The point was that 3.1 can handle a lot of computing tasks that actually seem slower on modern software+hardware.
Mind you, I'm not sure it's been a bad thing overall - if we could all run Vista with our computers from 1995, we probably would, and chip progress would probably have been slowed quite a bit.
And where did it get you? Is abortion illegal? Is it likely to be made illegal anytime soon?
With the backlash against all of the other crap Bush stands for, it's quite possible that your vote was a vote *against* your beliefs, since the Republican star is now falling, and you're not likely to find a Democrat who will fight against abortion rights.
Mind you, you're not likely to find a Republican who does much more about abortion rights than the Dems - aside from more cheap talk.
I don't know if the UN would be exactly "too glad", but I agree that that's about the only way to get rid of this Hot Potato - pass it on. An added bonus is that the main target of Iraqi ire would no longer be the most visible occupier, and hell - maybe there would actually be enough troops. Could the UN say "no"?
If the current administration wants to stay in power, they're not going to simply put off an election - they'd find another puppet who hasn't hit the two-term limit yet, thus maintaining the illusion that there's been a transfer of power.
I'd just like to point out that evolution is *not* stopping. There is plenty of social selection going on. People with telepathy would be incredibly well-suited for this type of selection, and could have taken over (mated with) the whole gene pool in the time humans have been at our level of intelligence.
It might be an age thing. I was into Goodkind until my twenties. Piers Anthony too.
Actually, the Goodkind book that turned me off the series was (I forget the name) the one where they went to that land with the huge stone bells, and absolutely nothing happened that involved the main story line. If you're going to make a continuous series, I want some continuity.
I've been writing my code on a paranoid basis for a long time - all my queries are built by a class that does its own escaping. I wish I'd known about this earlier.
You spent a lot of time explaining that the reason you home-school had nothing to do with protecting your child, then immediately state that you were picked on as a child.
Nah, I'm not the original poster. I actually believe that children would be better off "protected" from the school system, since the whole setup seems unnatural and unhealthy to me.
I get the feeling you (and if not you, a lot of other here) view homeschooling as one or both parents sitting with the child for eight hours a day, with some breaks for "recess" or whatever. Homeschooling doesn't have to be like that. As a kid I could have learned what I had to in three or four hours, and spent the rest exploring on my own. If there are other homeschoolers in the area, there's no reason not to learn collaboratively. Basically, I don't agree that homeschooling is "parents replacing school". It's a completely different educational environment replacing school - and one that I believe is far healthier than school.
This is like saying the Postal Service is responsible if a letter I write in Sanskrit arrives at its destination in Sanskrit instead of English.
It's not like that at all. If it were, then the Postal Service would be held responsible if a letter you wrote in Sanskrit arrived at its destination in Sanskrit instead of English.
Not for something like Iraq, but for something like WW2, it could certainly happen.
Here in Canada, citizens voted *for* conscription in WW2. In a situation where you know that half of young men will have to go to war, are willing to go if required, but would prefer not to - draft is the fairest way to apportion the responsibility.
The only thing I learned from bullies was that I should avoid them, since I don't know how to deal with them and they only make my life worse.
I'm glad that you were able to take something away from your experiences, but my education suffered because of the very people you credit with helping yours. Homeschooling couldn't possibly have left me any more anti-social than I am now.
I don't know if it's been pointed out yet, but if there are other homeschoolers in your area, it makes great sense to pool your resources so that individual parents teach what they're good at. Think of it as a small school where the teachers actually care - and kids can get some real contact with people outside their age group (not that it doesn't happen in schools, but it's far more rare).
I'd be interested to hear your thoughts on the following:
I grew up in a county with about 5 non-white families. Am I incapable of learning to live with other cultures?
I went to a school where I was picked on for being smart (or maybe being a smart-ass - I can't remember) - am I any less "indifferent and distant" than I would have been in a more healthy social situation - albeit with less children?
My parents were aware of all my friends growing up - did that mean that we didn't do whatever the hell we wanted when they weren't looking?
The plural of "anecdote" is not "data", but you can still glean some information.
Look at this thread, and any other thread involving home-schooling you've seen on/. in the past. In general, the people with direct experience with homeschooling have nothing bad to say about it. The people complaining about "socializing" or any other complaints have never actually tried it, and don't mention any specific people they know who have. The only exception are the religious-nut homeschoolers, and even then it's usually "but aside from believing the world is 6000 years old, he was remarkably well-adjusted and intelligent".
Of course, maybe there's another explanation - maybe poorly-schooled homeschoolers are so stupid that they can't even work a computer to post here. But I'm surprised no one here has heard of such people.
That's a reasonable attitude if you've got nothing you particularly care about on your system. But I wouldn't ridicule people who have a higher standard of security.
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The point was that 3.1 can handle a lot of computing tasks that actually seem slower on modern software+hardware.
Mind you, I'm not sure it's been a bad thing overall - if we could all run Vista with our computers from 1995, we probably would, and chip progress would probably have been slowed quite a bit.
Speaking of wrong logic, "only iff" is redundant.
Fine, buy my anti-tiger rock then.
Another is memory.
Maybe I'm stuck in 2002, but aren't we still using memory that has to be written to a billion (hyperbole) times a second or lose its value?
And where did it get you? Is abortion illegal? Is it likely to be made illegal anytime soon?
With the backlash against all of the other crap Bush stands for, it's quite possible that your vote was a vote *against* your beliefs, since the Republican star is now falling, and you're not likely to find a Democrat who will fight against abortion rights.
Mind you, you're not likely to find a Republican who does much more about abortion rights than the Dems - aside from more cheap talk.
Face it - you were duped.
I don't know if the UN would be exactly "too glad", but I agree that that's about the only way to get rid of this Hot Potato - pass it on. An added bonus is that the main target of Iraqi ire would no longer be the most visible occupier, and hell - maybe there would actually be enough troops. Could the UN say "no"?
If the current administration wants to stay in power, they're not going to simply put off an election - they'd find another puppet who hasn't hit the two-term limit yet, thus maintaining the illusion that there's been a transfer of power.
Not to mention the source he works for - I'm as bleeding heart as they get, but Capital Hill Blue is the TheOnion of political news.
Nah - the NSA is now probing in Morse code using revolutionary new "Radio Waves" - hence "Wireless Tapping"
It's not hard at all - take a look at his links.
I'd just like to point out that evolution is *not* stopping. There is plenty of social selection going on. People with telepathy would be incredibly well-suited for this type of selection, and could have taken over (mated with) the whole gene pool in the time humans have been at our level of intelligence.
It might be an age thing. I was into Goodkind until my twenties. Piers Anthony too.
Actually, the Goodkind book that turned me off the series was (I forget the name) the one where they went to that land with the huge stone bells, and absolutely nothing happened that involved the main story line. If you're going to make a continuous series, I want some continuity.
I've been writing my code on a paranoid basis for a long time - all my queries are built by a class that does its own escaping. I wish I'd known about this earlier.
Good point, but with all of the other anti-homeschooling pressures out there, I wouldn't expect homeschooling to survive if it also didn't work.
Maybe their vision of an "enterprise search" is something like a search engine, not a method of selling eyeballs to advertisers.
You spent a lot of time explaining that the reason you home-school had nothing to do with protecting your child, then immediately state that you were picked on as a child.
Nah, I'm not the original poster. I actually believe that children would be better off "protected" from the school system, since the whole setup seems unnatural and unhealthy to me.
I get the feeling you (and if not you, a lot of other here) view homeschooling as one or both parents sitting with the child for eight hours a day, with some breaks for "recess" or whatever. Homeschooling doesn't have to be like that. As a kid I could have learned what I had to in three or four hours, and spent the rest exploring on my own. If there are other homeschoolers in the area, there's no reason not to learn collaboratively. Basically, I don't agree that homeschooling is "parents replacing school". It's a completely different educational environment replacing school - and one that I believe is far healthier than school.
This is like saying the Postal Service is responsible if a letter I write in Sanskrit arrives at its destination in Sanskrit instead of English.
It's not like that at all. If it were, then the Postal Service would be held responsible if a letter you wrote in Sanskrit arrived at its destination in Sanskrit instead of English.
Not for something like Iraq, but for something like WW2, it could certainly happen.
Here in Canada, citizens voted *for* conscription in WW2. In a situation where you know that half of young men will have to go to war, are willing to go if required, but would prefer not to - draft is the fairest way to apportion the responsibility.
For the record, I agree - that post was nigh unreadable.
The only thing I learned from bullies was that I should avoid them, since I don't know how to deal with them and they only make my life worse.
I'm glad that you were able to take something away from your experiences, but my education suffered because of the very people you credit with helping yours. Homeschooling couldn't possibly have left me any more anti-social than I am now.
I don't know if it's been pointed out yet, but if there are other homeschoolers in your area, it makes great sense to pool your resources so that individual parents teach what they're good at. Think of it as a small school where the teachers actually care - and kids can get some real contact with people outside their age group (not that it doesn't happen in schools, but it's far more rare).
I'd be interested to hear your thoughts on the following:
I grew up in a county with about 5 non-white families. Am I incapable of learning to live with other cultures?
I went to a school where I was picked on for being smart (or maybe being a smart-ass - I can't remember) - am I any less "indifferent and distant" than I would have been in a more healthy social situation - albeit with less children?
My parents were aware of all my friends growing up - did that mean that we didn't do whatever the hell we wanted when they weren't looking?
The plural of "anecdote" is not "data", but you can still glean some information.
/. in the past. In general, the people with direct experience with homeschooling have nothing bad to say about it. The people complaining about "socializing" or any other complaints have never actually tried it, and don't mention any specific people they know who have. The only exception are the religious-nut homeschoolers, and even then it's usually "but aside from believing the world is 6000 years old, he was remarkably well-adjusted and intelligent".
Look at this thread, and any other thread involving home-schooling you've seen on
Of course, maybe there's another explanation - maybe poorly-schooled homeschoolers are so stupid that they can't even work a computer to post here. But I'm surprised no one here has heard of such people.
That's a reasonable attitude if you've got nothing you particularly care about on your system. But I wouldn't ridicule people who have a higher standard of security.
I think we agree - I think you just have more trust in your government to make reasonable decisions than I do. I'd rather you be right than me.