Except that banks dont give out loans when the economy is in a slump, the boost has to start with additional demand, not additional supply.
Oh yes they do! If the stock and bond market is down (low returns), they are far more likely to invest the money in people (home loans, credit cards, etc) where they can make higher returns. Just look at the housing market. Where did all that money come from? Banks.
More money in the stock market does not drive the prices of stocks up! Companies have to be making money, selling goods.
The price of stocks isn't the issue. It's the amount of money in the system. That's money that businesses can use for product development which can pay salaries and stimulate demand. Everyone pulled their savings out of the stock market and now business doesn't have as much to work with.
A tax refund is additional income.
Nope. A tax refund does increase your usable income but not your total income. If you get a tax refund after filing your returns, that check from the Department of Treasury is NOT a gift, or additional income, or payment of any kind. It's your money and always was. It just means you filled out your W4 wrong and they've been 'holding' it for you.
That's wonderful. Really it is. But, I would be willing to bet there were federal grants subsidizing the salaries of some (if not all) of the rural AP teachers.
Federal money subsidizes all teachers. Perhaps I'm missing something. What's the difference between an AP and a non-AP teacher? In my days (not all that long ago) an AP course just meant there was a test at the end that could result in some college credit. The coursework was more difficult, but we're talking 100 level college material. It's not rocket science.
That's not what I asked. I asked if you could see benefit to it.
No, I don't see a benefit to it. I've always seen the push for technology in schools as a crutch for unmotivated students with behavioral problems, absentee parents, and "teachers who are little more than glorified baby-sitters". I can't imagine why some people think every 1st grader should carry a laptop computer (I realize that's a whole different level than this discussion). We've seen the last generation of people who can work a math problem by hand and write without a spell checker.
Besides, email and IM require internet access. At a bare minimum that requires a phone line. If that phone line is not affordable...
Valid point. That's why we pay the Federal Subscriber Line Tax on telephone service. Are there really still rural communities without any phone service?
Actually, the rich tend to invest adittional income when they recieve it.
Yes! Then you understand! Money in the bank is used by the bank to fund small business and home buyers. Money in the stock market funds business. Businesses create jobs. Jobs create more spending. It's a cycle.
they stumble upon any additional income (in the form of bonuses, tax refunds, etc.)
A tax refund is NOT additional income. If I was originally going to reach into your pocket and take out $100, but I decided to take out $90 instead, that $10 difference is NOT income.
660 square mile county with 1500 students in the single high school. Mainly farming and local employment. Some long distance commuters to city employment.
> How common do you think your situation was (what percentage of rural schools offered/offer AP courses)?
It's the norm for the state. All offered AP courses.
> Do you think there are enough teachers capable of providing an AP curriculum for all of the rural communities?
Sure. Why would a teacher in the country be any less qualified than one in a city? My AP CompSci (Pascal) teacher was just as bad as one in a city.
> Can you see how it would be better for a group of AP students to be able to get together (through email, IM and even video teleconferencing) and collaborate?
It wasn't a disadvantage for me. Remember, we're not talking about email and IM. That's almost universally available. We're talking about high speed internet. Glorious full color IP teleconferencing is not an essential tool for taking an AP course. Collaberation with fellow students was enough for my course.
I believe it was Warren Buffett who said the recent tax reform would give him an additional $310,000,000 annually. That is rediculous. He said himself that it would make much more sense to give 1,000,000 people $310
Why? First, remember that a federal income tax cut won't help lower income people. They don't pay any federal income tax. Throw in a couple of dependants and a mortgage writeoff and the taxable portion of a family imcome approaches zero.
Yes, if you gave $310 to 1,000,000 people in some other form (Earned Income Credit or something similar), they would probably spend it on Walmart trinkets or pay off debt.
If you reduce the tax burden of a rich person, they could, for example, run out and buy a new H2 Hummer. Now all the workers at AM General get a smaller portion which, for example, an assembly line worker could use to buy a new home PC. Now the money moves to the local computer store. The computer store owner uses the profit to paint a new sign on the building. The sign painter uses that cash to buy groceries at the grocery store. The clerk at the grocery store uses the wages to buy trinkets at Walmart.
In the end, the money ends up in the same place, but it has stimulated the income and standard of living of countless other people along the way. The person who earned the money in the first place decided where the chain began and everyone in the chain earned their wage through gainful employment.
Did you have AP courses where you grew up? They only way that could happen is economies of scale. You can bet your bottom dollar that in a village of 200 (or 500 or 1000) there aren't going to be enough students to justify an AP corriculum.
I went to highschool in a rural community and we did have AP curriculum. It had nothing to do with the internet.
We didn't have internet and there was one computer lab (15 Apple 2gs's) for the entire school. Those who wanted to be computer geeks were and still are.
Yes, that's right. 55% of this tax will go to school internet connections, library internet access
Okay, just so they refund an equal amount of my real estate and personal property taxes, which are already paying for school and library internet connections.
Parks are for the public, and that includes responsible GeoCachers!
A agree, but to quote the article: "They worry that hundreds of people tramping through their woods will damage plants and habitat." (Emphasis added)
That's how those people feel. It's not your woods, or our woods - it's exclusively their woods.
Everyone else is willing to give and take when it comes to public land use. There are no compromises with hard line environmentalists.
I've had a belly-full of people stealing mountain bike trails ("Oh, it damages the environment, but the horses are OK") for similar reasons.
Try finding a place to ride a dirt bike. It's okay to bulldoze a forest and lay an asphalt road so a bird watcher can drive through in a VW, but I can't ride my dirt bike, in the dirt, between the trees.
They're not affected by magnetic fields, are smaller, cheaper, more durable than silicon based RFID, flexible, can be 'printed' into currency, and are not reproducible, among other advantages.
It's seamlessly integrated and completely oriented around impulse buying. I'm sure (I *hope*) for most people, one dollar per song is worth the removal of the time and aggravation cost of using P2P
Does it seamlessly integrate into the Linux based MP3 player in my car? Does it seamlessly integrate into my Sun Workstation? Can I burn the audio to CD?
Is it worth $1? It most certainly could be. If they'd offer MP3s to non-Mac users then I would begin shoveling steaming piles of cash at them.
To me, anyone who hasn't gone through the final 5% of a massive project, the crunch before the deadlines that usually ends up being a death march for many, has no clue as to what is *really* involved in software engineering.
A well engineered project won't have a deathmarch or crunch at the final 5%.
It's a computer. This plan has them using computers at school, and many of them will use one at work. What's the problem there?
Learning to use computers in school is a great idea. As long as computers have been in general circulation, schools have had a number of them to teach students general proficiency.
Students need good teachers and books for a good general education. All students should take a few computer classes. Nowadays, everyone needs to know word processing, spreadsheets, maybe even a little coding. Additional exposure is up to the student.
This "one computer per student" idea came about in the 90's when people realized that IT professionals were doing pretty well. It's not for everyone. Students shouldn't be taught that the solution to everything is their iBook. The pen and a sharp mind are more powerful tools.
Every school should have a well equipped computer lab, a well stocked library, science labs, etc.
The per unit cost is lower than chip-based active IDs will ever reach. They can be manufactured into products for tracking and anticounterfeiting, are less affected by shock, heat, pressure, and cannot be duplicated.
Long ago, I heard a news story about a guy that had violent hiccups for days. Finally, a doctor found and extracted an insect from his ear canal. The hiccups were gone.
So, whenever I get hiccups, I dig around in my ear with a q-tip (or finger, in an emergency) and it works every time.
This was one of the big questions when Dolly the sheep was created. Dolly was also supposed to test whether a clone is as genetically "old" as the donor. Both answers were lost in the media hype, and will most likely be lost with Cc the cat as well.
It appears that:
1. Yes. All clones from one cell will have the same two colors.
2. Yes/No. All clones from a tan patch will be white/tan. All clones from a black patch will be white/black. The white fur isn't sex linked and will always be present.
3. Yes. Apparantly, you can't get a calico clone for the same reason you can't find a male calico - it takes the random on/off of 2 X-chromosomes to form the colors.
The uniform X chromosome deactivation would happen with female clones from any animal, it's just visually obvious on a calico cat. I'm curious if it would have any effect on a human.
Although, you're correct, it's not predictable or controllable.
We all agree that it's random. Two identical twin calico cats (if cats have such a thing), conceived naturally, would have three colors in non-matching patterns. Although they would be genetically identical, the pattern is a a result of chance, or environment, or whatever.
If a clone was created from a skin cell taken from a tan patch, the resulting cat would be white and tan (in a random pattern). No black, as the X chromosome containing the gene for black fur had already been switched off. White, if present, is not sex linked.
I'm not an authority on the subject by any means - I just have a calico cat and wondered why they're so unusual.
Like everything else in the news about cloning, the article completely passes over the science.
First, the cat's color pattern was decided by individual skin cells very early in embryonic development. This is chance, not genes. The individual cells multiply, carrying the same color, to become the pattern on the adult cat.
Second, and most notably, calico cats (tortoise shell) carry a color in each sex chromosome - that's why 99.9% of calico cats are female (XX female, although there are some XXY male calicos but they're sterile). Fur color depends on which X chromosome is active, and which one is inactive (curled up, as they say)
So, looking at the picture, you'll notice the clone (cc) has only two colors indicating that it is not only a clone of the donor cat, but a 100% exact genetic clone of ONE cell of the donor cat. The other X chromosome is completely inactive.
That's just my observation from the photo because no news article will ever talk about the science behind the hype.
Like everything else in the news about cloning, the article completely passes over the science.
First, the cat's color pattern was decided by individual skin cells very early in embryonic development. The individual cells multiply, carrying the same color, to become the pattern on the adult cat.
Second, and most notably, calico cats (tortoise shell) carry a color in each sex chromosome - that's why 99.9% of calico cats are female (XX female, although there are some XXY male calicos but they're sterile). Fur color depends on which X chromosome is active, and which one is inactive (curled up, as they say)
So, looking at the picture, you'll notice the clone (cc) has only two colors indicating that it is not only a clone of the donor cat, but a 100% exact genetic clone of ONE cell of the donor cat. The other X chromosome is completely inactive.
That's just my observation from the photo because no news article will ever talk about the science behind the hype.
Here's another indicator. The highest selling album of the year is Eminem's latest. It sold 6.5 million copies in the 6 months or so after its release. Spiderman on DVD sold 11 mill in one week...
...and is priced lower! What does that tell you?
Besides, if the best they had to offer last year was Eminem then their problems run deeper than MP3s.
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Except that banks dont give out loans when the economy is in a slump, the boost has to start with additional demand, not additional supply.
Oh yes they do! If the stock and bond market is down (low returns), they are far more likely to invest the money in people (home loans, credit cards, etc) where they can make higher returns. Just look at the housing market. Where did all that money come from? Banks.
More money in the stock market does not drive the prices of stocks up! Companies have to be making money, selling goods.
The price of stocks isn't the issue. It's the amount of money in the system. That's money that businesses can use for product development which can pay salaries and stimulate demand. Everyone pulled their savings out of the stock market and now business doesn't have as much to work with.
A tax refund is additional income.
Nope. A tax refund does increase your usable income but not your total income. If you get a tax refund after filing your returns, that check from the Department of Treasury is NOT a gift, or additional income, or payment of any kind. It's your money and always was. It just means you filled out your W4 wrong and they've been 'holding' it for you.
That's wonderful. Really it is. But, I would be willing to bet there were federal grants subsidizing the salaries of some (if not all) of the rural AP teachers.
Federal money subsidizes all teachers. Perhaps I'm missing something. What's the difference between an AP and a non-AP teacher? In my days (not all that long ago) an AP course just meant there was a test at the end that could result in some college credit. The coursework was more difficult, but we're talking 100 level college material. It's not rocket science.
That's not what I asked. I asked if you could see benefit to it.
No, I don't see a benefit to it. I've always seen the push for technology in schools as a crutch for unmotivated students with behavioral problems, absentee parents, and "teachers who are little more than glorified baby-sitters". I can't imagine why some people think every 1st grader should carry a laptop computer (I realize that's a whole different level than this discussion). We've seen the last generation of people who can work a math problem by hand and write without a spell checker.
Besides, email and IM require internet access. At a bare minimum that requires a phone line. If that phone line is not affordable...
Valid point. That's why we pay the Federal Subscriber Line Tax on telephone service. Are there really still rural communities without any phone service?
A tax refund is NOT additional income. If I was originally going to reach into your pocket and take out $100, but I decided to take out $90 instead, that $10 difference is NOT income.
Good questions. I'll answer in order:
> How rural (i.e. how many students)?
660 square mile county with 1500 students in the single high school. Mainly farming and local employment. Some long distance commuters to city employment.
> How common do you think your situation was (what percentage of rural schools offered/offer AP courses)?
It's the norm for the state. All offered AP courses.
> Do you think there are enough teachers capable of providing an AP curriculum for all of the rural communities?
Sure. Why would a teacher in the country be any less qualified than one in a city? My AP CompSci (Pascal) teacher was just as bad as one in a city.
> Can you see how it would be better for a group of AP students to be able to get together (through email, IM and even video teleconferencing) and collaborate?
It wasn't a disadvantage for me. Remember, we're not talking about email and IM. That's almost universally available. We're talking about high speed internet. Glorious full color IP teleconferencing is not an essential tool for taking an AP course. Collaberation with fellow students was enough for my course.
Yes, if you gave $310 to 1,000,000 people in some other form (Earned Income Credit or something similar), they would probably spend it on Walmart trinkets or pay off debt.
If you reduce the tax burden of a rich person, they could, for example, run out and buy a new H2 Hummer. Now all the workers at AM General get a smaller portion which, for example, an assembly line worker could use to buy a new home PC. Now the money moves to the local computer store. The computer store owner uses the profit to paint a new sign on the building. The sign painter uses that cash to buy groceries at the grocery store. The clerk at the grocery store uses the wages to buy trinkets at Walmart.
In the end, the money ends up in the same place, but it has stimulated the income and standard of living of countless other people along the way. The person who earned the money in the first place decided where the chain began and everyone in the chain earned their wage through gainful employment.
We didn't have internet and there was one computer lab (15 Apple 2gs's) for the entire school. Those who wanted to be computer geeks were and still are.
What does a third grader need a T1 for anyways?
That's how those people feel. It's not your woods, or our woods - it's exclusively their woods.
Everyone else is willing to give and take when it comes to public land use. There are no compromises with hard line environmentalists.
Try finding a place to ride a dirt bike. It's okay to bulldoze a forest and lay an asphalt road so a bird watcher can drive through in a VW, but I can't ride my dirt bike, in the dirt, between the trees.
The "curb urban sprawl" people are only trying to protect the value of their urban property.
Increase in policing due to suburbs? You must be joking.
Of course, it depends on the technology used for the RFID.
They really should use passive microwave resonance tags.
They're not affected by magnetic fields, are smaller, cheaper, more durable than silicon based RFID, flexible, can be 'printed' into currency, and are not reproducible, among other advantages.
Is it worth $1? It most certainly could be. If they'd offer MP3s to non-Mac users then I would begin shoveling steaming piles of cash at them.
The idea *will* go into production once the marketing department hears about it.
Don't you read Dilbert?
A well engineered project won't have a deathmarch or crunch at the final 5%.
I agree 100%! Unfortunately, it never seems to fit into the corporate business model...
Learning to use computers in school is a great idea. As long as computers have been in general circulation, schools have had a number of them to teach students general proficiency.
Students need good teachers and books for a good general education. All students should take a few computer classes. Nowadays, everyone needs to know word processing, spreadsheets, maybe even a little coding. Additional exposure is up to the student.
This "one computer per student" idea came about in the 90's when people realized that IT professionals were doing pretty well. It's not for everyone. Students shouldn't be taught that the solution to everything is their iBook. The pen and a sharp mind are more powerful tools.
Every school should have a well equipped computer lab, a well stocked library, science labs, etc.
Active ID costs too much and lacks durabilty for consumer use.
Passive ID is a better solution.
The per unit cost is lower than chip-based active IDs will ever reach. They can be manufactured into products for tracking and anticounterfeiting, are less affected by shock, heat, pressure, and cannot be duplicated.
Long ago, I heard a news story about a guy that had violent hiccups for days. Finally, a doctor found and extracted an insect from his ear canal. The hiccups were gone.
So, whenever I get hiccups, I dig around in my ear with a q-tip (or finger, in an emergency) and it works every time.
Wierd, huh?
This was one of the big questions when Dolly the sheep was created. Dolly was also supposed to test whether a clone is as genetically "old" as the donor. Both answers were lost in the media hype, and will most likely be lost with Cc the cat as well.
It appears that:
1. Yes. All clones from one cell will have the same two colors.
2. Yes/No. All clones from a tan patch will be white/tan. All clones from a black patch will be white/black. The white fur isn't sex linked and will always be present.
3. Yes. Apparantly, you can't get a calico clone for the same reason you can't find a male calico - it takes the random on/off of 2 X-chromosomes to form the colors.
The uniform X chromosome deactivation would happen with female clones from any animal, it's just visually obvious on a calico cat. I'm curious if it would have any effect on a human.
We all agree that it's random. Two identical twin calico cats (if cats have such a thing), conceived naturally, would have three colors in non-matching patterns. Although they would be genetically identical, the pattern is a a result of chance, or environment, or whatever.
If a clone was created from a skin cell taken from a tan patch, the resulting cat would be white and tan (in a random pattern). No black, as the X chromosome containing the gene for black fur had already been switched off. White, if present, is not sex linked.
I'm not an authority on the subject by any means - I just have a calico cat and wondered why they're so unusual.
Like everything else in the news about cloning, the article completely passes over the science.
First, the cat's color pattern was decided by individual skin cells very early in embryonic development. This is chance, not genes. The individual cells multiply, carrying the same color, to become the pattern on the adult cat.
Second, and most notably, calico cats (tortoise shell) carry a color in each sex chromosome - that's why 99.9% of calico cats are female (XX female, although there are some XXY male calicos but they're sterile). Fur color depends on which X chromosome is active, and which one is inactive (curled up, as they say)
So, looking at the picture, you'll notice the clone (cc) has only two colors indicating that it is not only a clone of the donor cat, but a 100% exact genetic clone of ONE cell of the donor cat. The other X chromosome is completely inactive.
That's just my observation from the photo because no news article will ever talk about the science behind the hype.
Like everything else in the news about cloning, the article completely passes over the science.
First, the cat's color pattern was decided by individual skin cells very early in embryonic development. The individual cells multiply, carrying the same color, to become the pattern on the adult cat.
Second, and most notably, calico cats (tortoise shell) carry a color in each sex chromosome - that's why 99.9% of calico cats are female (XX female, although there are some XXY male calicos but they're sterile). Fur color depends on which X chromosome is active, and which one is inactive (curled up, as they say)
So, looking at the picture, you'll notice the clone (cc) has only two colors indicating that it is not only a clone of the donor cat, but a 100% exact genetic clone of ONE cell of the donor cat. The other X chromosome is completely inactive.
That's just my observation from the photo because no news article will ever talk about the science behind the hype.
Besides, if the best they had to offer last year was Eminem then their problems run deeper than MP3s.
Active RFID tags are too expensive per unit for mass use, too large, and too fragile.
Inkode RFID tags are passive, sophisticated, inexpensive, and durable. They can be embedded in paper or manufactured within other products.