Texas Narrowly Rejects Allowing Academics To Fact-Check Public School Textbooks
Really? Academics are going to be prohibited from looking at these textbooks?
Regardless of the merits of spending more state money to doublecheck the quality of chosen books, a sensationalized and disingenuous title does not benefit slashdot.
Most states just take the Texas decisions on textbooks as good enough, and base their curricula on that. California, although more populous, was widely and correctly regarded as being too loony to be accepted as a standard for most states.
Remember that teachers' organizations and education boards generally have a leftist and pro-government bias, using educators from Texas tends to compensate for that. The result is not far from neutral.
Fact check: Of the approximately 11 million slaves brought from Africa to the new world, about 450,000 ended up in the area of the current continental United States. NOT MILLIONS
The people who are called "The Greatest Generation" are the people who screwed up the education of those currently in power. It's difficult to identify the source of the rot, but a lot of people point to John Dewey.
There are a number of aspects of population instability and optimums that may be different off Earth and in the future. Colonists might be selected for higher intelligence and better self-control. Birth control technology may improve to become easier and more dependable. The culture of space colonists would likely be one of high responsibility.
We're not yet far removed from primitivism; in another 10,000 years human society may develop into a more constructive form.
One of the forces that drove colonization in New England was religious intolerance. The English people who became known as the Pilgrims lived in the Netherlands for a number of years and were disturbed that their children were being "corrupted" by the relatively free Dutch culture. In order to be able to warp their childrens' minds in peace, they colonized Massachusetts. It had nothing to do with resource limits and population density.
A strain gauge is attached to the strut and its dimension changes just as much as the strut does. It shouldn't fail unless the strut fails. The weight should be miniscule, less than the wire used to hook up to it. Zeroing is simple; once the plane is aloft the force on the strut is a known minimum.
Many applications of frequency-hopping spread spectrum require complexity that isn't practical with vacuum tubes. Commercial applications needed to wait for integrated circuits.
High speed trains are not economically viable in the US, even with the trackbed being untaxed or taxed far below adjacent properties. No rational company would try to build a high speed rail line; they only get built if a wacky political elite pushes it against public opposition.
Islam is disproportionately the religion of terrorist murderers in the world. It is not a coincidence, it is not the result of poverty. The Koran teaches psychopathy, and as long as Islam is allowed to survive, terrorism and the other hideous aspects of this abominable religion will continue.
It seems that you are advocating no government reaction at all, except muzzling the press. That would allow the terrorists to repeat ad infinitum, with a citizen:terrorist death ratio of about 15:1. How is that good for France, how is that good for civilization?
Freedom of the press means the right to not be prohibited from purchasing printing equipment and supplies and using them to create printed material and then distribute such material to willing recipients. An analogous freedom of internet would be a freedom to create an internet and offer it to willing customers.
You have misunderstood the Constitution. Congress is limited in funding the army to 2 years at a time, and that is the only limitation. The Constitution does not prohibit the army from existing in times of no war, nor does it prohibit the army from existing indefinitely.
The idea that after WWII the military was kept intact for primarily economic reasons is paranoid fantasy. By the time that occupying forces were no longer necessary to prevent Germany and Japan from restarting war, it was clear that the USSR, China and North Korea necessitated a continuing presence.
There is a world of difference between denying access to the internet and not providing access to the internet, and it's dishonest to attempt to equate the two.
The right to life prohibits me from preventing you from eating. It does not require me to feed you (parents of young children excepted).
The homicide rate among white non-immigrant persons in the US is comparable to Western European nations. The murderers either imported or a part of the black gang-drug culture.
There is no such thing as a right to vote. Voting is an indirect mechanism for maintaining rights through government action, voting is not the only possible mechanism for maintaining rights.
The right to free speech is the absence of prior constraint. In that regard, defamation is completely irrelevant.
The agreement of society has only minimal relation to what a right is. Rights are based on human life, that an innocent person may not be deprived of his life or the means to maintain and advance his life.
The only apparent limit on rights is the rights of another person, and I regard that as not properly called a limit.
I'd guess that fundamentally new medicines are becoming harder to discover, because the easy ones are already known.
In addition, lawyers seeking an undeserved fortune are out seeking ways to sue drug companies. No day goes by that I don't hear their radio ads.
Government regulations requiring proof of safety and effectiveness may have gotten tougher.
Governments outside the US often demand huge price concessions, threatening to manufacture generics themselves. Most of the profit for a new drug invented in the US might come from sales inside the US only.
A business with higher wages and/or better working conditions can be selective about whom it hires. It gets fewer screwoffs, more people who work efficiently, effectively, accurately.
Part of Henry Ford's success was offering wages far above the competition. He got the best employees, and the result was massive growth and profit.
No, their plan actually calls for making evidence based policy instead of simply deciding what they want the facts to be.
You know, collect information and use it to make decisions, instead of just making decisions based on ideology which has nothing to do with reality.
Alas, their first decision is to use force to collect information. Upon what collected information is that decision based?
It's the underlying assumption that's being ignored. "We need gas chambers to solve the Jewish problem" depends on the false assumption that there's a Jewish problem.
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Really? Academics are going to be prohibited from looking at these textbooks?
Regardless of the merits of spending more state money to doublecheck the quality of chosen books, a sensationalized and disingenuous title does not benefit slashdot.
Most states just take the Texas decisions on textbooks as good enough, and base their curricula on that. California, although more populous, was widely and correctly regarded as being too loony to be accepted as a standard for most states.
Remember that teachers' organizations and education boards generally have a leftist and pro-government bias, using educators from Texas tends to compensate for that. The result is not far from neutral.
Fact check: Of the approximately 11 million slaves brought from Africa to the new world, about 450,000 ended up in the area of the current continental United States. NOT MILLIONS
The people who are called "The Greatest Generation" are the people who screwed up the education of those currently in power. It's difficult to identify the source of the rot, but a lot of people point to John Dewey.
If a video card needs a fan it's wasting too much power. This high end gaming stuff is idiotic.
There are a number of aspects of population instability and optimums that may be different off Earth and in the future. Colonists might be selected for higher intelligence and better self-control. Birth control technology may improve to become easier and more dependable. The culture of space colonists would likely be one of high responsibility.
We're not yet far removed from primitivism; in another 10,000 years human society may develop into a more constructive form.
One of the forces that drove colonization in New England was religious intolerance. The English people who became known as the Pilgrims lived in the Netherlands for a number of years and were disturbed that their children were being "corrupted" by the relatively free Dutch culture. In order to be able to warp their childrens' minds in peace, they colonized Massachusetts. It had nothing to do with resource limits and population density.
A strain gauge is attached to the strut and its dimension changes just as much as the strut does. It shouldn't fail unless the strut fails. The weight should be miniscule, less than the wire used to hook up to it. Zeroing is simple; once the plane is aloft the force on the strut is a known minimum.
Many applications of frequency-hopping spread spectrum require complexity that isn't practical with vacuum tubes. Commercial applications needed to wait for integrated circuits.
It's an herbal extract. Monopolistic control of the supply would be very difficult.
Either you are admitting to murder or you don't know that 0 divided by 0 is undefined in most reasonable contexts.
Who murdered Mary Jo Kopechne, and what party was he?
High speed trains are not economically viable in the US, even with the trackbed being untaxed or taxed far below adjacent properties. No rational company would try to build a high speed rail line; they only get built if a wacky political elite pushes it against public opposition.
Islam is disproportionately the religion of terrorist murderers in the world. It is not a coincidence, it is not the result of poverty. The Koran teaches psychopathy, and as long as Islam is allowed to survive, terrorism and the other hideous aspects of this abominable religion will continue.
Civilization or Islam. Choose one.
It seems that you are advocating no government reaction at all, except muzzling the press. That would allow the terrorists to repeat ad infinitum, with a citizen:terrorist death ratio of about 15:1. How is that good for France, how is that good for civilization?
Freedom of the press means the right to not be prohibited from purchasing printing equipment and supplies and using them to create printed material and then distribute such material to willing recipients. An analogous freedom of internet would be a freedom to create an internet and offer it to willing customers.
You have misunderstood the Constitution. Congress is limited in funding the army to 2 years at a time, and that is the only limitation. The Constitution does not prohibit the army from existing in times of no war, nor does it prohibit the army from existing indefinitely.
The idea that after WWII the military was kept intact for primarily economic reasons is paranoid fantasy. By the time that occupying forces were no longer necessary to prevent Germany and Japan from restarting war, it was clear that the USSR, China and North Korea necessitated a continuing presence.
There is a world of difference between denying access to the internet and not providing access to the internet, and it's dishonest to attempt to equate the two.
The right to life prohibits me from preventing you from eating. It does not require me to feed you (parents of young children excepted).
The homicide rate among white non-immigrant persons in the US is comparable to Western European nations. The murderers either imported or a part of the black gang-drug culture.
There is no such thing as a right to vote. Voting is an indirect mechanism for maintaining rights through government action, voting is not the only possible mechanism for maintaining rights.
The right to free speech is the absence of prior constraint. In that regard, defamation is completely irrelevant.
The agreement of society has only minimal relation to what a right is. Rights are based on human life, that an innocent person may not be deprived of his life or the means to maintain and advance his life.
The only apparent limit on rights is the rights of another person, and I regard that as not properly called a limit.
And thus do you display your ignorance of economics.
I'd guess that fundamentally new medicines are becoming harder to discover, because the easy ones are already known.
In addition, lawyers seeking an undeserved fortune are out seeking ways to sue drug companies. No day goes by that I don't hear their radio ads.
Government regulations requiring proof of safety and effectiveness may have gotten tougher.
Governments outside the US often demand huge price concessions, threatening to manufacture generics themselves. Most of the profit for a new drug invented in the US might come from sales inside the US only.
A business with higher wages and/or better working conditions can be selective about whom it hires. It gets fewer screwoffs, more people who work efficiently, effectively, accurately.
Part of Henry Ford's success was offering wages far above the competition. He got the best employees, and the result was massive growth and profit.
Alas, their first decision is to use force to collect information. Upon what collected information is that decision based?
It's the underlying assumption that's being ignored. "We need gas chambers to solve the Jewish problem" depends on the false assumption that there's a Jewish problem.
That is a very common logical fallacy.
Most people would be very unhappy if when they rented a car, they were presented with a pile of parts.