if Syria is on the list of nations who use torture to try and extract information from prisoners and we (the U.S.) object to such treatment, how come we (the U.S.) send suspected terrorists to Syria for interrogation?
Now, while we are supposed to be the good guys, good guy interrogation tactics actually aren't that effective. What, precisely, are we supposed to do to interrogate them? Stick them under a hot light and keep asking questions over and over and over and over, until they get sick of us asking and talk, just to get us to shut up? That's practically begging to get fed a line of BS.
It's a Catch-22. If we be the white-hat and don't use torture, we're either not going to get anything useful, or get fed outright lies. If we do use torture, we're using the kind of things that the "bad-guys" do, the kind of thing that, being the "good-guys" we're not supposed to do.
Do you have any better ideas for getting information out of suspected terrorists that is likely to work?
(For those who have set there thresholds & such up so you can't read AC posts, parent posted that Andrew Carnegie was the robber baron. I stand corrected.
If you go and make your fortune by destroying thousands of other people's businesses by unethical abuses of your position and then give away a fraction of that money to charity, should you be rewarded? I'd say not.
Do some research on some of the Railroad robber barons of the late 19th century. They did some really nasty things, but some of them (the ones who did nasty things), also gave lots of money to charity and founded charities and supported the arts and were remembered for that. As I mentioned in a previous post, Dale Carnagie fits into this catagory.
Or Scots, or Welshmen, or Irishmen, or Arabs & Jews (Crusades), or possibly raiding Norse, and, of course, other Englishmen (the other numerous civil wars).
Well, it's not like it's any less arrogant to assume everyone's in the same country as you when you say "our". Especially when it's not clear from one's post, E-Mail address, or the URL for whatever web-site the person has in their little header thing. It's not like/. is wholely populated by Europeans (or Asians, or South Americans, or Australians, or Canadians) either.
I have to agree. I would say that Bill Gates is a tycoon in he grand tradition of Dale Carnagie. He definatly used unethical tactics to get where he was, but once he got where he did, he chose to do some good too. Bill deserves the knighthood.
However, I do think he should be knighted An Tir-style (I don't know if this applies to the rest of the SCA), just to see him get a fist to the face.
Actually, the price for my cup of coffee at my preferred coffee shop for a 16 oz. cup has gone up from $2.75 to $3.00 (but then again, as it's a mocha, that could just be the cost of chocolate).
That's a toughie. "Diamonds Are Forever" had a plot involving a satellite with a heat-ray (same with "Die Another Day"), "You Only Live Twice" had SPECTRE stealing both the Russian and the US's space-ships to spark World War III, and "The Man With The Golden Gun" had, as a lower-teir baddy, a corrupt Japanese businessman who was working with Scaramanga (although "You Only Live Twice" had that too).
That is the key. Good managers don't surround themselves with yes-men and suck-ups, but with people who are competant, listen to what they say, and finally the even more important part - act on it.
All the good advice in the world can't help you if you don't use it.
True. However, now reform is on the table and there is a chance to adress those issues. I may disagree with parts of the Bush plan, but frankly, it's better then what I've been hearing for an alternative from the groups like the AARP, which consists of, in essense, "If it ain't broke, don't fix it."
Out of curiousity, do you know some non-partisan (and non-Teacher's Union or school district administration) sites that have evidence of this? I'm not saying your wrong, but I would like more information. I'm posting from my own experience here, but I'm interested in the information your post is based on. IIRC, before NCLB, there was very little to encourage schools to work harder towards the goal of educating their students and getting them to preform, besides the threat of de-accreditation (and you have to be doing really bad for that threat to be made.) In the past, should the student population be under-performing, the school districts, in my recollection, rather than improving, blamed a lack of funds. NCLB has the promise of forcing the administrators and teachers to create curriculum that engages the students.
Administrators don't like this because by potentially ending the cycle of performance-is-down-more-money-please, which allowed them to bloat their salaries. Teacher's unions don't like this because, frankly, not every teacher is a good teacher, and while good teachers are easier to find, it's because they shine so brightly. Bad teachers, on the other hand, have the most to lose from this, and will fight it the most vehimently, and be the most vocal, and can shout down the good teachers when it comes to Union positions. Not to mention, the good teachers do not necessarily have the time to focus on taking office within a Union.
Oh, and with regards to Grandparent's comments on vouchers. I'd like to mention that those school districts and counties in suburban (and not necessarily upper-class) Oregon that have embraced Vouchers and Charter schools have done well and helped lower income students. Administrators and the Teachers Unions don't like this for the obvious reasons, it's money out of their pockets. However, from what I have heard from parents in my community and other local communities who have been able to get their children onto a voucher program or into charter schools have said their children got a better education and enjoyed going to school more than they were in public schools.
If i've learned one thing from all my experiences in Public schools, it's that administrators and teachers unions have no problem with spreading their own brand of FUD, and members of the teaching community are not immune to groupthink. However, due to the school administrators and teacher's union's positions, people are not as likely to question those positions.
China's being childish because a different scheme is favored for authentication over their scheme... unless their scheme has more merit over another scheme? Anyone know of an site with a side-by-side 802.11i-vs.-ANSI comparison?
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I read lots of stuff outside Fantasy and Sci-Fi. It's just people don't bother to review it. However, FYI, Sci-Fi and Fantasy aren't just for kids.;-)
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Ehh, I read Manifold Time, and I didn't like it that much. I couldn't suspend disbelief to buy into the whole "Blue-babies causing all space travel in any and every form to be banned" thing. It just stopped me dead in my tracks (especially since I've been seeing that premise far too often since Fallen Angels).
Actually, NCLB has done some good. In Oregon, (where I live) in the past, various school districts have seriously fucked over the Special Education students. They have not given the students the help they need, nor properly used the extra money the district gets for teaching special needs stuidents. Rather, administrators have given the students less funding for the useful education they need (such as training for social interaction through actually doing it) and just pocketed the cash.
Even the education for mainstreamed students was not so good. D- grades were passing, and all curriculums suffered in favor of the almighty sports programs. Parents with money could afford to put their kids in private schools. However, most parents didn't really know how good their student's education actually was, and parents of Special Needs students couldn't take the fight to the district, because according to the Administrators, the students were getting the help they needed, and the Administrators "knew" (or said they did during IEP meetings) what the Special Needs students needed more than the students' parents and Advocates. If the parents disagreed, there were no accurate records of what actually happened during IEP meetings (the School kept the minutes and altered them to fit what they wanted), there was no one present who actually had the responsiblilty to make decisions (whereas the law says their should). Should the Parents want to fight the Administrators, it could only be in court. I know, I've experienced these kind of games that school administrators play first hand, and have heard similar things from parents of Special Needs students.
NCLB gave parents of Special Needs kids (and their advocates) something to throw in the face of the Administration and say, "See, you're not giving my kid what he/she needs." I'm glad that NCLB is around. It brought accountability into the mix.
Likewise, Social Security needs reform. When it was created, it was created with some high ideals in mind. But with the Baby Boomer generation nearing or reaching retirement, that's a lot of checks going out, and I am not convinced that the amount of money the retirees put in is equal to the amount going out. And with the Baby Boomers having less kids to, in essence support them, something needs to be done. There is a reason that retirement plans anymore go beyond just social security, and into 401Ks and IRAs and similar plans. The system needs an overhawl, and it would needed to have happened sooner or later. Rather sooner, so that the anticipated problems don't bite us in the ass, rather then later, when we've got (to continue the analogy) our ass in a sling.
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But what catagory would Burgerville, Wendy's, or Carl's Jr fall into?
Now, while we are supposed to be the good guys, good guy interrogation tactics actually aren't that effective. What, precisely, are we supposed to do to interrogate them? Stick them under a hot light and keep asking questions over and over and over and over, until they get sick of us asking and talk, just to get us to shut up? That's practically begging to get fed a line of BS.
It's a Catch-22. If we be the white-hat and don't use torture, we're either not going to get anything useful, or get fed outright lies. If we do use torture, we're using the kind of things that the "bad-guys" do, the kind of thing that, being the "good-guys" we're not supposed to do.
Do you have any better ideas for getting information out of suspected terrorists that is likely to work?
(For those who have set there thresholds & such up so you can't read AC posts, parent posted that Andrew Carnegie was the robber baron. I stand corrected.
Ehh... there's more to Europe then the French, though they'd like us to think otherwise. ;-)
Do some research on some of the Railroad robber barons of the late 19th century. They did some really nasty things, but some of them (the ones who did nasty things), also gave lots of money to charity and founded charities and supported the arts and were remembered for that. As I mentioned in a previous post, Dale Carnagie fits into this catagory.
Or Scots, or Welshmen, or Irishmen, or Arabs & Jews (Crusades), or possibly raiding Norse, and, of course, other Englishmen (the other numerous civil wars).
Pot, meet kettle.
However, I do think he should be knighted An Tir-style (I don't know if this applies to the rest of the SCA), just to see him get a fist to the face.
But you do know that Starbucks pays farmers more for their coffee than Nestle does, right?
That's a toughie. "Diamonds Are Forever" had a plot involving a satellite with a heat-ray (same with "Die Another Day"), "You Only Live Twice" had SPECTRE stealing both the Russian and the US's space-ships to spark World War III, and "The Man With The Golden Gun" had, as a lower-teir baddy, a corrupt Japanese businessman who was working with Scaramanga (although "You Only Live Twice" had that too).
Mod Parent even more funny. This is the best laugh I've had all week!
Amazing what a Google search does.
That is the key. Good managers don't surround themselves with yes-men and suck-ups, but with people who are competant, listen to what they say, and finally the even more important part - act on it.
All the good advice in the world can't help you if you don't use it.
Not completely pure profit. You still have to pay for overhead (hosting and bandwidth), and the artists still get their (albiet small) cut.
Smooth, editors, very smooth. Somebody had to have submitted an version article that had a working link.
And that is not a solution at all.
Administrators don't like this because by potentially ending the cycle of performance-is-down-more-money-please, which allowed them to bloat their salaries. Teacher's unions don't like this because, frankly, not every teacher is a good teacher, and while good teachers are easier to find, it's because they shine so brightly. Bad teachers, on the other hand, have the most to lose from this, and will fight it the most vehimently, and be the most vocal, and can shout down the good teachers when it comes to Union positions. Not to mention, the good teachers do not necessarily have the time to focus on taking office within a Union.
Oh, and with regards to Grandparent's comments on vouchers. I'd like to mention that those school districts and counties in suburban (and not necessarily upper-class) Oregon that have embraced Vouchers and Charter schools have done well and helped lower income students. Administrators and the Teachers Unions don't like this for the obvious reasons, it's money out of their pockets. However, from what I have heard from parents in my community and other local communities who have been able to get their children onto a voucher program or into charter schools have said their children got a better education and enjoyed going to school more than they were in public schools.
If i've learned one thing from all my experiences in Public schools, it's that administrators and teachers unions have no problem with spreading their own brand of FUD, and members of the teaching community are not immune to groupthink. However, due to the school administrators and teacher's union's positions, people are not as likely to question those positions.
Durr... That's what I meant. Teach me to post before I've had my coffee!
China's being childish because a different scheme is favored for authentication over their scheme... unless their scheme has more merit over another scheme? Anyone know of an site with a side-by-side 802.11i-vs.-ANSI comparison? PS: First Post?
I read lots of stuff outside Fantasy and Sci-Fi. It's just people don't bother to review it. However, FYI, Sci-Fi and Fantasy aren't just for kids. ;-)
Ehh, I read Manifold Time, and I didn't like it that much. I couldn't suspend disbelief to buy into the whole "Blue-babies causing all space travel in any and every form to be banned" thing. It just stopped me dead in my tracks (especially since I've been seeing that premise far too often since Fallen Angels).
Even the education for mainstreamed students was not so good. D- grades were passing, and all curriculums suffered in favor of the almighty sports programs. Parents with money could afford to put their kids in private schools. However, most parents didn't really know how good their student's education actually was, and parents of Special Needs students couldn't take the fight to the district, because according to the Administrators, the students were getting the help they needed, and the Administrators "knew" (or said they did during IEP meetings) what the Special Needs students needed more than the students' parents and Advocates. If the parents disagreed, there were no accurate records of what actually happened during IEP meetings (the School kept the minutes and altered them to fit what they wanted), there was no one present who actually had the responsiblilty to make decisions (whereas the law says their should). Should the Parents want to fight the Administrators, it could only be in court. I know, I've experienced these kind of games that school administrators play first hand, and have heard similar things from parents of Special Needs students.
NCLB gave parents of Special Needs kids (and their advocates) something to throw in the face of the Administration and say, "See, you're not giving my kid what he/she needs." I'm glad that NCLB is around. It brought accountability into the mix.
Likewise, Social Security needs reform. When it was created, it was created with some high ideals in mind. But with the Baby Boomer generation nearing or reaching retirement, that's a lot of checks going out, and I am not convinced that the amount of money the retirees put in is equal to the amount going out. And with the Baby Boomers having less kids to, in essence support them, something needs to be done. There is a reason that retirement plans anymore go beyond just social security, and into 401Ks and IRAs and similar plans. The system needs an overhawl, and it would needed to have happened sooner or later. Rather sooner, so that the anticipated problems don't bite us in the ass, rather then later, when we've got (to continue the analogy) our ass in a sling.
Yet bringing us one step closer to the world of Shadowrun. Where's the awakening? I want my elves goddamnit!
When was the last time you rode public transportation? I doubt anyone would care. They'd just think you were another FB/SP (Freaky Bus/Subway Person)
I did a search for Manos. I didn't get what I was looking for. Maybe the crawlers need to run a little longer.