Dropping gameguard doesn't make it a better game, but as you yourself said, you are more likely to buy it now. Combine that with people who would have spent the "free" month fighting gameguard instead of players and mobs, and I think maybe it is more competitive.
I'm not sure I follow this. Neither Congress nor the judicial branch are said to have made that determination. It was the justice department of the executive branch that said these actions were legal. The result of your argument should be that we ought not trust the executive branch to take on parts of the judiciary's role. No?
We use a pseudo touchscreen here at school. It's a ceiling mounted projector that projects onto basically a wall mounted tablet. It's pretty good for teaching, and an actual touchscreen would eliminate the problem of the image drifting out of alignment over time. The tablet is easily calibrated, but currently the projected image is a fair bit smaller than the tablet size. The air handlers in the ceiling cause this gradual drift.
However, I can say that I'm having no problems using the same UI as I use with a mouse for this. Multitouch would be nice (two students working at the board at the same time, for one.)
Actually all it takes is for some school somewhere to get sued, or find itself in circumstances where they could be sued, and then schools nationwide will hear of it and start changing their practices. This is reasonable, as the money paid out in a lawsuit can't go to educate all the kids. Lots of schools are strapped as it is. Even in districts that have money, the recession is being used as cover to skimp on schools.
This is offtopic, but I think it would be a great thing if "professional athlete" was a viable career choice for the general population. There are some natural obstacles to this such as risk of injury ending your career. There are also other things like the stranglehold that a pro team puts on its municipality and the, I guess, globalization of pro sports. Municipalities are prohibited by league rules from owning teams, and (say) the Washington Redskins have very little to do with DC. If DC had not decided to kick in more public money for private parks recently, what are the odds they would have stuck around anyway? How many players from the "Washington" Redskins are even from the area?
I'd love to see a more diverse market for sporting events. Lots of smaller local teams playing in professional leagues and making a decent living. I teach high school, and many of my students are really passionate about sports. For a long time, I pooh-poohed this as a frivolity, but who am I to denigrate their life's passion?
And the trials took place in the normal British criminal justice system, without torture. This is also mentioned in the Greenwald piece that another poster has linked.
This is why the validity of the process is being written off in (the US at least) in favor of military commissions, the state secrets privilege, and preventative detention. That last one is for just the situation you describe. The government doesn't have enough legally obtained evidence to convict someone in an actual court, but they do know (somehow) that the person is going to commit crimes in the future. So, beat the rush; throw them in jail now.
How is this philosophically different from Dewey and Montessori? Students direct their own learning (or lack of learning) and adults serve as guides and help direct kids to resources that they need to advance knowledge. Actually, it's not even necessary for the guides to be adults. Anyone who is more knowledgeable and able to identify appropriate resources or expertise is fine. Do we really need a jargon for this?
I teach high school, and have always been a big fan of Dewey's concept of school. Teachers of any particular subject can be specialists, but should be conversant with the other things that go in in the school. Or at least have a respect for the other things. One major problem I have with schools (and maybe people in general) is that people are almost afraid of knowing what goes on in the other departments or even in the next room. It's hard to be a collaborative minded teacher when everyone else is engaged in individual play.
"Unschooling" is also a very luxurious option, it seems. You need parents with enough unscheduled time to be with their kids in the world they want to learn from. Parents who work several jobs to make ends meet just can't do this. Or if you live in a boring area (they exist), you might learn about life in your area but not about the rest of the world. In simpler times, that might have been enough for your life but I don't know that it is anymore. My sister is pretty much "unschooling" her daughter. I think they're lucky in that my niece is extremely intelligent. But she's not especially considerate or nice, and can't admit when she's wrong. I worry that she's going to have exactly the same personality as my sister, who also cannot do this.
It actually isn't but not because it's too leftist. Government usurpation of privacy mechanisms was a hallmark of the previous administration. So if anything, this is more of the same right wing national security state. People on the right (not saying it's you especially, although it seems to be) who thought we'd regret Obama were never saying "don't vote for him - he's going to preserve Bushco's intrusive security policies."
In fact, the cowering Democrats in the house and wherever else are probably fine with this. What does the right wing say about it? Are they opposed on privacy grounds? I honestly want to know.
In education we call that part of reading "decoding" and the rest of it is creating meaning in your brain. Or mind, I guess. I'm sure there's a jargon-laden debate about that as well.
Current soulless approaches to reading education also require the reader to set a purpose for reading before actually beginning a reading session. There are only three purposes: reading to perform a task, reading to be informed, and reading for literary experience. Reading Rainbow was about the last of these. The PBS executive in that NPR story, IMO, missed the point of Reading Rainbow.
Administrators and guidance counselors are not in the same employment category as teachers (I teach in Maryland, not in PG county.) As such, they work year round. Teachers are on summer vacation, yes, but we are not the ones who construct and reconcile schedules, or authorize the purchase of bigger better faster data tracking software. The people who do that are not on vacation during summers, and incidentally do not generally belong to teacher unions. Administrators most certainly do not, as they are not teachers.
My district upgraded their scheduling software this year for a one time fee and has run into some issues of compatibility with the other software systems that run the schools. Minor stuff is there, as well as real head scratchers. For example if the system sees that 100 students are scheduled for world history, and there are 5 teachers, it will create a schedule with 100 students in section 1 and 0 in the others. This kind of braindead design takes time to sort out.
That's before everyone and (sometimes literally) their grandmother wants an exception made because they don't like this teacher, or they don't want to stay a full school day and want the same class earlier. Or how about the class that 12 kids sign up for? Run it or cut it? If you run it, that's one teacher who has a much smaller than average class (the other kids they "should" have must go someplace) and if you cut it, those 12 kids have to get something else.
All kinds of things can drag out the scheduling process. It's not just the computer systems, it's the needs of the students. And by the way, registration for classes begins around March, so the process is not just a summer endeavor.
He didn't say they were jokes. If he's in school saying "I don't want this black kid in my group" or "I can't believe this black kid scored higher on the test than me she must have cheated," then those things can become corrosive pretty fast.
Whenever I've left an MMO or even uninstalled certain software, I've been presented with a short survey asking me why I left. Let's say my answer was "rampant cheating" or "inability to get ahead because of gold farmers and buyers." If the survey data show that people are leaving at rate r for that reason, CCP has a basis for knowing when those 2% become more trouble than they are worth.
Grassley and Steele have danced carefully around saying that they object to the death panels in the bill. Grassley, if I recall, said that people have every right to fear. Steele said that it's valid to talk about death panels in the context of what people out there are thinking and fearing. They're as afraid of their base as the left seems to be.
It's weird that his hatred didn't stop him from participating and playing a morally bankrupt character on the show. This in contrast to his lamentation about the despair of the show.
I don't think anyone who worked on the recent BSG is involved in this movie. Except maybe Larson, but I don't know that he did a lot of new work for the recent series.
Bill Adama: The Rock Saul Tigh: Harrison Ford Starbuck: Kristen Stewart Lee Adama: Shia LaBouef Boomer: Kelly Hu Number Six: Dakota Fanning Gaius Baltar: Chris Evans
(I'm not the AICN poster of this, I just found this post hilarious)
The only way for this to get more attention is for the opposition party to take it up as a cause. That's the reality of our 2 party system. Not just this website but lack of transparency across the board. We've seen a number of examples in the last 7 months. So, instead of birth records or death panels, take something that's actually demonstrably outrageous. I'm about as far left as it gets, which makes me want someone to call out this bullshit even more. This is one check on the power of a political party but I doubt we'll see this story get any play on right wing radio or fox news.
Hold on, I'm being told that we want more Orly Taitz and town hall attendees with vague fears who want their America back.
In classic WOW (before any expansion), I remember stealthing up to the dark portal as a druid. It was pretty great and I said something in guild chat. No one knew what I was talking about.
I wasn't entirely clear I guess about how the robot war was presented in the series. One side had automated squadrons of mobile suits and the other side had regular people in mobile suits. The automatons were shown to be:
nearly impossible for a human to defeat, even a very skilled human
"willing" to execute maneuvers that would kill a human pilot, had there been one inside
utterly without mercy
far less discriminating target shooters, so to speak
So, it's not like the war in the cartoon is robots versus robots with no humans being killed. The ability of one side to go to war with no losses makes them more aggressive and cavalier about life. You seem to think that war is a necessary evil, but I would like to go further and say that it is simply evil without being necessary.
I recently watched Gundam Wing again, and even in a cartoon series, some of the characters make extensive speeches about how robot war desensitizes humanity and is therefore wrong. War should be fought by people so that they can understand its terrible cost and will work to oppose and end it.
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Dropping gameguard doesn't make it a better game, but as you yourself said, you are more likely to buy it now. Combine that with people who would have spent the "free" month fighting gameguard instead of players and mobs, and I think maybe it is more competitive.
I'm not sure I follow this. Neither Congress nor the judicial branch are said to have made that determination. It was the justice department of the executive branch that said these actions were legal. The result of your argument should be that we ought not trust the executive branch to take on parts of the judiciary's role. No?
We use a pseudo touchscreen here at school. It's a ceiling mounted projector that projects onto basically a wall mounted tablet. It's pretty good for teaching, and an actual touchscreen would eliminate the problem of the image drifting out of alignment over time. The tablet is easily calibrated, but currently the projected image is a fair bit smaller than the tablet size. The air handlers in the ceiling cause this gradual drift.
However, I can say that I'm having no problems using the same UI as I use with a mouse for this. Multitouch would be nice (two students working at the board at the same time, for one.)
Actually all it takes is for some school somewhere to get sued, or find itself in circumstances where they could be sued, and then schools nationwide will hear of it and start changing their practices. This is reasonable, as the money paid out in a lawsuit can't go to educate all the kids. Lots of schools are strapped as it is. Even in districts that have money, the recession is being used as cover to skimp on schools.
This is offtopic, but I think it would be a great thing if "professional athlete" was a viable career choice for the general population. There are some natural obstacles to this such as risk of injury ending your career. There are also other things like the stranglehold that a pro team puts on its municipality and the, I guess, globalization of pro sports. Municipalities are prohibited by league rules from owning teams, and (say) the Washington Redskins have very little to do with DC. If DC had not decided to kick in more public money for private parks recently, what are the odds they would have stuck around anyway? How many players from the "Washington" Redskins are even from the area?
I'd love to see a more diverse market for sporting events. Lots of smaller local teams playing in professional leagues and making a decent living. I teach high school, and many of my students are really passionate about sports. For a long time, I pooh-poohed this as a frivolity, but who am I to denigrate their life's passion?
tl:dr - don't hate the player, hate the owner
And the trials took place in the normal British criminal justice system, without torture. This is also mentioned in the Greenwald piece that another poster has linked.
This is why the validity of the process is being written off in (the US at least) in favor of military commissions, the state secrets privilege, and preventative detention. That last one is for just the situation you describe. The government doesn't have enough legally obtained evidence to convict someone in an actual court, but they do know (somehow) that the person is going to commit crimes in the future. So, beat the rush; throw them in jail now.
How is this philosophically different from Dewey and Montessori? Students direct their own learning (or lack of learning) and adults serve as guides and help direct kids to resources that they need to advance knowledge. Actually, it's not even necessary for the guides to be adults. Anyone who is more knowledgeable and able to identify appropriate resources or expertise is fine. Do we really need a jargon for this?
I teach high school, and have always been a big fan of Dewey's concept of school. Teachers of any particular subject can be specialists, but should be conversant with the other things that go in in the school. Or at least have a respect for the other things. One major problem I have with schools (and maybe people in general) is that people are almost afraid of knowing what goes on in the other departments or even in the next room. It's hard to be a collaborative minded teacher when everyone else is engaged in individual play.
"Unschooling" is also a very luxurious option, it seems. You need parents with enough unscheduled time to be with their kids in the world they want to learn from. Parents who work several jobs to make ends meet just can't do this. Or if you live in a boring area (they exist), you might learn about life in your area but not about the rest of the world. In simpler times, that might have been enough for your life but I don't know that it is anymore. My sister is pretty much "unschooling" her daughter. I think they're lucky in that my niece is extremely intelligent. But she's not especially considerate or nice, and can't admit when she's wrong. I worry that she's going to have exactly the same personality as my sister, who also cannot do this.
It actually isn't but not because it's too leftist. Government usurpation of privacy mechanisms was a hallmark of the previous administration. So if anything, this is more of the same right wing national security state. People on the right (not saying it's you especially, although it seems to be) who thought we'd regret Obama were never saying "don't vote for him - he's going to preserve Bushco's intrusive security policies."
In fact, the cowering Democrats in the house and wherever else are probably fine with this. What does the right wing say about it? Are they opposed on privacy grounds? I honestly want to know.
In education we call that part of reading "decoding" and the rest of it is creating meaning in your brain. Or mind, I guess. I'm sure there's a jargon-laden debate about that as well.
Current soulless approaches to reading education also require the reader to set a purpose for reading before actually beginning a reading session. There are only three purposes: reading to perform a task, reading to be informed, and reading for literary experience. Reading Rainbow was about the last of these. The PBS executive in that NPR story, IMO, missed the point of Reading Rainbow.
Administrators and guidance counselors are not in the same employment category as teachers (I teach in Maryland, not in PG county.) As such, they work year round. Teachers are on summer vacation, yes, but we are not the ones who construct and reconcile schedules, or authorize the purchase of bigger better faster data tracking software. The people who do that are not on vacation during summers, and incidentally do not generally belong to teacher unions. Administrators most certainly do not, as they are not teachers.
My district upgraded their scheduling software this year for a one time fee and has run into some issues of compatibility with the other software systems that run the schools. Minor stuff is there, as well as real head scratchers. For example if the system sees that 100 students are scheduled for world history, and there are 5 teachers, it will create a schedule with 100 students in section 1 and 0 in the others. This kind of braindead design takes time to sort out.
That's before everyone and (sometimes literally) their grandmother wants an exception made because they don't like this teacher, or they don't want to stay a full school day and want the same class earlier. Or how about the class that 12 kids sign up for? Run it or cut it? If you run it, that's one teacher who has a much smaller than average class (the other kids they "should" have must go someplace) and if you cut it, those 12 kids have to get something else.
All kinds of things can drag out the scheduling process. It's not just the computer systems, it's the needs of the students. And by the way, registration for classes begins around March, so the process is not just a summer endeavor.
He didn't say they were jokes. If he's in school saying "I don't want this black kid in my group" or "I can't believe this black kid scored higher on the test than me she must have cheated," then those things can become corrosive pretty fast.
Whenever I've left an MMO or even uninstalled certain software, I've been presented with a short survey asking me why I left. Let's say my answer was "rampant cheating" or "inability to get ahead because of gold farmers and buyers." If the survey data show that people are leaving at rate r for that reason, CCP has a basis for knowing when those 2% become more trouble than they are worth.
all true all true
You're using a WOW quotation to demonstrate the time is money.
Grassley and Steele have danced carefully around saying that they object to the death panels in the bill. Grassley, if I recall, said that people have every right to fear. Steele said that it's valid to talk about death panels in the context of what people out there are thinking and fearing. They're as afraid of their base as the left seems to be.
I'm sorry; I'm completely wrong about this and should have consulted IMDB before shooting my mouth off.
It's weird that his hatred didn't stop him from participating and playing a morally bankrupt character on the show. This in contrast to his lamentation about the despair of the show.
I don't think anyone who worked on the recent BSG is involved in this movie. Except maybe Larson, but I don't know that he did a lot of new work for the recent series.
Also, here is my dream cast for the new movie:
Bill Adama: The Rock Saul Tigh: Harrison Ford Starbuck: Kristen Stewart Lee Adama: Shia LaBouef Boomer: Kelly Hu Number Six: Dakota Fanning Gaius Baltar: Chris Evans
(I'm not the AICN poster of this, I just found this post hilarious)
The only way for this to get more attention is for the opposition party to take it up as a cause. That's the reality of our 2 party system. Not just this website but lack of transparency across the board. We've seen a number of examples in the last 7 months. So, instead of birth records or death panels, take something that's actually demonstrably outrageous. I'm about as far left as it gets, which makes me want someone to call out this bullshit even more. This is one check on the power of a political party but I doubt we'll see this story get any play on right wing radio or fox news.
Hold on, I'm being told that we want more Orly Taitz and town hall attendees with vague fears who want their America back.
in which "c" represents the area of the speed of light
In classic WOW (before any expansion), I remember stealthing up to the dark portal as a druid. It was pretty great and I said something in guild chat. No one knew what I was talking about.
That's not to mention the powerful people who could get implicated by following a money trail.
I wasn't entirely clear I guess about how the robot war was presented in the series. One side had automated squadrons of mobile suits and the other side had regular people in mobile suits. The automatons were shown to be:
So, it's not like the war in the cartoon is robots versus robots with no humans being killed. The ability of one side to go to war with no losses makes them more aggressive and cavalier about life. You seem to think that war is a necessary evil, but I would like to go further and say that it is simply evil without being necessary.
I recently watched Gundam Wing again, and even in a cartoon series, some of the characters make extensive speeches about how robot war desensitizes humanity and is therefore wrong. War should be fought by people so that they can understand its terrible cost and will work to oppose and end it.