As far as I'm concerned, this is completely unheard-of in my country. Standards are generally pre-set, and if half of the class fails where the previous year's students had few problems, well, that's their problem, nobody's going to lower the standards for this year's class.
The philosophy that schools are intended to teach a certain well thought out base of knowledge and only pass those who demonstrate that they've learned all of it is not universal.
It requires a great deal more maturity and responsibility and humility. The teacher needs to be a lot more self critical about what's in the curriculum, the students and parents need to be prepared to accept the fact that their talent and discipline may not be sufficient for the role they've decided they're interested in, and society needs to be prepared to accept that neither needs nor expectations will make a person capable if they don't have the talent or determination necessary.
What's popular these days is to just throw together a curriculum that relates to the course subject without regard for whether or not the students can absorb it, then just sort the class from best to worst and push the best ones forward. It's less demanding on the teacher, and it never allows their competence as a teacher to be subjected to critical analysis. It's also less demanding on the students... the teacher doesn't set the bar, the students do. And, society as a whole can look at the schools churning out certified, educated citizens and tell themselves they're doing just fine.
This way, when everything goes to shit, they can blame the "other", the ones who didn't play ball with the system, for their societies collapse. And, that's the most important thing. Because no pain is so bad that it can't be made 10 times worse by having someone tell you that it's your own damned fault and knowing that they are right.
My favorite beer was called "Hops Candy" because it had so much hops in it. All I see coming from this is that, in the name of saving money, they found a way to make mass produced beer taste even worse.
Why do you feel entitled to live in huge herds, when nature repeatedly strikes such herds down? Spread out a bit and you won't create the perfect storm of circumstances that create these terrible plagues. You ought to know better, but you do it anyway, so you deserve what comes of it.
That's a childish and superficial philosophy. You haven't thought it through, can't support it, and make no effort to live by it.
If you jump off a bridge, and you die, you deserved it.
Similarly, if you start a bank, you will trick people into giving you power, and eventually they will catch you, elevate a man whose only distinguishing characteristics are eloquence and anger, and cut off your head with a guillotine or put you in a gas chamber.
Both of these scenarios have a predictable outcome, and therefore, both of these men deserve to die.
All morality is of this nature. Sometimes you need a subtle eye to see the self-destructive nature of what you're doing, sometimes it's as obvious as walking off a cliff. But you always deserve what happens to you.
Immorality destroys itself. That is what distinguishes it from morality, which sustains itself.
Talking about why this nation makes war on that nation is irrelevant to the question of "What evolutionary advantage does war give to the human race.", which is the foundation of all morality.
That "Law" only applies to weapons whose primary purpose is to create blindness. Incidental blindness in pursuit of an "acceptable" primary purpose is specifically permitted.
Though, really, rules concerning the appropriate way to make war are just another example of a cartel colluding to protect their monopoly on the use of deadly force by raising the bar of entry.
The purpose of war is to shatter a social system that is harming our species and make space for something better. If your war is moral, the cruelty of your weapons is immaterial.
I liked the protection racket strategy. That, or playing an elvish ranger and using the rename trick to get stormbringer, if I was feeling too lazy for the protection racket and wanted a faster game.
I never did beat the game. Eventually, I made it to the final room and got killed by the four horsemen, just about went out of my mind with frustration, looked at the sun shining outside, thought about how much the obsession was taking me away from my girlfriend, and gave up the game for good.
No, some people will just argue, and argue, and argue, and they'll never give you any peace. In the end, if they refuse to shut up, you should kill them, take a deep breath, enjoy the silence, and move on with your life.
Feminists fit in that category. Just slit their throats, put them in a hole, and move on. Nice thing about people is, we can make more.
If your goal is self reliance, your system should be more than capable of storing a days worth of power, which means that conversations about the price of power is irrelevant.
This guy is thinking of home owners as a resalable resource, and if that's what you want out of your investment, I'm confident his advice will be good for you. I don't think much of it as a goal, personally, but that's just me.
Reading your post made me want to find it on youtube, but all I could find was this video of a bitchy little asian girl kicking a fat white nerd in the balls:
No, it's a person with a chip on their shoulder being pedantic about phrasing to justify their self-perceived victimhood. When you cling tenaciously to a literal interpretation so it will allow you to take an affronted position despite the persons efforts to clarify what they meant, you're just a jackass who deserves zero sympathy and maybe even a little aggression. Not micro aggression... more the fist in the mouth kind of aggression.
Listen to him. I did the same thing. It caused conflict and wasted money and grew embarrassingly obsolete the moment I stopped investing my time and money into keeping it up.
New phase of your life. Time to put the games aside.
Funny how a religion that goes around absorbing the tribal wisdom of those it encounters is treated with more contempt than one that was written by a single dude who thought he had perfection dripping from his pen and converted people with the sword.
Evolve or die, and they evolved, and... they're stupid for it?
It's not that it's more rational, more intelligent or more logical to render the sex act infertile, you know. On one side, you have people saying "Choose to be decent!" and on the other side, you have people saying "I don't want to be decent, I want to be decadent and if Rome burns, not only do I not care, I don't want to be informed."
Logically, it doesn't matter if Rome burns. Caring is a choice. Not caring is also a choice. Not a superior choice, just a different one.
Once you reduce things to this level, logically, it doesn't matter if you kill, it doesn't matter if you burn the planet to a cinder, nothing matters.
Nothing, inherently, matters. But, you choose to have values anyway. And, there's no point in attempting to defend your values logically, or being upset when other people attack them with logic, because logic didn't have ANYTHING to do with EITHER position.
Feel free to kill for your values. Don't get yourself killed in return by accident in the implementation, but logically, dead people are no better or worse than living people, and as long as there are 20 of us left, we can always make more.
That is an overly simplified statement. Some grades of fuel oil are almost identical to some types of diesel fuel, but there are many grades, and they're not all the same. You do have to be careful what you put in your engine.
Yes, in the same way that antique furniture works in place of firewood. If you're not freezing to death waiting for your tank to be refilled, it's a pretty stupid choice.
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As far as I'm concerned, this is completely unheard-of in my country. Standards are generally pre-set, and if half of the class fails where the previous year's students had few problems, well, that's their problem, nobody's going to lower the standards for this year's class.
The philosophy that schools are intended to teach a certain well thought out base of knowledge and only pass those who demonstrate that they've learned all of it is not universal.
It requires a great deal more maturity and responsibility and humility. The teacher needs to be a lot more self critical about what's in the curriculum, the students and parents need to be prepared to accept the fact that their talent and discipline may not be sufficient for the role they've decided they're interested in, and society needs to be prepared to accept that neither needs nor expectations will make a person capable if they don't have the talent or determination necessary.
What's popular these days is to just throw together a curriculum that relates to the course subject without regard for whether or not the students can absorb it, then just sort the class from best to worst and push the best ones forward. It's less demanding on the teacher, and it never allows their competence as a teacher to be subjected to critical analysis. It's also less demanding on the students... the teacher doesn't set the bar, the students do. And, society as a whole can look at the schools churning out certified, educated citizens and tell themselves they're doing just fine.
This way, when everything goes to shit, they can blame the "other", the ones who didn't play ball with the system, for their societies collapse. And, that's the most important thing. Because no pain is so bad that it can't be made 10 times worse by having someone tell you that it's your own damned fault and knowing that they are right.
It isn't "Voodoo Zombie Kung Fu Womens Prison" movies. Because that turned out to be completely awesome!
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt04...
My favorite beer was called "Hops Candy" because it had so much hops in it. All I see coming from this is that, in the name of saving money, they found a way to make mass produced beer taste even worse.
But at least the bar will be dry.
He'll never be employed to engage in shady illegal practices after throwing his employer under the bus like this.
It's a good day.
You're not much of a student of history, are you?
Yes, and it must evolve into a system of decentralized food and energy production, decentralized manufacturing, local recycling, etc.
Your false dichotomy does not change the realities of the status quo.
Why do you feel entitled to live in huge herds, when nature repeatedly strikes such herds down? Spread out a bit and you won't create the perfect storm of circumstances that create these terrible plagues. You ought to know better, but you do it anyway, so you deserve what comes of it.
That's a childish and superficial philosophy. You haven't thought it through, can't support it, and make no effort to live by it.
If you jump off a bridge, and you die, you deserved it.
Similarly, if you start a bank, you will trick people into giving you power, and eventually they will catch you, elevate a man whose only distinguishing characteristics are eloquence and anger, and cut off your head with a guillotine or put you in a gas chamber.
Both of these scenarios have a predictable outcome, and therefore, both of these men deserve to die.
All morality is of this nature. Sometimes you need a subtle eye to see the self-destructive nature of what you're doing, sometimes it's as obvious as walking off a cliff. But you always deserve what happens to you.
Immorality destroys itself. That is what distinguishes it from morality, which sustains itself.
Talking about why this nation makes war on that nation is irrelevant to the question of "What evolutionary advantage does war give to the human race.", which is the foundation of all morality.
That "Law" only applies to weapons whose primary purpose is to create blindness. Incidental blindness in pursuit of an "acceptable" primary purpose is specifically permitted.
Though, really, rules concerning the appropriate way to make war are just another example of a cartel colluding to protect their monopoly on the use of deadly force by raising the bar of entry.
The purpose of war is to shatter a social system that is harming our species and make space for something better. If your war is moral, the cruelty of your weapons is immaterial.
Nethack is fiendishly addictive.
I liked the protection racket strategy. That, or playing an elvish ranger and using the rename trick to get stormbringer, if I was feeling too lazy for the protection racket and wanted a faster game.
I never did beat the game. Eventually, I made it to the final room and got killed by the four horsemen, just about went out of my mind with frustration, looked at the sun shining outside, thought about how much the obsession was taking me away from my girlfriend, and gave up the game for good.
Nice to see it getting some love though.
Does anybody know what "digital media company" really means?
It means that in addition to the old business model of manipulating your thoughts, they also spy on you.
I guess some people consider it okay to have a stepdad who has a problem with their stepson being a princess.
Ah well, back to the bedroom, make one that isn't broken.
No, some people will just argue, and argue, and argue, and they'll never give you any peace. In the end, if they refuse to shut up, you should kill them, take a deep breath, enjoy the silence, and move on with your life.
Feminists fit in that category. Just slit their throats, put them in a hole, and move on. Nice thing about people is, we can make more.
If your goal is self reliance, your system should be more than capable of storing a days worth of power, which means that conversations about the price of power is irrelevant.
This guy is thinking of home owners as a resalable resource, and if that's what you want out of your investment, I'm confident his advice will be good for you. I don't think much of it as a goal, personally, but that's just me.
Reading your post made me want to find it on youtube, but all I could find was this video of a bitchy little asian girl kicking a fat white nerd in the balls:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Technically, it's not "on Earth", it's "in Earth".
Interac card, money clip with $200 in cash, keys, done.
No, it's a person with a chip on their shoulder being pedantic about phrasing to justify their self-perceived victimhood. When you cling tenaciously to a literal interpretation so it will allow you to take an affronted position despite the persons efforts to clarify what they meant, you're just a jackass who deserves zero sympathy and maybe even a little aggression. Not micro aggression... more the fist in the mouth kind of aggression.
I had to search for "microaggression"... turns out it's the #1 cause of "butthurt".
There's a lovely little tumbler blog full of butthurt losers sharing their passive microaggression here:
http://microaggressions.tumblr...
Have a read, it's funny as hell
Listen to him. I did the same thing. It caused conflict and wasted money and grew embarrassingly obsolete the moment I stopped investing my time and money into keeping it up.
New phase of your life. Time to put the games aside.
Funny how a religion that goes around absorbing the tribal wisdom of those it encounters is treated with more contempt than one that was written by a single dude who thought he had perfection dripping from his pen and converted people with the sword.
Evolve or die, and they evolved, and... they're stupid for it?
It's not that it's more rational, more intelligent or more logical to render the sex act infertile, you know. On one side, you have people saying "Choose to be decent!" and on the other side, you have people saying "I don't want to be decent, I want to be decadent and if Rome burns, not only do I not care, I don't want to be informed."
Logically, it doesn't matter if Rome burns. Caring is a choice. Not caring is also a choice. Not a superior choice, just a different one.
Once you reduce things to this level, logically, it doesn't matter if you kill, it doesn't matter if you burn the planet to a cinder, nothing matters.
Nothing, inherently, matters. But, you choose to have values anyway. And, there's no point in attempting to defend your values logically, or being upset when other people attack them with logic, because logic didn't have ANYTHING to do with EITHER position.
Feel free to kill for your values. Don't get yourself killed in return by accident in the implementation, but logically, dead people are no better or worse than living people, and as long as there are 20 of us left, we can always make more.
That is an overly simplified statement. Some grades of fuel oil are almost identical to some types of diesel fuel, but there are many grades, and they're not all the same. You do have to be careful what you put in your engine.
This page is informative:
http://www.enviroharvest.ca/di...
Yes, in the same way that antique furniture works in place of firewood. If you're not freezing to death waiting for your tank to be refilled, it's a pretty stupid choice.