Way to go injecting politics into the discussion. FTFA:
âoeWhat we are seeing is a classic case of muscle-flexing,â said Andrew Rhomberg, founder of Jellybooks, an e-book discovery site. âoeKind of like Vladimir Putin mobilizing his troops along the Ukrainian border.â
The other opinion of that is that Crimea has the right to secede and receive help from Putin or anybody they please. Thank you for making it harder for me to listen to you objectively by dropping a political dispute into this.
You might also be interested in the very thought-provoking rules and procedures Arthur Robinson used with his children. You might not want to do things at all his way, but you still might like to think about what he has to say, especially about math.
Here are an algebra book and a geometry book that I thought were very good. In 7th grade I went to a summer math program that used these. For the upper courses they used all the other books in the series that contains the algebra book, but I haven't checked those out yet.
Oddly enough the geometry book was from a different series. My public school used that series for both algebra and geometry, and I did not think highly of the algebra book.
A better resource for you might be to check out a homeschool bookfair if you can. Go now while your child is 4, just to look. Go back next year with a little money, and as your child gets older, go back with more and more money (and you'll have lots of knowledge by then about what you want to buy!)
I had a pre-calculus and calculus teacher in high school who spent most of her time bragging on how enlightened our school's calculus education methods were. This was remarked on all the time - we skipped a lot of stuff that was supposed to be bad ways of teaching, and we now permitted graphing calculators, and I don't know what all else was supposed to make it wonderful.
Now our school was actually a Texas "Blue Ribbon" math school, which means on some level we were considered to have a superior math education program. But personally I read all the material in our textbook that was skipped, and I helped a lot of my friends who were struggling - and I did it by reteaching them the same thing from different points of view until they got it, utilizing both the "modern" teaching we'd received in class and the skipped book material. (I believe at one point I even borrowed my dad's college Calculus text from the 1960s as well.)
For all the noise that was made about how great our teaching was, there were a lot of people struggling, and they benefited from hearing the "bad" instructional methods that we were bragging we were skipping.
My kids are homeschooled, and one of the first things I started doing when we made this decision was accumulating a math textbook library. The thought of being able to teach kids math myself instead of throwing them to the mercy of whatever educational fads are being bragged about in a few years was part of what made the homeschooling decision so appealing.
Likewise. I hate the federal government, too, but I want to secede, not kill people. I hate the government for doing the same thing McVeigh did, only on a larger scale - can't see how worshipping McVeigh would help with any of that.
This is exactly why comparative advantage is complete BS. When you let another foreign entity control your means of whatever it may be (rocketd, iPhones, car parts, tools, etc etc) you lose that ability to utilize it when the political poo hits the fan.
One way to ameliorate that problem is to stop throwing poo at the fan.
So..... its the summer of 1945. YOU are Harry Truman. The war has killed, what 50 million people so far. The battle of Okinawa has just finished and it killed.... oh about 200,000 people. (about half being soldiers of the two side and the rest civilians). That was essentially the dress rehearsal for the invasion of Japan itself. You've just been told about these new kinds of bombs. What would you do? Try to finish the war off by using them and then bluffing the Japanese by saying you have a thousand (you don't. you have two) or go ahead with the invasion?
What would I do? Bring the troops home, then resign. If Japan actually attacked again after that point, people could rally an effective defense. I don't think they were any danger at that point, and I don't really think they would have ever been a danger without the belligerent actions of Franklin Roosevelt toward Japan before America got into the war.
Let's look at the alternative to the A-bombs. Japan was not going to surrender
I encourage you to research this conclusion - Japan had been told that nothing less than unconditional surrender would be accepted. Unconditional surrender means that there is absolutely no protection for your civilian populace when you surrender. They can all be killed by the invading victors who have all been spending the last few wartorn years dosing up on racist propaganda explaining how inhuman your people are. A demand for unconditional surrender in war was unprecedented until the world wars and was a very good reason for people to continue to be afraid.
In the end even after the atomic bombings, Japan was allowed one condition on their surrender, which was the same one they wanted before the bombings.
I think this business of getting an app is just self-righteousness. People who oppose cell phone use while driving simply don't use their cell phones - their problem is that they want everybody else to stop using their phones. So you can use an app to prevent it and tell everybody how great you are for doing so and hope they follow suit. But in this case your solution, the hammer, sounds better.
After a week of trying to find an app that prevents me from all cell phone use from behind the wheel entirely
Maybe my perspective is limited because I still have a dumb phone, but it strikes me that maybe the problem is that you are trying to solve this problem with the wrong tool.
Thanks for saying this - I liked it, too. I don't think I even owned an Atari until after the crash, though, and I definitely didn't pay for the games myself. Perhaps if I'd been a teenager paying full price instead of a little kid who enjoyed reading instruction manuals to find out how to play new games, my feelings would have been different.
It used to be that when his trading screens showed 10,000 shares of Intel offered at $22 a share, it meant that he could buy 10,000 shares of Intel for $22 a share. He had only to push a button. By the spring of 2007, however, when he pushed the button to complete a trade, the offers would vanish.
I have traded bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies, and this makes perfect sense to me. Between the time you see the price and the time your order goes through, someone else may have already bought what was for sale. I don't see what the big deal is. This is exactly the way it should work. Maybe there's more in the article.
This is pretty straightforward. On the principle that I do not believe in slavery, I do not believe that anyone has the right to tell Baidu what to do, including what search results to return. Really this is a very weak attempt by these activists, and they are violating their own principles by trying to restrict the freedom of others.
As far as calendars go, this is not a bad effort. I don't think I would personally use it, but I've seen (and created) far, far worse. It is very regular; the rules have few exceptions, and the exceptions are well-defined. There aren't too many decisions in it that stand out as glaringly unjustified or confusing, other than of course by definition, when you create a new calendar, the very decision to do so stands out as glaringly unjustified.:)
I'd have to agree with that. In particular, I always remember him for the line "Print is dead." It certainly wasn't in 1984, and saying so made a person sound like a lunatic. But look at print today!
The real question is, do you want your children educated through a system designed by majority vote? (and/or designed by people elected by majority vote) Do you really want everyone in your community weighing in on your children's education or not?
If you really believe in democracy, I don't see how anyone can fault this. Personally, I do not believe in democracy, and think it's a terrible way to educate a child. But if you really believe in the whole electoral process, I don't think you have room to complain: you have to take the bad with the good, and vote for someone better next time.
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Way to go injecting politics into the discussion. FTFA:
âoeWhat we are seeing is a classic case of muscle-flexing,â said Andrew Rhomberg, founder of Jellybooks, an e-book discovery site. âoeKind of like Vladimir Putin mobilizing his troops along the Ukrainian border.â
The other opinion of that is that Crimea has the right to secede and receive help from Putin or anybody they please. Thank you for making it harder for me to listen to you objectively by dropping a political dispute into this.
You might also be interested in the very thought-provoking rules and procedures Arthur Robinson used with his children. You might not want to do things at all his way, but you still might like to think about what he has to say, especially about math.
http://www.robinsoncurriculum.com/view/rc/s31p59.htm
http://www.robinsoncurriculum.com/view/rc/s31p60.htm
Here are an algebra book and a geometry book that I thought were very good. In 7th grade I went to a summer math program that used these. For the upper courses they used all the other books in the series that contains the algebra book, but I haven't checked those out yet.
http://www.amazon.com/Algebra-I-Expressions-Equations-Applications/dp/0201860945/ref=pd_sim_b_5/002-3278004-1006461 http://www.amazon.com/Geometry-McDougal-Littell-Jurgensen/dp/0395977274/ref=pd_sim_b_3?ie=UTF8&refRID=156P3DE9N61MT1DC9G5D
Oddly enough the geometry book was from a different series. My public school used that series for both algebra and geometry, and I did not think highly of the algebra book.
A better resource for you might be to check out a homeschool bookfair if you can. Go now while your child is 4, just to look. Go back next year with a little money, and as your child gets older, go back with more and more money (and you'll have lots of knowledge by then about what you want to buy!)
I had a pre-calculus and calculus teacher in high school who spent most of her time bragging on how enlightened our school's calculus education methods were. This was remarked on all the time - we skipped a lot of stuff that was supposed to be bad ways of teaching, and we now permitted graphing calculators, and I don't know what all else was supposed to make it wonderful.
Now our school was actually a Texas "Blue Ribbon" math school, which means on some level we were considered to have a superior math education program. But personally I read all the material in our textbook that was skipped, and I helped a lot of my friends who were struggling - and I did it by reteaching them the same thing from different points of view until they got it, utilizing both the "modern" teaching we'd received in class and the skipped book material. (I believe at one point I even borrowed my dad's college Calculus text from the 1960s as well.)
For all the noise that was made about how great our teaching was, there were a lot of people struggling, and they benefited from hearing the "bad" instructional methods that we were bragging we were skipping.
My kids are homeschooled, and one of the first things I started doing when we made this decision was accumulating a math textbook library. The thought of being able to teach kids math myself instead of throwing them to the mercy of whatever educational fads are being bragged about in a few years was part of what made the homeschooling decision so appealing.
Likewise. I hate the federal government, too, but I want to secede, not kill people. I hate the government for doing the same thing McVeigh did, only on a larger scale - can't see how worshipping McVeigh would help with any of that.
This is exactly why comparative advantage is complete BS. When you let another foreign entity control your means of whatever it may be (rocketd, iPhones, car parts, tools, etc etc) you lose that ability to utilize it when the political poo hits the fan.
One way to ameliorate that problem is to stop throwing poo at the fan.
Bewail the evilness of America all you want
Can't find where I did that - perhaps you have me confused for someone else, or are tilting at a strawman.
So..... its the summer of 1945. YOU are Harry Truman. The war has killed, what 50 million people so far. The battle of Okinawa has just finished and it killed.... oh about 200,000 people. (about half being soldiers of the two side and the rest civilians). That was essentially the dress rehearsal for the invasion of Japan itself. You've just been told about these new kinds of bombs. What would you do? Try to finish the war off by using them and then bluffing the Japanese by saying you have a thousand (you don't. you have two) or go ahead with the invasion?
What would I do? Bring the troops home, then resign. If Japan actually attacked again after that point, people could rally an effective defense. I don't think they were any danger at that point, and I don't really think they would have ever been a danger without the belligerent actions of Franklin Roosevelt toward Japan before America got into the war.
P.S. Richard Maybury's "Uncle Eric Books" do a good job of talking about the alternative perspective to yours without any "America is evil" crap.
Let's look at the alternative to the A-bombs. Japan was not going to surrender
I encourage you to research this conclusion - Japan had been told that nothing less than unconditional surrender would be accepted. Unconditional surrender means that there is absolutely no protection for your civilian populace when you surrender. They can all be killed by the invading victors who have all been spending the last few wartorn years dosing up on racist propaganda explaining how inhuman your people are. A demand for unconditional surrender in war was unprecedented until the world wars and was a very good reason for people to continue to be afraid.
In the end even after the atomic bombings, Japan was allowed one condition on their surrender, which was the same one they wanted before the bombings.
I think this business of getting an app is just self-righteousness. People who oppose cell phone use while driving simply don't use their cell phones - their problem is that they want everybody else to stop using their phones. So you can use an app to prevent it and tell everybody how great you are for doing so and hope they follow suit. But in this case your solution, the hammer, sounds better.
After a week of trying to find an app that prevents me from all cell phone use from behind the wheel entirely
Maybe my perspective is limited because I still have a dumb phone, but it strikes me that maybe the problem is that you are trying to solve this problem with the wrong tool.
Thanks for saying this - I liked it, too. I don't think I even owned an Atari until after the crash, though, and I definitely didn't pay for the games myself. Perhaps if I'd been a teenager paying full price instead of a little kid who enjoyed reading instruction manuals to find out how to play new games, my feelings would have been different.
This should've been billed as: "Worst video game ever made, recovered with Microsoft sponsorship."
To sum up, this is an attempt to remove all the nuance from someone's position and put them on either one side or the other of a false dichotomy.
at least nine colleges and over a dozen cities have pulled their investments in companies that extract or burn fossil fuels like coal and oil
That would be all of them. Every company burns coal or oil, directly or indirectly.
Maybe there's more in the article.
Update: I've read about half of it so far, and I think there actually is more to this than the blurb at the top.
It used to be that when his trading screens showed 10,000 shares of Intel offered at $22 a share, it meant that he could buy 10,000 shares of Intel for $22 a share. He had only to push a button. By the spring of 2007, however, when he pushed the button to complete a trade, the offers would vanish.
I have traded bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies, and this makes perfect sense to me. Between the time you see the price and the time your order goes through, someone else may have already bought what was for sale. I don't see what the big deal is. This is exactly the way it should work. Maybe there's more in the article.
What, no wireless?
This is pretty straightforward. On the principle that I do not believe in slavery, I do not believe that anyone has the right to tell Baidu what to do, including what search results to return. Really this is a very weak attempt by these activists, and they are violating their own principles by trying to restrict the freedom of others.
As far as calendars go, this is not a bad effort. I don't think I would personally use it, but I've seen (and created) far, far worse. It is very regular; the rules have few exceptions, and the exceptions are well-defined. There aren't too many decisions in it that stand out as glaringly unjustified or confusing, other than of course by definition, when you create a new calendar, the very decision to do so stands out as glaringly unjustified. :)
I have yet to actually see Ramis's death described in print. Just on my screen, here.
I'd have to agree with that. In particular, I always remember him for the line "Print is dead." It certainly wasn't in 1984, and saying so made a person sound like a lunatic. But look at print today!
I hear there's a filter in Google Glass that fixes Slashdot Beta. I'd go for it.
The real question is, do you want your children educated through a system designed by majority vote? (and/or designed by people elected by majority vote) Do you really want everyone in your community weighing in on your children's education or not?
If you really believe in democracy, I don't see how anyone can fault this. Personally, I do not believe in democracy, and think it's a terrible way to educate a child. But if you really believe in the whole electoral process, I don't think you have room to complain: you have to take the bad with the good, and vote for someone better next time.