You're talking about the government as though it's a monolith. Policy has to be written to withstand efforts to abuse it. You can't go based on what you as a principled person would do. You have to go based on what your worst enemy with no morals whatosever will do, because those people find their way into power too.
Don't forget the role of tenure in academic freedom then. Tenure does protect some teachers who should exit the profession, but it also protects against capricious firings like this.
The thing is, "science directors" aren't teachers. Maybe I'm elitist in that respect but if you're not in a classroom with students you're not a teacher, you're just part of the bureaucracy. An actual teacher would likely get more protection from capricious termination, even if the union is half-assed. Florida and Texas are Right-to-Work states, therefore their teacher unions are much less powerful than in (say) Pennsylvania. Whether one thinks that teacher unions are good or evil, they do typically take the more forward thinking view on academic issues. Our union was interviewing candidates for the local BOE recently, to choose endorsees. The litmus test for a couple of us (union members) was "how do you feel about teaching Intelligent Design in a biology classroom?" There were two very good answers to that question during the day. First, the very simple: "It's not science so it shouldn't be in a science class." Another was from a candidate who said she was a person of faith: "The creation story is not a scientific account of the origins of the world. The Bible has some literary value and perhaps should be studied in Language Arts or Social Studies classes as literature, but not in biology." The same lady said she opposes school-sponsored prayer because "God doesn't honor mandatory prayers anyway."
Sometimes when my students suffer an arm/wrist injury and can't write, I give carbon paper to someone else in the class with good handwriting to make an instant copy of the notes. This also works well for students with visual impairments (it's not the only thing I do in those cases) or absentees when I know someone is going to be absent for an extended period.
I wouldn't call writing on carbons a technical skill. Not to mention that we use NCR paper, not actual carbons.
In Free Lunch, David Cay Johnston notes a trend in limiting access to the courts. In this way, If someone somewhere doesn't want a case to be heard, they just have to buy a little influence and can claim a legitimate victory. Note the reason the courts dismissed ACLU's earlier efforts in this line: only persons under surveillance have standing to sue, and the nature of the program is such that you're not allowed to know that you're under surveillance. That is, if you can prove that you have standing, you can be imprisoned. If you can prove that someone else has standing, you can be imprisoned.
In the book, Johnston details one case of a couple who owned an auto repair business in a spot where (I think) Jeep wanted green space for its factory complex. You can guess whose complaint was thrown out. These days it seems like there are only checks and balances when they're backed up by personal relationships or bullying. Note the number of subpoenas the white house has simply ignored.
I hope he gets ignored by apple because going on your radio show and addressing yourself to the man in charge of apple is no way to get tech support. Maybe his listeners will come up with some fixes, and frankly I hope they do because then anyone having the same problem will benefit from hearing it on the air.
If you're referring to John Conyers asking Mukasey about the CIA tapes, then that was the question. Conyers asked if Mukasey was prepared to begin an investigation into the possibility of criminal wrongdoing in the case of destroyed CIA tapes. Mukasey said "that's a direct question, so let me give a direct answer: no I am not."
The Daily Show may be a fake news show but there's information there.
I thought there were always two and only two sith lords, not rank and file sith. In KOTOR (canon?) there's a planet that's run by sith. Dark Jedi are all classified as sith, aren't they?
Don't forget Chet Faliszek. They're both at Valve now, right? I heard at least one of them in the TF2 commentary for Hydro. The spiritual successor to Old Man Murray seems to be Ben "Yahtzee" Croshaw at Escapist Magazine, in case you haven't run across his reviews yet.
There used to be one of those in Laurel, MD called Galaxy Computing and they had to close their doors due to lack of customers. They had:
Big-screen TVs (two or three?) with consoles parked in front
20 gaming PCs on a LAN
Deals with game studios to provide games at a much lower rate, and in some cases prelaunch
Advertising campaigns at local schools and whatnot
Group rates for things like birthday parties
lots of launch events - I saw the Baldur's Gate II launch event it was kind of sad
participation in national tournaments (I watched some guys play Red Alert II in a tournament - crazy!)
and still couldn't make a go of it. This was some years ago so the consoles were last-gen and the TVs were tubes. I'm not saying it can't work, I'm just saying that it's been tried and is being tried with hit-or-miss success. Go to http://www.igames.org/ for more info.
The problem with your suggestion is the republican (small r) form of government. Once these guys are elected, they don't have to listen to shit. Actually I guess the real problem is an uninformed populace that allows candidates to get them fired up on hot button issues and win that way. So it's easy for industry to get their puppets elected and easy for the incumbents to stay in office.
I had this problem a few years ago and it turned out the signal to the modem was too strong. After a series of techs came out and a supervisor and maybe the supervisor again, the next tech put a splitter in before the modem and solved the problem. I don't know if this will work for you but it's a very cheap fix to try.
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The church canceled last year's party. This year, its adult Sunday school classes are having parties in homes, but Broome said church members miss the big gatherings. "Everybody really had a good time," she said.
Apparently not. These people wouldn't miss the game just because the producers won't let them watch it how they want. I'm not saying the NFL isn't allowed to enforce its copyright terms, I'm saying that these churchgoers seem not to have noticed the injustice inherent in the system.
Here's the full voting record. If you click on a particular bill you will also get links to statements and speeches made around the time of the vote. There's no guarantee they'll be about the same issue though. http://www.vote-smart.org/voting_category.php?can_id=296
I am in a "graduate" program where we frequently get projects that require photo manipulation, presentations, etc. They also require us to work in groups. Since not everyone is from my same company we don't always have access to the same software to collaborate. I've been using this as an excuse to introduce people to things like GIMP and OpenOffice. The appeal of a free program that gets the specific tasks done that we need is pretty compelling. I don't know how many of them pass this kind of information on, but I know a few of them have gotten hooked.
Except that the story of the American revolution is taught throughout the k-12 years. Often I find that the real lessons of history go over kids' heads because of an emphasis on dates, names, places, facts. Content knowledge that is necessary but not sufficient. Kids' knowledge and understanding of historical events doesn't equip them to look around and see when similar events and situations are coming to pass. Pattern recognition is generally regarded as a math skill, and in math classes we mostly use visual and numeric patterns for illustration.
Since I started teaching in 1997 I've noticed that calls for interdisciplinary education (for the kids) and cross curricular connections have given way to emphasis on bare competence on tests of a pretty low standard. Our state's NCLB compliance test for high school math is in Algebra I, which isn't even high school math really. This could be just a difference between middle and high school, but even that is telling. When students reach high school, no one really talks about interrelationships between bodies of knowledge. Math class should be the most direct contact with the mental skill of abstraction but it's less and less so.
It's either warning labels or lawsuits. They're not doing this to protect stupid from itself. They're protecting themselves from stupid when stupid gets a lawyer.
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No one but Gore is to blame for Gore not being able to get enough votes.
You're talking about the government as though it's a monolith. Policy has to be written to withstand efforts to abuse it. You can't go based on what you as a principled person would do. You have to go based on what your worst enemy with no morals whatosever will do, because those people find their way into power too.
Don't forget the role of tenure in academic freedom then. Tenure does protect some teachers who should exit the profession, but it also protects against capricious firings like this.
The thing is, "science directors" aren't teachers. Maybe I'm elitist in that respect but if you're not in a classroom with students you're not a teacher, you're just part of the bureaucracy. An actual teacher would likely get more protection from capricious termination, even if the union is half-assed. Florida and Texas are Right-to-Work states, therefore their teacher unions are much less powerful than in (say) Pennsylvania. Whether one thinks that teacher unions are good or evil, they do typically take the more forward thinking view on academic issues. Our union was interviewing candidates for the local BOE recently, to choose endorsees. The litmus test for a couple of us (union members) was "how do you feel about teaching Intelligent Design in a biology classroom?" There were two very good answers to that question during the day. First, the very simple: "It's not science so it shouldn't be in a science class." Another was from a candidate who said she was a person of faith: "The creation story is not a scientific account of the origins of the world. The Bible has some literary value and perhaps should be studied in Language Arts or Social Studies classes as literature, but not in biology." The same lady said she opposes school-sponsored prayer because "God doesn't honor mandatory prayers anyway."
Sometimes when my students suffer an arm/wrist injury and can't write, I give carbon paper to someone else in the class with good handwriting to make an instant copy of the notes. This also works well for students with visual impairments (it's not the only thing I do in those cases) or absentees when I know someone is going to be absent for an extended period.
I wouldn't call writing on carbons a technical skill. Not to mention that we use NCR paper, not actual carbons.
I eagerly await the outcome of Congress' investigation into this secret program.
In Free Lunch, David Cay Johnston notes a trend in limiting access to the courts. In this way, If someone somewhere doesn't want a case to be heard, they just have to buy a little influence and can claim a legitimate victory. Note the reason the courts dismissed ACLU's earlier efforts in this line: only persons under surveillance have standing to sue, and the nature of the program is such that you're not allowed to know that you're under surveillance. That is, if you can prove that you have standing, you can be imprisoned. If you can prove that someone else has standing, you can be imprisoned.
In the book, Johnston details one case of a couple who owned an auto repair business in a spot where (I think) Jeep wanted green space for its factory complex. You can guess whose complaint was thrown out. These days it seems like there are only checks and balances when they're backed up by personal relationships or bullying. Note the number of subpoenas the white house has simply ignored.
hehee I was being ironic
I hope he gets ignored by apple because going on your radio show and addressing yourself to the man in charge of apple is no way to get tech support. Maybe his listeners will come up with some fixes, and frankly I hope they do because then anyone having the same problem will benefit from hearing it on the air.
If you're referring to John Conyers asking Mukasey about the CIA tapes, then that was the question. Conyers asked if Mukasey was prepared to begin an investigation into the possibility of criminal wrongdoing in the case of destroyed CIA tapes. Mukasey said "that's a direct question, so let me give a direct answer: no I am not."
The Daily Show may be a fake news show but there's information there.
I thought there were always two and only two sith lords, not rank and file sith. In KOTOR (canon?) there's a planet that's run by sith. Dark Jedi are all classified as sith, aren't they?
I heard about this on NPR yesterday you can't wash the fabric yet because of the material's reaction with water. Get ready for funk.
I want a cut from the future earnings of all my students. They couldn't have done it without me after all.
Don't forget Chet Faliszek. They're both at Valve now, right? I heard at least one of them in the TF2 commentary for Hydro. The spiritual successor to Old Man Murray seems to be Ben "Yahtzee" Croshaw at Escapist Magazine, in case you haven't run across his reviews yet.
There used to be one of those in Laurel, MD called Galaxy Computing and they had to close their doors due to lack of customers. They had:
- Big-screen TVs (two or three?) with consoles parked in front
- 20 gaming PCs on a LAN
- Deals with game studios to provide games at a much lower rate, and in some cases prelaunch
- Advertising campaigns at local schools and whatnot
- Group rates for things like birthday parties
- lots of launch events - I saw the Baldur's Gate II launch event it was kind of sad
- participation in national tournaments (I watched some guys play Red Alert II in a tournament - crazy!)
and still couldn't make a go of it. This was some years ago so the consoles were last-gen and the TVs were tubes. I'm not saying it can't work, I'm just saying that it's been tried and is being tried with hit-or-miss success. Go to http://www.igames.org/ for more info.The problem with your suggestion is the republican (small r) form of government. Once these guys are elected, they don't have to listen to shit. Actually I guess the real problem is an uninformed populace that allows candidates to get them fired up on hot button issues and win that way. So it's easy for industry to get their puppets elected and easy for the incumbents to stay in office.
at first I was going to say that 1984 was a bit much for this situation, but damn if you didn't nail it with the newspeak
I had this problem a few years ago and it turned out the signal to the modem was too strong. After a series of techs came out and a supervisor and maybe the supervisor again, the next tech put a splitter in before the modem and solved the problem. I don't know if this will work for you but it's a very cheap fix to try.
Throw "education reform" in there, please.
They wouldn't be breaking any laws by not watching the game.
Apparently not. These people wouldn't miss the game just because the producers won't let them watch it how they want. I'm not saying the NFL isn't allowed to enforce its copyright terms, I'm saying that these churchgoers seem not to have noticed the injustice inherent in the system.
I went to vote-smart.org to see how he did on their political courage test but apparently he refuses adamantly to take the test: http://www.vote-smart.org/npat.php?can_id=296
Here's the full voting record. If you click on a particular bill you will also get links to statements and speeches made around the time of the vote. There's no guarantee they'll be about the same issue though. http://www.vote-smart.org/voting_category.php?can_id=296
I am in a "graduate" program where we frequently get projects that require photo manipulation, presentations, etc. They also require us to work in groups. Since not everyone is from my same company we don't always have access to the same software to collaborate. I've been using this as an excuse to introduce people to things like GIMP and OpenOffice. The appeal of a free program that gets the specific tasks done that we need is pretty compelling. I don't know how many of them pass this kind of information on, but I know a few of them have gotten hooked.
Except that the story of the American revolution is taught throughout the k-12 years. Often I find that the real lessons of history go over kids' heads because of an emphasis on dates, names, places, facts. Content knowledge that is necessary but not sufficient. Kids' knowledge and understanding of historical events doesn't equip them to look around and see when similar events and situations are coming to pass. Pattern recognition is generally regarded as a math skill, and in math classes we mostly use visual and numeric patterns for illustration.
Since I started teaching in 1997 I've noticed that calls for interdisciplinary education (for the kids) and cross curricular connections have given way to emphasis on bare competence on tests of a pretty low standard. Our state's NCLB compliance test for high school math is in Algebra I, which isn't even high school math really. This could be just a difference between middle and high school, but even that is telling. When students reach high school, no one really talks about interrelationships between bodies of knowledge. Math class should be the most direct contact with the mental skill of abstraction but it's less and less so.
Maybe you're thinking of this old Cringely article: Bank Shot.
It's either warning labels or lawsuits. They're not doing this to protect stupid from itself. They're protecting themselves from stupid when stupid gets a lawyer.