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  1. Re: Propaganda on CERN Scientists Conclude that the Universe Should Not Exist (ign.com) · · Score: 1

    Just sit here. We're going to accelerate your plans.

  2. Re:Where is the cadmium coming from? on New York State Bans E-Cigarettes Everywhere Traditional Cigarettes Are Prohibited (usatoday.com) · · Score: 1

    Apparently the manufacturers of ecig supplies are making very poor quality products. Poisonous metals including cadmium, lead, and nickel are present in inexcusable portions. At the very least, there should be laws on the purity of the liquid.

  3. There's a large gap between "loud and obnoxious", and "loud and obnoxious enough to get arrested".

  4. And you're what is called an "apologist". A relatively modest tax. It's not a tax, it's a penalty for not obeying herr Fuehrer Hussein's dictate, and it's not relatively modest, it's multiple hundreds of dollars and gets larger each year.

    Responsible people pay their own medical bills; you're libeling doctorvo when you claim that others would be paying his medical bills.

    FWIW, there are many legal ways to avoid both buying insurance and paying the penalty.

  5. Historical context on 42% of Americans Under 8 Have Their Own Tablet (axios.com) · · Score: 1

    Moses would be so proud.

  6. Re:Do not ever feed any wild animals on Bird Feeders Might Be Changing Bird Beaks (axios.com) · · Score: 1

    Those things are an open invitation for mice, chipmunks, squirrels, skunks, and raccoons, which can otherwise be excluded by using an elevated feeder. Nevertheless, thanks for the link.

  7. Re:That's evolution on Bird Feeders Might Be Changing Bird Beaks (axios.com) · · Score: 1

    I almost feel sorry for someone who thinks Hillary doesn't look bad.

  8. Dealing with a company that's in trouble means an increased risk losing your money. If you can't afford to lose your money, deal with a healthy company with a good reputation.

  9. Re:Zunuary, Bobtember... on When an AI Tries Writing Slashdot Headlines (tumblr.com) · · Score: 1

    March XP

  10. Re:Nah. Start with funding schools & fighting on Bill Gates Tries A(nother) Billion-Dollar Plan To Reform Education (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    You make it too easy. Correlation is not causation.

  11. Re:How spend $1.7 billion on education? on Bill Gates Tries A(nother) Billion-Dollar Plan To Reform Education (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    Democrats - more specifically Progressives - take indoctrination seriously, which is why control of the educational system has been their goal and technique for over a century. They don't give a hoot about the quality of education, just what propaganda they can shove into students. There's a reason that rhetoric and informal logic are unknown in public schools.

  12. Re:Completely useless on Bill Gates Tries A(nother) Billion-Dollar Plan To Reform Education (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    Socioeconomic factors are in the middle, neither cause nor result. Poor quality people are poor parents, make a poor income, live in poor neighborhoods. It's the parents being poor quality people, more than other factors, that is the biggest factor in whether children of the same potential at birth learn well.

    The High School you went to was a magnet school that probably had quotas, comparing it to the average high school experience isn't relevant.

    You don't think that understanding what makes a magnet school effective is relevant to improving education?

  13. Re:Going to increase wages so it can happen? on Bill Gates Tries A(nother) Billion-Dollar Plan To Reform Education (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 0

    A reward that low for effort that high usually comes about from government interference.

  14. Re:Mod me up, I'm more right than GP on Bill Gates Tries A(nother) Billion-Dollar Plan To Reform Education (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    Which human culture was it that came up with the idea of universal education, by the way?

    That may be Protestantism, with the insistence that anyone be able to read the Bible.

  15. Re:More money, same system of schools on Bill Gates Tries A(nother) Billion-Dollar Plan To Reform Education (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    Social polarization is not inherent in technology. One think that does happen, is that seductive liars find it easier to spread their messages. This is the fault of evil people, not technology.

  16. Re: Money to keep MS in the schools? on Bill Gates Tries A(nother) Billion-Dollar Plan To Reform Education (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 2

    Public education in the U.S. is primarily state and local. Federal funding is wrong and very, very dangerous: with money comes control. That control includes what can and cannot be taught in history classes, whether violence as a political technique is praised or condemned, whether and what sort of racism is promoted, whether literature studies great people or slackers, and so forth.

  17. Re:Money to keep MS in the schools? on Bill Gates Tries A(nother) Billion-Dollar Plan To Reform Education (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    In electrical engineering, some tools are available on multiple OSs, many Windows only, some Solaris, some Linux, ...

  18. Re:Here's a billion dollar idea: on Bill Gates Tries A(nother) Billion-Dollar Plan To Reform Education (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Teachers are hounded out of the business if they don't parrot the political bias of the department head, principal, superintendent. Good teachers won't work under such conditions, hacks do.

    I find it hard to imagine any teacher in any subject before 10th grade being worth more than $50,000/year. The material isn't difficult and teaching isn't difficult.

  19. Re:Here's a billion dollar idea: on Bill Gates Tries A(nother) Billion-Dollar Plan To Reform Education (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1, Troll

    The sort of person who would freely join a union is unfit to teach.

    "Special education" is frequently exorbitantly expensive, more expensive than one full-time tutor per student (easily over $100,000 per year). The return on investment is zilch, and certainly not a responsible use of taxpayer money. If a child's mental potential is limited to basket weaving, spending 12 years in a futile effort to teach him to read does no good.

    The claim that schools need more money is false. In 2013, the average spent per pupil was $10,700. The correlation between money per pupil and educational outcome is very weak and not always positive. http://digitalcommons.usu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1020&context=gradreports [pdf],

    Try teaching kids who are hungry, exhausted, and homeless

    Don't change the subject. That condition describes very few children, and is irrelevant to the central issue of education being poor for most students.

    Stop teaching garbage like Common Core and the latest Politically Correct dung.

  20. Re:Here's a billion dollar idea: on Bill Gates Tries A(nother) Billion-Dollar Plan To Reform Education (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 0, Troll

    Progressives.

  21. Re:Chicago can take 50k no problem... on NYT Op-Ed Argues Amazon 'Took Seattle's Soul' (bendbulletin.com) · · Score: 1

    When you look for a new large center for your business, one of the things you should actively avoid is a city with legendary levels of corruption. Chicago, New York, Boston, and New Orleans should be rejected without further consideration.

  22. Re:When costs rise, things tend to be good on NYT Op-Ed Argues Amazon 'Took Seattle's Soul' (bendbulletin.com) · · Score: 1

    Unless the city government is corrupt, if the assessed value of all houses doubles then the mil rate falls by half, leaving total taxes constant.

  23. Re: Most teams at Amazon require Seattle Hundreds. on NYT Op-Ed Argues Amazon 'Took Seattle's Soul' (bendbulletin.com) · · Score: 2

    It's obvious why you can't get a job. Some day, if you ever grow up, you might try re-reading your post.

  24. Re:The Left always complaining on NYT Op-Ed Argues Amazon 'Took Seattle's Soul' (bendbulletin.com) · · Score: 1

    Quod erat demonstrandum.

  25. Re:Don't talk about economic outcomes in aggregate on NYT Op-Ed Argues Amazon 'Took Seattle's Soul' (bendbulletin.com) · · Score: 1

    Why are you posting on slashdot instead of using the internet to search for a job?