There are charter schools, which are publicly funded schools that function more like private schools. They are not required to take all applicants but IIRC cannot pick and choose - they have lotteries for open spaces. Then there are voucher programs, where the state agrees to provide $X per student in funding regardless of where the child attends school. But the majority of public schools in the US are run by the county or municipality and funded by the state and the locality, and the majority of private schools are just that: private institutions that admit whoever they please and charge tuition for their funding.
I don't smoke or grow pot, but I do grow a couple of vegetables and fruits. I get probably twenty lemons a year off my small tree. Jalapeños, maybe thirty over the course of summer per plant. Basil, I get enough for maybe a couple of pints of pesto (and that is bulked up with pine nuts). It's a pleasant hobby and it is tasty, but it's not industrial production.
Please stop talking about Miley Cyrus. That performance was one of the worst things I've ever seen. Not because she decided to try to shock people - Madonna and Gaga have both done that excellently over the years - but because she failed so badly at being actually sexy. Creepy tongue, vag itch impression, ugh. The only decent thing that's come out of it is this.
No, the fact that you're a cheap douchebag puts you off from giving money. Kovid puts his product up for free. The download page asks for donations. He's doing important work - there is no other ebook management program I know of that has anything like the feature set of Calibre. I'd like him to give up his free time to work on it, so I give him money.
Who is to say which college graduate will be the one to start a business and employ people?
As a first approximation? The smart ones. Intelligence is real. Everyone knows this instinctively. Of course there are skill subsets, but broadly speaking intelligence makes any skill you have better: smart salesmen are much better salesmen than dumb ones, even if a programmer with a high IQ is worse at sales than a dumb salesman who has schmoozing ability.
We need to have fewer people in college. If you can't finish, you shouldn't go at all - you'd be better off getting a job and gaining experience instead of debt.
If you're independently wealthy or can convince your parents to pay, fine. If you want me to subsidize four years of partying leading to a degree in social work, you're on your own.
Independent studies show that the body can process and digest natural sugars (honey, beet, cane) but can not process HFCS. Natural News [naturalnews.com] has reported on numerous studies on the subject. Additive producers "claim" that they are the same, but they obviously have self interest in making such claims.
Sugars tend to cause increased calorie consumption. The causes and effects are hotly debated, of course, but the plausible mechanisms all involve some metabolic defect that causes the body to fail to recognize that adequate energy has been consumed, resulting in persistent hunger in the face of superabundant nutrition. Changing the composition of the food changes the results because some foods induce greater food consumption, and some foods provide better satiety value.
They changed rodent feed to make it cheaper and more long-lasting. The result is that rats, marmosets, and the like all get fat on a high-carb diet.
And this, children, is why you should always be skeptical of AC's. He makes a reference to roofies (misspelled, of course), the nickname for the drug flunitrazepam, brand name Rohypnol. Flunitrazepam is a member of the class of drugs called benzodiazepines, which work by increasing the frequency with which GABAergic chloride channels open and thus make the transmembrane cell potential of the neuron even more negative (i.e., less likely to fire).
In vivo, the predominant effect is mild euphoria and sedation accompanied by profound amnesia, making it the ideal date rapist's drug: the victim appears merely slightly drunk to onlookers, but remembers nothing the next day, making said rapist's story the only one available.
I'm an anesthesiologist with a longstanding personal interest in pharmacology. There are people on earth who know more than I do about drugs, but the odds are that you're not one of them.
However, for anyone else out there wondering where to start, I lost 80 pounds in seven months by eliminating carbohydrate from my diet. Fanatically. I ate under 10 g per day. I've relaxed that to 20-40 g/day now that I'm at goal weight so I can have a little more onion, occasional bit of fruit, etc. My experience has been that I am much happier than I ever was by trying to count calories directly, that my energy levels are considerably higher, and that it is much easier to handle cravings than hunger, which is ultimately the benefit of nutritional ketosis. I did not exercise at all until goal weight was achieved (family history of bad joints, don't want to push it). And my experience is not atypical - many keto dieters find that they lose 10-25 lbs the first month and 8-10 thereafter. My wife's exact words were, "You're melting away".
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There are charter schools, which are publicly funded schools that function more like private schools. They are not required to take all applicants but IIRC cannot pick and choose - they have lotteries for open spaces. Then there are voucher programs, where the state agrees to provide $X per student in funding regardless of where the child attends school. But the majority of public schools in the US are run by the county or municipality and funded by the state and the locality, and the majority of private schools are just that: private institutions that admit whoever they please and charge tuition for their funding.
I don't smoke or grow pot, but I do grow a couple of vegetables and fruits. I get probably twenty lemons a year off my small tree. Jalapeños, maybe thirty over the course of summer per plant. Basil, I get enough for maybe a couple of pints of pesto (and that is bulked up with pine nuts). It's a pleasant hobby and it is tasty, but it's not industrial production.
The delivery sucked, that's the problem.
She failed to deliver.
Please stop talking about Miley Cyrus. That performance was one of the worst things I've ever seen. Not because she decided to try to shock people - Madonna and Gaga have both done that excellently over the years - but because she failed so badly at being actually sexy. Creepy tongue, vag itch impression, ugh. The only decent thing that's come out of it is this.
Twelve hours and that's the best you can come up with? When the trolls are so weak, the Internet is lost.
What do you think this is, Reddit?
The cheapness of whorestains is well known. Starts from the beginning when you put your mama out of a job for 9 months.
No, the fact that you're a cheap douchebag puts you off from giving money. Kovid puts his product up for free. The download page asks for donations. He's doing important work - there is no other ebook management program I know of that has anything like the feature set of Calibre. I'd like him to give up his free time to work on it, so I give him money.
Don't forget to give the man some money. He updates Calibre frequently - sometimes more than once a week - and doesn't charge a nickel.
Incidentally, I paid for every day of school myself from ninth grade on.
Forcing me, the taxpayer who isn't your parent, to pay for something your parents should pay for.
Yep.
Who is to say which college graduate will be the one to start a business and employ people?
As a first approximation? The smart ones. Intelligence is real. Everyone knows this instinctively. Of course there are skill subsets, but broadly speaking intelligence makes any skill you have better: smart salesmen are much better salesmen than dumb ones, even if a programmer with a high IQ is worse at sales than a dumb salesman who has schmoozing ability.
And if businesses could just IQ test potential employees, you wouldn't need any of this.
We need to have fewer people in college. If you can't finish, you shouldn't go at all - you'd be better off getting a job and gaining experience instead of debt.
If you're independently wealthy or can convince your parents to pay, fine. If you want me to subsidize four years of partying leading to a degree in social work, you're on your own.
Independent studies show that the body can process and digest natural sugars (honey, beet, cane) but can not process HFCS. Natural News [naturalnews.com] has reported on numerous studies on the subject. Additive producers "claim" that they are the same, but they obviously have self interest in making such claims.
Wow. Btw you actually didn't link an article. Just the front page. Guess that's how you roll.
Sugars tend to cause increased calorie consumption. The causes and effects are hotly debated, of course, but the plausible mechanisms all involve some metabolic defect that causes the body to fail to recognize that adequate energy has been consumed, resulting in persistent hunger in the face of superabundant nutrition. Changing the composition of the food changes the results because some foods induce greater food consumption, and some foods provide better satiety value.
They changed rodent feed to make it cheaper and more long-lasting. The result is that rats, marmosets, and the like all get fat on a high-carb diet.
And this, children, is why you should always be skeptical of AC's. He makes a reference to roofies (misspelled, of course), the nickname for the drug flunitrazepam, brand name Rohypnol. Flunitrazepam is a member of the class of drugs called benzodiazepines, which work by increasing the frequency with which GABAergic chloride channels open and thus make the transmembrane cell potential of the neuron even more negative (i.e., less likely to fire).
In vivo, the predominant effect is mild euphoria and sedation accompanied by profound amnesia, making it the ideal date rapist's drug: the victim appears merely slightly drunk to onlookers, but remembers nothing the next day, making said rapist's story the only one available.
I'm an anesthesiologist with a longstanding personal interest in pharmacology. There are people on earth who know more than I do about drugs, but the odds are that you're not one of them.
Get back to me when you have an actual study in an actual research publication instead of the front page of a quack website.
I'm glad you found something that worked for you.
However, for anyone else out there wondering where to start, I lost 80 pounds in seven months by eliminating carbohydrate from my diet. Fanatically. I ate under 10 g per day. I've relaxed that to 20-40 g/day now that I'm at goal weight so I can have a little more onion, occasional bit of fruit, etc. My experience has been that I am much happier than I ever was by trying to count calories directly, that my energy levels are considerably higher, and that it is much easier to handle cravings than hunger, which is ultimately the benefit of nutritional ketosis. I did not exercise at all until goal weight was achieved (family history of bad joints, don't want to push it). And my experience is not atypical - many keto dieters find that they lose 10-25 lbs the first month and 8-10 thereafter. My wife's exact words were, "You're melting away".
That's exactly backward. Your body composition is something like 80% determined at the dinner table.
40 chicken wings a day!