My impression, from my last couple of years in high school, and from visiting my teachers afterward, is that there's a giant, ever-growing pile of rules and "best practices" dumped on you folks from on high. You're so damn busy trying to introduce the new shit-hot teaching method to your curriculum, going to meetings with administrators that want status reports on all kinds of meaningless metrics, and so on, that you don't have time to actually teach anybody much of anything.
I think we'd all be better off if we got the hell out of your way and let you teach. And maybe paid you something commensurate with the level of education you had to get to hold the job. I honestly have no idea how to motivate that kind of change, though.
What are the brain-dead design issues? I've not really looked into interpreter/VM design, so I'm just curious about what constitutes bad design (if it's easy to explain to a noob).
There is more forest acreage today in the U.S. than there was in 1920. Our acreage is coming back! There's a reason for that, and you need to understand it before you start punishing the US for destroying the planet.
Hold up there---where did SmallFurryCreature rail on the U.S.? As you quoted,
Forest around the world are being cut down.
which can still be true even though the U.S. is increasing its forest acreage. Unless I misunderstand, SmallFurryCreature was just pointing out that it's easy to say, "just plant trees, problem solved!" It's an entirely different thing to actually get enough countries to plant enough trees so that there's a net increase in global forest acreage.
And when that's not enough, someone always starts up a conversation about superior programming styles or paradigms, which is far more religious than any tent revival I've ever seen.
You must have seen only mostly homogeneous groups in tent revivals, then. You should see the way people act when group A and group B hate each other, and group B shows up at group A's tent revival.
I've never seen a flamewar about programming languages that approached the levels of hatred that exist between fervently religious people with differing doctrines.
Of course, it's always possible that I haven't seen the "best" that programming style/language/paradigm flamewars have to offer.
I taught one year. Teachers are good people. Go outside and play!
Oh dear, should I try to be witty, serious, or sarcastic? How much hyperbole should I use? I'm not good at any of those, so I'll just rant some more and leave it at that.
What in particular have I assumed that you find outrageous? School administrators used their state-granted authority to bully a young honor student into removing her clothes in front of two female staff members because they thought she had ibuprofen on her. I find that abhorrent.
Where did I say teachers are not good people? I daresay most teachers have enough sense to roll their eyes at rules like this and treat the kid appropriately. If anything, before reading the article I would have assumed that this was initiated by some blind rule-following administrator type, not a teacher. Sorry for not stating that explicitly.
This is more than me being pissed off about what was done to one kid. This is me being annoyed by a culture in the educational system and general society that doesn't seem to give a shit what kinds of lessons we teach our kids by making excuses for this kind of behavior. You're under 18? Well you have no rights, then. Oh, we think you might have drugs? All civil law and decency goes out the window, then, because drugs (all drugs) are absolute evil.
Ok, I'm done, I'll go back to studying for exams. I can't follow your recommendation to go outside and play until those are over with next week. Please continue to make fun of me for being annoyed by something that's obviously not a big deal.
The problem is the school's zero-tolerance drug policy.
I agree completely; IMHO these sorts of policies are made by those who assume local administrators don't have any intelligence or common sense that can be counted on.
Is a teenager having a fucking ibuprofen such a monstrous and immediate security threat that we need to strip search her? Or was somebody just a little too eager to strip search a 13 year old? Hmm?
I wonder if the court would have upheld the 13-year old's right to strenously kick school officials in the balls for forcibly removing her clothing?
It seems to me that, since she *wasn't* found to be in possession of any drugs at all, she's in a good position to make somebody's life really, really uncomfortable for a while.
It probably has something to do with our chimp cousins living in an environment that requires more day-to-day use of navigation. Survival might require remembering that there are predators or chimps you don't get along with in area A, or knowing that you better be careful in area B because you've fallen several times after grabbing rotten or slippery branches/vines there.
Your ex-girlfriends probably didn't have any reason to attach negative survival consequence to getting lost on a short walk, so not much energy was allocated to developing excellent navigation skills. That's just my wild guess, though.
[insert joke here about girlfriends gaining positive reproductive consequences by "getting lost" while taking a short walk to visit their Slashdotter boyfriend]
Maybe it's just that people writing these summaries and/or articles haven't the faintest clue how GPS operates. It's just a magical box on their dashboard that can figure out a route from A to B, so when <other creature/object X> can plan a route from one point to another, it must be similar, right?
Mmmmm...I keep hearing throughout the years that it is not practicle but Universities continue to make progress to the point it is now meassurable output, \lt;snip\gt; Sorry, I just find the scientific community keeps chasing this and it is because it is all poppy cock. Sounds... ODD?
You mean there's people out there building experiments that produce consistently measurable heat or fusion-energy neutrons? How can I get in touch with them? Can I get instructions from them on how to build a device that produces heat or a shitload of high-energy neutrons from fusion reactions?
Because, honestly, if it works, then to hell with The Man and his oppression. I want free hot water for my shower and free steam to run a generator in my back yard. I want to move to some unmonitored third-world backwater and produce a cheap, endless stream of medical radionuclides for fun and profit on the black market.
In short, if it's *really* true, then stop whining about being kept down by Big Oil, Big Hot Fusion, Big CO2 Cap Traders, and any other Big Interest Groups. Why isn't somebody out there making a killing with this knowledge on the black market?
And no, I'm not kidding: please, please, please point me to the people that are willing to tell me how to reproduce their experiment that reliably and continuously produces excess heat beyond the chemical energy theoretically available in the components of their experiment. It shouldn't be that hard if it's true.
You clearly fail to understand how "light bulbs" really work. They should really be called Darksuckers. See, what they do is you turn them on, and they suck all the dark out of the immediate area.... Of course, they can't STORE the Dark that they suck in.
What absolute rubbish! Any fool knows all the darkons get absorbed in the bulb, not sucked out the wire. Just look at any old flourescent tube to see all the darkons that are stuck to the ends.
Do you not like the websites you visit? Don't you want them to keep running?
Actually, the websites I visit frequently have my permission to show ads, so long as they don't serve up obnoxious noise-making flyovers or something. Now that I think about it, I can't even remember how long it's been since I ran across a site with worthwhile content whose operators were also stupid enough to run obnoxious ads.
Wow, are you serious? I remember it being that way long ago when I was a kid, but I figured that some terrified lawmaker would have put a stop to it by now.
Except that these are static fields--from the third FA, "They raise an interesting question: the electric fields are static, so whatâ(TM)s making the water move?"
Can step #1 be teaching everybody in my office that Caps lock is not the same as shift?
Wow, I knew that when all I had was a manual typewriter. Yes, the kind with the little mechanical hammers with type on them that thwacked the ribbon onto the paper. Kids these days....get your NumLock off my lawn!
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My impression, from my last couple of years in high school, and from visiting my teachers afterward, is that there's a giant, ever-growing pile of rules and "best practices" dumped on you folks from on high. You're so damn busy trying to introduce the new shit-hot teaching method to your curriculum, going to meetings with administrators that want status reports on all kinds of meaningless metrics, and so on, that you don't have time to actually teach anybody much of anything.
I think we'd all be better off if we got the hell out of your way and let you teach. And maybe paid you something commensurate with the level of education you had to get to hold the job. I honestly have no idea how to motivate that kind of change, though.
What are the brain-dead design issues? I've not really looked into interpreter/VM design, so I'm just curious about what constitutes bad design (if it's easy to explain to a noob).
The Sham-Wow guy for climate change.
<creepyguy accent="Brooklyn">"Now watch what this CO2 graph does--you following me, camera guy?"</creepyguy>
There is more forest acreage today in the U.S. than there was in 1920. Our acreage is coming back! There's a reason for that, and you need to understand it before you start punishing the US for destroying the planet.
Hold up there---where did SmallFurryCreature rail on the U.S.? As you quoted,
which can still be true even though the U.S. is increasing its forest acreage. Unless I misunderstand, SmallFurryCreature was just pointing out that it's easy to say, "just plant trees, problem solved!" It's an entirely different thing to actually get enough countries to plant enough trees so that there's a net increase in global forest acreage.
And when that's not enough, someone always starts up a conversation about superior programming styles or paradigms, which is far more religious than any tent revival I've ever seen.
You must have seen only mostly homogeneous groups in tent revivals, then. You should see the way people act when group A and group B hate each other, and group B shows up at group A's tent revival.
I've never seen a flamewar about programming languages that approached the levels of hatred that exist between fervently religious people with differing doctrines.
Of course, it's always possible that I haven't seen the "best" that programming style/language/paradigm flamewars have to offer.
there goes another civilization with a Hadron sized super collider.
Wow, talk about miniaturization!
Damn those DotSlashers!
Inconceivable!
I taught one year. Teachers are good people. Go outside and play!
Oh dear, should I try to be witty, serious, or sarcastic? How much hyperbole should I use? I'm not good at any of those, so I'll just rant some more and leave it at that.
What in particular have I assumed that you find outrageous? School administrators used their state-granted authority to bully a young honor student into removing her clothes in front of two female staff members because they thought she had ibuprofen on her. I find that abhorrent.
Where did I say teachers are not good people? I daresay most teachers have enough sense to roll their eyes at rules like this and treat the kid appropriately. If anything, before reading the article I would have assumed that this was initiated by some blind rule-following administrator type, not a teacher. Sorry for not stating that explicitly.
This is more than me being pissed off about what was done to one kid. This is me being annoyed by a culture in the educational system and general society that doesn't seem to give a shit what kinds of lessons we teach our kids by making excuses for this kind of behavior. You're under 18? Well you have no rights, then. Oh, we think you might have drugs? All civil law and decency goes out the window, then, because drugs (all drugs) are absolute evil.
Ok, I'm done, I'll go back to studying for exams. I can't follow your recommendation to go outside and play until those are over with next week. Please continue to make fun of me for being annoyed by something that's obviously not a big deal.
The problem is the school's zero-tolerance drug policy.
I agree completely; IMHO these sorts of policies are made by those who assume local administrators don't have any intelligence or common sense that can be counted on.
Is a teenager having a fucking ibuprofen such a monstrous and immediate security threat that we need to strip search her? Or was somebody just a little too eager to strip search a 13 year old? Hmm?
I wonder if the court would have upheld the 13-year old's right to strenously kick school officials in the balls for forcibly removing her clothing?
It seems to me that, since she *wasn't* found to be in possession of any drugs at all, she's in a good position to make somebody's life really, really uncomfortable for a while.
It probably has something to do with our chimp cousins living in an environment that requires more day-to-day use of navigation. Survival might require remembering that there are predators or chimps you don't get along with in area A, or knowing that you better be careful in area B because you've fallen several times after grabbing rotten or slippery branches/vines there.
Your ex-girlfriends probably didn't have any reason to attach negative survival consequence to getting lost on a short walk, so not much energy was allocated to developing excellent navigation skills. That's just my wild guess, though.
[insert joke here about girlfriends gaining positive reproductive consequences by "getting lost" while taking a short walk to visit their Slashdotter boyfriend]
Maybe it's just that people writing these summaries and/or articles haven't the faintest clue how GPS operates. It's just a magical box on their dashboard that can figure out a route from A to B, so when <other creature/object X> can plan a route from one point to another, it must be similar, right?
Mmmmm...I keep hearing throughout the years that it is not practicle but Universities continue to make progress to the point it is now meassurable output, \lt;snip\gt; Sorry, I just find the scientific community keeps chasing this and it is because it is all poppy cock. Sounds... ODD?
You mean there's people out there building experiments that produce consistently measurable heat or fusion-energy neutrons? How can I get in touch with them? Can I get instructions from them on how to build a device that produces heat or a shitload of high-energy neutrons from fusion reactions?
Because, honestly, if it works, then to hell with The Man and his oppression. I want free hot water for my shower and free steam to run a generator in my back yard. I want to move to some unmonitored third-world backwater and produce a cheap, endless stream of medical radionuclides for fun and profit on the black market.
In short, if it's *really* true, then stop whining about being kept down by Big Oil, Big Hot Fusion, Big CO2 Cap Traders, and any other Big Interest Groups. Why isn't somebody out there making a killing with this knowledge on the black market?
And no, I'm not kidding: please, please, please point me to the people that are willing to tell me how to reproduce their experiment that reliably and continuously produces excess heat beyond the chemical energy theoretically available in the components of their experiment. It shouldn't be that hard if it's true.
You clearly fail to understand how "light bulbs" really work. They should really be called Darksuckers. See, what they do is you turn them on, and they suck all the dark out of the immediate area. ... Of course, they can't STORE the Dark that they suck in.
What absolute rubbish! Any fool knows all the darkons get absorbed in the bulb, not sucked out the wire. Just look at any old flourescent tube to see all the darkons that are stuck to the ends.
Do you not like the websites you visit? Don't you want them to keep running?
Actually, the websites I visit frequently have my permission to show ads, so long as they don't serve up obnoxious noise-making flyovers or something. Now that I think about it, I can't even remember how long it's been since I ran across a site with worthwhile content whose operators were also stupid enough to run obnoxious ads.
Government: Arbitrary, stupid, bloated, and unnecessary.
Honestly, in many cases I think it's better to have government that's arbitrary, stupid and bloated than precise, methodical and efficient.
Wow, are you serious? I remember it being that way long ago when I was a kid, but I figured that some terrified lawmaker would have put a stop to it by now.
How about letting me use something other than AT&FT? No? Then I don't care what shiny new items are on your feature list.
Except that these are static fields--from the third FA, "They raise an interesting question: the electric fields are static, so whatâ(TM)s making the water move?"
Can step #1 be teaching everybody in my office that Caps lock is not the same as shift?
Wow, I knew that when all I had was a manual typewriter. Yes, the kind with the little mechanical hammers with type on them that thwacked the ribbon onto the paper. Kids these days....get your NumLock off my lawn!
Wow, that's obscure!
That's why meetings are so awesome!
Tons of soil weigh alot? By my calculations it should only weigh a few tons..
Maybe it's dark matter soil--then each ton would weigh over 10000 tons.
In theory if you have the web browser the performance of the Anti-Virus running on different CPU so you are not getting any real speed savings.
Well there's your problem: your theory seems to assume that AV software doesn't always expand to take up all the CPU power available to it. ;)