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That said, have been going down because we're admitting more people, and those people aren't as wealthy so they don't have access to a full time parent, a nanny, and tutors. They're often more or less on their own. Basically, we expanded education to everyone but we didn't expand all the advantages afforded to the rich and powerful to them. If you think about it it's common sense. Dump a bunch of under privileged kids into underfunded schools and what do _you_ think will happen?
As for the Charter & Private schools, don't make me laugh. They get to pick and choose their students. If a kid starts under performing or is disrupting class it's back to the public school for them. Not that I think we should abandon those kids.
On a side note, +5 insightful? Really/.? We're better than this.
That's just it, the dream becomes the reality. And without the dream you can never get there. The worst that can happen is they fail. Society is no worse off and neither are you. They were going to fail anyway, because they were going to make themselves fail in order to fit in with the image they have as failures. But in the best case (and what psychologists believe is the most common) they succeed beyond their self imposed limits.
Part of the problem you're having with accepting this is you already have a positive self image, so you can't imagine screwing yourself over because of your negative self image. Also, it's completely counter intuitive. It took years of careful research to prove these things.
Or Salon. The tea party was a bought and paid for made up movement by the rich to push their agenda of low taxes, no regulation and no social safety net. They had tens if not hundreds of millions of dollars behind them. Christ, Fox news used to run stories about 'spontaneous' tea-party gatherings a week in advance.
OWS was a real grass roots movement. And like all grass roots movements it was relentlessly pounded into the ground. My favorite part was when they used the Patriot Act to mobilize local law enforcement against it. Remember when we got promised it would never be used on US soil? Yeah, nobody else did either...
when it's a mistake it's 'some middle manager' but whenever something goes right it's 'the CEO's leadership'. Man, I wish I could fsck up and my job all day and blame all the guys that don't get to make any real decisions...
they don't sell a lot at once, but they sell consistently for years and years. Plus with a smaller base of software they can count on what they do put out selling nearly 1 to 1 with the console. Basically, it's the same model Nintendo had going with the Gamecube.
There's a pretty large body of psychology that shows those 'participation' awards are a good thing. Teachers didn't start doing that for the hell of it, but the reasons have largely been buried. Basically, psychologists found that it took a lot of work to give people a positive self image, especially lower income people. The kind this stuff is most commonly targeted to.
Now, in and of itself you're saying: so what, who needs a positive self image? And you'd be right if you ignore the next bit of findings: people can't do things that they don't don't believe they can do. It sounds simple, but in researching it psychologists found it wasn't just that people failed, but that they actively sabotaged themselves. They would consistently do things that reinforced their negative self image of themselves, and that the only way to stop them was to force a positive self image onto them through trickery. Hence the 'participation' awards.
All of this is a complex thought that goes against common sense, so it's easy to attack and undermine it.
that's sorta what a democracy is. The trouble is we've got about 20,000 'entities' (the super rich ruling class) deciding what the rest of use 6 billion get.
I'm sure the gov't will be happy to give me the same subsidies the cable companies get (you didn't think those 'taxes' on your bill were going to schools did you?).
Why is it everyone in this God forsaken country always wants the 'market' answer? The solution to this problem is easy folks. We paid for the infrastructure with our tax dollars. We paid for all the tech to be developed with our tax dollars. The businesses have been privatizing profits and socializing loses for 30 years. Enough of that. It's yours, take it back.
Open office has bit me more than once with a few really nasty doc recovery bugs where it'll overwrite you're auto backups and then keep overwriting until they're all gone. Anyone care to chime in on whether these are fixed? I remember they knew about them but left the auto-recovery stuff turned on any way:(.
The American right wing is just pro-corporate and pro ruling class. They exist to support and expand the power of the 1%. Everything else is just window dressing for the rubes.
the article doesn't even touch on your point. It just says that gov't and business are touting statistics that say there aren't enough people with STEM degrees and that those stats are lies used to lower the standard of living and quality of life for those same degree holders.
Now, to your point, I love the sentiment you just expressed: "Americans are too dumb and lazy. We need more H1-Bs". I'm not even sure you know you're expressing it. That's the beauty of it. That thought is being drilled into our heads by corporations. That and the notion that you, yes you, are too lazy and stupid and if you don't have a good life it's all your fault for not working harder (and has nothing to do with the fact that you're poor).
It's the opposite of an "Entitlement Complex". A Disenfranchisement Complex maybe? I don't know. But I know this. American spent the last 30 years being told their worthless garbage that are not worth the salaries they make. and they've started to believe it...
No kidding and no partisanship either. He closed most of our nations publicly run mental heath clinics and let thousands of severely mentally ill people out on their own. The worst thing is he probably meant well (we were constraining their freedom). They promptly wound up homeless because they're not functional human beings. When you see the crazy lady with the bags yelling at martians on the street you've got well meaning libertarians with no understanding of what mental illness is to thank...
burning through $2000/week ($124,000/yr gross if you add 20% for taxes) isn't 'bad with numbers' it's mental illness. But hey, don't let a little thing like RTFA get in the way of perpetuating Libertarian myths.
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Two Seconds of googling. That said, have been going down because we're admitting more people, and those people aren't as wealthy so they don't have access to a full time parent, a nanny, and tutors. They're often more or less on their own. Basically, we expanded education to everyone but we didn't expand all the advantages afforded to the rich and powerful to them. If you think about it it's common sense. Dump a bunch of under privileged kids into underfunded schools and what do _you_ think will happen?
/.? We're better than this.
As for the Charter & Private schools, don't make me laugh. They get to pick and choose their students. If a kid starts under performing or is disrupting class it's back to the public school for them. Not that I think we should abandon those kids.
On a side note, +5 insightful? Really
why the heck can't we do the same to stem the tide of cheap foreign labor and plummeting wages?
That's just it, the dream becomes the reality. And without the dream you can never get there. The worst that can happen is they fail. Society is no worse off and neither are you. They were going to fail anyway, because they were going to make themselves fail in order to fit in with the image they have as failures. But in the best case (and what psychologists believe is the most common) they succeed beyond their self imposed limits.
Part of the problem you're having with accepting this is you already have a positive self image, so you can't imagine screwing yourself over because of your negative self image. Also, it's completely counter intuitive. It took years of careful research to prove these things.
Or Salon. The tea party was a bought and paid for made up movement by the rich to push their agenda of low taxes, no regulation and no social safety net. They had tens if not hundreds of millions of dollars behind them. Christ, Fox news used to run stories about 'spontaneous' tea-party gatherings a week in advance.
OWS was a real grass roots movement. And like all grass roots movements it was relentlessly pounded into the ground. My favorite part was when they used the Patriot Act to mobilize local law enforcement against it. Remember when we got promised it would never be used on US soil? Yeah, nobody else did either...
when it's a mistake it's 'some middle manager' but whenever something goes right it's 'the CEO's leadership'. Man, I wish I could fsck up and my job all day and blame all the guys that don't get to make any real decisions...
they're your ruling class, silly. We don't spill the blood of kings.
Anything below 40 watts should be fine.
We're all hoping Valve will subsidize the hardware like the rest of the console manufactures and we'll get mid range PCs for $200 bucks cheaper.
Also, take that consoles.
I don't know what you're talking about.
they don't sell a lot at once, but they sell consistently for years and years. Plus with a smaller base of software they can count on what they do put out selling nearly 1 to 1 with the console. Basically, it's the same model Nintendo had going with the Gamecube.
There's a pretty large body of psychology that shows those 'participation' awards are a good thing. Teachers didn't start doing that for the hell of it, but the reasons have largely been buried. Basically, psychologists found that it took a lot of work to give people a positive self image, especially lower income people. The kind this stuff is most commonly targeted to.
Now, in and of itself you're saying: so what, who needs a positive self image? And you'd be right if you ignore the next bit of findings: people can't do things that they don't don't believe they can do. It sounds simple, but in researching it psychologists found it wasn't just that people failed, but that they actively sabotaged themselves. They would consistently do things that reinforced their negative self image of themselves, and that the only way to stop them was to force a positive self image onto them through trickery. Hence the 'participation' awards.
All of this is a complex thought that goes against common sense, so it's easy to attack and undermine it.
that's sorta what a democracy is. The trouble is we've got about 20,000 'entities' (the super rich ruling class) deciding what the rest of use 6 billion get.
and what the charge was?
I'm sure the gov't will be happy to give me the same subsidies the cable companies get (you didn't think those 'taxes' on your bill were going to schools did you?).
Why is it everyone in this God forsaken country always wants the 'market' answer? The solution to this problem is easy folks. We paid for the infrastructure with our tax dollars. We paid for all the tech to be developed with our tax dollars. The businesses have been privatizing profits and socializing loses for 30 years. Enough of that. It's yours, take it back.
even with 200+ miles on a bike a week I won't go below that.
Open office has bit me more than once with a few really nasty doc recovery bugs where it'll overwrite you're auto backups and then keep overwriting until they're all gone. Anyone care to chime in on whether these are fixed? I remember they knew about them but left the auto-recovery stuff turned on any way :(.
I'll be more impressed when I can actually buy a sub $100 PC... Too many broken promises.
Stalin and Mao were _not_ communists. They were fascists that happened to use communist rhetoric in their speeches and posters.
they'd like you to keep your phone, thank you very much. Even at $600 bucks some of them still have a subsidy.
The American right wing is just pro-corporate and pro ruling class. They exist to support and expand the power of the 1%. Everything else is just window dressing for the rubes.
the article doesn't even touch on your point. It just says that gov't and business are touting statistics that say there aren't enough people with STEM degrees and that those stats are lies used to lower the standard of living and quality of life for those same degree holders.
Now, to your point, I love the sentiment you just expressed: "Americans are too dumb and lazy. We need more H1-Bs". I'm not even sure you know you're expressing it. That's the beauty of it. That thought is being drilled into our heads by corporations. That and the notion that you, yes you, are too lazy and stupid and if you don't have a good life it's all your fault for not working harder (and has nothing to do with the fact that you're poor).
It's the opposite of an "Entitlement Complex". A Disenfranchisement Complex maybe? I don't know. But I know this. American spent the last 30 years being told their worthless garbage that are not worth the salaries they make. and they've started to believe it...
No kidding and no partisanship either. He closed most of our nations publicly run mental heath clinics and let thousands of severely mentally ill people out on their own. The worst thing is he probably meant well (we were constraining their freedom). They promptly wound up homeless because they're not functional human beings. When you see the crazy lady with the bags yelling at martians on the street you've got well meaning libertarians with no understanding of what mental illness is to thank...
burning through $2000/week ($124,000/yr gross if you add 20% for taxes) isn't 'bad with numbers' it's mental illness. But hey, don't let a little thing like RTFA get in the way of perpetuating Libertarian myths.