First, the change in the funding structure was a result of a court ruling, so it really isn't fair to lay that at the door of Rick Perry.
A court required them to change the funding process because the Texas Constitution doesn't allow the state to set local property tax levels (just cap them), but the inadequate state funding for public education was forcing almost every district up to the cap, creating a de-facto set tax. The legislature was violating the Constitution but was given leeway to fix this in any way it wished; it's the legislature's fault that they chose a way that totally doesn't work and has made things much worse.
And no, I don't blame Perry, despite him being in office for 10 years, because the Texas governorship is very weak. He has almost no power at all on this matter. Keep that in mind when he claims credit for things.
Many Texas districts gutted administration in the last few years. They're out of fat and cutting meat and bone. This year many districts cut bus service, requiring those who wish to ride to pay up to a few hundred dollars a year for the service.
Were I a reasonably poor parent, with no means of transportation, who wasn't eligible for any bus tuition assistance but couldn't afford the fee, I would be rather upset that the government requires me to send my kid to school each day but doesn't provide a way for them to get there. I would probably call the cops every day and point out that my kid would be truant unless a cop gave them a ride, and let the taxpayers pick up the tab another way.
I (and you) should defer to child development studies that show how many kids of a given age can be taught by a single teacher. If the classroom size exceeds that number, the "class" becomes "day care." From the tone of articles I read, many Texas districts feel they have surpassed that point. That's why Texas has a classroom - not a state known to care much about regulation - has a classroom size cap in the first place. Though since they allow waivers it must not mean much.
Actual dollars please, not "percent cut" or "dollars cut" because those two are almost always from projected increases, not from actual spending.
But they're not. You're throwing up an assumption to discount all available sources in favor of your own opinion. How about you prove your own theory instead of expecting others to refute it?
You should be aware that just because school administrators choose to cut teachers doesn't mean that they couldn't have gotten the same savings by cutting administrative staff.
Many districts gouged their administrative staff last year and the year before so as to avoid cutting teachers. They've simply run out of other things to cut.
The regrown land is in no way biologically diverse, and thus in now way represents a healthy rainforest. And even if 20% of what is burned in any given year has grown back within 10 years, that still means 80% of what is burned in any given year either never grows back, or grows back and is burned again and again.
The Amazon basin is so sacrosanct because without it we're not sure the planet will produce enough oxygen to sustain current levels of animal life. That's why it's more important than the Brazilian people.
people have had medical emergencies on BART before the cell phone repeaters were installed.
Of course they did. People had heart attacks in airports before airports had AEDs, too. But if you went around and pulled all the batteries out of the AEDs one day, you'd most certainly be charged with criminal negligence if someone tried to use one in an emergency and it didn't work.
Once something is generally relied upon for safety, you can't intentionally turn it off. Even if it wasn't relied upon before you turned it on.
Like almost everything that's been patented in the last twenty years, A) this wasn't really new, it was just new on the internet*, and B) it was obvious enough that someone else would have done it shortly thereafter anyway.
Doesn't make them less scummy though. =)
* Crap left in my door, bulk mail, and robocalls all predate this.
When funding is cut by the millions of dollars per district, on top of cuts two years ago, districts have no choice but to cut teachers.
Officials say the impact will be felt the most in the loss of teachers and in increased class sizes.
Some districts, like Arlington and Keller, laid off staff members. Others, including Mansfield and Birdville, trimmed staffers largely by not filling open positions.
The number of teaching positions being cut remains fluid because many districts will make last-minute budget adjustments after school starts and finalize budgets this month. Administrators expect about 175 fewer teachers in Arlington than last year, nearly 85 fewer in Mansfield and about 45 fewer in Keller, for example.
This is the first time widespread cuts have significantly increased class sizes in elementary schools countywide, Poole said.
Everything else you said is ignorant bullshit, so it's not worth responding to. Read a little about what's been happening with Texas school funding before you try to talk again. At least start with the change to the funding structure in 2006, how well that has or hasn't worked, and the effect it has had on districts' ability to raise their own revenue locally.
Maybe, the Brazilians you talked to didn't know what they were talking about, and the regrowth isn't at all the same as virgin rainforest?
Laurance fears that Wright is downplaying the destruction of virgin rainforest. "The conditions in the small country of Panama cannot be generalized. In the Amazon, cattle ranchers and the agricultural industry are destroying the jungle on a large scale. The undergrowth that thrives in cleared areas is a caricature of a forest."
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The Sao Paulo agronomist is studying secondary vegetation throughout the entire Brazilian Amazon region. Using satellite images, he selected 26 locations that were cleared years ago and eventually became overgrown with new vegetation. Then he spent two months driving from one location to the next. His conclusion? "Twenty percent of the deforested areas are recovering."
Nevertheless, Almeida is not issuing a general all-clear signal for the rainforest. "Within no more than five years, most of the secondary forests will be burned down or cut down again," he says. Cattle ranchers use the fallow fields as pasture, while farmers plant soybeans or cereal crops.
Once the virgin rainforest is cut down, it might not be tracked any longer as virgin rainforest, even if it grows back. However, most of what grows back is being burnt again every few years. Meanwhile, other people (i.e. not the ones you talked to) are burning additional virgin forest, resulting in a huge net loss.
This ain't like dusting crops, boy; one miscalculation and we could crash into the ocean or a building or a mountain and that would end this trip real quick.
In something like David Brin's Uplift universe, pre-sapient species (chimpanzees, dolphins, gorillas) are protected at all costs, as they represent the future species that can be developed into the galaxy's next generation of sentient life. A species like ours that has greatly depleted them - and hasn't really done much in the way of technological or social progress (from the view of a spacefaring race) with our intelligent might be considered a lost cause, and could be wiped out to give room for our planet's other options to grow.
I searched for this story and dug through these comments to figure out how to put the tabs back where they belong, because I couldn't find it in the Options menu. Is not hiding things in pointer-location-specific context menus too much to ask? Why isn't in a menu when you right click on the tabs?
Then Firefox should have given more time between the release of the SDK and the enforcement of its use, by delaying the time between Firefox 4 and the first subsequent release that broke something.
For example, FF8 will have much better memory usage than Firefox 4.... Meanwhile Firefox has released twice (counting FF6 on next Tuesday), and as a consequence, Firefox users have better performance than IE users, simply because IE users are still on IE9 while Firefox users can run FF5 and FF6 which include a lot more performance improvements that were committed after FF4.
Those are silly examples. It's not like the Gods have decreed that better memory usage shall appear in Firefox 8, and thus you must move rapidly to that number.
Why not just put the performance improvements in 4.1 and 4.2, and the memory usage in 4.7? Version numbers are arbitrary, except that Firefox forces addon compatibility checks with major releases. Now that major releases are too often, these checks are too annoying.
And if you are claiming that you need to break addons every quarter to achieve all these objectives, and you see nothing wrong with that - well, you have bigger problems, the first of which is that you should put the product back into beta if you want that ability.
1. They killed our raid alliance by making 10- and 25-man raids mutually exclusive. I said it would ruin lots of raid groups where the core players pushed 10 on hard but enabled larger 25 groups to play on normal, and it did. Grats Blizzard, the 15 that got excluded aren't having fun any more.
2. I hate Zul Gurub, and I played Zul Aman to death for my mount back when. I made it halfway through a ZG after that patch before I bailed and logged, and I haven't done an instance since.
3. With nothing else to do to advance my character, why bother logging on? I already have like 300k gold in the bank.
4. I have no interest in replaying content with alts.
And if anyone had a heart attack on a train this weekend, and no one was able to call for assistance, you would have been charged with criminal negligence and sent to prison.
If I could grab you off the street, tie your hands behind your back, hold you for 24 hours against your will, and get paid for it, I wouldn't have a reasonable expectation of privacy while walking down a public street wearing a uniform that advertised the fact I could do all that to you.
A good backpack distributes the weight into your hips and shoulders where you can bear it without getting a sore back/neck. Humans can carry weight more easily in some places than others. If just carrying weight made your neck sore, the 70% of Americans with beer bellies would be aching daily.
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First, the change in the funding structure was a result of a court ruling, so it really isn't fair to lay that at the door of Rick Perry.
A court required them to change the funding process because the Texas Constitution doesn't allow the state to set local property tax levels (just cap them), but the inadequate state funding for public education was forcing almost every district up to the cap, creating a de-facto set tax. The legislature was violating the Constitution but was given leeway to fix this in any way it wished; it's the legislature's fault that they chose a way that totally doesn't work and has made things much worse.
And no, I don't blame Perry, despite him being in office for 10 years, because the Texas governorship is very weak. He has almost no power at all on this matter. Keep that in mind when he claims credit for things.
Many Texas districts gutted administration in the last few years. They're out of fat and cutting meat and bone. This year many districts cut bus service, requiring those who wish to ride to pay up to a few hundred dollars a year for the service.
Were I a reasonably poor parent, with no means of transportation, who wasn't eligible for any bus tuition assistance but couldn't afford the fee, I would be rather upset that the government requires me to send my kid to school each day but doesn't provide a way for them to get there. I would probably call the cops every day and point out that my kid would be truant unless a cop gave them a ride, and let the taxpayers pick up the tab another way.
I (and you) should defer to child development studies that show how many kids of a given age can be taught by a single teacher. If the classroom size exceeds that number, the "class" becomes "day care." From the tone of articles I read, many Texas districts feel they have surpassed that point. That's why Texas has a classroom - not a state known to care much about regulation - has a classroom size cap in the first place. Though since they allow waivers it must not mean much.
Actual dollars please, not "percent cut" or "dollars cut" because those two are almost always from projected increases, not from actual spending.
But they're not. You're throwing up an assumption to discount all available sources in favor of your own opinion. How about you prove your own theory instead of expecting others to refute it?
You should be aware that just because school administrators choose to cut teachers doesn't mean that they couldn't have gotten the same savings by cutting administrative staff.
Many districts gouged their administrative staff last year and the year before so as to avoid cutting teachers. They've simply run out of other things to cut.
The regrown land is in no way biologically diverse, and thus in now way represents a healthy rainforest. And even if 20% of what is burned in any given year has grown back within 10 years, that still means 80% of what is burned in any given year either never grows back, or grows back and is burned again and again.
The Amazon basin is so sacrosanct because without it we're not sure the planet will produce enough oxygen to sustain current levels of animal life. That's why it's more important than the Brazilian people.
It sucked... SUCKED going through ICC multiple times per week on the same character.
How about grow some willpower and Just Say No? Since you couldn't handle it you complained enough that they took away the option for people who could.
people have had medical emergencies on BART before the cell phone repeaters were installed.
Of course they did. People had heart attacks in airports before airports had AEDs, too. But if you went around and pulled all the batteries out of the AEDs one day, you'd most certainly be charged with criminal negligence if someone tried to use one in an emergency and it didn't work.
Once something is generally relied upon for safety, you can't intentionally turn it off. Even if it wasn't relied upon before you turned it on.
You can't use a patent you've just licensed as a weapon in a patent dispute.
Like almost everything that's been patented in the last twenty years, A) this wasn't really new, it was just new on the internet*, and B) it was obvious enough that someone else would have done it shortly thereafter anyway.
Doesn't make them less scummy though. =)
* Crap left in my door, bulk mail, and robocalls all predate this.
Just wait until they are storing browser cookies in your laptop's battery firmware...
When funding is cut by the millions of dollars per district, on top of cuts two years ago, districts have no choice but to cut teachers.
Officials say the impact will be felt the most in the loss of teachers and in increased class sizes.
Some districts, like Arlington and Keller, laid off staff members. Others, including Mansfield and Birdville, trimmed staffers largely by not filling open positions.
The number of teaching positions being cut remains fluid because many districts will make last-minute budget adjustments after school starts and finalize budgets this month. Administrators expect about 175 fewer teachers in Arlington than last year, nearly 85 fewer in Mansfield and about 45 fewer in Keller, for example.
This is the first time widespread cuts have significantly increased class sizes in elementary schools countywide, Poole said.
Everything else you said is ignorant bullshit, so it's not worth responding to. Read a little about what's been happening with Texas school funding before you try to talk again. At least start with the change to the funding structure in 2006, how well that has or hasn't worked, and the effect it has had on districts' ability to raise their own revenue locally.
Maybe, the Brazilians you talked to didn't know what they were talking about, and the regrowth isn't at all the same as virgin rainforest?
Laurance fears that Wright is downplaying the destruction of virgin rainforest. "The conditions in the small country of Panama cannot be generalized. In the Amazon, cattle ranchers and the agricultural industry are destroying the jungle on a large scale. The undergrowth that thrives in cleared areas is a caricature of a forest."
The Sao Paulo agronomist is studying secondary vegetation throughout the entire Brazilian Amazon region. Using satellite images, he selected 26 locations that were cleared years ago and eventually became overgrown with new vegetation. Then he spent two months driving from one location to the next. His conclusion? "Twenty percent of the deforested areas are recovering."
Nevertheless, Almeida is not issuing a general all-clear signal for the rainforest. "Within no more than five years, most of the secondary forests will be burned down or cut down again," he says. Cattle ranchers use the fallow fields as pasture, while farmers plant soybeans or cereal crops.
Once the virgin rainforest is cut down, it might not be tracked any longer as virgin rainforest, even if it grows back. However, most of what grows back is being burnt again every few years. Meanwhile, other people (i.e. not the ones you talked to) are burning additional virgin forest, resulting in a huge net loss.
This ain't like dusting crops, boy; one miscalculation and we could crash into the ocean or a building or a mountain and that would end this trip real quick.
Well, you could say the same thing about, say, the Incans, relative to the Spaniards. And yet...
In something like David Brin's Uplift universe, pre-sapient species (chimpanzees, dolphins, gorillas) are protected at all costs, as they represent the future species that can be developed into the galaxy's next generation of sentient life. A species like ours that has greatly depleted them - and hasn't really done much in the way of technological or social progress (from the view of a spacefaring race) with our intelligent might be considered a lost cause, and could be wiped out to give room for our planet's other options to grow.
Pressing F6 seems to select the address bar in FF6.
I searched for this story and dug through these comments to figure out how to put the tabs back where they belong, because I couldn't find it in the Options menu. Is not hiding things in pointer-location-specific context menus too much to ask? Why isn't in a menu when you right click on the tabs?
Then Firefox should have given more time between the release of the SDK and the enforcement of its use, by delaying the time between Firefox 4 and the first subsequent release that broke something.
For example, FF8 will have much better memory usage than Firefox 4. ... Meanwhile Firefox has released twice (counting FF6 on next Tuesday), and as a consequence, Firefox users have better performance than IE users, simply because IE users are still on IE9 while Firefox users can run FF5 and FF6 which include a lot more performance improvements that were committed after FF4.
Those are silly examples. It's not like the Gods have decreed that better memory usage shall appear in Firefox 8, and thus you must move rapidly to that number.
Why not just put the performance improvements in 4.1 and 4.2, and the memory usage in 4.7? Version numbers are arbitrary, except that Firefox forces addon compatibility checks with major releases. Now that major releases are too often, these checks are too annoying.
And if you are claiming that you need to break addons every quarter to achieve all these objectives, and you see nothing wrong with that - well, you have bigger problems, the first of which is that you should put the product back into beta if you want that ability.
Won't that break with the Y2.1k bug?
1. They killed our raid alliance by making 10- and 25-man raids mutually exclusive. I said it would ruin lots of raid groups where the core players pushed 10 on hard but enabled larger 25 groups to play on normal, and it did. Grats Blizzard, the 15 that got excluded aren't having fun any more.
2. I hate Zul Gurub, and I played Zul Aman to death for my mount back when. I made it halfway through a ZG after that patch before I bailed and logged, and I haven't done an instance since.
3. With nothing else to do to advance my character, why bother logging on? I already have like 300k gold in the bank.
4. I have no interest in replaying content with alts.
And if anyone had a heart attack on a train this weekend, and no one was able to call for assistance, you would have been charged with criminal negligence and sent to prison.
If I could grab you off the street, tie your hands behind your back, hold you for 24 hours against your will, and get paid for it, I wouldn't have a reasonable expectation of privacy while walking down a public street wearing a uniform that advertised the fact I could do all that to you.
That only holds a 15" laptop. I would love a NG-style bag that could hold a 17" but haven't seen one.
A good backpack distributes the weight into your hips and shoulders where you can bear it without getting a sore back/neck. Humans can carry weight more easily in some places than others. If just carrying weight made your neck sore, the 70% of Americans with beer bellies would be aching daily.