I agree that, for many students, whatever toys they get in 9th grade might be too late. I don't think that this is just due to the public school system, though. Kids need to enter elementary school intellectually curious and wanting to learn. For some, that's a genetic certainty. For others, though, it may take hard work on the part of their parents (or extended family, not that those exist to the extent they used to). How do we fix this? Do we have the money to train new parents on how to prepare their one- and two- and three-year-olds to be good learners? If we did, how many parents would take up the offer versus knee-jerk rebel against government intrusion in their bad parenting. From many things I've read, Head Start is one of the best programs to keep kids in school and learning. Why do we (as a country) keep cutting its funding?
As another commenter says, I agree with you in principle. If I believe in the public school system, I should send my kids to it. And I will at least in part, tempered to compromise with my wife who found one of her life's passions (music) at a Montessori elementary school before she switched to public schools, too.
But I'm not POTUS. My kids are anonymous. I wouldn't want my kids to be at a school that is itself a terrorist target due to the presence of the POTUS' kids.
I learned more in shop (9th grade) than in my first few computer classes (6th and 8th grades) as well, but that's in part because I was already programming before I took those computer classes. Honestly I didn't learn much in my first computer science class either (9th grade) but did in my second year, especially because I was competing for the school in programming competitions, learning how to quickly grasp requirements, break them down into known parts, and implement those parts logically. That sort of education (plus the years of college and work experience that followed) helps when I'm in a room with managers and I can confidently say that I not only can solve some new problem, but that I can do so in X days with minimal risk to other features.
Your faux semantic argument aside, plenty of people excited about being educated can receive that education in the public school system - even in the same schools that others fail from. (There are most certainly schools where that is not possible, but it is true at the vast majority of schools.)
I have no tolerance for anarchists who see a problem and can only solve it by blowing it up.
The people that think technology is the problem with our schools aren't addressing the real problem: The fact that our culture is anti-learning, anti-education, pro-sky-fairies and anti-critical thinking. You need to get kids to enjoy learning...
...like by having a focused, deadline- and goal-driven event to get them excited about things that they do at school. Let's have a film festival and get the students to film themselves showing off something that their schools are doing, unrelated to sports.
More importantly, why are we wasting time and resources asking children to propagandize implementations of technology in education for the sake of it rather than worrying about the quality of education, itself?
Because kids who are excited about their own education can get more out of it, regardless of school condition, than those who are just passing time until 4 PM. Hands-on applications like these with a deadline and goal help build that excitement.
But if you think getting kids excited about learning is a waste of time and resources, there's little point in trying to improve the quality of an education that the kids won't care to learn.
That assumes they can spend any time at school doing anything besides preparing for their next standardized test, and have access to resources at home to accomplish these things. And that they like tinkering with stuff, too, which probably means that we need to get their parents to like it so they'll instill it in their kids.
I think the goal is to get kids excited about being educated, because kids who are excited about school tend to stay in it longer and get more out of it.
I also think that given them a goal - explaining what they do for a film festival - is a good application to focus their efforts. I'm sure you meant "application" in terms of "job training" but, for those kids doing the filming and editing, it might be job training. For the others, they still have 4-12 years to take care of that.
Both of my wife grandparents, whose finances we managed in the last few years of their lives, had supplemental insurance from their past employers (~30 years prior). Their total out-of-pocket for medical procedures was very low. In the end my wife had to fight the doctors to keep the, from doing lots of unnecessary procedures that went against the legal directives they had left for us to execute. Seriously, a few times they would have been wheeled off for some pointless exploratory procedure or scheduled for useless therapy (like speech therapy when a few days from death) if she hadn't been there to just tell them No after No after No. When she finally got them into hospice, the hospice nurse understood, and would help keep the other nurses away.
Of course they will, because the average criminal isn't going to own a 3D printer when they're trying to steal enough money to get some more meth. They will have already sold their printer for meth. Then they'll use some money they stole to buy a gun that they can use to steal more money to get some more meth.
The Wii only uses 15 W because the messaging and sycing system is on - the thing that lets you send messages to other Wii users you know, and to get updates to the Everyone Votes! channel and similar overnight.
If you don't use those things, you can turn off standby sync somewhere, and the "off" usage drops to 0.5 W or so. I don't recall the exact details because I did this like six years ago just after I bought the thing, but it's entirely possible.
An entirely normal response from somewhere back in the less-developed parts of our brain, quickly countered and suppressed by our advanced frontal lobes before it makes it out our mouth.
My first guess is that the settlements were reasonable and it meant they didn't have to go to trial. =P
Even if they would win, it would be bad press for them to be dragging a little guy through a trial in which they admitted using his photos without his permission, but instead argued that they were themselves defrauded by a third party. As far as I know, they would be found liable for damages, and then be told to sue the third party (in this case, Getty) themselves to recoup their losses.
For the Haitian photographer, the settlements with the end users likely made their position negotiating with Getty stronger, though Getty seems to have gone to trial anyway.
Somewhere along the line of getting an undetectable gun into the hands of a criminal, there are people who want to follow the law. Maybe that's not the guy selling the gun, but maybe it's the guy who made the gun, or the guy who supplied the parts to make the gun, etc. And if those people put a metal block in the handle as the law requires them to, then there's a burden on the end criminal to remove it. And most criminals aren't that smart.
Defense Distributed, for example, puts metal in their handles because they are a registered gun manufacturer, with their fingerprints on file and official licenses, etc.
A requirement to "satisfy all of his natural instincts" is silly. It's in his nature to want to piss on everything and breed with every random cat he can find - but instead he's been fixed. It's in his nature to kill all sorts of birds regardless of their rarity - but instead he gets to chirp at them through the window and eat a tasty grain-free chicken meal. It's in his nature to hunt and kill small rodents, but instead he hunts cloth toys and his sister and the occasional moth that slips in the door and sometimes our hands under the quilt.
What matters is that he's safe and healthy and intellectually satisfied. How that occurs is up to the owner.
It's not as extreme as space if you can dig. Underground, it's easier to protect against radiation and air loss. Plus you can maybe do so using resources you acquired there, instead of resources you pulled out of a gravity well.
citation? I live 2.5 miles from a top tier research university in a big city and have heard nothing about this. "all locations within 10 miles" is pretty much the entire city. I'm not sure who would pay for the infrastructure.
I'm relatively certain that at least two of Fukushima's nuclear reactors need something more akin to "wholesale replacement" than a new "steam generator".
You seem to be confused about the nature of House elections. There is no "popular vote" for House elections. Each vote is district by district. Excess votes in one district have no meaning in another.
Of course not. I understood that clearly, but you seem confused about about my post. There's no "popular vote" for the president either, but it's always discussed along side the electoral vote, because when a president wins the electoral vote but loses the popular vote, they may lack the "mandate of the people" or whatever other terms we want to use to show that the majority of the country didn't agree with them.
For the House, the majority of the country didn't agree with the election of a Republican majority. However, thanks to the evil of gerrymandering, the districts are drawn in ways such that "excess votes" as you put it are split meaninglessly into separate districts. The goal of the state Republicans in many states is to ensure that white Democrats never get a vote. They have to provide districts to minorities due to federal law, but those are the only districts that should be liberal. Places where white people tend to vote Democratic, they divide the territory up to ensure that all of their votes are "excess" in otherwise Republican districts.
It should be illegal to draw district boundaries based on past voting records. It's causing the mess we're in right now, by making too many House Republicans safe even if they want to burn the country down.
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I agree that, for many students, whatever toys they get in 9th grade might be too late. I don't think that this is just due to the public school system, though. Kids need to enter elementary school intellectually curious and wanting to learn. For some, that's a genetic certainty. For others, though, it may take hard work on the part of their parents (or extended family, not that those exist to the extent they used to). How do we fix this? Do we have the money to train new parents on how to prepare their one- and two- and three-year-olds to be good learners? If we did, how many parents would take up the offer versus knee-jerk rebel against government intrusion in their bad parenting. From many things I've read, Head Start is one of the best programs to keep kids in school and learning. Why do we (as a country) keep cutting its funding?
As another commenter says, I agree with you in principle. If I believe in the public school system, I should send my kids to it. And I will at least in part, tempered to compromise with my wife who found one of her life's passions (music) at a Montessori elementary school before she switched to public schools, too.
But I'm not POTUS. My kids are anonymous. I wouldn't want my kids to be at a school that is itself a terrorist target due to the presence of the POTUS' kids.
I learned more in shop (9th grade) than in my first few computer classes (6th and 8th grades) as well, but that's in part because I was already programming before I took those computer classes. Honestly I didn't learn much in my first computer science class either (9th grade) but did in my second year, especially because I was competing for the school in programming competitions, learning how to quickly grasp requirements, break them down into known parts, and implement those parts logically. That sort of education (plus the years of college and work experience that followed) helps when I'm in a room with managers and I can confidently say that I not only can solve some new problem, but that I can do so in X days with minimal risk to other features.
....a video about ways they learn at school. Though, honestly, getting kids excited about anything intellectually challenging is a success.
Your faux semantic argument aside, plenty of people excited about being educated can receive that education in the public school system - even in the same schools that others fail from. (There are most certainly schools where that is not possible, but it is true at the vast majority of schools.)
I have no tolerance for anarchists who see a problem and can only solve it by blowing it up.
The people that think technology is the problem with our schools aren't addressing the real problem: The fact that our culture is anti-learning, anti-education, pro-sky-fairies and anti-critical thinking. You need to get kids to enjoy learning...
...like by having a focused, deadline- and goal-driven event to get them excited about things that they do at school. Let's have a film festival and get the students to film themselves showing off something that their schools are doing, unrelated to sports.
More importantly, why are we wasting time and resources asking children to propagandize implementations of technology in education for the sake of it rather than worrying about the quality of education, itself?
Because kids who are excited about their own education can get more out of it, regardless of school condition, than those who are just passing time until 4 PM. Hands-on applications like these with a deadline and goal help build that excitement.
But if you think getting kids excited about learning is a waste of time and resources, there's little point in trying to improve the quality of an education that the kids won't care to learn.
That assumes they can spend any time at school doing anything besides preparing for their next standardized test, and have access to resources at home to accomplish these things. And that they like tinkering with stuff, too, which probably means that we need to get their parents to like it so they'll instill it in their kids.
I think the goal is to get kids excited about being educated, because kids who are excited about school tend to stay in it longer and get more out of it.
I also think that given them a goal - explaining what they do for a film festival - is a good application to focus their efforts. I'm sure you meant "application" in terms of "job training" but, for those kids doing the filming and editing, it might be job training. For the others, they still have 4-12 years to take care of that.
Both of my wife grandparents, whose finances we managed in the last few years of their lives, had supplemental insurance from their past employers (~30 years prior). Their total out-of-pocket for medical procedures was very low. In the end my wife had to fight the doctors to keep the, from doing lots of unnecessary procedures that went against the legal directives they had left for us to execute. Seriously, a few times they would have been wheeled off for some pointless exploratory procedure or scheduled for useless therapy (like speech therapy when a few days from death) if she hadn't been there to just tell them No after No after No. When she finally got them into hospice, the hospice nurse understood, and would help keep the other nurses away.
3d printed guns won't even be sold.
Of course they will, because the average criminal isn't going to own a 3D printer when they're trying to steal enough money to get some more meth. They will have already sold their printer for meth. Then they'll use some money they stole to buy a gun that they can use to steal more money to get some more meth.
Most criminals aren't that smart.
I have found none. Therefore, you are full of shit. Sorry about that.
According to the mid-grade Sci Fi show Sanctuary, Nicola Tesla is a vampire as well, and is still alive.
The Wii only uses 15 W because the messaging and sycing system is on - the thing that lets you send messages to other Wii users you know, and to get updates to the Everyone Votes! channel and similar overnight.
If you don't use those things, you can turn off standby sync somewhere, and the "off" usage drops to 0.5 W or so. I don't recall the exact details because I did this like six years ago just after I bought the thing, but it's entirely possible.
An entirely normal response from somewhere back in the less-developed parts of our brain, quickly countered and suppressed by our advanced frontal lobes before it makes it out our mouth.
My first guess is that the settlements were reasonable and it meant they didn't have to go to trial. =P
Even if they would win, it would be bad press for them to be dragging a little guy through a trial in which they admitted using his photos without his permission, but instead argued that they were themselves defrauded by a third party. As far as I know, they would be found liable for damages, and then be told to sue the third party (in this case, Getty) themselves to recoup their losses.
For the Haitian photographer, the settlements with the end users likely made their position negotiating with Getty stronger, though Getty seems to have gone to trial anyway.
Somewhere along the line of getting an undetectable gun into the hands of a criminal, there are people who want to follow the law. Maybe that's not the guy selling the gun, but maybe it's the guy who made the gun, or the guy who supplied the parts to make the gun, etc. And if those people put a metal block in the handle as the law requires them to, then there's a burden on the end criminal to remove it. And most criminals aren't that smart.
Defense Distributed, for example, puts metal in their handles because they are a registered gun manufacturer, with their fingerprints on file and official licenses, etc.
A requirement to "satisfy all of his natural instincts" is silly. It's in his nature to want to piss on everything and breed with every random cat he can find - but instead he's been fixed. It's in his nature to kill all sorts of birds regardless of their rarity - but instead he gets to chirp at them through the window and eat a tasty grain-free chicken meal. It's in his nature to hunt and kill small rodents, but instead he hunts cloth toys and his sister and the occasional moth that slips in the door and sometimes our hands under the quilt.
What matters is that he's safe and healthy and intellectually satisfied. How that occurs is up to the owner.
It's not as extreme as space if you can dig. Underground, it's easier to protect against radiation and air loss. Plus you can maybe do so using resources you acquired there, instead of resources you pulled out of a gravity well.
citation? I live 2.5 miles from a top tier research university in a big city and have heard nothing about this. "all locations within 10 miles" is pretty much the entire city. I'm not sure who would pay for the infrastructure.
See the "Hide/Show Transcript" link just under the video?
I'm relatively certain that at least two of Fukushima's nuclear reactors need something more akin to "wholesale replacement" than a new "steam generator".
Cool, good thing there are no residents in Fukushima to complain, then. ~
You seem to be confused about the nature of House elections. There is no "popular vote" for House elections. Each vote is district by district. Excess votes in one district have no meaning in another.
Of course not. I understood that clearly, but you seem confused about about my post. There's no "popular vote" for the president either, but it's always discussed along side the electoral vote, because when a president wins the electoral vote but loses the popular vote, they may lack the "mandate of the people" or whatever other terms we want to use to show that the majority of the country didn't agree with them.
For the House, the majority of the country didn't agree with the election of a Republican majority. However, thanks to the evil of gerrymandering, the districts are drawn in ways such that "excess votes" as you put it are split meaninglessly into separate districts. The goal of the state Republicans in many states is to ensure that white Democrats never get a vote. They have to provide districts to minorities due to federal law, but those are the only districts that should be liberal. Places where white people tend to vote Democratic, they divide the territory up to ensure that all of their votes are "excess" in otherwise Republican districts.
It should be illegal to draw district boundaries based on past voting records. It's causing the mess we're in right now, by making too many House Republicans safe even if they want to burn the country down.
You can't get cash for free out of your credit card. You can at almost every store that takes debit cards, for no extra effort or fee.