What a bunch of delusional macho BS. When was the last time you actually saw someone grab a gun and go be a "first responder" to a crime? You haven't.
There was an incident in my town a few years ago in which a guy shot some people and barricaded himself in a building. There was one citizen who took it upon himself to grab his gun and go be a "first responder" to this crime. The barricaded man shot him, and then it was up to the police to try to remove the would-be hero safely from the area in order to get him medical treatment.
So, anecdotal evidence that people do grab a gun and attempt first response, but it doesn't always go quite the way they imagined it would.
Yeah, it seems to me that we have done a few things that make young people's lives a bit worse:
First, we have this credential inflation going on, where businesses are requiring four-year degrees for jobs that might have only needed two-year degrees or even just high school just a few decades ago. Being a secretary or file clerk or whatever hasn't become more difficult, but for some reason we now expect applicants to have a degree?
Second, the cost of college has blasted off way above the rate of inflation. Some people say that's because of the availability of education loans, and maybe that's right; I don't know. But the value proposition changes as college becomes more and more ridiculously expensive.
Third, we seem to like to tell kids that they can do whatever they want, be whatever they want to be, and everything in their lives will work out. Realistically, why does my university even offer a BA degree in theatre? It's not a well-known program; there are no well-known professors; there are very few famous graduates. I doubt if 10% of the program's graduates wind up working in theatre.
It is a disservice to our undergrads to represent programs like this as good preparation for a job in their chosen field. But I'd say that as long as we make that clear, that what those students are really getting is bit of socialization and practice at working and managing their lives, combined with a BA degree that may get them past the first cut at HR for a somewhat menial job, then we have warned them enough.
What I'd really like to see is a significant paring down of the diversity of undergraduate degrees. I think there's too much specialization, especially in liberal arts and social sciences (of what practical use is an undergraduate degree in, say, psychology, if one doesn't plan on going to grad school?).
I knew a girl who did this not that long ago; she had a full-ride scholarship, and what did she blow it on? Theater. Did she get a job in theater? Nope; she moved towards make-up and costumes in her senior year thinking that would be a more realistic career path, graduated, and ended up working at a hotel in customer service. A complete waste of a degree.
But is it really a complete waste of a degree? Is four-year college only valuable as a vocational program, or might there be advantages to general education, a particular social environment, and so on?
I don't think the Department of Education has an enforcement division
Actually, I was recently surprised to learn that the Department of Education does have an enforcement division, and that they are armed with Glock 27s and Remington shotguns.
I'm so glad to see your comment. I don't have a strong opinion about Common Core, being neither a teacher or a parent (though I am favorably disposed toward it). But I do believe that we should argue the merits of CC on their own, without complicating the discussion with standardized testing and teacher evaluation. Those two are important issues, but they are not Common Core. It's frustrating to me that CC has somehow become a partisan issue, and that there is so much wildly manipulative misinformation swirling around the topic.
I am also generally in favor of reducing the number of standardized tests that students take. And I believe that teacher and school evaluation is an issue that must be taken on, but I don't know what the best approach would be (though I'm fairly certain that NCLB and the like is not it).
Sigh. Why do people take an argument and ad absurdum it without trying to understand what is being said and what isn't?
Seriously? Your GPP, titled 'Feel free to move into a cave,' does so little to understand the position of the article, with so much hyperbole, that it's essentially a straw man. Did you try to understand what's being said and what isn't in TFA? Pot, kettle, etc.
the district has been forced to postpone the Common Core-mandated PARCC state exams
But the Common Core DOES NOT mandate any particular exam or evaluation instrument of any kind. PARCC is, according to Wikipedia, "a coalition of 12 states and the District of Columbia that are working to create and deploy a standard set of K-12 assessments in math and English." PARCC is basing their assessments upon the Common Core standards, but it is PARCC that mandates the exams, not Common Core.
Common Core is, literally, just a list of skills that students should have at various grade levels. For example, sixth grade math students are supposed to be able to "Write, read, and evaluate expressions in which letters stand for numbers." That simple statement, and many like it, make up the Common Core. It has nothing to do with mandating exams.
The Common Core standards are freely available on the web, in case you would like to look at them: http://www.corestandards.org/r...
I know the PP is a bit trolly, but it's important to note that the investigators that were denied access belong to the GAO, not to the Congress. The GAO has a generally good reputation as being non-partisan and being genuinely interested in reducing government waste.
I suppose you meant 'crack' open the case and not 'crap' it open, but from now on, 'crap' is the word that I will use to discuss opening a computer case.
In case you don't know what "over the top" means in this context, this is from Wikipedia:
In broadcasting, over-the-top content (OTT) refers to delivery of audio, video, and other media over the Internet without the involvement of a multiple-system operator in the control or distribution of the content. (A multiple-system operator or multi-system operator (MSO) is an operator of multiple cable or direct-broadcast satellite television systems.)
So, apparently, it just means streaming media over the Internet.
Q: How do you tell an Illiberal by his first sentence? A: An Illiberal would typically start talking with a personal attack.
It's because you literally sound like you're on the cusp of quitting bathing and spending the rest of your life pushing a shopping cart around downtown with a cardboard sign hung around your neck that equates Obama with the antichrist.
There's absolutely no value in your linguistic torsion exercise that 'proves' the 'fact' that Obama doesn't like America. Why in the world does this have to be so black and white for you? Is it not possible to like America while being dissatisfied by some aspects of it? Isn't that the entire purpose of democratic government, that the people can influence the way the country changes over time?
FTFA: Larry Ellison will remain CTO and Chairman of the Board of Oracle. He will still get paid more money in a year than I will likely make in my life.
When I got my iPod, one of the first things that it did when I turned it on is it prompted me to set up iCloud. Since I know enough to try to avoid the "cloud" whenever possible, I just skipped the iCloud sign-up. I'd imagine that the vast majority of people, when they turn on their iPhone for the first time, are prompted to set up iCloud and just go ahead and do it. They see it as just part of setting up their phone. They don't understand the security implications, and they trust Apple to not leak their private data to strangers.
Maybe people should be more security conscious, but I think there should be some significant penalties for corporations that leak data that they are supposed to be keeping private. (And maybe in this case it's not really Apple's fault, but there are plenty of other data leaks happening these days.)
Playing real sports is a social and physical activity. Both can be beneficial.
Okay, sports are physical, and video games almost never are. But they can certainly be social. Not all gamers are as you describe; some actually physically congregate and socialize.
It seems like reading books could be every bit as big a time waster as playing video games, when a person shuts himself off from the world and just reads books all the time. Surely, there's some balance to be found in life between doing things that you enjoy but are not "beneficial" and doing other things. That doesn't make the former activities a waste of time.
The vast majority of people who play physical sports also don't make any money from them. I guess that's a waste of time, also? Are there hobbies, other than education, that aren't a waste of time?
and completely useless in real life. Video games are a waste of time and energy like no other.
The first guy mentioned in the article, Lee Jae-dong, may disagree with you. He's made a little over half a million dollars playing StarCraft. There's a guy from China who's made more than a million just this year playing Dota 2. I can't quite call that useless.
On top of that, I got as far away from other users as possible. I don't want to associate with them, hang with them, even talk to them.
Isn't that kind of the point of this, though, to simulate a party with those people, and immerse you in it while you're sober, and reinforce that preference to stay away from users of your drug? I mean, I don't think it's a cure-all, and it sounds like the project is too young for clinical trials or to produce statistics about relapse rates or anything, but isn't it worth checking out this avenue as a possibility for addiction therapy? I mean, maybe kicking an addiction is much about willpower, but whence that willpower?
Wouldn't it make more sense to perform an audit to ensure that this hasn't happened unnoticed in the past, and simultaneously to perform a review and revision of the protocols and policies that allowed this to happen? I feel like solving the problem is more important than assigning blame. I mean, I can see firing someone if they had acted from gross incompetence, but I don't think prison is necessary.
I liked those Crusher episodes particularly because they didn't involve Crusher getting space raped, kidnapped, falling in love, or playing the role of generic 'damsel in distress'. So many of the TNG episodes that featured the women characters as the focus did so *because* they were women, and someone needed to have a space rape baby, or someone needed to be emotionally compromised, or do something else stereotypically 'female'. So I really liked the episodes where Crusher or Troi or some of the other less prominent women characters (like Ensign Ro) get the opportunity to play a lead part in a story that could have been played by a man, but wasn't.
Art history is not the typical program of for-profit colleges. They mostly offer professional degree programs in things like IT and other popular applied fields. The issue is not the area of the degree, but the fact that these colleges prey on people who have aspirations and no money. Most of these people do not manage to finish the program, so they wind up taking large, expensive loans that cover a few semesters of college that do not prepare them for any job. The colleges advertise themselves as a way to improve peoples' lives, but their entire business model is based on enrolling rubes who will get student loans and give all of the money to the college. They don't care whether those people graduate, or even get educated.
I am happy enough that I would like to live a lot longer. I figure I could do another few hundred years. Those sad sacks can go off and die, if they really want to.
Oh, they've acknowledged the complaints. They say there's been "a lot of griping." Which is, of course, just their way of trivializing the complaints so that they can ignore them and go on with their plan anyway.
I live in a small town in the western US. I used to get four channels over the air on a good day with analog. Now, I get one. Not saying you're wrong, but I think people in more rural areas suffer more when the analog signal is cut.
1. The guy took a copy of the source code that he created while employed by the plaintiffs, and was getting ready to release the source code.
This is what is alleged by the plaintiffs in the suit; it is not clear that this is what actually happened. What we know is that the guy quit his job and later began offering a product that is similar to the one he participated in creating at his job. It is not clear that he either took a copy of the source code, or that what he is planning to release is that source code.
FTA:
In simple terms, the suit alleges that Corey stole the code and violated agreements with INL. I have no idea if he stole the code or what he signed while at INL. He probably had the code, but again the idea is hardly novel. He could have started over with a next generation product on his own.
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There was an incident in my town a few years ago in which a guy shot some people and barricaded himself in a building. There was one citizen who took it upon himself to grab his gun and go be a "first responder" to this crime. The barricaded man shot him, and then it was up to the police to try to remove the would-be hero safely from the area in order to get him medical treatment.
So, anecdotal evidence that people do grab a gun and attempt first response, but it doesn't always go quite the way they imagined it would.
Yeah, it seems to me that we have done a few things that make young people's lives a bit worse:
First, we have this credential inflation going on, where businesses are requiring four-year degrees for jobs that might have only needed two-year degrees or even just high school just a few decades ago. Being a secretary or file clerk or whatever hasn't become more difficult, but for some reason we now expect applicants to have a degree?
Second, the cost of college has blasted off way above the rate of inflation. Some people say that's because of the availability of education loans, and maybe that's right; I don't know. But the value proposition changes as college becomes more and more ridiculously expensive.
Third, we seem to like to tell kids that they can do whatever they want, be whatever they want to be, and everything in their lives will work out. Realistically, why does my university even offer a BA degree in theatre? It's not a well-known program; there are no well-known professors; there are very few famous graduates. I doubt if 10% of the program's graduates wind up working in theatre.
It is a disservice to our undergrads to represent programs like this as good preparation for a job in their chosen field. But I'd say that as long as we make that clear, that what those students are really getting is bit of socialization and practice at working and managing their lives, combined with a BA degree that may get them past the first cut at HR for a somewhat menial job, then we have warned them enough.
What I'd really like to see is a significant paring down of the diversity of undergraduate degrees. I think there's too much specialization, especially in liberal arts and social sciences (of what practical use is an undergraduate degree in, say, psychology, if one doesn't plan on going to grad school?).
But is it really a complete waste of a degree? Is four-year college only valuable as a vocational program, or might there be advantages to general education, a particular social environment, and so on?
Actually, I was recently surprised to learn that the Department of Education does have an enforcement division, and that they are armed with Glock 27s and Remington shotguns.
Here's an article with some of DOE's purchase orders over the past several years:
https://www.muckrock.com/news/...
I'm so glad to see your comment. I don't have a strong opinion about Common Core, being neither a teacher or a parent (though I am favorably disposed toward it). But I do believe that we should argue the merits of CC on their own, without complicating the discussion with standardized testing and teacher evaluation. Those two are important issues, but they are not Common Core. It's frustrating to me that CC has somehow become a partisan issue, and that there is so much wildly manipulative misinformation swirling around the topic.
I am also generally in favor of reducing the number of standardized tests that students take. And I believe that teacher and school evaluation is an issue that must be taken on, but I don't know what the best approach would be (though I'm fairly certain that NCLB and the like is not it).
Seriously? Your GPP, titled 'Feel free to move into a cave,' does so little to understand the position of the article, with so much hyperbole, that it's essentially a straw man. Did you try to understand what's being said and what isn't in TFA? Pot, kettle, etc.
FTFS:
But the Common Core DOES NOT mandate any particular exam or evaluation instrument of any kind. PARCC is, according to Wikipedia, "a coalition of 12 states and the District of Columbia that are working to create and deploy a standard set of K-12 assessments in math and English." PARCC is basing their assessments upon the Common Core standards, but it is PARCC that mandates the exams, not Common Core.
Common Core is, literally, just a list of skills that students should have at various grade levels. For example, sixth grade math students are supposed to be able to "Write, read, and evaluate expressions in which letters stand for numbers." That simple statement, and many like it, make up the Common Core. It has nothing to do with mandating exams.
The Common Core standards are freely available on the web, in case you would like to look at them: http://www.corestandards.org/r...
I know the PP is a bit trolly, but it's important to note that the investigators that were denied access belong to the GAO, not to the Congress. The GAO has a generally good reputation as being non-partisan and being genuinely interested in reducing government waste.
I suppose you meant 'crack' open the case and not 'crap' it open, but from now on, 'crap' is the word that I will use to discuss opening a computer case.
In case you don't know what "over the top" means in this context, this is from Wikipedia:
In broadcasting, over-the-top content (OTT) refers to delivery of audio, video, and other media over the Internet without the involvement of a multiple-system operator in the control or distribution of the content. (A multiple-system operator or multi-system operator (MSO) is an operator of multiple cable or direct-broadcast satellite television systems.)
So, apparently, it just means streaming media over the Internet.
It's because you literally sound like you're on the cusp of quitting bathing and spending the rest of your life pushing a shopping cart around downtown with a cardboard sign hung around your neck that equates Obama with the antichrist.
There's absolutely no value in your linguistic torsion exercise that 'proves' the 'fact' that Obama doesn't like America. Why in the world does this have to be so black and white for you? Is it not possible to like America while being dissatisfied by some aspects of it? Isn't that the entire purpose of democratic government, that the people can influence the way the country changes over time?
FTFA: Larry Ellison will remain CTO and Chairman of the Board of Oracle. He will still get paid more money in a year than I will likely make in my life.
When I got my iPod, one of the first things that it did when I turned it on is it prompted me to set up iCloud. Since I know enough to try to avoid the "cloud" whenever possible, I just skipped the iCloud sign-up. I'd imagine that the vast majority of people, when they turn on their iPhone for the first time, are prompted to set up iCloud and just go ahead and do it. They see it as just part of setting up their phone. They don't understand the security implications, and they trust Apple to not leak their private data to strangers.
Maybe people should be more security conscious, but I think there should be some significant penalties for corporations that leak data that they are supposed to be keeping private. (And maybe in this case it's not really Apple's fault, but there are plenty of other data leaks happening these days.)
Okay, sports are physical, and video games almost never are. But they can certainly be social. Not all gamers are as you describe; some actually physically congregate and socialize.
It seems like reading books could be every bit as big a time waster as playing video games, when a person shuts himself off from the world and just reads books all the time. Surely, there's some balance to be found in life between doing things that you enjoy but are not "beneficial" and doing other things. That doesn't make the former activities a waste of time.
The vast majority of people who play physical sports also don't make any money from them. I guess that's a waste of time, also? Are there hobbies, other than education, that aren't a waste of time?
The first guy mentioned in the article, Lee Jae-dong, may disagree with you. He's made a little over half a million dollars playing StarCraft. There's a guy from China who's made more than a million just this year playing Dota 2. I can't quite call that useless.
Isn't that kind of the point of this, though, to simulate a party with those people, and immerse you in it while you're sober, and reinforce that preference to stay away from users of your drug? I mean, I don't think it's a cure-all, and it sounds like the project is too young for clinical trials or to produce statistics about relapse rates or anything, but isn't it worth checking out this avenue as a possibility for addiction therapy? I mean, maybe kicking an addiction is much about willpower, but whence that willpower?
Wouldn't it make more sense to perform an audit to ensure that this hasn't happened unnoticed in the past, and simultaneously to perform a review and revision of the protocols and policies that allowed this to happen? I feel like solving the problem is more important than assigning blame. I mean, I can see firing someone if they had acted from gross incompetence, but I don't think prison is necessary.
I liked those Crusher episodes particularly because they didn't involve Crusher getting space raped, kidnapped, falling in love, or playing the role of generic 'damsel in distress'. So many of the TNG episodes that featured the women characters as the focus did so *because* they were women, and someone needed to have a space rape baby, or someone needed to be emotionally compromised, or do something else stereotypically 'female'. So I really liked the episodes where Crusher or Troi or some of the other less prominent women characters (like Ensign Ro) get the opportunity to play a lead part in a story that could have been played by a man, but wasn't.
Art history is not the typical program of for-profit colleges. They mostly offer professional degree programs in things like IT and other popular applied fields. The issue is not the area of the degree, but the fact that these colleges prey on people who have aspirations and no money. Most of these people do not manage to finish the program, so they wind up taking large, expensive loans that cover a few semesters of college that do not prepare them for any job. The colleges advertise themselves as a way to improve peoples' lives, but their entire business model is based on enrolling rubes who will get student loans and give all of the money to the college. They don't care whether those people graduate, or even get educated.
I am happy enough that I would like to live a lot longer. I figure I could do another few hundred years. Those sad sacks can go off and die, if they really want to.
Oh, they've acknowledged the complaints. They say there's been "a lot of griping." Which is, of course, just their way of trivializing the complaints so that they can ignore them and go on with their plan anyway.
Fuck Beta.
It's even easier to post 7 stories a day when 2 of them are dupes!
I kid.
Fuck Beta, though.
I live in a small town in the western US. I used to get four channels over the air on a good day with analog. Now, I get one. Not saying you're wrong, but I think people in more rural areas suffer more when the analog signal is cut.
To refute a point:
This is what is alleged by the plaintiffs in the suit; it is not clear that this is what actually happened. What we know is that the guy quit his job and later began offering a product that is similar to the one he participated in creating at his job. It is not clear that he either took a copy of the source code, or that what he is planning to release is that source code.
FTA: