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Diplomas are nice, but when the rubber meets the road, they don't mean much. They're mostly a tool to see if you have any of the experience/ability you claim. Without it, there's other ways to demonstrate your ability.
I understand your point, but then you go and put on yours: "Graduated from High School" ?! How useful is a High School Diploma, given that illiterates can get them? Then you go and scoff at the usefulness of a college diploma!
when I was your age, we didn't HAVE cnn.com. We had 300 baud modems, spewing out text so slow, you could TYPE it faster. And we thought that was FAST compared to 110 baud.
_You_ were lucky! When I was your age we had to write out our packets, tie them to carrier pigeon, and then wait hours for an ACK.
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We learn to walk, talk, etc at a rapid rate. Then we hit school, and we are constantly told that learning is hard, and we must spend a lot of time on it. Learning becomes less of a natural thing and more of a painful, forced, and utterly boring thing.
OTOH, our government schools excel at teaching this. Mark Twain: "don't let your schooling interfere with your education."
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You need to have the talent, and talent is something you can't be taught.
You mean, sniff, "If you can dream it, you can do it!" isn't true after all? Sniff. WAAHHH!
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The physiological fact of the matter is that cognitive capacity declines after age 35 or so, as neural connections break down and neurons themselves die off, never to be replaced again.
That would explain a lof of things. Uh, what is it we were talking about?
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I'm a piano teacher, and a computer scientist.
And I suppose your studying to be a nuclear physicist and a neurologist, too, hmmm? Sorry, couldn't resist, Buckaroo Banzai and all.
For the most part younger kids learn piano better simply because they put in the time and are willing try new things. My adult students often progress much faster than my younger students. Its only that most adults also have complex lifes already and can't put in the time a little kid can. My adult students that have trouble tend to do so because they are afraid of the piano. I must admit, however, that some young minds can simply make unbelivable progress for no single reason other than natural talent.
I took some lessons as an adult (but in Grad school!) and loved it, spent way too much time practicing. Now I can't, I have a family and Slashdot to deal with.
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Graduted from Some High School, 1985
Uh, if you have to list "Graduated from High School" on your resume, that's not a good sign.
Seriously, I was never able to learn it to my teachers' satisfaction in grade school. They always told me that my writing was messy and hard to read and that they would take points off for not writing in cursive.
Yes, that's right. 55% of this tax will go to school internet connections, library internet access, and low-income subscribers and health care. 45% goes to the somewhat less worthy but still valid rural subscribers to keep costs equitable. Now, what was that you were about to say?
Oh! It's for the Children! And it's for the Poor! And for the Farmers! What kind of skinflint would be against the Poor and the Children and the Farmers (what power a Poor Child of a Farmer truly wields).
It does _not_ beg the question. It may _raise_ the question. Begging the question is a logical fallacy where one assumes the conclusion is true in proving it is true (more or less).
What we really need is an amendment to the Constitution. The Bill of Rights protects most of our important rights, but one that is conspicuously missing is the right to privacy.
What we need is a new start. Why can't we scrap the Union, and re-do it? Just like with the Articles of Confederation. Cause it ain't working anymore.
However if you re-read the first line in the CBS story you will see "with a 28 percent gain in sales of its tax-preparation software". This is their retail version of Turbo Tax.
I wonder how TaxCut did? Maybe Intuit sneaked a peek at their performance and got scared. (I have no idea how TaxCut did...)
I want hardware that can render pixar quality 3d environments in realtime on a 16:9 display in high definition so I can totally suspend my disbelief and reach new levels of game immersion.
Drugs are a cheaper short-term solution, but a more expensive long-term solution.
Living in a country founded by criminals is a lot more fun that one founded by puritans;)
Correction: many of the USA's founders were anything but Puritan. Moral, giving lip service to morality, but certainly not Puritan. Washington, Jefferson, they were Virginians. And Virginians certainly were (and are) not Puritans, but Cavaliers.
Your point is valid, however some of us 'elders' had to actually sit down with a book, a pen(cil), a calculator and a piece of paper to do our homework.
Calculators? _You_ were lucky! We had to use an abacus in the pre-dawn hours. Etc. etc. etc.
Course, i'm a believer that you've got to push youself if you're to really live... They seem to have no desire for action or excitement.
I prefer to sit on the porch swing on a warm summer evening, with my honey, sipping iced tea or lemonade. My life is full and interesting and I have no need for artificial "thrills".
Is for Bush to declare a "War on Spam", get Congress to authorize the funding (much $$), and that will take care of it very nicely. No more spam! Hormel will have to change their product name to something like "Liberty Meat".
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I understand your point, but then you go and put on yours: "Graduated from High School" ?! How useful is a High School Diploma, given that illiterates can get them? Then you go and scoff at the usefulness of a college diploma!
_You_ were lucky! When I was your age we had to write out our packets, tie them to carrier pigeon, and then wait hours for an ACK.
OTOH, our government schools excel at teaching this. Mark Twain: "don't let your schooling interfere with your education."
You mean, sniff, "If you can dream it, you can do it!" isn't true after all? Sniff. WAAHHH!
That would explain a lof of things. Uh, what is it we were talking about?
And I suppose your studying to be a nuclear physicist and a neurologist, too, hmmm? Sorry, couldn't resist, Buckaroo Banzai and all.
For the most part younger kids learn piano better simply because they put in the time and are willing try new things. My adult students often progress much faster than my younger students. Its only that most adults also have complex lifes already and can't put in the time a little kid can. My adult students that have trouble tend to do so because they are afraid of the piano. I must admit, however, that some young minds can simply make unbelivable progress for no single reason other than natural talent.
I took some lessons as an adult (but in Grad school!) and loved it, spent way too much time practicing. Now I can't, I have a family and Slashdot to deal with.
Uh, if you have to list "Graduated from High School" on your resume, that's not a good sign.
Yes, if you are an Economic Man (either Marxist or Capitalist), then you are right.
I hope you found your calling: to be a doctor.
Oh! It's for the Children! And it's for the Poor! And for the Farmers! What kind of skinflint would be against the Poor and the Children and the Farmers (what power a Poor Child of a Farmer truly wields).
Warning: language police in the room!
It does _not_ beg the question. It may _raise_ the question. Begging the question is a logical fallacy where one assumes the conclusion is true in proving it is true (more or less).
What we need is a new start. Why can't we scrap the Union, and re-do it? Just like with the Articles of Confederation. Cause it ain't working anymore.
I wonder how TaxCut did? Maybe Intuit sneaked a peek at their performance and got scared. (I have no idea how TaxCut did...)
Drugs are a cheaper short-term solution, but a more expensive long-term solution.
Or sending them to the center of the earth, in a big blob of iron. Good test case.
The prospect of wealth. Jamestown, VA: first permanent settlement. Yankee puritanism was not the norm for the US until after the (un)civil war.
Just don't sing "Happy Birthday" in public, OK? Freakin' criminals...
Correction: many of the USA's founders were anything but Puritan. Moral, giving lip service to morality, but certainly not Puritan. Washington, Jefferson, they were Virginians. And Virginians certainly were (and are) not Puritans, but Cavaliers.
They were both placebos?
Calculators? _You_ were lucky! We had to use an abacus in the pre-dawn hours. Etc. etc. etc.
You should go read the NYT ("registration required"), they're very reliable.
Yeah, like "I'll never die!" Those of us a bit older are starting to think about our mortality.
I prefer to sit on the porch swing on a warm summer evening, with my honey, sipping iced tea or lemonade. My life is full and interesting and I have no need for artificial "thrills".
Is for Bush to declare a "War on Spam", get Congress to authorize the funding (much $$), and that will take care of it very nicely. No more spam! Hormel will have to change their product name to something like "Liberty Meat".
It's made out of flavored plastic.
What cheese do YOU recommend?
Brie, Limburger, Blue Cheese. ;-)