Well I found mine on - http://www.birthdatabase.com/ - in about 2 seconds. All of this stuff is in government records which are available to the public.
Elitist high-class? I guess you've never heard of KIPP schools in the South Bronx that do exactly what I said. Poor kids can get excited about school, too. It's elitist to think otherwise.
I think you have to give the teachers a longer leash to determine their curriculum and teaching methods. Right now so much stress is placed on exams that teachers are afraid to vary even a little bit. My best teachers would allow the students to go off on a tangential topic if it was engaging the students. It's a long school year and the necessary topics will get taught but if you let the students think they are partners in their education you can sneak it in when they least expect it.
You also have to make the work exciting and engaging for the teachers. Administrators often view the teachers as drones to be whipped into submission instead of partners in the school. When I listen to my teacher friends about the principals in their schools and how abusive and condescending they are it amazes me how they are able to stick around.
And it's why teachers need to be paid better and evaluated better. Even in 5th grade I knew the difference between the good teachers and the bad teachers. They were the ones that grabbed my attention even for topics that otherwise would seem boring. My Latin teacher in high school (for all 4 years) was so amazing that even after it stopped being required most of us continued to take her class. The craziest part is I still remember some of what she taught 20 years later even though I never use it! I mean how often do people conjugate verbs in Latin in their day to day job?
What employers are looking at High School exam scores? Fresh out of school employers will look at your GPA but even that fades after a few years. What employers like are extra-curricular activities more than anything.
It's human nature in general - not just for students - that we are more successful and more happy when we do things that challenge and excite us than when we do things for the sake of rewards or to prevent punishment. What's even worse is that once we've done something for reward it is even less appealing when we stop receiving the award again.
For example, somebody who take photos for fun decides to become a professional photographer. Once they start getting paid it becomes yet another job and loses the fun. Even when they quit doing it for pay it still doesn't hold the appeal it did before.
The same goes for children and education. Telling a class they will get a pizza party if they all pass an exam is an awful strategy for motivating students. If you instead instill excitement and interest in the topic itself they will not only do well on the exam but they often will go BEYOND the requirements of the exam because they are excited about the topic.
Standardized exams are awful measures of intelligence or ability. They are strictly measures of how well you do at taking exams. This is one of the greatest failings of our education system - that we teach to exams instead of encouraging creativity, instilling excitement, and developing real world skills.
And this is coming from somebody who was a very good test taker.
What other purpose does the education system serve if not to promote learning? Is it just to train another generation of unskilled laborers? I hate to tell you but those unskilled jobs are in other countries now. We better start teaching our kids how to embrace knowledge.
If you read Malcolm Gladwell's Outliers you'll find that the rich got rich by being at the right place at the right time and having important friends to help them.
Patents aren't evil. Only in a perfect utopian world could somebody develop an idea and not have to fear it being ripped off for the profit of others. Intellectual property laws protect innovation - not deter it. There is so much ignorance in that link you have there that I wouldn't even know where to start to tear it apart.
And you make it seem like patents are something new but it existed during America's greatest years of innovation.
The problem is that the education system teaches children only how to work towards passing an exam. There is no incentive to learn just for the sake of learning.
They work the same way. If I base a law strictly on the dogma/mythology of one religion then I am in affect saying that our government is based on that religion which establishes a state religion.
And I am not talking about generic stuff like "thou shall not kill". I am talking more specific stuff like banning meat on Fridays during lent.
And who the hell really thinks they are going to win a fight against Thomas Jefferson.
Even better. The primary author of the Constitution, James Madison said this:
"Every new and successful example, therefore, of a perfect separation between the ecclesiastical and civil matters, is of importance; and I have no doubt that every new example will succeed, as every past one has done, in showing that religion and Government will both exist in greater purity the less they are mixed together (Letter to Edward Livingston, July 10, 1822). "
I mean it's like telling Tolkien how he should interpret LotR.
Then I do proclaim that you need to look up the word "proclaim" in the dictionary. A proclamation is more than just a declaration. It requires a little bit pride, defiance, glorification, etc. Just standard up there telling people how to write a program typically has none of them. Same goes for telling your wife/gf how your day at work was or listening to your child talk about what he wants to be when he grows up.
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof.
The phrase "wall of separation between church and state" came from Thomas Jefferson. There is no other interpretation. They want to change the Constitution.
You were that easily fooled? It's exactly like saying - "Not to insult you or anything but you are an idiot." Just because they preface it by saying that they don't want to piss on the first amendment. If YOU read the whole thing you'll see they are trying to broaden a couple of decisions to be so all-encompassing and vague that even this message I am writing right now will be covered if there happens to be a minor reading it who gets offended.
The internet may not be a human right but it is unique in that the entry cost to making yourself heard to millions of people is almost nothing. CB Radio limited your message to a few dozen weirdos.
There is nothing in history that compares to the scope and power of the internet.
But that's all you should need for using a browser. The problem becomes when those few clicks have moved or changed.
I did dozens of training classes when we moved from Office 2003 to 2007 because of the changes to the UI. In the long run pretty much universally everybody likes the new design now but in the beginning it confused the hell out of people.
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Well I found mine on - http://www.birthdatabase.com/ - in about 2 seconds. All of this stuff is in government records which are available to the public.
Is your birthdate really private data? And they say in their privacy statement that they collect data from other sources about you.
Elitist high-class? I guess you've never heard of KIPP schools in the South Bronx that do exactly what I said. Poor kids can get excited about school, too. It's elitist to think otherwise.
I think you have to give the teachers a longer leash to determine their curriculum and teaching methods. Right now so much stress is placed on exams that teachers are afraid to vary even a little bit. My best teachers would allow the students to go off on a tangential topic if it was engaging the students. It's a long school year and the necessary topics will get taught but if you let the students think they are partners in their education you can sneak it in when they least expect it.
You also have to make the work exciting and engaging for the teachers. Administrators often view the teachers as drones to be whipped into submission instead of partners in the school. When I listen to my teacher friends about the principals in their schools and how abusive and condescending they are it amazes me how they are able to stick around.
And it's why teachers need to be paid better and evaluated better. Even in 5th grade I knew the difference between the good teachers and the bad teachers. They were the ones that grabbed my attention even for topics that otherwise would seem boring. My Latin teacher in high school (for all 4 years) was so amazing that even after it stopped being required most of us continued to take her class. The craziest part is I still remember some of what she taught 20 years later even though I never use it! I mean how often do people conjugate verbs in Latin in their day to day job?
What employers are looking at High School exam scores? Fresh out of school employers will look at your GPA but even that fades after a few years. What employers like are extra-curricular activities more than anything.
It's human nature in general - not just for students - that we are more successful and more happy when we do things that challenge and excite us than when we do things for the sake of rewards or to prevent punishment. What's even worse is that once we've done something for reward it is even less appealing when we stop receiving the award again.
For example, somebody who take photos for fun decides to become a professional photographer. Once they start getting paid it becomes yet another job and loses the fun. Even when they quit doing it for pay it still doesn't hold the appeal it did before.
The same goes for children and education. Telling a class they will get a pizza party if they all pass an exam is an awful strategy for motivating students. If you instead instill excitement and interest in the topic itself they will not only do well on the exam but they often will go BEYOND the requirements of the exam because they are excited about the topic.
Standardized exams are awful measures of intelligence or ability. They are strictly measures of how well you do at taking exams. This is one of the greatest failings of our education system - that we teach to exams instead of encouraging creativity, instilling excitement, and developing real world skills.
And this is coming from somebody who was a very good test taker.
What other purpose does the education system serve if not to promote learning? Is it just to train another generation of unskilled laborers? I hate to tell you but those unskilled jobs are in other countries now. We better start teaching our kids how to embrace knowledge.
If you read Malcolm Gladwell's Outliers you'll find that the rich got rich by being at the right place at the right time and having important friends to help them.
Patents aren't evil. Only in a perfect utopian world could somebody develop an idea and not have to fear it being ripped off for the profit of others. Intellectual property laws protect innovation - not deter it. There is so much ignorance in that link you have there that I wouldn't even know where to start to tear it apart.
And you make it seem like patents are something new but it existed during America's greatest years of innovation.
The problem is that the education system teaches children only how to work towards passing an exam. There is no incentive to learn just for the sake of learning.
They work the same way. If I base a law strictly on the dogma/mythology of one religion then I am in affect saying that our government is based on that religion which establishes a state religion.
And I am not talking about generic stuff like "thou shall not kill". I am talking more specific stuff like banning meat on Fridays during lent.
And who the hell really thinks they are going to win a fight against Thomas Jefferson.
Even better. The primary author of the Constitution, James Madison said this:
"Every new and successful example, therefore, of a perfect separation between the ecclesiastical and civil matters, is of importance; and I have no doubt that every new example will succeed, as every past one has done, in showing that religion and Government will both exist in greater purity the less they are mixed together (Letter to Edward Livingston, July 10, 1822). "
I mean it's like telling Tolkien how he should interpret LotR.
Then I do proclaim that you need to look up the word "proclaim" in the dictionary. A proclamation is more than just a declaration. It requires a little bit pride, defiance, glorification, etc. Just standard up there telling people how to write a program typically has none of them. Same goes for telling your wife/gf how your day at work was or listening to your child talk about what he wants to be when he grows up.
So when I stand in front of a classroom and teach them how to use Excel am I proclaiming or masturbating?
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof.
The phrase "wall of separation between church and state" came from Thomas Jefferson. There is no other interpretation. They want to change the Constitution.
Does speech have to be a discussion? I didn't realize that was a requirement.
They can discuss it just as much as people can make empty threats of violence. Well that is unless they get their way and this becomes law.
They just hate different pieces. The tea party is looking to cut out that part about separation of church and state.
You were that easily fooled? It's exactly like saying - "Not to insult you or anything but you are an idiot." Just because they preface it by saying that they don't want to piss on the first amendment. If YOU read the whole thing you'll see they are trying to broaden a couple of decisions to be so all-encompassing and vague that even this message I am writing right now will be covered if there happens to be a minor reading it who gets offended.
You really need to read up on some history to understand why there are labor laws.
Thanks for years of distractions and fevered debates. Good luck to you wherever you land.
No but those are millions of weirdos :p
The internet may not be a human right but it is unique in that the entry cost to making yourself heard to millions of people is almost nothing. CB Radio limited your message to a few dozen weirdos.
There is nothing in history that compares to the scope and power of the internet.
But that's all you should need for using a browser. The problem becomes when those few clicks have moved or changed.
I did dozens of training classes when we moved from Office 2003 to 2007 because of the changes to the UI. In the long run pretty much universally everybody likes the new design now but in the beginning it confused the hell out of people.