You've got me there.... ten times the teachers would definitely improve public schools. It boggles my mind to imagine how different so many lives would be if there was only 4-5 students per teacher. Perhaps the benefit of a greying society is there might actually be enough adults to make something like that feasible.
I think your numbers (in breaking down your class) were spot on in my experience. Want an even uglier picture? Imagine teaching at an all-boys school. I spent grade 9 at one and then got the hell out. Sure, maybe girls perform better in the sciences in single-sex classes, but teenage boys are total terrors without the civilizing influence of girls around.
I dunno. I see your logic, but it wasn't too long ago that the same argument was made for kids to leave school at 10 or 12 years old. My grandfather left school at 10 to work on the family farm and nobody batted an eye, while now that would clearly be recognized as severely limiting a kid's future. Of course there is a huge difference between 10 and 16, but nowadays I don't think that difference is as big as the one between 16 and 21. I hung around the "bad" crowd in high school, acted up and behaved wildly, but it wasn't because I was a bad or stupid teenager (I eventually managed to get to college several years late) but because I wanted, no, needed friends. A lot of the kids I knew back then dropped out at the first opportunity, and many would have done it at 14 if they could. Most of them today (at least the ones whom I've run into or otherwise heard about) wish they had stayed in, because every extra credit they could've squeezed out would mean one less year of nightschool in adulthood.
IMHO, I don't think the problem is with the kids, it's with the fact that adolescents (especcially boys) are cast adrift for several years in our society. They have to contend with the instinct-primal-tribal hierarchy that kids are forced to grow up through. My solution? Hire ten times the number of guidance counsellors and make students attend biweekly (or at least monthly) sessions. It might not help the worst cases, whom really do need to experience real life, but the system fails far more students than it has to.
I agree that blue collar jobs are usually more fun than low-level support jobs (unless we're talking about raking tar or smashing rocks). But I'd only recommend them while you're in school studying something else because jobs like that can be a trap. At least with an entry-level white collar position, you're going to eventually rise to a higher grade of paper pusher, with more money and sex appeal. But unless you're talking about a professional blue-collar job, then once you start as a janitor or machine shop operator, you're usually got several years before you get opportunities to move up or out.
I don't want to cast any blanket statements here.... eg, I often regret not finishing my locksmith apprenticeship and going to college instead; I'd probably be paying off a home right now instead of just starting to look for one. But in my experience, from observing old friends and classmates, those with entry-level white collar jobs end up more successful than those in entry-level blue. YMMV - do whatever keeps you happy and fed.
...because not everyone convicted of a crime is actually guilty. Sometimes it takes years for misplaced evidence/guilty consciences/scientific advances to clear someone.
Well they might be gay, or muslim... both groups are pretty uneasy of Bush right now. But both groups added together can't equal more than 5-15% of the population so you're right about the average American lifestyle being unaffected. Unless there's a draft.
Too true. You can't graduate Yale/Harvard and not be able to string a couple of sentences together. Whether you're a football star or the dean's son, you still gotta be literate. Now, if W. was a compsci or engineering grad...
Why don't you start the paperwork to move to Hudson's Bay? Whether it's global warming or global cooling, Ontario ain't going to be such a bad place to live when it happens (considering the alternatives at least).
My mother, sister, and several cousins are nurses (all from Toronto, Halifax, and Newfoundland). The brain drain (for nurses) is way overblown. Their colleagues who've gone south usually (no, not often - USUALLY) return with broken fantasies of high wages and good working conditions. Know why? Because the wages vs cost of living in the U.S. cities *sucks* and the working conditions in hospitals are no better than the ones they left. True, there is a significant difference in wages/conditions for public health Canuck nurses and those in American private clinics but they're competing with American nurses for those jobs. Canada, U.S., U.K., all are facing nursing shortages but they don't have much success in permanently poaching each others.
Dell's hurtin', dude.... Apple, not so much so. Dell still moves more merchandise, but the Apple shareholders are getting MUCH bigger bangs for their bucks.
Dell's barely keeping level, even with their gung-ho offshoring:
http://finance.yahoo.com/q/bc?s=DELL&t=5y
Apple's doing pretty well... you might blame it on the success of the ipod or itunes, but neither are very big money makers:
Too true. Parliamentary sessions in Canada, Oz, and the UK are always full of loud, rowdy MPs shouting at each other. America's pretty well-mannered in comparison. The most violent ones I've ever seen were South Korea's and Taiwan's... actual fistfights and battle royals. Bet poli-sci classes are more interesting over there.
I wish I had a source here, but I'm pretty sure those contracts aren't enforcable in Canada. I heard about a non-compete clause that was contested a few years back by a former Nortel employee in Ottawa. The court ruled that you can't sign away your right to earn a living and nullified it. Maybe someone else knows more about that case?
I hate to say it, but even after years of using nix I still assumed it would be free. Glad I didn't post anything rash.... I'd hate to see the flames come out of a cross between a mac and linux zealot:)
Not until the middle class outnumbers, or at least approaches in size, the poor in the rest of the world. What's your beef with the parent comments? Is recognizing the overwhelming poverty of India somehow racist?
The new testaments were originally written in Hebrew/Aramaic and Greek. From there they were translated into Latin and remained so for many centuries. The English King James had a group of scholars translate it into English (one of them reputedly Shakespeare - good arguments both for and against). The KJV is the translation that's used across much of the english speaking Christian world.
Both biblical Greek and Hebrew are very expressive (someone studying them would say vague) languages, written passages can be vastly open to interpretation (much like Arabic). That's why many biblical scholars study the biblical languages, so they can look up their favourite passages and translate them themselves.
So for the purest stream of the testaments, you must read them in their original language. The Greek(Attic), Latin, and English translations are simpler expressions of the original. That's not heretical - go to any seminary or serious bible college and you'll see that's what's what biblical research is all about. The original poster was still being particially correct when he sarcastically called it an interpretation, because it IS an interpretation, of a relative few translators who were highly religious, though probably very educated for their time.
I'd say there's no need to rush out and buy the "First Hebrew Primer" grammar book or anything. It mostly checks out to the KJV with some notable exceptions. But I had to study Biblical Hebrew for my majors and can say it's not very hard to learn. The first year basically just teaches some pronunciation, aleph-bet(alphabet), grammar, and how to use a dictionary. That's all anyone needs to read the Hebrew Bible.
IANAL, nor live in America, but I'd think that it varies by state. Wish I had some reference but I've heard of shopkeepers running out of stores and shooting after robbers. Or maybe I'm just confusing TV with reality. I'm pretty sure you can at least shoot a bandit in most of the mid-west and south if he's on your property.
the authors argue that the media frenzy about mugging preceded any actual mugging epidemic.
Yeah, that was true in Canada in the early 90s with car-jackings. There had never been one before, but after local media in Toronto extensively covered a rash of 'jackings in LA there was immediately a couple of copycats. Car-jackings now occur in the major cities here at the rate of a couple a year, even as the rates for other types of crime fall.
Believe me, when you're an old(er) person and all the technology you grew up with isn't worth squat, you'll be glad to have studied philosophy. And if you live long enough to get dementia or Alzheimer's, then your care workers will prefer to hear you quoting Nietzsche than some arcane crap that nobody's used for fifty years.
I've heard a few times before that Russia was allegedly missing some of its suitcase nukes. If that's true and a terrorist detonated one in the US, then all signs would probably point towards a Russian device. Hopefully the US - Russian relations at the time would be good.
Cripes, I hope you're including the decimal point when you say their salaries are 8 digits! Or maybe they sell to the Department of Defense and make commission:)
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Damnit, I'm sick and tired of this slander! Dion is from Quebec, not Canada!
You've got me there.... ten times the teachers would definitely improve public schools. It boggles my mind to imagine how different so many lives would be if there was only 4-5 students per teacher. Perhaps the benefit of a greying society is there might actually be enough adults to make something like that feasible.
I think your numbers (in breaking down your class) were spot on in my experience. Want an even uglier picture? Imagine teaching at an all-boys school. I spent grade 9 at one and then got the hell out. Sure, maybe girls perform better in the sciences in single-sex classes, but teenage boys are total terrors without the civilizing influence of girls around.
I dunno. I see your logic, but it wasn't too long ago that the same argument was made for kids to leave school at 10 or 12 years old. My grandfather left school at 10 to work on the family farm and nobody batted an eye, while now that would clearly be recognized as severely limiting a kid's future. Of course there is a huge difference between 10 and 16, but nowadays I don't think that difference is as big as the one between 16 and 21. I hung around the "bad" crowd in high school, acted up and behaved wildly, but it wasn't because I was a bad or stupid teenager (I eventually managed to get to college several years late) but because I wanted, no, needed friends. A lot of the kids I knew back then dropped out at the first opportunity, and many would have done it at 14 if they could. Most of them today (at least the ones whom I've run into or otherwise heard about) wish they had stayed in, because every extra credit they could've squeezed out would mean one less year of nightschool in adulthood.
IMHO, I don't think the problem is with the kids, it's with the fact that adolescents (especcially boys) are cast adrift for several years in our society. They have to contend with the instinct-primal-tribal hierarchy that kids are forced to grow up through. My solution? Hire ten times the number of guidance counsellors and make students attend biweekly (or at least monthly) sessions. It might not help the worst cases, whom really do need to experience real life, but the system fails far more students than it has to.
I agree that blue collar jobs are usually more fun than low-level support jobs (unless we're talking about raking tar or smashing rocks). But I'd only recommend them while you're in school studying something else because jobs like that can be a trap. At least with an entry-level white collar position, you're going to eventually rise to a higher grade of paper pusher, with more money and sex appeal. But unless you're talking about a professional blue-collar job, then once you start as a janitor or machine shop operator, you're usually got several years before you get opportunities to move up or out.
I don't want to cast any blanket statements here.... eg, I often regret not finishing my locksmith apprenticeship and going to college instead; I'd probably be paying off a home right now instead of just starting to look for one. But in my experience, from observing old friends and classmates, those with entry-level white collar jobs end up more successful than those in entry-level blue. YMMV - do whatever keeps you happy and fed.
It's too bad that the criminals you'd actually like to see butt-raped usually end up as the rapists on the inside.
Mel Gibson could film it: "The Passion of the Spammer"
...because not everyone convicted of a crime is actually guilty. Sometimes it takes years for misplaced evidence/guilty consciences/scientific advances to clear someone.
Well they might be gay, or muslim... both groups are pretty uneasy of Bush right now. But both groups added together can't equal more than 5-15% of the population so you're right about the average American lifestyle being unaffected. Unless there's a draft.
Too true. You can't graduate Yale/Harvard and not be able to string a couple of sentences together. Whether you're a football star or the dean's son, you still gotta be literate. Now, if W. was a compsci or engineering grad...
Why don't you start the paperwork to move to Hudson's Bay? Whether it's global warming or global cooling, Ontario ain't going to be such a bad place to live when it happens (considering the alternatives at least).
I agree 100%.... if the election were held tomorrow, George Bush would definitely beat bin Laden.
My mother, sister, and several cousins are nurses (all from Toronto, Halifax, and Newfoundland). The brain drain (for nurses) is way overblown. Their colleagues who've gone south usually (no, not often - USUALLY) return with broken fantasies of high wages and good working conditions. Know why? Because the wages vs cost of living in the U.S. cities *sucks* and the working conditions in hospitals are no better than the ones they left. True, there is a significant difference in wages/conditions for public health Canuck nurses and those in American private clinics but they're competing with American nurses for those jobs. Canada, U.S., U.K., all are facing nursing shortages but they don't have much success in permanently poaching each others.
Dell's hurtin', dude.... Apple, not so much so. Dell still moves more merchandise, but the Apple shareholders are getting MUCH bigger bangs for their bucks.
Dell's barely keeping level, even with their gung-ho offshoring:
http://finance.yahoo.com/q/bc?s=DELL&t=5y
Apple's doing pretty well... you might blame it on the success of the ipod or itunes, but neither are very big money makers:
http://finance.yahoo.com/q/bc?s=AAPL&t=5y
Too true. Parliamentary sessions in Canada, Oz, and the UK are always full of loud, rowdy MPs shouting at each other. America's pretty well-mannered in comparison.
The most violent ones I've ever seen were South Korea's and Taiwan's... actual fistfights and battle royals. Bet poli-sci classes are more interesting over there.
I wish I had a source here, but I'm pretty sure those contracts aren't enforcable in Canada. I heard about a non-compete clause that was contested a few years back by a former Nortel employee in Ottawa. The court ruled that you can't sign away your right to earn a living and nullified it. Maybe someone else knows more about that case?
I hate to say it, but even after years of using nix I still assumed it would be free. Glad I didn't post anything rash.... I'd hate to see the flames come out of a cross between a mac and linux zealot :)
C'mon, *her* code? Isn't that a bit gratuitous? I mean, we're talking about code here, not a delicious turkey dinner.
Especially since it's not even being enforced.
Not until the middle class outnumbers, or at least approaches in size, the poor in the rest of the world. What's your beef with the parent comments? Is recognizing the overwhelming poverty of India somehow racist?
The new testaments were originally written in Hebrew/Aramaic and Greek. From there they were translated into Latin and remained so for many centuries. The English King James had a group of scholars translate it into English (one of them reputedly Shakespeare - good arguments both for and against). The KJV is the translation that's used across much of the english speaking Christian world.
Both biblical Greek and Hebrew are very expressive (someone studying them would say vague) languages, written passages can be vastly open to interpretation (much like Arabic). That's why many biblical scholars study the biblical languages, so they can look up their favourite passages and translate them themselves.
So for the purest stream of the testaments, you must read them in their original language. The Greek(Attic), Latin, and English translations are simpler expressions of the original. That's not heretical - go to any seminary or serious bible college and you'll see that's what's what biblical research is all about. The original poster was still being particially correct when he sarcastically called it an interpretation, because it IS an interpretation, of a relative few translators who were highly religious, though probably very educated for their time.
I'd say there's no need to rush out and buy the "First Hebrew Primer" grammar book or anything. It mostly checks out to the KJV with some notable exceptions. But I had to study Biblical Hebrew for my majors and can say it's not very hard to learn. The first year basically just teaches some pronunciation, aleph-bet(alphabet), grammar, and how to use a dictionary. That's all anyone needs to read the Hebrew Bible.
IANAL, nor live in America, but I'd think that it varies by state. Wish I had some reference but I've heard of shopkeepers running out of stores and shooting after robbers. Or maybe I'm just confusing TV with reality. I'm pretty sure you can at least shoot a bandit in most of the mid-west and south if he's on your property.
the authors argue that the media frenzy about mugging preceded any actual mugging epidemic.
Yeah, that was true in Canada in the early 90s with car-jackings. There had never been one before, but after local media in Toronto extensively covered a rash of 'jackings in LA there was immediately a couple of copycats. Car-jackings now occur in the major cities here at the rate of a couple a year, even as the rates for other types of crime fall.
Believe me, when you're an old(er) person and all the technology you grew up with isn't worth squat, you'll be glad to have studied philosophy. And if you live long enough to get dementia or Alzheimer's, then your care workers will prefer to hear you quoting Nietzsche than some arcane crap that nobody's used for fifty years.
The unexamined life is not worth living.
I've heard a few times before that Russia was allegedly missing some of its suitcase nukes. If that's true and a terrorist detonated one in the US, then all signs would probably point towards a Russian device. Hopefully the US - Russian relations at the time would be good.
Cripes, I hope you're including the decimal point when you say their salaries are 8 digits! Or maybe they sell to the Department of Defense and make commission :)