as to why it took longer to drain the tank !! i come from a familie that believed an education is important ( an uncle and aunt were proffesors of medicine , another uncle was a high school princible , my dad a masters of law ect . so i for the most part respect educated people ! BUT as my examples show having a sheepskin does not automaticly meen that everybody with one has brains . i left the company after 8 years , and felt a gteat weight leave my sholders !
im sorry but it seems that when i quoted you as parent i must have done something wrong
I think the value of a bachelors degree is that it's in fact hard to get and requires investment in time and money.
A large part of the point of a degree - particularly a batchelors - is that it requires you to think, and to work outside the area that you're comfortable with. If you're looking for a qualification that only requires time and money, then you are looking at something more akin to an apprenticeship or a work placement. Which the OP seems to have done already, with his years of successful employment in the field.
If he's just looking for something to puff up his CV and justify a higher ticket price... then one avenue that he could consider is volunteer teaching in CS at $LocalCommunityCollege$. (Or, as my father has done since I was a teenager, at the workers Education Association. But if the OP is in America, that would probably get him a holiday in Guantanamo or something equally desirable.)
That sort of thing looks great on a CV ; it speaks highly of one's communication skills ; it's a sign of a well-rounded and grounded personality, rather than a spotty-faced youth who'll leave the project half-way through for a higher-ticket job. And it only costs the investment of time and money (at least, as an opportunity cost).
Of course, there's always the possibility that it'll expose areas where the OP's practical experience in programming doesn't give him the theoretical background to carry the teaching load. Which itself would be useful knowledge to the OP, allowing him to target his learning more closely.
i am sorry to say that an actual bachelors , or masters , do not mean that the person with one has any brains at all ! consider this , ( this really did happen to me ) the place i worked at changed one of the things i was doing there , ie , i had to move things from one place to another , this was changed and i had to move them twice as far ! two weeks later i was called into the supervisors office , he had a MASTERS , the reason he wanted to talk to me was that he wanted an explanation as to why it was taking me longer to do said work , i was in that office for over an hour , explaining that it takes longer to go 200 meters than 100 , i kid you not , at the end of the conversation " VERY STRESSFULL HOUR " he still kept asking " why are you taking so long ? " i had been working for this company for about 6 years when that happend ! then the way water from a 1500 gallon tank to another was changed and instead of the water going thru a 4 inch pipe and a distance of about 75 meters , was changed to a 2 inch pipe and a distanse of 500 meters , cos i had a lot of experience with irrigation , i knew about friction ect , this time a different super i think he had a "bachler " supervisors had to have a uni degree . came to where i was working and you gessed it , he wanted to know as to why it took longer to drain the tank !! i come from a familie that believed an education is important ( an uncle and aunt were proffesors of medicine , another uncle was a high school princible , my dad a masters of law ect . so i for the most part respect educated people ! BUT as my examples show having a sheepskin does not automaticly meen that everybody with one has brains . i left the company after 8 years , and felt a gteat weight leave my sholders !
This is more psychos than psychics, so even though it's an old dead horse, it's a lot more like 1984. You have actually read 1984, haven't you?
Title: 1984 Author: George Orwell Online Computer Library Center Number: 52187275 Dewey Decimal Number: 823/.912 22 Library of Congress Classification: PR6029.R8 N647 2003
That sucker was first published back in 1949, so in the USA it's still in copyright for like a billion years or something, but it's pretty easy to find, as even the smallest public libraries try to keep it on hand. Heck, it was required reading in several of my high schools.
1984 is the how-to manual of the Government of the United States of Amerika. In the early morning hours shortly after sunrise a single gunshot was heard. The media reported the assassination of the Bill of Rights and the Constitution of the United States of America. How did a single gunshot kill two targets simultaneously many people asked themselves. A double-barrelled shotgun fired in unison. The railway boxcars began rolling into the stations soon to be filled with those in the populace deemed enemies of the state. A chill was felt but the People were helpless against the Government for the Government had been allowed to become de facto master over the People whom were now relegated to the status of servant of the state. George Orwell's scream from the grave could be heard around the world.
i have read 1984 twice , i wrongly assumed that the tech in it , ie camera and tv where created by mr orwell , so imagen my surprise when i saw the movie "modern times " made in 1936 . double plusungood !
The solution to this is to stop believing in all powerful government is capable of giving you everything you need. While it might be possible to give you everything you need, the cost is everything you have, for any government that can give you everything you need, can take everything you have. To some people, this is acceptable compromise. To me it isn't.
Decentralized governance is the ONLY real solution to the tyranny that is inevitable otherwise. The problem with Decentralization is that progressive politics doesn't fair well on a micro scale, and leads to tyranny on the macro scale. Of course the Progressives will come out with name calling "hate" speech to shut people up. I don't fear them... yet.
i live in a place where providing a person is taking part in a conversation , it is legal to record a conversation , as a matter of fact the Premier of said place got caught by a minister being recorded , the police do it as a matter of course , and i use my phone in my pocket if i am helping a mate " he is a bit slow " work on a purchase . and used to record conversations with my manager . once at my mothers i cought a salesman deni a statement he had made while trying to sell a 3000 $ vacumcleaner , he lied , and was very upset at getting caght , i was glad that using this tech to be able to save her a lot of money , and make no appology for using my handy in this manner !
due to my having an illness that is at times VERY painfull , and because my GP has known me for over a decade , he does not just look at my FACE ! a couple of years ago , he told his secrety to call an ambulance because of my STANCE , and that was before i even had a chance to say anything to him , due to the fact that i try not to worry my familie , i have learned not to show how much pain i am in !! another thing is that most people do not seem to know that a person in a lot , and i do mean a lot of pain , or in shock behave differently . for example a person i know had an ulcer burst , a phycologist needed to know if he had his pension card when he called an ambo for him , because the person that was ill had problems answering , the other bloke was getting angry ! i squatted down ( the ill person was sitting ) and asked if he had the card that he had to show to a busdriver to get the consetion rate , the answer was " yes " and came straight away ! the point i am trying to make is that looking at someone's face in pain " or not " is only a small part , in the assesment .
When I was in third grade, we didn't write out the times tables, we wrote out every single number between one and a thousand in numbers and in letters by ones, one and ten thousand by fives, tens, and fifties, and one and one million by hundreds as homework. It took about a week. That is a form of rote memorization and it works.
You talk about Common Core producing "confused, bitter adults.. or the worker drones they really want", yet the current curriculum is based more on memorization and parroting back the "correct" answers and gives partial credit for utilizing the correct method even if the answer is wrong (that, by the way, boils down to "it doesn't matter what you get as long as you do things my way") rather than critical thinking which many say is a hallmark of Common Core
It really sounds like your "bright" kid liked science and school when it was easier and as he has gotten older he has, like so many kids, started to dislike school and you are blaming Common Core instead of actually finding out why your kid doesn't like it. Maybe you should start spending more time with your kid and helping him with his studies, something called "being a parent", instead of making excuses.
half of my schooling was in europe , i totally agree with your opinion , there was one other thing we had to do in regards to arithmatic , that was starting in grade 3 , the teacher would ask the class for example " what is 7 times 9 , the first person to get it correct would go to the front of the class , then another question would be asked , this served 2 purpases , it felt great to be the first one to work out the answer , and it let the teacher know which students needed the most help !
shakespear is not the only " classical " writer , jules verne , h g wells , the list is endless , i am going to assume that a number of books will be used , i am concerned that some of the books used will be books that MS has borrowed from the new york libery , digitalised by MS , watermarked by the same company , and that we will have to pay to accses the same ! england , germany , the us of a , have different copywrite laws , there is in most copywrite laws a thing called FAIR USAGE , in a number of countries this means that students may use books , read them , without having to pay royalties to the author . however digitalising books , without payment to the author or the estate of them , seems to me to be piracy . in my opinion this issue should be discused ! ps sorry for the poor spelling and grammar ( alcoholic mother sent me to work at 14 ) just thought you should know im self educated .
i totally agree with you ! put it this way , why should a person have to change if after spending a lot of time getting your pc to run the way you want it to run . the way i see it suppose you buy a car , repaint it , get all the other things " soundsystem " " radial tyres " ect , just to have someone telling you now you have to buy a new one , because i am greedy !
the way i see this is that people do not understand what a contract is "" a volantary agreement between 2 or more party's " that is the definition in my dictionary . 2nd the tech part from my point of view is that we can now enter into a contract by a push of a button , or a stocke on the laptop " mouse " as i did a few days ago , by agreeing to a statement for the purchase of software . i feel sorry for people getting themself into a problem because they do not realise " or bother to read , or listen to what they are agreeing to " i think that the best example is the warning on ebay ! at least with them , using modern tech , a person has to Conferm , i also think , and many www users have come across sites where there is no warning , chlick the mouse and you have bought it . cevat empor
in my opinion your post is spot on ! even people with nothing to lose will not admit to a mistake . and if certain people hear or see something on TV that ust be true , ie some time ago a celebrety stated that there are no dogs in greace . because it was on tv it became absolutely true , and almost everyone i know refuses to check the veracity of comments . lastly it does not matter if countless people are on the list , innocent or guilty . remenicent of a time when people were blacklisted cos they may be reds ,
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our liberty depends on the freedom of the press which can not be limitet without being lost , jefferson ! i saw that statement daily for years in the brisbane courier mail , QLD australia , the newspaper was sold , and that line disappeard ,
well put ! as a believer (christian ) , however i do not like manmade institutions , cos time after time they have proven that they can not be trusted ! and a scientist , we seem to have forgotten what civilatation and society means ! apart from having very adaptable bodies what sets us apart from other mammals , we send our offspring into wars , not for food or room , mostly we send them to die for believes , religeous , political , and this does not make sense . for at least 2 reasons , 1st evelution , how will our species evolve . 2nd " go forth and multiply " not go forth and kill people who do not share your opinion !
i totally agree . it is a pity that our opinion , and your well written reasoning , is not heard by more people
unfortunetly any department will ( on rare occation ) have , a wrong person in a possition of power ! and how will we protect our children from A STOP AND GROPE !! i strongly feel this problem should get more attention . i also sadly include female officers . who watches the guards ?
reading the comments written by most people i wonder how many of them actualy read the whole article ? due to the massproduction of blue LED's it became possible to make white leds !! thus saving a lot of electrisity ! before that blue due to its expense of production was used only in medical devices and needless to say military apps . i also feel that the people complaining about blues being overused , while true , has nothing to do with the overall achievement !!! lets face it why blame the people who made it possible for the way the invention is missused . on the subject of missuse the people making rediculus large and loud speakers that some idiots must have in their cars , making it almost impossible ( when the car next to you has them crancked up so high ) that normal people can not make use of their ears in traffic . i blame the people who have these things in the cars for deafening me , not the people who invented them , or even the manufacterer , cos once the item is sold , it is out of their control !
if the people who stopped the iceage had only known that their actions will start global warming would they still have done it ?? and the iceage before that , and so on ! i know that polushion is a bad thing , as for co2 , at present we are more than 7,000,000,000, people on earth ! each of us exhale co2 , has anyone calculated how much co2 we humans create ? the worst part of this is that nobody is doing anything about that ( the production of co2 by our bodies ) , just as nobody is doing anything about the methane produced by cattle , ect ! the point i am trying to make is that a lot of people seem to consern themself with bits and pieces , instead of looking at the compleat picture ! for instance all of a sudden we must buy little bottles of water made out of plastic , thus leading to mointans of plastic bottles !! what is the reason that stopped milk in glass bottles , they can be used time after time ( i used to work at a milk bottling plant , we washed the glass bottles then refill them ) the amount of soap used was small ! lastly recycling paper , how many people take into consideration the heavy metals in the ink , hands up all those who do know that !
gday meustrus , you took the words out of my mouth , i totally agree , and as another poster stated you wrote it much better ! i would like to add that our very everyday languige adds to the problem , consider " the earth goes AROUND the sun " when in fact the orbit is not a circle ! " what goes up MUST come down " when we have sent things that will leave our solar system , and i assume by that logic the things we left on the moon will fall back to earth ! in school i learned that our solar system has 9 planets , now it seems we have 8 , as a matter of fact most things i was tought have changed . i know people who are convinced that TIME is a manmade thing , when i replyed with " thats strange i have never seen a baby turn into an adult instatainiuosly , or as seed grow into a tree in zero time " i was told that i miss the point . then there was the bloke who told me that it is AIRPRESSURE that keeps our feet on the ground ! when i told my TEACHER that 1 litre of water weighs " at a certain temp " i kg he took a glass bottle put a ltr water into it , did not tare the bottle , put it on a scale and told me i was wrong , and there is the prove ! then most people only know half answers , water boils at a 100 deg C ( it does but at seelevel ) i have checked the boiling point at 2000 metres , needless to say it was lower . i have even had to try to explain to a uni educated manager why it took me longer to take things at first 100 feet , then 300 feet , he wanted to know why it was taking me longer ! after half an hour trying to explain , he said " i have heard what you are saying , but i still want to know why it's taking you so long !! all these people though they where intelegent !
we are not all as smart as you , i wish i had your intellegence , and experience , my complaint about 8 is the FACT that every time i try to upgrade something on my LAPTOP running vista is that all i get is microsoft's unbelievable HARDSELL that i should buy 8 , numerous times they send me in circles !! i am sure that if i knew as much as you ! this would not be a problem , cos there is an easy way to avoid this ! there must be , and i am doing something wrong , so is a friend of mine he had to delite the 1 from windows 8.1 cos he was unable to play his games ! so if he knwe as much as you , this would not have been needed , his desktop cost him only AUD 2000 , but then he knows as little as i , he also found out that he is unable to sell a laptop with windows 8 as the os , noone wants it purely cos of 8 , i feel that because you are an expert , it would have been more helpfull if you share some of that knowhow !!! kindest regards peter
it is not only humans that are intellegent , i have seen dogs do things that if a human did it , shev would be called a genius , the main reason we are supposetly on top of the foodchain in my view is not our brains , but our bodys the way we move , and can do and make things ! however i do not believe that there are no amimals who if their brain was in a body like ours would be our equals !
i agree with most of your opinion , we are very good at killing , as for socalled smart machines for the last 50 years we have been told that live for humans will be a utopia , im still waiting for that ! i feel that because the military is using computers as weapons , will it be mashines taking over or mashines used by humans to control other people ?
how many people out there know that the greatest inventions ( greatest impact ) of the 20th century , even with patents got nothing out of it !! WAP patent granted 1948 , companies are making a bit of money with cellphones , the patent holder got nothing . TESLA had a great many patens , diad a pauper , TURING as far as i know did not patend , but it was he who made our techno era possible , everything we now call computers , smart phone , so many other things are based on his original work . remember rubic , bloke who made a cube , lost everything taking people infringing on his patend to court
i totally agree with you , i have spent a lot of time , thinking about time . and learning about it , books , artikles , and unfortunetly talked to people about time ! i found that a relative large % of people believe that TIME is something manmade , i kid you not ! when i countered their believe by stating that iv never seen a seed grow into a tree intantly , or a baby grow ( become ) an adult without any passing of time , it was suggested that i am crazy . maybe so . but how many people take time into consideration ? ie , did some overtime shifting stock , from A to B , after a month was told to take to take it about twice as far ! a week later was ordered to see the manager , he wanted to know why it is taking me longer , i was unable to explain to that uni educated fool of a manager that it takes more time cos of the greater distance . he on the other hand used the brocken record technique , ever 5 or so minutes , he would say i do not care about that , why are you slower ! over the years i have learned that he was not an exaption , but the rule . time after time different managers , have proven to me that TIME does not enter their thoughts . nor does a geodisic , that word means the shortest possible distance beetwen two points . ie the shortest distance from A to B is a straight line , but if there is a wall between a and b one has to go around it if one wants to get to b . this takes longer as well . for the most part i now work on this very interesting subject alone . finally to the people who believe you were beaten , someone else thought of it before you . CARL SAGEN in his great book COSMOS wrote about ( his term ) spontanious discovery , he is of the opinion that provided a person on their own discover something , nothing should diminish that persons achivement !! food for thought :)
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i know that the population of australia is small , but my nephew did 2 tours in afganistan for the us of america ! does anyone remember the with us or against us speach by pres g walker bush ? on top of that australian taxpayers had to pay for the bombs ect , droped for the usa , and we had to pay for the things , add to that that 60 % of aussies were against going to war ,against iraq ! lastly i was visiting relatives in europe , and quickly learned not to say where i live from england , france , germany , and a couple of other countries , cos at that time coming from oz , and militarily supporting america was very uncool .
A large part of the point of a degree - particularly a batchelors - is that it requires you to think, and to work outside the area that you're comfortable with. If you're looking for a qualification that only requires time and money, then you are looking at something more akin to an apprenticeship or a work placement. Which the OP seems to have done already, with his years of successful employment in the field.
If he's just looking for something to puff up his CV and justify a higher ticket price ... then one avenue that he could consider is volunteer teaching in CS at $LocalCommunityCollege$. (Or, as my father has done since I was a teenager, at the workers Education Association. But if the OP is in America, that would probably get him a holiday in Guantanamo or something equally desirable.)
That sort of thing looks great on a CV ; it speaks highly of one's communication skills ; it's a sign of a well-rounded and grounded personality, rather than a spotty-faced youth who'll leave the project half-way through for a higher-ticket job. And it only costs the investment of time and money (at least, as an opportunity cost).
Of course, there's always the possibility that it'll expose areas where the OP's practical experience in programming doesn't give him the theoretical background to carry the teaching load. Which itself would be useful knowledge to the OP, allowing him to target his learning more closely.
i am sorry to say that an actual bachelors , or masters , do not mean that the person with one has any brains at all ! consider this , ( this really did happen to me ) the place i worked at changed one of the things i was doing there , ie , i had to move things from one place to another , this was changed and i had to move them twice as far ! two weeks later i was called into the supervisors office , he had a MASTERS , the reason he wanted to talk to me was that he wanted an explanation as to why it was taking me longer to do said work , i was in that office for over an hour , explaining that it takes longer to go 200 meters than 100 , i kid you not , at the end of the conversation " VERY STRESSFULL HOUR " he still kept asking " why are you taking so long ? " i had been working for this company for about 6 years when that happend ! then the way water from a 1500 gallon tank to another was changed and instead of the water going thru a 4 inch pipe and a distance of about 75 meters , was changed to a 2 inch pipe and a distanse of 500 meters , cos i had a lot of experience with irrigation , i knew about friction ect , this time a different super i think he had a "bachler " supervisors had to have a uni degree . came to where i was working and you gessed it , he wanted to know as to why it took longer to drain the tank !! i come from a familie that believed an education is important ( an uncle and aunt were proffesors of medicine , another uncle was a high school princible , my dad a masters of law ect . so i for the most part respect educated people ! BUT as my examples show having a sheepskin does not automaticly meen that everybody with one has brains . i left the company after 8 years , and felt a gteat weight leave my sholders !
im sorry but it seems that when i quoted you as parent i must have done something wrong
A large part of the point of a degree - particularly a batchelors - is that it requires you to think, and to work outside the area that you're comfortable with. If you're looking for a qualification that only requires time and money, then you are looking at something more akin to an apprenticeship or a work placement. Which the OP seems to have done already, with his years of successful employment in the field.
If he's just looking for something to puff up his CV and justify a higher ticket price ... then one avenue that he could consider is volunteer teaching in CS at $LocalCommunityCollege$. (Or, as my father has done since I was a teenager, at the workers Education Association. But if the OP is in America, that would probably get him a holiday in Guantanamo or something equally desirable.)
That sort of thing looks great on a CV ; it speaks highly of one's communication skills ; it's a sign of a well-rounded and grounded personality, rather than a spotty-faced youth who'll leave the project half-way through for a higher-ticket job. And it only costs the investment of time and money (at least, as an opportunity cost).
Of course, there's always the possibility that it'll expose areas where the OP's practical experience in programming doesn't give him the theoretical background to carry the teaching load. Which itself would be useful knowledge to the OP, allowing him to target his learning more closely.
i am sorry to say that an actual bachelors , or masters , do not mean that the person with one has any brains at all ! consider this , ( this really did happen to me ) the place i worked at changed one of the things i was doing there , ie , i had to move things from one place to another , this was changed and i had to move them twice as far ! two weeks later i was called into the supervisors office , he had a MASTERS , the reason he wanted to talk to me was that he wanted an explanation as to why it was taking me longer to do said work , i was in that office for over an hour , explaining that it takes longer to go 200 meters than 100 , i kid you not , at the end of the conversation " VERY STRESSFULL HOUR " he still kept asking " why are you taking so long ? " i had been working for this company for about 6 years when that happend ! then the way water from a 1500 gallon tank to another was changed and instead of the water going thru a 4 inch pipe and a distance of about 75 meters , was changed to a 2 inch pipe and a distanse of 500 meters , cos i had a lot of experience with irrigation , i knew about friction ect , this time a different super i think he had a "bachler " supervisors had to have a uni degree . came to where i was working and you gessed it , he wanted to know as to why it took longer to drain the tank !! i come from a familie that believed an education is important ( an uncle and aunt were proffesors of medicine , another uncle was a high school princible , my dad a masters of law ect . so i for the most part respect educated people ! BUT as my examples show having a sheepskin does not automaticly meen that everybody with one has brains . i left the company after 8 years , and felt a gteat weight leave my sholders !
This is more psychos than psychics, so even though it's an old dead horse, it's a lot more like 1984.
You have actually read 1984, haven't you?
Title: 1984
Author: George Orwell
Online Computer Library Center Number: 52187275
Dewey Decimal Number: 823/.912 22
Library of Congress Classification: PR6029.R8 N647 2003
That sucker was first published back in 1949, so in the USA it's still in copyright for like a billion years or something, but it's pretty easy to find, as even the smallest public libraries try to keep it on hand. Heck, it was required reading in several of my high schools.
1984 is the how-to manual of the Government of the United States of Amerika. In the early morning hours shortly after sunrise a single gunshot was heard. The media reported the assassination of the Bill of Rights and the Constitution of the United States of America. How did a single gunshot kill two targets simultaneously many people asked themselves. A double-barrelled shotgun fired in unison. The railway boxcars began rolling into the stations soon to be filled with those in the populace deemed enemies of the state. A chill was felt but the People were helpless against the Government for the Government had been allowed to become de facto master over the People whom were now relegated to the status of servant of the state. George Orwell's scream from the grave could be heard around the world.
i have read 1984 twice , i wrongly assumed that the tech in it , ie camera and tv where created by mr orwell , so imagen my surprise when i saw the movie "modern times " made in 1936 . double plusungood !
The solution to this is to stop believing in all powerful government is capable of giving you everything you need. While it might be possible to give you everything you need, the cost is everything you have, for any government that can give you everything you need, can take everything you have. To some people, this is acceptable compromise. To me it isn't.
Decentralized governance is the ONLY real solution to the tyranny that is inevitable otherwise. The problem with Decentralization is that progressive politics doesn't fair well on a micro scale, and leads to tyranny on the macro scale. Of course the Progressives will come out with name calling "hate" speech to shut people up. I don't fear them ... yet.
1984 here to stay doubleplusungood
i live in a place where providing a person is taking part in a conversation , it is legal to record a conversation , as a matter of fact the Premier of said place got caught by a minister being recorded , the police do it as a matter of course , and i use my phone in my pocket if i am helping a mate " he is a bit slow " work on a purchase . and used to record conversations with my manager . once at my mothers i cought a salesman deni a statement he had made while trying to sell a 3000 $ vacumcleaner , he lied , and was very upset at getting caght , i was glad that using this tech to be able to save her a lot of money , and make no appology for using my handy in this manner !
I would really want to go over the photos they were showing people. I can think of three different ways this study was contaminated.
because of personal reasons , i am interested in this subject , could you expand on what you have so far contributed PLEASE !
due to my having an illness that is at times VERY painfull , and because my GP has known me for over a decade , he does not just look at my FACE ! a couple of years ago , he told his secrety to call an ambulance because of my STANCE , and that was before i even had a chance to say anything to him , due to the fact that i try not to worry my familie , i have learned not to show how much pain i am in !! another thing is that most people do not seem to know that a person in a lot , and i do mean a lot of pain , or in shock behave differently . for example a person i know had an ulcer burst , a phycologist needed to know if he had his pension card when he called an ambo for him , because the person that was ill had problems answering , the other bloke was getting angry ! i squatted down ( the ill person was sitting ) and asked if he had the card that he had to show to a busdriver to get the consetion rate , the answer was " yes " and came straight away ! the point i am trying to make is that looking at someone's face in pain " or not " is only a small part , in the assesment .
You seem to have shot yourself in the foot. From a 2004 paper in World Psychology on teen suicide:
rates per 100,000 young persons aged 15-19
country year Total
USA 2000 8
Japan 2000 4
China 1999 4
To be quite blunt, your entire argument seems to be that high standards and expectations are a bad thing. That, of course, flies in the face of the recently validated idea that high expectations lead to high performance
When I was in third grade, we didn't write out the times tables, we wrote out every single number between one and a thousand in numbers and in letters by ones, one and ten thousand by fives, tens, and fifties, and one and one million by hundreds as homework. It took about a week. That is a form of rote memorization and it works.
You talk about Common Core producing "confused, bitter adults.. or the worker drones they really want", yet the current curriculum is based more on memorization and parroting back the "correct" answers and gives partial credit for utilizing the correct method even if the answer is wrong (that, by the way, boils down to "it doesn't matter what you get as long as you do things my way") rather than critical thinking which many say is a hallmark of Common Core
It really sounds like your "bright" kid liked science and school when it was easier and as he has gotten older he has, like so many kids, started to dislike school and you are blaming Common Core instead of actually finding out why your kid doesn't like it. Maybe you should start spending more time with your kid and helping him with his studies, something called "being a parent", instead of making excuses.
half of my schooling was in europe , i totally agree with your opinion , there was one other thing we had to do in regards to arithmatic , that was starting in grade 3 , the teacher would ask the class for example " what is 7 times 9 , the first person to get it correct would go to the front of the class , then another question would be asked , this served 2 purpases , it felt great to be the first one to work out the answer , and it let the teacher know which students needed the most help !
shakespear is not the only " classical " writer , jules verne , h g wells , the list is endless , i am going to assume that a number of books will be used , i am concerned that some of the books used will be books that MS has borrowed from the new york libery , digitalised by MS , watermarked by the same company , and that we will have to pay to accses the same ! england , germany , the us of a , have different copywrite laws , there is in most copywrite laws a thing called FAIR USAGE , in a number of countries this means that students may use books , read them , without having to pay royalties to the author . however digitalising books , without payment to the author or the estate of them , seems to me to be piracy . in my opinion this issue should be discused ! ps sorry for the poor spelling and grammar ( alcoholic mother sent me to work at 14 ) just thought you should know im self educated .
i totally agree with you ! put it this way , why should a person have to change if after spending a lot of time getting your pc to run the way you want it to run . the way i see it suppose you buy a car , repaint it , get all the other things " soundsystem " " radial tyres " ect , just to have someone telling you now you have to buy a new one , because i am greedy !
the way i see this is that people do not understand what a contract is "" a volantary agreement between 2 or more party's " that is the definition in my dictionary . 2nd the tech part from my point of view is that we can now enter into a contract by a push of a button , or a stocke on the laptop " mouse " as i did a few days ago , by agreeing to a statement for the purchase of software . i feel sorry for people getting themself into a problem because they do not realise " or bother to read , or listen to what they are agreeing to " i think that the best example is the warning on ebay ! at least with them , using modern tech , a person has to Conferm , i also think , and many www users have come across sites where there is no warning , chlick the mouse and you have bought it . cevat empor
in my opinion your post is spot on ! even people with nothing to lose will not admit to a mistake . and if certain people hear or see something on TV that ust be true , ie some time ago a celebrety stated that there are no dogs in greace . because it was on tv it became absolutely true , and almost everyone i know refuses to check the veracity of comments . lastly it does not matter if countless people are on the list , innocent or guilty . remenicent of a time when people were blacklisted cos they may be reds ,