If your goal is to produce equal outcomes irrespective of ability, and dumb everyone down to the lowest common denominator, then yes, it's counter-productive.
If your goal is to allocate educational resources for the greatest return on investment, then no.
Both goals have merit, but you can't have both, only a trade-off between them.
I'm guessing both. There are enough of both opportunists and the stupid for someone wanting to start a war with Iraq/North Korea/Wall Street/Iran/the Democratic Party/the Republican Party to find some desperate/clueless/mentally unbalanced/fanatical pawn that could put anthrax/ricin in the mail.
You misunderstand - the point was that they are dishonest by pretending to empathize with the working class, even though they earn double what the real working class does (and fully intend to continue doing so). 'Class' is more than income; it's about power. Working class union is a contradiction in terms.
Addressing that particular class inequality is a separate issue.
It's a fantastic contribution to human intellectual heritage. Once in digital form, it will be easy to make copies and ensure a high degree of redundancy so that this knowledge and culture will not be lost even if civilization suffers a setback.
It think it's worse when they don't use the turn signal at the right time. A lot of drivers use the turn signal redundantly with the actual turn manoeuvre (when we can already see the car, you know, turning), rather than as an advance warning that a turn is about to happen.
And since missile systems are corporate welfare programmes with no actual military purpose, maybe it would be a good idea not to have a test that could go badly and provide the wrong kind of encouragement.
Space is not an absolutely perfect vacuum, and the medium has pressure waves, also known as sound. Just not sound that human hearing would be sensitive to.
And there's nothing forbidding QM from playing nice with general relativity, either; we just don't know how it works yet.
Translation: As currently formulated, at least one of quantum mechanics and general relativity is wrong, although like Newtonian mechanics or pre-relativistic optics, they will undoubtedly continue to be practical and very accurate approximations.
We knew this as soon as quantum mechanics was developed.
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Isn't leisure a good thing?
Leisure maybe. Idleness no - it's astonishingly corrosive to the human spirit.
The fact that each development in automation has worked out like that does not mean that the trend will continue forever.
Maybe this will turn out to be the time when full employment and worker dignity never come back.
And it's a simple calculation because governments only spend money on one thing.
Irony, yes. Surprise, no.
If your goal is to produce equal outcomes irrespective of ability, and dumb everyone down to the lowest common denominator, then yes, it's counter-productive.
If your goal is to allocate educational resources for the greatest return on investment, then no.
Both goals have merit, but you can't have both, only a trade-off between them.
The next version will be NP-complete.
You're thinking of overalls genome sequencing.
Gene overalls are overalls for genes.
I'm guessing both. There are enough of both opportunists and the stupid for someone wanting to start a war with Iraq/North Korea/Wall Street/Iran/the Democratic Party/the Republican Party to find some desperate/clueless/mentally unbalanced/fanatical pawn that could put anthrax/ricin in the mail.
I find the idea extremely cool.
Of course, there's no rationale of any sort for the assumptions, so it's not science.
But still cool.
You misunderstand - the point was that they are dishonest by pretending to empathize with the working class, even though they earn double what the real working class does (and fully intend to continue doing so). 'Class' is more than income; it's about power. Working class union is a contradiction in terms.
Addressing that particular class inequality is a separate issue.
A union is a monopoly. I can be as much power as the employer, or more.
In both cases unions abuse their monopoly privilege exactly the same as any other monopoly.
Randomness is not the only alternative to a divinely-ordained meaning of life.
If you want your life to have meaning, go out and make it meaningful.
Unions are their own class, and the actual working class resents them for it.
It's a fantastic contribution to human intellectual heritage. Once in digital form, it will be easy to make copies and ensure a high degree of redundancy so that this knowledge and culture will not be lost even if civilization suffers a setback.
It think it's worse when they don't use the turn signal at the right time. A lot of drivers use the turn signal redundantly with the actual turn manoeuvre (when we can already see the car, you know, turning), rather than as an advance warning that a turn is about to happen.
What everyone was wondering was not why the backlog declined; we were wondering why the standards fell.
And the keyword is "before". As we all know, 9/11 changed everything as far as Americans knew.
Fixed that for you.
The tactic had been tried before, unsuccessfully. Just not in parts of the world that the US pays attention to.
Not only that, people not speaking English use a word with a different pronunciation! And spelling! And grammatical rules!
And since missile systems are corporate welfare programmes with no actual military purpose, maybe it would be a good idea not to have a test that could go badly and provide the wrong kind of encouragement.
Space is not an absolutely perfect vacuum, and the medium has pressure waves, also known as sound. Just not sound that human hearing would be sensitive to.
What about a high school diploma and 10 years of chronic under-employment?
You get the BBC's "Bang Goes the Theory".
Also a good show.
From their perspective, people having legitimate access to copies is a problem.
Are you crushed, burned alive by everything else, toasted by radiation, spaghettified, or some other horrible fate?
My guess is all of the above, we just don't know in what order.
And there's nothing forbidding QM from playing nice with general relativity, either; we just don't know how it works yet.
Translation: As currently formulated, at least one of quantum mechanics and general relativity is wrong, although like Newtonian mechanics or pre-relativistic optics, they will undoubtedly continue to be practical and very accurate approximations.
We knew this as soon as quantum mechanics was developed.