Yep, it was a slip. First, I naturally make a lot of typos. To make it worse, this is on a screen to the side of my desk because my main screen is hooked up to the classroom projector.
I was going to make this very point. As a teacher, students come in my class and practically panic when I tell them to look something up on Wikipedia. They are not hesitant to say that other teachers have told them not to use Wikipedia, "because anyone can change it."
I talk to them about the accuracy and that errors are rapidly corrected; but I am gong against years of teachers telling them to never use it. However, I have an activity that has them using Wikipedia and going to the source on the page and using a few of the sources. I then talk to them about suing Wikipedia as a really good table of contents that will summarize, and take them to, the sources. That lesson seems to be effective in breaking down a lot of th e"never use Wikipedia" walls.
Here is the problem, truck drivers make a descent middle class wage. They also support a wide number of ancillary jobs. There are also a large number of regulations in place to insure their, and the public's safety.
Uber is, essentially, saying that nearly all of them can all become delivery drivers. The trouble there is that delivery drivers are often contract employees who, when all costs are considered, frequently earn less than the minimum wage. The also, frequently work more hours than is safe. Everyone pays for this.
So, the best case is that we strip people out of one of the largest industries in America, and put them into sub minimum wag jobs. This ignores that the economy is driven by aggregate spending. Sure, for a while it looks good as prices are driven down and efficiency goes up. As long as people take on debt, trying to avoid the loss in lifestyle that will eventually come. However, the bill eventually comes due, we saw that in the Global Financial Crisis.
We are seeing a slow train wreck and denying that it is crashing. This is happening because we, as a society, want to hold onto the myth that is "the magic of markets." The markets have never been able to work when left alone. The faith that they will, this time, is misguided.
Like you, I looked around and saw the writing on the wall. I went into teaching. I teach computer apps and robotics at a middle school.
A friend from college is about the only other Tech sector person that I have really stayed in touch with. Frankly, he was always better than I was. The problem is that he knew he was good and bought into it. He really felt that working had and being good was enough. Now he is delivering pizzas.
When I was in grad school one of my professors talked about his. Many weak leaders, when faced by a crisis, will respond with a form of "A small man must die," instead of taking responsibility for the weakness in leadership and design that allowed the crisis to evolve in the first place.
Too bad you are modded up to five, now I can't mod you up.
What you describe is how I felt too. Bad acting, bad script, and bad directing. Apparently episode three is to be nothing like one and two; so I will give it one more try. However, this one is soon to be off my 'watch list.'
I looked around and realized that there were no older workers in my position. There are always ways to push people out the door, and they were being used. I even looked at other companies and saw the same.
I decided to get my teachers license (I already had a Masters; so it was a pretty easy process). Yes, I have to deal with middle school kids; but I look at my friends who tried to stick it out and they are doing things like delivering pizzas.
Nearly as much of the cost of building and maintaining highways now comes from general taxes such as income and sales taxes (plus additional federal debt) as comes from gasoline taxes or other “user fees” on drivers. General taxes accounted for $69 billion of highway spending in 2012. Roads pay for themselves less and less over time. In the 1960s and early 1970s, gas taxes and other fees on drivers covered more than 70 percent of the costs of highway construction and maintenance. The share of transportation costs covered by gasoline taxes is likely to continue to decline as a result of inflation, more fuel-efficient cars, and slower growth in driving. All of us bear the costs of roads.
Aside from gas taxes and individuals’ expenditures for their own driving, U.S. households bear on average an additional burden of more than $1,100 per year in taxes and other costs imposed by driving. Including: An estimated $597 per U.S. household per year in general tax revenue dedicated to road construction and repair. Between $199 and $675 per household per year in additional tax subsidies for driving, such as the sales tax exemption for gasoline purchases in many states and the federal income tax exclusion for commuter parking benefits. An estimated $216 per year in government expenditures made necessary by vehicle crashes, not counting additional, uncompensated damages to victims and property. Approximately $93 to $360 per household in costs related to air pollution-induced health damage. Governments spend more non-user tax dollars on highways than on transit, bicycling, walking and passenger rail travel, combined.
Transit ($43.3 billion in government capital and operating funding), bicycling and pedestrian programs ($821 million in federal funding), and passenger rail ($1.8 billion in government funding) all receive less direct taxpayer support than highways. People who walk and bicycle pay their fair share for use of the transportation system.
Most walking and bicycling takes place on local streets and roads that are primarily paid for through property taxes and other general local taxes. Walking and bicycling inflict virtually no damage on roads and streets, and take up only a tiny fraction of the road space occupied by vehicles. Bicyclists and pedestrians likely pay far more in general taxes to facilitate the use of local roads and streets by drivers than they receive in benefits from state and federal infrastructure investment paid for through the gas tax. Americans lead increasingly multi-modal lives. Most are not “drivers” or “non-drivers” but people who use a variety of modes and pay for transportation in a variety of ways.
Roughly two-thirds of American drivers also bicycle, walk or use public transit during the course of a given week, with young people more likely to be multimodal than older generations. Nearly two-thirds of Americans believe it is appropriate to use gasoline tax revenue to support public transportation. And several recent opinion polls suggest that Americans believe that the nation should give greater priority to transit, bicycling and walking in transportation spending.
Chain has also just started a program that makes it very hard for foreigners to renew their residence permits too. They are starting to use a point system that is all but impossible for most of the foreigners to be eligible. The Resident permits for all non-Han worked have been one year permits; so there is a near exodus of foreign workers going on right now.
The article was posted on Fox9 and the source mentioned in the article was Fox9.
As far as the content, these results are not surprising. The testers do not have any associated risk, as such, the behaviours characteristics are different from those that the inspectors are looking for.
What you are looking at is an attempt to discredit Net Neutrality. These stories are attempting to create an impression that the only people who support net-neutrality are cranks and liars. They might be true, undoubtedly, there are cranks and liars who support net-neutrality, just as there are, undoubtedly, cranks and liars who oppose net-neutrality.
Nearly any large issue has cranks and liars on both sides. However, there is clearly an attempt underway to associate support for net-neutrality with cranks and liars.
I don't think it is about being a dick. It is about being fair to all Americans. The first thing you need to remember is that less than a quarter of the age eligible, Americans are even eligible to serve.
It isn't just a single factor, like weight, there are many, underlying conditions that make more than the majority ineligible. We need a plan the works for everyone. We will never reach that goal in practice; but we need to keep reaching for it. The current system caters to the elite and consigns the rest to the rubbish heap.
We like to think that there is an economic benefit that comes from the current structure. The is. However, there are also significant costs that get ignored until they are unbearable for society, then we try to hide them in the plantations . . ..err, prisons.
I hate to say this; but, after you work out all the benefits, the pay in the military is significantly more than most of the people, in the military, would receive in the private sector.
I teach at a middle school and I notice that many of the teachers wear Smart Watches. First off, we need to know when the bell will ring. not know close to when it will ring; to know when it will ring.
The school clock is synchronized to the radio time signal, as are most of the teachers watches. This includes the smart watches. Me, I wear a G-Shock with radio sync.
Many of those same teachers receive messages through the day. This includes district messages that we are expected to be aware of immediately after they are sent (me, I just don't pay attention to them). In addition, teachers are forbidden from using cell phones in the class, just like the students.
I am also aware that several of the teachers like the ease of setting alarms. Several things happen in the day that teachers like to be aware of: come teachers like to set an alarm for one minute before the end of each class and three minutes before the end of their prep period and lunch. Then there are the oddly timed meetings randomly scattered through the week. Me, I only use three alarms through the day; but some use quite a few.
All of this adds up to the smart watches becoming very popular for teachers (no, teachers don't get a meaningful discount). As far as a status in that environment; not really. We are all aware of each others pay grade, it is public information. In some jobs the smart watch is viewed as a tool (it just happens to be one I have little interest in).
Frankly, the comment we are talking about was just a quip, in poor taste of not.
The one I thought would get him in trouble was a recent mock interview, with Trump, which was, to some viewers, indiscernible from a real Trump interview.
Even after my father formally retired he could not stop being an analyst. He has consistently beat both the DOW and WSJ's dartboard. Even through the World Financial Crisis he stayed in the black (by a pretty hefty margin).
This is relevant because once in a while he calls me to let me know of something he is investing in. Frankly, his tips have never failed While I make it sound otherwise, in hindsight, all of his investments look rather conservative.
This is relevant; because, I doubt any avatar is going to call me, talk about a motorcycle race for ten minutes, and casually drop a meaningful stock tip.
There is a reason I went into teaching. Sure, teaching at a middle school has no prestige and mediocre pay; however, my friends, that I graduated with, are seeing the method to my madness.
I have friends who were at the top of their game who are now delivering pizzas. Gen 'ers are now hitting their 50's and we have been blocked from advancement, by the boomers, for our entire lives. Now we are competing with the next generation and we are still in those entry level jobs. No, entry level jobs do not value experienced 50 year olds.
Like I said, I basically dropped out of the game, went back and got my teaching cert (yea! a third master's degree). You won't ever know if you made the right decision until you are about five years past the decision. I am at that point and I think I did.
That is precisely why this interested me. In fact, I would like to see them go a step further and offer a graduate certificate. That way we can work it into the curriculum and get it included in computer courses at middle schools.
We need the cert's so that we can show that the teachers are qualified to teach it. There is a "Evaluating Information: The Cornerstone of Civic reasoning" program at Stanford that is working on developing Middle School material. I would like it to become a core module instead of a filler activity.
The assumption that he puts forth is that between the first explorers, and the large wave that followed later, there was a massive death rate due to the introductions of Western diseases. This large die-off was not seen or recorded, by Westerners, because the bulk of it occurred between the exploration stages.
He discusses many of the records of the second wave of explorers, they wrote of well tended, but empty, forests and fruit plantations. Many of their observations reflected that there was a recent, and large population; yet they were not seeing that large population. here is the wikipedia summary https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
The, essential, anarchy seen by later explorers, and settlers as not a fair look at how the Americas had been. What those of the later stages were seeing was the result of a societal collapse to below the levels need for continuation.
To put this in geek terms, imagine that you arrived on earth after the zombie apocalypse, your assumptions would be different than they would be if you arrived today.
The book 1492: The Year the World Began, by Felipe Fernández-Armesto, is not a new book. However, it goes into detail about the not so ancient American civilizations. It does promote the crowded Americas theory; which is gaining prominence. Essentially, the records of the first explorers and settlers is very different from the Americas seen by the large waves of explorers and settlers, only a few years later.
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Yep, it was a slip. First, I naturally make a lot of typos. To make it worse, this is on a screen to the side of my desk because my main screen is hooked up to the classroom projector.
I was going to make this very point. As a teacher, students come in my class and practically panic when I tell them to look something up on Wikipedia. They are not hesitant to say that other teachers have told them not to use Wikipedia, "because anyone can change it."
I talk to them about the accuracy and that errors are rapidly corrected; but I am gong against years of teachers telling them to never use it. However, I have an activity that has them using Wikipedia and going to the source on the page and using a few of the sources. I then talk to them about suing Wikipedia as a really good table of contents that will summarize, and take them to, the sources. That lesson seems to be effective in breaking down a lot of th e"never use Wikipedia" walls.
Here is the problem, truck drivers make a descent middle class wage. They also support a wide number of ancillary jobs. There are also a large number of regulations in place to insure their, and the public's safety.
Uber is, essentially, saying that nearly all of them can all become delivery drivers. The trouble there is that delivery drivers are often contract employees who, when all costs are considered, frequently earn less than the minimum wage. The also, frequently work more hours than is safe. Everyone pays for this.
So, the best case is that we strip people out of one of the largest industries in America, and put them into sub minimum wag jobs. This ignores that the economy is driven by aggregate spending. Sure, for a while it looks good as prices are driven down and efficiency goes up. As long as people take on debt, trying to avoid the loss in lifestyle that will eventually come. However, the bill eventually comes due, we saw that in the Global Financial Crisis.
We are seeing a slow train wreck and denying that it is crashing. This is happening because we, as a society, want to hold onto the myth that is "the magic of markets." The markets have never been able to work when left alone. The faith that they will, this time, is misguided.
Like you, I looked around and saw the writing on the wall. I went into teaching. I teach computer apps and robotics at a middle school.
A friend from college is about the only other Tech sector person that I have really stayed in touch with. Frankly, he was always better than I was. The problem is that he knew he was good and bought into it. He really felt that working had and being good was enough. Now he is delivering pizzas.
When I was in grad school one of my professors talked about his. Many weak leaders, when faced by a crisis, will respond with a form of "A small man must die," instead of taking responsibility for the weakness in leadership and design that allowed the crisis to evolve in the first place.
Too bad you are modded up to five, now I can't mod you up.
What you describe is how I felt too. Bad acting, bad script, and bad directing. Apparently episode three is to be nothing like one and two; so I will give it one more try. However, this one is soon to be off my 'watch list.'
I looked around and realized that there were no older workers in my position. There are always ways to push people out the door, and they were being used. I even looked at other companies and saw the same.
I decided to get my teachers license (I already had a Masters; so it was a pretty easy process). Yes, I have to deal with middle school kids; but I look at my friends who tried to stick it out and they are doing things like delivering pizzas.
Frankly, I was not aware of this contest. This article puts me in a direction that I may research more to make the apps class more interesting.
Yes, I find systems dynamics software more interesting than excel; but Excel is what I am required to teach.
Good job to the article submitter.
Excise taxes only pay a small portion of the costs of the automobile
From http://www.frontiergroup.org/r... infrastructure.
Roads don’t pay for themselves.
Nearly as much of the cost of building and maintaining highways now comes from general taxes such as income and sales taxes (plus additional federal debt) as comes from gasoline taxes or other “user fees” on drivers. General taxes accounted for $69 billion of highway spending in 2012.
Roads pay for themselves less and less over time. In the 1960s and early 1970s, gas taxes and other fees on drivers covered more than 70 percent of the costs of highway construction and maintenance. The share of transportation costs covered by gasoline taxes is likely to continue to decline as a result of inflation, more fuel-efficient cars, and slower growth in driving.
All of us bear the costs of roads.
Aside from gas taxes and individuals’ expenditures for their own driving, U.S. households bear on average an additional burden of more than $1,100 per year in taxes and other costs imposed by driving. Including:
An estimated $597 per U.S. household per year in general tax revenue dedicated to road construction and repair.
Between $199 and $675 per household per year in additional tax subsidies for driving, such as the sales tax exemption for gasoline purchases in many states and the federal income tax exclusion for commuter parking benefits.
An estimated $216 per year in government expenditures made necessary by vehicle crashes, not counting additional, uncompensated damages to victims and property.
Approximately $93 to $360 per household in costs related to air pollution-induced health damage.
Governments spend more non-user tax dollars on highways than on transit, bicycling, walking and passenger rail travel, combined.
Transit ($43.3 billion in government capital and operating funding), bicycling and pedestrian programs ($821 million in federal funding), and passenger rail ($1.8 billion in government funding) all receive less direct taxpayer support than highways.
People who walk and bicycle pay their fair share for use of the transportation system.
Most walking and bicycling takes place on local streets and roads that are primarily paid for through property taxes and other general local taxes.
Walking and bicycling inflict virtually no damage on roads and streets, and take up only a tiny fraction of the road space occupied by vehicles. Bicyclists and pedestrians likely pay far more in general taxes to facilitate the use of local roads and streets by drivers than they receive in benefits from state and federal infrastructure investment paid for through the gas tax.
Americans lead increasingly multi-modal lives. Most are not “drivers” or “non-drivers” but people who use a variety of modes and pay for transportation in a variety of ways.
Roughly two-thirds of American drivers also bicycle, walk or use public transit during the course of a given week, with young people more likely to be multimodal than older generations.
Nearly two-thirds of Americans believe it is appropriate to use gasoline tax revenue to support public transportation. And several recent opinion polls suggest that Americans believe that the nation should give greater priority to transit, bicycling and walking in transportation spending.
Chain has also just started a program that makes it very hard for foreigners to renew their residence permits too. They are starting to use a point system that is all but impossible for most of the foreigners to be eligible. The Resident permits for all non-Han worked have been one year permits; so there is a near exodus of foreign workers going on right now.
The article was posted on Fox9 and the source mentioned in the article was Fox9.
As far as the content, these results are not surprising. The testers do not have any associated risk, as such, the behaviours characteristics are different from those that the inspectors are looking for.
What you are looking at is an attempt to discredit Net Neutrality. These stories are attempting to create an impression that the only people who support net-neutrality are cranks and liars. They might be true, undoubtedly, there are cranks and liars who support net-neutrality, just as there are, undoubtedly, cranks and liars who oppose net-neutrality.
Nearly any large issue has cranks and liars on both sides. However, there is clearly an attempt underway to associate support for net-neutrality with cranks and liars.
I don't think it is about being a dick. It is about being fair to all Americans. The first thing you need to remember is that less than a quarter of the age eligible, Americans are even eligible to serve.
It isn't just a single factor, like weight, there are many, underlying conditions that make more than the majority ineligible. We need a plan the works for everyone. We will never reach that goal in practice; but we need to keep reaching for it. The current system caters to the elite and consigns the rest to the rubbish heap.
We like to think that there is an economic benefit that comes from the current structure. The is. However, there are also significant costs that get ignored until they are unbearable for society, then we try to hide them in the plantations . . . .err, prisons.
I hate to say this; but, after you work out all the benefits, the pay in the military is significantly more than most of the people, in the military, would receive in the private sector.
I teach at a middle school and I notice that many of the teachers wear Smart Watches. First off, we need to know when the bell will ring. not know close to when it will ring; to know when it will ring.
The school clock is synchronized to the radio time signal, as are most of the teachers watches. This includes the smart watches. Me, I wear a G-Shock with radio sync.
Many of those same teachers receive messages through the day. This includes district messages that we are expected to be aware of immediately after they are sent (me, I just don't pay attention to them). In addition, teachers are forbidden from using cell phones in the class, just like the students.
I am also aware that several of the teachers like the ease of setting alarms. Several things happen in the day that teachers like to be aware of: come teachers like to set an alarm for one minute before the end of each class and three minutes before the end of their prep period and lunch. Then there are the oddly timed meetings randomly scattered through the week. Me, I only use three alarms through the day; but some use quite a few.
All of this adds up to the smart watches becoming very popular for teachers (no, teachers don't get a meaningful discount). As far as a status in that environment; not really. We are all aware of each others pay grade, it is public information. In some jobs the smart watch is viewed as a tool (it just happens to be one I have little interest in).
Frankly, the comment we are talking about was just a quip, in poor taste of not.
The one I thought would get him in trouble was a recent mock interview, with Trump, which was, to some viewers, indiscernible from a real Trump interview.
Sorry I don't have mod points right now, The post I am replying to deserves some.
Even after my father formally retired he could not stop being an analyst. He has consistently beat both the DOW and WSJ's dartboard. Even through the World Financial Crisis he stayed in the black (by a pretty hefty margin).
This is relevant because once in a while he calls me to let me know of something he is investing in. Frankly, his tips have never failed While I make it sound otherwise, in hindsight, all of his investments look rather conservative.
This is relevant; because, I doubt any avatar is going to call me, talk about a motorcycle race for ten minutes, and casually drop a meaningful stock tip.
Unfortunately, most of the alternatives are even worse.
I am using Thunderbird and I see no compelling reason to change.
That was supposed to say "Gen-X'ers"
There is a reason I went into teaching. Sure, teaching at a middle school has no prestige and mediocre pay; however, my friends, that I graduated with, are seeing the method to my madness.
I have friends who were at the top of their game who are now delivering pizzas. Gen 'ers are now hitting their 50's and we have been blocked from advancement, by the boomers, for our entire lives. Now we are competing with the next generation and we are still in those entry level jobs. No, entry level jobs do not value experienced 50 year olds.
Like I said, I basically dropped out of the game, went back and got my teaching cert (yea! a third master's degree). You won't ever know if you made the right decision until you are about five years past the decision. I am at that point and I think I did.
That is precisely why this interested me. In fact, I would like to see them go a step further and offer a graduate certificate. That way we can work it into the curriculum and get it included in computer courses at middle schools.
We need the cert's so that we can show that the teachers are qualified to teach it. There is a "Evaluating Information: The Cornerstone of Civic reasoning" program at Stanford that is working on developing Middle School material. I would like it to become a core module instead of a filler activity.
The assumption that he puts forth is that between the first explorers, and the large wave that followed later, there was a massive death rate due to the introductions of Western diseases. This large die-off was not seen or recorded, by Westerners, because the bulk of it occurred between the exploration stages.
He discusses many of the records of the second wave of explorers, they wrote of well tended, but empty, forests and fruit plantations. Many of their observations reflected that there was a recent, and large population; yet they were not seeing that large population. here is the wikipedia summary https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
The, essential, anarchy seen by later explorers, and settlers as not a fair look at how the Americas had been. What those of the later stages were seeing was the result of a societal collapse to below the levels need for continuation.
To put this in geek terms, imagine that you arrived on earth after the zombie apocalypse, your assumptions would be different than they would be if you arrived today.
The book 1492: The Year the World Began, by Felipe Fernández-Armesto, is not a new book. However, it goes into detail about the not so ancient American civilizations. It does promote the crowded Americas theory; which is gaining prominence. Essentially, the records of the first explorers and settlers is very different from the Americas seen by the large waves of explorers and settlers, only a few years later.