the kids lack the motivation to learn because the schools have dumbed down the curriculum to appease the slow learners that anyone with an average intelligence or higher gets BORED. Kids want to be challenged, that is how they learn. shrugging duties as a teacher off on a machine is not only lazy but irresponsible. But then, thanks to the teachers unions (most of which really arent for the teachers) underperforming teachers are allowed to continue "teaching"
yet thousands of/.ers also berated those who said it wouldnt work. Schools need to quit relying on gimmicks and go back to the basics.
"Is our children learning?" If you look at the national average the answer is a resounding NO!
Teach them how to read, from a book. Teach them math, without a calculator. Teach them history, and quit being PC about it. Teach them about computers, but in a seperate class from the rest.
funny, I remember Clinton launching an attack at Iraq in 98 as well or are we forgetting that little bit of reality? keep grasping, you might find some straw...
"Earlier today, I ordered America's armed forces to strike military and security targets in Iraq. They are joined by British forces. Their mission is to attack Iraq's nuclear, chemical and biological weapons programs and its military capacity to threaten its neighbors.
Their purpose is to protect the national interest of the United States, and indeed the interests of people throughout the Middle East and around the world.
Saddam Hussein must not be allowed to threaten his neighbors or the world with nuclear arms, poison gas or biological weapons."
"The nerve agent VX is one of the most toxic ever developed.
13,000 chemical bombs were dropped by the Iraqi Air Force between 1983 and 1988, while Iraq has declared that 19,500 bombs were consumed during this period. Thus, there is a discrepancy of 6,500 bombs. The amount of chemical agent in these bombs would be in the order of about 1,000 tonnes."
"Iraq appears not to have come to a genuine acceptance -- not even today -- of the disarmament, which was demanded of it and which it needs to carry out to win the confidence of the world and to live in peace."
"The recent inspection find in the private home of a scientist of a box of some 3,000 pages of documents, much of it relating to the laser enrichment of uranium support a concern that has long existed that documents might be distributed to the homes of private individuals....we cannot help but think that the case might not be isolated and that such placements of documents is deliberate to make discovery difficult and to seek to shield documents by placing them in private homes."
"I have mentioned the issue of anthrax to the Council on previous occasions and I come back to it as it is an important one.
Iraq has declared that it produced about 8,500 litres of this biological warfare agent, which it states it unilaterally destroyed in the summer of 1991. Iraq has provided little evidence for this production and no convincing evidence for its destruction.
There are strong indications that Iraq produced more anthrax than it declared, and that at least some of this was retained after the declared destruction date. It might still exist. Either it should be found and be destroyed under UNMOVIC supervision or else convincing evidence should be produced to show that it was, indeed, destroyed in 1991."
Dr. Hans Blix, Chief UN Weapons Inspector
Addressing the UN Security Council
January 27, 2003
you mean there werent any inspectors before 99... oh wait there were...
"The Iraq story boiled over last night when the chief U.N. weapons inspector, Richard Butler, said that Iraq had not fully cooperated with inspectors and--as they had promised to do. As a result, the U.N. ordered its inspectors to leave Iraq this morning"
--Katie Couric, NBC's Today, 12/16/98 ------
dont you just hate it when facts get in the way of a good hate-on?
"As a member of the House Intelligence Committee, I am keenly aware that the proliferation of chemical and biological weapons is an issue of grave importance to all nations. Saddam Hussein has been engaged in the development of weapons of mass destruction technology which is a threat to countries in the region and he has made a mockery of the weapons inspection process." Congresswoman Nancy Pelosi (Democrat, California), Statement on US Led Military Strike Against Iraq, December 16, 1998
"In the next century, the community of nations may see more and more the very kind of threat Iraq poses now -- a rogue state with weapons of mass destruction ready to use them or provide them to terrorists, drug traffickers or organized criminals who travel the world among us unnoticed. If we fail to respond today, Saddam and all those who would follow in his footsteps will be emboldened tomorrow by the knowledge that they can act with impunity, even in the face of a clear message from the United Nations Security Council and clear evidence of a weapons of mass destruction program." President Clinton, Address to Joint Chiefs of Staff and Pentagon staff. February 17, 1998
"The hard fact is that so long as Saddam remains in power, he threatens the well-being of his people, the peace of his region, the security of the world. The best way to end that threat once and for all is with a new Iraqi government -- a government ready to live in peace with its neighbors, a government that respects the rights of its people." President Clinton, Oval Office Address to the American People, December 16, 1998
"Imagine the consequences if Saddam fails to comply and we fail to act. Saddam will be emboldened, believing the international community has lost its will. He will rebuild his arsenal of weapons of mass destruction. And some day, some way, I am certain, he will use that arsenal again, as he has ten times since 1983." Sandy Berger, President Clinton's National Security Advisor, Town Hall Meeting on Iraq at Ohio State University, February 18, 1998
"No one has done what Saddam Hussein has done, or is thinking of doing. He is producing weapons of mass destruction, and he is qualitatively and quantitatively different from other dictators." Madeleine Albright, President Clinton's Secretary of State, Town Hall Meeting on Iraq at Ohio State University, February 18, 1998
"As a member of the House Intelligence Committee, I am keenly aware that the proliferation of chemical and biological weapons is an issue of grave importance to all nations. Saddam Hussein has been engaged in the development of weapons of mass destruction technology which is a threat to countries in the region and he has made a mockery of the weapons inspection process." Congresswoman Nancy Pelosi (Democrat, California), Statement on US Led Military Strike Against Iraq, December 16, 1998
"In the next century, the community of nations may see more and more the very kind of threat Iraq poses now -- a rogue state with weapons of mass destruction ready to use them or provide them to terrorists, drug traffickers or organized criminals who travel the world among us unnoticed. If we fail to respond today, Saddam and all those who would follow in his footsteps will be emboldened tomorrow by the knowledge that they can act with impunity, even in the face of a clear message from the United Nations Security Council and clear evidence of a weapons of mass destruction program." President Clinton, Address to Joint Chiefs of Staff and Pentagon staff. February 17, 1998
"The hard fact is that so long as Saddam remains in power, he threatens the well-being of his people, the peace of his region, the security of the world. The best way to end that threat once and for all is with a new Iraqi government -- a government ready to live in peace with its neighbors, a government that respects the rights of its people." President Clinton, Oval Office Address to the American People, December 16, 1998
"Imagine the consequences if Saddam fails to comply and we fail to act. Saddam will be emboldened, believing the international community has lost its will. He will rebuild his arsenal of weapons of mass destruction. And some day, some way, I am certain, he will use that arsenal again, as he has ten times since 1983." Sandy Berger, President Clinton's National Security Advisor, Town Hall Meeting on Iraq at Ohio State University, February 18, 1998
"No one has done what Saddam Hussein has done, or is thinking of doing. He is producing weapons of mass destruction, and he is qualitatively and quantitatively different from other dictators." Madeleine Albright, President Clinton's Secretary of State, Town Hall Meeting on Iraq at Ohio State University, February 18, 1998
must be a bunch of people feeling guilty sitting in their made in china pants wearing their made in china shoes typing on their made in china computers that sits on their made in china desks to mark this off topic...
The US gov't deals favorably with CHina every day other US corporations manufacture their goods in China every day US citizens buy the products made in China every day
every day we empower china with our $$$ and our looking away...
but is it easy to turn off the fluff... it took me a bit to figure it out on XP at work when I first got it, Im guessing many people still have the teletubby background on their XP boxes becasue they dont know what they are doing.
for some reason MS has been trying to outdo Apple on the "pretty" aspect of the desktop... maybe they didnt notice, but Apple only has 10%(?) of the market. People was a windows machine that works... my XP desktop looks identical to my win2k and my old win98 desktops...
Seriously, I know its the parent's responsibility to raise their children right (ask 100 parents to define "right", and you will get 100 different answers), but parents can't be there all the time, and once kids get mobile, whats to stop them from doing stupid stuff? I know I did...
Are you for removing the restrictions on alcohol, tobacco, firearms & movies (including porn)? How about restrictions on driving? How about the age of consentual sex or entering into binding contracts? Whats the difference? Why draw the line on video games?
If a parent doesnt mind, there is nothing in the law (that I saw) that prevented them from playing them... the parent can go out and buy it for them. Parents have a hard enough time now, two parents almost HAVE to work, this isnt the 1950's anymore...
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yeah, because everyone can afford 10k for a turntable
I dont plan to get rid of them, becasue as long as there are evil people, they will find a way to kill other people Columbine is a great example, in a way, we should be thankfull they went on a shooting spree, becasue if those propane bombs had been better tended to there would have been a lot more death...
Slashdot Mirror
1) It's not a national ID because states maintain the databases individually -- there is no national database.
Yet, (or there is, but they arent telling)
terrorists they would FIX THE BORDER!
until that time the web was mostly text based, with th release of win 95 more "every day/mom and pop/joe six-pack" people were able to access the web
then it would have to be AOL... like it or hate it, it was the next big springboard
the kids lack the motivation to learn because the schools have dumbed down the curriculum to appease the slow learners that anyone with an average intelligence or higher gets BORED. Kids want to be challenged, that is how they learn. shrugging duties as a teacher off on a machine is not only lazy but irresponsible. But then, thanks to the teachers unions (most of which really arent for the teachers) underperforming teachers are allowed to continue "teaching"
yet thousands of /.ers also berated those who said it wouldnt work. Schools need to quit relying on gimmicks and go back to the basics.
"Is our children learning?" If you look at the national average the answer is a resounding NO!
Teach them how to read, from a book. Teach them math, without a calculator. Teach them history, and quit being PC about it. Teach them about computers, but in a seperate class from the rest.
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funny, I remember Clinton launching an attack at Iraq in 98 as well or are we forgetting that little bit of reality? keep grasping, you might find some straw...
"Earlier today, I ordered America's armed forces to strike military and security targets in Iraq. They are joined by British forces. Their mission is to attack Iraq's nuclear, chemical and biological weapons programs and its military capacity to threaten its neighbors.
Their purpose is to protect the national interest of the United States, and indeed the interests of people throughout the Middle East and around the world.
Saddam Hussein must not be allowed to threaten his neighbors or the world with nuclear arms, poison gas or biological weapons."
The truth is, Saddam was believed to have WMDs long before bush came into power, if you are denying that you are living in a diferent reality.
You mean this Hans Blix?
...we cannot help but think that the case might not be isolated and that such placements of documents is deliberate to make discovery difficult and to seek to shield documents by placing them in private homes."
"The nerve agent VX is one of the most toxic ever developed.
13,000 chemical bombs were dropped by the Iraqi Air Force between 1983 and 1988, while Iraq has declared that 19,500 bombs were consumed during this period. Thus, there is a discrepancy of 6,500 bombs. The amount of chemical agent in these bombs would be in the order of about 1,000 tonnes."
"Iraq appears not to have come to a genuine acceptance -- not even today -- of the disarmament, which was demanded of it and which it needs to carry out to win the confidence of the world and to live in peace."
"The recent inspection find in the private home of a scientist of a box of some 3,000 pages of documents, much of it relating to the laser enrichment of uranium support a concern that has long existed that documents might be distributed to the homes of private individuals.
"I have mentioned the issue of anthrax to the Council on previous occasions and I come back to it as it is an important one.
Iraq has declared that it produced about 8,500 litres of this biological warfare agent, which it states it unilaterally destroyed in the summer of 1991. Iraq has provided little evidence for this production and no convincing evidence for its destruction.
There are strong indications that Iraq produced more anthrax than it declared, and that at least some of this was retained after the declared destruction date. It might still exist. Either it should be found and be destroyed under UNMOVIC supervision or else convincing evidence should be produced to show that it was, indeed, destroyed in 1991."
Dr. Hans Blix, Chief UN Weapons Inspector
Addressing the UN Security Council
January 27, 2003
you mean there werent any inspectors before 99... oh wait there were...
"The Iraq story boiled over last night when the chief U.N. weapons inspector, Richard Butler, said that Iraq had not fully cooperated with inspectors and--as they had promised to do. As a result, the U.N. ordered its inspectors to leave Iraq this morning"
--Katie Couric, NBC's Today, 12/16/98 ------
dont you just hate it when facts get in the way of a good hate-on?
Here are a few...
"As a member of the House Intelligence Committee, I am keenly aware that the proliferation of chemical and biological weapons is an issue of grave importance to all nations. Saddam Hussein has been engaged in the development of weapons of mass destruction technology which is a threat to countries in the region and he has made a mockery of the weapons inspection process." Congresswoman Nancy Pelosi (Democrat, California), Statement on US Led Military Strike Against Iraq, December 16, 1998
"In the next century, the community of nations may see more and more the very kind of threat Iraq poses now -- a rogue state with weapons of mass destruction ready to use them or provide them to terrorists, drug traffickers or organized criminals who travel the world among us unnoticed. If we fail to respond today, Saddam and all those who would follow in his footsteps will be emboldened tomorrow by the knowledge that they can act with impunity, even in the face of a clear message from the United Nations Security Council and clear evidence of a weapons of mass destruction program." President Clinton, Address to Joint Chiefs of Staff and Pentagon staff. February 17, 1998
"The hard fact is that so long as Saddam remains in power, he threatens the well-being of his people, the peace of his region, the security of the world. The best way to end that threat once and for all is with a new Iraqi government -- a government ready to live in peace with its neighbors, a government that respects the rights of its people." President Clinton, Oval Office Address to the American People, December 16, 1998
"Imagine the consequences if Saddam fails to comply and we fail to act. Saddam will be emboldened, believing the international community has lost its will. He will rebuild his arsenal of weapons of mass destruction. And some day, some way, I am certain, he will use that arsenal again, as he has ten times since 1983." Sandy Berger, President Clinton's National Security Advisor, Town Hall Meeting on Iraq at Ohio State University, February 18, 1998
"No one has done what Saddam Hussein has done, or is thinking of doing. He is producing weapons of mass destruction, and he is qualitatively and quantitatively different from other dictators." Madeleine Albright, President Clinton's Secretary of State, Town Hall Meeting on Iraq at Ohio State University, February 18, 1998
Clinton, Pelosi, Albright, all said in 1998... two years BEFORE Bush was elected that Iraq was a threat...
Who sought to decieve?
"As a member of the House Intelligence Committee, I am keenly aware that the proliferation of chemical and biological weapons is an issue of grave importance to all nations. Saddam Hussein has been engaged in the development of weapons of mass destruction technology which is a threat to countries in the region and he has made a mockery of the weapons inspection process." Congresswoman Nancy Pelosi (Democrat, California), Statement on US Led Military Strike Against Iraq, December 16, 1998
"In the next century, the community of nations may see more and more the very kind of threat Iraq poses now -- a rogue state with weapons of mass destruction ready to use them or provide them to terrorists, drug traffickers or organized criminals who travel the world among us unnoticed. If we fail to respond today, Saddam and all those who would follow in his footsteps will be emboldened tomorrow by the knowledge that they can act with impunity, even in the face of a clear message from the United Nations Security Council and clear evidence of a weapons of mass destruction program." President Clinton, Address to Joint Chiefs of Staff and Pentagon staff. February 17, 1998
"The hard fact is that so long as Saddam remains in power, he threatens the well-being of his people, the peace of his region, the security of the world. The best way to end that threat once and for all is with a new Iraqi government -- a government ready to live in peace with its neighbors, a government that respects the rights of its people." President Clinton, Oval Office Address to the American People, December 16, 1998
"Imagine the consequences if Saddam fails to comply and we fail to act. Saddam will be emboldened, believing the international community has lost its will. He will rebuild his arsenal of weapons of mass destruction. And some day, some way, I am certain, he will use that arsenal again, as he has ten times since 1983." Sandy Berger, President Clinton's National Security Advisor, Town Hall Meeting on Iraq at Ohio State University, February 18, 1998
"No one has done what Saddam Hussein has done, or is thinking of doing. He is producing weapons of mass destruction, and he is qualitatively and quantitatively different from other dictators." Madeleine Albright, President Clinton's Secretary of State, Town Hall Meeting on Iraq at Ohio State University, February 18, 1998
those that thrive on it will go underground, out of the public eye, recruiting more members.
they serve as an example... a bad example
yes and no... the IBM compatible PC won out over Apple... you could have your choice of "X" machines that all run windows, or an apple.
Standard interface with more "other" options wins out over standard interface with few "other" options...
kinda like the old Henry Ford quote... you can have any color you want as long as its black
more than half of those can be applied to the envorinmental movement as well...
funny its coming from a UK source where they have cameras everywhere and monitors on cars
must be a bunch of people feeling guilty sitting in their made in china pants wearing their made in china shoes typing on their made in china computers that sits on their made in china desks to mark this off topic...
The US gov't deals favorably with CHina every day
other US corporations manufacture their goods in China every day
US citizens buy the products made in China every day
every day we empower china with our $$$ and our looking away...
but is it easy to turn off the fluff... it took me a bit to figure it out on XP at work when I first got it, Im guessing many people still have the teletubby background on their XP boxes becasue they dont know what they are doing.
for some reason MS has been trying to outdo Apple on the "pretty" aspect of the desktop... maybe they didnt notice, but Apple only has 10%(?) of the market. People was a windows machine that works... my XP desktop looks identical to my win2k and my old win98 desktops...
Seriously, I know its the parent's responsibility to raise their children right (ask 100 parents to define "right", and you will get 100 different answers), but parents can't be there all the time, and once kids get mobile, whats to stop them from doing stupid stuff? I know I did...
Are you for removing the restrictions on alcohol, tobacco, firearms & movies (including porn)?
How about restrictions on driving?
How about the age of consentual sex or entering into binding contracts?
Whats the difference?
Why draw the line on video games?
If a parent doesnt mind, there is nothing in the law (that I saw) that prevented them from playing them... the parent can go out and buy it for them. Parents have a hard enough time now, two parents almost HAVE to work, this isnt the 1950's anymore...
yeah, because everyone can afford 10k for a turntable
I dont plan to get rid of them, becasue as long as there are evil people, they will find a way to kill other people Columbine is a great example, in a way, we should be thankfull they went on a shooting spree, becasue if those propane bombs had been better tended to there would have been a lot more death...
Fully Automatic weapons have been heavily regulated since the mid 1930s. they had nothing to do with the assualt "weapon" ban or the Brady act
what's sad was they voted down concealed carry on campus last year...8
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