Its like this with everything new, first we see the benefits and rejoice. We ridicule dissenters and pooh at their naivety only to realize a few years later that they had a point and we were being naive. Since by then some have learned to bend the relatively benign into something malignant and corrosive and we have to learn to deal with it.
I agree. The problem is that we primates arent inoculated with enough skepticism and patience to handle todays means of news distribution. Someone posts something and in a few hours its known all over the world, true or not.
50 mSv is an allowed maximum yearly dose for workers in a radiation environment. At least here in Sweden you can get ordered to take 100 mSv in an emergency (or wartime), and then another 100 if neccessary, and so on up to a maximum of 500. Of course, thats if there is no other option. 5 mSv is, as many others have said, not very much. Hell, its less than medical techs get every year.
Actually Germany paid back a lot of debt involuntarily. The eastern parts of Germany, occupied by the Soviet Union, was thoroughly pillaged in an organized and orderly manner. Everything from railroad cars and toilet seats to complete disassembled factories was sent east. The railcars didnt even have the same gauge, but the Soviets didnt care. Add to that slave labour by millions of German POW:s in Gulags for many years, all intended to pay back the Soviet people. So, in 1953 when Germany was formally divided the debt was unpayable due to geopolitical considerations. Germany got a haircut on the debt, the GDR paid back the rest of it, the DDR didnt pay a single dollar.
Greece needs reforms and probably some serious debt relief, but not beacuse of Germany or the ECB or the IMF, but because of corruption and a taxation culture that is completely inadequate for a modern country.
Or, just go with "Halting state" and "Rule 34" by the same author, a lot of the predictions in those two books have actually come true just a few years after publication...
Nope. Everyone gets the same coverage. Its paid by your employer, you never see that money on your payslip even. There are no tiers. Taxes are high, but we actually get good stuff for it. Despite the taxes we have the one of the highest standards of living in the world.
There is private insurance that basically lets you cut the line in certain cases, mainly ailments where an operation isnt time critical. We do have a few small private specialist hospitals that accept patients that pay their own way, but they work within the system as well. I had an operation on one of these hospitals, paid for by the standard single-payer insurance. Worked just like on any other hospital.
Avpixlat is a sewer of anonymous bigotry, lies and propaganda supported by SD, a political party whose prominent members of parliament enjoy taking drunken walks on the streets of Stockholm with iron pipes in case someone wants to mess with them. Fria tider is even worse, its thinly disguised white supremacist bullshit. Yes, we have asshole bigots in Sweden as well.
Fractions are important for later mathematics and for understanding things like percentages, decimal notation, scale, parts of the whole, ratios, I could go on. Early work in fractions helps foster a better way for kids to think about mathematics. We use few fractional measurements in Sweden, but its still an important mathematical concept. Also, using graphical representations of fractions frequently leads to misunderstandings or fixations on fractions being just pieces of a pie. When you actually try to do math beyone adding up to one whole pie, bar, octagon or whatever a lot of students hit a brick wall unless you have worked with multiple representations and thinking about fractions as numbers, not pieces of a given whole.
Why on earth would you lock down an iPad? We have about 100 iPads at my school (its 1-1, iPads for 10-12 and laptops/chromebooks for the older kids) and very few technical glitches. But then, ours arent locked down and are on an open wireless network. I have no problem managing the use of the iPads in my classsroom, they are used when and how I say. Sysadmins and others tend to have a very narrow focus on tech in schools, at least thats my experience. Open standards and a good infrastructure is whats needed, not lockdowns, bureacracy and management.
The device itself is a tool, its what I as a teacher do with it that makes a difference. I teach math and science at a school near Stockholm in Sweden. All my students in math turned in their own video explaining how to separate any number into ones, tens, hundreds and so on the other week. I get the kids to think and act and I get a great overview of their math vocabulary and basic thinking. We use it to watch videos with short lessons and explanations of problems, to do homework and write on our classroom blog.
We use them for documenting science projects by writing, snapping pictures and making videos, we train multiplication tables and watch clips from Youtube and sources like myself and other teachers at the school.
The iPad is a complementary tool for my teaching. What I teach doesnt change when you add technology, but how I can teach and how the kids can learn does. Last year I had three computers and 34 kids at a different school. I still teach the same things, but I can do a lot more in the same time now.
You are missing the point. iPads cant replace teachers, they are a tool. A very useful one, but they cant replace humans. Teaching takes a lot more than just telling the kids which page to start reading from or grading homework. Sure, some stuff can be bought canned, and I know of your fondness for multiple choice tests over there, but its not enough if you want real results.
Maybe it includes some infrastructure money as well. Network infrastructure for 640,000 iPads wont come cheap, will it ? Deploying wireless access points in schools is a pain as no school looks like the other and the (generally) concrete construction doesnt help. I know we had some issues with wildly varying costs in our small school district, and that was for a smallish network, not one capable of several hundred simultaneous connections per school.
With drones alone the US has "avenged" the 9/11 attacks more than enough. Add to that the Iraq war, the Afghanistan mess and the various other campaigns you are involved in and you are way beyond any kind of proportional response.
Handling cash costs money as well for the retailers. It adds costs for safes, armoured cars to pick it up, fees from the banks for counting and processing the bills. It also increases the robbery risk and the cost of insurance. There is always a cost of doing business. Having the treasury kick the CC companies in the nuts if they raise fees on a oligopolistic market is a better way of handling the surcharges.
Teaching is like carpentry. Most people can figure out how to use a hammer, saw, nails and some planks to make a useable chair. Making a Windsor chair is a different thing. Or, a more slashdottian example: most people can learn how to make a "Hello world" by reading a book, but it takes a bit more to write kernel modules for Linux.
Technology probably (not scientifically proven yet) has quite a bit to offer in the field of teaching, but its not a replacement for teachers. If you want to know what works (scientifically proven) , try John Hatties metastudy of metastudies, "Visible Learning". He shows that feedback and more importantly, feed forward and feed up, are key elements of improving learning in the classroom.
Nope. The greatest threat to personal liberty in the US comes from the military-industrial complex you have let fester and the paranoia that seems to be the basic state of many americans. Personal liberty is only encroached upon by government if there is a demand for it from its citizens to give them "security". Just like with the bomber gap and the missile gap you quickly closed the terror gap when the citizens screamed. And hey, "security" has a price.
Morally there is very little difference between terrorists killing people they disagree with using IED:s and rifles and the US using drones to do the same.
Nope. The US problem is that you have built all your cities for cars instead of for people. Rural areas are about the same in any western country, you will need a car for some things. I live in Sweden and in the countryside most people need cars to get around as well. Our cities however are built for people, with sidewalks, bicycle lanes and decent public transport.
Having a car engine designed for gas mileage instead of as a penis extension also helps a lot with gas costs. I was in the US last summer and drove around the south with my brother. The car was a small, normal car but it used at least 1.1 litre of gas per 10 km. A comparable car in Europe uses something like 0,6-0,7 litres per 10 km. Plenty of cars are avilable over here that use 0,4-0,5 litres per 10 km, and no, they arent just Priuses.
All this hand-wringing about fracking is a mirage from the looney anti-fossil-fuel greens. There have never been any proven detrimental impacts from fracking when done with modern techniques. Fracking, our golden chance for energy independence, is being attacked as if these dangers were proven beyond a shadow of a doubt, as opposed to lacking a shred of hard evidence behind them.
If the greens succeed in killing this opportunity to end our dependence on foreign oil, I hope they will be proud the next time we go to war to defend our oil lifeline.
...except for seismic events when faults slip due to increased lubrication, contamination of groundwater and increased hydrocarbon emissions from the fracking sites. But I guess you can hand out disposable dust masks and BRITA water filters. Problem solved ?
Meh, accidental AC
The iPad is already a market leader and theres keyboards available for it if you want the laptoppy thing. ARM MacBook makes total sense, the MacBook Air has two main selling points : small and pretty. ARM lets you go even smaller and still have battery life enough. Noone buys a MacBook air for its raw numbercrunching potential anyways.
You have no clue. The Swedish government gives almost 400 million SEK to Cambodia because it is run by the Illuminati and they want anakata for a ritual sacrifice. The sacrifice will take place on december 21st at Angkor Wat and stave off the end off the world as prophesied by the mayans. See, I just constructed a news story with equal truth content based on the same figures. Which one do you prefer ?
Through a combination of his inability to control his penis and lack of judgment Mr Assange has sentenced himself to a life in Ecuador. I think that probably qualifies as cruel and unusual punishment for a narcissist like him. It must have been a harsh awakening when he found out that the laws of both Sweden and the UK applied even to Internet celebrities.
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Primates, eh?
I agree. The problem is that we primates arent inoculated with enough skepticism and patience to handle todays means of news distribution. Someone posts something and in a few hours its known all over the world, true or not.
50 mSv is an allowed maximum yearly dose for workers in a radiation environment. At least here in Sweden you can get ordered to take 100 mSv in an emergency (or wartime), and then another 100 if neccessary, and so on up to a maximum of 500. Of course, thats if there is no other option. 5 mSv is, as many others have said, not very much. Hell, its less than medical techs get every year.
Greece needs reforms and probably some serious debt relief, but not beacuse of Germany or the ECB or the IMF, but because of corruption and a taxation culture that is completely inadequate for a modern country.
I charge my phone at least once a day, the cable is just as good today as when i bought it, 500 days ago. Micro-USB is a good standard.
Or, just go with "Halting state" and "Rule 34" by the same author, a lot of the predictions in those two books have actually come true just a few years after publication...
There is private insurance that basically lets you cut the line in certain cases, mainly ailments where an operation isnt time critical. We do have a few small private specialist hospitals that accept patients that pay their own way, but they work within the system as well. I had an operation on one of these hospitals, paid for by the standard single-payer insurance. Worked just like on any other hospital.
Avpixlat is a sewer of anonymous bigotry, lies and propaganda supported by SD, a political party whose prominent members of parliament enjoy taking drunken walks on the streets of Stockholm with iron pipes in case someone wants to mess with them. Fria tider is even worse, its thinly disguised white supremacist bullshit. Yes, we have asshole bigots in Sweden as well.
Fractions are important for later mathematics and for understanding things like percentages, decimal notation, scale, parts of the whole, ratios, I could go on. Early work in fractions helps foster a better way for kids to think about mathematics. We use few fractional measurements in Sweden, but its still an important mathematical concept. Also, using graphical representations of fractions frequently leads to misunderstandings or fixations on fractions being just pieces of a pie. When you actually try to do math beyone adding up to one whole pie, bar, octagon or whatever a lot of students hit a brick wall unless you have worked with multiple representations and thinking about fractions as numbers, not pieces of a given whole.
Why on earth would you lock down an iPad? We have about 100 iPads at my school (its 1-1, iPads for 10-12 and laptops/chromebooks for the older kids) and very few technical glitches. But then, ours arent locked down and are on an open wireless network. I have no problem managing the use of the iPads in my classsroom, they are used when and how I say. Sysadmins and others tend to have a very narrow focus on tech in schools, at least thats my experience. Open standards and a good infrastructure is whats needed, not lockdowns, bureacracy and management.
The device itself is a tool, its what I as a teacher do with it that makes a difference. I teach math and science at a school near Stockholm in Sweden. All my students in math turned in their own video explaining how to separate any number into ones, tens, hundreds and so on the other week. I get the kids to think and act and I get a great overview of their math vocabulary and basic thinking. We use it to watch videos with short lessons and explanations of problems, to do homework and write on our classroom blog. We use them for documenting science projects by writing, snapping pictures and making videos, we train multiplication tables and watch clips from Youtube and sources like myself and other teachers at the school.
The iPad is a complementary tool for my teaching. What I teach doesnt change when you add technology, but how I can teach and how the kids can learn does. Last year I had three computers and 34 kids at a different school. I still teach the same things, but I can do a lot more in the same time now.
You are missing the point. iPads cant replace teachers, they are a tool. A very useful one, but they cant replace humans. Teaching takes a lot more than just telling the kids which page to start reading from or grading homework. Sure, some stuff can be bought canned, and I know of your fondness for multiple choice tests over there, but its not enough if you want real results.
Maybe it includes some infrastructure money as well. Network infrastructure for 640,000 iPads wont come cheap, will it ? Deploying wireless access points in schools is a pain as no school looks like the other and the (generally) concrete construction doesnt help. I know we had some issues with wildly varying costs in our small school district, and that was for a smallish network, not one capable of several hundred simultaneous connections per school.
With drones alone the US has "avenged" the 9/11 attacks more than enough. Add to that the Iraq war, the Afghanistan mess and the various other campaigns you are involved in and you are way beyond any kind of proportional response.
Considering the state of the AI art, any attempt at improving it is a step forward.
Its not illegal to homeschool in Sweden. You just need a better reason than "I dont wanna" to do it.
Handling cash costs money as well for the retailers. It adds costs for safes, armoured cars to pick it up, fees from the banks for counting and processing the bills. It also increases the robbery risk and the cost of insurance. There is always a cost of doing business. Having the treasury kick the CC companies in the nuts if they raise fees on a oligopolistic market is a better way of handling the surcharges.
Like Apple ? Hypocrisy alert!
Time to move to non-euclidian geometry for the next generation of devices. Consider this my dibs on all types of non-euclidian shapes and solids.
Teaching is like carpentry. Most people can figure out how to use a hammer, saw, nails and some planks to make a useable chair. Making a Windsor chair is a different thing. Or, a more slashdottian example: most people can learn how to make a "Hello world" by reading a book, but it takes a bit more to write kernel modules for Linux.
Technology probably (not scientifically proven yet) has quite a bit to offer in the field of teaching, but its not a replacement for teachers. If you want to know what works (scientifically proven) , try John Hatties metastudy of metastudies, "Visible Learning". He shows that feedback and more importantly, feed forward and feed up, are key elements of improving learning in the classroom.
Nope. The greatest threat to personal liberty in the US comes from the military-industrial complex you have let fester and the paranoia that seems to be the basic state of many americans. Personal liberty is only encroached upon by government if there is a demand for it from its citizens to give them "security". Just like with the bomber gap and the missile gap you quickly closed the terror gap when the citizens screamed. And hey, "security" has a price.
Morally there is very little difference between terrorists killing people they disagree with using IED:s and rifles and the US using drones to do the same.
Nope. The US problem is that you have built all your cities for cars instead of for people. Rural areas are about the same in any western country, you will need a car for some things. I live in Sweden and in the countryside most people need cars to get around as well. Our cities however are built for people, with sidewalks, bicycle lanes and decent public transport.
Having a car engine designed for gas mileage instead of as a penis extension also helps a lot with gas costs. I was in the US last summer and drove around the south with my brother. The car was a small, normal car but it used at least 1.1 litre of gas per 10 km. A comparable car in Europe uses something like 0,6-0,7 litres per 10 km. Plenty of cars are avilable over here that use 0,4-0,5 litres per 10 km, and no, they arent just Priuses.
All this hand-wringing about fracking is a mirage from the looney anti-fossil-fuel greens. There have never been any proven detrimental impacts from fracking when done with modern techniques. Fracking, our golden chance for energy independence, is being attacked as if these dangers were proven beyond a shadow of a doubt, as opposed to lacking a shred of hard evidence behind them.
If the greens succeed in killing this opportunity to end our dependence on foreign oil, I hope they will be proud the next time we go to war to defend our oil lifeline.
...except for seismic events when faults slip due to increased lubrication, contamination of groundwater and increased hydrocarbon emissions from the fracking sites. But I guess you can hand out disposable dust masks and BRITA water filters. Problem solved ?
Meh, accidental AC The iPad is already a market leader and theres keyboards available for it if you want the laptoppy thing. ARM MacBook makes total sense, the MacBook Air has two main selling points : small and pretty. ARM lets you go even smaller and still have battery life enough. Noone buys a MacBook air for its raw numbercrunching potential anyways.
You have no clue. The Swedish government gives almost 400 million SEK to Cambodia because it is run by the Illuminati and they want anakata for a ritual sacrifice. The sacrifice will take place on december 21st at Angkor Wat and stave off the end off the world as prophesied by the mayans. See, I just constructed a news story with equal truth content based on the same figures. Which one do you prefer ?
Through a combination of his inability to control his penis and lack of judgment Mr Assange has sentenced himself to a life in Ecuador. I think that probably qualifies as cruel and unusual punishment for a narcissist like him. It must have been a harsh awakening when he found out that the laws of both Sweden and the UK applied even to Internet celebrities.