This still doesn't avoid the problem of kids being labeled - and you have ignored several aspects of learning that this method teaches that are never graded. One everyone is together, the smarter ones help the slower ones. The lessons of patience with those with lesser abilities and the ability to impart knowledge acquired by the more talented among us are essential life skills, without which society would be far poorer.
This is a tool for intelligence analysts. They just write reports and hand them off to people who do have the clearance. I'd be willing to bet good money that the people who make operational decisions are not the ones using this tool.
But a school system that sacrifices the very best students in an effort to cater to the very worst - that isn't a good strategy for any society.
Why is it that I only hear this from smart kids who whine about having been bored in school?
There is one very good reason why the public school system has consistently told people like you to get bent. If you track students by ability - all the smart kids together, all the average kids together, all the dumb kids together - you are flushing the dumb ones down the toilet. Even the biggest idiot knows that he has been labeled stupid, and will perform to your expectations. You'll never get them back after that. Conversely, in our current system - you may have been bored, but I'd lay even money you turned out just fine. You didn't need the help. You were just a spoiled brat who couldn't think of anyone besides yourself. (Says the former spoiled brat who had his eyes opened by a much less intelligent, but much wiser man than me. Thanks Josh.)
This is most certainly religion based. Everyone should bear in mind that North America was originally colonized by people kicked out of Britain for being too uptight.
Because that isn't the global warming argument, and you know it. We have very real data that shows average temperatures are warming, and at a much faster rate than we are aware of in our planet's history. This is undeniable. One theory is that this warming trend is cause by the industrial revolution. We are releasing millions of years of sequestered carbon into the atmosphere in a matter of decades. This is also undeniable.
The rest is a cost benefit analysis. If we act, and this theory is wrong, we get cleaner air and waste billions of dollars. If we don't act, and this theory is right, millions of people could die. If you want to take risks, go for it. The rest of us are going to play it safe. Fortunately for us, there are more of us than there are of you.
Al Gore's "inconvenient truth" (really Big Fat Lie, which makes him Big Fat Liar) not only was less scientifically accurate than the sci-fi movie "The Day After Tomorrow", but is actually banned from being shown to schoolkids in Britain because it is so inaccurate.
Bullshit. They found nine "errors", assertions were the facts were disputed - things like the snowcap on Kilimanjaro is disappearing due to human activity (no one argues that it is disappearing). The film can be released to schoolkids as long as those errors are clarified.
Much of "climate science" is turning out the same way. NASA's major climate "researcher" James Hansen has been repeatedly caught doctoring his data when it didn't support his predetermined conclusions.
In several minutes of searching, I am able to find no credible, objective evidence of this (no, Fox News is not credible or objective).
And if people like you add up to more than 1% of the market, I'd be shocked. Face facts - only the geekiest of geeks go to LAN parties. I've done it, and had a great time doing it - but I might know two other people who have, and I know lots of gamers.
go to the St. Louis Post Dispatch website and read the comments. Whenever I begin to have faith in humanity, I go there and am reminded that I am surrounded by idiot racist filth.
This is great advice. However, you need to realize that what you love is playing games. This is not the same thing as programming/designing them - much like driver a car has little to do with building one.
When your only tool is duct tape, you'll try it for everything. Too bad it didn't work on Iraq or the economy. But, hey, you could get lucky this time.
You are wrong, mind-numbingly, disturbingly, incomprehensibly wrong. It's as though you just commented in all seriousness that the sun and the moon are the same thing. Not only are you wrong now, but you are wrong in the past and almost certainly the future. You are wrong on so throughly, so completely, that whenever I try to write a cohesive rebuttal my mind falls dizzyingly lurches into a dark chasm where the word "What?" echoes endlessly into the void.
St. Louis. It's not New York, but it still has world class attractions (#1 zoo in the country, top 10 symphony and art museum). I live fifteen minutes from just about anywhere I could want to be, including downtown. Has one of the best costs of living in the country (to maintain my buying power in a move to San Francisco my income would have to double), great place to raise a family - lots of free or low cost things to do with the kids. Best of all, I drive an hour in any direction and I'm in the woods. The weather has a lot of variety, and it is flyover country, but it has a lot to offer.
At the risk of having a SWOOSH pointed in my general direction, Who's On First is one of the most famous comedy routines of all time, and it has nothing to do with a cartoon.
Lincoln destroyed states rights and set the stage for the all encompassing federal government we have today. He should have just let the South go.
If the choice is between state's rights and allow slavery to continue, well that's a no-brainer for me. The fact that it isn't for you really makes me question your humanity.
Countries don't exist. They aren't real. People are. As soon as you put the country before the people, you open yourself to atrocity.
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This still doesn't avoid the problem of kids being labeled - and you have ignored several aspects of learning that this method teaches that are never graded. One everyone is together, the smarter ones help the slower ones. The lessons of patience with those with lesser abilities and the ability to impart knowledge acquired by the more talented among us are essential life skills, without which society would be far poorer.
I sincerely hope for your own sake that you are kidding. Dehumanizing people is the first step to great evil.
This is a tool for intelligence analysts. They just write reports and hand them off to people who do have the clearance. I'd be willing to bet good money that the people who make operational decisions are not the ones using this tool.
Why is it that I only hear this from smart kids who whine about having been bored in school?
There is one very good reason why the public school system has consistently told people like you to get bent. If you track students by ability - all the smart kids together, all the average kids together, all the dumb kids together - you are flushing the dumb ones down the toilet. Even the biggest idiot knows that he has been labeled stupid, and will perform to your expectations. You'll never get them back after that. Conversely, in our current system - you may have been bored, but I'd lay even money you turned out just fine. You didn't need the help. You were just a spoiled brat who couldn't think of anyone besides yourself. (Says the former spoiled brat who had his eyes opened by a much less intelligent, but much wiser man than me. Thanks Josh.)
This is most certainly religion based. Everyone should bear in mind that North America was originally colonized by people kicked out of Britain for being too uptight.
Read the freaking headline. It say "can be shown".
The rest is a cost benefit analysis. If we act, and this theory is wrong, we get cleaner air and waste billions of dollars. If we don't act, and this theory is right, millions of people could die. If you want to take risks, go for it. The rest of us are going to play it safe. Fortunately for us, there are more of us than there are of you.
Bullshit. They found nine "errors", assertions were the facts were disputed - things like the snowcap on Kilimanjaro is disappearing due to human activity (no one argues that it is disappearing). The film can be released to schoolkids as long as those errors are clarified.
Much of "climate science" is turning out the same way. NASA's major climate "researcher" James Hansen has been repeatedly caught doctoring his data when it didn't support his predetermined conclusions.
In several minutes of searching, I am able to find no credible, objective evidence of this (no, Fox News is not credible or objective).
And we are fat because the least expensive foods are all terrible for you, thanks to subsidizes to big agriculture.
And if people like you add up to more than 1% of the market, I'd be shocked. Face facts - only the geekiest of geeks go to LAN parties. I've done it, and had a great time doing it - but I might know two other people who have, and I know lots of gamers.
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Whoever modded this flamebait obviously doesn't live in St. Louis.
Pick a crime story where the offenders are not explicitly white. Man, it gets ugly quick.
go to the St. Louis Post Dispatch website and read the comments. Whenever I begin to have faith in humanity, I go there and am reminded that I am surrounded by idiot racist filth.
But I love St. Louis. Really.
This is great advice. However, you need to realize that what you love is playing games. This is not the same thing as programming/designing them - much like driver a car has little to do with building one.
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When your only tool is duct tape, you'll try it for everything. Too bad it didn't work on Iraq or the economy. But, hey, you could get lucky this time.
I'd be concerned - if the 7th circuit wasn't a US court. TPB is not in the US, in case you didn't know.
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St. Louis. It's not New York, but it still has world class attractions (#1 zoo in the country, top 10 symphony and art museum). I live fifteen minutes from just about anywhere I could want to be, including downtown. Has one of the best costs of living in the country (to maintain my buying power in a move to San Francisco my income would have to double), great place to raise a family - lots of free or low cost things to do with the kids. Best of all, I drive an hour in any direction and I'm in the woods. The weather has a lot of variety, and it is flyover country, but it has a lot to offer.
Writer. Rainmaker is a John Grisham novel. He's also a lawyer.
At the risk of having a SWOOSH pointed in my general direction, Who's On First is one of the most famous comedy routines of all time, and it has nothing to do with a cartoon.
Yes, yes you are. Now for the love of god go get laid.
If the choice is between state's rights and allow slavery to continue, well that's a no-brainer for me. The fact that it isn't for you really makes me question your humanity.
Countries don't exist. They aren't real. People are. As soon as you put the country before the people, you open yourself to atrocity.
Thanks man, I appreciate it. It's people like you that keep me getting out of bed every day.