The only times I have seen anything close to this (it has been YEARS, actually, almost decades), there was always some little snott that blabbed the plan OR everybody nodded and agreed then some did not walk.
Also, getting fired in many places gets you 0 unemployment benefits, so do most forms of resignation.
The quote you selected seems to be the montra of those that know nothing of motovation. I do agree with you that cursive is not that big of a deal to waste so much time on. I am examining a different angle of the statement.
For one thing, the statement assumes that the under-performing teachers are truly some evil folks. People that will sit around and hold the intellect of children hostage until their demands are met. Sorry, I have met many teachers and none strike me as this sort of person. Well, okay, one, he is now Dr. David Spiceland and he once taught public speaking at a Big Orange University that will remain nameless. GO VOLS!
Some that wish to fix education keep tossing this 'idea' out, as if by paying more money these 'uncaring' folk who have decided to teach sloppily, if at all, will somehow transform them all into highly compitant "superteachers". Or their teaching slowdown will end, or some miracle will occur, etc.
Will someone tell me where this has ever occured before? I don't mean creating new salary tiers to attract better teachers, or takining down arbetrary barriers to allow highly skilled people who's degrees are in something other than education. I mean just taking the same people, who are not 'getting anything done', shoving more money at these same people and their performance improves.
We saw, in a different industry, where salaries for the most mundane positions skyrocketed, then burst. Giant salaries for folks who spent their time playing computer games and ICQing each other certainly did not produce super-compitant.coms. However, it did attract a great deal of people who should not have been in that field to begin with. When the cutting came, the more compitant tended to stay employed while the rest tended to gravitate to other professions, with more appropriate salaries (mocha whip or no whip?).
The quoted statement is just a copout at best, or extortion at worst. If someone wants to bring up hiring better teachers, changing the beurocracy, etc. fine, but as any educated observer of a RiceBoy knows, dumping more money on something (different color mirrors? stickers? wing on the back of a front wheel drive car?) that doesn't run to begin with might make it look 'better' but it ain't improving performance. Same with the job market, whatever the profession
Oh, such a difficult task. Yes, I will be glad to help you as you must be suffering from some cruel injury that prevents you from finding anything on the web.
First, here is the proper (origonal) definition that appears as the first entry on the first page of a simple Google search:
verb. To deconstruct an article on a point by point basis in a highly critical manner. Derived from the name of journalist Robert Fisk, a frequent target of such critical articles in the blogosphere (qv).
Usage: "Orrin Judd did a severe fisking of an idiotic article in the New York Times today..."
Another definition, equally easy for you to find since I am doing your homework for you: FISKING:
Three people asked what "group-Fisking" means in this post, which borrows the term from an InstaPundit post.
The term refers to Robert Fisk, a journalist who wrote some rather foolish anti-war stuff, and who in particular wrote a story in which he (1) recounted how he was beaten by some anti-American Afghan refugees, and (2) thought they were morally right for doing so. Hence many pro-war blogs -- most famously, InstaPundit -- often use the term "Fisking" figuratively to mean a thorough and forceful verbal beating of an anti-war, possibly anti-American, commentator who has richly earned this figurative beating through his words. Good Fisking tends to be (or at least aim to be) quite logical, and often quotes the other article in detail, interspersing criticisms with the original article's text.
If someone can send along a link to the earliest use of the term, I will gladly include it.
If you want links and more formatting, go to the link I gave.
Martian aim is getteng more accurate by the hour, isn't it obvious!
Please stop denying it, the great Anthropoligist and Engineer Erich von DÃniken has been writing about this for decades. Wake up and smell the Martians.
IMO fisking is not by any stretch of the imagination a righteous term; it is a right-wing attack on independent journalists however.
LOL, Fisking is a point-by-point refutation of BAD JOURNALISM. Pioneered by a point-by-point dissection of works by the great fictionalist, Robert Fisk.
Are we to believe that when some reporter, the government, or Joe-blow pens som fanciful screede about you that it should go without question? If the same pen writes nonsense about something and you know it is false, you will remain silent?
Unless, of course, from the tone of your statement, a detailed examination of falsehoods is only proper if it is against someone of different partisan views than yours
- There lived a man once who was called Gandhi. If you see the Jargon file, he uses Gandhi and Ghandi as if they were interchangeable. Then again, as long as you inventing you own Jargon, what's a spelling here and there?
- What, no gun advocacy yet?
Perhaps the submitter thinks warbloging and gun advocacy are interchangable.
BTW, misspellings are a computing TRADITION that will not be stamped out. Kinda like that Referrer thingie.
What is wrong with adding phrases from the warbloggers and what is with singling that out as something "bad" (of all places)? Especially since that is an area where he is familiar.
A better objection, or better phrasing, would be the non-admittance of other phrases from other collectives. It sounds so juch more inclusive that way, much less of that pot-kettle business you know.
Speaking of pr0n, that is the only thing I ever used Outlook Express for. Reassembling multi-part posts on usenet. It is AWSOME! Great filtering too. With a little tweeking pretty soon usenet is nothing but porn!
My full scale model is open to the public. It also contains the world's largest seashell collection, I keep that on the beaches around the world. The there is my full scale map of the USA . . .
Slashdot Mirror
In the US, if you are "laid off" you get UB pretty quick, but if you are "fired" good luck. (just thought I was not that clear in my post)
The only times I have seen anything close to this (it has been YEARS, actually, almost decades), there was always some little snott that blabbed the plan OR everybody nodded and agreed then some did not walk.
Also, getting fired in many places gets you 0 unemployment benefits, so do most forms of resignation.
YUBMV
We will give you back Mosaic, no problem. But Mozilla, and Apache are ours.
q7q?
Yumm! Gotta look for that.
essentially turns the standard p2p model upside down
I thought b2b was already old hat?
Oh, completely upside down? b5b, yep that is new but what the heck does it mean?
Yup. It's now the American idea of free trade, and is exactly as unfair and crippling.
Now that is just pure BS. Where has this ever happened since the Spanish American war? Unless your definition of 'now' covers a couple of centuries.
And doesn't the US regularly ignore the demands of the rest of the world anyway?
Don't monkey with our finest tradition!
Whatever happened to the British idea of Free Trade[?]
Umm, I thought the British idea of free trade was removing all of the resources of a colony for free, until the colonists revolt and become allies?
From my cold dead, er, wait . . .
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Give me Liberty or give me, er, hold on . .
If I had a hammer, I'd hammer, no, not that one . .
No taxation without representation! No tea for me!
Crap! Isn't there an old bumper-sticker worthy phrase for this nonsense?
vg, ty
four out of five children?
Oh no, I think it is closer to 80%.
educators don't get paid enough to care
.coms. However, it did attract a great deal of people who should not have been in that field to begin with. When the cutting came, the more compitant tended to stay employed while the rest tended to gravitate to other professions, with more appropriate salaries (mocha whip or no whip?).
The quote you selected seems to be the montra of those that know nothing of motovation. I do agree with you that cursive is not that big of a deal to waste so much time on. I am examining a different angle of the statement.
For one thing, the statement assumes that the under-performing teachers are truly some evil folks. People that will sit around and hold the intellect of children hostage until their demands are met. Sorry, I have met many teachers and none strike me as this sort of person. Well, okay, one, he is now Dr. David Spiceland and he once taught public speaking at a Big Orange University that will remain nameless. GO VOLS!
Some that wish to fix education keep tossing this 'idea' out, as if by paying more money these 'uncaring' folk who have decided to teach sloppily, if at all, will somehow transform them all into highly compitant "superteachers". Or their teaching slowdown will end, or some miracle will occur, etc.
Will someone tell me where this has ever occured before? I don't mean creating new salary tiers to attract better teachers, or takining down arbetrary barriers to allow highly skilled people who's degrees are in something other than education. I mean just taking the same people, who are not 'getting anything done', shoving more money at these same people and their performance improves.
We saw, in a different industry, where salaries for the most mundane positions skyrocketed, then burst. Giant salaries for folks who spent their time playing computer games and ICQing each other certainly did not produce super-compitant
The quoted statement is just a copout at best, or extortion at worst. If someone wants to bring up hiring better teachers, changing the beurocracy, etc. fine, but as any educated observer of a RiceBoy knows, dumping more money on something (different color mirrors? stickers? wing on the back of a front wheel drive car?) that doesn't run to begin with might make it look 'better' but it ain't improving performance. Same with the job market, whatever the profession
First, here is the proper (origonal) definition that appears as the first entry on the first page of a simple Google search:
Fisk
Another definition, equally easy for you to find since I am doing your homework for you:
FISKING:
If you want links and more formatting, go to the link I gave.
Here is a short example.
This article speaks to the general topic of bad vs. good (intelligent) fisking. This is a good fisking.
Here is a good article on a self-fisking that good 'ol Bobby Fisk applied to himself.
How about more background that seems to have eluded your 31337 researching attempts?
Also good ones can be found here, here, here, and here.
Okay, off on your own you go!
Most, perhaps. A proper Fisking? No not at all.
There is much more to a proper Fisking than an English 101 type red-pen markup.
Mars is already assumed to have red dust on it.
Thus the interest by the Chinese! Their 'Moon' program is nothing but a decoy. They plan to change Mars from 'red' to Red.
We could use this from the previous story, unless the Martian ADA has forcefield defeating technology . . .
Martian aim is getteng more accurate by the hour, isn't it obvious!
Please stop denying it, the great Anthropoligist and Engineer Erich von DÃniken has been writing about this for decades. Wake up and smell the Martians.
hehe
IMO fisking is not by any stretch of the imagination a righteous term; it is a right-wing attack on independent journalists however.
LOL, Fisking is a point-by-point refutation of BAD JOURNALISM. Pioneered by a point-by-point dissection of works by the great fictionalist, Robert Fisk.
Are we to believe that when some reporter, the government, or Joe-blow pens som fanciful screede about you that it should go without question? If the same pen writes nonsense about something and you know it is false, you will remain silent?
Unless, of course, from the tone of your statement, a detailed examination of falsehoods is only proper if it is against someone of different partisan views than yours
- There lived a man once who was called Gandhi. If you see the Jargon file, he uses Gandhi and Ghandi as if they were interchangeable. Then again, as long as you inventing you own Jargon, what's a spelling here and there?
- What, no gun advocacy yet?
Perhaps the submitter thinks warbloging and gun advocacy are interchangable.
BTW, misspellings are a computing TRADITION that will not be stamped out. Kinda like that Referrer thingie.
What is wrong with adding phrases from the warbloggers and what is with singling that out as something "bad" (of all places)? Especially since that is an area where he is familiar.
A better objection, or better phrasing, would be the non-admittance of other phrases from other collectives. It sounds so juch more inclusive that way, much less of that pot-kettle business you know.
Speaking of pr0n, that is the only thing I ever used Outlook Express for. Reassembling multi-part posts on usenet. It is AWSOME! Great filtering too. With a little tweeking pretty soon usenet is nothing but porn!
crack team of MCSEs (if such a thing exists :-)
Of course they exist!
MCSEs only use the finest crack.
My full scale model is open to the public. It also contains the world's largest seashell collection, I keep that on the beaches around the world. The there is my full scale map of the USA . . .
Acme corp doesn't care about the local economy.
They don't care about the Roadrunner either! They are the evil corp that makes those weapons of fowl destruction!